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belkarx

00:03

When would you characterize the 'start' as

forest

Sometime post 2016, I think?

belkarx

Sounds about right. Ironically about when Trump was elected

forest

I'm sure he contributed to a fair bit of it. Or perhaps it contributed to him.

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nobody

01:49

@forest How often do you get "Too many requests" on the main site when using Tor?

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MechMK1

10:54

@forest Wikipedia is extremely political. The Co-Founder of Wikipedia said that a lot of articles are extremely politicized, since only a group of ~100 hyper-active editors run shit.

Even though in theory, they should be "neutral", this "neutrality" is only ever invoked when an article goes into the wrong political spectrum.

If it displays the "correct" political views, then the article is fine as-is.

Unrelated, but I am genuinely pissed off at lazy movie writing. Something needs to happen, so we need an excuse for the character to be at the place so the thing can happen. But the reason why the character is there is so fucking dumb that it actually distracts from the movie.

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belkarx

14:19

> since only a group of ~100 hyper-active editors run shit
because ofc every illusion of democracy is an oligarchy or "worse" in reality

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MechMK1

15:33

@belkarx I agree wholeheartedly.

Democracy is just fancy theatre, to give people the illusion that their choice mattered.

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Fire Quacker

17:46

Q: How could unbreakable encryption be used?

I'm part of a team of students from the Vienna University of Economics, which have the task to find application fields for a new technology. The technology itself is provided by an external partner, so I do not possess a lot of technical knowledge about it. As far as I understand, it is an encryp...