Notices by Olivier Mehani (shtrom@piaille.fr)

@evan I once read a paper about estimating IP addresses in use using a method for environmental surveys called “capture-recapture” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_and_recapture.

The idea being that you sample a population, and you tag it. Then, as you go, you count which samples are already tagged when you pick them up again.

In the IP evaluation (https://researchportal.murdoch.edu.au/esploro/outputs/conferencePaper/Estimating-IPv4-address-space-usage-with/991005540977007891), IIRC, they were tagging the packets by just recording them, and recapturing them by sniffing from different vantage points.

I'm still fascinated by it, and wish I had somewhere to try to apply it to. Perhaps this may be useful for you?

@chris mainly, though it also removes things like AI-generated images in search. The block lists allow to gate the results: all the SEO slop websites. @futuresprog

@chris There's a few blocklists for uBlockOrigin floating around to clean up the remainder. That + noai.ddg has had me fairly well covered. @futuresprog

@evan However much as they feel like and healthily can. Unpaid volunteers owe nothing to noone.

@chris ack

@evan Have you considered mer-man?

@evan I'd rather people genuinely remembered. Or just didn't, I'm not fussed either way, but I don't want fake prompted wishes.

> if you refuse to engage with the science- the science that shows that COVID is a virus that disables human beings, and that this virus is asymptomatic 44% of the time- then you are spreading a disabling virus, and you are harming people.
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> If you believe it’s unreasonable that you have to wear a mask indoors to prevent the spread of that virus, turn your irritation and your ire toward the target that deserves it: your government.
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> Get angry that your government knows that Long COVID is now the leading chronic illness among children and it is doing nothing

Beyond all reason https://www.thegauntlet.news/p/beyond-all-reason?publication_id=1173135&post_id=176179369&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=zhtdx&triedRedirect=true

#covidIsNotOver #longCovid

@chris Keep at it. One of the best keyboards.

@foone At this point, this might as well work as a CAPTCHA AND age verification.

@evan Ah! `#never`. Nice touch.

Edit: Oh, no. I thought that was a dynamic replacement for whatever requested response. Well, THAT would have been a nice touch q:

@mattl How would you prevent the button being used on AI slop sites?

Or is it out of scope? It might be confusing for humans, and reduce the trustworthines/adoption of the button.

@neil I assume the strawberry runs strawbian?

(Edit: because I can't read and I think all berries look the same in writing. This joke's cryptic level has escalated very quickly) @lanodan

@cwebber Hey Christine! @bensturmfels and I are continuing, slowly, to maintain Mediagoblin.

We haven't pushed a release to PyPi in a long while, but I think we have something that should be back to functional now. Problem is, it seems only you have access to the project at https://pypi.org/project/mediagoblin/

Would you be able to give us access?

Here's me: https://pypi.org/user/omehani/, and Ben: https://pypi.org/user/sturm/

Happy to go through any means of confirmation that this is a legitimate request that you see fit!

@evan This reminds me of this https://aaronland.info/weblog/2024/04/26/matrix/#usf

> SFO Museum has written it's own limited ActivityPub server implementation and we have, in fact, created an ActivityPub account – a social media, account – for every object in our collection.

@evan In a way, but “tipping” to me suggests small amounts (say < $10), while I can think of good/long content where I'd give more.

@evan Micropayments. Ideally after perusing the content: free to access, but with an unobtrusive way to give a nominal or user-chosen amount just for this content. The money should be prepaid somehow, so I don't need to worry about it.

I think paying at the end could help drive quality content, instead of clickbait, which only needs to get you in, not be good. For everything, including, e.g., movies: great trailer but meh full movie -> no/low tip.

Flattr was most of the way there, I think, save for widespread-enough adoption.

@liw bullet journalling WoRo: write often, read occasionally

@ploum le mec de ghostbusters? 🤔 @brunus @therealjulienhirt

@_elena Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V should work the vast majority of the time, no? I find I only need to add Shift in terminal applications.