Notices by Gabriel Pettier (tshirtman@mas.to), page 3

@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.

@pomegranate_stew @aral I read the book after watching the show, and while the idea is the same, the book left a lot more to guess, the show is a lot more explicit and brutal.

It’s a good watch imho, but yeah, it’s heavy.

@GottaLaff in what world is biden not moderate? Asking as a french 😅

@mcc as a french, i can tell you you are totally allowed to do that, in fact, jam and cheese is not uncommon.

I hope your camembert is from raw milk, and that you let it age enough to be almost liquid :).

(i'm vegan now, but man, cheese is the hardest thing to give up, and camembert is one of the best)

@mhoye when they do, i will absolutely use gimp to do it, and paste my signature in it manually.

Gimp is not great, but it is not the absolute worse, at least.

@bleistifterin @kellogh @inthehands @jmeowmeow i think you meant anthroposophical (which i know is not really a word, but anthroposophy is the steiner pseudo-scientific "philosophy" while anthropology is a science).

What they pretend to do (freedom of expression to children, catering to their needs and personality) is completely different from what they actually do, which is deprive them of knowledge, and orient their curiosity in very specific (theological) directions. They also hate dissent.

@encthenet seems like a lot of effort to avoid upgrading your python version and get all the benefits from that. Why not migrate instead? You might need a few changes, but *usually* python upgrades don't require many changes.

@jimcarroll thanks, the link returns a 404, but i decided to give another shot at a tool i learned about recently, and found it there https://elicit.org/search?q=pharamaceutical+effect+of+pomagranate+on+age+related+neurological+diseases&token=01GRRTEAMZBNKKBQGZXVGPQ4W8&paper=d39cffbb38d56fe788ab7464646c25c655dc1b98&column=title it's kind of an AI-boosted google scholar, that might be of interest to you, it's free to use as far as i can tell, but they encourage donations.

edit: it's on schoolar as well, but i had filtered for 2023 and newer… ?

@jimcarroll is there an online resource to look at? tried typing the article name "pharmaceutical potential of pomegranate in age related neurological-disorders" in google scholar, but no exact hit.

@jcfrog un petit air de macron les deux premières ?