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If on the one hand you argue that the free speech twitter clones are uncompelling, you have to also agree that the proposed features are inconsequential, no?

No? It is entirely possible to imagine consequential features that are uncompelling: Actively hostile features.

I also think its odd to mix altruistic ideas like free speech platforms with profitable network effects. Why does it need to overtake Twitter?

What is the value in Twitter over the "free speech" clones if Twitters audience doesn't have value? Does Twitter have such unique features that couldn't be replicated much cheaper than the buy price?

> A judge recently said he was a liar

I sincerely doubt that. Judges don’t tend to talk that way, regardless of the case at hand.

GP is probably refering to this (in which case you are right, judge didn't use words like liar)

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/04/judge-in-musk-tr...

"Judge in Musk trial will tell jury that “Funding secured” tweets were false"

and

"[T]hough 'jury instructions are often an ineffective remedy,' the Court finds that unlikely to be true for the instant case where the jury will be told that the Court has already found that the August 2018 tweets were false and made with the requisite scienter [knowledge of wrongdoing]," Chen wrote.

_microft linked the GitHub for Details.

tldr: generates random ids (1 per 5 min i think?) that it keeps broadcasting via Bluetooth.

It saves the ids it broadcastet (sent ids) and it recieved.

If the saved ids geht too old to be relevant ist deletes them.

If you get a positive PCR you can opt-in to notify your contacts, this works by you releasing your sent ids. The released ids are regularily published by app provider.

The app checks the published ids, if it finds published keys in its list, it checks how often they are in its list (to aproximate duration) and what signal strength was (to aproximate distance).

Based in duration and distance it warns that you had a risky contact and should get tested.

Besides that it also has a few other features now you can Scan QR-Code of vax-certificate or neg test result and then show those from App so that eventorganizers can scan them with an App that veryfies signatures

you can check in to places/events and get anon notifications if later it turns out soneone there was positive. (Think restaurants, parties, anyone can make their own event to get a QR-Code they can print out)

you can add a testprofile so that when you go get tested they scan a qr code to get the needed data, rather than having to tell them

you can write a contact diary that autodeletes after 15 days.

Dunno if anyone uses the diary.

Also, the Long delay until health-minister comissioned the check-in feature lead to a private competitor called 'Luca' that does it differently and is infamous among IT folk. If you want to read up on Luca and speak german (or have a translate you like)

https://www.luca.fail/

Meh, she got a pretty thankless job, at an especially thankless moment, and it's hard to judge without having a comparison.

Her time as minister of defense isn't everything she is being criticized for. she earned the "Zensursula" moniker as minister of family.

And the decision we're applauding here was her's. So she does seem to be off to a good start.

Yeah, lets give her the chance to be a good surprise by keeping up stuff like this decision.

In germany it was illegal (not sure if it still is) to publish games that had nazi imaginary (such as wolfenstein).

Since that comes up from time to time...

In germany games with nazi imagery are as legal as books or movies containing nazi imagery. Legal through the art/science/research/teaching/reporting exception §86 StGB (3) [0]

What has recently changed is that the organization that does the age ratings for games changed its stance. Now they consider the exception rather than treating it as a show stopper.

[0] https://dejure.org/gesetze/StGB/86.html

There is no box to check on the ballot for "I'm really sure, so count my vote twice!"

Besides what sibling comments said:

But there is the option of not voting/voting implausible 3rd candidate because screw the main 2.

So theoretically you could have non-influenced reps staying at home, because they dislike both candidates.

Or have influenced dems vote Bernie (or don't vote) because Hillary just isn't good enough, when without influence they'd have pinched their nose and voted Hillary.

Or if you don't insist on it being about who wins, you could imagine it about the loosing side being so riled up, that they hinder the winner and turn the winner into a lame-duck president.

I could think of two reasons:

Using EU-lockout as a red flag for the GDPR non-compliant. So if they try to use something and get a "nope, not for EU" their thought would be "must have overlooked how that offer is scam-y, better not use"

and

Getting extra rights from the GDPR compliant.

I still think there is immense value in having a centralized identity on a service that everyone is using

Would unique names in a federation everyone is using suffice for you?

(i.e. @jaredcwhite@fictionalmastodoninstance.ycombinator.com is unique in the whole fediverse)

the whole federation of mastodon instances

So, if my CEO were to consider people who vote for republicans subhuman (not an entirely unlikely scenario today), but otherwise conducted themselves fairly, I'd be OK with it.

So, lets pretend you work for Mozilla, you like the mission statement* and seriously believe in it/that your work is helping that cause. You also think it is a relevant part of your branding.

You really wouldn't have a problem with your CEO saying repub voters are subhuman? No clash between "open and accessible to all" and "subhuman"?

You wouldn't be upset at that violation of the creed/mission statement?

You wouldn't think it to be harmful to your companies branding? (And therefore to your company)

You wouldn't think it harmful to the "team spirit"/motivation?

I find that surprising, to be honest. ("Reason to fire" questions aside)

*

"Our mission is to ensure the Internet is a global public resource, open and accessible to all. An Internet that truly puts people first, where individuals can shape their own experience and are empowered, safe and independent."[1]

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/

In the Netherlands we require ID to vote and having an ID is not free but it is compulsory.

But the easy access point remains, doesn't it?

Or would you consider "I wanted to vote, but just couldn't get an ID" a plausible excuse in the Netherlands?

Edit: Clarification, excuse to not vote.