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Comment · 3 years ago
Tbh mastodon and pleroma hadn't even ocurred to me for this project. Plus, I know more about the twitter API than I do mastodon / pleroma so it seemed a natural fit.

On your last point, you're spot on. I've already had the account banned and reinstated for spamming. Even though I was posting to my own account only...

Comment · 3 years ago
Are there any apps or setting which reduce the saturation of colours? I notice that in many publicly available screens, such as in gyms, the saturation is extremely high drawing my attention to it. I find that this is also the case on my iPhone and Mac.

Certainly I can go monotone. But not desaturate partially.

Comment · 4 years ago
This policy feels to be synonymous with having a political officer aboard a soviet submarine…
Comment · 4 years ago
If gas lighting is a form of boundary violation, and I’m stretching here, could it be classified as mind-rape?
Comment · 4 years ago
America has _spent_ its oil buffer. It’s important to note the difference between a intentional use of an asset vs an unintentional loss of an asset.
Comment · 4 years ago
Nah, safe.
Comment · 4 years ago
There’s a lot of discussion here on the topic of cancel culture, deplatforming and the responsibilities of private entities.

It may be useful to clarify in our responses if we mean the above or our ability to express ourselves free from persecution by the government.

Comment · 4 years ago
This raises a good question. Is it the model that produces racist, sexist or any other ‘ist ’ results inherently racist? Or is it how we use it?

Is the knife a murderer or the person who wields it?

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
It might be pointless to do so, however you could also make it illegal for the existing employees to continue to work in the respective industry. It would prove to be a huge incentive to ensuring best practice.
Comment · 4 years ago
“Why build one when you can have two at twice the price” ~ S.R. Hadden. Contact
Comment · 4 years ago
Because those are big words with big concepts behind them. All of which require an educations and an individual with drive to breach a new topic, study it and bring home data. Which is a rare thing.
Comment · 4 years ago
Is it aggregation if you're scraping from one site and reordering the items you've scraped?
Comment · 4 years ago
I agree. I would also add that to make it easier to understand: the mind is running on a substrate, the weather is not.

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