Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Asking for a friend: If I post something followers-only, under what circumstances would it federate to threads.net? (Assuming the latter is not blocked, of course.)

Only if I currently have a follower there? Only if someone *else* on my server has a follower there? Or under some broader set of circumstances?

Experiments proved confusing, so I'm hoping to get an answer from someone who actually knows the protocol.

(I know there's no "real" privacy in ActivityPub, but I'm curious.)

Currently, 39 out of 373 social.coop members have voted on the proposal to Limit Threads.net. Of the 39 votes, 34 Agree, 3 Disagree, and 2 have voted to Abstain.

That looks like fairly broad support, but with only 10% voting, it's hard be confident that it's where we all are. I hope that more will vote before the poll closes in 4 days.
#SocialCoop

Censorship and the Nazi bar
https://alexxkay.dreamwidth.org/688831.html

@DaywalkingRedhead @oscarjiminy @carnage4life

Trump lost in 2020 not because Cambridge Analytica was gone, but because mail-in voting was ubiquitous, and most of the usual anti-Black voter suppression techniques don't work with mail-in or drop off ballots.

They even tried to kill the US post office for everyone, to stop mail-in ballots. Restriction of mail-in and drop off ballots is why Texas went red instead of blue.

GOP strategists admit this openly.

In a just world, these Texas troopers would be charged with attempted murder for pushing kids into the river to stop them from entering the US -- but we don't live in that world. https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/border-trooper-migrants-wire-18205076.php

First, we lock you in; then we push features you don't want--and may even jeopardize your core mission; then we charge you for those unwanted tools,

#EdTech #Schools #K12 #HigherEd #HigherEducation

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/07/18/furthering-our-ai-ambitions-announcing-bing-chat-enterprise-and-microsoft-365-copilot-pricing/

@lightweight I was pleasantly surprised to learn several US cities have banned them:
https://kleinmanenergy.upenn.edu/news-insights/think-globally-on-climate-act-locally-on-leaf-blowers/
My bugbear is the gas-powered patio heater which is banned in France at least.

The incessant drone of petrol powered leaf blowers in the environment (I can hear one now) is exhausting. Also, people have forgotten the art of raking. I'd argue that a competent rake user silently expends far less energy (and little CO2) than someone lugging a blower around, and the results are better in every way.

Amid a world wide heat wave and massive floods, it is depressing how little we are willing to do to prevent climate catastrophe. We know the primary cause - the burning of too much fossil fuel - more CO2 produced than the earth can absorb. Yet any moves to seriously curtail this burning seem to be off the table.I would like to see worlwide rationing of fossil fuel at a level that is more sustainable. That the free market is unable to do this underlines the failure of capitalism

Are the reasons to leave GitHub more persuasive than the reasons to stay? https://ntietz.com/blog/moving-off-github/

You know what fulfils me? Feeling connected to my community - that I'm an integral, valued, contributing part of a vibrant, interesting neighbourhood & broader society that's always striving to be better.

What doesn't fulfil me: a positive balance of trade, greater productivity (GDP), corporate shareholder profits (a the cost of polluted lakes & rivers & a ruined environment), higher house prices, or how much an overseas company bought someone else's startup for (moving it offshore).

@AlexVoss @DemocracyMattersALot the specific context here is Ohio Republicans snuck a ballot measure in a special election this August which, if passed, will make it incredibly difficult to make constitutional amendments via citizen-initiated ballot measures (both making it harder to get amendments on ballot and harder to pass).

this is most specifically targeting an abortion access measure that has already managed to get on the ballot this November; if the issue in the special election passes, the abortion amendment will require 60% to pass instead of 50%, and the other changes introduced will make it next to impossible to introduce amendments fixing any other popular issue that Republicans are against (raising minimum wage, fixing the terrible gerrymandering problem we have, etc).

and indeed, the "abortion" amendment is actually worded to protect "reproductive choices" which would protect contraception in our constitution, preventing any future awful law.

The cognitive dissonance and mental gymnastics of Microsoft's security team can't be overstated.

Are you sick of hearing how wind and solar can't scale, and nuclear power is the only and fastest way to save the planet? I certainly am.

My first batch at recurse center I told a friend I kept hearing "what if we train them and they leave?" and he told me the correct response is "What if we don't train them and they STAY?"

Researchers showed asbestos contaminated talcum powder caused cancer. Johnson and Johnson spun the resulting liability off into a subsidiary, and has now started suing the researchers who uncovered the link. https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/johnson-johnson-sues-researchers-who-linked-talc-cancer-2023-07-13/

If you identify responsibility or ethics in the behaviour of large multinational corporations, it’s an oversight.

📝 Blog post: I have published post about my migration to #Codeberg, features guide on setting up redirect from GitHub and extended guide on setting up Codeberg pages with #jekyll

https://daudix-ufo.codeberg.page/blog/posts/Migration%20from%20GitHub%20to%20Codeberg