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strypey

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Free human being of this Earth. Be excellent to each other! All my posts here are CC BY-SA 4.0 (or later).
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tobestewart, to random

Have we tried bullying billionaires? They look soft as shit

strypey,
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@koherecoWatchdog
> give a shit about people’s well being. OTOH... he seems to really get bent out of shape when he loses something, or when things don’t go his way

Maybe the pathology you're looking for there is narcissism?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/narcissism

@Gogs @tobestewart

strypey, to internet
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"But social media also exposes movements to many vulnerabilities. The solidiarities it generates are often superficial: movement use of social media can easily devolve into repetitive messaging in echo chambers without collective gains in narrative power—a change in the stories and values that hold sway in society—or a translation to real-world militancy."

, , 2022

https://logicmag.io/pivot/when-we-were-the-media/

strypey,
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@screwtape
> I disagree that becoming a corporation like the now-mega corporations would have been a good strategy

Well, I didn't say it would have...

> activists could adopt small-business approaches to the internet from '95 - '05, there hasn't been a meaningful activist web product in the ensuing two decades

Ae, which is why that, also, is not what I suggested we could have done.

Perhaps you're unfamiliar with platform cooperatives? Here's a good starting point:

https://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-01-31/ours-to-hack-and-own-review/

originalg, to random

Is there a way to leave a conversation? I'm in a middle of a fire fight about stuff ??!!!

strypey,
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@KashifShah
> politely ask them to remove you from the mentions?

Some apps have a Mute Conversation feature, so if you've lost interest in a thread, you can untag yourself. If the thread itself still interests you, but certain people are posting... unhelpful stuff, you can just mute them, as @originalg says. FediLab has an option to mute people for a fixed period of time (an hour, week, month etc), which I love.

@LovesTha

strypey,
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@LovesTha
> Is the 'Mute Conversation' supported by activity pub or just implemented locally in the instance?

It seems to be available in all the third-party apps I've used with this Mastodon instance (eg Pinafore, FediLab). A number of them work with any server software that supports the Mastodon API (Pleroma, Akkoma etc), so it doesn't seem like it's only a Mastodon feature.

@KashifShah @originalg

dragfyre, to random
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EVERYBODY GET IN HERE WE'RE DISCUSSING SANDWICHES :hubwich:

What's the nicest sandwich you've had lately? If you haven't had a sandwich lately, what kind of sandwich would you like?

strypey,
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@dragfyre
I had a fantastic mushroom burger from Lord of the Fries a couple of weeks back.

@benjaminhollon

strypey, to internet
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"We believe #Gobo needs to allow users to:

  • Read and post to multiple social networks from one open source client.

  • Pick and choose between algorithms for filtering and sorting the posts from all these networks.

  • Design (and potentially share) different algorithms for filtering and sorting.

  • Use third-party services to assist in filtering and sorting.

  • Audit the performance of these different algorithms as well as the third party services."

https://publicinfrastructure.org/2022/11/09/gobo-2-0-all-your-social-media-in-one-place/

#SocialMedia

strypey,
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@screwtape
> a marketplace for selling and receiving the (evil) algorithms

No algorithm is inherently evil. What makes them evil in the DataFarms is lack of respect for software freedoms, particularly #0, #1 and #3:

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms

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strypey,
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@screwtape
If the workings of an algorithm are clear to the person using it, and source is available, that satisfies #1. If they can turn it on and off, and swap it out for a different one, that satisfies #0. If they can configure it to meet their needs, and share those configurations, that satisfies #3. At which point a marketplace for those configurations is perfectly legitimate:

> “Free software” does not mean “noncommercial.”

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#selling

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strypey, to random
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"When more than 15 percent of your words (except verbs and proper nouns) are three or more syllables, readers work with difficulty to understand your message. To reduce larger words, consider these tips: a) Use about instead of approximately; use rather than utilize; b) Convert nouns ending in –ion into verbs. Use “We considered ...” instead of “We took into consideration ...”; c) Replace endeavor with try, aggregate with total, and optimum with best."

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/about/submissions

strypey,
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@Babcia54
> I am a believer in plain language because I think it's important that people understand what governments and contracts are all about. At the same time, I have doubts about "dumbing" down vocabulary

What's your thoughts on this?

https://mastodon.sharma.io/@harshad/110302692502636602

floppy, to random
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I don't have access to the email address of my Discord account anymore (affiliation ended). Discord does not allow to change the email address of the account without access to it.

Apparently the solution is to just get a new account. But for that I'm forced to provide a phone number. But you can only ever use one number for one account.

That means, if I can't access my emails anymore, I need to get a new phone number.

❓ Am I the only one seeing that the logic of this policy is heavily flawed?

strypey,
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@floppy
> That means, if I can't access my emails anymore, I need to get a new phone number

Only if you also lose access to that phone number. It can also be used to prove you're the rightful owner of the account. I agree that obligatory phone number harvesting is bollocks though. I haven't played with ChatGPT for exactly that reason.

strypey,
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@floppy
> Does anyone have recommendations for a service where I can get a (permanent) virtual phone number?

JMP are passionate supporters of software freedom and open protocols. They use XMPP as part of their service and have given significant funding to Snikket:

https://jmp.chat/

me, to internet

I've been hearing a lot of (mostly negative) rumblings about and I've been trying to find out what all the noise is about.

What I'm struggling to understand is why they felt the need to reinvent the wheel by creating the protocol. What does it supposedly do that does not?

I don't really see a way to see this as anything other than an attempt to be deliberately incompatible for some reason.

Most of what I've been able to find online is either from tech media which glosses over all the relevant technical details, or from BlueSky's official statements which don't seem to answer it either.

strypey,
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@tragiccommons
> I see and and and others going the way of messaging - with very minimal interoperability

Where Dennis goes wrong IMHO is seeing this as a bad thing. For him, interop is a binary; two apps are either 100% feature-compatible, or interop is pointless. Yet whenever a newbie from Titter learns they can follow a PeerTube channel from their Mastodon account, or follow a WriteFreely blog, or RSVP to a Mobilizon event, they get really excited.

@me

strypey,
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@tragiccommons
> I joined socialhub a while ago and I've found it pretty useless in addressing these issues. It's probably symptomatic that it still has a link to APConf2020 in the header

Well, some of us have been a bit preoccupied since then. There was this global disease outbreak you might have seen in the news? SH has been a bit of a ghost town since that conference, but it's starting to get active again.

@me

strypey,
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@tragiccommons
> Dennis nails it on the head on both the lack of interoperability

Ironic that Diaspora is the only fediverse app that doesn't federate with anything but itself. Except for a couple of AP apps, whose devs reverse-engineered its bespoke and barely-documented variant of OStatus.

> the dominance of ideology rather than functionality

... is precisely why Diaspora, despite once being a pioneer in the space, has been eclipsed in both adoption and functionality by AP apps.

@me

strypey,
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@tragiccommons
> there is shockingly little attention paid to user experience

Let's be fair, poor UX is a perennial problem in Free Software UI. It's hardly unique to the fediverse. Some AP apps do a better job of UI than others, but it's fair to say there's plenty of work to be done across the full offering. Some of that work needs to be done at the protocol level, which is why the FEP process is being developed :

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep

@me

strypey, to random
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Is it just me or is web search getting dumber? I just tried to search for a report using DuckDuckGo, with the author's name and the full title as keywords. Instead of the text of the report, ideally from the original publisher, I got a bunch of vaguely related tech press articles. DDG are basically a front-end for Bing now, so I guess they're to blame. But I tried Monocles.de (Searx instance) and the results were only marginally better.

strypey,
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@B_Whitewind
I don't really want to depend on Goggle for anything, but using StartPage as a less privacy-shedding front-end for their search is an option.

strypey,
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@lwriemen
> mojeek has their own webcrawler bot

Thanks for the reminder. @jackyan has pointed this out to me a couple of times. I have set it as the default in Fennec.

lightweight, to random
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Listening to RNZ now, I'm appalled by gov't's decisions to roll back climate action commitments due to natural disasters caused by climate catastrophes. Who was it who said that 'humanity is the only species that will be unable to save itself from extinction because doing so isn't cost-effective'?

strypey, (edited )
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@lightweight
> Shifting to, for example, bio fuel to power all the same stuff we currently power with petrol

At the risk of a 'No True Scotsman', this isn't proposed by anyone with even a basic understanding of energy economics. The same is true of shifting to any one energy source. But let's remember that electricity and hydrogen, like batteries, are energy carriers, not sources. I would argue biofuels are the same; transitional ways to use existing fossil fuel tech without those fuels.

strypey,
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@lightweight
> [biofuel production can] demolish our remaining biodiversity, never mind challenging our food production capabilities

It's true that it can, and many of the current existing sources are ecocidal (palm oil) or stupidly inefficient (maize) or both. But there are a wide range of sources in waste products that might otherwise create pollution, including humanure:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/mar/15/uk-first-poo-bio-bus-bristol-regular-service

See also the section on second generation biofuels here:

https://www.appropedia.org/Biofuel

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strypey, (edited )
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@lightweight
Having said all that, I agree that there's a limit to the amount of biofuel energy that can be sustainably produced. I'd be more impressed with Labour's biofuels policy if it introduced regulations on what can be used as feedstock for producing them, and funding for open research (published open access and patent-free) on how to decentralize production and bring down the cost. The biofuels mandate was little more than a hand wave in the right direction.

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robyn, to random

Hey hivemind, quick q - we just had someone come by and put a lawn sign for an candidate in our front yard. We didn't ask for one and had no convos with anyone around this, but did have a sign at a past election.

  1. Is that allowed? I was under the impression they weren't allowed to do that unless you agreed to it.
  2. Isn't it too early for this anyway....?
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strypey,
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@robyn
> everyone in my household thought that permission was required before any signs go up on private property

Putting aside the legalities, it's just a really shitty way for parties to maintain relationships with supporters. Ideally the candidate ought to have personally talked to you about it, thus make sure you're enthused about getting out the vote for them. Failing that, someone from their campaign definitely ought to have reached out to do the same.

@AmeliasBrain @KathyReid

funbreaker, to random

I'm looking for recommendations on lightweight web browsers for Linux. I wanna be less dependent on Chromium.

strypey,
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@funbreaker
> lightweight web browsers for Linux. I wanna be less dependent on Chromium.

You could give Dillo a try?

https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Dillo

... or Midori?
https://astian.org/midori-browser-desktop/

I use ABrowser. It's FireFox-based, so not exactly lightweight, but Chromium-free.

strypey, to fediverse
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Is there an events instance (eg of @mobilizon or @gancio) we can use to keep track of #fediverse related events? Both in-person gatherings and online meetings.

I’m conscious that with the growth of interest in the fediverse, and in the number of related events being independently organised (which is great!), we’re going to need a canonical place to keep track of them. So why not dogfood the emerging federated events system!

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/is-there-a-mobilizon-instance-for-fediverse-related-events/3179

#AskFedi #events #Mobilizon #Gancio

strypey,
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@lightweight
> I've got 2 of them I can offer, with a further 2 imminent

It's going to be fun figuring out how to make the best use of event federation. I'm guessing we'll want a portal site, whose stewards do a combination of data entry and pulling feeds/ events from other instances, to make sure the portal has as many relevant events as possible. As sortable as possible (by location etc).

Tagging in @zyk and @idanoo, since I know they're keen to get more use of openevent.nz

@J12t

KashifShah, to random

a blast from the past

strypey,
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@KashifShah
> a blast from the past

They're still around. There's at least one SubGenius server in the fediverse, although I can't remember the name right now. Try a hashtag search for ...

strypey, to music
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A message for transhumanism from 1994...

"She said: Unlearn you must forget the values that you hold
Life is not longevity
and beauty is the only goal

I can see tomorrow
I can see the world to come
I can see tomorrow
Hear the pandemonium"

, Pandemonium, 1994

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=_P7znsC8Phs

strypey, to random
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"... the first long distance coach running on biogas will operate the Stockholm-Oslo route. Powered by liquid biogas (LBG), the coach will reduce climate impact and contribute to a fossil-free transport between the two Nordic capitals."

https://www.transportengineer.org.uk/transport-engineer-news/premiere-for-the-first-international-biogas-bus/238694/

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