Lillian Violet

@cwebber@social.coop I think it works by bouncing signals from your computer off of the atmosphere (hence the name "blue sky" it can only work well in clear weather). If it's cloudy it instead saves your messages in the clouds until the weather becomes clear, that's why we call it cloud storage.

@flesh @benjojo The $ is a unix crypt hash symbol, which indicates the string that follows is an encrypted password string. If the password were to be stored in say plain text, the program to check the password might infer some things about the password that are untrue if it starts with a $ and always error out since it's comparing what it thinks is a hash to a plaintext of the password, and they don't match. One might reasonably assume from this that this restriction is in place because they do indeed save the passwords as plain text...

@mullvadnet@mastodon.online @lostgen@det.social And yet can you guarantee that all money that I give you flows to preserve the freedom of everyone to be freely able to express, live and have privacy? You cannot, since it is proven a large sum went indirectly into making a party that cares about none of those things and actively wants to dismantle human rights. Caring about only some human rights is impossible, and pretending they are not inherently linked is intellectually dishonest. This isn't a mere "difference of opinion", I'd like to ask you how one could be pro free speech information and privacy when one would like to discriminate based on nationality, deny people entry and housing based on where they come from and discriminate based on place of origin/language/skin colour (these are all personal identification information!!). You can't! Because they are conflicting goals!

@tasket@infosec.exchange @mhoye@cosocial.ca if you genuinely believe that what you're positing is anarchism, and that anarchists are the least capable people to fight back against fascists I'd really suggest looking at the history of antifascism and anarchism. Kids have a right to a safer (online) space as everyone does, but paternalism and control never got that for any minority. It would be ideal if children were raised more anarchisticly, with equal say in their environments and free association. "Parental rights" got us into this mess, more control over children by anyone, parent or government, isn't going to liberate children and help them.

@akareilly@hachyderm.io The Dutch really should go back to eating their prime minister. Maybe not for awful reasons like the last time, but for good reasons like hating the prime minister!

@mynameistillian@plush.city I don't know about you, I can only assume it being more but different. But I have such a strange relationship with English. It is the language of the empire, of a history that is awful and colonialist and oppressive. One forced on huge swaths of people against their will, I can see it actively displacing minority languages and people's willingness to meet halfway in communication. But it is also a language that unlocked the world for me, that gave me more connection to others than ever before, more perspective on everything out there. A key to the entire universe of knowledge, a gift I don't think native speakers quite grasp they have. English was probably my first ever special interest, and the most consistent one — and yet I struggle to say I love it, even if it changed my life immeasurably for the better.

@vagina_museum Gender neutral towards the person who helps the birth sure, not gender neutral towards the birthing person in that case though! May be worth looking at it critically through that lense, even if we could teach everyone that midwife is gender neutral towards the title holders, that might still be uncomfortable to non "wif" birthing people.

@troed @reiddragon @EUCommission Criticism to people with power over you absolutely does not have to be constructive lmao, you don't have to do their work for them, you should be allowed to just express anger and disapproval. Ridiculously authoritarian idea that that's unacceptable.

@raymaccarthy@mastodon.ie @renardboy@mastodon.social No this is white fascism from american soil that originated with settler colonialist from Europe. You don't have to pull any Asian countries into this, they literally have nothing to do with this and the comparison is trite and racist.

@jamesmarshall @leaverou Birds are tetrachromatic because their ancestors were larger carnivorous dinosaurs, they didn't lose their colour receptors because they were generally diurnal creatures. Mammals are mostly bichromatic (aside from a few exceptions like apes) because our ancestors were small burrowing creatures that couldn't go out during the day with all the big bird ancestors, so they only came out at night, as such our ancestors lost a large chunk of their unused colour vision.

@rainynight65 @alice @cyberlyra It's fine though Niantic is just owned by... *looks it up* the Saudi Sovereign investment fund... Right...

@troed @reiddragon @EUCommission You do understand that political entities that have placed itself above us will influence us regardless of if we "want to see it" or not? Like I wish I could just ignore the EU/other states and never have them impact my life, but if I can't then I feel like critique is very warranted.

@emilyenco@todon.nl It was my birthday recently and I also feel terrible, so commiseration from here. Hope it gets better, wish I had anything more to offer but I'm also just sitting here stressing about life in construction noises.

@aliceamour@beige.party The anarchists of the deed, controversial movement, especially at the time. It's hard to build a movement off of just killing powerful pricks. But I don't exactly blame them for doing what they did.

@shlee@aus.social @oli@olifant.social is also working on a similar thing with pelago.

@leewalton@mastodonapp.uk How to prevent child abuse? The experts are pretty clear about that. Children's rights, increased child autonomy, giving children more places to be and people they can rely and be safe with that isn't direct family (where most abuse happens). All of these measures to create authoritarian control from distrust doesn't make anyone safer, it just creates more leeway for the powerful (police) to abuse their power against the people.

@ahasty The purpose of a system is what it does, and the EU system clearly is meant to create a police state dependent on US hegemony. @hannorein @unnon89 @EloPup @pojntfx @tdelmas

@mmm_kay@kolektiva.social @PhoenixSerenity@beige.party There are already Gazas in the US, maybe not post October 7th Gaza but Gazas non the less. The so called reservations are already open air concentration camps for those who refuse to conform, be colonized, and give up their land. Where the colonizer can freely and completely without legal consequence murder maim and rape anyone they so please. This violence will escalate, it will not abate, do not forget the natives, stand by them.

@neilk @cwebber But GDP rises because of any investment, if you have a huge investment that leverages a huge part of your economy and then compare it to GDP it's going to mostly cancel out because you're putting two correlated variables at both ends of the equation. So I don't think that's a reasonable thing to do at all.

@JakeOrlowitz@mastodon.social Great example of how "anarchist types" implement anarchism, and the main issue with it being it works very well in practice, just not in theory.

@Huubje@ieji.de @ikbendaf@mastodon.social @AFA@todon.nl 18:00 op het domplein vandaag :)

@RobotDiver@starlite.rodeo @tillshadeisgone@blackqueer.life I agree, that's exactly how white people work. Hanging out with my white family and getting told we are "not getting to political" and spoiling the mood. And then getting told a story about someone being in the gendarmerie and how someone else would like to arrest someone and I quote "Like a US police officer, by kneeling on them". But this isn't political, me saying something about George Floyd is. It's ridiculous.

@starlily @nat Not just any names either, but willful misgendering. While Nat is clearly not comfortable enforcing gender on their kid as well, and he very obviously doesn't care.

@bluestocking @stephaniepixie Also the same with children to be honest, and I've found that subject super hard to broach even with comrades I'd otherwise trust. People calling fascists "toddlers" or "moody teens" or "children" is such an admittance in a way, but people don't want to admit it is discrimination.

@stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe It does have coconut so it might be an issue if you have that allergy too but as far as I understand that depends on the person's allergy profile. (And you could otherwise replace it with another sweet creamy liquid like condensed (vegan) milk). But it's 500g rice (sticky white like Thai rice or other long grain white rice), 750mL coconut milk, 2 kafir lime leaves, 2salam leaves (can use curry leaves as substitute), 1 lemongrass stem, pinch of turmeric, small bit (tea spoon or so) of lime juice. Wash the rice, cook the coconut milk with the non rice ingredients in a pan and boil until the oil separates and it gets glossy, steam or boil rice halfway (half of the amount of water in a rice cooker, half the time in a pan or steamer). Then put the rice in the coconut milk mixture and keep cooking until fully evaporated. Serve with whatever protein or veggie you want!

@stellarskylark@solarpunk.moe There's some nut free Indonesian food I can think of that I like. There's the basic fried rice (nasi goreng), turmeric rice (nasi kuning), fried noodles (bami pangang), some pastries like martabak or rissolles. Bao-like steamed buns called bapao, desserts like fried sweet plantain or es cendol. If you ever want a specific recipe lmk and I'll send you one!

@pinkflameinthepan@todon.nl @teletekstbot@mastodon.nl Als ervaren bestuurslid van millieudefensie weet je wat greenwashing is, en dat dat hier aan de hand is. Dus in mijns aanziens duidelijk corruptie.

@gugurumbe@mastouille.fr @ParadeGrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org I am hoping (though not at all expecting) that one of the things it might be better for is less puritanical rules about paying for sex work of any kind online. It would be really nice if people will just be able to receive money and not be kicked off because they share nudes or videos or anything else.

@frawst This feels relevant to your interests @elilla

@TheTearMiser@mastodon.social @doragasu@mastodon.sdf.org @nixCraft@mastodon.social Maybe it should have worked out, we sure are in a polycrisis including a climate catastrophe and pandemic because of the "inevitable progress of modern history". The issue is that you're taking a standpoint of inevitability without moral concern, when this is a moral discussion to most of the people at the other side. And all you're doing by being glib with "But no reject the new thing" is refusing to engage with valid criticism and pretending it doesn't exist instead, you're refusing to engage here not us.

@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social Can I make a note of how pretty much all the people you seem to want to work with and posit as heroes are white, and that one of them is notorious for lashing out doing racist and transphobic abuse? There is a lot of people here doing anti racist work and working on improving moderation and they don't even seem to be showing up on your radar. You have some work to do.

@flowrot My moonshot plans are basically: recruit people with this zine and other sources, set up a radical community focussed on building community resources and literature of our experiences, and try and spread this as far as possible. I genuinely believe any revolution is only possible through actual community in the sense (I think) you and me see it, and I got so sick of not finding it I decided to just try and build it myself instead.

@emilychwiggy@mastodon.art Almost as pretty as you darling 😘

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu @webbop@tech.lgbt OK, but will that privacy consideration only flow towards the companies that you verify towards, and will the EU body still get all my data including what sites I visit that might be too "spicy" for children according to them? This platform has pornography, and I am very explicitly anti government here as well. How would you ensure I am safe from your systems registering me and if authoritarians grab power put me in a camp? Do you really want to risk giving a European Trump that power?

@djsat2@mastodonapp.uk You really think the British police (this British police: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sus_law ) wouldn't abuse a power given to them that randomly flags wrong people as CSAM spreaders? Greater authoritarian control never made anyone safer. We know how to protect children, more safe third spaces with more people the kids can trust, greater community integration, more autonomy, more rights to make their own decisions. But those all run counter to the state controlling people's lives, so of course they are not considered.

@emilyenco@todon.nl For the potluck? Can I come too? Only ever got involved sideways, but would love to hang out and network.

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Systemically deported queer people to countries that will harm them have other things to say. As do the relations of queer people who committed suicide because of your inhumane immigration policies. Most queer people globally are non white, a huge proportion of queer people in Europe are non white. And yet most images talking about them are of white people. This is pinkwashing, focus on the biggest issues facing the queer community (including your inhumane immigration policy) and come back to me.

@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu Because as we all know, from deep within our guts, all people that harm children are the weird perverts online. It's not as if abuse is usually done by people close to the children who have institutional power over them—and the research bears that out—that would obviously be absurd! We should give people close to children way more power to control everything they see! Because children deserve to see only trivial things that aren't challenging the worldview of those that own and control them! God forbid they see a queer person or something...

@chu@climatejustice.social They're also some of the most immoral ways of travel in many different ways. They often fly flags of nations with horrid labour conditions so they can apply those, fire people while on a cruise (so they can't leave and are functionally enslaved), use the worst fuel mixtures known to man and pollute like a mfer, tourism is just a form of modern colonisation but cruise ship routes specifically because of their regularity and volume really hollow out places efficiently and completely. And on top of that they're also incredible virus incubators, so all in all a great deal for people without souls!