R. A. Dehi @radehi@social.cleverlibre.org
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
@shay @cemerick Well, obviously enough, those systems don't work.
Maybe we have to choose between banning certain information and enjoying liberal democracy. Shouldn't be controversial, really; is an extreme novelty, this idea that liberal democracy can coexist with prosecuting people for reading certain things.
@mfowler Might want to delete and repost this with an URL that isn't localhost:1963
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Implementing a New Memory Safety Approach, Part 1 - Evan Ovadia @ Vale Lang: https://verdagon.dev/blog/making-regions-part-1-human-factor
@davew Oh wow, thanks.
@deshipu This looks vaguely like a Klann linkage but needs twice as many servos.
@davew What the feature is called?
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The Yuv4Mpeg2 format (.Y4M) is a simple video format w/ an ASCII header and no compression.
I dissected a grayscale Y4M to first show the file structure, then a YUV (4:4:4) with a tiny 3x3 YUV plane for Y=0.5 as a small introduction to the YUV color space.
@davew This is something you can do? Mastodon supports OAuth or something?
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@chribonn @NorCal_Lynne @jeffjarvis @tomwatson Your analogy is wrong.
You don't need to understand PAL-M to watch TV usefully, but you do need to understand that different TV channels are operated by different companies, which are granted government monopolies on transmitting on those channels, and that they're heavily regulated and mostly ad-funded.
If you're sharing photos of mass graves in Ukraine or taking part in protests in Iran, you probably need to know if your instance is run by the Russian, Ukrainian, or Iranian government. You definitely need to understand that it's a possibility, and that the instance owner can read your DMs, trace your IP address, and take over your account.
Keeping activists, journalists, and their sources safe is more important than being appealing to the masses.
@rmerriam I want to engage in ways I don't regret later.
@chribonn @NorCal_Lynne @jeffjarvis @tomwatson Moreover, to use intelligently the Fediverse, you need to understand that nobody can be banned from the Fediverse or even Mastodon. You need to understand that, like Twitter users, many instance admins are hobbyists, volunteers who run their instances because they like to do it. You need to understand that your company can set up its own instance. Because these are facts that underlie the social interactions that happen here.
Putting a GUI over a computer system that makes it easy to use is laudable, because using computers is in itself morally neutral and often useful.
It is evil to put a "GUI" over a volunteer community that makes it easy to use, because it forces you to use people like inanimate objects, and using people like inanimate objects is evil. To participate in a community, you should engage sincerely with that community, seeking to create mutually beneficial interactions with them.
And the first step in doing that is treating that community as a community you are joining, not a company you are buying services from or a tool you are using.
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Well, finally after all these years, someone's got an intuitive explanation of the moves required for Rubik's cube!
RT @jagarikin@twitter.com
あの伝説のルービックキューブをさらにわかりやすくしました
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/jagarikin/status/1593771091738374144
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As Harvard tax-law prof Mandi Matlock told Simon Fondrie-Teitler, Angie Waller, and Colin Lecher, this #DataValdez is the "almost inevitable consequence of relying on for-profit companies to handle a government requirement. It’s a process that provides users little choice but to hand over their data to Facebook if they want to comply with the law."
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@shay @cemerick Maybe only instances run by hobbyists should have private messaging. As shown by today's news about H&R Block sending the personal finance data of their customers to Facebook, for-profit companies are untrustworthy custodians of confidential data, because selling it is often profitable.
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Just seen Twitter described as $8chan and now I can’t unsee it.
(H/t @gossithedog)
@nmoo I understand that you can include a limited set of HTML tags in your #ActivityPub posts that syndicate to Mastodon (@enkiv2 says the mastodon.py docs describe this but I don't see it in https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#writing-data-statuses) but apparently the #Markdown we're using here on #Qoto gets stripped out on Mastodon instances.
(Also, Qoto's Markdown implementation is massively broken.)
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@frauenfelder I hope so. But Tumblr joining the Fediverse may push things the other way. We'll see.
Just now it occurred to me that optimizing a social network for engagement is almost precisely the same thing as trolling: showing people the things that are most likely to react strongly to.
The only difference is that trolls write their content themselves, while social networks promote content written by others.
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@frauenfelder Maybe you don't troll hard enough for Twitter to promote your posts.
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
