This kinda showcases a weakness of Nebula - that is a Nebula video, but sharing the Youtube version is easier. Unless I don’t understand Nebula’s sharing feature?
That said my watching has gradually been shifting from Youtube to Nebula.
Edit: Oh right, the Nebula link. https://nebula.tv/videos/wendover-how-a-small-group-of-creators-built-a-150-million-business/
I’ve seen admins asking for more fine-grained moderation tools. Maybe eventually things will work the way you’re hoping. Here’s a quote from a Beehaw admin,
an unfortunate reality we’ve also found is we just don’t have the tools or the time here to parse out all the good from all the bad. all we have is a nuke and some pretty rudimentary mod powers that don’t scale well.
Defederating prevents trolls on another instance from coming into comments in local communities to harass people. From an admin/mod perspective you have to take some kind of action to stop that.
You’re probably already aware that there have been literacy requirements to vote in the past in some places in the US, but those were actually an excuse to disenfranchise black people. https://history.iowa.gov/history/education/educator-resources/primary-source-sets/right-to-vote-suffrage-women-african/voter-registration-literacy
Literacy tests were banned by the Voting Rights Act in 1965. There have been recent attacks on that law including the 2013 Supreme Court case Shelby County v Holder which overturned election oversight in jurisdictions with a history of racist disenfranchisement; and Allen v Milligan from a couple months ago was an attempt to overturn gerrymandering restrictions, but thankfully it failed. Combine that with continuing voter disenfranchisement (for example far too few polling places in Atlanta leading to black voters waiting in line many hours to vote), and there is no doubt in my mind that if literacy tests were legal again they would be used the same way they were in the 60’s.
Personally I think history has shown that we get better leaders when more votes are counted.
Apple controls what may be installed on iphones with an iron fist. Did you know there is only one option for a web browser? Chrome, Firefox, and other apparent alternatives are actually re-skinned Safari. They don’t want to allow real competition to their own browser. This is certainly not the only case where they use app store approval powers to block competition.
Plus Apple takes 15-30% of every transaction on iphones. That includes payments in the app store, and also in-app purchases. Sure they have to fund the store, but given that Apple has an absolute monopoly over iphone app distribution this seems predatory to me.
Apple is anticompetitive, and seems to have little regard for their responsibility as a platform provider to allow application diversity to flourish.
So Google has a similar app store approval process, and takes basically the same percentage from transactions. But they are much more generous in what they allow in their store in terms of competing apps. And most importantly, Google does not have a monopoly on Android app distribution. You don’t need to do any jailbreaking to set up F-Droid, or to install apps from the web.
It’s true that the vast majority of Android users use Google’s app store. And I think that Google taking a cut of in-app purchases is also predatory. Apps should be able to not use Google Pay, and to not pay Google a cut. But the fact that there are other options puts a limit on how much Google can block competition, and gives some option for publishers to avoid that 15-30% cut.
I waited in line for one of these when they came out. It wasn’t a super long line, but I wasn’t the only one. I ended up showing a store employee how to access the SIM slot because I had done enough research to know every detail. I also brought mini donuts for the employees which they seemed to like.
I do a lot of gaming on Linux, usually running Windows games with either Lutris or Steam’s compatibility mode. Lots of games work perfectly with performance just as good as in Windows. The dxvk project has been a fantastic help in that respect - it translates DirectX calls to Vulkan equivalents, so we don’t need a reimplementation of DirectX anymore, and we get the same level of hardware acceleration you would get from DirectX. (IIUC graphics drivers have acceleration for high-level calls to both DirectX and Vulkan.)
Unfortunately from what I see in protondb Destiny 2 doesn’t run on Linux due to its particular anticheat implementation, and Hunt: Showdown has a “silver” rating which means some things don’t work perfectly.
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Yes, California, late 30s. I drove a manual transmission when I was a teenager. I was proud of how practiced I got with it. I don’t drive manual anymore, but my dad recently switched back after some decades driving automatic. He found out he’s out of practice lol