Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 146

@jkb Anyone who has seen someone try to give up an opioid substance, or seen a friend convince themselves they have a flu so they can go get some codeine, knows how addictive opioids are. Anyone who has known long-term junkies know how hard regular opioid use is on the body, and the mind.

@jkb OK, but it seems to me that these are all edge cases. If it remains true that there are substances that when taken for more than a certain length of time, most people experience chemical dependence, and have to go through a physically unpleasant process of withdrawal when they stop. Caffeine, nicotine, and alcohol are all this category, and opioids have one of the shortest windows for establishing dependence, and most unpleasant withdrawal symptoms. Unless you have evidence this is wrong?

@mlg so keeping in mind that we're talking about economic rents, as they apply to the conversion of land and buildings into real estate, maybe reread my comment here. Because I feel like your response opened up an interesting theoretical side discussion, but didn't really engage with the point I was making:
https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@strypey/101205031419961278

@z428 if there's anything we can learn from the failures of XMPP, it's that federation protocols are an implementation detail that users, for the most part, do not and will never care about. So just making federated clones of the proprietary silos of the day is not good enough. Free code app developers need to be engaging directly with users, to find out what they want that the datafarms are *not* giving them. This is part of what I hope the #OpenAppEcosystem group can do
@charlag @lightone

@z428 I was a champion of #Jabber / #XMPP from very early on, and managed to get a few people using it at one point. It wasn't intended a replacement for #WhatsApp (which wasn't created until at least a decade later), but for the IM (Instant Messaging) silos popular at the time; ICQ, AIM, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger etc. Nobody really uses those anymore either, and there are a number of reasons for the decline of that style of IM, and thus of XMPP.
@charlag @lightone

@colomar ae, there are so many, and they seem so self-evident to me, I didn't think it was worth listing them. If someone disagrees, and claims they are all equivalent, I'm happy to go into the differences in detail, but I suggest they watch the #YochaiBenkler keynote from #Wikimania first:
https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=4PUaZlvIuQk

@RangerMauve sounds you'd know better than I would. But it also sounds like an area where PeerTube could maybe be improved? If comments are federated with AP, I imagine it ought to be possible to associate them with each copy of the same video on the PT network. I have no idea how the plumbing of that would work though.

@clacke Dare to Be Stupid was in the 80s Transformers movie? Huh. Sounds like it's about time I gave it a rewatch ;-) Yeah. Bumblebee movie has nothing to do with Michael Bay, right?

@clacke @adfeno if the whole 'Russians hacked the US election' story is to be believed, online voting systems are not required to allow election results to be manipulated using networks.

@alcinnz @HerraBRE @hexmasteen @alexl @Blort it depends a lot on form factor too. People are much more comfortable install native apps on mobile OS, because the "app store" #UX makes that seem safe and easy. On desktop OS, installing native apps can be difficult and seem risky, so users tend to go for web apps. Web apps usually have much better UX for getting users set up, compared to the painful, hair-pulling exercise of setting up native apps. That has an impact on user preferences too.

@LibertyPaulM it's not even like shooting fish in a barrel. It's like shooting fish poked down the end of the gun you're shooting them with ;-P

@LWFlouisa hey you're doing that responding to unrelated posts thing again. Does the client you're using not allow you to see posts in the context of the threads they were replies to? I'm just wondering, could there is something different in the UI at your end that obscures the difference I see at this end?

@jeffcliff one thing that occurred to me as I reread it, in the context of the moves towards goverments making un-compromised crypto illegal in the #5Eyes countries, is that this campaign is more relevant than ever ...

@jeffcliff CoActivate server seems to be back to normal today. I just reorganized that page a bit. Any thoughts?

@jkb
> "At this point, we do not know whether their high remission rate at 8 to 12 months after return will be long lasting. To learn this, we are planning to reinterview these veterans after they have been home three years."

Was this done? Where is the article on this follow-up study?

@jkb thanks, I'll have a skim. That link didn't work for me, but here's the #DOI for that article:
https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.64.12_Suppl.38

@teslas_moustache why's that? I don't tend to read #Vice, but a lot of good short documentaries get made and published under their branding. For example, there was that #MotherboardTV one on the sadly defunct #FreeNetworkFoundation, and an excellent one on the synthetic cannabinoid addiction epidemic in Aotearoa (NZ).

@teslas_moustache you forgot to mention the main business of "Natural News" appears to be selling snake oil tablets of various kinds. Peddling climate change obfuscation is just a hobby of theirs I guess ;-)

@teslas_moustache @klaatu > PDF kinda needs to die anyway

Why do you say that? It covers a much wide range of use cases than .epub. It's a #CommonFormat now that the relevant patents have expired, supported by a wide range of #FreeCode apps. Whereas I've had a lot of trouble finding free code apps that can open and properly render .epub files.

@teslas_moustache @klaatu Is #PageTurner in F-Droid?