Notices by Dave ✨ (davidgarywood@social.davidgarywood.com)

@atomicpoet @jeff pretty much yes, which, I can understand and even relate to in some ways, but yet, here we are 😀

@jeff @atomicpoet I’m guessing a desire to keep things to a small circle, or believing it’s centralisation keeps it simple and easier to adopt?

@atomicpoet any folks in that position, simply want Twitter without Elon 😅

I mean, “you do you” as the COVID minimisers like to say, but…. It seems like massively missing the point to me

@atomicpoet I hadn’t realised just how strong some folks faith was in corporate run social media, and centralised systems, despite what we’ve seen in the last year with Twitter and Musk.

@bsdcan hey - good on you for having such a good policy on masks! This is the first time I’ve seen an in-person event in ages, actually taking COVID risk seriously

@atomicpoet “the marketplace of algorithms” has a big “debate me in the marketplace of ideas” tone to it, to me

@cstross (and the X-Men aren’t part of the MCU as such, yet… Fox holds the movie rights etc 🙃)

TLDW: Spider-man’s like 15 and part of the Avengers, who are kinda militaristic in the movies

@cstross Tony Stark recruiting Spider-Man in the MCU 😬👀

@evan we emigrated as a family from the UK to NZ, living here now since 2017.

We’ve had a fair amount of privilege in being able to do so. It has also been hard work, and yes, a pressure to be sure about what we were doing, especially for our kids !

@ivory how’d I see alt text for photos ? I see the “alt” sign on the photo but when clicking the photo or the alt sign, it isn’t displayed

Wondering out loud: given we don’t have E2E encryption with DMs, what are the steps needed to get there?

Another layer on top of things that uses user identities on instances to connect things up?

An extension to the ActivityPub protocol itself?

@darnell I’d read it was quite low! But looking at it, yes, they got to that 90% range ?

The vaccine’s effects wane, so that may be part of things here. One of the reasons we’ve had boosters (immune compromised, I’ve had 4 jabs for COVID so far), I’d also not consider myself fully covered by those jabs as it’s been 5 months since my last one.

It is, of course, possible it’s a variant going on over there too

@darnell hard to say.

It could also be the effect of known omicron strains on a population that isn’t that well vaccinated. We have seen this sort of impact in the USA, and other western countries in the last nearly 3 years too.

The next variants are just as likely to come from the USA, UK, etc as China, given the lack of mitigations