Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 20

... and in #GoodNews, not every #virus is bad for us.

"One particular area of interest is the triggering of genes from viruses integrated in our own genetic material. These endogenous viruses make up some 8 percent of our genetic material. Originally, they were thought to be nothing more than junk pieces of evolutionary history. But we now know they have a variety of functions"
- #JasonTetro
https://www.popsci.com/our-viral-friends/

@galaxis a younger member of my family is in a town where nobody is allowed to leave their home due to the first COVID-19 death in #Aotearoa being in that region. The only way they can get anything is home delivery.
@wolf480pl @kensanata

Just discovered a #UK #comedy #TV show called '#Ghosts', made by the team who made #Yonderland. Both shows are pretty funny.

@wizzwizz4 the standard copyrightist apologia goes like this. With print books, libraries have to buy a copy from the publisher approved by the author, and can only lend it out to one person at a time. So they ought to do the same with #eBooks, or negotiate a copyright licence that allows them to do the unrestricted lending the #InternetArchive is now doing (one that presumably costs much more per book).
@Matter

@sheogorath why not? Don't most major server maintainers keep backups?

Accusing a popular protest movement of engaging in terrorist attacks is a timeworn state strategy for trying to corrode public support for the movement, and engineer splits between its moderate and radical factions:
https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/03/28/hong-kongs-terrorism-alert-credible-serious-threat-bid-smear-protest-movement/

#HongKong

@clacke the best indie film out of #Aotearoa since 'Bad Taste'.

@clacke have you not seen 'What We Do in the Shadows'? It's a classic.

Minogue: "We could drown them. If they survive, we know they're witches, then we burn 'em"

O'Leary: "Minogue, Minogue, we don't, we don't do that to women any more."

Minogue: "Yeah, you're right."

#WellingtonParanormal, episode 2. Gold.

@bamfic
> ISTR Pleroma adding AP C2S support

That would be great. Then the devs of third-party apps would have a reason to implement it alongside the Mastodon API, and if that happened, more AP servers would have a greater motivation to implement it too.

@bamfic totally agree. The underlying problem in medical tech is pretty much the same as in digital tech. Which suggests that the solution is the same, research and development commons, built collaboratively by #PlatformCooperatives, NGOs, and #SocialEnterprises, which allow the regulatory burdens to be widely shared. A lot of regulatory processes could be carried out in stages, throughout open development, instead of being a bottleneck at the end.

@bamfic following this analysis:
https://davelane.nz/tech-marketing-listen-ignore-research

... the heavy marketing suggests the patent treadmill pushes their development priorities towards products that are the most saleable, and away from the products that are the most necessary.

@bamfic probably by getting rid of most marketing of drugs and other medical products? A number of papers have been published indicating that pharmaceutical companies spend more on marketing than on medical research:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080105140107.

htm@hirojin@dev.glitch.social

@bamfic you could try asking at socialhub.activitypub.rocks ?
All fediverse #S2C implementations I'm aware of (including #Pleroma AFAIK) follow the #Mastodon API, not the AP S2C spec.

@bamfic if the entire economy of a region depends on creating artificial scarcity in life-saving products, it deserves nothing less than collapsing into a smouldering crater. The sooner the better. There are definitely better uses for the time and skills of most people currently employed in those industries.
@hirojin

@dielan I hope it was clear that my post was a suggestion about what you could present at FOSDEM, *not* a prediction that your talk would be full of serious, embarrassing mistakes ;)

@lightweight Okay, I'd love to give it a try.

Found on PeerTube, the full album of 'Proper Tea is Theft' by Portugal-based #anarchist #FolkPunk band #SharpKnives:
https://video.gafamfree.party/videos/watch/f7ce4e46-d0ab-4a76-b06b-e6d03e2376ae

#music #FullAlbum

The internet *is* the One World Government. Discuss.
http://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Organic_Internet