Notices by Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse (lpwaterhouse@ioc.exchange)

Dear USians,

in keeping with the traditions established by your so-called #Musk and his concerning predilection for the #Culture novels of spinning-in-his-grave-at-supersonic-speeds author #IainMBanks we have decided to rename your society. You shall henceforth be known as #Affront to celebrate the diplomatic tact of your god-emperor #Trump and his high-priest #Vance.

Good day.

Signed,
Sun-Earther Lawrence-Pritchard Hugh Waterhouse dam Qwghlm, Special Circumstances

https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/Affront

@BeAware @nightclaw @reiver No, but you *can* mame an effort to be kind to people with an emotional need, and actively look for things that *can* be changed (and there usually *are*). As opposed to reacting harshly in a "It's a fact, deal with it" way. The latter will not change anyone's view, it'll just escalate things; The former opens a door to negotiations (and explanations), because the recipients feel taken *seriously*.

@BeAware @nightclaw @reiver An typical example of ehat *can* be done would be `robots.txt` for the web. No, it will not stop anything actively malicious, since it is purely passive, but it will be respected by bots that want to be seen as "behaving themselves", which is already a significant portion and thus eases *some* emotional pain.

@BeAware @nightclaw @reiver Factually, yes, but *emotionally* there's a huge difference for many people. Being aware of that and taking it into account when responding is what I'm advocating for.

@BeAware @nightclaw @reiver To me there's a stark difference between not wanting to be seen by *people* vs. by *software*. I know there is no way to distinguish those, but my impression is that those reacting strongly are riling almost exclusively against the latter, while many of those appalled by these protests seem to focus on the former. Both sides not talking to each other *clearly*, which makes the positions *seem* more irreconsilable...

@dansup Frankly, I think you should go in the opposite direction. Pixelfed is already making the process of discovering federation and, say following a Mastodon account, or vice-versa, pretty hard. It always feels like an island to me, not part of the wider fediverse. You should lean into *that*, it's what makes the Fediverse *resilient* instead of being yet another clone of a proprietary service...

Mal ein verdammt guter und ehrlicher Artikel ueber rechtes Gedankengut und Gewaltnormalisierung unter maennlichen Teenagern: https://www.republik.ch/2025/01/18/wo-es-wehtut

Ich habe es selbst nicht ganz so schlimm erlebt, auch wenn ich als dick/aspie/nicht-fussballfan genug Gewalt erlebt habe, aber die grundlegende Erfahrung ist schon aehnlich gewesen.

@solene Guess they *really* don't want your business. I always consider it fortunate when they so openly admit it, makes it easier to add to my never-do-business-with list :-)

@tagesschau https://verfassungsblog.de/without-fear-or-favour/

@Bsstahl @evan It's certainly doable, I'm thinking along the lines of Event Sourcing, but I'm curious: Are there any social-interaction-type things you have in mind? Like subscribing to tasks or todo-lists, commenting on items, etc.? Otherwise, essentially private-per-user, it's kind of hard to see the benefit over, say, a slightly fleshed out and secured REST-API a la http://www.todobackend.com/ :-P

@Bsstahl @evan Hm, not sure I *see* the advantage over a more direct plain-json + REST-with-HATEOAS model (but then that's always the question with rich metadata: is it worth it :-P), but, as I said, it's certainly viable and far from crazy. So I'd say: Go for it! The only way we get to find out for sure :-D

@evan "Qualified yes", depending on whether it *is* or recently *was* your birthday or if the poll was meant in general ;-)

@evan @timoreilly Ah, the ebooks.com one claims so, will buy there and fingers crossed ;-) Thx for the response! Still odd from oreilly and I'd still want a print one :-P

@evan @timoreilly Which one of those is DRM free?

Just noticed @evan's book on #ActivityPub is walled-garden digital only... That seems... odd? counter-intuitive? I mean, the fediverse is quite literally built on the opposite approach, no? Well, let's say I'd appreciate if enough people reached out to #oreilly (WTF, they don't even have an account? And @timoreilly has a *single* post?) for them to realize that a print run would be welcome :-) I for one don't own a kindle and I don't run closed-source apps either.

@solidsanek Gotta say: The cat's right! (As if any of tgem *could* ever be anything else ;-) )

@merlin I honestly miss Konqueror, I used it till the bitter end because it it damn well *cared* about being standards-compliant...

@evan For what it's worth: I think you worded it well. People are prone to vigorous knee-jerk reactions, and I can't blame 'em (Being prone to those myself, especially in areas where ethics are concerned) :-)

@Jeremiah "It’s reasonable for a business to know if their ad worked" No, it is not. In fact I don't even think being allowed to *make* ads in the first place is reasonable.

I admit I'm very curious to see what investigations on these exploding pagers will reveal. Being a ham radio operator I've tinkered with the innards of a couple from the '90s and there isn't much in there to make the battery explode; Now I wonder if they found a way to do it anyway; whether these were more modern (i.e. using more general purpose processors); Or if they managed to simply plant actual explosives...