Notices by Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org), page 2
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 15:22:42 JST 
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I got an email reply to this one, a recommendation for these two:
https://btdig.com/
https://torrents-csv.ml/
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Monday, 20-Nov-2023 15:22:40 JST
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Wouldn't mind a torrent search site that was 💯 ad free, no popups, no scams, no js, if the tradeoff was that it only had info hashes instead of .torrent files. -
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 03:11:59 JST
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Alex writes:
It’s not written for the day job. It’s not written to see the light of day at all. It’s not written to be looked at and scrutinized by anybody. It’s intimate and personal, it’s messy and buggy. To take a look is to transgress.
That is absolutely how I feel. But I’ve gotten better at releasing libraries, tools (like 7off), plugins that can be more polished part of the system. It’s just that the glue code of things with all its hardcoded URLs and hacky tags is… uh…
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Monday, 13-Nov-2023 23:18:37 JST
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"The flip side to the false memory studies is a large body of research, conducted over the last century, that provides evidence that dissociative amnesia is, in fact, a common reaction to trauma."
https://www.madinamerica.com/2021/02/false-memory-syndrome/ -
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Monday, 06-Nov-2023 22:13:42 JST
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Most people outside of the hacker community think that other people’s privacy is only creepy.
I was listening to the news the other day and the reporter was indignantly yelling at a postal delivery company for not opening more packages to check for drugs. Even though that would be illegal to do.
However, these bans are technically not doable without a complete lockdown on all computers ever made. Like a super gooped down Android or iOS with no sideloading. Goodbye general purpose computerGgpc, hello spyware appliance.
There are plenty of good reasons beyond privacy to not wanna attempt such a horrific lockdown.
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 01:04:41 JST
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@tchambers
Ah, yeah, one correction to this: NOSTR has their equivalent of FEP, called NIP. 🤦🏻♀️
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 23:43:57 JST
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@Suiseiseki
Copyright as in "the exclusive right to make copies" is artificial scarcity. -
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 23:36:13 JST
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@Suiseiseki
Yeah, duh. I literally wrote as much in that link you're refusing to read 🤦🏻♀️
"It’s ridiculous to impose artificial scarcity where there is no need for scarcity. The Earth is a multifaceted thing and there are areas where there are scarcity, which we need to carefully manage (or systematically manage), and there are areas where there isn’t scarcity and it’s evil to create and impose it."
Not into someone jumping into my threads to re-explain FOSS basics in tedious detail as if it was 1983. -
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 23:27:27 JST
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@Suiseiseki
We need new ways to put food on the table beyond the traditional GNU floppy disk yard sale model. That's not gonna go very far. And I'm not eager to join up some pyramid scheme lottery where we all buy floppies or LiberaPay subscriptions from each other hoping to eke out dinner and a place to sleep.
UBI, crowdfunding, there's a bunch of ways. Or we can radically reimagine the way humans distribute tasks and resources by thinking way out of the box. Again, see https://idiomdrottning.org/mittens -
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 22:44:49 JST
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@Suiseiseki
Selling access to digital copies is what you said. -
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 22:36:29 JST
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As far as I can tell, authors could make money by selling physical books of texts and access to digital copies
I’m not very happy with that setup. Not only are book sales top-heavy as that post shows, the entire idea of limiting access to digital copies goes against the pay-it-forward cornucopia of mittens and socks: https://idiomdrottning.org/mittens
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Monday, 18-Sep-2023 22:07:23 JST
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The whole idea that we authors should make money by selling copies of texts, and that the price of those copies should be jacked up by artificial scarcity, has pretty broken in practice.
The gap between the best-seller authors and the second tier is immense. It's not a graduated slope where they sell a tiny bit more.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/81637-is-publishing-too-top-heavy.html -
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Saturday, 16-Sep-2023 01:07:38 JST
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@ackthrice
I have a special "glasses-finding-pair" to find my good pair. -
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 16:12:22 JST
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@mc
Men är trean redan förstörd?
Jag trodde den skulle hålla betydligt längre än såhär. Är ju hela idén med Fairphone. -
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 19:06:33 JST
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@pettter
Folk som har skaffat konto på Threads på grund av den öppenvaskade marknadsföringen verkar ha fått för sig att det är det. 🤷🏻♀️ -
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Sep-2023 19:02:54 JST
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Threads' own page on their federation plans. I know I slag on vapor features but it's especially important when it's a feature that's the dividing line between good and evil. Same goes for BSky. Before it's federated, it's not federated.
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 17:49:58 JST
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Kakoune explains its philosophy.
As a longtime god-mode user I haven't understood the hype of Kakoune but now I see what's going on. Vi, vim, Doom etc all apparently use Verb→Object order. I can see how that'd be difficult to work with. God-mode has no consistent order, it's just a palimpsestic mishmash that's been hacked on since the seventies, but it is often enough Object→Verb (what Kakoune calls "selection first"). The underlying point/mark system from Emacs helps a lot there.
http://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html -
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 00:30:36 JST
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@aral
Good that we're both condemning speech acts that are calls to literal violence. 👍🏻
(And our condemnation is of course 900000000000 times stronger against actually executed violence.)
The problem is that the racist crew often attach their persecutions and crusades and ethnic cleansing attempts to insults and caricatures so that any reaction to the racism looks super petty and thin-skinned. So that they can say "OMG you can't even say 'It's OK to be white' for these lib█████". A reverse Trojan horse; the poison razorblade hidden in the flaming poop bag.
This is why the lulz approach is so dangerous, this discourse-killing turkey curse: Any protest against the racism comes across as "why can't these sensitive snowflakes just take a joke?"
Jylland-Posten aren't just goofin' around with someone's imaginary friend—a 2004 (that's one year before the caricatures) report from the European Network Against Racism showed how JP has contributed to the rise of the racist European far right.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060325023310/http://www.enar-eu.org/en/national/Denmark2004_enOK.pdf
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 23:44:41 JST
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Not on board with your perspective here at all, @chris, because even though what you're saying is literally and technically correct (probably better known as the worst kind of correct), the counterpoint is that in de facto practice anti-muslim sentiment is driven by racists for racist reasons. It's, in many racist's view, a "brown people religion".
So when pluralists decry the Jyllands-Posten caricatures or the Paludan muṣḥaf burnings or the Trump travel ban or the Dawkins or Harris showing fondness for the village vicar but wanting to nuke the Middle-East as racist, that's not particularly far-fetched. I'm, for once, completely onboard with the pluralists as they make that condemnnation.
It was such a huge get when it was revealed that Jyllands-Posten had, two years earlier, refused to publish caricatures of Christianity. And Paludan has his program where he literally wants everyone that has a parent born more than one country away from Denmark deported—probably better known as ethnic cleansing—is not the guy you wanna turn to for a nuanced take on various strands of Islamic scholarship.
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 23:44:34 JST
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@chris
You already know I'm against the death penalty.
The fatwās proclaiming death on these caricaturists is wrong. Those fatwās are speech, and an obvious example of how some speech is wrong.
I want a very strong protection for freedom of speech and that includes having very few exceptions, and being very clear about what those exceptions are. I am not onboard with death penalty fatwās nor with the type of Volksverhetzung that often takes the form of these caricatures that the white ingroup produces in order to attempt to bind and subjugate the brown outgroup.
Matthew 7:3. "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" The white conservatives are making hay as the open and just society dies.
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