Former child actor turned Dev turned DevOps Engineer. Hacking, 3D printing, IoT, and politics.
Posts
On Civility
Reminder: civility rules that have no examples nor specific guidelines are a subjective way to ensure that trolls control the entire board.
Civility rules only punish those who act in good faith. Bad faith actors can simply create a new account or run away. Good faith actors will be forced to either act like a saint and ignore obvious trolling and insults, or be banned like the instigator.
Subjective civility rules also allow any content a given moderator does not like to suddenly and inexplicably fall under the ban. This is often justified by saying that someone was arguing in bad faith, and was therefore in violation of civility rules.
On Far Right European Rhetoric
It’s just insane hearing the exact same BS from the far-right parties of major European countries as we hear from the alt-right in the US.
This last week The Daily has been airing an exposé where they interview these people, and it’s all about “oh we’re just trying to keep X country X” (read: white), mixed with a bunch of stuff about returning to “traditional values” and “stronger border control”.
On Gun Restrictions
“Cars and knives can kill people too! Why aren’t we banning guns?”
Because guns are purpose-build to kill, maim, or injure their targets. Full stop. They were invented as an advancement on technology designed to kill. Cars have a wide range of uses and are designed specifically to kill as few people as possible in a dire situation. Knives are common cooking utensils, and you might as well argue against electricity, since that, too, is dangerous.
First Post
So after much cajoling and harumphing, I’ve finally set up my blog.
Wow. Much content. Such thoughts.
At the very least, this will help me get out some of my thoughts in a more long-form format without the distractions of other content.
I figure the format for this blog will mostly be me reacting to various news stories. Maybe sometimes it’ll be me talking about my experience poking around with a tech thing.