Notices by ShadSterling (shadsterling@mastodon.social), page 3

@j12t @damon choosing an instance specific to one of the many subjects that interest me is contrary to how I relate to those communities. I’m not here for a community bulletin board that allows crossposting, I think we’d need a different interaction paradigm for me to want community features, and it wouldn’t involve tying my whole fediverse identity to a single community. What’s supposed to happen if I joined my hometown library’s instance and then moved away?

@sjuvonen @liferstate @inthehands I think it will motivate increased voter suppression. I recall some concern about potential violence at the polls in 2020, which didn’t materialize as actual violence; I suspect the risk will be higher this time

@inthehands that seems likely, but why wouldn’t they unite to supports Biden himself? What happened behind the scenes? Did Biden intentionally not bring his best to the debate to set this in motion?

@inthehands wait, so is the motivation to accelerate climate change to make it easier to move “the giant glacial ice sheet of society” in a negative direction?

@inthehands does the TV have a different audio out you could use?

@inthehands @steve I wonder if there’s a changelog for the OEIS

@inthehands I think it was as OSDI that I saw a presentation on research into doing arbitrary opaque computation on encrypted data, so the server owners can’t see the data or discern what the computation is, but the customer can decrypt the result and it will be correct. IIRC it can be done, with something like a billion times as many operations as the normal operation.

@dansup looking at your profile I already see verification checkmarks for your pixelfed, GitHub, and website links. Adding a way to vary that checkmark to indicate paid support, or just to customize and give hosts the option to charge a fee for customization, could be a nice way for supporters to make that public that would be hard to fake

@inthehands sounds a little like transcribing some code from the back of a book and then making changes to it until it does what I want, which is how I originally learned to code. I don’t doubt LLMs can be useful that way, but a good code search engine would be better and use far less energy

@inthehands @b0rk it does if you make a pull request

@thomasfuchs does anyone make a USB-C “sniffer” that you can connect a cable or device to and it will tell you which features are supported?

@inthehands I mean, if I could spend most of my time learning things again I might, but there’s nothing else about living like a college student that I’d go back to. Definitely not taking on that kind of debt again. Or the maniacal deadline schedule.

Tho for me, the closest I could get to taking a break from having an income was to go back to school and take on potentially crippling debt. I didn’t even learn the skills I now use to pay off that debt

@inthehands having gone back to college at 30ish and had the “poor student diet” literally almost kill me, I don’t think living like a college student for as long as you can is a good idea

@RandomDamage @inthehands if they want to handle it like email, they would pay some provider; as far as I know there are no such providers for mastodon, but maybe there will be in the future

@inthehands @mekkaokereke I still think we ought to reallocate senate districts to not necessarily follow state lines. Keep the same number of senators, but reallocate the districts so each district represents about the same number of people - more like the house, but senate districts are national, while the house still represents the states

@mcc call it “Prime Time”

@verge that should be required by the standard, along with software on every device capable of any UI that exposes the capabilities and status of every connected device, and some amount of logging from devices that manage connections

When your computer loses the connection to every external drive because the power draw on your hub/dock triggered a reset, it should be required that the user be able to see what happened and why, and to see the potential for it if they look in advance

@inthehands it might be more complicated for international operations, but since the Deepwater Horizon I’ve thought we should have a required chemical spill insurance agency that works roughly like the FDIC - if your facility is involved in a spill, that facility and employees who work there and other assets involved in its maintenance are transferred permanently to the insurer, who can also temporarily commandeer any other assets as needed for cleanup.

@inthehands ah, that’s new then; last I’d heard it still said “without consent”, where consent seems to mean “agreeing to the TOS”, which only means they won’t do it unless you use their service

@inthehands did they actually remove that from their TOS?