Notices by Gabriel Pettier (tshirtman@mas.to), page 2

@annecavicchi it'll be shared around more easily with alt-text. 😬

@inthehands I'd probably start at qemu, this might help https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/01/13/install-powerpc-macos-osx-on-apple-silicon-m1-and-x86-intel.html

@sebsauvage j'ai un bose quiet comfort 2 depuis 4 ans, j'ai due recoudre les coussinets dont la couture s'ouvrait tranquillement, ça a permis de le prolonger, mais je crois que l'électronique a fait son temps, j'ai parfois des craquements/grésillements dans une oreille, donc reco bienvenue.

@HistoPol @BlackAzizAnansi there is much to fear about meta.

But there is no reason to think blocking them is actually going to achieve anything to "protect" us from them, not until there are clearer understanding of what bad behaviors to expect from them, and how federating with them would enable them.

For now, all the examples of abuse from meta i seen suggested, were based on meta threatening to de-federate us, so de-federating them in the first place is just getting there right away.

@HistoPol @BlackAzizAnansi this post by the Eugene is worth reading imho https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

@polotek @anildash i think people getting mad about it are trying to create and enforce cultural norms, they don't want the tools to be needed to protect people, they want it to be taboo, and harshly punished, to do the things they think are bad for privacy.
I think it's related to the "you can't fix social problems with technical solutions", idea, if you try to enforce things technically, there is always a way around, so they want culture to solve it instead. Except there will be outliers.

@polotek @anildash getting mad at everyone of them, doesn't really scale as a solution either, but the thinking must be that if the culture is propagated enough, the taboo strong enough, then people will just not do it.
I don't think it's a great solution either.

@blacklight I would be surprised if there is not some level of consolidation at some point, unless a community is not federating with the rest, their hosting costs will grow with the size of the fediverse, rather than its own size, so small instances will be less efficient.

I have no experience with hosting mastodon, but the concept of a cache that you can never delete seems weird, surely things not accessed in a long time should be fine?

@inthehands @pluralistic well, this reminds me how Cory said that he couldn't take a few months off work to fix his eyes, despite being nearly blind from cataracts at this point, sad irony of the point you are making.
You are doing good work Cory, but i hope you take care of yourself! (if you did and i missed it, good!)

@inthehands i agree it's correct and needed to disqualify him from running, but he'll probably bring the gazoline and try to set everything on fire anyway, he'll also use the fact he was barred from "competing" as a justification for it.
Of course it's in bad faith, and of course not barring him would be worse.
But I think the discussion should be after how and what when he does start a fire anyway.

@evan i guess it depends the kind of connections we are thinking of, in a way, everything is connected, even if loosely, but if by that one is consequence of the other, i'd say no, though i agree the climate crisis will definitely worsen ethnic nationalism by creating more forced migrations, but we have barely seen the beginning of that.

@inthehands yeah, i know about that, she didn't, i did send her similar resources.

The idea that israel helped hamas become what it is, if not create it, definitely had an effect.

The idea that "hamas = freedom fighters, fatah = the worst corrupted entity possible" was deeply entrenched before that.

@inthehands i have coworker/friend who is from syria, and i think i managed to get that point accross to her, especially how useful hamas was to the likud and anyone who doesn't want peace (unless it's from total domination/destruction of the other), but it's certainly not easy for one to overcome the prejudice against the other side and accept that the ostensible enemy of your enemy is not your friend.

@evan i think the normal response would be to report it, and the server it originates from should ban them, and if they don't, this server should get limited federation, for being badly moderated, but yeah, it's not an immediate response, and it'll certainly frequently fail.

But on the other hand, the ability to delete any response you don't like might be a bit much.

@HistoPol @osc this doesn’t even begin to address how using mastodon has any way changed regarding your PII since Threads joined, nor how blocking them will change anything.

Because this fails to address how all the data you post on mastodon is already public, and what more is gaining (from you, not from its users) by joining the fedi with an app.

If mastodon users are not-infosec-savy, they are *already* into trouble, they were the instant they joined mastodon.

@HistoPol @osc

let me state it as clearly as i can, to the risk of being blunt.

Meta harverst and sell your data, anyone who wants this data can certainly buy it from hem.

The fediverse spread your data, -- anything you post publicly -- around, for anyone to collect, for free.

Don’t post anything sensitive on the fediverse, seriously.

If your instance doesn’t collect the thing meta does from its users, they joining the fediverse doesn’t change anything from you in that regard.

@osc well, ideological or not, this is tribe behavior to me, meta is identified as the enemy, so the thing we are running from, so when they get close, this is war. This requires a very simplified vision of what Meta is, we know all there is to know about it, it's bad, and we have the recipes, yes, meta is a bad company, so that's all there is to know about it.

But even accepting it as the enemy, even going to war with it, requires understanding it and preparing the playbook.

@HistoPol @osc I know Meta did terrible, terrible things, even arguably helping at least one genocide. Yes, it’s a harmful company.

That doesn’t say anything about the arm it can do to the Fediverse, with intents or not (that doesn’t matter), and how blocking the thread app helps.

It’s a very knee-jerk reaction, for understandable reasons, but things are not so simple indeed, and we need to understand the actual threats to the fediverse, if we want to have a chance at preventing them.

@osc well, they see it as a threat to the fediverse, so it's not really what they mean, i think. I agree the arguments i have seen to justify that fear are not really compelling, but they are not entirely baseless either.

@osc i do agree with that, i see a lot of very thinly justified panic, and calls to arms that are potentially harmful or at best ineffective, because they are not based on clearly identified problems, but rather on the general sense of a vital threat.

It is concerning, yes.