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katanova

@katanova@social.coop

Post-anarchist egalitarian furry

Social.coop CWG member

The stars will not save us

Ad Lucem Per Aspera

Digital nomad, eternal wanderer

I don't always get it right, but I'm always trying.

I have an interest in:
Electric and hybrid-electric vehicles
custom mech keyboards
off-grid power systems
battery and alternative electric power systems

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katanova , to random
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@pluralistic I recently read The Lost Cause, and found it profoundly relevant and valuable.

Out of all the ideas of the future (and present) that you presented, there were two that I particularly liked as relevant to social media

1: community social media is most healthy and stable if communities are largely separate with little crosstalk

2: engaging with disinfo storms should be intentional and coordinated, and it is deeply draining to the body and mind.

Thank you for writing this book.

katanova OP ,
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@pluralistic
One of the motifs I appreciated was how time of day related to the aggression and abuses perpetrated by the magas, and how this tactically destabilizes people. Brooks' grandpa accosting him in the middle of the night, and the magas doing the same throughout the first half of the book, and as the story progresses and they get more desperate, their abuses are more exposed to the light of day, both figuratively and literally.

I found it insightful and realistic to abusers' mentality.

vampiress , to random
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My first job out of high school was assembling and repairing PC compatibles for a computer store.

I sometimes think of making a game about that. It starts in the ‘80s with the advent of PC clones. You have to buy the parts, assemble and configure them, and sell them. As time progresses tech gets weirder and faster until you’re installing 3dfx cards etc.

Part retail store sim, part computer repair sim.

I’ll probably never make that game… but it’d be cool.

katanova ,
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@vampiress
Why not make it a multi-choice text adventure style game?

GottaLaff , to random
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NEW 🧵starts HERE.

Remember: I cannot reply while live-posting, so plz use NFL (Not For Laffy.. no hashtag) so I can skip your replies. THANK YOU.

Running a little late, so some preamble included here.

1/…

Tyler McBrien:

At 2:04 p.m., the prosecution strolls back in and lays out stacks of papers, binders, and other documents on the desk.

katanova ,
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@GottaLaff NFL

It seems like an incredibly weak argument, to assert that when Trump was paying people off, that it's with a check rather than literal suitcases full of money.

The line of argument seems to have something to do with the validity of prosecution based off these payoffs.

Anyone have an idea of what the angle is supposed to be?

GottaLaff , to random
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#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #legal #Trump 1/…

👀Via Katie Phang:

Interestingly: Eric Trump has accompanied his father to court today. Perhaps Trump’s legal team heard all of the chatter about the appearance to the jury with no family members being present?…

katanova ,
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@GottaLaff
NFL
Being that 2 members of the jury are lawyers, it seems like those jury members could identify that the records custodians being called to testify is a deliberate choice to waste everyone's fucking time by the defense, and inform the other jurors as such.

Seems like a ploy to Gish gallop the jury that could easily backfire.

katanova ,
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@GottaLaff
NFL
interesting, my assumption was that denying the stipulations was a strategy to get more argument time in front of the jury, it didn't occur to me to think that the defense would actually believe that rejecting the stipulation of evidence would prevent that evidence from being prevented.

Either way, the lawyers on the jury can identify that this is the defense wasting everyone's fucking time.

futurebird , to random
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Never get in a racism contest with racists. You won't win. But even if you did win, you lose. (Because you are winning at racism.)

katanova ,
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@futurebird Here's one I like:

Don't argue with idiots. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.

luckytran , to random
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Six students have measles in an outbreak at a Florida elementary school.

How did Florida's health department respond?

Their Surgeon General sent out a letter that supports parents sending unvaccinated children to school during the outbreak and doesn't recommend vaccination.

There is a cluster of measles cases that has been identified at Manatee Bay Elementary. The Florida Department of Health (DOH) is continuously working with all partners, including Broward County Public Schools and local hospitals, to identify close contacts. Measles can be transmitted four days prior to the start of symptoms. When measles is detected in a school, it is normally recommended that individuals without history of prior infection or vaccination stay home for up to 21 days. This is the period of time that the virus can be transmitted. However, due to the high immunity rate in the community, as well as the burden on families and educational cost of healthy children missing school, DOH is deferring to parents or guardians to make decisions about school attendance. This recommendation may change as epidemiological investigations continue. Joseph A. Ladapo, MD, PhD State Surgeon General
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    katanova ,
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    @luckytran Alert: the surgeon general talks through a box and can still kick your ass!

    hrefna , to random
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    "Everyone should come to the fediverse."

    Okay, but I talk about this space with my partners and all of their responses have been "I'm glad that works for you, but that sounds like it would be miserable."

    But don't worry, I'm sure that 2024 will be the Year of the Fediverse on the Desktop.

    katanova ,
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    @hrefna turns out that the fediverse works as a way to connect together communities, but does not work as a community.

    hrefna , to random
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    The recent incidents have hilighted to me one of my personal struggles with

    My first questions when developing a writeable API are 1. who can call this endpoint 2. what does the payload accepted by this endpoint look like?

    AP is largely silent on (1) and is, for lack of a better term, actively hostile to (2).

    Then I look at it from a database side and I try to draw a line between the use case and the schema and connect that to the payload.

    Which again, AP is hostile toward

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    katanova ,
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    @hrefna In my perspective, this problem really gets at a core design assumption of activitypub.

    allowlist is effective security

    "these behaviors from the software are allowed, anything outside of this is not"

    What it seems you're saying is that AP seems to be designed to assume permissive calls to the server

    This seems to mirror how mastodon and most activitypub servers are designed around denylist, aka assume every connection is allowed

    Running a masto server on allowlist sucks by design

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