☭ Father Hardstone

@nixCraft@mastodon.social Werkers of the world unite, etc. , etc.

@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Where the fuck are you going to find those leaders who are "honest, reliable and trustworthy"

@nixCraft@mastodon.social I have only one little issue with them that sometimes it's bloody difficult to find something there on their website and you keep searching using different keywords and you still end up with nothing 😐

@jbowen@mast.hpc.social @sarahjamielewis@mastodon.social That somehow keeps happening, happened in case of Mullvad recently and I think shed loads of people are ditching it !

@teohhanhui@mastodon.social 😖 That's not OK ! That's not even a personal attack or anything like that. My personal issues with DDG is their "censorship policies" regarding "certain kind of content" and sometimes also related to news

@wizbean@tech.lgbt @nixCraft@mastodon.social always has been !

@clintruin@mastodon.social @cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com @RonSupportsYou@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al Ridiculous argument, would you consider the likes of Francesca Albanese, Susan Abul Hawa as fascist collaborators or what (cos they are still active on X) ?! 🙄 Many of us in the #globalsouth have been using #twitter before 'Muskian takeover' happened and are still using it cos it's still used by majority of the activists in places like #pakistan #india #bangladesh #southasia and leaving X would turn it into something like TruthSocial or Bsky

@Selvari21106@mastodon.social @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social Al Capone ?

@madargon@is-a.cat @clintruin@mastodon.social @cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com @RonSupportsYou@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al As I said earlier, people who are not Neo-Naziz or white supremacists are still there, here in #Pakistan the govt banned #X not because it had issues with Musk but dissident voices against the meddling of military in the elections, jailing people over trumped up charges ! Local activists, etc cannot just dump twitter on a whim when they don't have the local audience on that platform, and most of us here don't even have paid X accounts

@cstross@wandering.shop When you go around bombing all over the world, some day those tactics come back to haunt at your own backyard. What ICE, National Guard and Police is doing there is nothing compared to what the US, NATO (that includes 🇦🇺🇳🇿 as well as 🇨🇦 ) did all over the #globalsouth Doesn't matter what Americans pick, blue or red somebody's always gonna get their asses bombed somewhere in the world !

@dansup@mastodon.social#TIL Wordpress is part of Fediverse !

@gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green @adamantichrist@mastodon.social I don't know, my country (#pakistan) has a huge population but 47% of it's area has the least population density. The poorest of the poor have limited awareness about contraceptives measures and they usually have more kids (also have a very high mortality rate). This seems more like a #globalnorth issue to me but hey I am no expert 🤷‍♀️ https://usfblogs.usfca.edu/sustainability/2023/04/20/overconsumption-not-overpopulation-debunking-the-overpopulation-myth-and-eco-fascism/

@adamantichrist@mastodon.social @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green Wasn't overpopulation debunked long ago ?! 🤔 (Malthusian myth )

@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world @nixCraft@mastodon.social I know few who are probably around 100 years old based on their #internet year of birth !

@iamnotU@mastodon.social @emilymbender@dair-community.social We did in many works of scifi though 😀

@drewph@ieji.de @MongooseStudios@hachyderm.io @evacide@hachyderm.io Hey, that does not happen with me and I am literally sitting in a shithole (#Pakistan) but I guess you should use startpage then 🤷‍♂️

@nixCraft@mastodon.social It did create a killer app and went on a killing spree until it ended up committing sudoku !

@jrsofty@toot.community @briankrebs@infosec.exchange It goes both ways, I remember some cartoon where a robot was plugging holes in a sinking shift by moving parts of the ship from here and there so there were always some unplugged/plugged holes ! I don't remember which show it was though (I think some OG Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode perhaps, though I am not entirely sure about that)

@MrLovenstein@mastodon.social I am seeing your stuff on many places outside and inside the #fediverse and most of the time people are editing out your they chop away (edit out) your 'name' 😩

@subtruth@mamot.fr @cstross@wandering.shop umm, is this carcasm ?!

@PragmaticAndy@mastodon.social @GeePawHill@mastodon.social Just put an "Arr" at the end ! 🏴‍☠️

@Rowini30@chaos.social @paulrickards@mastodon.social Can be a nice challenge for Hazara, Persian rugmakers ! 😃

@Asimech@mastodon.social #digitalid and #ageverification is not 'teaching' any of those things ! and it's the responsibilty of parents to allow/disallow their kids access to devices that allow them access to such platforms, that's the job of 'parents' to monitor their activities and when a parent does that it does not qualify as spying but at most a bit of 'helicopter parenting'

@canleaf@mastodon.social @mischi2000@social.inselleben.chat @Gargron@mastodon.social Well, those lobby groups have 'convinced' enough real people out there that #digitalid and #ageverification is the way ! So it's not limited to lobby groups alone when you and I encounter many people who are all for 'age verification' and bringing more 'real people' on these platforms (pretty much ending up internet anonymity) Pardon me, I don't even know where this is going and it is turning into a rant ! :| So I'm going to take a step back from this

@iju@mastodon.social @mischi2000@social.inselleben.chat @Gargron@mastodon.social Well, I don't understand it... you are saying that is that a good thing or a bad thing, I certainly don't want anybody to track my habits and have no interest in getting any 'localised' ads ! 😐

@iju@mastodon.social @mischi2000@social.inselleben.chat @Gargron@mastodon.social I don't want to be either of those things, 🤷

@iju@mastodon.social @mischi2000@social.inselleben.chat @Gargron@mastodon.social Witch huntings were happening in #England as well during the 'English Civil War' especially when Matthew Hopkins (The Witchfynder General) was operating around ! I am not an American but as an observer from a far away continent, Americans are very 'OK' with violence, blood and gore but very queasy about nudity and anything which implies nudity or any kind of saxuality ! It's the other way around in #Europe somewhat

@mischi2000@social.inselleben.chat @Gargron@mastodon.social Just leave parenting to parents, the world does not need 'nanny states'.

@mischi2000@social.inselleben.chat @Gargron@mastodon.social Depends on what kind of accountability we are asking, some of the 'parental concerns' remind me of the Satanic Panic, #heavymetal scare of the 80s when the PMRC (Parent Music Resource Centre) in the US started a witch-hunt against musicians because some parents decide to sue Ozzy Osbourne for 'Suicide Solution', Judas Priest for 'Better by You Better than Me' (which was a cover of another band, they did not even wrote the song) No social network can filter out creeps !

@Netzblockierer@tech.lgbt @madargon@is-a.cat @clintruin@mastodon.social @cairobraga@gts.cairobraga.com @RonSupportsYou@mastodon.social @aral@mastodon.ar.al They are only vulnerable if X or any other platform hands over their data to the govt(s) of any country. Proton handed data to the Swiss govt when an official request came in, X is like a 📢 and the people I am talking about are already under govt crackdown and only "mainstream social media platforms" has worked for them https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/07/25/18857533.php

@stuartcoyle@fosstodon.org @catsalad@infosec.exchange What backstory ?! He just ate a banana and turn into Bananaman afaik 🤔 #UK #cartoons

@IT_SME@mastodon.social @corbet@social.kernel.org Ain't that problematic cos you might end up triggering the finger print unlock by accident ?!

@agitatra@berlin.social @corbet@social.kernel.org This got nothing to do with the current admin, the US has been doing this for quite some time !

@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social @blogdiva@mastodon.social Musk !! A genius ??! More like asshole Billionaire (Trillionaire now)... none of the tech bros are any genius !

@mischi2000@social.inselleben.chat @Gargron@mastodon.social What exactly is a 'fake profile' ? When the internet was introduced to kids earlier on, it was specifically considered the most important rule that you should not divulge any real information and put anything like that on the internet and now we are going into the opposite direction ! And if somebody does harass someone at some social media network, they are responsible... even at this place some creep can creep in and try to doxxx or blackmail someone, i

@ryokopanic@mastodon.social @jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net Not just proxy wars but an endless cycle of wars that doesn't seem to stop !

@iju@mastodon.social @mischi2000@social.inselleben.chat @Gargron@mastodon.social Okay, I should use the term 'Nurse Ratched' from now on, my experience with a 'nanny state' thing is that when I was in school they caught me reading '1001 nights' (the uncensored version) and called my parents, and they had a serious squabbling with the school authorities cos they did not see any problems with an 8 year old reading that book (cos I was reading any books that I can get my hands on). It's more like a 'nanny society' than state (#Pakistan that is)

@IT_SME@mastodon.social @corbet@social.kernel.org I still don't understand how it will work, the biometric/figerprint works in an instant for other apps ! unless you put in some kind of timer which will trigger the wiping operation (keep the finger on for 10 seconds) otherwise I can think of many ways how things can go awry !

@rysiek@mstdn.social @mullvadnet@mastodon.online Sooner or later this was gonna happen

@Kerplunk@mastodon.scot @_elena@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu In this case, wnanabe wankers !

@cmconseils@mastodon.social I blame my anti deps and anti anx pills for all the sleep; it wasn't like this before I started taking them 😐 not that I am not a fan of sleep but I hate this drowsiness drudgery 😑

@ariaflame@masto.ai @MongooseStudios@hachyderm.io @drewph@ieji.de @evacide@hachyderm.io Qwant and Startpage do that a lot better !

@iju@mastodon.social @mischi2000@social.inselleben.chat @Gargron@mastodon.social Nannies are a good thing ?! Maybe in your culture perhaps, and in the US there were 'Senate Hearings' over the 'lyrics of music' , Dee Snider of the Heavy Metal band 'Twisted Sister' attended them as well as 'Frank Zappa' and at that point both the Republicans and Democrats were on the same page over that (Al Gore was part of the hearings and his wife back then Tipper Gore was a founder of PMRC) PMRC gave us this !

@canleaf@mastodon.social @mischi2000@social.inselleben.chat @Gargron@mastodon.social Please read up on PMRC and the history of this label which was put on music albums ! Before that there was Comic Code Authority of America, later on there was a huge outcry over #MortalKombat ! It was not the lobbies but the parents of many children who sued Ozzy Osbourne and Judas Priest (I only know about them but there are more cases out there) and there were all kinds of allegations like 'hidden messages' if you play the song backwards

@danish_akhtar7@mastodon.social @davidho@mastodon.world From #karachi #Pakistan , it was very heat at the start of June but nowadays there's quite a bit of cloud cover here and there's the start of monsoon season I guess ! 🌧️ So things will cool down a bit,

@adamantichrist@mastodon.social @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green Yeah, I am not an expert at this but a layman who relies on science communicators and science reporters to get updated and I have not come across many who still think it's very scientific 🤔 and the fact that countries which are so much smaller in area around the world are comparatively producing such great amount of food (like 🇳🇱 ) which just make this argument of overpopulation an issue of management' https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-malthus-is-still-wrong/

@Huntn00@mastodon.world @adamantichrist@mastodon.social @gerrymcgovern@mastodon.green Sorry mate, I don't speak "Star Wars" 😕 (I speak a little bit of Tolkien... read the LoTR last year)

@Asimech@mastodon.social @mischi2000@social.inselleben.chat @Gargron@mastodon.social When did I say that 'public schools teaching critical thinking skills' make for a nanny state ?! 😐

@5ciFiGirl@starbase80.wtf @MelissaBearTrix@gives.hugz.online @kim_harding@mastodon.scot I think the 6th extinction should be represented through "The Trillionaire" (unless using his likeness can get you sued)

@jason@logoff.website @linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io @Viss@mastodon.social @catsalad@infosec.exchange @cR0w@infosec.exchange They have the full word in the wiktionary; makes sense cos they are quoting somebody