Notices by Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social), page 2

@thomasfuchs W-what even is that thing???

It's borderline alien facehugger material. Just paint it black and put on some organic lines and presto.

@BeAware Thanks for the info.

@BeAware I was thinking of that one. Probably multi-instance is still my easiest way to go, I just wanted to see how realistic it would be to try to stay same on both.

@BeAware Yeah, I couldn't specify because of character limits, lol. I primarily use the site. So I think that answers that question.

Does anyone know if it's possible to have two accounts on the same instance and how easy it is to cross-post if so? I'd like to switch around to having two accounts with one dedicated to one thing and another to everything else but would like to keep using this instance (don't want to clutter this with discussion of why.) Ideally I'd like to be able to just click on something to switch accounts, but if it means logging off and back on I'll have to do two instances.

#mastodon #account

@SrRochardBunson

@futurebird @martinvermeer I noticed they had careful wording there. They know whether you vote or not. It's carefully worded to be true. They don't say they know who you voted for in the letter. However, the whole "we'll report you to the regime commander" thing does kind of add an implication of "vote for him or else" for those who miss the nuance.

Honestly, it scares me just how fast a huge portion of America straight up embraced authoritarianism.

@futurebird This is also voter intimidation and still currently illegal despite everything else that seems to have slipped lately.

@thomasfuchs Rofl, reminds me of stuff like this:

@augieray "If you get chronically ill, the CDC won't pay your bills, protect your job, or aid you in any way. You face the consequences, not the CDC. Make better decisions, please."
I have never heard anyone say this better. Thank you. Those words cannot be stated enough. The same goes for all the bosses that are going to use this to force people to go into work sick and spreading COVID-19 (and other things.) We are fast reaching a point things are completely non-sustainable.

@freemo @luckytran Appeal to authority: I am an expert.
Reverse appeal to authority: you are not.

Thus the combination: I'm the expert and you are not, so you're wrong and I'm not even going to discuss it. (Which accomplishes the "just assume I'm right" part.)

@freemo @luckytran Let's put aside the appeal to authority/reverse/etc stuff please. The discussion at hand is whether it is valid as a metric for getting an overall view of current trends in new infections. Yes it is less accurate than proper tracking. I fully agree. (Though even proper tracking has its own hurdles.) There are things where this is an issue, but an overall view as we are doing here looks roughly the same whether viral loads or tracking.

@freemo @luckytran No I do not. How is it specifically "misleading"?

Yes it's less accurate. Not so much so as to mislead. It still gives a good overall view of trends among other things.

@freemo @luckytran How is it horribly misleading?

Certainly it is less accurate. Obviously actually tracking infections is the only sensible way to track the progression of the pandemic. But since it "looks bad" and was hard to fight the local governments (like Florida) who want to hide the truth, the government has basically abandoned everyone on this, so this is the most accurate metric. It's not perfect, but should be still pretty accurate overall. Any reason you disagree?

@Strandjunker It is so weird just how hard it is for anyone to just straight up say it. And let's be clear, he's now encouraging domestic terrorism and even trying to start a civil war in hopes of being installed as a dictator and yet again far too few are willing to actually state it.

@nixCraft Funny how it never occurs to them just to sell some of it.

@feditips Oh, sorry for the misunderstanding. I am indeed following.

@feditips This post showed up on my timeline though. 😁

Warning to everyone, Microsoft is apparently planning to backport "CoPilot" to Windows 10, despite the fact its support ends in less than two years. Up until now they've tried to make "features" (like DirectX versions) exclusive to try to force people to upgrade whether they want to or not. In other words, they see big money in this. That almost certainly comes at the expense of users with phoning home with info, targeted ads/sales, etc.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/microsoft-is-revisiting-windows-10-by-backporting-the-copilot-ai-assistant/

#privacy #microsoft #windows

@feditips Anything "more conventional" that includes the part explaining why they need to switch and what makes the Fediverse so different (and better) than those networks they're staying tied to? Language aside, Saunders explained those things really well.