Slightly on that topic, I have a floppy image for LHX Attack Chopper. Used to play it a lot as a kid: basically Libya, East Germany, Vietnam, you're flying around and doing stealth missions while trying to stay low enough that MiGs don't catch you on the radar. The medevac missions were fun, but did involve shooting people. The medevac missions were cool, but usually did involve shooting people, especially in Libya where the thing you bump into if you fly too low is a stick figure with an AK.
@amerika@wjmaggos Well, there's unjust discrimination, but the people that apply the Reddit filter to it ("Please take off your shoes in the house" "I THOUGHT YOU WERE AN ANARCHIST. CHECKMATE!"; "I muted them" "I THOUGHT YOU BELIEVED IN FREEDOM OF SPEECH. CHECKMATE!"; etc., etc.) don't know the difference between "deciding some things are good and some things are bad" and "literal hitler words".
I think nowadays they say "own the libs/cons/$group" but I had a flashback to older internets time:
> You forgot that Twitter is not neolibs heaven anymore,
It's his style of interaction: pithy internet slap-fights where no one reads. He keeps attempting the slap-fight thing and complaining about MILLIONS OF WORDS. Maybe he hates Elon, but he can't value the decentralization and lack of censorship if he keeps arguing for it. He pulled that shit as a reply to my words about being sad because my dog died and then complained that there were TOO MANY WORDS in my reply.
> all the super liberal hashtags that kept trending were all fake shit pushed by Twitter itself
What I did was write a filter for the spam, because there were a lot of people on Pawoo that I talked to and did not want to stop talking to. Junk mail comes in buckets: did you remove your mailbox?
> I'm a tiny server and don't have your higher standards for free expression.
This is the difference, not whether spam is good or bad.
> if admins didn't do that, the fedi would be full of them I assume.
There are a lot of open servers where the admins are asleep rather than malicious. Fedi doesn't turn out to be full of spam. There's plenty if you can find it, but it is trivial to set up an instance, spam, and then hop domains, and spam is still pretty rare on fedi. Fedi effectively has no admins: instances do (for now). Here you are, using it like normal.
> people would know we are principled defenders of everybody's right to be scammed by Nigerians.
I'll have a conversation with you, but if you're going to be an ass, I've got more pressing matters to attend to. You repeatedly ignore feedback and proceed to beat the strawman, then you mock the strawman. This leads me to the conclusion that you are just doing an internet slap-fight, and I've got no interest.
@Moon@thedonnerd :bigbosssalute: Thanks for letting me crash on your couch, Moon.
With things locked down, it is difficult to get word to people that don't have an SPC alt what's going on. I might have a solution, I will probably be able to hit you up over the weekend.
Might have been about how to detect scrapers by the stream of log files. Hard to find my old posts with the box down but that sounds like the thing. I had planned to do a write-up of the Boardreader/FBI stuff.
If you can't tell the difference between deciding what you want to see, and someone deciding on your behalf, then I will refer you again to the piece I wrote about this, which was published on the machine that is currently down, but which I can attach here.
@amerika@mint@p Ha, that would be cool but FSE cannot take donations. Priced it out and I think what I'm gonna do is get Revolver to a state where it can handle 70-80% of what FSE was doing, and then resurrect it like that. Then there's an army of identical nodes that cannot be killed.
Alt of a @p@freespeechextremist.com , if you even believe that.If I'm posting here, it's usually because FSE is down.I am working on Revolver: https://liberapay.com/Revolver .