Notices by 183231bcb@transfem.social

@oluOnline@social.gfsc.studio I transitioned in part because of the support I found online.

@Minetest@fosstodon.org I think this is an excellent change overall, but, for us non-Finish speakers, I would like it if you included an explanation on your site of how to pronounce "Luanti."

@panos@catodon.social The thing is there's no reason a fedi account *can't* be a blog. I made Tumblr posts that were over 15,000 characters: why shouldn't fedi allow it?
#AbolishCharacterLimits

@pzmyers@octodon.social

This is your irregular reminder that Dawkins is a signatory of the “Women’s Declaration of Sex-Based Rights,” a petition that, among other things, calls for all world governments to ban scientific research into sex organs, under the reasoning that such research might theoretically benefit trans people.

I think it is perfectly reasonable to say Dawkins is anti-science.

Me thinking about fedi instances: Do I want my main account on Sharkey and semi-private account on Akkoma, or do I want my main account on Akkoma and my semi-private account on Sharkey? This is a very important and difficult decision that I need a lot of time to think very carefully about.

Me thinking about genitals: Within five minutes of hearing about a particular kind of surgery I know it's exactly what I want.

#Trans #TransShitPost #Sharkey #Akkoma

@farbenstau@infosec.exchange @Draconic_NEO@pawb.fun @rail_@bark.lgbt @mozilla@mozilla.social

I really want to like Pale Moon. I love complete themes. But the developers are bigots.

Here's Moonchild in 2017 explaining that he believes men are inherently better at programming than women:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16372&p=119333#p119317

Here's Moonchild in 2020 announcing that he will no longer accept donations through Patreon, because he claims they got "political" by putting a Black Lives Matter banner at the top of their home page. He instead endorses the "politically neutral" Paypal, owned by a billionare who has never done anything political.
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&p=192120#p192120

Here's Moonchild in 2022 complaining about "SJW"
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=27765&p=223145&hilit=SJW#p223145

Here's Moonchild's number two person Athenian200 in 2024 complaining about how terrible the gays on "Mastodon" are:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=30942&p=249637#p249633
(And Moonchild agrees with him in the following post).

Here's Moonchild in 2024 making an April Fool's Day "joke" promising "Fully-inclusive accessibility features for every gender identity."
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=31021

Here's Moonbat, one of the current developers, in 2024 talking about how Elon Musk taking over Twitter improved things by driving away "lefty control freaks" (though it's worth noting Moonchild disagreed with Moonbat in the following post).
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=31234&p=252614#p252431

Here's Moonchild in the same thread complaining that people on fediverse care about accessibility along with "warriors for the cause" BS.
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=31234&p=252614#p252617

Here's Moonchild in 2024 talking about how "SJWs" are "triggered" by SerenityOS:
https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=31322#p254004

#PaleMoon

@PurpleStephyr@thetransagenda.gay For Matrix I recently switched to catgirl.cloud, which seems nice so far. There's also chat.blahaj.zone, which also seems nice.

For Lemmy, I have no recommendations as I don't use Lemmy.

Kitsune Tails World 4-7 🤝 Super Mario Bros 3 World 7-7

Just because you're invincible doesn't mean it's easy.

#KitsuneTails #SuperMarioBros3 #SMB3 #GayMario #World47 #World77

IRC fans talking about "emoji reactions" remind me of evangelical Christians who say atheists "just want to sin."

IRC Evangelist: IRC has literally all capabilities of other "modern" messaging systems, except emoji reactions. Literately the only reasons anyone would ever choose any other message system over IRC is for the emoji.

Me: If somemany sends me a message when I'm offline, I want to be able to read it when I get back online. That's a significant feature IRC lacks that other messaging systems (including SMS, XMPP, Matrix, email, ActivityPub, and all proprietary messaging systems) have.

IRC Evangelist: Oh, you said the "M"-word? You use that trash? You must have chosen Matrix for the emoji reactions!

Me: No, I didn't. I use Matrix to chat with people in other time zones, and I want to be able to read messages they send when I'm offline. It's all about chat history, not emoji.

IRC Evangelist: You're lying! Nobody cares about viewing "history" in an instant messager: that's what public forums are for! You must have chosen Matrix for the emoji reactions.

Me: No, I do not want all my messages to be on public forums. I talk with my parents using SMS, including some personal info that I don't want to be scrapable on a forum. But I do want to be able to read a message they sent me when I'm in a zone without reception.

IRC Evangelist: Well why don't you use IRC to talk to your parents instead? It's not like you need emoji reactions?

Me: Because IRC lacks chat histo--

IRC Evangelist: OH NO! My evil employer is forcing me to use Discord for work! Why not IRC? It's not like anyone needs emoji reactions for work! And emoji reactions are literally the only capability Discord has that IRC doesn't.

IRC Evangelist's Evil Employer: Um, if an employee is out sick we want them to be able to read messages that were sent while they were out. Also, maybe sometimes you'll need to look at a message from last week, which IRC makes difficult.

IRC Evangelist: But I can work without Emoji! All that other stuff you said is totally irrelevant!

Signal user: We use signal for end-to-end encryption.

IRC Evangelist: No you don't: you must have chosen Signal for emoji reactions. You can set up OTR+TLS for IRC encryption. Clearly security can't be the reason you chose signal.

Signal user: Um, I don't think OTR is as secure as Signal. Also setting it up is not as beginner friendly.

IRC Evangelist: Beginner friendly? That's just a euphemism for emoji reactions! I knew you really just chose Signal for the emoji!

Me: Hey, look what I found. It's a draft specification for adding chat history to IRC. This is great! If it gets completed and widely adopted, then I'll be able to move some of my existing group chats to IRC.

IRC Evangelist: Nooooooooo! You must not add any new features to IRC: you'll ruin it with emoji reactions.


#IRC #SMS #XMPP #Matrix #Email #Discord #Signal #Emoji #ChatHistory #IRCv3

@corbet@social.kernel.org Does this apply to shortened links to Google Forms surveys which can still be generated today?

@erisa@awau.social @corbet@social.kernel.org Oh, Google has more than one URL shortener, just to confuse me, and the one they are shutting down is not the one I use. Cool.

@danhon@dan.mastohon.com
(For anymany who doesn't recognize the reference, it's this comic
https://xkcd.com/327/ )

STOP NAMING MATH CONCEPTS AFTER PEOPLE!

CENTURIES of giving unhelpful names of abstract concepts yet NO REAL-WORLD USE found for not just giving a name that actually describes something.

Wanted to give something a useless unhelpful name anyways just for laughs? We had a a tool for that: it was called naming a specific mathematical concept after a common non-math word (e.g. "normal subgroup" or "regular space.")

"Yes, please name this space of geometric structures after actual Nazi Teichmuller who didn't even discover it."
Statements dreamed up by the AMR assholes.

Look at what mathematicians have been demanding your respect for all this time. These are REAL names for math concepts used by REAL mathematicians!

Whitehead's Theorem: Which one? There are more than one mathematician named Whitehead and they each discovered more than one theorem.
Pell's Equation: Not discovered by Pell.
Cartan-Killing Form: Why are we killing Cartan?
Nielsen-Thurston Classification: Are we classifying Thurstons? You can't just say "classification of elements of the mapping class group?" Also there are more than one mathematician named Thurston (including at least one father-son duo).

"Hello, I study Lie Theory. It's named after Sophus Lie."

They're telling us directly that they're lying and we're still falling for it!

#Math #StopDoingMath #StopDoingStopDoingMemes #LieAlgebras #LieTheory #SophusLie #KillingForm #CartanKillingForm #TeichmullerSpace #HyperbolicGeometry #PellsEquation #WhiteheadTheorem #NielsenThurstonClassification #MappingClassGroups #NormalSubgroup #GroupTheorem #RegularSpace #RegularTopologicalSpace

Capitalists in the 1880s: These new "machines" mean we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!

Machines in the 1880s: Actually require humans to operate.

Capitalists in the 1900s: These new machines mean we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!

Machines in the 1900s: Actually require humans to operate.

Capitalists in the 1920s: These new machines mean we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!

Machines in the 1920s: Actually require humans to operate.

Capitalists in the 1940s: These new machines mean we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!

Machines in the 1940s: Actually require humans to operate.

Capitalists in the 1960s: These new machines mean we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!

Machines in the 1960s: Actually require humans to operate.

Capitalists in the 1980s: These new machines mean we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!

Machines in the 1980s: Actually require humans to operate.

Capitalists in the 2000s: These new machines mean we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!

Machines in the 2000s: Actually require humans to operate.

Capitalists in the 2020s: This new "AI" means we don't have to pay humans to work anymore! Think of all the cost-savings!

AI in the 2020s: Actually require humans to do most of the work.

Fediverse in the 2020s: AI is a fad! Any day now the CEOs will learn that replacing human workers with machines doesn't actually work and conclude they have to pay humans!

#AI #FediMeta

@neia@fedi.ikeran.org The cotton gin was marketed as having capabilities far beyond what it actually had, and touted as a replacement for human labor that it couldn't actually replace. None of this is new.

@neia@fedi.ikeran.org We have a clause in the U.S. Constitution that was written based on the belief that human workers would no longer be needed to make clothes because of the cotton gin.

More to the point, "companies fire a lot of workers because the CEO doesn't realize the workers actually do something important that can't be replaced by machines" has been a consistent occurrence for as long as companies existed.

Corporations in the 1900s fired people because they thought machines made people obsolete.
Corporations in the 1920s fired people because they thought machines made people obsolete.
Corporations in the 1940s fired people because they thought machines made people obsolete.
Corporations in the 1960s fired people because they thought machines made people obsolete.
Corporations in the 1980s fired people because they thought machines made people obsolete.
Corporations in the 2000s fired people because they thought machines made people obsolete.

The fact that they've been wrong every time hasn't deterred them, because CEOs do not learn.

@clacke@libranet.de @theautisticcoach@neurodifferent.me For several years doctors kept telling me they couldn't diagnose me with ADHD even though I had all the symptoms because I was already diagnosed with Asperger's and you couldn't have both diagnoses.

(I have since gotten an ADHD diagnosis.)

@theautisticcoach@neurodifferent.me @actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe That it's impossible to have both autism and ADHD.

@dev@post.naskya.net *goes to invite naskya to a matrix room called "in-the-blue."

Can anymany tell me how I'm "supposed" to use end-to-end encryption with XMPP?

As far as I can tell there are three totally different ways to do E2EE:

a)OTR : "[https://xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0364.html](Not intended to be a current standard), or technical specification, as better (albeit, newer and less well tested) methods of end-to-end encryption exist for XMPP. "


b)OpenPGP: There are at least two different XEPs about it. XEP-0027 is obsolete, while XEP-0373 is "experimental" but hasn't been updated in almost three years.

c)OMEMO: "Experimental" and hasn't been updated in over two years.

Is there a way to do E2EE in XMPP which is neither deprecated nor experimental? What's the "Current stable" way to do it?

#XMPP #E2EE #EndToEndEncryption #OMEMO #OpenPGP #OTR