If you can accept that chairs can have varying functionality and be made of different material yet still all be valid chairs you can do the same for trans women and trans men. #transgender
A consideration already made for cis people of course, it's just inconsistently applied when trans people are involved
Is there a #FOSS self-hosted version of discord?
What about something similar to twitch that does streaming?
One of the reasons twitch is popular is because it's easy to have your audience help support the cost of running your channel. So, systems for micropayment are also an area for possible future expansion.
Or are there technical hurdles or cost hurdles to building such things?
#OSS
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Our president just fired head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics because the most recent jobs numbers didn't match his feelings about how good the economy is. He did not explain WHY he thought the report was incorrect. Naturally many people now say we won't be able to trust future reports.
To me, faking such numbers seems difficult.
Dr. Reich, @rbreich as a former Secretary of Labor and guy who knows about The Economy can you tells us what might be tell-tale signs of a "Fake Jobs Report" ?
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I think some people are also alarmed by the "revisions" to numbers in previous months. I remember this always happening in previous reports but these revisions have been very large.
What are some reasons you might need to make a big revision?
When the economy is going up or down, the model lags, so the revisions when actual data comes in are bigger.
Larger revisions are a sign that the economy is going up or down faster.
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What is the source of the Job Report numbers? Is it the state job reports or is it some sort of cross country Federal assessment? Be interesting to find out. Based on TACO Turd's nose dive into the National Reporting I would think it would be a system he can disguise the real numbers so as to meet his political wishes.
Four things.
Management is about performative reinforcement of social consensus reality. Quantified analysis is frequently in conflict with the SCR; participating in quantified analysis is frequently seen as impossibly expensive because of this.
The signalling system is not uniform; information moves erratically and inconsistently. A report intended to identify state at a point in time needs updating as information arrives. (E.g., excess death rates.)
@Nazani
The finance guys I know use those numbers in their models and they really need them to be based on reality or the models won't work.
Fake numbers will break SO MANY things.
"Sorta"
Everyone Disliked That
(Some deep very nerdy part of me is offended on an elemental level by the notion of numbers with a large data set over many years, that I have used many times, being messed with. It's like seeing a cathedral torn down. A library burned. The monumental statues of civilization firebombed... )
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You know? I have been struggling to understand the despair from some liberals about what he's been doing to the Whitehouse.
Yes, it's ugly, but the things people like about that building are just because "It Has Always Been That Way" ... and Carter put solar panels on it once and I thought that seemed cool and want them back.
But the feeling about the data? it's rather like what White House History people are feeling. I will be more understanding now.
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Ah yes, the stars are anti-slip treading. And the powerful visitors will trample the flag under their expensive shoes and they tip their drinks to let them run away between the bleached-white bars of our flag.
Very elegant. It speaks to me. I love architecture.
WeLL tHaT tEsT iS sHiT tHe OnLy aCcUrAtE ReSuLt wAs ThE LiBrArY oNe 🤪
( And yes I am too warm and too cold at the same time 🤔🥴 )
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@Nazani It's referred to as the Blue Book, Fitch Ratings publishes it (don't know if it's the only one). I had a neighbor in business school getting his PhD by figuring out and testing proxy numbers for the official ones. There were a lot of different numbers that could be accessed that reflected the reality on the ground vs official publications. One that I recall is railroad freight schedules, as these track internal manufacturing very closely.
I love getting nerds to talk...
A note:
The head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics got fired by Trump for not lying for him.
The Labor Secretary is apparently okay with that.
But how could you lie about something that's been done the same way for decades? I mean, I guess I can think of ways but come on.
I remember when Trump tried to make the head of the weather service lie about where a hurricane was going.
No lie is too blatant.
I keep thinking about that thing where Trump would change how much he thought his business was worth based on "his feelings at the time" and I assume he thinks numbers aren't connected to anything and you can just say any number you want. I mean when he wants a number to be large each time he says it, it grows exponentially*.
*I have the sudden urge to do a regression on "trump numbers" and find out exactly how they tend to grow and warp over time...
This comment of his says everything you need to know about his relationship with how numbers actually work.
“We're going to get the drug prices down ... 1000%, 600%, 500%, 1500%, numbers that are not even thought to be achievable"
How this man ever ran a business is beyond me.
But I was so excited to get a check when I picked up my pills. Are you telling me that's not gonna happen?
@btrinen @BagOfNails @Kathmandu
Thank you for helping me decide what to read first. This will save so much time. I was overwhelmed and didn't know where to start understanding this.
"Faking the numbers" is only going to be difficult if one cares about _convincingly_ faking them.
But bullies and fascists don't work like that. Faking them badly, baldly, obviously is better for them, because it shows their contempt and their power. "We're screwing this up and there's nothing you can do about it. We control the baseline assumptions of your world; tremble before us or be ruined."
TFG has been consistent in one sense: Everything he's doing 1) Makes the US weaker and less likely to be a military, cultural, or commercial force in the world of the future, and 2) makes him feel like king, even if, in the end, he's king of an ash heap.
Really, his behavior becomes a lot more explicable if you can accept that he hates America, because he views America as a rival for the attention and adulation he craves for himself.
@wollman @btrinen @BagOfNails @Kathmandu
That's really too bad as I imagine that things may be unstable in that sector because of ICE. How many people have just left rather that wait to be chased out?
The last time there is a whole lot of controversy around the dude "Pirate Software" aka Thor aka Jason
For years he presented himself like some sort of god in software / game development because he "worked at Blizzard" for years
He worked on a game for over 7 years now and on release it turned out to be a walking / talking simulator that was incredibly bad written in code
The reason he worked at Blizzard for years is because his daddy is an exec there and no one dared to fire him
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He didn't do much harm I guess but it's just so sad to see that again someone with a massive mouth gets so much attention while doing zer0 of the actual work
There are so many amazing indie games that will barely be downloaded because too much attention goes to scammers like Thor
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Pirate Software's Wikipedia page was nominated for deletion. A conversation is going on about it now. One apparently keeps getting created after other discussions removed it when consensus was made to merge with Heartbound then another to delete Heartbound.
🔗 the deletion discussion,
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I watched enough of his streams to know that he lifted up a number of indie game creators, I don’t buy that he’s *only* a scammer. He was a popular streamer because he was good at streaming, and yeah he is rather full of himself but people are treating him like he is evil incarnate.
I never would have gotten started with the game I am currently working on if it wasn’t for him talking about the importance of “just getting started”, so for that I’m grateful
ahhh, yes, its time to discredit and bad jacket one of the main "stop killing games" people who has managed to attract a good amount of international attention to the cause, including an EU VP.
Yeah I heard he's got some skeletons in his closet hah hah hah hah pwned right kids.
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I don't know what that is, but I've seen 3 or 4 interviews with Thor/Jason, im not confused about who he is at all, and I appreciate the efforts he has put into stop killing games? You keep saying things, but these things don't jive with the interviews he has given.
Is the gaming industry THAT pissed at him?? Time to accuse him of sex crimes, too?? Wow.
@milkman76 I give up sorry😆
Pirate Software is not the guy behind StopKillingGames and he is activly against it and that's quite public 🤔
I don't know 🤷
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Stop Killing Games
Here is an easy breakdown of how I feel about this initiative.I cannot and will not support a vague and potentially dangerous start to this conversation. Cal...YouTube
@woe2you wait, something is definitely confused here.
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This guy is the Stop Killing Games guy who advocates the correct (imo) perspective. Who is the other guy (the long haired guy OPPOSING stop killing games???)
Im more confused now.
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Official channel of Accursed Farms, videos created by Ross Scott. Includes Freeman's Mind, Ross's Game Dungeon, Civil Protection, and more. Check the main website (accursedfarms.com) for news and updates.YouTube
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Responding to claims about Psalm 22
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"Gender Critical" nurse EXPOSED over racist comments
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The first widespread success in curing HIV may come from children, not adults.
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do The Youths these days still know about Pokemon Crystal Vietnamese? So called because it was discovered in a market in Vietnam, it's a romhack translation from Japanese to English (presumably before the real English version released), except it seems to have been made entirely on the basis of a Japanese-to-Chinese dictionary and then a Chinese-to-English dictionary. For example, what's semantically quite close to "insert"...?
(my own screenshots from 2013)
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#ALT4you additional
a human hand. with a microscope stacked on top of it. At 1 times magnification. The hand is quite literally under the microscope.
Debunked: "Trans Affirming Care is Non-Essential"
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Debunked: "Trans Affirming Care is Non-Essential"
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Where are all the queer & gender-fluid people on here? 🩷 Can you help me find em?
Boost me to help! 💞
#Trans #LGBTQIA #Transgender #Queer #LGBT #GenderFluid
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Responding to DHS propaganda
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This morning I gave someone an introductory talk on how HTTP works, by demonstrating a few simple HTTP transactions by hand using "openssl s_connect" (gone are the days when you can do that using nc), explaining what all the bits and pieces are, and then showing how to look up what Firefox is doing in the developer tools to see full-sized examples.
Right at the end of the talk, I thought "hang on, this seems like exactly the kind of 'learn a thing from basics' material that @b0rk likes to write about, I wonder if she has a blog post covering the same ground?"
Better still, she has a whole zine! jvns.ca/blog/2019/09/12/new-zi… Moral: perhaps I should think of that _first_ next time.
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Nice breakdown of a biblical contradiction you probably didn't know existed
"My favorite contradiction in the Bible"
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#KingDavid #religion #theBible #Goliath #DavidAndGoliath #1chronicles #OldTestament #Elhanan #2Samuel #BibleScholar #BiblicalScholar #bible
Why people claim the Bible has no contradictions
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🐞 Bugfix release 2.0.1 for Solarus
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Also, it's "just" a maintenance update, so we don't present the engine everytime we make those.
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Thank you anyways for the feedback, we'll add a very short presentation in the posts, the next time.
Transphobic "comedy" Lady ballers was originally going to be a documentary but the daily wire couldn't find anyone willing to meet the requirements for trans women in sports.
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Nurse at centre of trans changing room row used racial slurs, tribunal hears
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Nurse at centre of trans changing room row used racial slurs, tribunal hears
Former NHS Fife nurse, Sandie Peggie, used a host of racist slurs during a tribunal hearing earlier this week.Amelia Hansford (PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news)
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With Microsoft Office integrating AI into itself ANNNND charging subscription fees, I'm finding myself using LibreOffice for almost everything now.
LibreOffice is free. Period.
But! Nothing saying you can't take that MS subscription fee and do an annual recurring donation to LibreOffice 😅
Good way to increase LibreOffice's already great functionality.
Edit to Include: They're on Mastodon! @libreoffice
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"Why does it say the hospital is equipped for stroke emergency? We were there. They denied!"
"Maybe you should contact them that their website is wrong. This is dangerous."
"It wasn't on their website..."
*starts googling a specific question*
"Weird now it says no instead of yes."
I go to take a look and realise with horror, yes: Google AI summary.
Google AI summary made my parents-in-law visit the wrong, unequipped hospital for a potential stroke emergency. 🙃
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Oh, that's is so terrifying, like the "Black Mirror" episode IRL 
Hope that all is OK now.
This is horrible, I'm so sorry 😞
It's not enough for LLMs to have disclaimers at the bottom, they shouldn't be on Google etc if the information isn't reliable.
Maybe LLMs need to be specifically banned from giving medical advice?
@FediThing meanwhile in Germany:
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> The Association of Family Doctors sees enormous potential in the targeted use of artificial intelligence to significantly relieve the burden on medical practices in view of the enormous pressure on healthcare provision. This is according to a recently published position paper by the association. According to the paper, AI can provide support primarily in administrative tasks, diagnostics, and interaction with patients.
Of course AI can be very useful. It's just that large language models aren't near as useful as the marketing divisions of AI companies tell us, and they're also computationally expensive, which means they will probably play a much smaller role in the near future, getting replaced by more traditional natural language processing systems that use some kind of symbolic logic for reasoning.
Symbolic AI is an entirely different branch of AI R&D. Symbolic AI is the old-fashioned kind where humans analyse all kinds of problems and write down the mathematical and logical rules on how to solve them methodically. The current approach of doing it all in machine learning, doing it all with larger and larger artificial neural networks, is just too expensive, uses too much power, and produces too much bullshit. A swarm of small artificial neural networks, each of them specialised for a single task, all of them glued together by a symbolic logic framework, that's the way to go. For parts of the natural language processing tasks, small LLMs (much smaller that those GPT ones) will be used, hedged in by other AI agents that provide strict logical reasoning and fact checks. And the entire system should be small enough to run on the local machine, no computing centre needed.
Of course this means that the entire LLM-based AI business is finished. When the bubble bursts, it will be worse than the Subprime Mortgage Crisis. But we will still have all the AI research results from this bubble, and even when the humongous LLMs shut down due to bankruptcy, all the small and small-ish open source models will still be around for everyone to tinker with.
@LordCaramac @cybso @FediThing it's a veeerrrry blurred line though. "AI", "genAI" and "LLM" are all being used interchangeably.
I am constantly trying to understand what is actually meant by the various internal press releases of my own company when they espouse yet another pointless service or use of AI in a project. Unfortunately, and to my disappointment, when you dig down deep it often turns out they really do mean use of an LLM and not specialised AI to deliver some kind of information tool.
It's used interchangeably because most people simply don't have a clue and repeat some bits they've heard somewhere, resulting in others repeating that and so on. Laziness in language usage is one of the bigger problems in today's times.
In the first place, calling self-learning algorithms Artificial Intelligences is already wrong since intelligence is a cognitive process that requires to make connections between different pieces of information/knowledge. An algorithm is incapable of that and thus it's not intelligent. 🤷♂️
@TobiWanKenobi I should add that when my company decided to go all-in on the "AI" thing (and this was a few months before it really hit the headlines) there were some internal conference calls about all the upcoming plans and how we should be trying to apply "AI" everywhere as much as possible.
I'm in engineering, so I half-joked "surely I can't find an application of genAI to calculate stress in a component or design a part!?" and was pretty firmly smacked down for not understanding the difference between LLMs and the "real AI" to be used in our business.
A few years later and I'm constantly shaking my head at the next announced "agentic AI solution" being deployed on our intranet to "help us" on client projects. It's all chatbot, all the time.
Needless to say I know of not a single colleague successfully making use of any of these tools for anything except document summaries etc.
My biggest boon with this whole marketing thing about self-learning algorithms is not so much their (often lacking) usefulness. I do understand that there are some aspects like pattern recognition to process vast amounts of data which can be a big help in some fields like law, medicine, etc.
The problem we all should have with this corporate-driven marketing slop is the huge amounts of energy it requires. Because nowadays more energy means more fossil emissions. And the last thing we need is even more fossil emissions just so that some corporations and the oligarch owners behind them can make even more money for features no one needs.
@mossman
To get back to topic, I guess Ai in the sense of pattern recognition is quite good and already used for detecting skin cancer stuff. That, though, is not new and had been used for some time already and can be such a good application. Of course with uncertainness, but a positive result would anyway cause you to contact a real doctor.
LLMs certainly are no real solution.
@TobiWanKenobi
Call for an ambulance immediately! The EMTs know which hospitals around are suited best and are able to check for available capacity.
Sorry, but this is the left side hospital.
You need to find your way to the right side hospital, as it's clear you have broken your right arm.
Please check your spam folder for the survey we are about to email you. 🍄
@AnnyJoe
*you have broken your left arm
(it works like your brain, you know? 😅)
@krautdragon
(at least in the states) always, always call 911 when you suspect a stroke.
1. time is brain - they may be able to start treatment en route to the hospital
2. websites can be out of date, or just plain wrong: hospitals can be closed, under construction, out staffing, or no longer providing the care you need. (the scanner is broken)
3. even if a hospital is a stroke center they could be on diversion*. EMS will know this. Unless you are listening to a scanner- you won't know this.
*diversion - for example our hospitals here have 3 types of diversion:
stroke
STEMI
trauma
this means that the hospital already has all the patients they can handle for that specific issue. And while maybe they won't turn walk ins away at the door it may take longer to reach definitive care. (Ambulances will transport to the next nearest facility not on diversion for said ailment.)
That's so terrible, I'm so sorry.
It reminds me of the Designing for Crisis talk I heard @Meyerweb give years ago in Orlando
Obviously no one in AI has thought a bit about such matters, and it's going to cost lives
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Designing for Crisis, Design for Real Life
Back in October of 2014, at An Event Apart Orlando, I returned to public speaking with “Designing for Crisis”, my first steps toward illuminating how and why design needs to consider more than just the usual use cases.meyerweb.com
Call an ambulance for time sensitive emergencies! The medics know the area & capabilities. And they can start treatment ASAP.
Google has been the bane of my career long before AI was a problem.
Sue google, "attractive nuisance" is the legal term, one potential legal term, they say they're useful, they say, and they encourage us, you, to use google as a resource, then bait and switch. Endangering lives.
This could, would be, a momentous case. Hope some has money, or lawyers guts.
This toot ☝️ is /serious/. A bad LLM summary could've killed someone.
I have a more pedestrian example from a query I put to Claude y'day. It made one doozy of an error [not life threatening] and one minor error in the same brief conversation on whipping the end of a rope. After I doubted its initial response, Claude wrote:
"You're absolutely right [...] That's a significant error on my part."
After I doubted its /correction/:
"Good catch - that's inconsistent on my part. You're right to question this. [better material elided]
"Thanks for keeping me honest on the details - consistency in technique recommendations matters."
Also, Claude confuses consistency & accuracy. 🙄
This morning I received this in a full written newsletter. I began to read and I quickly stopped when I read empathy + AI.
“The global healthcare system faces a profound compassion
challenge. Even in an age of rapid technological advances, the
essential human bonds in medicine are under strain—nowhere
more so than in Canada and similar systems worldwide. This
newsletter explores how artificial intelligence is not replacing
empathy in healthcare, but amplifying it—transforming patient
experience, improving access, and restoring wellbeing for
providers and patients alike across Canada and the globe.“
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Empowering Healthcare with Artificial Intelligence: Amplifying Empathy and Human Connection Across Systems WorldwideEl Mostafa Bouattane (Dr Bouattane’s Substack)
This is so upsetting. I really hope your family member is okay.
Just a reminder to anyone managing hospital or clinic websites: make sure your emergency services are clearly listed, structured, and updated in plain text. AI scrapes whatever it finds. If you don’t give it clear, current data, it will guess and that can be disastrous.
The responsibility for making your websites and its content as current, correct and accessible as it can be lies with you, the owner.
that's a great example why one doesn't use probabilistic system on critical environment/process.
Glad it didn't go catastrophic.
I think I've subconsciously started to trust google AI summaries a bit. If I'm doing some rapid-fire googling of some trivial question, and just want a quick answer. I often can't be bothered to click through to a source website (Wait for it to load. Close cookie popups etc etc) so... I see the answer and carry on with my day. Would I do this for emergency info? Clearly I shouldn't, but maybe.
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The first 100% effective HIV prevention drug is approved and going global
An epidemic that's been sustained for 44 years might finally be quelled, with the milestone approval of the first HIV drug that offers 100% protection with its twice-yearly injections. It's a landmark achievement set to save millions of lives.Bronwyn Thompson (New Atlas)
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#Fedilab 3.34.0 has been published.
Release notes:
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This is a really big update. I'm very happy with it.
Tested the long picture again. It didn't crash.
Great work. Thank you.
@Minty95 F-Droid can take few days to build and publish new versions
There is also our own F-Droid repo, where we usually publish updates quickly after each release.
fdroid.fedilab.app/repo?finger…
(To switch to our repo, you'll have first to uninstall the Fedilab app you installed from official F-Droid repo and then install from our repo. You can use Export and Import options in Fedilab's settings to avoid having to setup everything from the begining :))
Hello,
I translated all the strings into Catalan but I got the version's message all in English anyway.
So was I too late or is there something wrong?
Did you try in settings > languages > reset languages? Maybe you have to restart the app. It should use your system language.
I checked commits, your translations were merged after we published 3.34.0. So they will be available in the next release. Thank you for your contributions.
>Quote support for Mastodon
How.does that work ?
>Fix text selection stop working when composing
Nice, that has been super annoyimg for some.
Great App !
I tried playing with using Dijkstra maps for enemy pathfinding in my small #SNES game. Turns out that with a small map like this one they're easily viable on SNES and aren't too expensive; you can spread the calculations over multiple frames and spend a variable amount of CPU time on it per frame if you want.
This does mean movement that's very clearly grid-based, but you can do stuff to make it less prominent. I have the enemies here slowly center themselves on the axis perpendicular to the one they're moving in, which helps a little bit.
Some enemies probably will use this pathfinding style all the time, though for others I think it'll be something that will kick in when an enemy is having trouble finding the player using atan2 or other methods.
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The party that went all Pizzagate is fine with this.
Soon it'll be law, and she'll be the head enforcer.
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This sentence was quite hard to parse: "This is the criminal Trump’s DOJ granted limited immunity to"
My brain was unable to put "criminal" and "Trump" in two separate noun clauses...
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btw, what's the purpose of this:
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And, I am not able to get my [A] OpenPGP subkey verified.
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does explain a lot of #47 decision like pressuring for the release of the Tate brothers so they could fly to Florida
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Way to go #MAGA voters so blinded by "lib" hate u brought about a nightmare
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Some molesters are joining the political party to earn credit easily. People are totally aware of them.
This watercolor portrait of a cute hedgehog is inspired by two hedgehogs that I can currently observe in my garden. Enjoy!
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Dieser neugierige kleine Igel wünscht dir einen schönen Tag!
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Love this. What tool did you use for the darker features on the back? Sponge?
Those green bubble splatters came out wonderful!
Mx. Eddie R
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Payments are a problem because any time you touch real money you're dealing with 8000lb gorillas (Visa, MasterCard, Thiel's PayPal, Canada's 6 banks, etc) or with bogus "money" you're dealing with Nazis and other crypto grifters.
myrmepropagandist
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You can do crypto transfers with python, it's very code-able, but none of the coins are stable enough to make this viable. And, of course, how do you get money into and out of the system?
I do think the payment network problem is important for the alternative web. Using patreon or paypay isn't great.
What about partnering with a credit union?
The problem with money is as soon as you make systems that do anything with money you are swarmed by grifters and need to be perfect.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@silvermoon82 I've been trying to work out where GNU Taler sits in this zone: banks have KYC requirements which preclude some innovative stuff.
Maybe the trick would be to set up a fiscal edge node: i.e. a credit union which had the situational awareness and expertise to handle integrating and also working with free software people.
And that'd be a great hobby to do with all our free time and money! /s
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@silvermoon82
#Wero might become the next best thing?
www.wero-wallet.eu
It's kinda Paypal done by European banks (🇩🇪🇫🇷🇧🇪🇳🇱), without any fees.
Not sure if it will be available internationally.
But the two major German coop banking groups are on board, so that might be as good as it gets from a "power to the people" perspective.
Mx. Eddie R
in reply to Billiglarper • • •In Canada we have Interac email transfers. To and from any (?) Canadian bank account, low or no fee (some small banks still charge $5, I think?), but still subject to opinions of the 6 apex banks so have to be careful about sex and drugs and such.
myrmepropagandist
in reply to Mx. Eddie R • • •@silvermoon82 @billiglarper
That is so civilized. Meanwhile in the US they just eliminated the free electronic way to do your taxes.
Not to save money. So that you either have to do the form by hand OR pay one of the many "services" to do your taxes.
Why doesn't that make more people as angry as it makes me? I suppose most people still use the services. And it's just $100 bucks or so, going to whoever and NOT the government.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@silvermoon82 @billiglarper
You don't have to just pay taxes. You have to pay the tax collector too.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •Yeah, the tax-paying situation is ridiculous here, too. Not as bad, but bad.
Then there's the Nordic countries, where once a year you get a form from the revenue service that says "This look right? Anything to add? Sign here" and your taxes are done.
Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •"Why doesn't that make more people as angry as it makes me?"
What are you going to do, if you support the idea of a state? Once you accept a state you accept that it can do whatever it wants, in practice, because the alternative is no state and you don't want that.
In this case it's like the state wants you to pay $100 in taxes to a state crony. So yes, historically all states are corrupt. It's a better use of your taxes than funding the military.
myrmepropagandist
in reply to Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝ • • •@richpuchalsky
Sometimes when the state does things people get angry about it. I don't see how this answers the question.
Are you saying it can't be changed? That isn't true. There is a great deal of inertia and other issues that compete for attention and time. But, there is a principle here:
There should not be third party fee for basic government services and interactions.
I am wondering if this value exists for many people.
Rich Puchalsky ⩜⃝
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •"Sometimes when the state does things people get angry about it."
I think that this gets absorbed into the general, and politically not fruitful, anger that people always feel about paying taxes.
I don't see any principle in this case at all. The state can do whatever it wants, like commit genocide. Since people don't care or can't do anything about the genocide why stand on principle about some corruption.
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There is *no reason* why it couldn't work this way in the US. Or rather there is no rational reason other than a deliberate ongoing pressure to make all government services and interactions terrible lest the people start liking anything about the process.
And the people who say "we need to privatize* it" are often behind the poor service, and deliberate Obfuscation.
*Think of the last time you were on hold. Are private companies "better"? No.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@mensrea @silvermoon82 @billiglarper no reason except for lobbying. propublica.org/article/inside-…
NZ being a mostly reasonable country also has the "we'll tell you what your taxes are" approach.
Inside TurboTax’s 20-Year Fight to Stop Americans From Filing Their Taxes for Free
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@mensrea @silvermoon82 @billiglarper There is one reason, Grover Norquist.
But, you're right, Norquist isn't rational.
Phosphenes
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •There should be a Federal tax boycott.
1. Fed taxes are the financial foundation of the oppression machine now.
2. Every service we pay taxes *for* is being dismantled.
3. The regime stupidly crippled the IRS and its ability to go after tax evaders, let 300 million at once.
And now they're making it harder to pay taxes anyway. So fuck 'em.
toerror
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I have thought GNU Taler could be interesting for payment handling.
taler.net/en/index.html
It's a system designed to provide a digital cash like protocol, in use it might actually be kind of like poker chips. It using a form of cryptography to implement it, but it's not a proof of work system like the right wing cryptocurrencies.
Customers would buy tokens from an issuer with some currency, be able to anonymously purchase items from vendors using those tokens, who then can deposit the tokens with a transaction log, and be able to redeem them for the original currency.
The developers have done some test deployments at an EU university and they've got some prototype django websites and android apps available.
I suspect the next actions are doing security review of the code, find a pool of people interested, and figure out governance and business organization issues.
I think doing modest purchases like the prices for I see for quick art commissions or donations (<$40) to a stream probably could be set up with a small business
But to really roll it out my guess would be to found a credit union, and then that could offer issuing taler tokens to it's community
Here's the NCUA documentation on founding a credit union, and they recommended figuring out your community and raising about $500,000 USD to be able to start.
ncua.gov/regulation-supervisio…
GNU Taler - Taxable Anonymous Libre Electronic Resources
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in reply to Diane • • •@alienghic @silvermoon82
This is so cool! I've never even considered the concept of a local non-profit credit union ... you know not for old people. The focus should be digital payment independence.
I assume if you try to do this someone from Mastercard comes to your house and beats you up. But I just found my old bike lock and it is very heavy.
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I think key to making this work would be having many limits on size of accounts and to keep it local so you know who is in it.
And never lend any money.
hmmm
Diane
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I absolutely think something like my work campus's stored value card would be a great use case for Taler.
For a while we could deposit money on our ID cards and then spend it at stuff like the coffee shop or the library photocopiers.
I think that's a good low risk situation to experiment with Taler.
Also one their, demos included issuing a fictitious currency "Kudos" which you could spend on FOSS projects.
So I bet one could also make up an ARG game that uses fake currency issued via Taler as digital playing pieces, for a really low risk way of experimenting.
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>But I just found my old bike lock and it is very heavy.
LOL, your family and online friends are very lucky to have you.
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When my mom became interested in bitcoin I decided to learn about it because the way that my mom works is if she wants to know about something she will get into it and you can do it with her... or she will do it on her own. I wanted to keep her safe.
So I learned how the whole thing works. I had some bitcoin left over from years ago and set up a wallet for her. We did transfers with my own code in terminal.
Fun mother-daughter bonding!
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We had to use coinbase to get the money out and that annoyed me. The alternative was going on facebook and using shady "cash for bitcoin in person" groups. *shudder*
But I can see why people had utopian ideas about the technology.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@silvermoon82 USDC is stable enough and Solana is maybe an OK solution.
Getting it in and out though, THAT is a huge problem in the USA. First, you have to use an exchange unless you want to find someone that'll trade money for coin (very possibly a criminal). They are all owned and run by terrible people. Then there's the KYC process, which is entirely automated by AI.
Could maybe partner to create a better USDC option for people. Something with real customer support and shit.
myrmepropagandist
in reply to crazyeddie • • •@crazyeddie @silvermoon82
Could this be a credit union service?
crazyeddie
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@silvermoon82 Probably. I'm not sure what, if any regulations are around USDC. Circle is the company that is mainly behind that one.
Theoretically anyone could take in USD and put out a token they promise can be cashed for USD. Getting people to accept it though...
I would really like an actual bank account that held USDC but the choices there are VERY limited in the US. You may need to get e-residency somewhere for that, though I did find a CU a couple hund miles away that may
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •I looked into streaming some months ago, and some #Peertube instances seem to allow it. There is also #Owncast , but that looked like too much effort for my purposes.
I don't know of any #Fediverse equivalent of #Discord , however.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •The problem with twitch is the enormous bandwidth and computing power needed to distribute the stream all over the world in close to real time. Chat-interaction seems to bring many people to the platform. And that gets increasingly difficult the longer the delay between streamer and viewer becomes. Open P2P platforms start with an extreme disadvantage in that regard.
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in reply to Gib 🐒🌈🇺🇦 • • •@Gib 🐒🌈🇺🇦 @myrmepropagandist I disagree with your initial assessment. Discord's value proposition isn't its IRC-like channel feature or built-in video/audio chat, but the seamless Single Sign-On experience once you've created your account when you want to join an additional server. Until this is possible with Revolt (and this post in the same thread suggests it isn't yet), Discord won't be easy to replace.
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I've looked into this sort of stuff a few times, and have come to the same conclusion pretty much every time: none of the payment infrastructure (both technical and legal) is remotely built for self-hosting.
Even if you add support for a particular reasonable-API-having payment provider, or even multiple, it's always going to limit who can actually use that feature due to region-specific coverage, sanctions, and so on. And even if that somehow works out, under a lot of circumstances you take on additional tax liabilities by actually doing so because payment processors simply will not give you an account without a company registration, usually. Not to mention all the verification processes.
Specifically for micropayments there's an additional problem: platforms can make these happen because they do a single charge for multiple bundled payments (to different creators), or even just operate a prepaid balance thing (which itself also has extra tax liabilities). This is necessary because most payment methods have base per-transaction costs that are like $0.50, so anything smaller than $2 isn't even really worth processing. But when you self-host, there's nothing to bundle *with* and so that's going to eat into your revenue significantly.
So... is it *possible* to integrate payments and/or donations into FOSS software? With a lot of effort and headaches, yeah, possibly. Can it be competitive financially/administratively with the big platforms if you do? Probably not.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •People ask about FOSS alternatives to Discord a lot, and there really isn't a viable alternative. The main things Discord has going for it are a common interface for text, voice, and video chat, and a good set of moderation tools. I can't think of anything else that does all that.
The most frequently mentioned candidate is Matrix, but Matrix has many problems. It has practically no moderation tools, and while ostensibly designed for self-hosting, has exceedingly high resource usage.
DannekRose
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •As purely informational, PeerTube has optional monetization plugins, but the only one of those plugins I feel is viable currently is a premium content plugin that works with a Stripe account to accept payment for a subscription. PeerTube has live streaming but is harder to self-host than Owncast. I currently use PeerTube now but have used Owncast before.
As for Discord alternatives, I think XMPP with the Movim front end works well. It’s way more lightweight than Matrix and allows you to also blog with it if you want. There are some easy to self host XMPP servers.
Someone already mentioned webmonitization which is powered by Interledger which I agree could offer some options, but I think it needs a lot of buy-in from a LOT of financial institutions before it gets to a point that it could offer a way to survive financially for users. I don’t know too many details though.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •To the monetization question specifically: I have seen that pixelfed is planning on integrating webmonetization.org/ for monetization.
It looks like that's a draft standard but if it does start to take off, it would make a huge difference in the space.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •payment processing is essentially a no go besides pretty much just paying a company a lot of money to do it for you because payment processors do not allow sensible usage
Also there's tax issues and whatnot
That is all to say, most folks just stay away from payment things. The only thing possible to impl without paying anyone is cryptocurrency.
As for FOSS discord, there are many attempts. I wouldn't say any had success.
As for streaming, it's a pretty difficult problem. Huge amounts of bandwidth needed, depending on how many concurrent streams you want.
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It's to tickle those kinds of ideas that I keep bringing this kind of thing up.
estelle
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •in the mid-2000s, that would be irc and shoutcast (and if you wanted live chat you'd just run the channel name in your stream somewhere and people will join)
if you needed a bigger pipe, someone runs a relay and the audience connects to that instead
somehow, technology has gone _backwards_ from there
Dale Hagglund
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •If it's been mentioned already, I apologize for the repetition, but as far as an alternative for discord, maybe check out www.discourse.org? I know little about it, at least in any detail, but it's a modern take on forum software. You can pay for hosting, but it appears to be open source and self hostable. Also, you can start with paid hosting to experiment with it and migrate to self hosting later if desired with, I believe, help from their support team, although I suspect that support isn't included in the basic plan.
One of the cofounders is Jeff Atwood, @codinghorror, who can no doubt correct any egregious errors I've made above.
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in reply to Dale Hagglund • • •Michael K Johnson
in reply to Dale Hagglund • • •@DaleHagglund @codinghorror Discourse is open source forum software to which chat functionality has been added; Discord is a chat service to which forum functionality has been added. The difference shows in the implementation.
Discourse is open source and well maintained. It's thoughtfully designed to help foster and grow a community. It's not hard to self-host, and there are multiple sources of full-service hosting. It has a Subscriptions plug-in that integrates with Stripe I think, though I haven't deployed it myself.
Unlike with WordPress, the company that builds Discourse (Civilized Discourse Construction Kit) works actively and cooperatively with multiple third parties that host and extend Discourse, including recommending their services and even sponsoring outside parties' work on the code.
It's a really shining example of how to do open source right.
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Can it support real-time chat with video? How good is at doing that?
Michael K Johnson
in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •@DaleHagglund @codinghorror Discord does not have video chat built in; the integrated chat feature is text chat. The plug-in ecosystem supports both major open source video chat platforms I'm aware of:
meta.discourse.org/t/jitsi-vid…
meta.discourse.org/t/bigbluebu…
I have not used either, so I don't have experience with deploying them, but they are available. If I were starting out from scratch today to build something like this for a community site, based only on my gist of what I remember hearing/reading from others, I'd try jitsi first.
In both cases, you need to follow the documentation for the chat platform (Jitsi or BigBlueButton) to set it up for self-hosting, then use the plug-in to integrate it into Discourse.
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in reply to myrmepropagandist • • •there are several OSS discord-likes, the one I use is Matrix/Element. The dev team for "Tusky" makes heavy use of self hosted Matrix. Everyone I know who runs Matrix servers complains about the product quality tho.
The open source Twitch alike I'm currently trying out is stream.place . I've done one successful stream there already. The one thing I don't like is it is partially built on top of Bluesky which creates awkwardness.
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