strypey

strypey, 1 year ago to random

Once again, the plaintive wail rings out across the high plains of the web. Why, oh why, can't I at least see some text and images on this "web page" without JavaScript turned on?!?

https://confs.tech/

#MakeJavaScriptOptional

strypey, 8 months ago to random

"...earlier this month we passed Earth overshoot day...

Access to fossil fuels has allowed us to temporarily overshoot biophysical limits. This lifted our population and demands on the biosphere past the level it can safely absorb. Barring a planned reduction of those biosphere demands, we will experience the same “adjustments” as other species.

...This often involves large-scale starvation and die-offs as populations adjust"

#DrMikeJoy , 2023

https://theconversation.com/critics-of-degrowth-economics-say-its-unworkable-but-from-an-ecologists-perspective-its-inevitable-211496

#OvershootDay #deGrowth

strypey, 1 month ago to til

#TIL that the @todayilearned bot publishes each new thread on the TIL subReddit to the fediverse.

#Reddit

strypey, 11 months ago to fediverse

I'm an adbuster in general. But I'm not against ads as a revenue model for fediverse servers, as long as they're just old school display ads, with no tracking or targeting. Say an indie game company wants to spend their promotion budget supporting the fediverse instead of FB. If ads for their new games were displayed on a server for gamers, clearly marked as ads and only visible to people using that server, I'm cool with that.

#fediverse #advertising

strypey, 2 months ago to Podcasts

"I'm basically [Joe Biden's] age - which means I shouldn't be in charge of anything - and I grew up in an era in which Leon Uris framed the debate. We all grew up very admiring of what we thought Israel represented. I don't think Biden's ever discovered that it doesn't represent those things."

#ChasFreeman, 2024

https://www.usefulidiotspodcast.com/p/biden-is-a-senile-war-monger-veteran

#podcasts #UsefulIdiots #USPolitics

strypey, 10 months ago to aotearoa

Hipkins slamming the NatACTS for proposing tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy... while ruling out desperately needed wealth taxes - morally equivalent to tax cuts - is rank hypocrisy. Hopefully the anti-NatACT public respond by shifting their votes from Labour to the Greens, Te Pāti Māori, and TOP. All of whom support making making the wealthy pay their fair share of tax.

#Aotearoa #NZ #NZPolitics #tax #NZLabour

strypey, 3 months ago to Podcasts

"This is exactly the same mechanism to what free speech campaigners always complain about, which is called 'cancellation', which is just social media mobs disagreeing with you en masse, right?"

#HaydenDonnell, 2024
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018923260/midweek-mediawatch-h-ha-over-hui-coverage

No Hayden, cancellation is not people disagreeing with you. It's people trying to demonise you by willfully misrepresenting what you said or did, or making things up. Then trying to get more people to ignorantly echo them.

(1/?)

#podcasts #RNZ #MediaWatch

strypey, 4 months ago to random

"[SubStack] began encouraging individual writers to recommend one another, funneling tens of thousands of subscribers to like-minded people. It started to send out an algorithmically ranked digest of potentially interesting posts to anyone with a Substack account, showcasing new voices from across the network. And in April of this year, the company launched Notes, a text-based social network resembling Twitter that surfaces posts in a ranked feed."

#CaseyNewton, 2012

https://platformer.substack.com/p/why-substack-is-at-a-crossroads

strypey, 8 months ago to InitialD

"...I don't doubt for a second that there are some genuinely shitty individuals out there, and they should rightly be called out for their bigotry."

#TheCriticalDrinker

https://piped.video/watch?v=h3FF_vBwftw

#video #PopCulture #fandom #bigotry

strypey, 6 months ago to johnoliver

John Oliver did an impressively nuanced segment on homeschooling in the US, published a month ago;

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=lzsZP9o7SlI

#JohnOliver #homeschooling

strypey, 6 months ago to chat

I finally got around to testing a bunch of GNU/Linux chat apps that support the @matrix protocol. Not one of them was suitable for production use;

https://trisquel.info/en/forum/can-trisquel-11-please-replace-pidgin-21st-century-chat-client#comment-174442

... which I'm presuming means there still isn't a functional Matrix client for mobile GNU devices like the PinePhone and Librem5.

#Chat #Matrix #MobileGNU #PinePhone #Librem5

strypey, 7 months ago to random

Can someone please create a browser extension that pops up a big scary warning when you try to open a link infected by DataFarmers? Like the one we get when we try to open a link using HTTP instead of HTTPS.

#BrowserExtensions #DataFarming

strypey, 2 months ago to random

"... people don’t like having a president they can’t stand on a personal level. But voters appear to see the possibility of [the Orange Menace's] return as a series of trade-offs. Since they don’t have faith in Biden’s ability to create peace or prosperity, [the Orange Menace] presents himself as someone who can bring both of those things, even at the cost of being personally annoying. So far, this is a trade that many desperate voters seem willing to make."

#JoshCohen

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/trump-is-winning-this-election-right-now-heres-why/

strypey, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to internet

No amount of Free Code and decentralisation can fix the inherent downsides of 'social media' as a medium:

https://kevquirk.com/anti-social-update

#SocialMedia

@kev

strypey, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to aotearoa

The IRD flowchart used to determine the correct tax code asks;

"Is your annual income from all sources likely to be $14,000 or less"

That's about $280 a week. That's less than the lowest benefit rate for anyone over 19, before you add accommodation supplement. It wouldn't even cover rent, utilities, and food in 2023.

Do you think they're asking time travellers from the 1990s?

#Aotearoa #NZ #Tax #TaxCodes #IRD

strypey, 4 months ago to Ukraine

"Today Ukrainians do not speak about 'after the war;' they speak about 'after the victory'—пiсля перемоги (pislya peremohy). 'Peremoha'— Polish theater director Krzysztof Czyżewski suggested—should become part of a new universal vocabulary. The prefix pere indicates a crossing and moha means 'I can.' Peremoha—'victory'—literally expresses a going beyond what one is able to do."

#MarciShore, 2023

https://snyder.substack.com/p/ukraines-maidan-revolution

#Ukraine #transcendence

strypey, 8 months ago to fediverse

Mainstream developers are finally picking up on the potential benefits of forge federation:

https://piped.video/watch?v=v68NFdZIMKI

#fediverse #ActivityPub #ForgeFederation

strypey, 4 months ago to random

"Substack deserves credit for kicking off a revolution in independent publishing. But the world it helped to birth is now much bigger than its own platform. Next week we will move to a new home in that world. One where readers can feel confident their money is not going to accelerate the growth of hate movements."

#CaseyNewton, 2023

https://platformer.substack.com/p/why-platformer-is-leaving-substack

In Apartheid South Africa, Nelson Mandela was accused of leading a hate movement. Palestinian solidarity groups are accused of this now.

strypey, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to fediverse

Every now and then I want to @mention someone I know, who I remember interacting with here at some point, but I can't remember their fediverse address. Every time I try, I remember the existing #fediverse apps aren't good at helping me distinguishing my friends from the random strangers I've casually chatted with here.

This is why we're nowhere near ready to replace FarceBook. Although I'm hopeful that newer projects like Bonfire might get us closer...

#fediverse #FB #FarceBook

strypey, 10 months ago to privacy

"You cannot complain about Facebook collecting your life’s history, while at the same time complaining that diaspora* cannot find your former classmates. You cannot complain about WhatsApp collecting your address book, while at the same time stating you do not use eMail because exchanging addresses is too cumbersome. You either get a system that knows who you are or a system that does not."

#DennisSchubert

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2020/01/01/2010s-alternative-social-media.html

#privacy #DataFarming #SurveillanceCapitalism

strypey, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

Some people have talked about putting a tax on empty properties. A land tax, as proposed by TOP, would have a similar effect.

But so would a law protecting squatting rights. Where if you can show a property has been empty for 3 months, you can legally occupy it. Including changing the locks, and getting power and internet connected. Once you're occupying, the landlord can evict you, but only with 3 months notice, and only with proof of sale or a replacement occupier.

#PolicyNZ

strypey, 8 months ago to random

The neoliberal playbook in one simple flowchart...

strypey, 4 months ago to showerthoughts

#ShowerThoughts: A graphical desktop needs to be an app, with updates managed separately from the underlying OS (kernel+userland). It would be a meta-app, inside which other apps run. We have created such apps, they're called web browsers. But they require a desktop to run on, and their security is appalling, regularly giving malicious code access to the underlying OS.

Could we replace both desktop and browser with a graphical meta-app that runs real programs in isolation from the base OS?

strypey, 3 months ago to random

"[NZ] Governments of both the left and right invested heavily in public infrastructure such as water, roading and power networks from the 1940s to early 1970s, paid for with sharply higher income taxes, land taxes and estate duties. Government investment as a share of GDP ranged from 10-15% over that period and income tax rates were over 50% for many."

#BernardHickey, 2024

https://thekaka.substack.com/p/is-28-per-year-population-growth

strypey, 7 months ago to genealogy

Question for people who like to geek out about Merkle trees. Anti-crypto comments will be ignored.

If a P2P network is storing genealogical records, it does need universal consensus, right? Alice can't be the daughter of Bob in one part of the network, and daughter of Johan in another part.

Does that mean this is legitimate use case for a BlockChain? Or could you use something like HoloChain?

#AskFedi #BlockChain #HoloChain #MerkleTrees #DistributedDatabases #genealogy