Notices by mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)

ANOTHER UPDATE: About three minutes ago on the website, France literally hit 1000% support for the anti-"Conversion Therapy" initiative. France really showed up here, with ten times the threshold support FR is literally half the supporters on this initiative. Apparently the people of France really, REALLY don't want their trans friends medically tortured

(if this is a boost, see upthread for explanation)

UPDATE: Nine. 9 countries. Sweden passed the threshold *while I was writing that last post*.

The "end of the collection period" is May 17 (so seven hours from now… plus 24 if the person who told me it's *EOD* May 17 is correct) so if you're an EU national you can still vote to run up the numbers and convince EU Parliament you're serious. Also:

- If 4,343 Italians sign, it's ten countries endorsing
- 5,308 Austrians makes it eleven
- 6,794 from Portugal makes it twelve

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

OKAY WOW. WOW. THE WHOLE THING WHILE I WAS SLEEPING. WOW.

The EU citizen initiative petitioning the European Parliament to outlaw "conversion therapy" ("curing" LGBTs via torture) has met its threshold (1M votes and 8 countries supporting).

One week ago I sincerely thought y'all wouldn't make it. Amazing work Europe (and hi5 Germany, now country 8).

This is an incredible statement at a time the US/UK govt are forcing conversion (medical detransition) for trans minors.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

By the way, since I know there's a lot of Germans on Mastodon:

The need right now on the EU citizen petition against anti-LGBTQ "conversion therapy" ( https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114512352419261539 ) is raw votes from anywhere. BUT as it happens Germany's currently the closest %-wise to being the 8th country to endorse the petition!

15.5k DE votes would turn Germany green on this map, and send a pro-LGBTQ message to German lawmakers¹:

¹ DE already has a local law banning gay/trans conversion therapy against minors.

It is 7 AM CEST. The EU citizen initiative calling for a ban on "conversion therapy" (here meaning, pseudoscientific attempts to "cure" LGBTQs) is less than 250,000 votes from success. This is astounding, the votes have like, *tripled* in a week.

The page says voting ends "May 17", and I wish I knew if that meant "at midnight tonight" or "midnight tomorrow" or what. Uh. Do you know

Germany is ~6,000 local votes from endorsing it. Are there 6,000 Germans on this website

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

@jj i'll switch to librewolf if they remove the firefox AI instead of just hiding it

Okay big news on the EU citizen petition to ban the use of "conversion therapy" (IE "curing" or perhaps "torturing into submission") on LGBTQs—

BE, NL and SI came through and last night the initiative *met* the 7 countries goal! It needs 330,000 more signatures before the 17th to pass, which sounds rough, but it's got *420,887* in just 5 days, so things are actually on a good pace. This will at least be really close, and this could happen!

EU citizens can sign at: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

So last night's episode has a bit with the group that's been genetically engineering mech pilots, and the pilot we meet is a scawny girl wearing a facemask resembling a dog muzzle, who makes direct eye contact and says "I want to go back to my real body" referring to her mech

I just thought some people here would like that

Her handler then, exasperated, says "if the mech is your body, then what is it I'm talking to now?"

"A heart", she replies, blankly, as if it were obvious

Here is the exciting thing about "vertical decentralization", Bluesky's core innovation: since your PDS and your "app view" can be hosted by two different entities, this means the pool of people who can make Bluesky stop working for you can be taken to a theoretical maximum. For example with Mastodon, if Eugen screws up my app doesn't work. But with Bluesky, since I self-host my PDS, if *either* I *or* Bluesky mess up, it doesn't work! *Everybody* must have a good day *at once* or there's no app

I don't suppose anyone reading this knows how to contact exactly 834 gay people in Slovenia

@whitequark @Catfish_Man how…secure is it?

Linux tool named "tulpa" that uses virtualization to simulate creating a second user (and enforce simulated user permissions) without having rights to actually create a second user on the system

@Catfish_Man that's… interesting, would old Mach have enabled this?

I think this is actually impossible because if you're a thread you can overwrite memory in use by other threads, invalidating all security guarantees. You'd need to basically be in an OS where threads are isolated enough they're more like green processes.

Logically, the filthier your secret kink is, the better the opsec, because the more extreme the kink the more inaccurate the "Green's theorem" recreation of you would wind up being VS your actual neurology

Tech cultists believe a future supercomputer could effectively "resurrect" you by analyzing your online footprint until they reverse engineer a connecteome that would have generated those exact posts under those exact circumstances.

There are multiple philosophical errors here but *if* that were true then as a logical consequence, good opsec would demand you develop at least one kink that you never disclose in public. Thus ensuring any model thus generated would never actually be you

@whitequark Correct

This is super hilarious because the reason I quit StackOverflow is because they sold my posts to an LLM company in countervention of the license, and then when I tried to remove my posts they banned me because they say deleting my own posts violates the license

https://hachyderm.io/@shafik/114502582779559335

What's actually happening right now is the Bluesky *website* is broken but the *phone app* still works. I propose the following theory:

Mastodon is "horizontally decentralized"; this means if one part of the network goes down the other parts continue working.

Bluesky is "vertically decentralized"; they separated each tech stack component into a slice that can be hosted by a different company. This means if any part of the network goes down they ALL stop working, because the layers interconnect

Ah… the decentralized social network that goes down completely when one centralized server goes down, is down again