I've only been doing government-related web dev for a decade, but what about WCAG 2? Are accessibility guidelines not a design standard? They seem to cover issues like contrast, at least.
> If you can't tell if something is sentient or not after an extensive interaction with it, then for all intents and purposes it's sentient.
I'm pretty sure my cat is sentient, but I don't take that to imply that it can consent to sex, since its spoken vocabulary appears to be limited to "meow".
Websites, RSS feeds, and email. Anybody who can't figure out how to run their own website can just do without. Social networking was a mistake. Human relationships and identity are not things that can be reduced to third normal form and stored in a database.
> If it’s dead cops you want google 2016 Dallas BLM ambush.
That's not how this works. If you want to persuade me, it's up to you to provide evidence. Telling me to google something doesn't count.
Now, fuck off back to 4chan. You haven't engaged with anybody but me since you created your account, and I don't find your singular focus especially flattering.
I feel the same, and TBH this site really isn't much better. It's a groupthink incubator just like Twitter and Facebook, and though I've only been here less than 12 hours I regret signing up.
I got into better shape during lockdown by buying secondhand kettlebells and working with them with my laptop mic muted during conference calls where I'm expected to listen without saying anything.
Right, and people can't figure out how to do this by reading? Medium alone seems to have at least a dozen articles on how to build your own website, though I haven't bothered to read them and thus can't say whether they just suggesting using Wix, Weebly, or Squarespace (none of which actually count).
Do BLM protesters openly carry rifles and shotguns like the Black Panthers used to? Do they actually fire on police?
I doubt it, and unless you can provide footage from the Associated Press or Agence France-Presse I don't think there's any evidence you could provide that might convince me otherwise.
And what, exactly, is a "trained Marxist"? Can they quote chapter and verse of Capital and The Communist Manifesto from memory?
Having spent a few years on the Fediverse, I've found that "the left" in the US consists mainly of book clubs and struggle sessions.
The book clubs just read and debate theory ad nauseum. They're a joke, and if you gave most of them an AR-15 they'd shoot themselves in the foot.
The struggle sessions look for people slightly less poorly off than themselves to bully. If they can't find a right-winger, they'll happily go after somebody who's only 99.999% on board with their program. Failing that, they'll pick one of their own at random, accuse them of insufficient ideological purity, and bully them. They're a joke, too, only not quite as funny as the book clubbers.
I tend to look at things from an individual scale because I don't have the tools to do otherwise. Methodological individualism is my hammer, and so everything looks like a nail.
Why should the nmap developers change their license for IBM's convenience, since Fedora is a Red Hat product and Red Hat is now part of IBM? One might suggest that IBM needs nmap more than nmap needs IBM.
> Political parties should have to earn your vote every election rather than relying on a "force of habit".
That would be nice, but I've practiced "sucks less" voting since I was old enough to cast a ballot. I vote for the party that sucks less. I don't care for the Democrats, but I don't loathe them quite as much as I do the Republicans.
I'd rather not vote at all; I'm not convinced it does anything but rubber-stamp the continued existence of a government that neither represents the people nor serves the general welfare particularly well, but I continue to vote despite my doubts because I could be wrong about its futility.
> I mean we just got done watching Trump get labeled a terrorist merely for having a political rally.
I've been to political rallies. They don't typically involve storming government buildings and forcing elected officials to evacuate. If people are going to try to overthrow the government, it really ought to be for better reason than that a washed-up reality TV host can't accept the fact that he must settle for only getting one term as President of the United States.
I think you're this close to making an argument for publicly owned infrastructure or for regulating DNS providers and ISPs as public utilities obligated to serve as common carriers. Was that what you had in mind?
First: good riddance. Let the neo-Nazis, fascists, and white supremacists make do with Stormfront or 4chan.
Second: regardless of your politics/beliefs, this is what people get for not self-hosting.
1. Putting your site on AWS is not self-hosting.
2. Putting your site on Github Pages is not self-hosting.
3. Putting your site on Cloudflare is not self-hosting.
4. Putting your site on shared hosting or a VPS like Dreamhost, DigitalOcean, Linode, or Vultr is not self-hosting.
Self-hosting means you pay for your own pipe, your own hardware, and your own space in which to keep the hardware, whether it's on your own premises or in a co-location facility owned by individuals sympathetic to your views.
Corporations don't exist to provide you with a platform for your views, especially if they're as repugnant as those frequently aired on sites like Parler. They exist to make a profit for their owners/stockholders, and if you hamper that mission they will throw you under a bus.
Whether this is right or wrong is irrelevant; corporations will do as they please unless the state governments that issue their charters (which in the US is mostly Delaware) start revoking them and dissolving corporations that abuse their power.
People keep forgetting that "the cloud" is just somebody else's computer, and that somebody else is NOT your friend or ally.