https://www.rescue.org/article/it-legal-cross-us-border-seek-asylum

exiftool?

Recently I’ve found green tea to be amazing and without the jitteryness of coffee. There are many kinds to try, all quite different!

Ah, so that’s what the Philippines colony was about.

Imagine the logistics of this. 1st and 2nd phases, ok, I guess. But the 3rd and 4th would be 10x the land area. Ambitious… If those planners had played just 1 game of Risk they’d never contemplate this.

Really great tool, thanks! A few questions…

In the commands, will {instance} always be rss.ponder.cat?

Is the full process:

1. create account on rss.ponder cat
2. create community using new account
3. send message to add rss feed(s)

Or do you make the communities and then we add feeds to them?

Does each message need to have only one command?

Every situation is so different that you really need professional advice.

Insulation boards are fixed to the exterior brickwork of a house and then coated in render.

Whaaat. That was never going to work long term.

We’re working on it :)

I miss real scrollbars. Good chonky ones. Also corners you can grab n drag.

I don’t miss the terrible alignment and lack of padding, however. Goddam.

Half of them use their real name. Also a lot of them are sharing links to content they’ve posted using their personal FB account or whatever. They don’t even try to have any opsec because they don’t think they’re doing anything wrong.

All this talk of encryption and sopenas is mostly pointless - all the police need to do is join any of the Telegram channels and see the evidence for themselves, like in this case - https://www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/350438242/man-who-wanted-build-gallows-hear-jacinda-arderns-neck-snap-guilty-threats-kill

No doubt there are private channels but there’s absolutely no shortage of criminal stuff happening out in the open.

Lemmy communities and Mastodon profiles both produce a RSS feed of posts. I’m sure there is a RSS-to-email service that would do the trick.

You could try to find an open source project to contribute to? That’ll get give you a nice big codebase to grapple with.

There is no universally good investment - it all depends on your priorities, risk appetite and timeframe.

Middle Eastern money

Something tells me the Saudis don’t want AI for the betterment of all humanity.

Could be the human rights abuses, dunno.

10 thousand people marching would make world headlines.

No, it wouldn’t. Protest is totally normalized now, it’s just a pressure release valve that helps keep the status quo running.

Here is a protest that happened today - https://cloudisland.nz/@simplicitarian/113212289035494255

Apparently it involved between 20,000 to 30,000 people - https://cloudisland.nz/@simplicitarian/113212686270895144

It will not be mentioned in any big news media outside of New Zealand.

I appreciate the author taking a swing at this topic. She suggests these values:

fostering genuine connection
protecting privacy and enforcing consent
championing accessibility

I think she’s obviously right about the first value but the others are less clear. There’s certainly groups on Mastodon who are keen on privacy, consent and accessibility but if you look at the features of the apps and how they’re constructed I don’t feel like those are really core values. ActivityPub is a privacy nightmare and most apps have between ghastly to ok accessibility.

It’s hard to pick out values that we all share because of the inherently chaotic nature of it. Perhaps that’s a value tho - diversity.

There’s a pretty strong anti-capitalist theme that comes up a lot. At it’s best, this is a “people before economy” value, a pro-democracy, a pro-life (in the literal sense), pro-freedom value. No billionaire can buy the fediverse and shape it in their singular vision.

The federated nature of things means people can find their own instance to call home, one that suits them and their kin without losing access to all the goodies of the wider network. Is this a value? What is the word for it? Self-actualization?

…and yet, here we are talking about climate change. If they’d instead organized a protest of 10,000 people marching for hours it wouldn’t have been international news and we wouldn’t be talking about climate change.

Context https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-remove-non-profit-control-give-sam-altman-equity-sources-say-2024-09-25/

The only issue is controlling Alex Jones. He’s too batshit to ever work under anyone and without him most of the value evaporates.

So now it’s up to rich people to decide if Alex Jones gets to stay on the air. Will asshole rich people who want him to continue buy it or will some nice rich people buy it to shut him down?