viking

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[–] viking 2 points 1 year ago

No, where did I say that? All I said is that as long as they are a legitimately recognized party, they can't be censored.

I'm all in favor of banning the AfD, but only after this has been achieved, can their public channels, mouthpieces and whatever be censored, not the other way around.

[–] viking 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The AfD is a legitimate political party. Legitimate as in, they haven't been caught with anything openly anti-constitutional.

Individual members have been, and were tried in court, and if found guilty were publicly expelled from the party, hence they operate under the guise of plausible deniability for the time being.

Nazi propaganda has been blocked once it's confirmed anti-constitutional, but you can't block a political party just like that.

And blocking Twitter as a whole is quite a big difference to blocking certain individuals or groups. No matter how much crap is on there, there are still a lot of legitimate postings, not least from legit government actors etc.

[–] viking -1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

If you block certain social media channels that you personally don't agree with while being in charge, you set a dangerous precedent for other people blocking things they don't agree with should they ever come to power.

And censorship doesn't address the root cause in the first place. Alt-right / far-right clowns know that they are often operating outside of the law or at the very least skirting a line that makes them prone to being observed, so they'll typically operate with VPNs or other obfuscation tech that will let them access Twitter regardless.

All a block achieves is that regular citizens can't inform themselves about the crap that is being spewed to invalidate claims made by the right.

[–] viking 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Some old netbook I guess, or unsupported hardware and a driver default. If all you need is ssh, the display resolution hardly matters.

[–] viking 17 points 1 year ago

I'm really worried The Onion will soon be running out of ideas how to maintain a satirical image, when the actual news are this absurd.

[–] viking 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought the "get back to free speech" crap just meant they ditch the fact checker, now that the orange overlord is back in charge of clown county. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-facebook-instagram-fact-checking-mark-zuckerberg/

[–] viking 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll need a source for that.

[–] viking 8 points 1 year ago

Yoga, specifically Hatha Yoga or Ashtanga Yoga with focus on the secondary series (there are 6 total).

I'd highly recommend to start out with classes and a suitable instructor though, there are a bunch of specific warm-ups to loosen some muscle groups and stretching certain areas that allow you to get into the required postures, trying to raw-dog those can lead to injuries if you force your stiff body into some positions it's not used to.

If all you want are basic exercises to cycle through on a daily basis, 4-8 weeks of guided training is already enough to know what and how to do, you can continue with youtube from then on.

[–] viking 1 points 1 year ago

I dislike affiliate links from a privacy perspective. I don't want to be tracked via my purchase to some creator's channel that would link my person to certain interest groups. I'm breaking those chains wherever there is a chance, usually by manually copying links and cutting off the tracking bit, or if it's a URL shortener like bit.ly and the likes, I'll open it in a private window and then copy the resolved URL minus tracking bit into my main browser window.

[–] viking -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm not buying anything recommended by creators, unless from their own shops in which case they get the full revenue either way.

If there is a product they recommend that I might be interested in, I'll research prices and guaranteed find a better deal elsewhere.

I don't use subscription services at all save for two very specific use cases and don't play games, so all the vpns, online academies, website business, mmorpgs and whatever they are pushing really doesn't phase me. If (and that's a big if) they even make it through sponsorblock in the first place.

[–] viking 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's what I'm used to from Germany as well, but seems like they either never implemented it in Asia, or got rid of it a long time ago.

[–] viking 3 points 1 year ago

Consent-o-matic doesn't block them, it opens all the consent dialogues in the background and flips every single switch to reject/deny, so you'll never be bothered again.

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