@MacropodCare The irony of it all being that Twitter is now brand X but can't even do brand X right.
Also, unlike the mammal Mastodon, the Mastodon social media platform is outlasting EVERYthing around it... including the endangered species formerly known as Twitter. 💀💯
"The irony of it all being that Twitter is now brand X but can't even do brand X right."
It's really amusing to me that x.com redirects to twitter.com and not the other way around. It makes more sense to do it the other way around-- unless, you know, you can't actually build anything.
@TheNerdyMel @FlyVapen_Pikk The simple explanation of course, in a state of reversed web redirect, is that the chap who conceived the whole concept is a complete, unexpurgated fuckwit without any good reason to be fed due to the immense fuckwittery demonstrated every time he opens his fucking mouth.
A curious thing has happened, where the #Monotropism Questionnaire that @scrappapertiger and I worked on (with a bunch of other people) has gone viral, with millions of people hearing about it while the validation study on the measure is still waiting for peer review.
I wrote about it for the Monotropism site, and made a #TikTok video, since that's where it's mostly exploded.
What's frustrating is that all the videos that have been watched by hundreds of thousands of people have called it an "autism assessment". That's not what it is! But it should be of interest to everyone who's interested in #autism assessments...
Interesting. What I'd read about monotropism didn't seem to fit me but I scored extremely high ("more than 97% of autistic people" ) . So I clearly misunderstood what the term means.
I can't find it now, but I read an article about how monotropism influences learning new information, and the way it described the process didn't fit my experience.
Something about not making intuitive links as one learns.
Reading more about monotropism this doesn't come up at all, so maybe I misunderstood that article. @scrappapertiger
Yes looking back at it now I think what happened is that I read somebody's interpretation of monotropism, and allowed that to bias my further reading about the topic. Because everything I read now makes a lot more sense!
225/235 ave 4.79. Interesting test, but as with all of these types of test I sometimes had to think for a moment about my actual reaction or thought and how I've learnt to adapt my mask to that sort of situation. For example something along the lines of "do you find yourself startled by sudden interruptions when concentrating" then for me the answer is yes, extremely. But I doubt the person interrupting me would know that, as I've learnt to control it and as much as possible deal with it.
This score means that you are more Monotropic than about 44% of autistic people and about 95% of allistic people.
Edit: probably should add that I do think I'm ND, but the only diagnoses I have are anxiety, depression, and Avoidant Personality Disorder (I do think this is accurate and not a misdiagnosis).
Thank you for sharing your work and including the scoring self-diagnostic test. 187/235 Average: 3.98
My answers may be different today than they would have been years ago because of how I've learned to, and become more comfortable with, "making eye contact" while "carrying on a conversation".
I had trouble with figuring out whether I should answer "disagree" or "neither agree nor disagree" on some questions. I tried to answer as conservatively as possible. I did this test 4 times over 1-2 days. I got 191/235 (4.06) on my first try. My most conservative answers (3rd try) yielded my lowest score, 184/235 (3.91), and my 2nd try yielded my highest score, 196/235 (4.17). I got 189/235 (4.02) on my 4th and final attempt.
@Raegn thanks for that! What was the small-world thing, though?
I have such mixed feelings about the whole thing! It's great that three million people got to hear about monotropism who mostly wouldn't have otherwise (or not yet). Some people have reacted badly - understandably - thanks to the misrepresentations, though.
After bombing several museums in the historic city of Odessa on Friday, Russia has now moved on to bombing The Transfiguration Orthodox Cathedral built in Odessa in 1794.
The cathedral was a protected UNESCO World Heritage site.
Why does Russia still have a seat in the United Nations, when ISIS and Al-Qaeda does not?
begging for maintainers of free software projects to understand that catering to disabled people is how you keep your projects alive.
there is no userbase more loyal than people for whom your tool is the only usable option.
these is no easier and more universally supportable argument for the adherence to open standards than "well disabled people use this other thing because they cannot use the commercial options".
it is so very, very easy te make something that a small but dedicated group of people will come to rely on, as well as develop a strong interest in fighting for, participating in, and supporting it. all you need to do is ask disabled people what they are missing and then implement that
Im trying to set up a reverse proxy so that I can use lighttpd and bind on the same machine, both on port 80.
lighttpd's documentation on this matter is so incredibly vague, that Im considering ditching it altogether, as to be honest, EVERY SINGLE THING is harder to configure in lighttpd.
Is anyone else running DoH via their webserver using bind?
I'm really happy with caddy as web-facing reverse proxy. Simple to configure, let's me add an additional layer of auth to things I want to expose to myself via the internet without putting my stuff at risk, and built in automatic Let's Encrypt support. I won't try to make Nginx or Apache do that ever again.
It's happening again! I am hosting another executive function webinar!
Details are in the registration form. This one is happening SOON. I will do another one at the beginning of the school year if there is enough interest.
Please share widely and directly to people you think will be interested, as organic reach has been murdered.
Please remember that there is an optional but encouraged fundraiser that I am supporting with this event. No one will be turned away, but every little bit helps keep a single Black mother housed: link in registration.
On Monday, July 31st, at 1pm EST, I will be hosting an online webinar for neurodivergent burnouts on Executive Function, Metacognition, and Hacking yourself to Get Shit Done.
This webinar is FREE and open to ANYONE.
If you’re on strike and it’s disrupted things for “regular people” just know that there are a lot of us rooting for you— We get it. Media aren’t being very supportive framing the strike as all the fault of workers— as if we all have to take whatever we are offered & be silent.
The mood is different in the country than it was 15 or 30 years ago— No one is buying that striking workers are greedy. We’re all in this same race to the bottom and it’s good to see people fighting the current.
For reference, the linked PDF of the new standards has this horrendous quote on page 71, SS.66.AA.2.3:
"Examine the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation).
Benchmark ...
Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."
When I read 1984 decades ago; I never thought I'd be living in it now. It makes me angry and sad. 😥 I pray and vote that the fascists liars will be defeated.
"one of the benchmarks (SS.68.AA.2.3) states students will be taught, “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit"
Book — Non-fiction. By Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross. 2020. 288 pages. A history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are — and have always been — instrumental in shaping our country.
years ago a woman in my office told me how slaves were lucky to have a roof over their heads and food. She said they were better off than modern day blacks living in ghettos. I was so appalled to learn people actually think like that.
The same people who call impoverished black communities lazy are teaching their kids about "how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit."
Absolute racism. #boycottFlorida - anything less is you siding with the white supremacists.
JFC. And to think when I graduated from Florida public schools in the 1980s I was taught that the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, but rather about the economy. 😳. Florida and its political stupidity is sinking in more ways than one😣
It hurts so much to read what Europeans did to Native Americans and to enslaved Africans.
But we should pull ourselves together and face the truth, learn from it and start into a better future!
It's so pathetic to try to whitewash history, just whining about how hurtful it is to look at it as it were. How absurd to sorry for ourselves after our ancestors were so merciless!
Where are all the "real men" in the USA, who are capable of facing adversity? Even if it is their own?
Florida no longer represents the same academic standard as the rest of the country and students transferring there need to be held back a grade to unlearn the nazi bullshit
Quite wonderful benefits... Such as not being allowed to freely seek employment, only getting flogged on a daily basis, having accommodations similar to the slave pen near the Whitehouse, etc
Discussion should start with Solomon Northup who got a 12 year "aggressive internship" and skill training, an example that should be spread as much as possible, all closer to a warm vacation area.
Like chickens, cows and other livestock, being property was actually good. They didn't have to worry about finding work or who they were going to marry or how long they'd live. We poor oppressed white people did all that labor for them. Man it was hard on white folx ya'll. You should pity us!
Maybe I see something more evil here. Maybe this is part of an effort to persuade the poor in Florida that their poverty is benefiting them. Or maybe I am thinking too deeply here. Either way, it seems some good colleges and universities need to say they won’t accept students from Florida who learned under these standards because they clearly won’t be qualified to be serious students on campus. That might get Florida’s attention.
When I was in elementary school in Florida (late 70s), I had a teacher say that, “obviously slavery wasn’t that bad because after the Emancipation Proclamation, most slaves stayed where they were.” 😳
I thought we had moved on from such ignorant ideas, but I guess not.
Who was George Orwell?
A Racist, Antisemitic, Homophobic Disgusting Piece of Trash.
Here is a thread: 🧵
Orwell's list
He snitched out Jews, Communist...
Thank you, Yeah I keep on finding more and more Trauma that I didn't release I have then solve that and find out even more I have it's like an endless loop at this stage.
I'm asking because I'm trying to assess if I'm #ActuallyAutistic. There's enormous overlap between my 40 year life experience and those reported by many autistic adults. However, there are also many points that I feel I differ greatly, this being one.
I am very sensitive to my emotional state and the changes I go through. I can deeply analyze, reflect on, and express my feelings.
I also don't like to, due to being raised in an environment where keeping to myself served me better. I always felt that sharing my problems and vulnerabilities with other people, including my family, led to more trouble than support I could use.
So I do relate to being conditioned to not express myself but not to alexithymia.
thanks! This is a fascinating area to study, and as I'm trying to change careers from engineering to social psychology, the more appealing it's becoming to focus on neurodiversity the more I learn about myself.
@CynAq Plus, based on personal experience, it seems that it is not always a permanent condition. It feels like it might sometimes be a trauma response.
the best thing to do is be in autistic spaces like what you're doing right now. I host free community groups every month, we always have folks who are exploring whether or not they're autistic - no better way than to be in autistic space and see if you relate and feel seen!
An online discussion circle for autistic adults led by an autistic life coach. This is a space for autistic adults to connect with others, learn about themselves, and grow.
@CynAq For everyone who is Hypo-sensitive there's someone else who is hyper-sensitive.
There may even be some stray souls who are "normal" for any given trait.
You don't have to have weirdness in every single trait dimension to be #ActuallyAutistic so don't feel invalid if you don't relate to absolutely everything that gets talked about here.
(Though often we assume we are normal, only to learn on reflection + with more comparitors, that we are outliers after all. 🤔)
@lgbthealthy have launched Scotland's first conversion practices helpline. Conversion practices often leave people feeling broken, lost, confused and sadly even suicidal. You don't have to suffer in silence. A trained team are here to listen if you've ever experienced conversion practices and want to talk.
So the background here is that I referred to TERFs as pests that are particularly recalcitrant, like pubic lice or bedbugs.
And various people liked the post, including some who are members or a UK political party.
And some pubic louse with nothing better to do is complaining about them because they liked my post.
And said pubic louse got told to go piss into the wind by the complaints process.
So instead of taking the hint that everyone hates them and all their bullshit works, they set out to prove me right by just being UTTERLY FUCKING UNABLE TO JUST PISS OFF AND LEAVE PEOPLE IN PEACE.
I’m sure the irony of this situation is lost on them. Silly fucker.
She must really hate it that I resigned from said party and then emigrated to get away from the likes of her and their bullshit, and as a result there is nothing they can do to get at me other than bother my friends.
I mean, I am annoyed on behalf of my friends, but I also appear to have triple residency now: Portugal, the UK, and rent-free in their heads.
People brain damaged by disease do not typically experience increased happiness and feelings of liberty. Quite the reverse, in fact. Obsessions, miseries, fears, fight or flight, displacement, disassociation, loss of identity, the tortures of uncontrolled dreams, phobias, and the pain of lacking self maintenance. The confusion of lost memory. Feeling both loss and lost. For months or years.
I feel one must simply point that out more often. Is it worth it to look "pandemic normal" for a year?
@kacey three and a half for me. No Improvements. Probably slightly worse. Pacing has done nothing recuperative. It's perfectly clear to me there's 20 years of health I'm never getting back.
@soundconjurer mentally being over it, and physically are two very different things. Live long enough you'll find you're not over anything. These things are cyclical, and what was defeat becomes the more enduring regret of what you could have done and didn't.
Ask any long term survivor of suicidal tendancies. Retreat from the problem doesn't mean it's gone away. Nor does it mean denying it. Mental respite doesn't have to equate to risk taking. There's a whole other space to survive in.
Your description is so vivid that I am moved to ask if it’s a first-person account, from personal experience.
And #Covid is sure not worth it to me. Still treating this virus like the evil little bastard it so clearly is. I go weeks at a time never venturing past my locked driveway gate. My old brain still works; 30K lines of code written this past year for the most complex project I’ve ever undertaken testify to my never getting infected.
Some of it is me, some of its what I've resisted, some of it suffered and continues to be so, and some of it is what I've witnessed in others. Longcovid in many respects is how it feels to suddenly be the 90 year old version of yourself, without the acclimation time.
Alpha strain got me, right at the start. Started to slowly recover. Omicron caught me, and recovery ceased. Over three years, I'm still not used to it. That's it's nature. Unacceptable.
@croissant lol, I think you have to have a very specific character profile to be happy with hypoxia. It's probably fun for about five minutes, after that the lactic acidosis makes you feel like a living cramp for having had the cheek to attempt the washing up.
but yeah, given how many individuals are suffering from obvious long COVID yet still just powering through life as if they've only been told that they just have to willpower their way into good health, IDK, i think lots of people might have the personality profile to have some real happy hypoxia
@croissant I suppose a few must, the hypoxia is the least of it tbh. The bit you really feel is the general dysautonomia. It sucks the joy out of basically everything. You can list the primal symptoms in about nine lines, but how it affects you is like a legion of daily assaults. It touches everything you are, everything you do, and everything you want to do, and just when you nearly get used to it, it finds something else horrible to do to you.
you keep going.you don't want this. In life I took injury and pain like most never do. In my official opinion, it sucks. It's not really any better than cancer or aids. I'm very lucky that my brain fog tends to be temporary, exhaustion related, but having lucid hours brings home to me just how many people I know are in rapid mental decline. It's work exposure, mostly. The last thing even the sane ones can't avoid.
The common things you hear are " were not getting any younger" and " we're all like it", like ageing twenty years in three is normal. You talk to them and they can't remember what they did from a few hours ago, to weeks ago. Their general knowledge fades. They snooze instead of chat. Then people lose their jobs, their self control, their health, and start to drop off the radar.
Partly no one has the subjective experience of aging a given three years in their life, so that may make it easier not to realise it's not normal, particularly if you're around or over 40 or 60 both times when I think we kind of expect ageing to pick up a bit.
I think they're disassociating abnormally. A stress, or reaction within the sphere of hopelessness. People have always lived around others from differing age groups, they've observed behaviour in thousands of people in their lives. They will for the most part have a sense of familial ageing. They must surely realise when they don't have the energy levels of people twenty or thirty years their senior. How do they think people survived to those ages?
@alastair87 🔥️ I suspect that they're observing the same energy levels in everyone around them, which would make them less likely to either notice or talk about their post-acute decline.
they should really have both observations in their consciousness , should they not? I mean, they'd be a bit primitive not to. It may be an immediate group mentality, but it shouldn't be existing uncontested in their minds. They have a lifetime of other information to counter it with. Therefore I think it's a mentality associated with the state of health. Likely foggy.
@alastair87 🔥️ Social pressure is an unstoppable force for most.
If there are social consequences to breaking the illusion of "back to normal" by merely mentioning the Forbidden Trauma, then you can't talk about how you're sick and tired all the time since your COVID infection.
It's impossible for the average, normal individual to meaningfully protect themselves. Those of us who speak truth and act accordingly are in the minority.
All this is true of course, but it's an entropic state that cannot last, because if unaddressed, and the health dips below the ability to remain independent, or support others, or death ensues, it becomes a betrayal of family, and the renegment on managing the future for oneself and ones loved ones. Financial ruin, orphaned children etc. It changes your future whether it's acknowledged or not. It's psychosis that blocks planning as you might wish it.
Except that it only seems to be some, not all, cases of COVID that lead to noticeable long-term complications. Far too many to neglect, but it's a minority. Of course a compounding problem is that repeated infection seems to be a thing, and avoiding post-acute complications in one round of infection doesn't seem to predict the same will happen again.
obviously this is a "to whom it may concern" conversation, regarding those who should be noticing the effects but aren't. For sportier people the contrast will be immediate, and sorting through a miasma of pre-existing conditions will be tricky.people owe it to themselves to try to sort through it, so they know the difference and aren't taken advantage of by COVID minimisers.
In my case its obvious because fitness is now post virally unreachable.
If there's things that resemble massively accelerated aging, there's also the things that look roughly like normal aging (which varies significantly between different people) and things that people might or might not have developed any way. So it probably takes quite intensive data collection and analysis to work out what is (or isn't) changing, especially over only three years.
true, but in accordance with some semblance of precautionary principle, it's not a great idea to wait for every research group result to come in, because in that time you could lose millions of lives. Cripple millions more, eventually end up in jail, or sued into oblivion.
It's about making good decisions before the results are in, that's key to pandemic survival. Most big nations had pandemic planning, we need to ask why they didn't use it, and gave contracts to chums.
The general consensus seems to be that in the UK the Labour government invested in pandemic planning then the Conservative/Liberal Democrat governments, in particular George Osborne and presumably the current chancellor Jeremy Hunt (then Health Secretary) saw it as an area for cuts.
Exactly. When a corrupt govt is asset stripping the NHS for privatisation,, basically being an industrial saboteur in the ranks, companies don't want pesky things like pandemic liabilities in the contractual obligations. Just the glossy bits. The guidance stil existed though. They ignored it. A eugenics for profit decision.
I know some people twice my age who are fitter than me in some respects because they're particularly effortful with their health and I'm a bit overweight and don't exercise as much as I should.
That said it's only when it escalates to running or doing something very intensive, in terms of endurance at 'normal' activity levels I expect I'm still more capable.
@alastair87 @croissant This entire conversation frames why people should be able to start a path of differentiation, that they haven't, I suspect, is a combination of fatigue itself, and perhaps the susceptibility to minimiser propaganda that is so insidiously rampant, and the insecurity of appearing diseased..
I know two people who had strokes, and swore blind they were fine, while being admitted to casualty for assessment..
This study had two arms: one arm of patients who had COVID and then complained of "brain fog", and a control arm of COVID-recovered patients with no lingering symptoms. 59% of the symptomatic arm qualified for a diagnosis of HIV-associated neurocognitive disorders, and 70% of the younger, "fully recovered" control arm met those same conditions.
We have no idea how many "feeling fine" individuals are walking around with unseen damage to their organs after infection.
I'm willing to bet the farm that the 10% figure for Long COVID, which was reached largely by patients self-reporting their symptoms, is a massive underestimate. The extent of the widespread damage caused by repeat infection is unfathomable, and we're just letting it happen again and again.
On top of that, survivors of SARS continue to experience declines in health long after the outbreak. Respiratory. Cardiac. Psychiatric. Immunological. There's still no reason to assume the same isn't happening to everyone who caught the sequel.
Many patients with COVID-19 develop brain fog and other cognitive symptoms months later. Their cerebrospinal fluid may hold clues to why this is happening.
@croissant @alastair87 oh I totally agree, the global picture for post viral exposure health is much bleaker than officially recognised at current. It will be the defining and probably worst mass disabling event of our time. There's no question in my mind. The fallout of applying short term fiscal gains priorities to a pandemic will prove economically devastating, and the human cost more appalling than any world war.
@alastair87 🔥️ Yep. Worse, the mass disabling will continue until infection control improves. There's a reason to continue sounding the alarm — it's already bad out there and is only going to get worse.
"Mass disabling event" only covers where we are now. What we're barreling to is something closer to a "universal disabling event".
people will think that's alarmist, but having post covid dysautonomia myself, I could easily see how 40% plus of a population could end up with permanently zero endurance, and longevities extending only a decade into reaching that status.
I was taken down by the 2nd exposure. I'm looking at 60 thinking I can't make it. Could be for a fifty year period the average western longevity might only just break mid fifties. We have to restructure our lives, one way or another.
It's possible it's more detrimental to healthspan than lifespan and in some ways that's more of a problem. We are already struggling to care for a growing elderly population as is, If people's healthspan falls but lifespan doesn't fall by as much then we're going to have even more people to care for and fewer people to care for them. In richer countries we've got better at keeping ourselves alive than keeping ourselves well.
this is very true. But only for wealthy societies with affordable healthcare, of course. Crazy the powers that be will probably encourage that, when only the pharmaceutical sector can really profit. Another problem of course is, too much neurological damage and dysautonomia you essentially cannot be saved for long, because you end up dying of self maintenance failures. They also cause " will to live issues". If people were suicidal cooped up, wait until they're unstable.
We really can't afford to be living as individuals with the expectation of unrealistic longevities. It's just not workable. Generations must be raised and survive, so we have to rearrange things to mirror that need, and if generations flip over faster, we have to have plan for that eventuality. If there's things you want done, and thirty years fewer to do them, we have to get people out of debt, the works. Best springboards for the young etc.
@croissant @alastair87 Families in developing countries know all about this, they invest very differently, and that way of thinking may have to come to the west. Our notion of nuclear families, dated as it's been for decades will finally be extinguished. Extended community, extended family investing more intensely on small goals. Deaths expected. It'll be a shock to many.
if COVID mutations stay ahead of immunisation, and we never find a more comprehensive immunisation, the real human immune response will collectively kick in, but here's the thing. Unaided, a real herd immunity, ( not the mad person version right wingers always go on about) to something like COVID, well it could take 200 years plus, and that's if it's possible.
Plenty of diseases the human immune system will never conquer.
@alastair87 @croissant the tendancy to minimise the level of debilitation they may be experiencing is also culturally reinforced, and in a sense a shortcut to not worrying or doing anything about it. Especially when fatigued. It's a vicious cycle. To put off the recognition of your own abnormally deteriorating health.
The mental flip from prinking like a deer, to "pragmatically" accepting a premature state of decrepitude, happening so readily is not really normal.
In 2005, about my laptop, during my police interview (https://gizmonaut.net/bits/suspect.html#D20150828): ‘has it got anything on there about plans for any terrorism act? […] anything on there that might be construed as causing a public nuisance?’
Terrorists, as most humans, will use current technology, whether an email app or some LLM-based chatbot.
Then counter intelligence could use the same AI to discover the sophisticated plans and thwart them! Haha! *taps side of nose*. Oh wait, we're talking British counter intelligence aren't we. Their slogan "Never Prepared". Dammit.
@zenlan And after being killed being falsely, accused of other crimes. And the officer in charge of the killing operation then being promoted to the highest policing role in England & Wales.
One of the officers who wrongly arrested me told me that one of the reasons is that otherwise one of his colleagues might shoot me.
Doubly so since most of the victims I work with are *already* blaming themselves. “No. You are not ‘gullible.‘ You are not ‘ignorant about computers.’ You were not ‘careless.’ You are a victim of a crime, exactly as if you were held up at gunpoint or someone threw a brick through your front window. I'm happy to help clean things up, not because this is what I do, but because you're my friend and I think help and compassion is what you most need right now.”
I suppose this is about some particular situation, but in general I'd say it's not that simple.
My employer provides basic cybersecurity training twice a year. Your usual common sense stuff: keep password safe, don't open attachments & links, don't put your USB drive into employer's equipment, report phishing attempts etc.
Still, every couple of weeks we'll have someone bring in malware.
People are being taught safe behaviour, but choose not to practice it. So who's to blame?
@SeventhMagpie Take iPhones vs. Windows. Now while I strongly disagree with Apple's businesses in a wide variety of ways, they've been very proactive about minimizing the malware that someone could get on their phone, and locking down exactly how much data one app can harvest from a user without their knowledge and consent, and highly restricting how much one app can harvest from any other app. Oh sure, it's caused much wailing and gnashing of teeth from software vendors, but it's also meant that they're pushed to keep their stuff secure and up-to-date.
If there were ways to replicate that level of security on business workstations, entire categories of vulns and malware would be wiped out. Oh sure, software engineers would need to be able to develop in god mode in VMs, but their normal internet browsing and email and zoom meetings should be locked down as much as possible.
Back in the 1920s there was a important precedent where a car manufacturer was found liable for damages because the wheel came off someones car. Court said a car is too complicated for ordinary people to be liable for manufacturers defects.
also even if you are techy not everyone wants to self host all their shit or pay a ridiculous up charge to pay for something that could just be privacy theater. The only proper way of doing things is proper regulations.
@gentlyepigrams We have to be really careful to avoid accidentally putting a code-to-open, MFA, or TouchId on my mother-in-law’s iPhone. She already want to ditch it, but it’s still too useful. She just doesn’t learn things at the age of 91 that she has absolutely no interest in.
That is so true! Especially because you can replace technology here with many other topics and it still remains true. Try "self-defence", "finance", "education" for example, it just works.
We don't ask people to have to do a bunch of extra busy work to ensure that their buildings don't fall down, we have building codes to ensure that they're built to a decent standard.
We don't ask people to do safety tests on their water, food, or prescriptions, we have regulatory agencies that take care of that sort of stuff.
We should be making technology such that people have to go out of their way to do weird stuff in order to become insecure. The easy way should be the safe way.
@vitaminsludge I think that's extremely fair. Of course, the people pushing the technology are going to argue that these kinds of restrictions will stifle innovation, and they won't be entirely wrong.
I guess ultimately it'll be a choice where the public will have to weigh the benefits of unfettered "innovation" against the benefits of a safer, more privacy-minded but also more fenced-in internet.
@vitaminsludge We do have research operating systems that are secure by design. Nobody uses them. Their apps do not run on them.
The systems we use today are not built for security, it's added as a bolt-on feature at best. They do not guide users towards security, they guide them away from security.
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I'm not great at tech. But oh my Gods, I can cook.
So it is also a matter for people who aren't old and just have their skills elsewhere. You can trust me not serve you unsafe fermented foods. I want to be able to trust my computer not to put me on a list of inconvenient queers to be eliminated.
@Noricenolife Exactly. I happen to be "good at tech", but there's a whole lotta shit I'm not good at. And yet, I can trust buildings I go into to not fall down. I can trust food I get at the grocery store to not poison me. Elevators just work. The water in my tap is drinkable. Why is it that people think that because there's a chip in it, that it's suddenly the user's fault for not knowing the weird and tricky inner nuances of how to outsmart the richest companies on the planet from stealing their data?
I guess to some degree big corporations already understand very well that "copying is not theft". Nobody gets hurt when your private data gets handed around 🤷♂️ . It is not like a lethal car crash or an elevator dropping down. (But boy, oh boy – that latest Disney movie or Taylor Swift song is worth suing MILLIONS from any kid.)
Agreed. But it took centuries to get the food safety laws and building regulations we have today. Technology is moving too fast for our non-specialist politicians to legislate for. And, when they try, we get disastrous laws like the one the Conservatives are trying to push through in the UK right now.
At the moment, the best most of us can do as techies is to help protect our loved ones. And, yeah, that's rubbish, and the world needs to do better.
When it comes to capitalist greed vs. endangering public health and safety, I would rather regulations ban some things that are safe than fail to ban things that are unsafe. Maybe the regulations do need to be adjusted in some areas, but I don't want someone dying from methanol poisoning because some brewer was cutting corners.
It's already illegal to add methanol to food. It doesn't stop the ATF from adding it to moonshine. But it's not the distillery doing it. And fermentation isn't to blame. It's failing to make head cuts when distilling that can result in minor amounts. But the amount normally in distilled products will only make you hung-over and the spirits harsh. The enforcement agencies sometimes adulterate illegal products to make users sick to damage the reputation of the sellers.
@vitaminsludge IT security is getting increasingly complex and challenging, even for people who do it as their day job. However much I'd like tech security to be easy to achieve, it's an arms race against the bad guys. As much as I'd like what you're calling for, I don't think it's possible.
It is unfortunately the case that security and convenience are often "allergic" to each other. The *more* you make a technology secure, the *less* convenient is (usually) gets to use it. Once in a while a nerd-Titan like Moxie Marlinspike comes along and defies this pattern by coding for WhatsApp or Signal. But the general pattern remains: convenience and security are usually allergic to each other. Please don't impute intention - that there was *necessarily* malice.
I'm 40 years into a database app/sys admin career. I *need* help with privacy and security.
Used to be that you could disconnect the one Telco cable from the modem and know that you didn't need to worry about external miscreants on your network. You just had to worry about the dumbasses pressing buttons on keyboards in your building.
I used to love appearing in some executive's office doorway after they'd done something that validates the Peter Principle. A 23yo grunt w power!
I turned this over in my head a few times and I think you're not in touch. We do need better consumer protections so it isn't such a pain in the ass to maintain your privacy, but it's not that complicated. People trade convenience for privacy all the time and I try to educate people about it and most do not even want to learn - its not worth their effort. Tech companies know that, so they play on people's laziness. At the end of the day some of the blame does fall on the lazy.
@drewt00 Fair enough, but does it HAVE to be so much extra work to be private/secure? Why are we blaming folks for not wanting to play the 'which JavaScript component I blocked is making the page not load' game everytime they click on a link? I operate in this manner everyday and it's tiresome. My computer is the only tool I own that is designed to constantly work against my wishes. We should be shifting blame to those who designed their systems like this.
Absolutely! If you use a system or a Web site the way it's designed to be used, the people who made it will pwn you all the way to the bank. I use Linux at home, but I have to use Windows at work, and it just feels constantly adversarial.
As much as I strongly disagree with much of Apple's decisions, I do think that them continuing to enforce platform level security and privacy within their OS and App Store ecosystem has been one of the biggest steps forward in security in recent years. As my parents age, I've been encouraging them to simply stay on iOS and iPadOS for most of their work. As long as they run their updates on time, which I ensure they set up to go automatically, then I can know they're safe from a whole variety of rootkits and keyloggers and other such attacks. Sure, they could still fall for phishing scams or whatever, but it's large swaths of risks removed from their experience.
Apple themselves are harvesting plenty of your data, but they have put a lot of blocks in place to reduce the amount of data other companies can harvest. And even with Apple, they have now enabled E2EE iCloud backups and such, and overall have been "the least bad" of all the major tech companies about selling/abusing user data. (granted that's an OVERWHELMINGLY low bar ...)
Everyone for whom I sysadmin runs Linux for similar reasons. One elderly relative in particular doesn't know what Linux is, what a window is, what a browser is or what an app is; he just wants to be left alone to do his home banking in peace, and he knows he can "get through to my bank" by clicking in a particular place. 😱 He wouldn't stand a chance in the sea of malware that Windows users take for normality.
Yeah, I've thought about moving them to Linux, but it's best for all of us if I just keep them in the Apple walled garden, buy AppleCare on their devices, and they can go to the Genius Bar when they need help. Otherwise, I'd have to waste my limited amount of time I have to spend with them fixing their stuff.
They deserve it to be built into the tech and systems that they get out of the box, for free, instead of needing a pricy security system for their computer.
@vitaminsludge This is Rule 34: Make it hard to do the wrong thing: the default thing, the easy thing, and the right thing should all be *the same thing*. "Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across." -- Sun Tzu
We need to work out good law and group negotiating strategies to enforce dignity and empowerment of the common person.
As a tech expert I can fashion locks and plan strategies that a very well trained person *might* use to thwart attack, but these only treat symptoms and not the root problem. 😢
Arguably moreso, the more technically minded people can make a more informed decision about what the risks are and if they make sense in a given situation.
> We don't ask people to have to do a bunch of extra busy work to ensure that their buildings don't fall down, we have building codes to ensure that they're built to a decent standard.
You misunderstand the origin of building codes. They exist for the benefit of BUYERS of existing structures, not to benefit those who built them. Building codes evolved alongside human mobility.
They aren't getting it though. They should. But they won't. Because right now getting security and privacy requires a certain level of technical skill. There have been attempts to fix this, but it always means trading off some usability and convenience. Plus most people are happy to give up a lot of privacy in return for the benefits of social media.
unfortunately most people don’t care about security how many People just look their phones with a 000000 or 12345 passcode. How many use outdated Android phones with Android 7 or 8 that haven’t got any Security Patches and updates in 5 years and still use them because they still work? How many use online banking on those smartphones? How many install those fake postal tracking apps where they get the link send over SMS / WhatsApp or Mail?
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first they came for….. I fought for lesbian parental rights as recently as the 90s in the US when courts were still stripping moms of their rights to their kids. Pay attention. Do not think, younglings, that it can’t happen here. 🌈🌈🌈
Some day I’ll tell you about being on trial for witchcraft. No I can’t make this crap up.
@ericatty @mjk_4mjk I lived in Germany and Austria 1985-97 and I spoke with every eyewitness to the rise of Hitler who would talk to me about it. One recurring theme was, "The biggest mistake we made was thinking that if we just ignored Hitler, he would go away."
@ericatty @mjk_4mjk Word to all of this but a general point: a problem never sorts itself... you got to look at it head on and fix it. These people were all "problems" or symptoms there of. No one wanted to fix them...
@RichardSiggs I was conflicted about this topic for a long time, about the morality of being selective with free speech and opinions.
Seeing the recent state of the world though, it's clear that people who wish to see hatred and pain in the world should not be given a platform to speak on, some asterisks in free speech should exist for the sake of everyone...
this is terrible. Pity it's not easier for people to uproot and leave and seek asylum in this shitty world. There's already been trans people or parents of trans kids leaving US states for better jurisdictions.
Allies of minorities need to step up everywhere and develop a zero tolerance policy for bullshit in their circles.
You forgot to mention that this comes just a couple years after the government (not even this one) turning down an anti-hate bill against LGBTQ+ hate because everyone was saying it would "hurt their freedom".
They want to be free to discriminate. Hate. And ultimately strip us (I say us but I literally mean LGBTQ+ folks) of anything precious in life. This is the people we have around, who got elected in Italy, a revolting nation.
I read many concerned Americans. Where were they when the US filled Italian fascists with money to bomb trains, stations, banks, all to prevent the Left to win in free and fair elections? 🤔🙃
this is what happens when you have literal fascist in the government. I hope my country can get those idiots away as soon as possible since every day there’s a chance for them to fuck things even further.
this shit need to go to the ECHR ASAP. This cannot possibly stand a test of the right to privacy, or the supreme interest of the child. It's just monstrous.
@nicolaottomano The people are the source of power. We have to fight the conservative ideology in people that it is okay to "other" minorities to consolidate power. Blaming the reps who have made some progress is not helpful. We have to be a coalition that supports any minority against hate, because hate & indifference is the enemy we are all fighting even when it is not our turn to suffer.
Concepts like "the law applies to everyone equally" show that we are winning the long fight.
@EOAK Exactly. 2000 years of complete hypocrisy, unfettered power, and absolute BS: the Vatican is the crown jewel of Xtian misogyny, sex abuse, and greed.
The fascists start to maltreat the weakest groups. Then they will start to grow the group of people, include more groups to build up hate against and to use this hate to strengthen the support for their power, wealth and privilege against all the people.
sure, this is cruel, but it's also stupid and pointless to revise a bunch of existing paperwork for no good reason. Real model of government efficiency there, fascists.
@tom4okstate people have not understood that is religion mafia 🐂🐂🐂sht evil the source of all evils ...
this is the result of the politically correct concept that "there are good kkkristians," no, what people can not or dont want to see, is that those are the enablers ...
@TruthSandwich Yes, but it seems like the "good" Christians are vastly out numbered by the "bad" ones. Less that a 30-minute ride from my house is Faithful Word Baptist Church, which the Southern Poverty Law Center classifies as an anti-LGBTQ hate group. There pastor said getting that distinction is an "honor" that he's proud of. Just the other day he was caught on video (again!) saying that he doesn't want #LGBTQ folks in prison, he wants us DEAD. Whenever I've 1/ @dibi58 @tom4okstate
@TruthSandwich posted about his hateful rhetoric, I get an avalanche of, "Not all Christians...." When I've asked if they're going to do anything about it they just say, "Well, those are his beliefs and we just try to ignore it."
Like I said, plenty of bad people are Christian, and many of them hide behind their religion. “Oh, I’m not bigoted, but God is so I guess I have to be.”
Consider that over 90% of Black Protestants voted for Biden. Are they are evil, too? In contrast, white Christians broke hard for Trump, but so did whites on the whole.
Blaming Christianity for bigotry is bigotry, just as sure as blaming whiteness.
@TruthSandwich You should really look into The Paradox of Tolerance.
Philosopher Karl Popper described the paradox of tolerance as the seemingly counterintuitive idea that “in order to maintain a tolerant society, the society must be intolerant of intolerance.” Essentially, if a so-called tolerant society permits the existence of intolerant philosophies, it is no longer tolerant. @dibi58 @tom4okstate
@TruthSandwich So I'm a bigot for pushing back against bigots who want to do me harm? I lived in Germany for a bunch of years and they have a saying: "If nine people sit down with a Nazi, then you have TEN Nazis."
Which is why I don't think there are as many "good" Christians as you think there are.
Opposing white supremacy, for example, is not bigotry. Opposing white people is.
Opposing Christofascism is not bigotry. Opposing Christians is.
You have yet to explain how Christians are responsible for Christofascists. When you do, you’ll also need to explain whether atheists are responsible for Communists. It’s the same thing, after all.
@TruthSandwich You know that dictators don't crack down on religion to further some Atheist agenda, right? They do it because they want the people to worship THEM and they don't like the competition.
The house just striped out everything benefiting LGBTQ from an appropriations bill. Bigoted, no? I'll bet that everyone that voted for this campaigned on their Christian faith.
White supremacisy has been baked into American Evangelicalism since the founding. @dibi58 @tom4okstate
Atheists are no more responsible for Communism than Christians are for Christofascism.
But Communists are legitimately atheistic, just as Christofascists are legitimately Christian.
A religious stance does not dictate politics. Rather, politics dictate religion.
Fascists who happen to be Christian find Christofascist churches to join. They then claim that, no, they’re not bigots, they’re just good Christians.
Well, they’re Christians, but they’re terrible people. Meanwhile, other Christians are not terrible people and are not responsible for the ones who are.
@TruthSandwich So, all Christofacists are Christians, but not all Christians are Christofacists. Got it. How are we supposed to tell you all apart if you all call yourselves Christians? Since Christofacists are never going to stop calling themselves Christians (I think they need it for cover), do you think that the non-Christofascists should start calling themselves something else to differentiate themselves from Christofacists?
@TruthSandwich Aside from the fact that I self-identify as an Apistevist, those terms are rarely used interchangeably with Atheist, anyways.
P. S. This post brought in some people that I had to block, two of which I reported for homophobic slurs, equating homosexuality/pedophilia, and encouraging self harm (Go kill yourself f-slur).
Apistevism isn’t identical to atheism, but overlaps heavily. I would argue that it is largely a subset, since once you remove faith, theism cannot be sustained on the basis of evidence and argument.
(Yes, yes, I know that there are people who will disagree with this, but their arguments are crap. By and large, these are people whose belief rests entirely on faith anyhow.)
So saying you’re an apistevist doesn’t deny that you’re an atheist. It doesn’t even distinguish you from Communists and Objectivists, who are likewise atheists who do not accept faith as legitimate.
The point remains that you are no more responsible for other atheists (or even other apistevists) than a Reformed Quaker is for a Christofascist Evangelical. The fact that you overlap in some category has no bearing.
It would be as unfair to blame that Quaker for some Christofascist as it would be to blame you for Communists, even though Communists are as atheistic as Christofascists are Christian.
@TruthSandwich I've never had anyone automatically conflate my being Atheist with being Communist/Marxist/Objectivist. The closest was when my defector friends from former East Germany (Chemnitz/Karl-Marx-Stadt) would joke around about me being a member of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Right after the wall fell, we went to visit their home town and they wanted to get a picture of me next to a extremely large sculpture of Marx's head in the town square and said, "Look! Two Lefty-Heads!!" 🤪
If you’re old enough, you may remember when Republicans would rant against those “godless Commies”. To this day, openly atheistic politicians are rare and at an extreme disadvantage.
Even obvious atheists, such as Sanders, have had to duck this issue.
In any case, if it would be irrational to equate your godlessness with that of the godless Commies, why would we blame non-fascist Christians for Christofascists?
@TruthSandwich That mostly has to do with SELF-IDENTIFICATION. Just like I refer to my Trans & Non-binary friends the way that they self-identify, I refer to Christofacists as Christians because that's how *they* self-identify.
Since I've been on the receiving end of WE DON'T SERVE YOUR KIND HERE when it was about more than just a cake or a website, I've grown distrustful of all self-identifying Christians. Especially after some of my non-fascist Christian friends from high school... 1/
One of the favorite pastimes of Christians is arguing over who else counts as a Christian. The more extreme the sect, the more likely they are to exclude other Christians from Christianity.
As an outsider, I don’t have a horse in this race and there is nothing motivating me to arbitrarily exclude people for Christianing in ways I don’t approve of.
Consider this sentence: “Since I’ve been on the receiving end of WE DON’T SERVE YOUR KIND HERE when it was about more than just a cake or a website, I’ve grown distrustful of all self-identifying gays”.
That sounds pretty damned bigoted, doesn’t it? Well, so does your statement!
There are plenty of Christians who are fine with homosexuality. This is true individually and on the level of churches and organizations of churches.
Those welcoming Christians are not responsible for the ones who say that Christianity “forced” them to be bigoted against gays. Just as you’re not responsible for Communists or Objectivists.
@TruthSandwich spoke in defence of a religious right of Christian business owners to discriminate against me in the public square. Because if 9 Christians sit down with a Christofacist and they're not trying to talk some sense into the fascist, we've got TEN Christofacists, y'know?
As you can imagine, these friendships were damaged by that.
@TruthSandwich I do not blame them ALL, but I do FEAR them all - and not just the Christians - and what they might allow to happen to us in an urgent situation and there's nowhere else to go.
To get from PHX to MIL's in CA, we have to go through the desert. During the 1st 4 hours of the 6-hour drive - both ways - I'm anxious and worried about what we'll do if we break down and the only available tow truck says, "Sorry, we don't serve your kind," and leaves us in the middle of nowhere.
@TruthSandwich Well, you seem determined to convince me that I'm the bad guy here, so I guess I'm the bad guy.
You're starting to remind me of my fundamentalist cousin who said that if the gays would stop being so hateful to the bigoted Christians who want us dead, then they'd stop wanting us dead or something something....
And it has everything to do with Christianity if the bigots are waving their Bibles to justify their bigotry.
Good people use the Bible to justify their goodness. Bad people use it to justify their badness. It’s a Rorschach blob: people see in it what they want to see.
Your cousin was wrong: it’s not bigotry to oppose bigots. But it is bigotry to oppose Christians who are not bigots, unfairly blaming them for those who are.
Let me put it this way: It’s good to hate Nazis, but bad to hate all Germans. It’s good to hate white supremacists, but bad to hate all whites. It’s good to hate Christofascists, but bad to hate all Christians.
It’s good to hate bigots, but it’s bigotry to hate those who merely share irrelevant attributes, such as nationality or race or religion, with bigots.
In the fight against bigotry, we must not ourselves become bigots. We have to narrow our focus to the guilty, not just those who resemble them on the surface.
@TruthSandwich While I appreciate that, I hope you'll also appreciate that Zappa was right when he said, "All people are assholes until they prove otherwise."
I thought those people from HS were my friends until they turned out to be bigots, y'know?
Due to my lived experience as a gay man, when someone self-identifies as a Christian, it puts me on notice that my safety just might be at risk.
If not giving them all the benefit of the doubt until I'm sure I'm safe makes me a bigot, so be it.
@TruthSandwich You're sounding like my cousin again, "LGBTQ are the real bigots."
Let me be clear: I'm not talking about regular everyday people - I'm talking about the risks we face when DOING BUSINESS with bigots who use their religion to justify their bigotry against me. If I'm faced with a choice of shopping at a store with a crucifix over the door or Walmart, I'm heading to Walmart!
Please stop trying to minimize and dismiss my lived experiences.
Pretty sure I never said anything like that. In fact, I said the opposite.
Calling any group bigoted, except when that group is defined by its bigotry, is bigoted. So saying “Germans are bigoted” is wrong, while “Nazis are bigoted” is correct.
It’s also ok to stick to hard numbers, such as saying that the majority of white voters in America support white supremacy, since this isn’t a generalization, just measured statistics.
LGBT are not defined by bigotry, except in the sense of being a frequent target of it.
Days after former Miami Dolphins head coach Brian Flores sued the NFL and other for discrimination, another discrimination lawsuit is in the news. But this time the alleged discrimination took place in the retail industry.
False. Bigoted businesses have denied you goods or services. That bigotry has nothing to do with Christianity, regardless of whether they claim it does.
We know this because most of the businesses that treat you just fine are run by Christians, since Christians make up about 2/3 of the population.
It’s not bigotry to hate bigots, but it’s bigotry to hate people who merely share some irrelevant characteristics with bigots.
As if a far right Meloni wasn't predicted to behave in exactly this matter - civil unions being good enough is one way of making us second class citizens and then stripping up of our rights and status is a natural conclusion. Beyond angered at this.
French lawmakers vote today on whether the government can lawfully tap into the camera, microphone and location services of a suspect's phone in the name of criminal justice. Associated Press has more:
French lawmakers are planning to vote on a justice reform bill that would allow law enforcement agents to obtain the locations of some criminal suspects by remotely tapping into digital cameras, microphones and other internet-connected devices.
you know why right-wingers and conservatives like to make such a huge issue out of pronouns and gender-neutral language, right? you do?
well if you don’t: it’s because they KNOW that it’s the LEAST of our worries. have you ever seen a (queer)feminist protest for gender-neutral language? that is simply not happening.
sure, we have the occasional heated discussion about language amongst ourselves, but most of us simply use gender-neutral language because it is easy and we like it.
our actual important demands are for justice, equality, human rights, safety.
but making fun of and ridiculing those is more frequently a bad look.
language is easy. you can spend hours ranting about those terrible feminists ruining language, and when those same feminists respond with “oy, stop it” you can make fun of them for getting so worked up over something so unimportant – don’t you have bigger things to complain about, or why are you talking about language choices all day long?
we’re literally not, but that is exactly the point. it’s steering the discussion away from our actual demands.
Don’t you just love it when you call your broadband provider to ask for an IPv6 address, and instead of giving you one they turn *off* your static IPv4 address instead!
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On twitter when I started getting tens of notifications I would start to worry that something was wrong and I'd get very anxious.
On FEDI when it happens I'm like "ARE THERE INTERESTING REPLIES?! 👀 "
I love that I can just say whatever random stuff is on my mind and people will like and boost, but what I love a lot more is seeing what people have to say.
I would like more replies TBH but I feel like I get a lot more of that here and it's just pure dopamine.
Haha, thanks for playing along, that was fun. Honestly, you don't have to try too hard, you're pretty interesting on a fundamental level. Still, I get it- if it were easy to be clever I'd be posting all the time.
I got into Twitter kind of as necessity. I've tried to maintain several platforms for my art but a lot of it has been "you go where the crowd is." And twitter really was just shouting into the void even when my work did get attention.
Now I get to draw an autistic bunny suffering from social interaction and see people accuse me of calling them out.
That said, starting out can be pretty difficult here. what I've found works best for me is having an account in an instance that is for an interest of mine and then start rambling about that interest. It may catch the attention of people who browse the much smaller local timeline and that can help propagate you out to others after a bit. Not gonna call that a silver bullet though and it may also depend on how interested the community that you joined is. 🤔
But that kinda thing is really why I loved message boards back in the 2000s.
Yeah I feel like on Twitter if I had done that I'd have gotten silence. I'd maybe get interaction from 3 or 4 people if I did posts about whatever Sonic comic I was reading but other than that it was really just kinda quiet for me. x_x
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Also, unlike the mammal Mastodon, the Mastodon social media platform is outlasting EVERYthing around it... including the endangered species formerly known as Twitter. 💀💯
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"The irony of it all being that Twitter is now brand X but can't even do brand X right."
It's really amusing to me that x.com redirects to twitter.com and not the other way around. It makes more sense to do it the other way around-- unless, you know, you can't actually build anything.
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The simple explanation of course, in a state of reversed web redirect, is that the chap who conceived the whole concept is a complete, unexpurgated fuckwit without any good reason to be fed due to the immense fuckwittery demonstrated every time he opens his fucking mouth.
So help me doG.
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