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Last Notes npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey But in each case, getting the exemption requires a staged to plan to get the building back into a usable state, replace it, or sell it to someone who will. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "We do not require 'Revolutionary' institutions. 'After the Revolution' we would still continue to drift, to evade the instant sclerosis of a politics of revenge, and instead seek out the excessive, the strange—which for us has became the sole possible norm. If we join or support certain 'revolutionary' movements now, we’d certainly be the first to 'betray' them if they 'came to power'. Power, after all, is for us—not some fucking vanguard party." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey So what does InfluenceWatch say about known right-right entities? Here's their page on the Heritage Foundation; npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "Many so-called 'watchdog' groups are instead opponents of the outlets they are watching." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub18gw…xtgt npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "Most people see Mastodon as a social network." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub1m34…njzz npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "... Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and Meta all increased expenditures on AI dramatically in the first half of this year, to a collective $106 billion." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Me: npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey (1/?) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub18p3…t9gh is the NZCCL aware of this UN Cybercrime Convention? Just learned about it today, but so far it sounds like ACTA, but much worse... npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey FactBook: A social network built around Wikipedia. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Can fediverse servers running software other than Mastodon do this verification against third-party sites? Is it the sort of thing there could be an FEP for? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "Mastodon offers a mechanism for external websites to claim an account as being affiliated using a green background and check mark icon. In other words, Mastodon makes no claims about who an account belongs to, just that a particular website has vouched for it." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey #FreudianTypoOfTheWeek npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "It is so tempting to theatrically claim to brush off your hands and be like; 'I'm done with the internet! I don't care anymore. The internet's over, leave me alone'. Like I say everyday. But the fact that it is such an unavoidable place, for so many people, means we have to fight for it." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey If there's no way to distinguish between tofu (2.1) and spam (2.2), then by definition, it's spam. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Use of BCC to hide recipients addresses could make it hard to separate layer 1.1 from the multiple recipient layers (1.2 outwards). Is there a way to detect that an email was sent to multiple recipients without needing to know their addresses? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Each layer in Alice's inbox only displays emails from; npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey ... while I agree its cynical to say all politicians are swamp-dwellers, the US example raised is a timely reminder that some most certainly are. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub1h0f…jsz2 npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub1zxn…7s3u npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Excited about the future of blockchain finance and AI superintelligence? You're going to love Zombo.com! npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "We'll push users to apps to consume timelines, author content, and others; while we already support the Mastodon API, I do wonder if we could also support other client app APIs, like the Pixelfed one, for people who are primarily posting images." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey #FreudianTypoOfTheWeek npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Then misfits who start to organise and speak up in our own defence find ourselves demonised. By powerful and well-funded institutions, who seem to be fighting us in a futile attempt to enforce conformity with a perceived "mainstream". npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey So, you've got all these misfits - people who are smart or creative or both - who have been watching with increasing concern as the society we live is reorganised. Against the interests of most of its people. In ways that seem almost designed to destroy what we love,grind us down, and push us down the holes in its economic safety net. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "We didn't have WordPress or other websites that you could just start up, and we also didn't have social media. The idea that anyone could decide what was news, and publish a picture of story." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey It's analogous to medical researchers proposing to fight skin infections by having nanobots with lasers flying around the bloodstream zapping bacteria. What could go wrong? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey For example, I know you're excited about the possibilities of embodying the spirit of Indymedia in fediverse tools. I had some ideas about that the other day, which I'm in the process of fleshing out and turning into a blog post. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @toiletpaperufjg npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "... how to improve the quality of bad rules that cause needless waste, harm, and suffering." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "Economists who have become addicted to skyhooks, who think that they are doing deep theory but are really just assuming their conclusions, find it hard to even understand what it would mean to make the rules that humans follow the object of scientific inquiry. If we fail to explore rules in greater depth, economists will have little to say about the most pressing issues facing humans today..." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Iwi being examples of sovereign local government that delegate some powers to a central body. As agreed in 1835 in He Whakaputanga. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "Business executives, almost without exception, believe that the country will start to run trade surpluses. They are generally unconvinced by the economist’s answer that such a country will necessarily run large trade deficits." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "The argument that I'm really wanting to make in Raising the Bar is, that's a really dangerous thing to do to young people, is to strip them of their imagination. And particular kinds of schooling can do that, and do it really quickly." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey But of course, we're all here because we know better. We understand that a ZuckerBorg or a Melon Husk can only continue to be the unelected dictator over millions of peoples' online social lives, if we can't talk to those people without needing an account on a service owned by ZuckerBorg or Melon Husk. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I want to hear from ecologists commenting on how novel plants can only invade degraded or recovering ecosystems. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey We need to think carefully before a fleet of drones is set loose to zap living things with lasers. Very, *very* carefully. But this is a serious proposal for killing invasive plants; npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey If Marx was right about history repeating as tragedy, then as farce, this bit must be the farce. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Cue another round of 'Meta is bad, therefore fediverse admins shouldn't allow anyone on their servers to talk to anyone on Meta's server'. As usual, all the wailing and gnashing of teeth; npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Like the famous quotation attributed to Frederic Bastiat, "the state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else", Margaret Thatcher's infamous comment that there is no such thing as society was not an observation, but a proposition. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey What about something based on "personification", like "personas"? would it be confusing for people who speak Spanish or any other languages that already use "personas"? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I was trying to say "data created by people using a service" (to avoid "user data"), and then I thought, why not just say "personal data"? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey If you want to understand the Orange Felon's playbook, study Xi Jinping's. Not his political-economic strategy for the country, but the political strategy he uses to increase his own power and influence. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey It's fascinating to hear Michael Beckley misunderstand China, despite being well-informed on the raw facts. Because he's trying to cram those facts into a one-size-fits-all neoclassical economic frame. It simply doesn't fit a country with a totally different political-economic system from the US, and a massive, diverse territory qqwith a huge population. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I think this one was inspired by another near-future dystopia, a novel written by a kiwi. Sadly I can't remember title or author right now. But I think it was published in the 2010s. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Also, here's a couple of short stories I wrote a few years ago, relevant to everything being a cloud service, and online accounts becoming effectively compulsory. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey This is a fascinating read from the end of 2023, about the #ActivityPods team's plans for v2.0 and the v1.0 limitations it's being designed to overcome; npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Here's one thing I agree with "identity politics" rhetoric about; effective #democracy requires the creation of safe spaces. Both for private reflection and public debate. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Damien routinely explains this away on The Working Group by pointing out - quite rightly - that Actually Existing Neoliberalism falls well short of his platonic ideal. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey At the start of the 1980s, banking in Aotearoa was mostly owned by the public, as was the insurance sector. There were charitable community-owned savings banks and building societies (remember SBS?). Plus there were larger publicly-owned banks that were run as social enterprises, for public benefit, with oversight by Parliament. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey In the last decade alone, the crypto bubble did a speed run from boom to bust. Demonstrating exactly how 19th century laissez-faire finance caused the Great Depression. The obsession with cryptonomics was driven by a complete loss of public confidence in the possibility of trustworthy finance institutions. Which in turn, was caused by the GFC. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey (2/2) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey The difference between the Jedi and the Sith is *not* that one represents "the light" and one "the dark", as positive forces. Like every living being, every Jedi and every Sith contains all sides of the Force. The difference is that the Jedi are aware of this and accept it, and the Sith do not. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey None of my business, of course. But I stumbled on this today while searching F-Droid for something else. So I'm sharing it in a spirit of solidarity, mutual aid, and health privacy. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Snyder, like most US liberals, is a monist. So everything that's not monism is dualism and sides with The Other. The problem with The Other being the way it stubbornly prefers dualism, and resists assimilation into the monist unity. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey The whole point of the yin/yang principle is that any given duality can always be seen as part of a larger unity, and any given unity can always be seen as part of a larger duality. This is represented in the tai ji symbol - which most anglophones call "the yin/yang" - in the way both the dark and light sections are part of the whole, and contain seeds of each other. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Just realised I'd inadvertantly muted a bunch of hashtags. No doubt scooping up a bunch of posts I am interested in, and piping them to /dev/null. Dangit. Glad I decided to prune my filters today. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub1wah…xc8t npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub1pqp…e753 npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey With enough money, could could convince them to kill and eat their own young, and claim it was for the greater good. No amount of money would make them *believe* in being a "progressive feminist eco-warrior activist", but if you offered them enough money, you could *definitely* convince them to claim they did and go through the motions. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey With enough money, could could convince them to kill and eat their own children and claim it was for the greater good. No amount of money would make them *believe* in being a "progressive feminist eco-warrior activist", but if you offered them enough money, you could *definitely* convince them to claim they did and go through the motions. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey As a bonus, if there's a charge to create an account - however small - everyone who creates one is a customer. Giving them legal protections that aren't always available to people using services without paying. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "It’s the same. It’s always been the same. Stop benefitting from the internet, it’s not for you to enjoy, it’s for us to use to extract money from you. Stop finding beauty and connection in the world, loneliness is more profitable and easier to control. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey As long as the app viewing a thread can reassemble all the posts, it's always possible to find the original post from which it started. Any post may have more than one post hanging off it, but there's no way it can have more than one post above it in the thread. What do we see in nature that works like that, constantly branching from a single source? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub1l7c…p949 npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "Experts say the cyber outage revealed the risks of an increasingly online world." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "Far from being expected to demonstrate personal charisma or the ability to outdo rivals, those who aspired to a role on the Council of Tlaxcala did so in a spirit of self-deprecation—even shame—and were required to subordinate themselves to the people of the city." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I want to emphasize that the app I'm after *only* does online publishing. It can't receive or display notifications, or posts from feeds, or any of that. It's just a post editor, a publish button, and a reasonably elaborate account management dashboard. It's source code is, of course, published under a Free Code license. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I want to remind everyone about the Fediverse Ideas suggestion box; npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub13zt…x9vd npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey In an online system where @mention normally generates a notification, an @mention is a co-authorship credit. What I mean is, if someone @mentions me in a post, it's implicitly part of a conversation co-created with me. Whether I reply to that post or not. So I have a right to see that post, and to keep a copy. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I just spilled my coffee. This annoyed me for 3 distinct reasons; npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Just rewatching Idiocracy, released in 2006. It's starting to seem like Mike Judge was optimistic to think it would take 500 years to get that bad. I think we're maybe ... halfway there already? : P npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey One of the most effective strategies a larger force can use to counter this is to present an intentionally weak front. As it appears to collapse under attack from the smaller army, they're tempted to push forward, allowing the larger army to flank and surround them. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey In an asymetrical struggle, it's essential for the smaller army not to let the opposing general choose where the battles take place. They need to use their knowledge of the terrain to make sure battlegrounds prevent the larger army using their strength of numbers, and to blunt the benefits of their superior weapons. The smaller force must resist being drawn out of advantageous positions, and into compromising ones. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey As we consider who might have had both the motive and the means to shoot a US Presidential candidate, I think it's worth keeping this in mind; npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey A fediverse server is an automated digital print shop. As well as ActivityPub feeds, it can output a website, and in many cases RSS feeds (eg Mastodon can). In theory, there's no reason it can't also produce other sorts of outputs, like PDFs to be printed for communities without net access. Or feeds that can be ingested by apps designed for Gemini, Nostr, podcasts, etc. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey The opposing view is that Te Tiriti o Waitangi was a formal treaty between two sovereign powers, the British Crown and the confederation of iwi ("United Tribes") that had declared the independence of "Nui Terene" in 1835. That since sovereignty wasn't ceded in the Te Reo Māori version - and some iwi like Ngai Tūhoe never signed Te Tiriti - the enforcement of NZ government sovereignty over iwi is an illegal occupation under international law. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I just stumbled upon this article on Wikipedia; npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey *anti-Māori, except when they play a limited role as owners of property or privatised public services. They like devolving public services to Māori when it looks like Charter Schools, but not when it looks like Special Character state schools. When it looks like outsourcing the functions of Oranga Tamariki to businesses owned by Māori, but not when it's co-governance of local OT with local iwi. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Yes, Muldoonist authortarianism. The Rogernomics government wasn't a break with Muldoonism, but a continuation in liberal drag. Just as the Ruthenasia government was a continuation of the Rogernomics government. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Why does Prebble shut all these post offices, despite knowing that the list he's been handed wasn't advice that was meant to be actioned? To put the public servants on notice. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I suspect James Shaw ended up in the same place as Jim Anderton after the peak of the Alliance. Closer to his Cabinet colleagues in Labour than his own party base. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "It is our thoughts that shape the formless unknown into meaningful events and images. This is both a useful and disorienting thing since the process of human thinking takes us away from the limitless potential of absolute reality for the sake of a single, limited event or interpretation. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey "We think we've come so far. Torture of heretics, burning of witches is all ancient history. And then, before you can blink an eye, suddenly it threatens to start all over again." npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Hey @npub1n8m…z0vj, would you recommend Elementary OS as a GNU/Linux distro for a laptop that's struggling with the weight of the Cinammon desktop in LMDE? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey But the "Fair Digital News Bargaining Bill" is bad law. A wrong-headed, knee-jerk response, by successive governments who don't understand the problem, and have been led by the nose. By one set of mostly foreign-owned media corporations, who want to be empowered to parasite off another set. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey #ShowerThoughts: Mastodon is the Hobbiton of the fediverse. Everything is smaller, more frustrating and more resource intensive than it has to be, for entertainment purposes. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey I've spent a chunk of this afternoon researching updates to a wikipage I curate about blockchain-based social apps; npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey @npub1fxz…5rc0 npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Presenting... a game the whole family can enjoy, French! The language in which half the consonants in every word are not pronounced. Can you guess which ones? npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey #RIP Keith Locke, who I just learned passed away on 21 June 2024, at the age of 80; npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Zeihan's analysis is a classic example of David Graeber's observation that the main result of neoliberalism has been a hobbling our ability to envision the future. Making it easier to imagine the end of the world than it is to imagine a world after capitalism. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey #Listening to the freshly released album Elude the Torch by US indie guitar band The Drin; npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey (2/2) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey (1/2) npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Using a Firefox-based browser on desktop GNU/Linux in 2024 makes me a second-class citizen of the web. Where most websites are optimised for Chrome on Android/Linux and Windows, rather than adhering to neutral web standards so browser vendors have to do the same to keep people using their browser. npub1pwwm8s9zxssfm3aqv3g4fvqfh9kglr76m5z434cymju9gp9jhwwqdqtc65 Strypey Here's a transcript;
