From his website stallman.org:
Richard Stallman has cancer. Fortunately it is slow-growing and manageable follicular lymphona, so he will probably live many more years nonetheless. But he now has to be even more careful not to catch Covid-19.
Recent video of him speaking at GNU 40 Hacker Meeting. Screenshots of video stream.
*GNU+cancer
I have a hard time deciding what to do with this.
On the one hand… Dude, even as someone who loves dark humour, I couldn’t bring myself to make a cancer joke upon news of a diagnosis unless the person was a true shitstain on the earth, like Trump.
On the other hand…that was fucking brilliant and works on so many levels.
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I had pretty much the same thought process.
It’s dark, but brilliant.
Yet I can’t imagine RMS being offended by this, so I shouldn’t either.
That’s the kind of thing I wouldn’t be too surprised to hear from the guy himself.
The world is a better place because of him and I wish him well.
That’s a terrible joke that deserves the downvotes, because cancer is shit and I only wish the best to anyone who is diagnosed with it, but I laughed.
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Read the room dude
Mind your business
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Kill yourself removed
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did i miss a comment here, or was it edited? because i cannot find that
What are you seeing? Because I’m still seeing their comment of “Kill yourself [N-word]” plain as day.
pictured: a comment, a reply ‘removed’, and then you replying to that. im on jerboa+sh.itjust.works, it may be showing the wrong comment on my end, idk.
Ohhh! This is what I’m seeing (TW: racism) . I’m on Kbin.social.
I did have a reply on the r-word comment but it was very different to this. Might be a bug in one or both of our software.
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You know, serious question from someone relatively new to the fediverse: how do you make sure that people won’t just create many accounts across instances if they want to evade bans or create one-time throwaways for posting abusive comments? One instance has no idea about users on other instances after all.
You can’t, not effectively. This ain’t necessarily a federation problem though, centralised social media has the same problem. You can do the same on Reddit.
That’s not to say there aren’t things that can be done. Instances can agree to implement shared banlists that include known-abusive IPs or, if an abusive user has a habit of using a pattern in their evasion usernames, you can use a Regex to hunt them out.
On reddit the entire user database is in the hands of one company, so they might be able to tell whether two people are (likely) the same person. So I think that might actually be a problem made worse by federation.
You’d be surprised how hard the task is. Any given identifier can be trivially changed. IP addresses aren’t permanent and change frequently for home users. Multiple people genuinely use the same IP. People are likely to have very similar writing styles to someone else by complete coincidence. Browser fingerprinting can be thrown off by simply using another browser or fucking with the User Agent.
That about puts paid to any identifiers either Reddit or an instance owner may have.
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Mad? Cry more