Notices by soaproot (soaproot@sfba.social), page 2

@jeridansky This is also a success story for Masto.host: how many people have mused about how they want a social network, they have an audience which would join, but lack the time and/or skills to do the admin work?

@jeridansky As for the tech journalists, sort of although Casey Newton has had an active account here for a year or more. I did listen to the Forkaverse episode of the Search Engine podcast and if memory serves he was the one promoting the Fediverse to the other two.

@jeridansky Speaking for myself, there are a small number of horrors I am actively working to do something about (with time, money, etc). For the rest I say "oh, a horror, noted". Picking battles, one way or another, seems...... well I'm not sure what else I could do.

@Infoseepage @HelenBranswell I have been wondering about an mpox specific vaccine too. Sounds like a much bigger lift than a trial of boosters of the existing vaccine but that doesn't mean don't think about it.

@tillshadeisgone I've blocked that double-downer but sadly I'm sure there are more where that came from.

@SuperDicq @js I think you (and the blog post) may be getting at why I find it so refreshing to use software from F-Droid and desktop Linux repositories.

@jeridansky @twrling Am I too cynical because my first reaction was to wonder whether the information submitted to DROP would fall into the wrong hands and be used to spam or track me? (This is in their FAQ, so I'm not sure that's my second reaction, just something I was musing about)

@ddrake @inthehands Does sound like a separate talk. Don't know how far you have gotten with the surreal numbers, or whether formalized presentations are easy or hard to read, but in case it helps, there are a lot of surreal number definitions and theorems formalized in metamath at https://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/mmtheorems.html#dtl:15 (that's the section header "PART 15 SURREAL NUMBERS" in case someone is reading this after some future change to the numbering).

@pachli @badnetmask If it takes more than one monthly release to implement all the functionality in this blog post, I, well, I'll assume that's what you meant in the first place.

@FlashMobOfOne @adapalmer There's a decent length segment on the latest Inside the Vatican podcast which covers this Jubilee LGBT event as well as pope Leo's meeting with James Martin. Under the last two popes there's a lot of tea leaf reading as there is a message of outreach and welcome but (apparently?) no change in church teaching. We know LGBT issues were discussed at the synod on synodality but the outcome of those discussions is a bit unclear.

@nikitonsky I recognized the first two but in case anyone else had to look up the third one: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_teapot

@11011110 @dalias I've never been a Wikipedia admin or even hugely involved in that sort of thing, but I'm guessing some editors come back under another account and some don't. There's a lot of persuasion involved (if persuading them those edits are bad doesn't work, at least persuading them the project doesn't want such edits and will take steps to that end).

@grumpybozo Hmm, I don't really need to get in an argument on the internet because..... well for all kinds of reasons
..... but I'd at least take a look at the recent thread from @sarahtaber which has a bit more about things like what kind of pathogen this is.

@jeridansky @cascadepbs @BakerRL75 @leapingwoman @wendinoakland Some of the organizing of REI members to vote with the union was done right here on Mastodon (I'm sure lots of other places too but I heard about it right here from @Eliot_L and then voted according).

@kfogel Would you accept "real number" or "ordinal" in #constructiveMathematics ? Although I suppose that might be too technical of an example; your examples are quite good.

@kfogel Ah yes, in GitHub terms it is more like granting a user access to a repository, making a user an owner, etc, than a GitHub team. I can see why you are looking for a new term because I'm not sure what I'd call that either.

@kfogel I could quibble about whether a sufficiently large Soulless Global MegaCorp is more like a service provider than it is like a small company, but in ways I can only partly articulate I'm inclined to buy your characterization of it as something sufficiently different that you'd confuse people by trying to use the same terminology.

@kfogel And you are describing the situation where the team has a visible existence (similar to a user) in the system (for example be listed as the author of a post), I take it? That is, more than just permissions. The more I think about it the more I start thinking of examples: Facebook pages, GitHub teams (especially when a team is tagged as a requested reviewer). I don't remember seeing a name, but "first class teams"? "teams as entities"?

@kfogel Or if you are talking about permissions specifically, Role Based Access Control (RBAC). I think being able to assign multiple roles to a user is part of RBAC, at least it is part of most RBAC systems I have worked with.

@_elena @Sunny From a privacy point of view you are often best off with a web site rather than an app (using, say, a browser like Mull). Not trying to oversimplify a somewhat complicated situation, but it is something I am trying to figure out as I try to map out a future which is more based on F-Droid and the like than the more closed alternatives.