Notices by Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)

@zephyrleifrenner @PhoenixSerenity You and your BFF can both have a ball!

What new kinda #AntiFascist #BoldBigot shit should I put on future protest signs & my own DIY tshirt designs?

Long thread of random ideas 💡

@lispi314 No, ideal theoretical DC is eternally on and constant magnitude, but to behave DC like it at least has to have no short time scale variations.

Any signal on computing scales is AC. It might have a DC bias but the signal part is AC.

@lispi314 It all has to be isolated. Transformers aren't DC-DC because Ethernet isn't DC. It's very high frequency, thereby AC.

@PhoenixSerenity More appealing too despite the spines.

@lispi314 @actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic @GhostOnTheHalfShell @below @johnnyprofane1 See: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/111689343688617671

@lispi314 @actuallyadhd @actuallyautistic @GhostOnTheHalfShell @below @johnnyprofane1 Neurotypicality OTOH is more than a factor to determine if someone is a danger.

Some weird twist of dyslexia has me consistently reading "fury" as "furry" and ya know, I'm probably the better for it.
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@adrianyyy @cas @fossdd @lanodan @newbyte @z3ntu @pabloyoyoista Systemd needing ≥5.4 is just gratuitous asshattery that should be easily patchable.

Ken is a good example of the kinds of direct messages I get a lot on LinkedIn these days. Ken's profile says he's a Microsoft specialist.

Or is he...?

Ken's profile says it was created in 2007, so it's not an account that just materialized. Something in me wants to give Ken the benefit of the doubt.

This opening message from Ken is typical in that it

a) seems to be worded oddly for a native English speaker
b) suggests I'm taking money to speak out (in this case from USAID no less)
c) asserts that I am slandering the administration and
d) menacingly or vaguely promising retribution. Ken's message is somewhat confusingly worded ("I'm text to a bot"), and that caught my eye again. So I decided to take the bait.

Ken Payne
9:55 PM

How much $ do u get from USAID - indirectly ? George Mason. International studies. We know. 😂 im text to a bot. But your slanderous days are over.

Brian Krebs
10:07 PM
Hi Ken. You're a bot? Really? Tell me more. That would explain a lot.

Ken Payne
10:16 PM
No, I’m not a bot. But i thought you are. I welcome a conversation.

Brian Krebs
10:16 PM
Do you always start conversations this way?

Ken:
Is Ronald Reagan the president of?

Brian Krebs
10:17 PM
Is English your language of?

Ken Payne
10:17 PM
Testing the AI

Brian Krebs
10:18 PM
oh. I'm talking with AI?

Ken Payne
10:18 PM
We can talk any time.

Brian Krebs
10:18 PM
Apparently one of us can

Brian Krebs
10:19 PM
Well, Ken, I gotta hand it to you: You drank the Microsoft Kool-Aid, and I guess after that the Trump Kool-aid went down real easy, right?

Prove to me you're not a bot, Ken.

Ken Payne
10:20 PM

I’m him free now. U disapprove of DOGE. I support it. U are more suspicious than I.

Brian Krebs
10:21 PM
I think you either are a bot that's part of an influence campaign, or you're just not that bright. You certainly don't speak like someone who has an education, or a very good grasp of the English language.

Ken Payne
10:22 PM
I work at MSFT. but I see their sins. Perhaps Chinese intelligence influence. Dunno

Brian Krebs
10:22 PM
So Ken, how can YOU prove you're a real person?

Can I call you?
Ken, I'm starting to have real doubts about your non-botness
Ken?

Unsurprisingly, Ken didn't want to chat on the phone, or give a phone number.

Is Ken a bot? Or is Ken just another useless idiot? Either way, there sure are a lot of Kens.

I'm all set now to be in the studio on Monday for the full hour of CBC Sask's lunchtime show Blue Sky https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-189-blue-sky to talk about the Saskatchewan SpaceX debris fall and space junk in general, and Jonathan McDowell will hopefully be joining by phone. Excellent!

@khm @nazokiyoubinbou @sarahjamielewis That's good. I'm all for folks realizing something was wrong and changing.

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#SocialMedia #extremism #immigration #border #politics #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #Fascism #Trump #news

Anyway, apparently Twitch has decided 've given them too much video content to display ads on (short weekly streams sporadically on and off— I didn't think it was *that* much), and given me 2 months to get my 10 years of videos off of their service. In the short term, I guess I need to find somewhere to stream when I next stream Unavowed on Feb 1. Currently leaning to making a second YouTube channel? :( Is PeerTube a thing which is remotely viable for real use at this point and how would it work

3/ One more time for those in the back.

People say protests don't work, why bother? Here's why you bother:

1. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-psychology-of-intergroup-conflict-and-reconciliation/202011/what-kinds-of-protests

H/t: @Snowshadow

2. Read replies.

3. And this👇🏼 was MY POINT👇🏼... to repeat:

👉🏼Protests provide an opportunity to build long-lasting, local organizations that go beyond a single protest, and beyond protests in general.👈🏼

THEY LEAD TO ORG THAT GO BEYOND PROTESTS. They can be a starting point. AGAIN: EVERY effort matters. BUILD on them, get STRONGER.

@nazokiyoubinbou @sarahjamielewis I don't know exactly but it's what I've been told.

@nazokiyoubinbou @sarahjamielewis They ripped out accessibility functionality AIUI... That doesn't speak well for having right values.

@sarahjamielewis I really think Tor is the right umbrella to do it under. Not only do they have the right technical expertise working on Firefox features, but they have the right mission/values for the future of the project.

There is clearly a lot of effort fractured over a lot of projects, perhaps enough to actually take on the task, but I'm not aware of any project committed to a hard fork of firefox, with everything that entails (and if you had the resources to go that route, I'm not convinced that is the best path to take either)

I can only really think of a handful of groups I think have a chance at success, but I don't think any of them are currently considering it.

Many people are in my mentions talking about and/or promoting various firefox forks.

Look, if Mozilla can't afford to keep developing/maintaining firefox without resorting to the sad path, then the question that needs to be asked is how any other organization can? What about the approach is different?

It's one thing to package firefox with some of the bad things turned off. It's another to take on the responsibility of maintaining that codebase sans-mozilla.