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1. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 12:03:03 EDT Hypolite Petovan
   Super Nova >>> Lower Avon
2. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 11:44:43 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   How do I know that a Meta engineer is working from home in my apartment building? Probably the unclaimed-for-days bubble mailer in the shared package room addressed to "[redacted] Meta Platforms, Inc" that has sticker labels on it saying it includes a Yubico pass key and an "Open Me First" document.

   #OpSec

   • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 16:03:38 EDT Hypolite Petovan
     @Tek aEvl It's because @wilhelm is using iceshrimp. Friendica records the reactions but for now it isn't possible to leave them from Friendica.
3. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Tuesday, 08-Oct-2024 15:11:01 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   My company's latest internal training about business ethics contains this uncut gem:
   

   Keep in mind...

   ... if you’ve indicated where you work on your personal social media, people online might reach out to your employer to complain about your online actions.

   
   Compared to the rest of the training, the more informal tone of this tidbit with the ellipses makes me think it was a last minute addition after Things Had Happened.
4. Joshua Judson Rosen (rozzin@status.hackerposse.com)'s status on Tuesday, 01-Oct-2024 22:16:17 EDT Joshua Judson Rosen

   • New Hampshire
   An event not to be missed: the complete restored Metropolis, with an unforgettable soundtrack _performed live_ by the amazing Jeff Rapsis https://thecolonial.org/event/film-event-metropolis-with-music-by-jeff-rapsis/
   Oct 9 in Keene, !NH
5. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 18:15:10 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   I finally pulled the trigger and bought a second-hand copy of the #LEGO 71411 The Mighty Bowser set lego.com/en-us/product/the-mig…. And at almost 3,000 parts, it’s a hefty chonker. On the plus side, his eyes and eyebrows are posable, for delightfully silly effects. On the minus side, without the by-bag sorting of a new set, the paper instructions have a terrible color palette and I made several color errors during the build, which made me think I was missing more parts than I actually did.

   In the end, the set looks pretty close from the original #Nintendo subject and my main issue will be to find a spot in my apartment for this large and rather heavy model.

   friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos…
6. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 17:38:54 EDT Hypolite Petovan

   Quoted anonymously because I do not want to hurt their feelings, to the question whether we’re the only intelligent life form in the Universe:
   

   […]the arrogance required to assume we're unique in the vastness of the universe seems deeply human to me.

   
   I’d argue that mainly basing oneself on a perceived humanity trait to answer a question that has been asked so many times that we probably have a pretty good statistical model for it seems equally human to me.

   Not saying they’re wrong, but the arrogant ones might not be wrong either just because they’re arrogant.
7. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Monday, 30-Sep-2024 18:49:10 EDT Brian Ó

   I'm going to see #Heilung in #Dublin this April, but I'm probably going to stick around in #Ireland for a while too see the sights. If anyone has any suggestions, they'd be appreciated.
8. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 17:32:25 EDT Brian Ó

   Hey @[Brad Koehn ☑️](http://social.gibberfish.org/people/349ab82134669a3b), you seem to know a lot about aviation. I have a question for you. Yesterday when I was on a flight, the plane was within seconds of touching down when we climbed again, circled, and came in for a second landing attempt. The pilot eventually told us that there was another plane on the runway, which was -- concerning. Do you know if these kind of things are filed publicly with some federal agency? I'd like to know the details of what actually happened.
9. ploum (ploum@mamot.fr)'s status on Thursday, 26-Sep-2024 13:21:18 EDT ploum

   Did you know?

   To publicly acknowledge the fact that an artificial intelligence was used during the writing of a scientific paper, scientists add "et AI" (with AI in Latin) at the end of the list of authors.

   • Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) repeated this.
10. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 09:22:31 EDT Hypolite Petovan
    @Ed Right, I have had a newfangled interest for him since the midlaner tournament in BetBoom Dacha that he almost won from the position 4! I’m not familiar with his past though, please feel free to forward me relevant interview clips!
    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 10:36:06 EDT Hypolite Petovan
      @Ed Thanks!
11. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Sep-2024 11:48:33 EDT Hypolite Petovan
    #MiniReview #VideoGames Airborne Kingdom (2020) is a contemplative city builder with an Arabic aesthetic that works well without overdoing it. The city planning is pretty forgiving thanks to the move feature even if it isn't always free, and while the main story can be done in less than 10 hours, the optional content and the sandbox mode should satisfy any further desire to play.
12. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 19:35:33 EDT Hypolite Petovan
    Periodical reminder there's no objective hypocrisy in people, everybody is always internally consistent. So accusations of hypocrisy reveals more about the accuser who doesn't have (or doesn’t want to get) a grasp on this consistency than about the accused.
    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Saturday, 21-Sep-2024 19:52:24 EDT Hypolite Petovan

      • anubis2814
      @anubis2814 That can be an aspect of it, but then it becomes easy to switch from accusing people of hypocrisy to accusing people of cognitive dissonance and we've learned nothing. Some people just don't have the same core values as ourselves, and so judging their opinions based on our values will always yield a flawed analysis.
    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 08:36:56 EDT Hypolite Petovan

      • Jonathan Lamothe
      @Jonathan Lamothe Of course, but that’s subjective hypocrisy, you’re judging yourself based on your own values, which is fine by me. I do it too.
    • Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 08:40:46 EDT Hypolite Petovan

      • Brian Ó
      @Brian Ó Sure, there can be willful or intentional hypocrisy, but I feel like it can be more accurately described by “lies”, “political calculus”, etc… As the person doing it is still internally consistent throughout the process.
13. Hubert Chathi (hubert@social.uhoreg.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 19:27:13 EDT Hubert Chathi
    Just found out (via infosec.exchange/@racheltobac/…) about LinkedIn automatically opting-in (almost) everyone to having their data used to train generative AI. Checked my settings to turn it off, and I also noticed that they had opted me into having my data used for "social, economic, and workplace research".
14. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 17:03:22 EDT Brian Ó

    Does anyone here use #AWX? I just had AAP pitched at me by some Red Hat sales people and they made it sound like RH has deliberately hamstrung the project to force people behind their paywall.

    #awx #aap #ansible #redhat #linux
15. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Wednesday, 11-Sep-2024 13:54:44 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    “They were so preoccupied whether they could do it that they didn’t stop to wonder whether they should do it.”
    
    

    ♲ @kaiserkiwi@corteximplant.com: No Samsung. Just no. Nobody asked for this.

    #IFA2024
    
16. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Sunday, 15-Sep-2024 12:38:42 EDT Hypolite Petovan
    I’ve long wanted to write a joke about object permanence, but I keep forgetting it exists.
17. Hypolite Petovan (hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:27:36 EDT Hypolite Petovan

    Last week someone contacted me out of the blue in my #LEGO BrickLink store to offer me money for the design files of the Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) “Bigfoot” vehicle they found a picture of in Google Search.

    I was surprised because I only posted about it on here, and my Friendica node isn’t indexed by Google. It turns out Google indexed a copy of my post on a Diaspora server diasp.org/posts/22954129, and through the #LEGO hashtag it contained, found another post by me where I promoted my BrickLink storefront store.bricklink.com/MrPetovan.

    Here’s the thing, I can’t find this post anymore on my own Friendica node, which is a little sad and worrying, but I’m glad it lives on in the larger decentralized social media network it is a part of.

    I ended up spending a couple of hours cleaning the design and working on the instructions and I sent the result free of charge to the requester which made him happy.

    Here it is on my NextCloud server nextcloud.mrpetovan.com/index.… if you’re interested, the ZIP archive includes a Stud.io file and the instructions PDF. It’s loosely based on another MOC that I bought on Rebrickable so I’m not sure I can submit it over there but I can distribute it here.

    I didn’t include a separate XML parts list file since the requester didn’t ask for it, please let me know if you’d need it.

    friendica.mrpetovan.com/photos…
18. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 02:04:08 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    $ date -d @1800000000 +%F
    2027-01-15

    Will try to remember!

    Is anyone running a fedi bot for reminders? I seem to remember someone was.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 05:47:58 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
      @Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: I have too, but trust a stranger's bot more than the survival of my phone install and data. 🤣
19. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 01:03:44 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    The two common Pokemon evolution chains are:
    - Ev 1 –25 candy–> Ev 2 –100 candy–> Ev 3
    - Ev 1 –50 candy–> Ev 2 (no Ev 3)

    And then there are some uncommon ones like 200 or 400 candy from Ev 1 to Ev 2.

    Are there any that take 50 candy or more from Ev 1 to Ev 2, but still have an Ev 3?

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 12-Sep-2024 05:13:13 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      Ha! And the very same day I ask, I stumble over an example:

      Roggenrola –50 candy–> Boldore –200 candy–> Gigalith

      db.pokemongohub.net/pokemon/52…

      So my question now is: Is it the only one?

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 03:29:43 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      Teddiursa –50 candy–> Ursaring –100 candy–> Ursaluna

      db.pokemongohub.net/pokemon/21…

20. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 01:24:46 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Greta Thunberg about herself and her activism, sorting out some straight facts, five years ago:

    archive.is/cvpoU

    facebook.com/732846497083173/p…

    As the rumours, lies and constant leaving out of well established facts continue, please share this newly updated clarification about me and my school strike.

    Please help me communicate this to the grown ups who lie about me and family so that I can focus on school instead:

    Recently I’ve seen many rumors circulating about me and enormous amounts of hate. This is no surprise to me. I know that since most people are not aware of the full meaning of the climate crisis (which is understandable since it has never been treated as a crisis) a school strike for the climate would seem very strange to people in general.

    So let me make some things clear about my school strike.

    In may 2018 I was one of the winners in a writing competition about the environment held by Svenska Dagbladet, a Swedish newspaper. I got my article published and some people contacted me, among others was Bo Thorén from Fossil Free Dalsland. He had some kind of group with people, especially youth, who wanted to do something about the climate crisis.

    I had a few phone meetings with other activists. The purpose was to come up with ideas of new projects that would bring attention to the climate crisis. Bo had a few ideas of things we could do. Everything from marches to a loose idea of some kind of a school strike (that school children would do something on the schoolyards or in the classrooms). That idea was inspired by the Parkland Students, who had refused to go to school after the school shootings.

    I liked the idea of a school strike. So I developed that idea and tried to get the other young people to join me, but no one was really interested. They thought that a Swedish version of the Zero Hour march was going to have a bigger impact. So I went on planning the school strike all by myself and after that I didn’t participate in any more meetings.

    When I told my parents about my plans they weren’t very fond of it. They did not support the idea of school striking and they said that if I were to do this I would have to do it completely by myself and with no support from them.
    On the 20 of august I sat down outside the Swedish Parliament. I handed out fliers with a long list of facts about the climate crisis and explanations on why I was striking. The first thing I did was to post on Twitter and Instagram what I was doing and it soon went viral. Then journalists and newspapers started to come. A Swedish entrepreneur and business man active in the climate movement, Ingmar Rentzhog, was among the first to arrive. He spoke with me and took pictures that he posted on Facebook. That was the first time I had ever met or spoken with him. I had not communicated or encountered with him ever before.

    Many people love to spread rumors saying that I have people ”behind me” or that I’m being ”paid” or ”used” to do what I’m doing. But there is no one ”behind” me except for myself. My parents were as far from climate activists as possible before I made them aware of the situation.
    I am not part of any organization. I sometimes support and cooperate with several NGOs that work with the climate and environment. But I am absolutely independent and I only represent myself. And I do what I do completely for free, I have not received any money or any promise of future payments in any form at all. And nor has anyone linked to me or my family done so.
    And of course it will stay this way. I have not met one single climate activist who is fighting for the climate for money. That idea is completely absurd.

    Furthermore I only travel with permission from my school and my parents pay for tickets and accommodations.

    My family has written a book together about our family and how me and my sister Beata have influenced my parents way of thinking and seeing the world, especially when it comes to the climate. And about our diagnoses.
    That book was due to be released in May. But since there was a major disagreement with the book company, we ended up changing to a new publisher and so the book was released in august instead.

    Before the book was released my parents made it clear that their possible profits from the book ”Scener ur hjärtat” will be going to 8 different charities working with environment, children with diagnoses and animal rights.

    And yes, I write my own speeches. But since I know that what I say is going to reach many, many people I often ask for input. I also have a few scientists that I frequently ask for help on how to express certain complicated matters. I want everything to be absolutely correct so that I don’t spread incorrect facts, or things that can be misunderstood.

    Some people mock me for my diagnosis. But Asperger is not a disease, it’s a gift. People also say that since I have Asperger I couldn’t possibly have put myself in this position. But that’s exactly why I did this. Because if I would have been ”normal” and social I would have organized myself in an organisation, or started an organisation by myself. But since I am not that good at socializing I did this instead. I was so frustrated that nothing was being done about the climate crisis and I felt like I had to do something, anything. And sometimes NOT doing things - like just sitting down outside the parliament - speaks much louder than doing things. Just like a whisper sometimes is louder than shouting.

    Also there is one complaint that I ”sound and write like an adult”. And to that I can only say; don’t you think that a 16-year old can speak for herself? There’s also some people who say that I oversimplify things. For example when I say that "the climate crisis is a black and white issue”, ”we need to stop the emissions of greenhouse gases” and ”I want you to panic”. But that I only say because it’s true. Yes, the climate crisis is the most complex issue that we have ever faced and it’s going to take everything from our part to ”stop it”. But the solution is black and white; we need to stop the emissions of greenhouse gases.

    Because either we limit the warming to 1,5 degrees C over pre industrial levels, or we don’t. Either we reach a tipping point where we start a chain reaction with events way beyond human control, or we don’t. Either we go on as a civilization, or we don’t. There are no gray areas when it comes to survival.

    And when I say that I want you to panic I mean that we need to treat the crisis as a crisis. When your house is on fire you don’t sit down and talk about how nice you can rebuild it once you put out the fire. If your house is on fire you run outside and make sure that everyone is out while you call the fire department. That requires some level of panic.

    There is one other argument that I can’t do anything about. And that is the fact that I’m ”just a child and we shouldn’t be listening to children.” But that is easily fixed - just start to listen to the rock solid science instead. Because if everyone listened to the scientists and the facts that I constantly refer to - then no one would have to listen to me or any of the other hundreds of thousands of school children on strike for the climate across the world. Then we could all go back to school.

    I am just a messenger, and yet I get all this hate. I am not saying anything new, I am just saying what scientists have repeatedly said for decades. And I agree with you, I’m too young to do this. We children shouldn’t have to do this. But since almost no one is doing anything, and our very future is at risk, we feel like we have to continue.

    And if you have any other concern or doubt about me, then you can listen to my TED talk ( ted.com/talks/greta_thunberg_t… ), in which I talk about how my interest for the climate and environment began.

    And thank you everyone for your kind support! It brings me hope.
    /Greta

    Ps I was briefly a youth advisor for the board of the non profit foundation “We don’t have time”. It turns out they used my name as part of another branch of their organisation that is a start up business. They have admitted clearly that they did so without the knowledge of me or my family. I no longer have any connection to “We don’t have time”. Nor does anyone in my family. They have deeply apologised for what has happened and I have accepted their apology.

    #GretaThunberg #ClimateChange

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 14-Sep-2024 02:08:06 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to
      Maybe this is a good thing to repost every five years or so? Some people just can't fathom a person wanting a good thing and taking action without some ulterior motive and/or some dark forces behind. I believe that Thunberg is genuine and authentic, and I believe that what she is doing is having an effect and is important.