@mrsaturday To be fair, moot doesn't suffer from a genetic condition that cuts your lifespan to 1/3 of the average person so he has many more decades to build his lasting legacy.
@coolboymew Was it really that bad as what people say it is? A YouTube channel I liked to watch known as Computer Lab Highjinks says that people should play it just to see how ambitious it was for the time.
@icedquinn You mean having Go but with Obj-C's OO syntax?
@Soy_Magnus I still code and still enjoy it. I just feel like being an admin for a site for dissidents is just the wrong path to take.
@mrsaturday It's not just him. People like m00t and Lowtax went down similar paths. The latter even ended up killing himself.
@caekislove @PurpCat You could have a club that bans recording or even all electronic devices with cameras, but I don't know how well that would go.
@PurpCat @caekislove Yeah that too, especially given that the BBSes were limited to local area codes so such information wasn't easily searched and copied around.
@PurpCat @caekislove I envy those who grew up during that time. Must be nice to be able to do this without fear of being doxed or having your life ruined later.
@PurpCat @caekislove What is this? A BBS meetup?
@PurpCat @caekislove At this point, I think it would be better for these anonymous communities to just be textboards. It dodges the CP problem (minus the links) and (at least for now) also dodges the age-verification problem.
@icedquinn @caekislove @sun Yeah, literally every altchan that is still around either has no /pol/ equivalent or it's /pol/ is dead enough not to be on anyone's radar.
@cjd @caekislove I still think it's a bad idea because regardless of how it is hashed or subhashed, collisions are inevitable and at least one person has been falsely accused of possessing CP because he had a file that was in collision with one of the hashes.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/08/googles-scans-private-photos-led-false-accusations-child-abuse
@caekislove Hashing seems like a terrible way to detect CP because all one needs to do in order to bypass it is to change one pixel value in a way that it isn't noticeable and then the resulting image would have a completely different hash.
@collappsar He did regret it, but even afterward he said that couples with a known genetic defect should at least screen any expected child.
Serious question: Are we right now at peak technological freedom?
A lot of trends I see are pretty grim, but there is also a lot of seriously interesting work going on.
Maybe I'm oversimplifying, but I'm interested in the full range of perspectives. #AskFedi