@misk - eviltoast

Left lemm.ee due to inconsistent federation policy allowing extremist instances like Eheads and Lgrad but not Threads.

moved to: @misk@sh.itjust.works (which also kind of sucked)

currently at: @misk@sopuli.xyz

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  • That sounds massively illegal.

    Holding elections and referendum together is kinda illegal but who’s going to stop them.

    I hope you have a good supreme court.

    EU is suing us because supreme court doesn’t meet criteria for being independent and impartial. Constitutional court is even worse.

    But even then, people could still vote against the proposed referendum

    The questions are “have you stopped beating your wife yet?” themed and any participation legitimizes this circus unfortunately.



  • Right now all of the proposed questions are so bonkers that many people will get parliamentary elections ballot and ignore referendum. EU accession referendum is the only referendum ever that met quorum in Poland so putting that question on a ballot could potentially mobilize people.

    PiS won’t do it because their long term plan is to sow enough distrust to EU that they would have to “begrudgingly” leave the EU in a couple of years. They don’t need a referendum for that either - previous government (led by PO) passed a law so that only a parliamentary majority is required for that IIRC.





  • People half-joke that coming to Fediverse is easy, all you need to do is select a provider like you do with e-mail.

    In case of Lemmy this omits the part where you have to block dozens of communities because they shill for genocidal regimes and you can’t block them and their users wholesale using instances. You also have to be on a lookout for trolls that coordinate on those instances and use alts from other instances. If you aren’t careful enough your experience might be akin to a conspiracy Facebook group but obviously it’s users fault.

    Mastodon doesn’t have this issue despite using same Activity Pub framework.

    Kbin doesn’t have it.

    It’s Lemmy developers and instances that somehow ended up with staggering amount of tankie trolls, to the extent that exceeds even alt-right trolls on Reddit.

    Telling people to start their own instances is acknowledging that the issue is so widespread that there are no instances with sane policies.
















  • TikTok is absolutely scummy in how they nag you for access rights to phone features / data but I don’t think there’s a way to do this without adding third “Popular” tab next to Following and For You.

    If they had this as a setting then it’d have to stay this way. Industry standard is to withhold such setting and constantly default to algorithmic page in the attempt to trap you there or make you tired of switching feed constantly.




  • Building complex systems involving humans is hard because humans are flawed. The best thing we’ve come up so far are systems involving extensive checks and balances to prevent thing happening too rapidly and without necessary oversight and even then it’s a tricky part to balance.

    For the record, I’m not for entirely cashless society but organisations that are cash heavy have proven to be source of many headaches. There is a balance to be found on thresholds and barring some types of businesses from using cash and where digital money transfer is required. Banks and other money transfer entities will have to deal with scenarios where malicious parties will try to obfuscate their intent outside of those thresholds.




  • This is all technically true but cash is not the answer.

    Right now there are so many easily accessible ways for governments to spy on people (cell phone geolocation, call metadata monitoring) that I’m not sure that for the purposes you think of you aren’t screwed already anyway. From this perspective fight for cash use becomes a bit theoretical.

    The only people that I know of personally that are strongly for cash are either people that frequently skirt around taxes (“minor” stuff like car repair shops) and unfortunately conspiracy nuts. Genuine privacy oriented people exist but realistically the majority will be there for selfish reasons.

    The societal cost of tax evasion, money laundering and financing organisations that legally require transparency (political orgs, NGOs etc) are massive and immediate.

    What we really need is strong oversight of institutions, government transparency, rule of law and healthy democracy. Those are the things you want to enshrine in your constitution.