Notices by Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz), page 54

@wjmaggos it also talks about how if those three men hadn't sacrificed their lives by opening the sluice gates, and the reactor had flash heated that water, it would have blown up the other three reactors and rendered Ukraine and Belarus unihabitable for centuries. Nuclear power creates the same level of environmental risk as burning fossil fuels. It's insane to create more.
@djsumdog @RandomDamage

@wjmaggos I think even that is a massive underestimate. But the biggest danger of radiation is not the people it kills directly. Everyone who was within cooee of Chernobyl during or after the accident had their lives shortened. The podcast that accompanies the Chernobyl mini-series talks about how people marching in May Day parades in nearby cities were exposed to dangerous levels of fallout:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUeHPCYtWYQ
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@djsumdog @RandomDamage

@wjmaggos it's basically the same line the copyright mafia ran, but using white supremacists as boogieman instead of paedophiles. The strategy appears to be to recruit liberal culture warriors, instead of conservative curtain-twitchers, as useful idiots against their own internet freedom. Freedom we *need* to expose the misdeeds of states, corporations, and datafarming companies. Who I suspect are cooking up this PR to hobble potential competition, whether commercial outfits or civil society.

@wjmaggos here's another example of that agenda in action:
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wjvp8y/minds-the-anti-facebook-has-no-idea-what-to-do-about-all-the-neo-nazis

Right at the end, they admit that Minds is creating a safe, uncensored space for non-US users organizing against oppressive governments. But the rest of the article is all about how white supremacists exploit the tools that allow that to happen, implying that's what they're designed for, or that Minds don't care. Peppered with comments about what a great moderation job the datafarms are doing. Something stinks.

@teaneedz have you had a look around their GitLab instance?
https://git.jami.net/savoirfairelinux

Or their docs?
https://docs.jami.net/

@jessmahler sorry, that was a sloppy use of words. Copyright implications of public social media posts are a whole other rabbit hole ;)

@clacke Jami = #Ring. New name. When did you try it last?

> This is a conundrum for p2p communications

... with devices that depend on battery power. True. Although I think it has as much to do with the efficiency of subsystems that handle things like push notifications as the apps themselves. I suspect grown-up GNU/Linux coming to mobile devices will lead to improvements in this that aren't possible with kindergarten OS like #Android.
@AmarOk @nurinoas @teaneedz

@teaneedz it was a sincere question. If you can't even attempt to answer it, then all you are saying is "being ethical = good", which I agree with in principle, but it's not very helpful. I think you're right that we're arguing in circles, so I'll leave it there. Thanks for the discussion :)
@dredmorbius

@nurinoas that last one I think is key, because adoption is strongly shaped by #NetworkEffect Imagine if users of every #Jabber app, every #Matrix app, every standalone chat app like #Wire or #Signal, could chat with Jami users! Even #fediverse apps for that matter!
@teaneedz @AmarOk

@nurinoas
what can users can do? Install apps on all your devices and keep them running, promote your Jami username on your homepage, user profiles etc, help other people install and learn to use it, suggest it any time anyone wants to voice/video chat with you, give UX feedback to the developers, to help it become more user-friendly, encourage other #FreeCode chat apps to implement the Jami protocol, at least the voice/video part, so their users can chat with Jami users.
@teaneedz @AmarOk

@wjmaggos are you saying less than 50 people died in the #Chernobyl disaster? The Soviet propaganda figure was 31 and is laughable. Independent estimates range between tens and hundreds of thousands. But it's hard to measure exactly how many people died as a result of the increases in cancer etc in the areas hit by radioactive fallout. It's also worth noting that hundreds of people sacrificed their lives to keep the reactor from melting down and killing millions.
@djsumdog
@RandomDamage

@wjmaggos I saw Ottman on the #JoeRogan podcast and he seemed pretty genuine. Much more like an #IndependentMedia geek than a slick marketing type. My take is that Trump is trying to figure out how to win without being able to game the #DataFarms with vote suppression ads, which is why FB and Titter aren't invited, and anyone whose platform he thinks might still be useful to him is. Tarring everyone who attends with the ultra-conservative brush seems disingenuous and suggests an agenda.

@wjmaggos I believe Minds is working on joining the fediverse.
https://gitlab.com/minds/engine/issues/183

@MarcusAgrippa BTW tagging on the nudy pics is like running around with your cock out to get attention. Most of us grew out of that around age 5. I don't care, do what you want, I just think it's kind of embarrassing for you 😏

@MarcusAgrippa
> Maybe all the people having panic attacks about Gab and blocking us, will be doing us all a huge favour.

Ironically, it seems we agree on this, although I'm guessing we have opposite opinions on whether or not it's a good thing for the world. But hey, some agreement there. Perhaps finding common ground across wildly different perspectives can work?

@Matter according to #GeorgeMonbiot, who has been reporting on climate change for decades, the two significant things we can do as consumers are go #vegan and stop flying (he has). Farming of non-human animals and the airline industry are the two largest contributors to global carbon emissions. Most of what needs to be done will be large-scale organizing, but I think it's more likely to happen through 'open source' style organizing than governments, who seem to be mostly captured.
@philosopher

@wion but even now I can use hashtags and normal web search engines to find helpful information that's been shared publicly in the fediverse. If I want to see what's been said about GIMP, for example, I can search for #GIMP using my fediverse app, or find fediverse posts about GIMP in my search engine results where they're relevant to particular key words I'm using with it.

@wion The reason for having info-sharing and organizing discussions here is the same as your reason for having watercooler chat here, you don't need to get everyone to join one forum/ chat room for every topic they might be interested in. #ActivityPub includes protocols for federated forums, which is possible in OStatus using !groups. Projects like #Prismo and #Lemmy are trying to build a federated replacement for silos like #Reddit/ #HackerNews using AP. These will improve archiving even more.

@lj_writes true. Although I suspect that even exorcism rituals have their roots in practices that were about ridding the person of the separateness of the demon, and the negative consequences of it in their lives, using the light of God (ie awareness of a deeper self that transcends and includes the stuff the demon is made of). Traditionalist exorcisms are most likely a cargo cult version of this.