OpenStars

I mean, tbf we kinda are. If they are willing to lie, cheat, steal etc., but meanwhile nobody is willing to oppose them, then we aren’t players in their set of strategic moves.

The only thing required for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing to stop it.

That is why I try to think now in terms of disinformation, more than merely misinformation, when it seems intentional.

And this right here is why I like the Fediverse. Not immediately presuming the absolute worst case scenario and confidently asserting such, refusing to hear anything to the contrary? Offering kindness as well as accuracy in your answer? You didn’t go for the jugular in trying (even if failing) to “pwn” your victim!? You, sir, would make a very bad modern Redditor 🤪. Which is why I hope you stay here, where I can keep getting to read amazingly kind replies like these:-).

Meh, at this point, do we really want to live forever? :-P

You are so helpful, I for one find that fucking awesome! 😎

THIS is indeed the way:-).

Not a public one no, but instance admins can see it.

And what is to stop someone from hosting content - like an image - onto their personal server, then collect the IP addresses of everyone who visits? e.g. couldn’t you receive a message in your DM, and without being asked, merely viewing the (auto-loading!) image could reveal that it was your account (that the DM was sent to) that came from the IP address that the image hosting server recorded in the incoming traffic?

Maybe I’m wrong? But that’s what I fear.

The content is, but the IP addresses used to interact are not.

Oh I thought that was blocked, but I guess maybe that’s just Lemmy.World that did that, while other instances can do otherwise (I thought I recalled that lemmy.cafe could - not from an onion b/c Lemmy itself somehow precludes that, but over Tor perhaps?).

How much though? I mean we have usernames yes there’s that, but can the federal agencies simply request that an instance turn over all signup data for all users and accounts? That might be an argument to avoid using US-based instances (though those mostly use Mbin or PieFed rather than Lemmy).

Or Lemmy is notoriously leaky itself - couldn’t someone simply put a thumbnail that pings a server owned by those agencies, and thereby get IP data directly? (or if not a thumbnail then a link to some website, like maybe supposedly a wordpress software or something, which functions yet also feeds IPs too) They could even spin up their own instance and watch all voting and posting traffic coming in as well, which in correlation to the IP addresses could tie down a user account. I guess a proxy would solve this particular issue. iirc there is all kinds of traffic from all kinds of servers whenever you visit every single Lemmy page, so simply putting out a post seems like it would be enough to get data from anyone that even so much as views it in their feed?

Another one relates to that time that Lemmy.World put out a user survey based on Google - anyone that responded would thereby tie a Google account to using Lemmy.

Sorry, I am all questions here and no answers, but this is going to be life & death & livelihood to so many people - splitting families apart all over again (I am referring to the previous border incidents, where e.g. babies were ripped from their mothers’ arms, some of which never did get reconnected even multiple years later).

I wonder if Lemmy will be included. On the one hand we are tiny, but there are also a lot of extremists here so it’s enriched in precisely the types that they would most want to know about.

Ofc they won’t SAY that - they’ll talk about “what a fantastic savings it will be, to not spend that money”, and probably they’ll work up gently to the point of sending US citizens to become meat shields like the North Koreans and so many others lately. But at each stage, it will always be what “we” wanted to do - it’s “our” idea to do it, I tell you!?

And this was from September so not even elected yet.

Tbh it kinda sounds like they just want to leave NATO regardless.

I hear that but they nabbed Al Capone on taxes so… whatever works I suppose?

Ah but you see, what you’re refering to as Linux…

Oh… you mean even without having counted the mail-in ballots?

Damn, my brain is not wanting to make sense of this so hard right now.:-(

I am so glad that Jon Stewart decided to renew for another year - I need him so much!:-)

working class voters are like “we’re already losing big time - let’s roll the dice.”

AGAIN. Yup. Riding high on Obama’s economy (who himself was blamed for Bush’s) and now Biden receiving the blame for Trump’s, the working class folk yearn for what they used to have - not realizing where it came from or how to get it back.

It’s probably too soon to expect something like that. Simply withdrawing support is likely to accomplish the same goal, and with far less fuss, plus leaves Russia looking all strong to do it without American help, and also the lowered friction reduces the chances of like another assassination attempt on Trump’s life or an attempted upheaval of the entire government.

Anyway, I’m saying that if Russia doesn’t absolutely need those boots, then it’s better for Russia actually, in the long term, to refuse such aid even if it were offered.

Tbf, while liberals realize that we need to change the electoral college system, so long as it is in place, there are a good many states where votes don’t actually matter. Either bc >70% of the state will vote blue (Democrats) in which case it is over-kill or similarly red (Republicans) in which case it is under-kill.

Also, remember that some votes remain yet to be counted, bc they were sent in via mail. Mind you, we already know (bc of the electoral college system) that these will not change the outcome of the election - though they will increase the amount of the popular vote, especially since the people that tend to send those in tens to be liberal.

On the other hand, maybe a massive showing up of liberals would have helped if Kamala had won, to show how much more massive the popular vote for her was, in comparison to for Trump? Except… would that really have convinced people who were literally gearing up for an actual civil war (or at least an “event” along those lines - perhaps another January 6th style occurrence) to forestall such? I am not convinced that it would.

Also, some people never got their mailers to use for their mail-in ballots, e.g. that story (was it ever validated?) of the landlord in I want to say California who was caught sending in the mailers for his renters. If all you need is the envelope, that’s a security concern, and I would like to know how many people report not ever receiving those envelopes to begin with.

Bc those aren’t merely votes that could potentially have gone to Kamala - bc then again, a lot of seniors were voting for Trump so we certainly can’t say that all would - and instead some may count double if they were made out to Trump. But possibly a low number, I dunno?

And COVID may have changed the game in terms of how readily people will step outside to vote. Also especially younger people have trouble getting time off their jobs, and lines this year were SUPER long - I mean hours and hours long, and with only rudimentary toilet facilities available. I UNDERSTAND why people would want to use more mail-in votes than having to do that.

But, quite possibly it was simply the Gaza situation that caused people to not be enthused about voting for her? I hope we see some kind of analysis to reveal what the true answer ends up being. In the meantime I wanted to mention the above factors that at least make the situation more complex than your one person did not vote story was able to get into:-).