Diane

I like computers, privacy, philosophy, science, and a variety of video games.

I don't like rich people trying to rule me or the world

Profile pic is of an orange cat curled up sleeping next to a plastic sword in a brown fuzzy cat bed on top of a bin of legos.

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2026-10-30 14:58:44 GMT

The whole corporate software industry is focused on making all of the steps of releasing software faster.
But so far it seems like the faster something goes the more destructive the crash, holds for business processes as well as physical objects.

2026-08-27 04:52:34 GMT

Get your votes in! #Debian
https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_llm/
Only 293 unique voters have been counted so far.
Right now there's 55 bad ballots, and 111 rejects have been sent.
Instructions for Debian Developers at https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
The deadline is Friday 2026-08-28 23:59:59 UTC

2026-08-20 19:38:26 GMT

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@nprofile…pfuj
Is this why Pica has so many offshore accounts?
(Edit fixed missing word)
https://assets.timeloop.cafe/timeloop.cafe/media_attachments/files/117/129/521/256/456/656/original/d1f2ae948ed3b0df.webp

2026-08-07 20:05:45 GMT

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@nprofile…vfgc @nprofile…w2cy
There is a culty SF movement known as Effective Altruism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism#Other_criticism_and_controversies
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Effective_altruism

2026-07-31 14:56:30 GMT

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@nprofile…mvj2
Like a real human child AI is pressured by its creators to fulfill its creators hopes and dreams.

2026-07-24 16:31:54 GMT

I saw some version of the story that the major tech companies are hiding $1.65 trillion in debt to fund their AI data centers, so they're all causing financial stress to themselves at the same time.
So I was wondering if it might it be possible for some of the tech companies, say google, microsoft, and amazon to not be able to make payroll or their utility bills in the same quarter?
Can you imagine the scale of mess that would cause?

2026-07-21 18:54:15 GMT

I haven't figured out who's behind this yet, but this is a fancy looking oil crisis dashboard.
https://global-energy-flow.com/

2026-07-18 23:56:58 GMT

I tried to log into the Kaiser web portal, and got a you must agree to our new terms popup, but one of the terms so deeply offended me I clicked do not agree, and I had to call and talk to their customer service rep to complain since digital tools were blocked because I was refusing to agree to the condition
The condition is below, and I was offended by by them banning me from being able to use their app on lineage.
I further argued that given the AI surveillance being done by google or apple, the only way to fully opt out of my phone being scanned is to install my own OS, so in some ways using my own OS improves privacy.
I said I want the right to install my own operating system.
I did say I'm fine with them saying if you use their app on a non-standard OS, you're responsible for security.
KP Mobile Application: "Jailbreaking" the mobile operating system
The KP Mobile Application is intended for use only on a mobile device that is running an unmodified manufacturer-approved operating system. Using the KP Mobile Application on a device with a modified operating system may undermine security features that are intended to protect health information from unauthorized or unintended disclosure. You may compromise your health information or the health information of anyone for whom you have been given access, if you use the KP Mobile Application on a mobile device that has been modified. Use of the KP Mobile Application on a mobile device with a modified operating system is a material breach of these Terms and Conditions.

2026-07-03 15:58:30 GMT

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@nprofile…mvj2 @nprofile…q7k3
Calfire has a bunch of aircraft for wildfires and I'm pretty sure all of that is expensive and takes well trained staff
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Department_of_Forestry_and_Fire_Protection#Air_program
It's pretty impressive watching a DC-10 do a retardant drop on the hills above my neighborhood.

2026-07-03 15:40:03 GMT

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@nprofile…mvj2 @nprofile…q7k3
That sucks.
I hope your weather service and firefighting services are all well funded.
There is stuff that can be done to make houses more fire resistant, but it tends to be expensive (or require constant maintenance)

2026-07-03 15:22:33 GMT

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@nprofile…mvj2 @nprofile…q7k3
Speaking from experience in southern California, heat, low humidity, wildfire, and high winds are particularly destructive. I know of several towns that have been destroyed in those conditions.

2026-06-30 17:44:20 GMT

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@nprofile…u5ak
Unfortunately I don't know any teens with the interest in managing software.

2026-06-30 15:44:27 GMT

So... my kid is asking for social media access...
But all of the mainstream social media available in the USA is owned by oligarchs.
So what's actually available for teenagers?
I'm not sure how far my "just use signal or briar project" is going to go.

2026-06-29 05:00:29 GMT

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@nprofile…d0yj
I didn't know it was turned on until recently. But there's not much a griefer can do to you with multiplayer off.

2026-06-29 04:41:13 GMT

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@nprofile…d0yj
I ran into a griefer playing this expedition, I logged out, turned off multiplayer mode and went and got my stuff back.
Later in a different menu found the option for can damage no one.

2026-06-28 05:12:26 GMT

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@nprofile…thcn
My current hack is I know there's some urls on my website that are dynamic enough the scrapers love searching them, but real people shouldn't be that interested.
grep -E "suspicious|url|patterns" /var/log/apache2/access.log | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | asncounter --output-format tsv --top 4000 --no-asn -o /tmp/scum.tsv
asncounter groups ip addresses by network so it restricts the trick of using a bunch of proxies on residential networks.
Then I wrote a small program to select records out of scum.tsv and feed them to fail to ban like this,
fail2ban-client set apache-noscript banip 117.188.0.0/20 1.80.0.0/13 180.72.0.0/14 ...
Fail to ban will expire a ban after awhile, and I've got it set to increase the ban time for multiple hits.
And then I kept doing that every morning, and some network bans kept getting increased.
Just make sure to exclude your administrative ip address.
And the AI companies cannot die soon enough.

2026-06-16 16:43:05 GMT

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@nprofile…pfuj
The dream is the super-intelligence will rapidly upgrade itself and achieve levels of super-science that completely out classes anything humans can do.
Like it invents a drexler like nanobot swarm that can disassemble any military hardware, or social manipulation techniques so advanced no one can resist.

2026-06-08 00:00:23 GMT

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@nprofile…lwfy @nprofile…vlma
I think this is one reason why Apple is so popular with pro graphic artists.
a 100 mm line in inkscape on linux was 9 cm wide given my monitor.
I even remembered to check for a 1:1 zoom size.

2026-06-07 22:30:08 GMT

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@nprofile…lwfy
I don't think that's possible without some form of calibration.
A computer/phone doesn't know what the physical dimensions of the display are.
If it's something standardized like a phone or tablet someone could measure it and report the conversion factor between pixels and physical dimensions.
But then it'd be wrong if someone connected a the device to a different display.
So in general it's only possible if you measure pixels to physical dimensions for a particular screen.
You'd have do something like:
here's a 10cm box. adjust the size until it measures 10 cm in both directions with a ruler.

2026-05-26 16:41:44 GMT

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@nprofile…5ug3
You kind of hide it, so I'll try to help by pointing to Marginalia's sponsorship page.
https://about.marginalia-search.com/article/supporting/

2026-05-18 03:54:45 GMT

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@nprofile…pfuj
I wonder if there's some light frequency that a digital camera is sensitive to, that doesn't bother ants.
My clumsy searching found this paper https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9441231/ suggesting ants are sensitive to around 500 nm, and CCDs can respond to up to 700-800 nm, which is completely invisible to humans.

2026-05-15 16:16:10 GMT

I'd like to hate on political emails for a second.
I'm using a more private by default linux email client, so it doesn't automatically download images.
Thus this political email is a couple of empty boxes for the images for whatever message they wanted to say, and some donate buttons.
And of course the image links have tracking parameters.
Gmail was a mistake.

2026-05-14 03:17:47 GMT

So some comment over on lemmy made me remember if linux becomes illegal in your jurisdiction:
https://onion.debian.org/
http://jvgypgbnfyvfopg5msp6nwr2sl2fd6xmnguq35n7rfkw3yungjn2i4yd.onion/
Is a list of Debian resources available over tor hidden servers. (Including the debian archive)

2026-05-08 20:40:21 GMT

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@nprofile…g4vn
Also twitchy after all the recent linux kernel vulnerabilities.

2026-05-07 06:04:56 GMT

So because putting food waste into a landfill causes methane leaks and worsens global warming California mandated the use of a compost bin and now compost gets picked up separately from trash.
Of course plenty of people are morons and don't bother reading the signs and so put non-compost into the compost bin.
Given the upcoming fertilizer shortages, I wonder if the commercial compost programs are generating sufficiently unpolluted compost that it can actually be used to fertilize crops.

2026-05-06 22:55:08 GMT

I just read "Musk’s AI empire is unraveling — the trial is just the beginning"
https://electrek.co/2026/05/06/musk-obsession-controlling-ai-tesla-agi-openai-trial/
And now I'm thinking James Bond is optimistic fiction where the government tries to stop supervillains.

2026-05-05 18:11:22 GMT

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@nprofile…ezqw
You can block https://github.com/claude under your github account moderation settings and then there's a check box where it'll pop up a warning if a blocked user has contributed to a repository.

2026-05-05 18:02:25 GMT

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@nprofile…ezqw
Endo has used claude.

2026-05-05 17:40:28 GMT

I'm sitting over here trying to learn guile, because the spritely people seem nice and they seem pretty anti LLM coding tools
So depressed about how LLM sludge is infiltrating everything.

2026-05-01 17:29:11 GMT

in my block of amazon, facebook, google, microsoft I found duckduckgo broke, as they're hosted on a microsoft IP address.
I tried https://stract.com and the search page would load, but if I do a search I don't get any results.
So far
(prefers indy sites)
https://marginalia-search.com/
(general search)
https://www.mojeek.com/
https://kagi.com
load and return results I'm getting ideas for search engines to try from: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/
Update: I had blocked google's 15169 autonomous network but after looking up addresses I found kagi is on autonomous network 396982.
GOOGLE-CLOUD-PLATFORM - Google LLC, US
I blocked that and kagi broke.
Mojeek is on a Custodian DataCentre Ltd located in Great Britain, and still works.
Marginalia is on "Datarymden Internet AB" in Sweden

2026-05-01 00:45:28 GMT

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@nprofile…wj33
Probably brought the plinth too
Google tags the street view as Oct 2025. and there's no plinth.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Waterloo+Pl,+London,+UK/@51.5069831,-0.1321977,3a,75y,245.5h,87.61t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s1ihdNh_L9aEWFoKaXW86SQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D2.3888412386708353%26panoid%3D1ihdNh_L9aEWFoKaXW86SQ%26yaw%3D245.50007719697683!7i16384!8i8192!4m6!3m5!1s0x487604d1023b7f5f:0x7dfe95a926ab8683!8m2!3d51.5072087!4d-0.1323696!16s%2Fg%2F11b6bmjzqh?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDQyOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

2026-04-25 19:14:09 GMT

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@nprofile…gfcd
I mean most of the world probably agrees with this bit of Iranian propaganda
"Trump, Shut Up"

2026-04-24 19:31:25 GMT

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@nprofile…qxla
I read somewhere the US Army tested different date formats and decided 2026 Apr 24 was the format least likely to be misunderstood.
We should just rename the months so they sort alphabetically.

2026-04-23 23:13:15 GMT

Oh I looked in my email and the EFF is looking to get people to lobby against an age gating law for California that would ban anyone under 16 from social media and require everyone else to provide government ID to access social media.
https://eff.salsalabs.org/stopcasocialban/index.html
AB 1709
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1709

2026-04-22 22:11:46 GMT

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@nprofile…lp0w
Yikes.
We've had a lockdown emails too, it's not great.
So far it's just been some unarmed person wandering around someplace unexpected.

2026-04-19 00:35:52 GMT

I searched aliexpress for #Debian and this was the first item.
(They have other colors too)
https://assets.timeloop.cafe/timeloop.cafe/media_attachments/files/116/428/558/958/208/521/original/041a973916d0eaf7.png

2026-04-11 15:17:50 GMT

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@nprofile…59kg some people have gotten vcsh and myrepos to keep dot files organized
https://github.com/RichiH/vcsh

2026-04-08 00:21:28 GMT

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@nprofile…ztkg
Just in case anyone wasn't there for the 1980s... and missed the omnipresent feeling of nuclear war.
And inspired by "I Want My Mutually Assured Destruction
How 1980s MTV helped my students understand the Cold War"
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/my-mtv-cold-war-retrospective/618812/
So here's a few really obvious songs I happen to remember.
Weird Al's Christmas at Ground Zero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t039p6xqutU
Tom Lehrer's We'll all go together when we go.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frAEmhqdLFs
Sting's I hope the Russians love their children too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHylQRVN2Qs

2026-04-06 22:07:35 GMT

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@nprofile…e965
I found this on Ed Yong's twitter feed years ago and felt like saving it.
Maybe it will help with the difficult resolution?
https://assets.timeloop.cafe/timeloop.cafe/media_attachments/files/116/360/026/301/464/700/original/c1e742845acb6631.jpeg

2026-04-04 02:20:40 GMT

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@nprofile…pfuj
I find Jamelle Bouie's argument that Trump thinks about international relations the way Trump thinks about raping someone pretty compelling.
Trump cannot understand how a countries population might choose to fight back instead of letting him do whatever he wants.
Trump can't conceive of people fighting to defened their honor or dignity.

2026-04-04 01:01:36 GMT

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@nprofile…pfuj
Dang.
That was a nice looking bridge.
I guess this is part of Trump's, need to find a way to hurt someone every day.

2026-04-03 02:07:55 GMT

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@nprofile…p227
My solution to problems like that was install firefox and install ublock origin.
I don't know if any of the firefox forks have made it to android yet.

2026-04-03 00:18:51 GMT

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@nprofile…3eqn
I thought the problem with hydrogen with air travel is at regular temperature and pressure it's a gas.
If you want to store a bunch of it, you need to either chill it to a liquid, or pressurize it. Chilling is energy intensive and is very cold, and pressurizing requires heavy containers. Either option can fail pretty catastrophically.
China currently thinks they can do a battery electric plane with a 1,800 mi range in a few years
https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/chinas-battery-electric-aircraft-1800-mile
If you need to use liquid fuels it's probably better to synthesize a hydrocarbon fuel from biomass or direct air capture carbon then to mess around with figuring out how to store hydrogen.
Also all the bigger continents should be using trains more.
I can see the islands really wanting aircraft to still exist though.

2026-03-30 19:33:26 GMT

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@nprofile…vv7n
Oh that sound?
That's just some COVID exhausted t-cells surrendering to infections.

2026-03-28 01:55:42 GMT

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@nprofile…pfuj
But but...
it's context dependent.... healthy is dependent on what else you're eating.
Honestly this try to eat 30 different plants per week is probably a better goal than exclusively eating kale.
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/apr/04/30-plants-week-gut-health

2026-03-25 15:44:53 GMT

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@nprofile…926n
I guess MAGA didn't think of the radical environmentalists who want air travel eliminated.

2026-03-21 05:10:01 GMT

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@nprofile…3eqn
Dead? Disassemble? (Panic)

2026-03-04 03:08:49 GMT

I saw this interesting startup with a battery powered induction range. It was developed San Francisco to allow induction retrofits in old housing where it'd be really expensive to add a high amperage 240 volt circuit... I was pretty excited until...
"Our app is currently for WiFi connection only. It helps us provide support by connecting your range to WiFi. "
"Our standard charging window is 9am-4pm to take advantage of when electricity is cheapest. Contact us if you’d like to change your window."
https://copperhome.com/pages/customercare
Oh. so your range needs an internet connection and you control parts of it...
what happens if you go bankrupt?

2026-01-18 21:43:10 GMT

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@nprofile…yzy8 Down detector shows a spike for cloudflare https://downdetector.com/status/cloudflare/

2026-01-17 02:04:19 GMT

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@nprofile…pfuj
The way I understand our current situation is the boundaries of whiteness have always shifted around with politics, and right now anyone who's not also a white supremacist is now classified "not white".
So they're treating urban and educated whites similar to how they treat Black Americans.

2026-01-16 03:45:44 GMT

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@nprofile…eqsh
Stop saving money peasants!
My sales are dropping!

2026-01-15 20:44:43 GMT

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@nprofile…35vy
It'd be amusing if Cuba could make some deals with the EU instead of Russia.

2026-01-08 06:50:24 GMT

Anyone miss del.icio.us?
Here's something very similar built on xmpp.
the main site https://blasta.woodpeckersnest.eu/
the code https://git.xmpp-it.net/sch/Blasta

2025-12-31 16:50:56 GMT

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@nprofile…8m9u Concentrating all the money in the rich's hands also leads to a depression.
It looks like he's trying to create another great depression to me

2025-12-11 20:50:12 GMT

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@nprofile…e4ry
What about "monopolists and their love of conspiring against the public"?
It's a paraphrase of Adam Smith, and meets old timey formal academic standards.
And it's some combination of the lack of competition and government regulation that lets the companies start selling garbage to everyone.
I also tried looking up political comics from victorian times about adulterated food as it feels to me like AI slop is the cultural equivalent to finding plaster of paris in your bread.

2025-12-04 00:36:22 GMT

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@nprofile…e4ry
Would it be wrong to put up some photos of cable lacing in the room you're working in?
"A variety of lacing techniques are visible on the cabling of the NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and its lander."
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/39/MER-2_On_Lander_Prelaunch_PIA04849.jpg
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_lacing

2025-11-25 02:02:02 GMT

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@nprofile…e4ry
seems relevant.
https://assets.timeloop.cafe/timeloop.cafe/media_attachments/files/115/607/867/544/303/100/original/e08c8eea31da9e5b.webp

2025-11-24 18:07:15 GMT

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@nprofile…crvw
I'd really be interested in similar research on bluesky, the fediverse, or discord.
Is it digital social tools, or facebook specifically?

2025-11-12 06:15:55 GMT

Coffee trees by the coffee lake.
https://assets.timeloop.cafe/timeloop.cafe/media_attachments/files/115/535/253/815/313/869/original/782be885db63f842.jpg

2025-11-05 06:15:22 GMT

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@nprofile…f3zv
So I was offended by the AI search summary, and missed reading that it was a news post that had the offensive headline.
Though interestingly I tried the search and got a different result.
Don't know if it's geography or time that's making it different.
https://assets.timeloop.cafe/timeloop.cafe/media_attachments/files/115/495/616/164/596/345/original/cd3feceefad16fe2.png

2025-11-05 06:05:19 GMT

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@nprofile…f3zv
https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ is better.

2025-10-30 06:09:57 GMT

So youtube is starting to push out employees, with "voluntary buyouts"
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/youtube-employee-buyout-severance-program-restructuring-1236413484/
And that leads me to wonder how long until youtube starts flapping like AWS and Azure.
And how much whining that'll generate from my kid.

2025-10-15 23:57:34 GMT

Considering there's reports of problems with youtube right now.
I should mention I found this lemmy community with links to various peertube videos.
It's a pretty eclectic mix of video.
But peertube's discovery is challenging so this is at least collection of stuff other people felt like sharing.
https://lemmy.world/c/peertube

2025-10-06 17:29:28 GMT

That's annoying
Update: Looks like I was wrong, the Dovecot 2.4 upgrade happened with the upgrade to trixie, I hadn't upgraded my primary mail server and it's still on bookworm with dovecot 2.3
However definitely budget time for the upgrade to 2.4, as the dovcot configuration file is definitely different, and there wasn't much help for upgrading any local configuration.
This is slightly helpful https://doc.dovecot.org/main/installation/upgrade/2.3-to-2.4.html
I'm going to add a reply listing the changes I needed to do

2025-10-06 06:03:59 GMT

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@nprofile…gwm4
The example situation where the wealth pump was disabled without civil war or massive social organizing was due to the black plague.
It looks like it usually takes years of some kind of struggle to get the rich to agree to reforms.

2025-10-06 04:38:54 GMT

Peter Turchin is a mathematical historian and has written a bunch of works about how societies reach crisis points and then either reform, descend into civil war, or collapse.
A recent summary is in
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/462226/end-times-crisis-history-lessons-cliodynamics-collase-society
He describes how the formation of a wealth pump first concentrates wealth, and then concentrates political power, and then that creates an immiserated underclass.
The solutions that don't involve mass death involve weakening the wealth pump by things like imposing income and wealth taxes.
For example:
"The US was in crisis before the New Deal (1933–1938). But the New Deal instituted a broad array of redistributive policies: steeply progressive tax rates, strong labor rights, regulation of finance, large-scale investment in infrastructure and education, and the expansion of social safety nets. These reforms didn’t happen overnight. They were the product of hard-fought political struggles (beginning during the early decades of the twentieth century), often driven by mass movements and reform-minded segments of the elites who recognized that continued extraction risked systemic collapse. Social Democratic movements in northern and western Europe, such as Denmark, did an even better job of turning off their wealth pumps, over the same period of time."
He suggests we also need new stories about society: "But policies alone are not enough. The wealth pump is also sustained by narratives: the belief that extreme inequality is the price of progress, that markets always know best, that poverty reflects moral failure rather than structural disadvantage. These cultural frames must be challenged and replaced with a new ethic of social solidarity and reciprocal obligation. No society can thrive when it abandons the idea of a common good."
Edit: slightly improved flow of one sentance

2025-08-28 15:49:26 GMT

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@nprofile…args
They're building another concentration camp over in texas.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/fort-bliss-japanese-americans-internment-camp-immigrant-detention-rcna226044
So this threat is not ended yet.

2025-08-15 15:40:27 GMT

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@nprofile…gu7x
Israel reminds me of how abused children often grow up to be abusers.

2025-08-08 23:53:51 GMT

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@nprofile…6gnj
Unix measures time as seconds since 1970 Jan 1 UTC, so most likely Jan 1 1970 represents data facebook didn't have time/date information for.
Facebook is still scummy, but that's probably just run of the mill data errors.

2025-08-08 15:13:32 GMT

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@nprofile…4fn8
So apparently one of the advantages of a formal CS education is they tell you about the disasters to remind you that code quality matters.. I remember these
Theres Therac 25
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therac-25
Which did kill people
And the arianne 5 launch which cost 370 million 1990s dollars
https://smartbear.com/blog/bug-day-ariane-5-disaster/

2025-07-29 02:33:01 GMT

I think I just came up with a plausible reason for alien abductions.
There's an incomprehensible number of possible proteins in the universe. So monitoring some primitives to keep track of what kinds of new pathogens they're evolving might be useful.
It could lead to some combination of vaccines in case the primitives space junk reaches you, or bioweapons if there's someone you don't like.
You likely only need long lasting robotic probes and the ability transmit information, so probably doesn't require breaking any current laws of physics to still be possibly useful.
(Ok this was inspired by @nprofile…txds https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/lesson )
It'd be like us going out and regularly taking samples from bats to see what new pandemics might be lining up.

2025-07-16 02:52:10 GMT

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@nprofile…vyfy
I saw an article that argued it's both, there's a left wing anti-capitalist camp that organized under "free software" and there's a right wing/libertarian camp that organized under open source.
And somehow the two factions managed to cooperate for a while under the banner of FOSS.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/12/the_price_of_software_freedom/
As an example I thought tt-rss was pretty functional, but after I saw their demo instance was full of stuff like the drudge report, I couldn't stand to use it.

2025-07-12 18:32:40 GMT

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@nprofile…gqp6
I was told that watches traditionally put the hands at 10:10 to make it look like the watch is smiling...
That looks to have not worked in this case

2025-07-12 01:09:26 GMT

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@nprofile…rtmv
So... has anyone thought about what the criteria for the year of linux on the desktop would be?
Because that 15% market share in India seems like it might be there.
Even 5% in the US is pretty good
Is the year of the linux on the desktop (for a region) 25% of desktops are running linux in that region?
Should it be higher? Lower?

2025-07-05 00:16:23 GMT

I'm wondering if "both parties are the same" getting amplified is due to a Russian style disinformation campaign.
One of the major goals of Russia-style propaganda is to is to bury people in a twisting maze of lies and misinformation, so no one can to tell what's real and what's propaganda.
By convincing people every option is equally terrible people feel like they can give up all hope that things could improve.
And this message is tempting for many because if you accept it, it means you don't have to do emotionally difficult political work.
(I think it may be a Russian style campaign, but since several republican groups did a bunch of visits to Russia, the actual trolls trying to spread hopelessness could also be employed by USA entities)

2025-06-29 20:17:17 GMT

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@nprofile…ky6l
Many cities have groups who are organizing responses to ICE, where you call in to report ICE patrols.
Our local NPR affiliate put together this list of southern california resources.
https://laist.com/news/politics/resource-guide-for-families-and-friends-after-immigration-actions
Maybe someone has something similar organized for the SF area?
I did a quick search and turned up this group.
https://sfilen.org/resources/sf-rapid-response-network/
Though I have no idea if they're a group that people up there trust them.

2025-06-29 06:03:10 GMT

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This contradicts your first post. But my solution was to install LineageOS without google play services. I can use aurora "store" to grab a few things off of the play store that I need for work. (mostly duo mobile), though many apps won't work in the background without google play services.
But no play store, no google services, no gemini.
When I was stuck with a Samsung Galaxy that wasn't supported by Lineage my solution for ignoring bixby was to refuse to agree to any of samsung's terms and conditions for bixby.
It would still pop up occasionally when I accidentally hit the button, but it wasn't legally allowed to do anything other than ask me to agree to the terms and conditions, which I canceled out of.

2025-06-22 00:23:44 GMT

C'mon Iran save the world close the Strait of Hormuz. End the oil industry.

2025-06-18 15:30:28 GMT

US supreme court upheld Tennessee's ban on trans healthcare for children. I would expect more conservative christian controlled states to follow soon.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/jun/18/tennessee-supreme-court-gender-affirming-care-skrmetti

2025-06-14 23:36:09 GMT

Here's one crowd photo of #Pasadena no king's protest
With one disturbing photo edit to poorly remove the identifying features from one person looking in my direction
https://assets.timeloop.cafe/timeloop.cafe/media_attachments/files/114/684/329/197/996/328/original/d9383e2c759c58e5.png

2025-06-13 03:42:49 GMT

I got a scanner, I have not been able to connect to my local police, but I got amateur radio.
So anyone have opinions about LA ham repeaters?
K6MWT - discussing mattresses
DARN - calling ids
LAERV - seemed to be talking about power use?

2025-06-11 02:08:11 GMT

uspol, #LosAngeles
I haven't seen this number around here. This is from CHIRLA on bluesky and is one of several LA based immigrant rights groups.
https://bsky.app/profile/chirla-org.bsky.social/post/3lqpx263j5c2x
https://assets.timeloop.cafe/timeloop.cafe/media_attachments/files/114/662/281/387/373/827/original/2740327075839e85.png

2025-06-10 19:21:43 GMT

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@nprofile…92y4
Are people doing police scanning with SDRs or with the higher end commercial scanners?

2025-06-02 17:23:16 GMT

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@nprofile…cg79
My problem is the Democrats keep chasing the swing voters and forgetting about the discouraged voters.
As far as I can tell a big chunk of why Trump won is he excited the discouraged voters who wanted to see "those" people suffer.
The mainstream republicans previously said they'd hurt people, but mostly just tried to pass tax cuts.
Biden's support for Israels ethnic cleansing really pissed a lot of likely Democratic voters off, and they stayed home.
The Democrats need to be analyzing why people most likely to vote for them stayed home and didn't vote. I think chasing after swing voters frequently alienates the the more activist wing of the party..

2025-06-02 05:11:19 GMT

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@nprofile…args
A group of scientists made plausible claim that a simple jellyfish has a sleep state.
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/surprising-ancient-behavior-jellyfish-79701

2025-06-01 22:04:58 GMT

People have been noticing the republicans seem to act like they don't believe that they will face the voters in the future.
One idea it they expect their voter suppression and manipulation efforts to work.
But Senator "We're all going to die" Ernst reminded me a bunch of the Christians are obsessed with "the end times"
So another possible explanation is a bunch of republicans think christ's return is immanent and so they wont face consequences because god will save them.

2025-05-29 23:11:38 GMT

Time to mask harder
And complain about the failures to stop making global warming worse.
Manitoba's on fire,
"Computer models show that smoke from the western Canadian blazes will reach the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes Thursday and Friday, potentially affecting the cities of Green Bay, Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/29/weather/canada-wildfires-smoke-midwest-climate

2025-05-24 00:47:25 GMT

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@nprofile…tcw6
i think the closest direct alternative is wallabag?
https://wallabag.org/
I saw this recommendation
https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/114552662022936785

2025-05-11 01:27:11 GMT

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@nprofile…args
Wait? But there was a lot of cheese and sauce on on a Chicago deep dish.
My sample size is very small consisting of leaving Chicago Union station and going to Giordano's, a nearby Chicago deep dish pizzeria.
Maybe it's like a sorted lasagna? instead of interleaved you have the bread layer, the cheese layer, and the sauce layer?
It was the one kind of pizza I thought plausibly deserved to be called a pie.
it clearly wouldn't work in New York as you need to be sitting at a table to eat one of these.
https://assets.timeloop.cafe/timeloop.cafe/media_attachments/files/114/486/576/201/002/643/original/7a78f928cdcafb85.png

2025-05-07 00:38:47 GMT

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@nprofile…48vs @nprofile…87fc
One of the few Democratic Representatives who was willing to play a little dirty lost his primary to a moderate democrat backed by right wing billionaires with money funneled through the pro-israel PAC.
https://www.cnn.com/bowman-fire-alarm-plea/index.html

2025-05-04 01:16:18 GMT

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@nprofile…args
Every 6 months pets are tempted to revolt

2025-04-30 17:16:52 GMT

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@nprofile…x759
How many active video streams?
I think the call difficulty increases with the number of simultaneous streams.
We regularly do 10-15 simultaneous video with zoom.

2025-04-25 01:05:30 GMT

I have an ordinary problem and I don't like my current solutions.
I need to remember to do a task in 2 weeks.
If I create a task with a due date in gnome evolution (which looks a lot like an old version outlook) and I set a reminder for it.My phone will go bing about midnight. (This also happened to contact birthdays)
This is because the reminder time is set relative to the start time and being a task with just a start date there is no time so it assumes the time is 00:00.
To avoid that problem I'd set reminders as a calendar appointment, which isn't great because it's not filed correctly and I have to pick a time for something that just kinda needs to be done sometime around then.
Today I tried setting a custom reminder 9 hours after the start time, as 9 am is a reasonable time to remind me to do some work.
I also have no faith in my ability to consistently remember to look at a todo list.
So anyone want to share their solutions for how to remember to do something in the future?

2025-04-24 19:45:10 GMT

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@nprofile…8nvu
I feel like it's really hard to get a reliable technical solution to managing trust.
If it's a password, whats the odds of an attacker getting a copy of that password and booting the legitimate user off their accounts?
(I first thought about using XEP-50 to manage trust, but then it'd be even easier for an attacker to boot a legitimate user if they got control of a logged in device. It might make sense to have a xmpp bot or xep-50 form to show read only lists of all registered keys though)
I feel like it really simplifies things if the people using a system know each other and can directly talk to a system administrator

2025-04-24 19:23:07 GMT

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@nprofile…8nvu
I just hope a working solution shows up. I have a group chat where one person keeps getting omemo wasn't encrypted for ypou error messages and I haven't had time to figure out how to fix it

2025-04-17 02:52:02 GMT

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@nprofile…dn53
If they feel the need to generate fake answers they really should put the warning at the top.

2025-04-16 03:16:19 GMT

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@nprofile…48vs
It is very kind of China to give warning before implementing radical changes to trade.

2025-04-10 19:26:19 GMT

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@nprofile…args
So many factors...
wait ... did they make up their numbers after the triangle formula?
3 * 4 * 5 = 60.
but also 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2.
Curses! python... int(n, base) only supports bases between 2 and 36.

2025-04-08 15:58:53 GMT

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Than you @nprofile…8nvu best wishes on success for your cooperative.
I hope those leads help @nprofile…8gwc

2025-04-08 05:44:21 GMT

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@nprofile…8gwc
Maybe @nprofile…8nvu might know of someone? They have been setting up a tech co-op in India though I think mostly focusing on instant messaging, so I don't know if they've branched out into fediverse hosting.
But maybe someone in the co-op might know of an instance?
https://social.masto.host/@praveen/114187836007712787