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Sorry, what’s that in hand-egg-ball fields?

Did apple maps really not support walking until now?!

Bold to go with the pro-auth-left take

I’m just going to ignore the long responses to stuff I didn’t claim in the first place

Okay but this isn’t “oh no, there are tankies around”, it’s the admin of one of the largest Lemmy instances systematically suppressing information about massacres and genocide.

There’s quite a big gap between banning “opinions you don’t like” and defederating from a systemically auth-left instance, in the same way that defederating from an auth-right instance would be a no-brainer.

I think the lemmy software itself isn’t so much the problem (in that it isn’t politically moderated), but the way he moderated his own instances make a fairly compelling reason for defederation

There’s a big distinction between being republican and capital-R Republican, and between being pro-democracy and a capital-D Democrat

You had me for a moment there

There are dozens of us!

But that definition from Wikipedia doesn’t contain the contested part of the definition, that it is a “transitional system”

It’s okay for people with bad takes to be here too - that’s why the fediverse is special

If you’re whistleblowing with information not otherwise in the public domain, I’d suggest contacting wikileaks or a trustworthy independent media outlet.

The Guardian, for example, has the securedrop platform at theguardian.securedrop.tor.onion.

If you just have an opinion to express, the local authority probably isn’t really that interested in trying to compromise the encryption on your web traffic, unless they’re extremely authoritarian. A standard VPN and a burner account should be sufficient to keep your anonymity.

Unless you’re trying to mask your identity from your ISP, instance or government, I don’t really see how tor is useful here, given that you’re presumably posting on the clearweb anyway.

It’s hard to give specific useful advice, because you’re so vague about what you’re trying to post, and who you want anonymity from. If it’s just other users on lemmy, don’t bother using tor, just create a burner account and access it normally via the web.

Unsurprisingly, instances aren’t super keen on letting users access their platform via tor since it’s an effective method of ban evasion, and thus people will mostly be using it to post awful things they didn’t want in the first place.

Listen to some music, perhaps?

I like to keep up with the news, too, when I have a little free time

Pop a pair on and report back to us

How is turning it off an improvement over lockdown? I was under the impression that the security impact is basically the same

What clock?

Two-party voting systems babyyyyyy

See also: the UK, most ex-British colonies

I assume the usual complaint, which is that it’s the one of the only major servers where tankies are prevalent.

That’s, of course, not to suggest that even a majority of its users are tankies or that there aren’t plenty of great communities there, but the users who are tankies seem to be almost entirely split between lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.

Just grab a reasonable priced bottle of (own brand?) limescale remover

Yeah it had an almost sane reason initially - it was an investment bank, so it was designed to model the relationships between types of assets for simulations. But over the years they just got into the habit of using it for everything. It was somewhat like python, but with c-like syntax.

The 2nd language was a haskell-style functional language (but without all the things that make Haskell cool) that was meant to be used for modelling and building internal APIs on all the data that was shared across departments. It was absolutely horrendous.