Notices by Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 11:25:19 JST 
Alexandre Oliva
ironically, the cve website itself also attempts to install and run commands on your computer, and if you don't allow it, it will refuse to let you know about the vulnerability -
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 09:47:11 JST
Alexandre Oliva
do you already pronounce "target" the proper french way? 🙂
the french way of pronouncing it always reminds me of "tarjeta", because of some portuguese leakage into my spanish. and then, I find myself wondering if one can pay cash there... -
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Mastodon Migration (mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 03:32:09 JST 
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One is temped to push back and explain that Trump/Vance was rude first, and leaders don't wear suits when a country is at war. But by doing so you implicitly acknowledge the psy-ops disinformation frame.
Or to blame the media. The weapon.
The better approach is to dismiss all of this out of hand very specifically as psychological operations. Use every occurrence as an opportunity to expose and attack the practice of targeted psy-ops disinformation by these billionaires.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Monday, 03-Mar-2025 07:45:33 JST
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that's the perfect hardware complement to free software! -
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 16:20:57 JST
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rust prevention spray? I hear some developers of the kernel Linux might be interested! :-P -
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 10:45:46 JST
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muito efeito do ataque especulativo que fez o dólar disparar. baixou um tanto depois, mas preços derivados que sobem na subida raramente caem na queda. é a economia, e dói no órgão mais sensível do povo. por isso que esse tipo de ataque funciona. -
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:45:40 JST
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my previous reply was long enough, but then I was brought to the OP of the thread, and noticed that a very unkind term was used there.
in CoC-enforcing communities, that could lead to swift action and immediate ban from participating in any community activities or even from contacting community members.
in GKCG communities, I'd expect the community to let the poster know that this behavior is unkind and thus not conducive of the sort of community we wish to maintain.
but whether or not the person ends up moderated or even removed from fora, contributions from that person are not banned. nothing stops someone from accepting or even seeking submissions from this external contributor. I personally find this opportunity for accepting external contributions a feature, not a bug, when it comes to advancing the project while preserving its community and protecting its most vulnerable participants, and it is in line with my thinking of separating the author from the contributions. I think society suffers significant losses out of throwing away works and ideas without consideration, over indirect associations with other deeds (real or imaginary) by their authors/proponents. but I know others feel just as strongly about this in opposite ways, and I don't feel that imposing one way of thinking over the other would be in line with my way of conceiving of freedom.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 08:22:24 JST
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kindness guidelines seem to be a lot gentler to me, in that someone who happens to make a mistake is expected to be kindly brought back into the community-agreed norms, rather than shunned and ostracized. this is the most fundamental distinction to me.
I also see that, particularly in communities of coders, codes are taken as ultimate truths, and go into details typical of software engineering, which is not kind on people, and tends to bring about triggers and negative reactions from people who are sensitive to such unkindness, so it ends up inviting rather than avoiding undesirable conducts.
and then, there's the issue of lack of clarity that neurodivergents like me often experience and occasionally describe, of rules that seem to be applied inconsistently, which leads to a lot of anxiety (and often exclusion) to people who strive to abide by rules strictly (numerous neurodivergents do), and even to cynicism as we perceive the sea of differences between the rules as written vs the rules as applied. the CoC and the way it has been applied in the Guix community are the primary reason why I don't feel welcome there. which is unfortunate, because I find it a very interesting project. alas, I'm too much like people who have been shunned, ostracized and victims of discrimination and hatred there, for reasons that I know to be unfounded, resulting from misunderstandings that I'm too likely to trip myself (and have tripped as recently as this week, in contexts unrelated to the project). so I self-exclude, so as to avoid disrupting the project; it's not like I'd be able to make significant contributions anyway (-ENOTIME), but it is somewhat disappointing.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 05:51:22 JST
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nevertheless, you could have been on to something. the "I" reminded me of Descartes' "I think, therefore I am". the self-referential expression could be a hint at consciousness and intelligence (thought current LLMs show that's not the case), but it sounded like you might indeed have been framing it along these lines back then. but the title was not enough to tell for sure 😉
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 05:45:24 JST
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CoCs are tools of power and control. my intuition is that this makes them incompatible with the notion of freedom in free software.
the only way to make them barely compatible would be to make not only the formulation of the CoC, but also its enforcement, a instrument of self-control by the community, with consensus legislation and random-juri enforcement. it often comes from a vocal and pushy subgroup, which may or may not be a problem in itself, but that's already suspicious to me. it seems that whenever it assigns positions of power for evolution and enforcement, it attracts power-hungry people, who tend to be authoritarian (a big minus for me) and that sooner or later end up corrupted by power (because power corrupts, and that's another minus for centralized power, and a plus for keeping power dispersed in the community). it's basically a poor recipe to try to solve a real problem, that rather than ceasing discrimination, ends up redirecting it, and creating other problems. all in all, it seems to be a power booster rather than a freedom booster.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 04:46:55 JST
Alexandre Oliva
I recall listening to a friend trash-talk corporations to me, and responding with just the kind of eye-rolling you mention. that was some 20 years ago. it took me watching The Corporation (op.cit.) and doing a lot of thinking to get to the other side. thanks for spreading this key understanding, despite the difficulties. we're up against a formidable opponent.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Sunday, 02-Mar-2025 04:41:59 JST
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possibly, though you might be missing an [A] before I in the title 😉
I think corporate personhood has long been debated and understood as a concept, and your title doesn't suggest a lot more than that, but it might very well be the case that you got past that in the lyrics or in your thinking. you'd have to share it for anyone to be able to tell 😉
regardless, I, for one, look forward to reading it, or listening to it
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 17:02:15 JST
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oh, seeing how doctorow and schneier both quoted stross about this recently, I assumed he'd come up with it before me, but... it looks like I may have, erhm, priority? 🙂
https://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/#singular>
five minutes into the 2016 LibrePlanet speech, I stated that I had realized the year before that the notion of corporations had already materialized the singularity that we so often feared. indeed, that was the realization around which I built that entire speech 😉
in 2019 I came across another writer who had also figured that out, publishing it at just about the same time as stross
https://patternsofmeaning.com/2017/11/30/ai-has-already-taken-over-its-called-the-corporation/
it was an idea whose time had come. that's so cool!
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 16:06:54 JST
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at the very least, they should have renamed it
to enshittifirefox, presumably -
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 16:02:41 JST
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can kintsugi mend a broken promise?
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 14:05:36 JST
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amazing, they managed to build the "don't think of an elephant" bug into bullshit generators! -
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 13:47:41 JST
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it's not really safe to go 'either/or'. multi-layer safety is, well, much safer.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 13:36:58 JST
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not a fair comparison, TBH, because /bin/cat is running privately, whereas the interactions Mozilla writes about are presumed to be with third parties
comparing with GnuPG or GNUtls might be more fitting: suggesting that using it to send encrypted data to third parties would grant GNU access and permission to use the (plain-text) data you sent would be insane and outrageous
but it's very troubling that Mozilla might consider itself entitled to see and use your end of E2EE information, even the information that use send only to your own servers through it -
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 13:32:14 JST
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that's all it tells me.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Saturday, 01-Mar-2025 13:27:56 JST
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let's keep it centralized without saying we're keeping it centralized, by making it prohibitive for it to be decentralized
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