Notices by J. "Henry" Waugh (jhwgh1968@chaos.social)

@kissane that's the nice thing about the Fediverse

Federation means that you can be broad and niche at the same time: choose your server to choose your network map

Or as I think of it, to join Fedi is to choose the problems of Anarchy rather than the problems of Authority. Which opens up many different questions, some causing difficulties, others its strengths

And I think a lot of ppl, for a lot of reasons, would find that option appealing rn...

@ryanc I should say that it's not requiring a login to click on the 3 dots and send feedback about the lower panel

So I did

@ryanc interestingly, it did not require a login for me (I de-Googled several years ago)

Done

@tek indeed

I have even better personal reasons on top of that:

https://chaos.social/@jhwgh1968/112719036143770403

@cwebber called it!

https://chaos.social/@jhwgh1968/113591558159027511

While I don't think it was particularly difficult to call, I was a bit disappointed at the number of people here who were thinking it was a "self own" or a change in policy upon it first being announced

@SleepyCatten beyond a petiton, I'd instead politely ask everyone who reads this to support something more direct:

@ryanc is suing to force the issue in another way through the courts, and they need help with their fundraisers due to the personal expense it has cost them:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/legalise-nonbinary-uk-help-cover-ryans-legal-costs

https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/non-binary-recognition/

@slothrop indoctrinating the children, I see!

@ryanc this is just a clever way to ask "how old are you" and harvest all our information, isn't it

@whitequark okay the most obscure joke I know:

Two chemists walk into the bar

The first says, "I'll have a glass of H2O"

The second says, "I'll have a glass of the same"

The first could barely contain his rage, as his assassination attempt had failed

@rysiek @baldur 💯

Excellent long-form description of something that's been trying to coalesce in my head for some time

Hence my attempt to get the internet to agree to coin a concise version of this as Datskovskiy's Law:

"Employers much prefer that workers be fungible, rather than maximally productive"

Source: http://www.loper-os.org/?p=69

@jwildeboer @Linza I'd also point out something relevant to both cases by International Law expert Phillipe Sands sometime ago

There was an arrest warrant placed against Milošević during the war, which everyone saw as an empty gesture when it was issued

No one could possibly touch him. He'd just hide in his country for decades and evade justice

... until suddenly 4 years later, he was in the Hague

Fate is not kind to war criminals

@cassey and if you use a VPN, they pop up *even more* -- even though no one has shown bots use VPNs more than regular internet connections. They just "concentrate" activity into fewer IPs

So it's an implicit attack against ppl who want greater privacy too by making the web higher friction

@rysiek I would also reply to "the rich can just move elsewhere!"

Governments know this, and have an incentive to act collectively. Slowly but surely, they are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_minimum_corporate_tax_rate

@chrisisgr8 put this on your resume as the power of Chris

"Skills: Pen Testing

Experience: 4 hours I got them to take down a ChatGPT bot"

@whitequark huh, TIL

A similar cognitohazard, at least to me (but maybe not to others):

"USB mass storage" is actually SCSI commands wrapped in USB packets

🤯

@lilli depending on the X, my autistic brain would be totally down with that in many moods

@inthehands fair enough, I was not trying to persuade as I know this is an uncertain thing

And as an autistic person, I was trying to tie both together as the opposite: "seen as debilitating by society, but just diff ways of the brain operating". Whether either is compatible with certain occupations and specific social roles is a diff question

@inthehands while the science is limited, I have a personal pet theory

The progression of dementia is similar to the experiences of many Autistic ppl, in terms of what fails and how other parts of the brain compensate

Therefore, I see anyone who punches Mitch for mental abilities -- rather than his greed, clinging to power, or beliefs -- is also punching a lot of ND people

@Mondobizarrro @chjara @lilli in short, their privacy and data processing

Read the ToS of 8.8.8.8 and you may be quite surprised

@lilli @chjara after my google detox I started using 9.9.9.9

The "anti-google" DNS:

https://www.quad9.net/

And I'm currently blanking, but I think 9 has numerology significance too, not just to Eastern cultures