Democracy manifest!

Hello Karim! How does it feel to be the first (or at least one of the first) celebrities to do an AMA on Lemmy?

Is this Lemmy’s first celebrity AMA?

Let’s be realistic. Not everyone is going to move to Codeberg. Godot moving to Codeberg would be decentralizing.

You can always checkout the branch and run it yourself.

I think I locked myself out of my account. I’m only logged in on my old computer and I’ve deleted the app from my phone. I saved my security key (I have a session security key field and security-key.txt in my 1password) but Element didn’t seem able to use it to reactivate. I would lose all my chats. Which wouldn’t be the end of the world, but still, I’m just demonstrating that I’m tech savvy enough to save things I’m told to save but I either missed saving a recovery key, wasn’t told to, or the process is just lacking. Regardless, like I said, I’m just demonstrating that it can be tricky.

Using Stoat’s main server raises a privacy concern because it’s UK-based and AFAIK lacks E2EE—UK authorities could seize server data without our knowledge.

When the alternative is Discord that’s no different. Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

What’s the inverse Dunning-Kruger where you’re asking for help as a novice but someone thinks you’re implying you know more than you do? That shit happened to me once and I’m still salty. I literally said I was a novice looking for help and they had the audacity to imply I was on mount stupid. Like my brother in Christ I would not be saying I am a beginner looking for help if I was over estimating my abilities and thinking I was an expert.

And you can do this with a USB, it doesn’t need to be a CD/DVD.

We should get ahead of the curve by making Markcoin then. Let’s do halfsies on an ICO.

Yeah, in the book of Revelation in the Bible as a sign of the end times followers of Satan will have a visible mark on them. Many evangelical Christian conspiracy theorists believe that in a literal sense. Paired with many conservatives also not wanting the government to be able to track them, a national ID system (as opposed to state IDs) has never really gain traction.

You can read more about this here if you’re interested. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_the_beast#Mark_of_the_beast

Some fundamentalist Christian groups, as well as various Christian writers in other traditions, interpret the mark as a requirement for all commerce to mean that the mark might actually be an object in the right hand or forehead with the function of a credit card, such as RFID microchip implants.[73] Some of these groups believe the implantation of chips may be the imprinting of the mark of the beast, prophesied to be a requirement for all trade and a precursor to God’s wrath.[74][75] Similar objections were raised about barcodes upon their introduction.[76]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, some groups associated COVID-19 vaccines and mask wearing with the mark of the beast, or that it was a microchip in the vaccine.[77] Some religious leaders spoke out against this as a misinterpretation of Revelation 13:16-18.[78] Medical institutions such as Hennepin County Medical Center noted this in their fact sheets about the vaccine.[79] A similar version was spread by Marjorie Taylor Greene, who referred to vaccine passports as being the mark of the beast.[80]

The same group that pushes for voter ID laws refuses to implement a national ID system because they’re afraid of the mark of the beast.

Well obviously the propaganda I grew up with is better and clearly didn’t affect me at all…

There’s a big difference between “hey kids, use this machine, it has Internet access and Brand products” and “hey kids, ask me anything you’d like, and I’ll give you the Brand approved answer.”

They’re putting AI in children’s school laptops? Not only teaching them to think less, but letting a corporation directly influence them?

Might be meant to explain that folks say “American” to mean people from the United States more often than the American continents. Especially since it’s for teaching people a different language.

You may be tempted to think that the syrup thing is because of the bud, but actually she took up bud to stop getting so many questions about it.

Yeah, I guess that’s true. I suppose given more time to think about it I wouldn’t really complain about that. It’s mostly things like script in out that are sort of annoying versus something like script --in foo --out bar.

How do you even do it though lol, it hasn’t asked me too.