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tokyo_0, to fediverse
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So, knowing many of my friends are using services other than , what will happen to those followers if I move Mastodon instance and initiate the migration and redirect?

Will they follow my new account? I suspect not. But why? Everyone has known for years the ideal is to build in portability — that beyond being a nice-to-have, it's actually more of a necessity to make this big project a success. Other ideas are rigorously implemented and fiercely defended. Why not this one?

tokyo_0,
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@moftasa That is the case on , and for followers who are also using Mastodon (I've moved a couple of times and it does definitely work). The content is lost, as you say, which is why I built .

But even if I move from one Mastodon instance to another Mastodon instance, and all my Mastodon followers move with me and follow me on my new instance, I think right now any followers who don't use Mastodon (instead using other services) would be left behind.

tokyo_0, to random
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When I come on Mastodon I see a lot of news that isn't being reported by a lot of mainstream outlets. While often it's shared with a link to an article, those articles are all from different places. If you read any one of them, you might see one of those articles every six months or so — when a good outlet would be full of all of them every week.

tokyo_0, to random
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By now we could have had air quality indicators displayed outside shops. Instead of pointless handouts intended to "stimulate" people into disregarding their health, that people instead just put into savings accounts, we could've had internal air quality regulations that reduced all airborne illnesses, now and in the future. What a missed opportunity. Our generation is missing so many opportunities, destroying life for all unfortunate enough to follow.

kushal, to Life
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My brain is exploding between learning: Technology in general / Security / Swedish / Technical Swedish / different pronunciations of Swedish

tokyo_0,
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@kushal You need a system, a routine. At least, that's the conclusion I've drawn. Learning languages well involves all the skills, and by the time you explore all of what that involves, figure out a learning method for each and then start putting together materials (often including a lot of data), it gets overwhelming. If you're not careful it takes up too much time, as well, because even if you only spend a few minutes on each thing in a day it's still too much for a day next to work etc, (imo)

tokyo_0,
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@kushal The journey is tough. Would the people in those meetings agree to you recording them to listen again? You could slow the audio down a bit, then, as well, and start to work through the vocab that's less familiar. You could listen to the recordings over and over, as well, while commuting for example -- that kind of practice can be good for building listening skills.

Otherwise, if you can rip the audio track from any tv shows you like and listen to that over and over that would help too.

tokyo_0,
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@kushal You're probably doing things like this already, mind, and I don't want to just give you "advice" when that doesn't make any difference today and probably doesn't make you feel any better. I do hope you start to see more results from your hard work soon. Every time you write about it, it sounds like you're doing all the right things and working hard at it. It will pay off 🫂🫂🫂 Keep the faith ✊

tokyo_0,
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@kushal Hmmm. That says more about them than it does about you or your language ability, doesn't it. How are their language skills? 😉 It can be like this -- ie immensely frustrating. But working through that has a payoff, too. Are there any podcasts on the kind of technology you're working with? (in Swedish) Listening to any similarly conversational audio will help. Even if you can't find something on the exact same topics, it will still help speed up and automate your listening skills.

tokyo_0,
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@kushal For what it's worth, I think natural conversation is the hardest thing to follow, listening wise. It can skip topics so much, have idiomatic/cultural references, humour. I tried to work from textbook audio then with audio from TV dramas I liked, then I used some "for schools" style educational TV shows for kids - the science shows were great for vocab and holding my interest. Then news, which was faster and had lots of varied vocab. Actual conversation is still harder than all of them.

tokyo_0,
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@kushal That is really good practice. If you can get someone to give you good feedback on the text you produce in Swedish that'll be a huge help, as well. The challenge with that is managing how much you get at once - it can be demoralizing (for me, at least!!) but it's less demoralizing than making mistakes when you want or need to use the language "for real".

kushal, to random
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Can anyone tell me how much fucked up this is?

tokyo_0,
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@kushal any external monitor you can plug in to see if that works? Then you'd know if it's the display or the graphics card.

liztai, to internet
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Trying to figure out a mentally healthy routine to follow instead of impulsively & compulsively checking throughout the day. What do you do to prevent social media from becoming too toxic? Tips appreciated!

tokyo_0,
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@liztai Timeboxing, 10-15 minutes in the morning, lunch, you could maybe add another block or two in the evening or before bed at first until limiting time is more comfortable, and then whittle down further. Any simple timer can let you know when time is up. The hard part will be stopping 😉 Also, turn off notifications — just check in the app when you visit. @moftasa

skinnylatte, to random
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This sentence broke my brain, and I read a lot of weird stuff: ‘24 year old Vedic astrologer lost $440K in crypto and thinks this happened because of the eclipse of Taurus and Scorpio’

And then I watched the video and it broke my brain some more

https://moneywise.com/investing/cryptocurrency/astrologer-lost-440000-by-day-trading-crypto-lives-on-credit-card-debt-caleb-hammer-responds

https://youtu.be/MgJAzmc-p6A

tokyo_0,
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@skinnylatte That part you quoted isn't quite so hard to parse when you realise he's talking about two separate events happening in two separate signs but I haven't checked what eclipses it is he's talking about (please don't make me 😅). The whole 50-minute (!) show seems to be structured around the host making fun of the guest, though, and I'm not sure it's the victory flourish he thinks it is.
@kushal

tokyo_0, to random
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*closes several incompletely read tabs.... reflects on the "people were disagreeing about something contentious so I wrote 2,000 words and posted it" school of driving engagement.... *

tokyo_0, to Meditation
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"Let us ... try to find out not how to meditate, but the quality of a mind that is awake, aware, intense, that has no trauma, no suppression, nor indulgence, that is not controlling itself all the time or at any time, that is free and therefore never lives in the shadow of yesterday." — J. Krishnamurti, Switzerland, Aug. 8, 1965

tek, to random
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How I got scammed by @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/05/cyber-dunning-kruger/

tokyo_0,
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@andrewfeeney @rysiek @tek @pluralistic It totally reads that way 😅

tokyo_0, to random
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@trumpet Hi there. Are you aware of this? https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/111921365604965429

tokyo_0, to random
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Starting to wonder if I need a quiet, real name Mastodon account to finally move and consolidate contacts from other places (like Facebook, for example) that I don't use any more but still keep alive to retain those contacts 🤔 The recent Meta "oh yeah we'll just use everything you ever wrote to train AI" thing may be the final push I need.

Would probably need to use another client on my phone, though... not logging in and out all the time with 2FA.

tokyo_0,
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Maybe the sweet spot of social media existence is one super quiet real name account for relatives, old friends and infrequent contacts, one everyday noisy anonymous account for lively debate, hot takes, tech and projects, news and being real, and another anonymous account for peaceful, quiet creativity, art, photography, beauty, inspiration, spirituality — a sacred respite that nourishes and replenished the soul, insulated from all the noise.

tokyo_0, to browsers
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More "Are you absolutely sure you want to do that thing you chose to do, that I think you shouldn't be doing?" bullshit.

So now anything we choose to download is scanned and shared and compared against an index somewhere of downloads that are considered "safe" and "acceptable"? And anything not "acceptable" to the machine must be characterised with suspicion, as a dangerous threat?

Another pointless extra two clicks.

tokyo_0,
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Fucking , again. Man alive.

"When using Malware Protection to protect downloaded files, Firefox may communicate with Mozilla's partners to verify the safety of certain executable files. In these cases, Firefox will submit some information about the file, including the name, origin, size and a cryptographic hash of the contents, to the Google Safe Browsing service which helps Firefox determine whether or not the file should be blocked."

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-malware-protection-work

tokyo_0,
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People use so they're not using . So why is Firefox sending the details of what I download to Google?

Why was this change added and defaulted to sending personally sensitive data to Google without or

smh

tokyo_0, to random
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The ability to remain mindful that what other people do is about them, irrespective of what it means for you, is a superpower 🪷

tychotithonus, to random

Tell me you've never helped seniors with tech, without telling me you've never helped seniors with tech.

And I don't just mean the person answering this question. I also mean whoever decided to remove this option.

tokyo_0,
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@tychotithonus @swelljoe "The users will have to change what they want to fit our poor interface choices" is never going to be a strong position, either.

LisaKalayji, to Medicine
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Abolish capitalism, exhibit eleventy-million:

"Moderna is quadrupling the cost of covid vaccines, from $26/dose to $110-130. Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel calls the price hike "consistent with the value" of the mRNA vaccines. Moderna's manufacturing costs are $2.85/dose, for a 4,460% markup on every dose...

What will Moderna do with the billions it reaps through price-gouging? It won't be research. To date, the company has spent >20% of its covid windfall profits on stock buybacks and dividends, manipulating its stock price, with more to come...

It's not an outlier. Big Pharma is a machine for commercializing publicly funded research and then laundering the profits with financial engineering. The largest pharma companies each spend more on stock buybacks than research."

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/25/nationalize-moderna/#herd-immunity

tokyo_0,
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@rysiek @LisaKalayji Yes, that should be factored in, too. I think they have the right to recoup their costs (so long as that's done in a reasonable way). As long as that information isn't public, though, it means they can offer that ad a pretext for moves like this, which are clearly wrong. The information should be public, especially if they've received public money in funding and when it's in the public interest the way covid vaccination is.

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