The credible threat of violence is often much more powerful than violence itself. See unions, the civil rights movement, mutually assured destruction.

Society is very often an implicit contract of “do what we want or else.” Without the “or else”, the powerful have no reason to listen.

protests represent the threat of violence. the threat went away and the rulers stopped listening.

omg, how did I forget BenHeck tore one down, ty!

i wonder how much hardware is added besides the CD drive…

as always dns is the weak link in internet infrastructure. if they can takedown piracy domains they can take down anything.

I mean it’s easier and vastly more compatible than it was even a couple years ago thanks to the proton devs.

Didn’t bsky turn on federation last year?

Adding in yt-dlp. Not a platform but a useful tool to download youtube videos for archival or redistribution.