Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 179

@natecull @enkiv2 @popefucker I read a great blog piece by a philosophy scholar (if memory serves) who explained that no matter how awesome a digital simulation of a person's mind you could create, it can't ever be an "upload" of that person, for the same reason even the best digital simulation of a storm can't ever be wet. At best, "transhuman" AIs would be #DigitalMummies (in the Egyptian sense of mummy)

@natecull @enkiv2 @popefucker I haven't read Kevin Kelly's nonfiction but I did read a graphic novel he wrote, which I thought was pretty cool. This discussion is starting to make me wonder if I'm actually a techbro. Am I am techbro? :-\

#HumanConnection is yet another existing project now considering adding support for #ActivityPub. AP #ForTheWin!
https://github.com/Human-Connection/WebApp/issues/318

@TheGibson @remotenemesis Jeff Noon is awesome. Vurt and Automated Alice are particularly cool.

@mike ok, so replacing this with something that is federation protocols might actually improve the situation for sites running packages like Known?

@wolftune no, I got your point, it's just orthogonal to the point I'm making :-)

@bhaugen @mlg @xj9 BTW this thread now confirms the law that on a long enough time scale, any discussion among permies eventually arrives at composting toilets :-P

@bhaugen @mlg @xj9 ae, I remember seeing a humanure system with an underground bio-gas digester on a permaculture TV series hosted by the late Bill Mollison, maybe Global Gardener?

@CharredStencil @Wolf480pl

http://commoncrawl.org/big-picture/frequently-asked-questions/
#CommonCrawl looks cool, thanks for the tip. There is also #YaCy which is a distributed search engine.

Just subscribed to a podcast (#librelounge) for maybe the first time ever, using my mobile and the #AntennaPod app from F-Droid.

@jorty go pee? :-P

@_cr0_tab I cannot use your abacus, you may have it back :-P

@cassidyjames any chance of doing a version of your survey on a free code platform like LimeSurvey or SandForms for those of us who prefer to avoid being milked by #DataFarms?

@cassidyjames I would totally fill this out, and boost it for you, if it wasn't on a gOgle form :-(

@polymerwitch I'm starting to do some updates on the #ActivityPub watchlist for fediverse.party. I notice Acorde never got past the initial commits on GH. Did you move dev elsewhere, or just haven't had time to work on it?

@gcupc have you looked into any of the newer fediverse software that is more blog orientated? #Hubzilla for example, or newer ones like @write_as, #Plume, or #FediBlog? Do you think as more people start using these, the conversational culture of the fediverse might start having pockets that are more like UseNet/ mailing lists?

@gcupc so the experience was more like mailing lists than a microblog network? I first jacked in just a bit too late for UseNet (mid-90s), but I have similar memories of mailing lists. The only thing I've used recently that comes close, with the right bunch of people and the right subject areas, is #Loomio groups.

@danyork hmm. That's well before the AP spec was published, so nothing to do with that (was wondering if the spam was connected to attempts to join the #fediverse). #WebMention you say. Is that the same thing as #WebFinger? If not, does it do something similar?

@RandomDamage @Wolf480pl @CharredStencil ok, so that answers the first part of the question, what about the second part (how this will help)? Ideally as it relates to the answer you just gave.