szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

A Texas jury has found that feeding the homeless is not a crime.

#Texas #txlege

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/housing/article/food-not-bombs-tickets-citations-trial-not-guilty-18267217.php

I don't just start one task I don't finish. I start MANY tasks I don't finish. It's called multi-slacking.

I have closed Twitter and deleted the app from my phone. Now I need recommendations on who to follow here. I am interested in #climate, #energy, #airquality, #sustainabledevelopment

DHCP is a sort of magic, isn't it, done properly?

I just replaced my home router. It has a busy setup w/ various VLANs/subnets and DHCP pools, some NAT some not.

New router did *not* carry the "state" of the old. But config was moved.

* Devices that knew their existing IP and hadn't lease-expired carried on working.

* When leases expired those devices re-requested their old IPs, and were reissued by the new router.

* Everything still worked.

We should base international diplomacy on DHCP.

#Climate-friendly #airconditioning inspired by #termites
Termite mounds have a sophisticated ventilation system that enables air circulation throughout the structure. This helps to maintain and regulate temperature and humidity. The research, published in the journal Frontiers in Materials, show a structure for buildings based on termite mounds that facilitates indoor climate control. https://phys.org/news/2023-07-climate-friendly-air-conditioning-termites.html

This may be my all time favorite meme. Bury me in it.

Getting boosted by a bigger account in the fediverse is always so fun, because you're suddenly getting favourites and boosts from all over the 'verse and you can spend a long while marveling at all the cute little gay people in your phone

Feel free to boost or fav this if you want to show me more cute little gay people :potion_progress_pride:

Dziękuję bardzo Bartłomiejowi Kupcowi za postawienie mi parę miesięcy temu świetnego obiadu. Miałem akurat dosyć podły i ciężki czas w życiu i ten obiad to było coś fajnego, co pomogło mi przetrwać. Warto a wręcz trzeba dokarmiać osoby w potrzebie, pamiętajmy o tym. #pomocwzajemna #głód #jedzenie #krakow #franekvetulani #bartłomiejkupiec

Someone trying to tempt me back to Twitter with this screenshot, saying “come on, won’t it be fun to respond to this?” Their idea of fun may differ from mine.

Lots of people have made fun of my mental illness and openness about it, most often on Twitter. But I’m okay. So far I haven’t looked at one of them and said “wow they seem really happy and successful, I wish I had their life.”

Android drifts as it heads towards 15th birthday: https://billbennett.co.nz/the-state-of-android/

Geologist Marie Tharp was born #OTD in 1920.

She built the first accurate map of the Atlantic Ocean floor, discovering the Mid-Atlantic Ridge that provided evidence for seafloor spreading and plate tectonics.

Image: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory

These are just a few painful examples. If a Native community claims its children and grandchildren, it’s not the business of non-Natives to question that.

Being white-passing is a luxury in the sense that white-passing Natives can blend in, and aren’t mistreated as badly as their dark skinned relatives.



But when you see someone mocking a Native person for looking white, just remember they’re actually REINFORCING racist imperialism.

🧵 7/7

I am not a licensed electrician

Those considering the use of the PhotoDNA surveillance process in the fediverse are advised to inform themselves on it first. It doesn't just detect "positives", it can also auto-report them to authorities. Implementing it could turn this network into an automated police-state snitching system. Admins who do not choose auto-reporting may be legally obligated to manually report positives.

Also (independently verified and officially contradicted), PhotoDNA is utilized not just to detect CSAM, but also "terrorist and violent extremist content". So who decides what constitutes this content? Why, the private unaccountable black box which is Microsoft Corporation, that shining beacon of privacy-respect to which a hash of every image uploaded to and federated across enabled instances would be sent. Microsoft indicates the data can be utilized for facial recognition and "AI" ingestion as well.

Do they - or will they - rate advocacy of Palestinian equality and Kurdish feminism as extremist, as governments they do business with would demand? Do they or will they accept the inputs of oil and pipeline corporations in determining what constitutes terrorism? How will they expand the parameters of disallowed sexual deviance if Trump wins the election next year?

Understand that this is already happening. Elements are in the Mastodon Github Issues calling for the addition of PhotoDNA right now. The Pixelfed project may also be adding it very soon. If that is true, antiauthoritarian instances should consider the feasibility of defederation from Pixelfed altogether.

For all those considering this: Stop. Please. All the "report" issued by the Facebook-mafia describes is the fediverse - and in fact, mostly its evil twin, the defediverse - just as it existed last month, last year, years before most on here had ever heard of it. The purpose of their influence operation is scare everyone into turning the fediverse into the kind of policed and surveilled space suitable to Mark Zuckerberg.

Microsoft FAQ on PhotoDNA:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/PhotoDNA/FAQ

Microsoft Digital Safety Content Report, indicating use of PhotoDNA to detect extremism:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/corporate-responsibility/digital-safety-content-report

Technical analysis of the PhotoDNA process:
https://hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?archives/931-PhotoDNA-and-Limitations.html

UN report referencing use of PhotoDNA to detect terrorism:
https://www.un.org/counterterrorism/sites/www.un.org.counterterrorism/files/countering-terrorism-online-with-ai-uncct-unicri-report-web.pdf

Transcript of 2018 US Senate hearing on terrorism and social media, referencing use of PhotoDNA:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-115shrg31316/html/CHRG-115shrg31316.htm

Journalism indicating use of PhotoDNA to detect extremism:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/a-tool-to-delete-beheading-videos-before-they-even-appear-online/488105/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-hatred-goes-viral-inside-social-medias-efforts-to-combat-terrorism/

Wikipedia pages:
PhotoDNA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhotoDNA
Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Internet_Forum_to_Counter_Terrorism

#FediPact #FediblockMeta #DefederateMeta #Meta #Facebook #Threads #FacebookFediverse #PhotoDNA #Surveillance

#silentsunday #southafrica #kwazulunatal

When you start writing and have no idea where it’s going, it’s very exciting. I did end up with 1000 words that I’m now completely destroying and reorganizing. But it’s all good. Don’t knock the recursive process of writing.

Hmmmm... Maybe keep allowing workers who can work remotely to continue to work remotely, eh? Saves on energy/fuel required to commute, and look what can be done with empty office space!

Empty Office Buildings Are Being Turned Into Vertical Farms

With office usage hovering near 50 percent of pre-pandemic levels, cities are putting the underutilized space to new use growing food

Ciara O'Brien, Modern Farmer
July 11, 2023

"In an old paper company and warehouse building, machines are whirring again. But instead of reams of paper pressed and cut, this warehouse is home to Area 2 Farms, which now pumps out greens, herbs and root vegetables. There’s even a weekly CSA serving customers year round, all in an effort to bring locally grown food to the Washington, D.C. area. Really local. “When was the last time you picked up a strawberry and could confidently say you knew the farmer’s name?” asks Jackie Potter.

Potter, along with Tyler Baras, helped co-found the farm in Arlington, Virginia, where office vacancy rates reached 23.7 percent in the first quarter of 2023."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/empty-office-buildings-are-being-turned-into-vertical-farms-180982502/

#RemoteWork #NoCommute #IndoorUrbanFarms

Scary

#Mastoart #ArtWithOpensource #krita
#twitter #x

Oh no - those bastards!