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   Pirate Praveen (praveen@social.masto.host)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Mar-2025 02:13:41 JST Pirate Praveen

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   @lxo @janvlug we have to still solve the reliability issue somehow, and also mass adoption.

   How does Jami handle messages if the receipient is not online? This likely involves processing more data by peers.

   Like I keep repeating, choice of a messaging platform is not just a personal unlike GNU/Linux or Libre Office, we need our contacts using the same platform as well.

   So to provide the same usability, we need server and phone book integration.

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   Jürgen Hubert (juergen_hubert@mementomori.social)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 20:10:40 JST Jürgen Hubert

   Am I disturbed by these attacks on #Tesla cars and dealerships? Yes.

   However I must also take their context into account. And the context is this:

   Yes, there are legal and less-violent ways of fighting #fascism than this. However, in the last decade or two, Western Democracies have largely failed to use them. The #USA is the worst example, of course - but #Germany also flunked the test, as evidenced by how the authorities and political parties failed to take a strong stand againat the #AfD (including failing to start the process of outlawing them).

   And if legal and less-violent actions are not taken... then sooner or later illegal and violent actions are the only ones left, especially once the fascists have already taken over (as it has happened in the USA).

   And as a tactic for opposing fascism, I think these attacks on Tesla cars is actually one of the more effective one. It hurts one of the biggest promoters of fascism - #ElonMusk - in his pocketbook, as it sinks the value of his brand. And it sends a clear message to other oligarchs that promoting fascism will have real, negative consequences for _their_ bottom lines as well.

   So I and anyone else who might be put off by these attacks should ask ourselves:

   "Do I have a better tactic for fighting fascism - and if so, am I actively using it?"

   I live in Germany, where we don't yet have an outright fascist takeover like in the USA yet (again...). So I am leery of criticizing those Americans who are actually on the front lines of fighting fascism, and who are risking their own lives and freedom for this.

   #antifascism
   https://apnews.com/article/tesla-vandalism-musk-trump-domestic-extremism-7576c03393a733eaf34b793e86ad1a6f

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   Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Tuesday, 29-Oct-2024 01:30:14 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

   TIL when I read in books about people eating a "joint of mutton" in the medieval and early modern period that I had the idea all wrong. I imagined a leg bone with meat on it...you know, bone, joint.

   But no. Roasting mutton by fire is hard if you leave the bones in because bone insulates against heat pretty well.

   So it was typical to debone the mutton and roll it back up tightly before roasting it; if done right, it looked like a leg.

   "Rolling a joint" is a much older term than I thought.

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   John Goerzen (jgoerzen@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 30-Aug-2024 04:36:03 JST John Goerzen

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   We are a family of readers. We have somewhere north of 1000 books in our house, and they haven't been well-organized. We have an assortment of bookshelves, which have loosely been organized by which person originally bought the book.... but not well.

   So, decision number 1 was: how are we going to organize them? Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress Classification (LCC)? I went with #LCC because we tend to have a lot on certain topics (eg, Kansas history), and it is great with that. 2/

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   Terence Eden (edent@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 22:17:42 JST Terence Eden

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   Plucked completely out my arse, let's assume 6 billion total URls in goo.gl

   That's about 6TB total.

   Of course, lots of those will be duplicates. And text compresses really well.

   So call it a 3TB database. Obviously, it would probably be a different data structure which could make it more efficient.

   I don't understand why they can't just release a static copy - or searchable version - so that people can easily and quickly deference all the goo.gl links printed in papers and books.

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   Josh Gay (joshuagay@metasocial.com)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 13:07:00 JST Josh Gay

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   @lxo Let's say I have created a cool BigNumber library that performs math functions really well.

   So I take my library and generate a lot of small object code blobs. Labels are the function and parameter calls associated with the object code blobs (fft, cosine, lambda, etc).

   I train a model with a feed forward neural network so that the function call labels can be used to predict blobs.

   My free software programs replace GNU's big number library with this AI model.