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I don’t understand the end game here. I understand corporations trying to get more control, but you have less money and power if you’re just ruling over ashes.

What I don’t understand is who is downloading and reading these books?

You can’t truly delete anything period, anything posted publicly can be copied. What’s more important is if it’s verifiable. I can trivially edit your post locally and take a screenshot and pretend it’s you, but there’s nothing verifying you actually said it.

It’s possible through encryption to verify that something was actually said, but most of the time we verify things through trust, we trust centralized services to have an accurate record of what happened. We trust social networks to not alter the original content posted to it. We trust archive organizations to store an original copy securely as it was at the time.

But that trust can be broken. u/spez himself has admitted to altering comments (happen in 2016, huge red flag), and we can only trust that archivers did their job properly.

You can prove that a post was truly made and unedited via encryption, but even then you’re still trusting that all the clients you are using are not doing anything nefarious in between. Unless you read the source code and compile your own applications you can’t know for sure, so still, trust is a big part.

But if you can prove a post was made, how do you unprove it? I don’t really see how that’s mathematically possible. So when you “delete” something on the internet, you can’t really remove it completely.

So what does “deleting” something actually mean? What it really means is “please stop hosting this and monetizing it on your server”, and it’s not even possibly to be sure they deleted all of it internally, you can only really check that they are no longer showing it to the public. That’s easy enough to do when it’s a centralized service, but for anything decentralized it means going to every single server and getting them all to delete it. You can send out a signal asking them nicely to delete it, and I don’t know if Lemmy has this, but even if they did it’s unenforceable to get a server to fully delete something, but you could put some rules in place that it needs to be publicly inaccessible otherwise the instance gets defederated or something, but I don’t know how hard it would be to implement something like that. The resources required to verify that all instances have stopped serving it and don’t begin to serve it later may be far too high to be practical.

And probably were more likely because they wanted to be in control to maintain slavery.

It’s a bad headline. What it should say is “a record number of Americans don’t want to see either trump or Biden in the 2024 election”

I think even more important than saving space is making the food more local so they don’t need to be shipped so far.

You can’t get sued by your customers if you’re dead *taps head

Engineers and scientists do try to do and make crazy things but they try to do it safely, and doing it safely costs money which he didn’t want to spend.

I guess the most positive spin is that he risked and gave his life to try new things which can progress things more quickly, but he didn’t just risk his own life, he risked the passengers which is unforgivable. If he were doing it solo to not endanger others then I could respect that.

The word is arrogant.

The system is rigged to make it much much easier to make money if you already have money.