Brian David

@mawhrin @scruiser “The idea here in short is …” [continues writing response from now until the heat death of the universe]

@FRACTRANS @jax

Me: Kiiiiiiill meeee…

[Economist bursts through my chest]

@TheAlbatross @dgerard I just stick with all 4-3 openings these days to get around this. That may be considered inferior by pros, but it doesn’t make a big difference at the amateur level and it prevents endless obnoxious 3-3 invasions.

@self @fasterandworse

“And now they’re secure enough in that control that they do this fully mask-off shit …”

That whole DRM-the-web attestation thing Google proposed last year was eye opening. Sure, they had been evil for a while, but the fact that they knew they could start proposing stuff like that at all is just so bleak. In a sane world, that behaviour would instantly result in serious antitrust lawsuits.

@dgerard Why is it that all these rationalist screeds read like deeply stupid versions of Naked Lunch?

@dgerard Not sure where else to post this, but I’ll post it here since this may be related to this thread. Either your account is directly banned on Hachyderm now, or circumstances.run has been defederated. Not sure how all that works, but here’s a screenshot of what your account looks like from a Hachyderm POV.

In case this doesn’t translate to Lemmy, it says your account is suspended.

@self I don’t think I follow anyone else on circumustances.run. If you have one handy, would you post another account name from that instance and I’ll take a look?

@self Okay, mawhrin’s account is viewable from Hachyderm (https://hachyderm.io/@mawhrin@circumstances.run). So looks like it’s specific to Gerard.

@self Gerard’s page, for comparison: https://hachyderm.io/@davidgerard@circumstances.run

Not sure if these pages render different if you’re not logged in.

@self Just did a quick test, and at least for me when I am logged in it shows the account as suspended, but when I look at that same link in a private tab it immediately redirects to the circumstances.run instance and shows the account info there.