Notices by Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net), page 48
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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 18:45:53 EDT 
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
erhm... there was a day very early in the outbreak when the rate was a few infections per day, before it spread and grew. it depends on how far back you go. I still recall the dread with which I heard of the first few cases in Brazil, then the first deaths in Brazil. it was no different elsewhere, except people weren't watching it as closely yet when it got to some other places. but it did go through a phase in which there were fewer infections per day than we have now, and there were times when they were much higher, therefore there was a time when they were about the same as today. and who are we to say that that wasn't just the time when someone started paying attention to it, and so refers to it as "the initial outbreak"? -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 17:57:02 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
pre-mandate =?= initial outbreak -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 17:44:12 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
how do you justify the sunlight that you receive and gets us most of the energy available on the planet? how do you justify the water that you receive, that comets have provided us with since immemorial times?
it's well past time we acknowledge and denounce the mind trick that convinced us that we have to earn our living. that lie is not in our interest, not for our benefit.
contributing to society is kind of the opposite of enslaving oneself to earn a living. the more you have to divert of your energy to earn a living, the less of you is available to contribute to the enrichment of society -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 17:38:06 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
are you both talking about the same rates? infections/day, infections/exposures, or something else? also, how far back are you going when you say "the beginning". I insist, violent agreement, possibly with jargon getting in the way. -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 16:55:48 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
enshittificação é a parada logo depois de monopólio -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 23-Sep-2023 14:21:49 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
from where I stand, it looks like you misread the initial post. "Covid infection rates are near what they were in the initial outbreak." doesn't mean the measures had no effect as you took it, it just means that the risk is high *again*. and then, "But go ahead and see your movie. Send your kids to school unmasked. No problems there" is meant as ironic counter-advise, but you seem to have taken it literally. and then, once you signaled disagreement to each other, you both have been stabbing at each other as if the other was an irresponsible ignoramus, but what I get from both is violent agreement and misreading of each other. try to read it as if you'd written it yourself, maybe; there has to be some way for you both to see that you've been misreading each other -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2023 16:50:50 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
hey, cory, did you know that this versobooks site is DRM-javascrippled to the point that it won't allow you to get to the actual web pages, and won't show you anything, if you don't allow it first to install and run its DRM web blobs on your computer? I thought you should know about that. -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2023 14:28:45 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
I heard from trans people that, before they came out, social pressure to pick pronouns came across as pressure to either lie or come out. I used to be overt about my preferred pronouns till then, but took them down once I found that practice to be well meaning but oppressive. questions for title, without a "prefer not to say" choice, are just as oppressive. is there a gender-neutral honorary title to replace Mr/Mrs/Ms in English, BTW? Dr is gender-neutral, but not applicable very often. shall we adopt Japanese's -san? -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2023 14:16:06 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
still a scam, though :-)
there are actually useful and honest things one can make or do and sell for a profit -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 22-Sep-2023 14:14:07 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
I guess you're right, in a way. if you have a fully-free bootstrap path, you don't need reproducible builds to tell whether your binaries have had blobs introduced in them that aren't present in sources. it's a tool to check for blobs, much like the script we maintain to scan for blobs in linux. so I wouldn't say it's unrelated with freedom, but it's a investigation tool, rather than a requirement -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 22:54:17 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
your response suggests you have issues with the policy rather than with the definition, eh? if so, yeah, the trick I suggested won't help. -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 22:38:21 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
> https://gnusocial.net/url/19716974
I wish more people understood these matters -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 19:57:30 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
reproducible builds (along with a bootstrap-from-scratch path) are requirements to ensure that there aren't nonfree artifacts leaking into our binaries, methinks -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 19:38:44 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
GNU LTS distros benefit from shared upstream maintenance. GNU Linux-libre has no trouble keeping up with LTS several weekly stable releases. I'm more worried about what I'm told about rust, that code that compiled recently no longer does. that will make maintaining rust code in Linux quite a pain in the long term: you'll need different rust toolchains for different kernel versions, and they won't be interchangeable. or will kernel LTS releases keep up with changes to rust and break compatibility with older toolchains? that sucks either way. so I'm not surprised they're dropping this hot potato before it burns their hands. but it will burn whoever signs up for maintaining kernels for the long term. -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 19:29:15 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
algebra and legal training, and probably linguistics too, help us deal with "bindings" that do not quite match our understandings, values, concepts. sometimes it helps me, when reading nonsensical definitions, to mentally precede them with "X's nonsensical definition of" ;-D -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 18:54:48 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
but, but... why not gnus' builtin nnrss backend? so that you can't read stuff while offline? -
Tutanota (tutanota@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 03:39:20 EDT 
Tutanota
Britain needs to update the "playbook for dictators"! The #OnlineSafetyBill just passed - with the option to break #encryption anytime.
We at Tutanota will not accept the Online Safety Bill.
Our passion is to fight for your right to #privacy. 💪
https://tutanota.com/blog/online-safety-bill-encryption 🧵
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Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 16:24:14 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
yeah, but you omitted the ends of the quotes. the first ends with "with no foreseeable end to the pain", whereas the latter ends with "that will hurt a lot at first but slowly fade away over time"
the least worst thing might be to enable painless ABI transition, but that is often incredibly hard (as in not worth the trouble) and brings about its own set of pain spots and pitfalls that most casual users are not prepared to deal with, so it doesn't even avoid the pain
so making lots of such incompatible fixes and improvements at once, painful as it is, is probably the least painful approach overall
and then, most of the pain arises because of code that one can't or doesn't want to recompile (e.g., because it's proprietary and you don't have source code to recompile) -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 16:16:51 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
.oO linux announces plan to deal with the incompatibility nightmare that rust's instability brought
https://gnusocial.net/url/19707623 -
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp) (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 21-Sep-2023 16:11:49 EDT
Alexandre Oliva (moved to @lxo@gnusocial.jp)
that sounds like prejudice to me. to me, regulating economy heavily so as to prevent monopolies, economic abuse and overthrow of democracies, while enabling people to live their lives as they see fit (without abusing others) is not only a perfectly reasonable position, it's *the* most reasonable position. so your chart comes across as discriminatory and attempting to create a blind spot to hide the existence of this reasonable position.
and then, chopping one quadrant of a square and combining two points that should otherwise be quite distant is not clarifying, it's a severe distortion of the picture.
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