Notices by Tokyo Outsider (337ppm) (tokyo_0@mas.to)

I used to be "intelligent". People used to tell me I was intelligent.

These days I know that was never true, because decades later I see the kids the system tells they're intelligent are its biggest marks of all.

Software updates are really excessive. I don't understand why so much has to change all the time. It's like they can so they do, without really considering whether it's necessary. Been waiting for an hour so far for two weeks of updates to download and install, and when they're done they'll demand I stop using my PC and restart immediately. No one is thinking about the user experience here (although the main issue is the restart, but how can an hour of updates be needed after just two weeks?)

There was a time when I would've spent the rest of the day, and possibly several days, watching developments constantly. Hypervigilance and hyperfocus and moral clarity are not easy to live with.

These days I try to draw a line. I still struggle, though.

Still angry, but now angry with pizza. Really glad I charged up my wallet with the AI astrologer earlier, because yeeeeeeeesh I'm gonna need it to feel like I can make sense of the world tonight.

It's an outrage to have to live in a world where this is fine.

@soatok The hurdles would be significant, for sure.

@soatok I don't understand why mandating encryption with an open standard wouldn't prevent the "oops I copied a bunch of people after decrypting your message" problem.

@soatok Good luck 👍 Interesting to read about the issues with PGP. I guess people want to encrypt their e-mail because the functionality of e-mail is distinct from messaging platforms like Signal and they also want encryption. Would it be possible to create an update to the e-mail protocol that mandates built-in encryption, which then works like Signal but can be accessed using all e-mail clients compatible with an open standard? 🤔

@soatok How do we replace PGP?

@JeffC1956 @theleftistlawyer This is something I've wondered about a lot.

What I've read in the past is that it depends on the severity of the trauma, whether it's ongoing, the age and developmental stage whe it happens, and the relationship to the perpetrator. It also depends on whether the person is isolated or has other support systems, and whether they've faced trauma previously.

I'd like to understand it much better. Seems like something we should all learn at school.

I hope every country that is 💩ing on migrants right now experiences the consequences. It's not good to want to see others experience misfortune, but that's not really the thing I want to see. What I want to see is justice.

Here's where it gets interesting.

Any post I sent last night that was visible to users on other instances remains there.

I can't delete it, because I can't see it on my instance. Auto-delete won't delete it either, for the same reason.

In terms of people's ability to control their data, this is a problem. It affects all #Mastodon users.

It's also a problem Mastodon has known about since December 2022, when I sent them a suggested fix: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/22154

Which they ignored, as usual.

So it looks like everything I posted last night was lost as mas.to tried to update to #Mastodon 4.5

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@pheonix In practice, children shouldn't be able to access it unsupervised. But I've voted no, because the way to make that happen is for parents to prevent them from accessing it, not for everyone in the whole world to submit to online identification and the associated narrowing of online freedoms to prove they are old enough to meet someone else's bar.

Maybe some kind of kiddy-safe walled garden of sites deemed appropriate would be a good idea. BT used to offer that, back when the web began.

AI isn't just like an intern, but like a *dishonest* intern. With careful supervision it can be productive enough to be useful. But you have to know what it's doing better than it does, and watch it like a hawk 😅 And unless there's something specific it offers that saves you time or gives you access to information you wouldn't have otherwise, it probably isn't worth that effort. I'm starting to wonder if the necessary skill for the AI age is going to be knowing where those lines should be drawn.

Are Mastodon Github lurkers trying to recreate (themselves) Silverpill's almost two-year-old "portable objects" proposal?

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/692

(Silverpill's earlier fep-ef61 https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ef61/fep-ef61.md)

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@dalias For some people that may be true.

Something I didn't spot until recently is that you can't choose to clear cookies from a specific site in Microsoft Edge. You can only clear cookies from all sites, with a choice of time period.

This is a major retrograde step not only for security but also for simple debugging of site issues.

#browsers #edge #privacy #security

I am so fed up of waiting for the "finding out" part.

@josephcox 404media does some great work, and you're absolutely right that what's happening with AI and search is a crisis for the industry that is causing great harm.

That said:

1. The explainer seems to conflate asking for e-mails to halt scraping (to verify that the reader is human) with asking for e-mails to send content there directly. These are not the same.

2. Your post seems to accuse Mastodon users of wrongdoing without anything to support the claim.

Is there something I'm missing?