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railway692

@ railway692 @piefed.zip

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  • What’s your most controversial opinion?

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  • I agree that they're not mutually exclusive. I wasn't saying that they were.

    I was pushing back against the idea that age verification is the best and only reasonable response to our internet problems (the "lesser of two evils" argument).

    I personally exclude age verification when other, better options - like the ones mentioned above - exist and haven't even been tried.

    It's like watching someone try to build a fire, fail, and then chuck a grenade in the firepit.

    It's easy, but it's not going to get you the result you were hoping for and it's likely to make everything worse.

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  • My reply here.

    Tl;dr:

    • Support decentralized alternatives*
    • Exercise parental controls on-device and IRL
    • Teach the children what we learned

    It's not a magic bullet, but it's better than putting the Epstein class in charge of protecting the children.

    *Obviously, there are cesspools on the Fediverse, too. But we're incentivized and empowered to curate and to moderate these spaces, in ways that we're not on Twitter.

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  • There is no 'we' in your hypothetical

    We is everyone that isn't those companies and is impacted by social media.

    The only power you or I have is local, and this is a national problem.

    We do have little power on a national level, but that doesn't mean the only power we have is local.

    Sure, we can't flip a switch tell the engineers to program a switch and flip it for us like Musk and Zuckerberg can, but that's not the only power that matters.

    We can build and support alternatives to addictive, enshittified centralized tech (like the Fediverse). I was offered the "choice" of accepting a degraded Twitter experience or paying for Twitter premium. I chose to check out Mastodon.

    We can use the parental controls we do have, both inside the ecosystem and in the real world. No screens in the bedroom or at the dinner table. No smartphone until you're 16. Schools that ban phones in the classroom. Venues that ban phones during shows.

    Edit: Another option is educating ourselves and our children to be safe on the internet. I had to learn that the correct response to "what are you wearing" is "a robe and wizard hat" and then blocking the pedophile all on my own because my parents didn't know those threats even existed. I do. Most parents in 2026 do.

    I'm not imaginative, but we have a lot more power than just choosing between "let it suck forever" and "give up even more of your privacy and I'll pretend to fix the problems I created/encouraged because I make more money that way."

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  • Reminds me of Bruce Sterling's Swarm. (It was adapted into a Love, Death, and Robots episode.)

    “You are a young race and lay great stock by your own cleverness,” Swarm said. “As usual, you fail to see that intelligence is not a survival trait.”

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  • Upvoted because it is a controversial take.

    My problem with age verification is that what we're being sold is not what we're going to get.

    "Choosing the lesser of two evils" implies that only two options exist. When the same companies are responsible for both evils, we should be talking alternatives, not letting them make us decide between getting punched in the face and giving up our lunch money to make it stop.

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    This Wasn’t In My Job Description, a cozy minimalist office team simulation game, where your a manage team, focusing on delivery and keeping your team happy, released on Steam

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  • Watched the trailer. It looks kind the entire game was vibe-coded into existence.

  • some rapscallions decide to invade the wrong home

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  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    some rapscallions decide to invade the wrong home

  • LibreOffice Leave X/Twitter in favor of Mastodon

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  • Is this just the inevitable tradeoff of federation?

    Not being able to follow someone isn't a federation problem, it's an instance mismatch problem.

    When you can't follow the people you want on Twitter (because they were banned), that's an instance mismatch. Your preferences don't align with Twitter's.

    The difference is that, with Twitter, there is only one instance. You can't switch to a different Twitter where those people aren't blocked.

    On Fedi, you can choose an instance that blocks and federates according to your preference. And if you can't find one (unlikely for most users), you can host your own.

    If you just want Piefed instances with less regulation, these appear to have the fewest number of blocks:

  • Huntarr - Your passwords and your entire arr stack's API keys are exposed to anyone on your network, or worse, the internet.

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  • Password was Huntarr2

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    They keep sending novice ninjas to the castle and its getting awkward.

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    railway692 @piefed.zip

    the beginner bubble tea experience

  • she bets you're gonna use google translate

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  • For those who don't speak French, here's a hint:

    Use the TTS

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    she bets you're gonna use google translate

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    JellyWatch Review: The Best Jellyfin Admin & Monitoring App for Android

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  • Everything about this app (and the review and the website hosting the review) feels uncanny.

    Like wandering onto a movie set.

  • Everyone is stealing TV

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  • It will be interesting to see how the MPAA tackles Hotfile now that they are restricted in the language they can use. It probably means that the term “copyright infringement” will be used more often than they had hoped.

    To be continued.

    This was written back in 2013. Does anyone know how that shook out?

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    some of you degenerates will actually pick the harlot

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    I've seen far too many women fall for this.

  • Everyone is stealing TV

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  • It's not theft. It's copying or copyright infringement.

    If it was theft, the owners wouldn't have it anymore.

    The words matter because they change your moral intuition about it.

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    Centurii decides to stream

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    every artist has their own 3am special.

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    more pure sword fighting practice. I've put a lot of effort into the swords.

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    practicing some sword poses. what do you guys think?

  • Yeah, right

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  • And then you pick what you thought was a harmless dialogue option, but instead it sets off a cutscene where you've insulted the Emperor and now must murder everyone in order to survive.

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    she's been reading the same page for 28 hours.

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    centurii plays the latest modern warfare

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    railway692 @piefed.zip

    should you let your friend score a point? or should you make them EARN it?

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    to get the 2 hour uninterrupted hardcore yuri sex end, you need to correctly guess rapier-chan's lingerie

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    behind the scenes on how Emperor Aurelian really died

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    Sometimes i think about ruling the world and how instantly I would turn into a tyrant.

  • corporations REAAALLY listen to demand these days huh

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  • This but drones, apparently.

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    corporations REAAALLY listen to demand these days huh

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    railway692 @piefed.zip

    the true purpose of the 2 finger push up

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    railway692 @piefed.zip

    leaving your pets at your parents place.

  • Centurii chan @sh.itjust.works
    railway692 @piefed.zip

    the French uniform doctrine.

  • Romans are the faction that just power-builds an entire base next to yours

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  • Source: YouTube video linked in OP

    EXTRA INFO:

    The Romans were experts at fortifications and siege warfare.

    Whenever a Roman army would camp for the night, a large part of the army would build a wooden fort which would usually be finished in a day. A Roman army on the march were described as “moving cities”.

    One example is the Siege of Alesia where the Romans built a wall to trap the Gauls then built another wall to protect themselves from new Gallic reinforcements who came to break the Romans' siege.

    It was a siege where the besiegers were sieged by both new besiegers and the besieged but the besiegers won the siege anyway.

  • Fucked up

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  • I was speaking to a general you, not you in particular. I appreciate your help attempt

  • Fucked up

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  • I'd agree if we were on an algorithm site. Be mad at the site for censoring people's free speech.

    But we're on the Fediverse. It's poster's choice.

    If you don't want to see something, just block it and make your own.

  • Fucked up

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  • You have a right to curse on the internet.

    They have the right to censor their own post.

    I don't get why so many people get actually angry about this.