mgoia's comments

On: Call Me by My Name: Deborah Abrams Kaplan

[mgoia]

Some people think sexism is only bad when Christians do it. Other religions have their reasons, of course!

On: “I worked at Boeing for about 1.5 years in the 2008-9 time period”

[mgoia]

>This was inevitable.

Inflammable means flammable? What a country!

[chrisseaton → mgoia]

'Evitable' means 'avoidable'. 'Inevitable' means 'not avoidable'. They mean the opposite, which is what you'd expect.

It's nothing like 'inflammable' and 'flammable', which mean the same thing. Those two have different roots which is why there is confusion.

On: Mastodon and Keybase

[mgoia]

That is correct in theory. But in practice, other servers will block your server if the rules deviate from the mainstream rules, effectively isolating your server.

[metildaa → mgoia]

If your users post hate speech, child porn or run amok reply guying, then yes your likely to not federate with other instances.

For other differing rules, instaces generally silence from the federated timeline. Eg: I can still follow Humblr.social and Sinblr users, but Federated timeline users won't have to drown in porn if the admin silences the server.

[zaarn → mgoia]

Your server will be isolated from some other servers, but it's actually pretty hard to isolate your instance so that you're completely alone in the fediverse.

[Spivak → mgoia]

Well yeah, what's the point of having rules on an instance if you can just break them by moving to another but still participate?

[mgoia → Spivak]

Then the comment I replied to was wrong. There is no interconnected network of servers with different rules.

On: Hackers could read non-corporate Outlook.com, Hotmail for six months

[mgoia]

I remember knowing people on IRC who "had friends at Microsoft" who could do this kind of stuff to your MSN account, and I heard of people having their accounts stolen, but I never believed it. Guess there was some truth to it...