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RE: https://old.mermaid.town/@futzle/117175788454918982
This is fucked. Australians: if you have the capacity to lodge a complaint, please do so.
Harry Potter is at this point essentially a transphobic dogwhistle and promoting it directly funds anti-trans activism, and AusPost doing this is unacceptable.
Trans people in Wales need your help right now (a thread).
NHS Wales are hitting pause on all gender affirming surgeries while they do an enquiry into why Welsh patients are getting the care they need (unlike in England, Scotland and NI).
Cis folks - keep reading and do the action points at the end of this thread, then boost and directly contact your other cis friends to get them to do the same.
#TransRights #WelshPol #WalesPol
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Travel Japan möchte bei der Registrierung einer Reise mehr Informationen als ich selber wusste dass ich habe
I have decided to shut down my #mastodon instance, and all my public facing web services.
This will happen in 3 months time, on November 29, 2026, to allow everyone to backup and migrate.
The reason for this is that I can no longer trust:
- the #Linux kernel
- #Debian
- rails
- most #Foss projects
Additionally, I'm basically out of storage, it is unaffordable to purchase more, and no one is interested in donating to help.
Our bastion of free computing has been poisoned by fascist gen ai slop, and basically NONE of it can be trusted anymore.
It's impossible to vet slop from an ecosystem that is welcoming of it.
This makes it nearly impossible to update my systems, which makes it harder to pretend it's even remotely secure.
I'm fucking devestated - gutted by what has happened to computing, and I just do not have the resources to keep fighting.
Fuck all you #LLM boosters into the sun. May you learn the folly of your way and DO SOMETHING TO FIX IT!
RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jdp23/117164715463719268
Now that the ATmosphere has some more nodes on it, the big reason given for not using ActivityPub, missing replies, turns out to be also a problem on the ATmosphere.
All stuff I called out as being likely to be challenges, it's just that the ATmosphere (Bluesky etc) didn't have enough decentralization happening yet.
In fact, it's going to be harder to get this right on the ATmosphere as more full nodes appear, because the fediverse has an *imperfect* mechanism with directed delivery (with some improvements in spec for the server at the top of the thread helping to share replies it's seen, and other implementation such as Mastodon have also added good features like reply-fetching, so this isn't even a big complaint you see from users anymore). But the shared heap architecture doesn't have that.
ATproto *could add* addressing and directed delivery, and I believe to address these issues, will have to.
https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
https://dustycloud.org/blog/re-re-bluesky-decentralization/
@cwebber Is it correct that Smoke Signals (uses PDSes but not some of the other parts of the ATP stack) does direct delivery, or is it doing something simpler than that?
Thought of the day:
We need more product testing teams consisting entirely of elderly people.
Cet argument : "l'IA est déjà là, il faut faire avec", je trouve ça tellement pauvre intellectuellement.
Les pesticides sont déjà là, il faut faire avec ?
Les particules fines aussi ?
Les perturbateurs endocriniens ?
Le système capitaliste ?
Etc.
"C'est déjà là, faut faire avec" n'est pas un argument, c'est un renoncement de complaisance.
Ce qui est incroyable, c'est que JAMAIS n'est posée la question simple du BESOIN.
A-t-on BESOIN de l'IA ? Pour faire QUOI ?
@pOtiron@piaille.fr @bastamedia@mastodon.social La question n’est pas le besoin, il existe (en théorie) réellement.
Le problème est le bénéfice qu’on en tire vu les problèmes pour concevoir ce truc.
#law #news 📢 #southafrica has submitted a substantial dossier of information to the International Court of Justice ( #ICJ ) concerning Israel’s non-compliance with the Court’s provisional measures in the #genocide case brought against Israel
🔹 SA said it would continue pursuing all available avenues to secure Israel’s full and immediate compliance with the Court’s orders
#palestine #gaza #westbank #crimesagainsthumanity
📰 Report WAFA AUG-29
I don't want to seem dramatic but someone has definitely stolen my shorts
@TheBreadmonkey query : Did you by chance, tell anyone to "eat my shorts" lately?
@misty I use Hugo and Zola, so as long as it's not a Ruby'ism, who knows. 🤷
@pawv I’m specifically looking for help with Jekyll’s theme structure, but thanks!
@strangetown @alexisbushnell it's worth you both knowing nation.cymru is run by the head of the Welsh tories, so it acts as their propaganda arm. Complaining to then will be quite redundant
@BigTittyBimbo @strangetown ah that's super helpful info.
Still glad I yelled at them though
I don't know how to interpret the Debian Social Contract in a way that makes relentless global-scale information harvesting and stochastic regurgitation by for-profit companies acceptable.
LLM vendors are privatizing access to knowledge taken from the commons; selling access is not giving back. They hide an enormous number of massive ecological, financial, legal and ethical problems, their priorities are not users or free software, and their outputs do not meet free software standards.
Silo
It was *almost* named Reacher.
The software is not the thing. Code is the implementation language of a shared understanding. The shared understanding, between people with wants and needs living in the world, is the thing.
What is the point of a freely accessible knowledge commons where you can never be sure the knowledge is trustworthy or even real, where you can't drink the water or breathe the air.
#OtD 29 Aug 1884 the Italian working-class mutual aid group, Societa Operaia (Workers' Society), in Naples launched a new medical initiative to assist the families of members who were struck by a cholera epidemic. It also sparked wider relief efforts https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10075/societa-operaia-cholera-aid
The Human League's "Don't you want me baby" is basically three minutes of a bunch of red flags in a man suit telling on himself isn't it.
@afewbugs So much of the era was just that, unfortunately.
This week's comic on the folly of triangulating with oligarchs
#comic #cartoon #voting #uspol #oligarchy #democrats #elections #authoritarianism #corruption
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