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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 19:29:34 JST 
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(3 of 3) I probably wasted three hours of my life learning and writing about the fact that 186,000 people are dead and almost everyone displaced in Gaza... but as a person with a soul I just can't hear about that and ignore it.
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 19:09:47 JST
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Imagine being forced out of your home, and displaced multiple times over the course of 9 months? The physical toll that would have? Now try doing that without adequate food. 😵
The number of refugees produced since October 7 are in the millions. Its disgusting... sometimes I think its a goal of warhawks to produce as many refugees as possible to fill job vacancies at restaurants in their so-called "developed" world 🤮. That is in addition to the age old but no less foul, corporate profiteering from the arms trade.
This is really, really bad. It boggles my mind that some are focused on #elections between complicit 🤡🤡 candidates like it means something.
To me, #protest is only way we will achieve a change for peace. For centuries, these peoples lived side-by-side in relative harmony, it ought be our (EDIT:focus) to return to that. 🖤💚🤍💙. -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 12-Jul-2024 18:56:37 JST
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TIL the official numbers coming out of #Gaza are severely limited. Apparently #TheLancet estimate 186,000 dead‼️ 😱😣😡
That's about 8% of the population dead at the hands of #starvation, lack of water, and medical infrastructure (because hospitals were almost all bombed by #Israel. That's like two people from your extended family, dead‼️ The uprising on October 7 may've been bad but happened after decades of colonial slave-like occupation, and land theft that even the #UN recognises as criminal, ***and*** reports even out of Israel indicate that Israel forces may've killed more Israelis on October 7 than Hamas (see the #HannibalDirective **) .
(** From wikipedia: According to #Haaretz reporter Leibovich-Dar, the motivation for the directive was the capture of two Israeli soldiers during a Hezbollah ambush in South Lebanon in June 1986).
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 03:44:47 JST
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@ernie @lxo @brewsterkahle I don't have experience with courts in this area, but you're probably right and thus an LLM might be an area to explore, not as an arguement in court but as a practical method (of burning more energy than is needed) and to help people find and understand works.
I get the sense that the corporate actors have minimal or no interest in #archives, only until they need to cite something, then they appreciate it. Many websites are #copyright. How then can a distinction be made between someone requesting a copyrighted webpage and a copyrighted book. Is it a matter of payment? Webpages are delivered freely, unlike #books but if one were to bring together enough #webpages with enough quotes from a book or film you might be able to collect something that encompasses the entire work. Should works be immune from being archived because someone demands payment for them?
Maybe #lawsuits of this nature are a sign that in an epoch where everything seems to be on a cost curve approaching zero, people are desperate to claw back as much income as possible and are now starting to attack basic #institutions. Maybe a universal basic income (#UBI) is needed to allow artists and writers of all ilks to survive, including #journalists, whose plight seems to be a recurring topic here in #Australia. -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 07-Jul-2024 03:32:58 JST
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@lxo @brewsterkahle
> lets focus on the point at hand (...) too many good discussions get derailed
Yes, I put that last note in parentheses and started with "as an aside" so as just provide a cautionary semi-related note. A lot of fedizens don't know this side of things, and I find many appreciate learning about it. I can't say I've ever seen a derailment by talking about this. -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 02:15:34 JST
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@lxo @ernie @mybarkingdogs @pbaesse @brewsterkahle
This is not to disparage but it must be pointed out that the Internet Archive is huge and maybe it is wrong that we burden the IA with the task of sole #archivist across the web. I know that not everyone can operate an archive but we ought to have at least a couple archives on each continent that can at a minimum archive the content that originates on their continent, or content in their language. I'm very interested in finding a way to store and deliver content in a decentralised manner, where people might even be rewarded in some small way for hosting it.
Maybe I need to ask #aidiot 🤖 how to set this up. 🤣🤣🤣
(As an aside, if I may, I'd like to say a word related to the health of the fediverse that relates to the above point. And that is please be careful of large content delivery systems for fedi. This might include mastoHsot, which appears to host writing.exchange. Also includes Cloudflare, which delivers images for freeradical.zone or in the case of ursal.zone, afaict, delivers their entire service.) -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jul-2024 01:51:53 JST
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@ernie @mybarkingdogs @pbaesse @brewsterkahle
Yes Alexandre, I basically had the same thoughts when reading what Ernie wrote. Thanks Ernie. And the picture is even worse for the Internet Archive, and other archives, given that these #LLM (both of those 'L' stand for 'leeching', don't they?) are at the same time acting as denial of service attackers.
There is another aspect, how can it be that basically our media is owned by a handful of corporations, that are also able to not only profit from the sale of the content, but are now able to watch the people watching the content. Its abuse, that a well trained LLM could help mitigate.
I'm an #I2P maximalist and I've seen these LLM supposedly available over I2P torrent, they are in the tens to hundreds of gigabytes. I don't know if its worth the FSF operating one that is able to be trained on different softwares so as to help people setup, customise and enjoy freedom softwares. The subdomain might be a derogatory take on the #AI acronym, like aidiot.fsf.org and maybe it can be trained to tell people that it may talk complete garbage, so check sources and or man(ual) pages if in doubt. Anyway I'm no expert in this area. I just don't like the (a)idea of it being used only by the large players to further entrench their power. -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 21:52:07 JST
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I think I'm going to start saying "sweet-tongue" instead of "sweet-tooth". After all, the #sugar *is* tasted on the tongue, and there's no real benefit to shoving it between you teeth, right? lol 😁🍏🍌🍎👄🦷🪥
While poking fun at old sayings, the idea of sucking on lemons is surprisingly bad too. How about "suck lettuce", hahaha 🍋 ➡️ 🥬
#dentalHygiene #health #fun #linguistics #suckLettuce #sweetTooth #sweetTongue -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 21:39:46 JST
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@smallcircles @lsn @bob @realcaseyrollins@social.freetalklive.com I realise this is an epicly late response but what am I (partly) being blamed for here? 😅 It sounds good but none of the pictures are showing up on my instance.
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 19:58:30 JST
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@aral @meowski
(2 of 2)... ensure that everyone on fedi loses because we will not be able to interact with the apparent "unwashed masses". People are going to come here with baggage from the silo-networks and may have different opinions that might seems unshakeable, our role is to be fabulous examples of awesome, and they will slowly get over themselves. As individuals, muting is fine, but I do take issue with wholesale trigger happy blocking by instances, and algorithms to filter the chronological feed. It just means we keep people on the #fakebook-style platforms, which are extracting the very life essence from our societies for multinational corporate gain.
Please stop and think; there is more to a person than their stance on #gender. We cannot stop the greater ills when we are made to be divided. 🤔😘
Again, I'd like to know what actually spurred this thread.
#identityPolitics #bigotry #intolerance #fediblock -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 19:55:41 JST
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@aral @meowski
What precidely is causing this discussion?
If fediverse is going to be a place where people can come together, despite their ideological differences, then we cannot have rampant #isolationism. I'm seeing a dangerous trend in fediverse that is mostly coming from the mastodon crowd, that appears to be more and more trigger-friendly.
Oh, you are a small business, sharing your wares? #capitalism BLOCK. Oh, you are talking positively about the legal tender of #ElSalvador (hint: the currency that is not the US dollar)? #ecoterrorist BLOCK. Oh, you are pointing out how #Germany in the 1930s was bankrolled by the US and UK? #conspiracy BLOCK. Oh, you don't like that the kindergarden is making gender discussion fun? #terf BLOK
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 17:41:55 JST
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Hello fedizens 👋 ! It's been a while since my last post but is everyone well? I hope so, it was good to see you present at LibrePlanet2024 @lxo . Wow ! One week since Julian Assange was freed, only 400 to go to match thetime spent under cruel treatment. Julian's access to the internet was cut in 2017.
Anyway 🎉🥳 Happy Birthday Julian! 🥳🎉 And best wishes to all the people who fought over the countless years to stop the criminalisation of revealing heinous and disgusting crimes, perpetuated by those in power.
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 14:18:03 JST
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@coopcloud @yala @jenniferplusplus @lxo
> as soon as a "solo" OSS project is depended upon by at least another project, that's a commons
I would say its commons when its licensed GPLv3 for example.
The extent to which it is an asset to the commons is another story and I think this is part of what Jennifer was alluding to wrt management and governance.
Thanks Jennifer for writing that. Hopefully this message reaches you all well as I've not been online for a while and forgot the tricks to use gnusocial. Agree with what you wrote, just throwing money at a problem like this is a short term fix and in the long-term is likely very detrimental.
I have more to write about this but too busy right now, I'll try to check back later. -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 14:04:09 JST
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Noone is able to provide a sensible reason as to why almost every single bank, credit union and currency exchange in #Australia has US corporations decrypting its #TLS (aka HTTPS) traffic.
Given Australia is one of the biggest targets for alleged #scams, and given the number of successful data breaches, I'm almost led to believe we are being deliberately kept in the dark.
Encryption and #cybersecurity **are** hot enough topics.
One would have to assume the corporate media are #gaslighting on purpose. Probably the more the corporate establishment can attack #dissidents and pesky #boomers, then turn around and blame it on #russia, #china or whatever their chosen "authoritarian-regime-of-the-day" is, the better and safer we all are?
#banks #encryption #DDoS #dataBreaches #corporateMedia #russophobia #yellowPeril -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Apr-2024 13:34:28 JST
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Pawpaw are really high in #vitaminC I like them a lot.
I planted organic seeds years ago from a fruit I found tasted *amazing* and I've had success with them, but the #pawpaw is a tropical plant and I simply have no space in a good location to plant it.
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 30-Sep-2023 13:14:46 JST
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I meant to respond to this directly, sorry for the late response. I think that there should be an option for both long-term retaining of data and index-ability by search engines.
For fedi to be a replacement of certain microblogging 'dot-cons' I think it needs to provide the above as options, via admin approval. I feel that instructing people to setup a #microblogging site is counter-productive, does fedi a disservice, and raises barriers for people to engage with there community, both local and global. I understand that maybe not all user will be granted such privileges (I am thinking shitposters, frequent image posters, and for-profits that don't donate) but there should be an option for storage and for search engine index-ability (understanding that all servers are fallible and to backup your data for extreme cases of server going offline).
It should however be up to the admin to grant such privileges, we also don't want bad-faith actors having that capability for /obvious/ reasons, but it is needed in GNUSocial, in the long-term.
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 08:25:55 JST
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Birdsite is inaccessible. Interested to know more. You are right, this country is in trouble. Australia is losing its morality further with each day. -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 07:59:53 JST
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Nice photo manip, but a tad flat. The grass around should be lightened too and blend to dark slowly in a radial vignette as you reach the bottom corners of the photo.
Also it now looks like a frontage without any interior because you also lightened the windows. The window's reflection probably should not have been lightened.
Aside from that it was a good idea to lighten. 👍
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 07:33:24 JST
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The actual reason I came online today was to share this from the SPA (Sustainable Population Australia).
Its was Earth Overshoot Day on 2 August 2023, that means:
"(...) the date on which humanity’s resource consumption for the year is estimated to exceed Earth’s capacity to regenerate those resources. By the end of the year, we will have used 1.7 times the sustainable resource limit."
FULL SPA PRESS RELEASE:
https://population.org.au/media-releases/earth_overshoot_day_2023/
If you thought that was bad enough Australia's Overshoot Day was 23 March 2023.
#earthOvershootDay #sustainability #australia #auspol -
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DCent (dcent@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 07:23:35 JST
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Does avocado go in my signature muesli blend? I'm about to find out. I can't seem to source the ingredient that I normally would.
tl/dr: We have some problems in Australia.
Can't believe its been 8 months since I last posted! It seems time flies when you are fixing (and trying to fix) systems and processes but are instead treated more like an actual criminal.
#australia #food #auspol #muesli #avocado
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