🎓 Dr. Freemo 
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@freemo@social.cleverlibre.org
- UFoI Member
- http://UFoI.org/u/freemo/
- Website
- http://JeffreyFreeman.me
- Gitlab
- https://git.qoto.org/freemo
Admin
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
@peterdrake i can endorse this too.
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Creatives (including game developers) and engineers (including software developers) agree: get a minimal rough draft out there ASAP, then iterate.
The difference is in how stable each iteration has to be. This is what makes video game development so much harder than tabletop: changing a design idea is really expensive.
#GameDev #SoftwareDevelopment #iterate #writing #coding #agile #BoardGames #VideoGames
A waterfall I went to see with my mom and girlfriend here in Thailand. It was quite beautiful despite the tourist rigging all around it.
QOTO is a STEM-exclusive instance. Its common for people to be on here and separate from their friends or family on other instances.
@realcaseyrollins @peterdrake @trinsec @stux
Yes but the issue isnt that QOTO accidentally blocked someone.. the issue was someone accidentally blocked us. So even though QOTO doesnt block at all it is still an issue for us.
In this case it was a foreign instance that blocked us accidentally.
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Qoto has a little workaround where you can 'keep' those connections from your end. Follow _and_ subscribe to them. If there's a brief (accidental) suspension, you're still seeing them via subscription. They won't be following you anymore, of course. But at least you could see who you're not following anymore (as the follow icon won't be colored).
I'm contemplating doing that to all I follow. :P You won't be seeing stuff double or anything that I've seen.
Sadly no, as you've noticed even accidental suspensions cause harm to the users of both instances.
@realcaseyrollins Stux is a good friend, I doubt he would block us intentionally.
Apparently it was either a mistake or an over eager moderator. Either way I poke to stux and he reversed the suspension and apologized for the mistake.
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@freemo@social.cleverlibre.org
@stux Any word on why mstdn.social blocked qoto recently.. they added the following reasaon, which makes no sense, what is going on over there: "Ob...
@davoloid it has been reversed.
@davoloid Depends on what type of suspend they implemented. Follows wont go through, and you may not see new posts but see old posts.. but they can do different types of suspends where you cant view posts either
@stux Any word on why mstdn.social blocked qoto recently.. they added the following reasaon, which makes no sense, what is going on over there:
"Objects to the fediblock process and claims that it should be put to a "democratic vote" weighted by instance size, and his just happens to be the largest."
Your mods going rogue over there or something?
@Pat im looking into it.
@koyu@koyu.space to be fair mastodon the organization which writes the code is a gmbh, but mastodon itself as a piece of software hasnt cha ged really.
re: Announcing the Oliphant Social BlocklistS (plural!)
And for the record Im not trying to give you a hard time. I do think your trying to work towards something good. I just think it fell short and am trying to help fix those underlying issues. Which is what ive been trying to address for a while now.
I keep trying to push the conversation towards how to do reveipts in a way that would fix these problems, but you seem to keep glossing over the details of a receipts server which I have offered as a possible solution
re: Announcing the Oliphant Social BlocklistS (plural!)
And yes people might find your receipts invalid... isnt that the point? You want them be able to see your receipts are invalid and then tbey can add their own receipts
re: Announcing the Oliphant Social BlocklistS (plural!)
We provide block lists for users, and yes we have open federation but our users are not allowed to reboost or support racist content. As we have explained many times we openly federate at the request of and for the safety of our lbgtq community.
Not providing receipts is the issue yes, and no you arent asked to defend those receipts... the receipts you posted is fine, youd just need to include all the receipts and let the end user decide.
The receipts server i wrote does just thst... ANYONE CAN POST RECEIPTS, if a receiot is incomplete or left out then people can add to it. It ensures all the details are exposed.
Do you really not see a problem witb a server mai tsining a ban list, and receipts are objectively manipulated and important conte t left out in an attempt to sell effectively a lie (we explicitly state in our tos child porn gets a block).
No one is saying you needto defend tbe receipts, you just need to ensure the receipts content is inclusive of all the information and then at least others can decide.
Sorry but witbout receipts to evaluate it makes for not just a very bad blocklist but one that is harmful to the community.
- UFoI Member
- http://UFoI.org/u/freemo/
- Website
- http://JeffreyFreeman.me
- Gitlab
- https://git.qoto.org/freemo
Admin
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
