Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

As a major lawsuit is threatening @internetarchive we want to highlight the valuable work they do to ensure universal and free access to information. From 'controlled digital lending' to preserving banned and rare books, learn more here:
📚 http://blog.archive.org/2021/02/11/mythbusting-controlled-digital-lending-community-rallies-to-fight-misinformation-about-the-library-practice/ Join us in solidarity to defend the internet archive. #DigitalRightsForLibraries

AI-as-a-weapon is a more urgent problem than AI-as-a-hypothetical-agent. I hope our leaders are not distracted by speculative and irrelevant conversations like the one between Eliezer Yudkowsky and Yann LeCun.

#ai

Let's catch up in Paris, 27 April: https://mobilizon.fr/events/ebe86d0c-44f9-4ccb-a7fa-607f96c9600f

Comrades...folks...I wish I was joking. But today I found out that Russian mobilized are LITERALLY being SOLD OFF to Wagner group to be used as cannon fodder in their meat assaults. Because Russian officers want money, Prigozhin wants success. Serfdom 2.0!

Seaweeds are not plants. They’re algae, without roots or leaves, although they do photosynthesize: harvesting the sun’s energy to build themselves. BUT there are a small number of real flowering plants in the sea: the seagrasses, which evolved from terrestrial plants and grow in large meadows.  Mostly water moves pollen around, but for at least one species, small crustaceans do the job of bees and carry sticky pollen from one plant to another.  Underwater gardening, anyone?  #Ocean #Seagrass

Quick status update!

We are bringing up everything on the 14"/16" M2 Pro/Max machines and expect to have support up to parity very soon (Mac Minis will take longer due HDMI support requiring new code).
@lina fixed some of the graphical glitches introduced in the last big GPU update, expect updated packages soon.
libinput patches to default to natural scrolling (already the case on Asahi) and to disable edge palm rejection on Apple trackpads are now merged upstream. The latter should improve responsiveness issues on larger trackpads (especially 16" models), including Intel ones.
KWin should no longer show artificial screen resolutions that don't actually work on MacBooks.
More things going upstream: PWM driver, M2 device trees, Rust stuff...

15 min of pure hate by Solovyev. To remind you all why we don't need 'peace' we need an Ukrainian victory.

https://youtu.be/FEOgKhcwlCk

Okay. An update for #Substitoot is up:

- Changed the request intercepting approach (see below).
- Replies to remote toots now work as expected.
- Local context now shown immediately, remote stuff is added when it's ready.
- Actual real boost/favorite count on remote toots!

Switched from intercepting web requests in the background process to injecting an XHR wrapper, as well as plugging into the Redux store if possible.

New mode is on by default, but old mode still available if needed (new mode is not tested on versions < 4.0 so tell me how it goes). The new features are only in the new thing though (and the reason it exists).

More info: https://substitoot.kludge.guru/

Install: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/substitoot/

A little-known fact about Mastodon is that when you move your account, it gets put on a truck and then shipped to the new server. Here, for instance, are users employing I-195 to move between servers.

Seeing people post positively about Substack now that it's challenging Twitter.

Reminder: Substack is also centralised. Worse, the business model is basically to take what would once have been blogs and paywall them as premium 'newsletters'.

Substack is not a friend of the open web.

Incidentally, it’s worth noting that Twitter significantly imploded during this time.

Thankfully, my spouse @DavidLowry suggested starting an account on a decentralized network called #Mastodon. A handful of months later, I’m still here & delighted to be part of this kinder & more thoughtful community with you. /2

Best naming ever

@jonn @roberth the punchline is that in 2023 we still don’t have a messaging service that doesn’t suck donkey balls, despite internet messaging being close to 40 years old now.

@jonn

I actually found communities to be very weird there. There are many communities on #Matrix for specific apps and services like #Linux and specific one for things like #Ubuntu, but you just don't get responses, but then when one of the popular guys post everyone respond.

So, I find myself lurking more and not interacting as much. #Maston was a lot more inviting and felt at home immediately in all of the existing communities.

Maybe just my experience. That's why I mostly use it for individual one-on-one conversations.

#Element #Matrix

How to prevent LGBT people from entering into your oh-so-friendly (but not to LGBT) and oh-so-welcoming-all-differences (but not LGBT), "no longer fear the opinion of others" (unless you're LGBT), "love yourself as you are" (unless you're LGBT), "respect the others" (unless they're LGBT), "class differences are forgotten and we live in harmony, with serenity and liberty" (except for LGBT) establishment in a country where discrimination against LGBT is illegal?
It's very simple! Instead of introducing any anti-harassment policies preventing harassment of people for not being cishet, say that "no dubious attitudes likely to disturb children" are allowed and that violators will be removed. Queerphobic parents "oh no, my kid just learned that not everybody are cishet" will do your work for you!

I knew that even in "progressive" countries trans people are not allowed into gender-segregated spaces. But learning that LGBT people are not allowed into ordinary non-segregated places, in fucking 2023, in fucking Western Europe, is something new.