bhawthorne

@bhawthorne@infosec.exchange

Long Covid/PASC/CFS since Oct. 2022.
My brain is different.

I don’t have strong gender or pronoun preferences. He or they or per is fine.

New English naturalist descended from privileged white European settlers, now living on Pocumtuck and Nipmuc land.

Anti-racist, anti-fascist, anti-bigot.

Repeal the 2nd Amendment to the Constitution of the USA.

Warning: I sometimes post full-length blog posts here.

Header pic: Coastal Plain Pond in SE Massachusetts.
Thumbnail pic: Me looking out the window and remembering.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

jerry, to random

Thought experiment:

X creates a mastodon instance. Not one that bridges to X or federates X to the fediverse, but a native Mastodon instance. Do we have the same complaints about "consent" with them becoming part of the fediverse?

Is it the company that is objectionable, or the fact that it's not a native fediverse app that is the problem?

bhawthorne,

@jerry I would look at a native Xitter ActivityPub instance the same way I look at every instance: do they moderate their users consistent with the values of the mastodon community or not? There are dozens of ActivityPub instances which are suspended by nearly every mastodon instance due to unmoderated racism or something similar.

I would expect that a Xitter ActivityPub instance would exhibit similar lack of moderation and would be defederated within a week.

As for people seeing my posts, if I post something publicly, that means publicly. I am under no illusion that its distribution can be effectively restricted.

jerry, to random

Yes, I am now aware of the bsky bridge. No, I haven’t blocked them yet. Yes, I will take a closer look.

bhawthorne,

@jerry @kpwn Perhaps any complainers should be directed to move to infosec.space. We can call it airlocking, and infosec.space should have a policy of suspending any domain that even one of the 72 users requests. Before you know it, they will have that unfederated instance.

black_intellect, to random
@black_intellect@mstdn.social avatar

States target health insurers’ ‘prior authorization’ red tape https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/02/12/health-insurers-prior-authorization-targeted-by-state-lawmakers/72545305007/

bhawthorne,

@black_intellect Can we just do the right thing and nationalize all the medical insurance companies? Everyone in the USA deserves healthcare without a profit motive.

GossiTheDog, (edited ) to random
@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social avatar

Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban (not a joke, they seized the domain name).

https://akko.erincandescent.net/notice/AenoDMPN0SdVXSq9ZY

bhawthorne,

@GossiTheDog @aral This is why I have always found it weird that people create domains in Libya, Tuvalu, Afghanistan, and all the other national two-letter TLDs that have some “cute” meaning in English.

bhawthorne, to random

Do you know about the # Toodles hashtag?

I first heard the word Toodles from YouTuber LoeWhaley. Clearly based on the old toodle-oo expression meaning, “Goodbye”, Toodles has developed into way of being seemingly polite while meaning something akin to “get lost”. I first saw it used on Mastodon by @GottaLaff who is frequently the recipient of comments from, let us say, people who make Mastodon less enjoyable. Rather than just silently blocking people, the Toodles hashtag alerts its followers of someone who has pissed off Laffy (or whoever posts the hashtag) enough to get blocked. What you do with that information is entirely up to you.

bhawthorne,

@GottaLaff I heard it when I was a young ‘un in Leicester, England, but back then it just had the polite meaning, like “ta ta” or “cheers.” Did Gidget use it in the nice way, or the new way?

Pagan_Animist, to random
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    bhawthorne,

    @Pagan_Animist Don’t know what hardiness zone you are in, but there are good sugar snap hybrid peas with as little as 61 days to maturity. My concern would be how much light will you have a month from now? Flower and fruit set usually need good light.

    Early beets are another good option. If you lose the sun before the root crop ripens in couple of months, the greens are delicious!

    bhawthorne,

    @Pagan_Animist Oh, if you are in 6b and have supplemental LED grow lights, I’d think you should be all set for peas or beets or even salad greens. I miss growing in 6b; I’ve been in 5b for the last 20 years and the growing season up here in the hills is so much shorter.

    bhawthorne,

    @Pagan_Animist Any sunny windows you could do a little window garden in?

    chris, to vancouver
    @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca avatar

    Apparently I just introduced the term "enshitification" to a popular Vancouver morning rock radio show (CFOX)… and they like it. You're welcome @pluralistic 🤣

    radio GIF

    bhawthorne,

    @Viss @jiminfantino @chris @pluralistic Yo enshitifico
    Tú enshitifices
    Ella/él/usted enshitifice
    Nosotros enshitificamos
    Ellas/ellos/ustedes enshitificen

    GottaLaff, to random
    @GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

    Nothing Trump says is true. Ever. He's a malignant, pathological liar.

    For ex.

    Via Ron Filipkowski

    I thought it wasn’t an insurrection.

    Trump: I think it was an insurrection caused by Nancy Pelosi.

    bhawthorne,

    @GottaLaff It must really suck to be on his Secret Service detail.

    GottaLaff, to random
    @GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

    Senate advances Ukraine and Israel aid after GOP blocked larger border bill
    It's still unclear if the aid package can pass Congress. The Senate will need to take additional votes and House Republicans have not committed to voting on it themselves. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-expected-vote-ukraine-israel-aid-gop-blocked-border-bill-rcna137861

    bhawthorne,

    @GottaLaff Now, time to see what the Do Nothing Party in the House does. Hint, it’s in their name.

    gwynnion, to random
    @gwynnion@mastodon.social avatar

    It personally would not surprise me to get a 9-0 or 8-1 SCOTUS ruling in favor of Trump because of DOJ and Congressional inaction on the matter of insurrection. That seems like the liberal legalist way of avoiding the issue and any potential political blowback.

    Which would suck, obviously, but I have zero expectations for this case.

    bhawthorne,

    @gwynnion Although Congress already voted in 2021 that Trump incited insurrection in his second impeachment. He was not convicted in the senate, but the deciding votes in the senate stated they did not vote to convict because Trump was no longer in office, and they read the impeachment clause as only applying to current officers.

    bhawthorne, to random

    Well, many of us do have quote-toots built into our apps (like Mona). The apps and web interface from Mastodon gGmbH don’t support quote-boosts, but I’m not sure how many people use those interfaces compared to using Mastodon apps from other developers.

    I wonder if anyone has analyzed posts to see what the distribution of users among apps is. https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/111896429669784060

    bhawthorne, to random

    Looking for a good stream to watch the oral arguments at SCOTUS today?

    The AP feed seems to be setup without bloviating talking heads. Currently multi-screen showing outside views and waiting on the court feed.

    https://www.youtube.com/live/1M56LTKOHyQ

    geekysteven, to random
    @geekysteven@beige.party avatar

    Quentin Tarantino's worst nightmare

    bhawthorne,

    @geekysteven @brooke Well, now at least we know what artwork was used to train all those generative models to produce people with additional limbs.

    bhawthorne, to random

    I know I have said in the not too distant past that I never read articles in the Style section, but this one caught my eye in the Washington Post this morning.

    TL;DR
    Local graffiti artists in Los Angeles create a 55-story artwork on the windows of a luxury residential development in Los Angeles being built by a Chinese firm Oceanwide Holdings that has been “on hold” (effectively abandoned) since 2019.

    The city, of course, sees the graffiti as vandalism and has arrested several artists. My question is, if someone builds 55 stories of a development in a city and abandons it incomplete, how is that not a worse crime, vandalism against the entire populace of the city, than some artists putting paint on the windows of the abandoned buildings?


    https://wapo.st/3uAUw77

    GottaLaff, to random
    @GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

    GOP Fascists swarming like the malignant trolls they are.

    Via Scott MacFarlane:

    There are now 68 co-sponsors to Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) resolution to express sense of the US House that " did not engage in or rebellion against the United States"

    Here they are:

    https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/1001/cosponsors?s=1&r=26&q=%7B%22search%22%3A%22congressId%3A118+AND+billStatus%3A%5C%22Introduced%5C%22%22%7D

    bhawthorne,

    @GottaLaff Gaslighting Old Pervs

    DenisCOVIDinfoguy, to auscovid19
    @DenisCOVIDinfoguy@aus.social avatar

    New Report Raises Concerns About Long Covid in Children.

    A large analysis published Wednesday in the journal Pediatrics underscores the toll long COVID can take on children, in some cases leading to neurological, gastrointestinal, cardiovascular and behavioral symptoms in the months after an acute infection.

    Published study: https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/doi/10.1542/peds.2023-062570/196606/Postacute-Sequelae-of-SARS-CoV-2-in-Children?autologincheck=redirected

    @auscovid19

    Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/well/live/long-covid-children.html

    “Long Covid in the U.S., in adults and in kids, is a serious problem,” said Dr. Ziyad AL-Aly, chief of research and development at the V.A. St. Louis Health Care System and a clinical epidemiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, who studies the condition but was not involved in the new report. He said that the paper, which drew on numerous studies of long Covid in children, is “important” and illustrates that the condition can affect multiple organ systems. The new review suggested that 10 to 20 percent of children in the United States who had Covid developed long Covid. However, Dr. Suchitra Rao, a pediatric infectious disease expert at Children's Hospital Colorado and co-author on the paper, acknowledged that there are “lots of caveats” with the prevalence estimates used to arrive at that number. For example, some of the studies included looked only at the very small percentage of children who were hospitalized for Covid. Like adults, children who had more severe cases of Covid have a greater risk of lingering symptoms or new complications. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts the prevalence of long Covid closer to 1 percent of children who have had Covid. (The estimate in adults is 7 percent.)
    image/png

    bhawthorne,

    @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @BE @auscovid19

    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/07/well/live/long-covid-children.html?unlocked_article_code=1.T00.6RL1.v5AxrmQY7aB9

    bhawthorne,

    @rolandelli @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @BE @auscovid19 10-30% of adults (depending on the study) who get an infection from SARSCoV2 have symptoms lasting long enough to be considered long COVID (1-6 months depending on the definition).

    7-10% of adults who had an acute infection currently still have long COVID.

    So I assume the NYT just doesn’t get the distinction, and in this case 10-20% of kids had symptoms for the studies minimum period, and 1% of all kids who had an infection are currently experiencing long COVID symptoms.

    I also expect that is a dramatic underestimate.

    GottaLaff, to random
    @GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

    When your bio says "I'm argumentative," and you try to argue really weak points with me, not only will you lose, you'll get blocked right after I crush said weak effort.

    bhawthorne,

    @GottaLaff Well, at least they have some measure of self-awareness and are warning the rest of us about their failings.

    GottaLaff, to random
    @GottaLaff@mastodon.social avatar

    🙄49-50 Senate Republicans block bipartisan border package, scuttling deal they had demanded from Democrats https://apnews.com/article/386dcc54b29a5491f8bd87b727a284f8

    bhawthorne,

    @GottaLaff That’s because the chief of the border patrol, unlike Kennedy, actually read the bill.

    seachanger, to random
    @seachanger@alaskan.social avatar

    really hoping some Expert Types can explain to me how this news isn’t as terrifying as it appears because yikes friends

    https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2024/02/06/Zombie-Deer-Disease-Bad-As-Sounds/

    bhawthorne,

    @seachanger The good news is that CWD only spreads among cervids (deer, moose, elk) and cannot be transmitted to humans. The frightening thing is that as a prion disease, the infection vector is not alive, so it can stay infectious in the soil for a very long time. Most spread in eastern North America appears to be related to deer farms and other locations with dense herds of deer.

    NeadReport, (edited ) to Polls
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    When you leave a website that you are required to login to, do you...

    #polls #website #security

    bhawthorne,

    @NeadReport What is this “leave a website” concept? I close all tabs every morning so I get a fresh start, but otherwise everything stays open in its own tab and logged in unless the site has a timeout.

    KelsonV, (edited ) to web
    @KelsonV@wandering.shop avatar

    New tech tip on my website!

    Readable Email and Web Pages

    It's 2024. If you're still designing websites or email like you would design an 8.5x11" promotional hand-out on a sheet of paper, you really haven't been paying attention to how people use the internet over the past decade.

    https://hyperborea.org/tech-tips/readable-email/

    bhawthorne,

    @KelsonV I wish that services like mailchimp would let you preview not only desktop and mobile views but also screen reader. At a minimum, people should have the Speak Screen option enabled on an iPhone, the load the mobile version of the newsletter, and swipe down two fingers from the top to read the screen. And close their eyes. That will give at least some indication of how it appears to people using screen readers.

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