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New political compass just dropped!
britmonkey.com/2020s-political…
(Screenshot shows my result. Surprising no-one, I'm 92% woke to 8% chud.)
In this era of post-materialism, where the traditional left-right divide has given way to more vibes-based politics, this test hopes to refresh the outdated policy-oriented political compass tests …brtmnky (britmonkey.com)
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I sure would pay 2-3x the price of a Roku for a FOSS usb device that let me stream Jellyfin, Plex, etc. on my TVs.
I guess I could just go with the tiniest possible CachyOS computer. It's working great on a mini PC on my main home theater/gaming TV.
Now that I say this, with a little elbow grease and moving things around, I could have an extra Pi4. Looks like it will be project time soon.
All this is to say, fuck you FOX.
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Ça va devenir comme la Floride 😨
Les bibliothèques municipales de Russie devront retirer jusqu’à 70 % de leurs livres pour respecter les lois sur les « agents étrangers » et les « organisations indésirables ».
fr.euronews.com/my-europe/2026…Russie : avec les nouvelles lois restrictives, les bibliothèques se vident
Des bibliothèques municipales devront retirer jusqu’à 70 % de leurs livres pour respecter les lois sur les « agents étrangers » et les « organisations indésirables ». #EuropeNewsIrina Sheludkova (euronews)
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FFS.
I've been a Roku user (and generally a pretty happy one) for over a decade. Today each TV in the house has a Roku device attached to it; they're the only "smart" devices we own.
I've also been watching the gradual enshittification of the Roku experience in recent years. More ads, more dark patterns, more decisions that run contrary to the needs of the user. I can only expect Roku being acquired by Fox to accelerate this sad trend.
Now it's just a matter of whether I proactively replace my Roku devices or gradually replace them as they die.
FFS.
Fox buying Roku for $22 billion. wsj.com/business/deals/fox-rok…
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Quick thoughts on the proposed UK social media ban
- Enforcement will be a nightmare, teens are already more tech savvy than most parents
- Taking an existing right away from teens for 'debatable' reasons will never end well
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- It's ultimately based on the paranoia of concerned parents, rather than evidence. The victims will be the less privileged kids, and those who don't have concerned parents, for whom SM acts as a lifeline, but are absent from the whole discussion
- techdirt.com/2026/02/17/austra…
As ever, it's a policy where the *possible* but unsubstantiated risk to the privileged are heavily prioritised over the *actual* harms that would be done to the underprivileged. Modern politics in a nutshell, basically.
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We’ve been covering Australia’s monumentally stupid social media ban for kids under 16 since before it went into effect. We noted how dumb the whole premise was, how the rollout was an …Mike Masnick (Techdirt)
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Would honestly be more supportive of this if government combined it with a bunch of support which has been proven to improve children's MH and wellbeing, but has been systematically removed over the last few decades.
A few examples - Surestart, youth clubs, free or subsidised sports centres, quality and easily accessible counselling, adequate SEN support in schools, libraries within walking distance, cheap and frequent public transport, safer roads and neighbourhoods... As a school counsellor, it is very difficult for me to recommend to kids they get off social media until I know they have something better and safer to do instead.
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I believe the lib/Dem/progressive/ DSA/ leftist infighting results from 2 things. Russia is pitting the left and right against the center, while Israel is pitting the right and center against the left. The center and left are both targets in two-against-one scenarios, while the right is not.
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A student who puts their name in the file name of a PDF they send me instead of just calling it thesis.pdf is clearly a genius and I almost don't need to read the thesis. 😛
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In 1866, a remarkable movement swept across the South. Thousands of formerly enslaved Black men and women appeared before Freedmen’s Bureau officials to legally register marriages that had often existed for years—-or even decades.
It was one of the largest acts of family recognition in American history, yet few Americans know the story today.
Image: Soldier and Companion. United States, ca. 1861–1865. Quarter-plate tintype. Unknown photographer. Jackie Napoleon Wilson Collection.
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Nine steps. A mandatory 24-hour cooling-off period. For installing software on a device you own.
2.5 months left.
#android #google #keepandroidopen
Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.keepandroidopen.org
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Human billboards need to come back into fashion. Shit is too real for social media
12 June 1936"Otto Richter, a German Jew, and his wife protest against his deportation to Germany by the US immigration authorities, Ellis Island."
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MORE ART
JOAN MASTODON IN FRONT OF THE SPACE NEEDLE
#VantaArt #plushtodon #seattle #art
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@naomikritzer is a MSP hometown hero! In addition to her excellent fiction, she writes indispensable local election guides.
Her short story “The Year Without Sunshine” was an underground favorite here in MSP, and reads very differently now in hindsight after what we did during the ICE siege — like a prophecy, or an instruction manual.
Kritzer is a master of building scenarios that require her characters to express and resolve a wide variety of complex and contradictory emotions. Her breakout novel, *Catfishing on the CatNet* is a charming and deceptively goofy story about an AI trained on the impeccable vibes in a really solid groupchat becoming sentient and demanding...cat pictures. This is the setup for a warm (but intense) novel of internet-mediated friendship and IRL mutual aid:memex.craphound.com/2019/11/19…
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Naomi Kritzer’s “Catfishing on the CatNet”: an AI caper about the true nature of online friendship – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
Naomi Kritzer’s “Catfishing on the CatNet”: an AI caper about the true nature of online friendshipCory Doctorow (Cory Doctorow's MEMEX)
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Reading Doctorow’s praising this other author’s work bring to mind criticism of another dude who famously lifted from and then never promoted or even mentioned Tanith Lee, who could have used the help later in her life
Nice to see one writer boosting another
When my wife and I were expecting our first, we joked about doing a gender reveal party where the big moment would come and it would be something pastel yellow (or otherwise completely ambiguous), and when the guests all acted confused or indignant, we would say "what did you expect would happen if _we_ did a gender reveal?!?"
We didn't know the sex of either of our babies until they were born.
517) Genderrevealbot. "Oh, your father and I are so happy we persuaded you to throw one of these parties - I think they're so cute! Now let's cut the cake and find out whi...AAAH! OH GOD!" #SmallRobotsRemastered
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A CHALLENGE TO EFF: write a headline that names who is paying for these stalking laws to happen: Facebook/Meta, Palantir, Anthropic, OpenAI, Xitter, etc. etc.
you cannot antagonize further those who want you under their boot; even dead. so might as well make it personal.
1. everybody hates AI and data centers: MAKE THAT CONNECTION and ride that sentiment.
2. remind people of the aislopping scum with real names and faces who are waging class war; attacking our rights and freedoms.
Laws restricting social media access based on age are spreading across the globe—from Australia and the UK to Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, and the EU. These policies create serious risks for privacy, free expression, and access to information. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/inte…Internet Age-Gates Are a Growing Global Threat
The internet is an essential resource for young people and adults to access information, explore community, and find themselves—both inside countries and across continents.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Here in Australia, it's been largely parents' and similar groups panic about "think about the children" demanding the federal government do something without knowing what that should be.
Then there's the "eSafety Commissioner" who seems to be waging a personal crusade against "big tech" exposing "our children" to cyber bullying and other harms.
And the only solution they came up with, (despite everyone with any expertise saying it was a bad idea), was blocking children from social media.
AI slop really has little to do with it. It's mostly about social media "stranger danger".
The social media companies opposed the legislation as they were given no guidance on how to implement the age verification other than they would be fined if they didn't comply. However, they've got the $$$ to comply. It'll be the smaller platforms that close, which has occurred in the UK.
Alarming changes to federal election law.
Haven't heard a peep about this in mainstream media.
Could be Canada's "Citizen United"
Liberal Loophole Will Let Dark Money Fund Election Ads, Critic Warns
readthemaple.com/liberal-looph…
“They’re fine with the undemocratic influence of wealthy interests.”Emma Paling (The Maple)
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If this doesn't turn the kids Straight Edge then nothing will...
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to European eyes it's a two party system and both parties are on the Right.
Not good, not surprising how the USA has found itself in this mess tbh. 😞
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Demonising identity politics as "distracting from class politics" is honestly just the leftist version of "immigrants stole our jobs".
It erases the struggles of oppressed groups, dismisses anything that does not centre whiteness, and presumes to tell us how we ought to be responding to our own oppression. It doubles down on the glib idea that solving class problems will immediately solve every other problem in the world, which is simply not true.
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Canes fans yell “No means no!” at Carter Hart.
And yet the headlines are “Carter Hart becomes target of shocking chants”, “Carter Hart targeted by controversial chant”
WTAF
Edit:Carter not Corey!!!
#hnom
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Yep. I followed it pretty closely. Which is why I don’t think changing no means no is at all controversial.
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I can't help but noticing that the open source community seems to be fracturing along "left coded" and "right coded" lines. Examples of left-coded software might include Debian, GNOME, Antix, OpenSuse whereas right-coded software would definitely include Hyprland, OpenMandriva, Devuan, and probably GrapheneOS and OpenBSD.
Using search engines, it is very easy to find many, many lists of what anti-woke campaigners refer to as "non-woke software lists," but I can't find a curated list of anti-anti-woke open source projects. I tried searching for inclusive software, and I get lists of domain-specific open source software to facilitate specific axes of inclusivity in specific contexts, which is very useful information, but I'm mainly trying to decide on a Linux distro. Antix seems the most values-compatible, but also seems to be anti-Wayland. Is Wayland considered problematic? What about Sway?
One thing that I find troubling is that the more I look for things that are some combination of anticommercial, antiproprietary, anti-bloat, pro-privacy, non-systemd (because systemd obeyed in advance re. age verification), and the like, the more I also run into right wing subcultures and rage against the codes of conduct. I'd like to be more open source, not less, but also more inclusive and less freeze peach. I've wondered before, am I somehow a bad person for being drawn to non-proprietary technology: astoundingteam.com/2021/04/05/…
How in the HELL did the left become so computer illiterate?Lorraine Lee (In Defense of Anagorism)
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Reminder : This Magdenburg killer called the radical right Geert Wilders a hero. And once again Geert Wilders (like with Anders Breivik) got away with his decades long xenophobia and discrimination remarks on Twitter and in the Lower House of parliament.
Article showing a Wilders tweet and the "hero" reply by the Magdenburg killer :
mintpressnews.com/a-saudi-athe…
Article from today about the Magdenburg killer and a request for life sentence :
rtl.nl/nieuws/buitenland/artik…
#xenophobia #racism #discrimination #GeertWilders #PVV #Magdenburg #germany #extremeright #violence
Aanklagers in Maagdenburg hebben een levenslange gevangenisstraf geëist tegen Taleb A. om een aanslag op een kerstmarkt in de stad. Daarbij werden op 20 december 2024 zes mensen gedood en raakten ongeveer driehonderd anderen gewond.RTL Nieuws / ANP (RTL.nl)
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La fortune d’Elon Musk est supérieure au PIB de 172 pays
legrandcontinent.eu/fr/2026/06…
Le milliardaire américain, dont la fortune pourrait dépasser les 1 000 milliards de dollars dans les prochaines semaines, a accumulé en 30 ans l’équivalent de 11 millions d’années de travail d’un Américain percevant le revenu médian.
Le milliardaire a accumulé l'équivalent de 11 millions d’années de travail d’un Américain percevant le revenu médian.Marin Saillofest (Le Grand Continent)
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Pour comparer, la fortune d'un clodo :
I am tired of the filthy rich telling consumers what they “must” do.
And it was a mass failure to have allowed individuals to become filthy rich, able to wield too much power.
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The next stage we need to move to is class consciousness that the rich are intrinsically evil, if only because that much wealth disparity brings out the absolute worst in people. The wealth makes them evil.
I’m thinking of the comments made by Bezos about you know how government is bad with undercurrent that somebody like him is virtuous and would do good. We only have to look at the working conditions and their warehouses and fulfillment centers.
The root cause is wealth
The Liquid Schwartz
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Man, it's soo cool to see an obscure movie title repurposed by Chappo Trap House a decade ago make it into shorthand for MAGA shitbags.
chapotraphouse.com/
CHAPO TRAP HOUSE
CHAPO TRAP HOUSELazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
in reply to The Liquid Schwartz • • •@OvertonDoors Monsterdon approves
#Monsterdon
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Log 🪵
in reply to Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 • • •Isaac Sousa
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •me no likey!
Elaine
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •🇨🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🌍🔬🧬
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •I'm slightly surprised to be told that I'm Zohran Mamdani, but I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not sure why that 4th access is Davos vs Dubai, though -- it feels like a distinction without a difference.
Rob Abram
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •hm
Stephen Foskett
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •George B
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •> An elite group of people have a secret plan to introduce a totalitarian government.
I disagree with the "secret" part. The heritage foundation literally publish their plans online under their own names.
Elric
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Jón Fairbairn
in reply to Elric • • •@elricofmelnibone
I did find myself wondering “what is the optimal number of crackheads on public transport?”
@cstross
Corvid Crone
in reply to Jón Fairbairn • • •Yeah, I was looking for an answer along the lines of "ain't none of my business what other people are doing"
Merc
in reply to Jón Fairbairn • • •@jonfairbairn @elricofmelnibone
The crackheads question can be interpreted in two nearly opposite ways.
Agree: public transit sucks, that's why I drive a big truck
Or
Agree: we need more drug treatment programs so those poor people can get clean
Dan McDonald
in reply to Elric • • •@elricofmelnibone
Quizzes like these lack nuance.
The usage of death penalty in the US is racist as hell, but should've been applied far-more after both Appamatox and Jan6. And I know damned well know against whom.
Jernej Simončič �
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •These are my full results:
Philipp Riederer
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •I get really bad news. At least I can retire.
Mike P
in reply to Philipp Riederer • • •@ascii158 I got Kier too, despite agreeing with the "Israel is committing genocide..." question, which doesn't seem very Kierish.
I have to wonder what the other options are.
C++ Wage Slave
in reply to Philipp Riederer • • •My closest match, supposedly, is the Pope. I wouldn't set too much store by that: I've written here that I'd like to see the Catholic Church destroyed by the forces of science and reason. Besides, I thought Leo was intolerant of trans people.
Nick Kerker
in reply to Philipp Riederer • • •Matúš Chochlík
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Resuna
in reply to Matúš Chochlík • • •Yeh it reads "billionaire asshole or billionaire asshole" to me.
Σ(i³) = (Σi)²
in reply to Resuna • • •No, no, it's "billionaire arseholes" vs "billionaire assholes". Important distinction, that. The first group holds talks about the state of the world, the second just parties.
@matus_chochlik @cstross
Dan McDonald
in reply to Matúš Chochlík • • •The only guess I have is the Davos/Dubai spectrum is a measure of Noblesse Oblige.
🏳️🌈 Happy Pride-onphan! 🏳️⚧️
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Matúš Chochlík
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Thirzah
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Resuna
in reply to Thirzah • • •Wilhelm Gere
in reply to Thirzah • • •Depends also if you're an Indigenous Native of the Americas, Africa, Australia, etc.
Oblomov
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •I feel like I should have Strongly Agreed/Disagreed more, but some of the takes were too simplistic.
Dan McDonald
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Okay... tell me I'm from the US without telling me I'm from the US...
Paul Turnbull 🇨🇦
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Close but I have a bit more hope than you. :)
Jef Poskanzer
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Wilhelm Gere
in reply to Jef Poskanzer • • •weforum.org/stories/2024/12/da…
Steven A. Leach
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •I'm.... rather confused by my results.
‘Tad’ Sander 🍉🌻
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Resuna
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Resuna
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Needs additional options:
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are...
A scam.NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are... A scam.
JD
in reply to Resuna • • •Σ(i³) = (Σi)²
in reply to Resuna • • •Yeah, many of the questions lack the "correct" answer, and then you're picking amongst the second best answers and there's multiple ones that are all "sort of right"...
@cstross
Gideon Hallett
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Card carrying member of the holy wokerati here (to nobody’s surprise!)
Timothy Clark
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •spanghero
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •FoolishOwl
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •I got Greta Thunberg.
(As often with these things, I take issue with some of the questions, but in a way that's part of the purpose of the quiz.)
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Wilhelm Gere
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Hmmm, 4% more Chud (?) otherwise pretty darned close to yours.
I guess that shouldn't be too surprising either, from my point of view seeing as I follow you daily. Read(ing) your books, etc.
My extra chud might be a few I don't know answers. Don't know enough to give a solid answer.
bitcoin = scam
AI = scam
Quantum Computing = future scam, at least the way they're going to implement it, i.e. get rich quick schemed.
Brynawel
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •I am not surprised.
David S
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •I'm pretty close, but interesting I'm more neo-luddAIte as I'm a sysadmin.
Grievous Angel
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •9% chud. Not sure what I did wrong.
I have questions about the questions.
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
in reply to Grievous Angel • • •Grievous Angel
in reply to Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 • • •@Lazarou I was /this/ close to tapping that option before my brain overcame my libido.
/This/ close.
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in reply to Grievous Angel • • •T_TR0N 📡💊💣
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Fish Id Wardrobe ⁂
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Bloognoo
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Ulrich_the_Elder, 🇨🇦,🇺🇦,🇵🇸
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Matt Griffin
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Σ(i³) = (Σi)²
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •I don't even know what this means. Is this a good thing? Should I be proud or ashamed?
MattChippytea
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •must admit I did not expect this comparison
MattChippytea
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •I also found this really frustrating…. Air conditioning is etc etc - it really depends where you live.
Shoplifting, piracy, fare hopping - are all very different things, not the same thing at all. Who are you potentially taking from? Big supermarket or local business?
Probably says more about my moral relativism.
javitel
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •MidgePhoto
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Well...
Bless you.
Proto Himbo European
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •I have serious issues with this delightful quiz. For instance, the first item (screenshot):
Second item (screenshot): This is two questions, clearly two separate dimensions. Smooshing them together will produce mostly garbage responses.
There are already weird things elsewhere, like I suspect some of the "don't know" answers are scored as a neutral/medium number (which is seriously bad practice in most cases), but I also suspect there's a lot of "wiggle room" when measuring things like this. The psychometrics might not be quite as nightmarish as they look.
Edit: I take it back. This is a shitshow, from a psychometric perspective. And it still probably does a basically adequate job of kind of classifying people (especially those on a far end of the spectrum).
It's really hard to take online fun-quizzes when your job for 20+ years has involved heavy doses of psychometrics and survey design. I blame myself.
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in reply to Proto Himbo European • • •Lorraine Lee
in reply to Proto Himbo European • •These Likert-scale ideological quizzes are always a psychometric shitshow. Here's my thorough panning of one a few decades ago:
astoundingteam.com/2010/06/04/…
So I decided to roll my own. I tried to cut down on package dealing and make each response item as clear, direct, and unambiguous as possible. Unfortunately, I am a disorganized slob and the source code is lost to the sands of time. The Wayback Machine did however capture the questions. This is what I came up with:
web.archive.org/web/2016080507…
I didn't include a scoring system, per se. My desire was to use clustering to identify "factions" within my "electorate" but I didn't yet know how to code that. I did play around with the correlation matrix, between questions:
web.archive.org/web/2015050202…
and between respondents (identified by whatever name they give for their ideology):
web.archive.org/web/2015050202…
I did make a little PCA map:
flickr.com/photos/61180684@N07…
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in reply to Lorraine Lee • • •OMG this is the most delightful thing I've read in days! I hope I don't sound patronizing when I say that you don't seem to have a ton of psychometrics background and yet you did kick-ass, very reasonable psychometrics. This is awesome!
If you happen to have the data lying around I'd be thrilled to extend what you did. I'm not a super-expert; my approach would probably be to start where you did and move in another couple of directions, probably
That's about it, because you did almost exactly what I think most analysts would have done, already. This is super cool.
And if you feel like redoing the survey (honestly, if I find time I could put it on my limesurvey instance, since the questions are saved), that would be pretty awesome, too. This is just fun, and I think potentially informative and insight-producing.
You had me at "I rolled my own" :D
Edit: forgot to respond to your review of that other quiz because I was excited about the one you made. I pretty much agree, and now I have a new word for something I have issues with: "package dealing." You nicely identified a consistent problem: the premise of the question was taken as a given when it should have been a question or two itself. They were trying to get at a multidimensional thing with conditionals built in, with a simplistic approach. I've seen that done in ways that maybe aren't awful, but it's never great, and this one was pretty bad.
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in reply to Proto Himbo European • •If I have a data backup it's on my old PC which is somewhere else. I'll check for it next time I'm there. I did find the source code, had to massage it quite a bit to get it working, sans capcha, so hopefully not too many spam responses. I've run it once, so as of this writing there should be one completed survey on the system.
astoundingteam.com/survey/
Lorraine Lee
in reply to Lorraine Lee • •The source code in its current form is here:
codeberg.org/n8chz/survey
Proto Himbo European
in reply to Lorraine Lee • • •Szymon Sokół 🇵🇱🇪🇺🇺🇦
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •apparently, most of us are Mamdani.
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in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Netraven
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Breach
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Well that was fun.
Guess I am not too surprised with my results.
Jaime Robertson
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •I don’t know much about Marin, and admit I’m not sure I understood a few of rhe questions.🤷♂️
Jordi
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •well…
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Proud Owlbear
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Who the hell is Ed Zitron?
John-Mark Gurney
in reply to Charlie Stross • • •Starting with this question:
The primary cause of crime is poverty and deprivation.
The quiz kinda goes off the rails.
Crime here is left undefined, and I know they mean property crime and crimes regularly prosecuted by the local DA, but in reality, most crime is committed by rich people who buy politicians to avoid prosecution. (See graph showing that wage theft far exceeds burglaries.).
There really should be an option that is, "I disagree with the premise of the question."
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