Notices by hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com), page 23
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hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 06:54:53 EDT 
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Son just had his motorbike nicked. No insurance. Get your bikes insured, people! -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 05:23:16 EDT
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Alex Jones isn’t the censorship crisis that should scare us -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 02:54:28 EDT
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Only 20% of US kids study a language in school—compared to 92% in Europe
But data was "not available" for the UK or Ireland. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Monday, 13-Aug-2018 01:30:50 EDT
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Thoughts of a Palestinian Israeli
Samah speaking about her experience, our community and the new "nation state" law (audio) -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 22:39:40 EDT
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We live in an era of convergence but also of transition. It's a delicate time when, more at any time in history, the past is still available to us. We can reach out into the past, visiting the cave paintings and monuments of earlier civilizations, reading their literature, appreciating and understanding their different ways of thinking. This is partly because in our present reality we are still exposed to a variety of cultures and languages. Our world is enriched by diversity. We should be thankful to immigrants and refugees, who bring with them different ways and customs. They break down our assumptions about our own sometimes overly homogeneous or hegemonic cultures. At no time in our history have we been more capable of absorbing influences from past and present world cultures.
But there is no guarantee that this will be true in the coming years. We have already witnessed how wars and intolerance can wipe out the monuments of the past, from Syria to Afghanistan, i.e. the cradle countries of our current civilization. And even without ISIS and the Taliban, there are the effects of earthquakes, as in Bam, or air pollution, as in Delhi, and of course climate change everywhere, causing floods and fires, all of which take a toll on the preservation of the past. At the same time, languages grow extinct, from France to the Amazon rainforest, cultures are swept aside: it's an age of mass cultural genocide.
As our culture grows more homogeneous we will begin to lose our ability to understand and appreciate the past. We will not understand the ways in which past civilizations could be based on different concepts than our own. Already we are seeing in western countries that the majority of people have a limited capacity to understand theistic cultures, and this is partly the reason for the rebellion of many citizens of those countries against the arrogant, cynical materialism and atheism of modern societies.
Two things are currently urgent. One is to preserve, to the degree that is possible, the diversity of civilizations still extant. We need to spend less time attempting to educate people of cultures different from our own, and more time trying to preserve these cultures. We've spent the last couple of hundred years ensuring that the people living in the tropics from the Amazon to Africa and India and further east, dress and behave modestly, in conformity with the norms of northern peoples. We have unified and homogenized the languages of the western countries in favour of standardized versions, and insisted that immigrant school children will adapt to the societies in which they have come to live. Once we have wiped out diversity it will be difficult to restore it.
The other thing we need to do is to take advantage of our still existent diversity in order to understand past civilizations and cultures, before we lose this ability. For example, we still have shamanic and animistic people in the world, and we know that their beliefs in some ways reflect those of paleolithic cultures. We know that the natives peoples of the Amazon or of New Guinea have an intimate understanding of their environment that we can only envy. They have a knowledge of the uses of every plant and substance and have developed the ability to survive in adverse conditions.
Humanity has not completed its evolution yet. We are not necessarily at the end of this process. But whether we evolve into multidimensioned beings capable of creative, spiritual and holistic thinking, or cardboard automatons living in totalitarian societies where every breath of divergent thinking is suppressed, depends a lot on our present time. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 16:39:13 EDT
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I don't use Tutanota, but I'm glad they've put it on Fdroid. Someone recently mentioned that Signal and another encrypted email service, ProtonMail, chose the Google Play Store. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 16:33:45 EDT
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So, I did a "chgrp -R web" on the directories mentioned in the installation manual, then changed (where necessary) the permissions to 775. It seems to be working. On nearlyfreespeech.net, these were also the instructions for WordPress. I'm not sure if it's solved the problem of the system unpredictably logging me out, as that has already happened once. But we shall see. -
Ewald (elieuw@fosstodon.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 06:23:11 EDT 
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The wait is over: It has arrived! @Tutanota @fdroidorg
Everybody involved: thanks for all the hard work! -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 01:35:08 EDT
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Openbook | The honest, open-source & awesome social network.
It doesn't look like they'll reach their kickstarter goal. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Aug-2018 00:32:57 EDT
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8 Search Tricks That Work on DuckDuckGo but Not on Google
Old, but still I learned a few things. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-Aug-2018 18:59:04 EDT
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V.S. Naipaul dies Finds himself among the believers again. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-Aug-2018 16:02:21 EDT
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Thanks @Yuki Still haven't tried; too much action around here today. If I understood @DM42.Net, LLC properly, he's speaking of an open ID plugin, so that would mean it would permit hubzilla to present itself as an identity source for wordpress and other sites that accept openID - I think there used to be more of those. Indeed, it's nice to have logins that are based on the open web rather than on Twitter, Facebook or Google. In practice, though, even when openID was the next best thing, I never managed very well with it. Nowadays I just use a a password manager. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 10-Aug-2018 22:30:27 EDT
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Thanks everyone. I'll have a look at it tomorrow. I think I cannot change ownership to apache but see that someone may have solved a similar permissions problem by giving the 'web' group ownership and then limiting the permissions. Does that make sense?
It isn't a VPS. nearlyfreespeech.net works a little differently from traditional shared hosting though, and people are able to run things like Django on it. I would go with something like Digital Ocean (which is affordable), but am a little allergic to all these huge companies. Somebody may one day be able to explain to me the philosophical difference between letting a Google or an Amazon control my data and finding a solution with a slightly smaller company, but I think the difference is mainly pragmatic. But we make our compromises. Better would be to run a home server but even if that's possible I'm not sure I trust my ISP or myself, and I would also be spending about the same amount on a service on a service to compensate for the dynamic IP. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 10-Aug-2018 21:17:54 EDT
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Monsanto ordered to pay $289m damages in Roundup cancer trial -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Friday, 10-Aug-2018 10:22:57 EDT
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I find that the disroot.org hub is so much quicker than my new one, it may not be even have been worth the effort, other than to have it as a clone. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Aug-2018 21:42:56 EDT
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@selfcare_gentle whatever it takes. -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Aug-2018 08:00:16 EDT
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Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Aug-2018 06:54:12 EDT
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@elmussol Vraiment?! -
hosh (hosh@hub.vikshepa.com)'s status on Thursday, 09-Aug-2018 03:42:57 EDT
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@Hawk1291 I'm no expert but I'm currently using Waterfox. It isn't based on Chromium, is FOSS, is privacy aware and allows use of the EFF's Privacy Badger, which I prefer to ad-blockers.
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