Notices by Ramin Honary (ramin_hal9001@emacs.ch)

> "I mean, when you think about it, what do you really need? Clean air? Fresh water? A climate suitable for human life?"

> "Or billionaires?"

> "It's billionaires, amirite?"

@aral why not have both 😉

(Reads the final policy proposal agreement from COP-UNFCCC...)

🤢 Oh, yeah, we definitely cannot have both. This is definitely an either-or thing.

@Suiseiseki thanks for offering! The 64 KiB character limit is definitely a plus.

Do you know if I can transfer my posting history and following list from Mastodon to Pleroma?

I will be moving to another Mastodon server soon, deciding on which one might be best for me will take some time and some careful consideration. I intend to keep using this cryptographic ID so most people won't even notice that I have moved. But if the new instance to which I move has, for some reason, not federated with yours, then I will disappear from your view. So I am just letting everyone know.

• Announcement of the instance shutting down: https://emacs.ch/@emacs/113087752901949391

@ReallyBlue2 @spocko exactly. The goal of policies against homeless people is to be as cruel as possible to the homeless, and the people who create these policies will go out of their way (even spending more money) to make it happen.

@aral my favorite take on it so far, also the most concise:

> Politicians on Donald Trump: "even if he's Hitler he doesn't deserve to die."

> Politicians on Gaza: "those toddlers were clearly Hamas."

@aral @nus @Raccoon @LALegault the tactic of poisoning public debate by conflating criticism of the Israeli regime with antisemitism is the worst kind of apologia for genocide, and is a tactic that the regime itself uses regularly to try to justify their innumerable crimes against humanity in the eyes of the public.

If you are interested in being well-informed by real journalism, but worry that the journalism from your own country is something of an echo-chamber, I recommend following @mondoweissmedia and @mondoweiss for real, evidence-based news told from a perspective that you never see in the "Western" world. Their news stories, plus your regular news sources, is a good way to get a more balanced, well-rounded perspective of the war in the middle east.

@msquebanh what you say is soooo true, and soooo hard to explain to people who are apolitical, they get genuinely confused when you start talking about the white English-speaking countries as though they are not actually democracies and look at you like you are a lunatic for suggesting their country is not a democracy.

Since 2017, the closet fascists (people who vote Labour/Democrat) are openly hostile to anyone who suggests otherwise. They recognize it as an opinion held by the anti-Clinton anti-Biden leftists, which makes us useful idiots for Trump and Russia, and Hamas sympathizers and terrorists, and "Bernie Bros" who hate women's rights.

@aral I know you are being sarcastic, but.... #NoContext

@bhasic @Radical_EgoCom the scripted reply to this is "some people work smarter, not harder." But then you have to ask, is a CEO really 1000 times smarter than one of his employees, or is it just that how "smart" or "intelligent" a person is is defined by the amount of money they have?

@DrALJONES (emphasis my own), and these are the people Joe Biden is calling "antisemitic" when he says shit like:

This delusional political double-speak is just getting more and more absurd by the day, I just can't handle this, my reflexive face-palmming is starting to hurt.

I think the main problem that I have here is that Mastodon is so smoothly integrated into Emacs, which is the software tool around which all of the knowledge and information that I accumulate on my computer is organized. So I spend way too much time just reading and cataloging stuff, and talking with people, on the Internet without having to leave the comfort of my text editor, and if I am not careful I can spend hours and hours doing it without even noticing time pass.

With Emacs is so easy to navigate Mastodon, so easy to create personal, off-line catalogs of posts, easy to bookmark things, easy to reply to people with your bookmarks, easy to compose blog articles incorporating all of that information, easy to create lists of news articles, people, servers, apps, all in one place with a single piece of software.

Yeah, so far, that is my only complaint about the Mastodon.el client, it lets you travel near light-speed down all of the rabbit holes effortlessly. The thing is, these rabbit holes are, for all intents and purposes, infinite. You may be able to navigate at light speed, that doesn't mean you actually ever really make progress toward the end of the tunnel.

@tyil @jrballesteros05 I think if anyone is going to seriously try to write a new web browser from scrarch, it would have to be in phases, gradually working toward standards compliance. I think projects like Qt and Gtk have what it takes to construct a new web engine, it is just a matter of defining widgets that can be constructed from HTML tags and updated with CSS.

Also WebAssembly is gaining momentom now, JavaScript will likely go the way of COBOL in 20 years. At that point, all you will need is the DOM, executable code will all be WebAssembly, compiled from other languages.

@tyil @jrballesteros05 why not?

The software industry has made a few attempts at a "write code once, run it anywhere" virtual machine since the early 1990s. Would you rather a fully proprietary VM like Java or .NET, or X86 emulation, be the one VM we must all use? I think WebAssembly is the best we can hope for as far as it comes to finding a common ground solution.

(Quoting part of the article...)

Alex Gleason, the former Truth Social developer behind Soapbox and Rebased, has come up with a sneaky workaround to how Authorized Fetch functions: if your domain is blocked for a fetch, just sign it with a different domain name instead.

Mastodon has been providing a half-measure to its users for years. Now it’s the time to make things right: going into 2024, I think it’s going to absolutely be a requirement to develop more robust forms of privacy options and access controls to empower users.

Bonfire is doing an incredible amount of research focused on this very problem, and Spritely has put forward some groundbreaking work on Object Capabilities in the recent past.

Discussion thread: https://mozilla.social/@wedistribute/111648319217106288

#Mastodon #Bonfire #Fediverse #Spritely #OCapN

@jikodesu

"No gods, no masters." (an actual quote from John Mastodon)

#JohnMastodon

1. Embrace: what they are doing now, launch a competing but compatible service with that of Mastodon. The vast majority of users, most of whom don't care about the privacy and intimacy of the Mastodon network will go with the brand with the most name recognition.

2. Extend: attract users to their centralized network with features like search, which they have the resources to do but the rest of the Mastodon network does not. But also include features for tracking and advertising, sell this as a good thing, "a better place to grow your perasonal brand, your business."

3. Extinguish: after attracting a critical mass of users large enough to decimate the user base of the competing Mastodon network, queitly remove compatibility with the Mastodon network, this will effect only 10% of Mastodon users because the other 90% will be on Threads. "Who cares if we lose contact with that tiny minority of old Mastodon users, they should have just joined Threads by now anyways, they still can. It has search, and more people voted for it with their patronage it, and you don't have to think about what instance to join, its easier!"

4. Enshittification: without any real competition to keep people from leaving for an alternative, start exploiting users for more and more content for ad revenue, exploit advertisers with ever-increasing costs of ad revenue.

They are scared to death about losing control over the Internet that they had gained over the past 15 years or so, and they are fighting to take that control back for themselves. We built this, but now a corporation like Meta/Facebook feels they have the right to exploit it for all its riches until it is destroyed.

Don't let it happen. #Fediblock is the only way to protect our home-grown community from corporate take-over.

@J12t @mmasnick @mike why do we map things? To understand them? Why do we understand things? So we can control them?

Is that why we want to map the entire social graph of all humans? So we can control it; control all humans?

Here ⮕ sicp_lectures@diode.zone

I don't know how long these videos have been on the Internet, but I am amazed that this is the first time I ever learned about their existence.

#SchemeLang #SICP #GuileScheme #Guix #GuixOS #RacketLang #MITScheme #GNUScheme #GambitScheme #Stklos #R7RS #R6RS #ChezScheme #FunctionalProgramming

@joeinwynnewood @bobchauvin @JenWojcik @ecsd thanks for pointing me to the article instead of making me Google it myself.

But that doesn't really answer my question. From the article you pointed me to, it sounds more to me like sick days was all they got. All the other parts of the contract they were striking for were thrown out when Biden stabbed them all in the back. And all this even after the East Palestine Ohio derailment incident.