Notices by Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx), page 62

@garrett I'm curious about that long term for Mastodon. Would I have one account for work, one for home? I have lots of e-mail addresses I use for different roles I play in life, perhaps that makes sense for social networking?

@mairin @ryangorley I think some of it comes from gaming. Not the games themselves, but playing against the computer. It isn't real, you can be as much of a jerk as you want without consequences. People then import that interaction mechanism to other online activities.

There is the old saying: "You can tell someone's true personality by how they behave towards someone they don't have to be nice to." I think that applies today, except with AIs.

Thinking that "bus factor" is too personal. People can imagine someone they know getting hit by a bus. It is within the realm of possibility. Which makes it scary.

To that end I'm going to start using "meteor factor" to talk about the risk, hopefully without the fear.

The dude shot pictures as he was getting hit by a skier. That is hardcore. — https://www.dpreview.com/videos/8319726581/photographer-hit-by-olympic-skier-lara-gut-during-wipeout

Ouch, "The XMPP Memorial Society" is so true it hurts. I miss XMPP. — http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2018/02/21/0/

Tough to read, but important article on sexual harassment and particularly our personal roles when we find out and hear about these stories.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/21/17035552/sexual-assault-harassment-whisper-network-reporting-failure-marquis-boire?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=activitypub

@n8 you should write a movie about it.

There's this guy who's upset about popular movies and goes to Hollywood and is a total badass and kicks everyone's butt for being too one-dimensional. And he likes puppies, because character development. 🐶

@sil I agree, but, I think when it comes to data privacy people are surprisingly sophisticated. Certainly most would use Nope/Yeah in my example, but I think given the option to lie makes it fit into human notions of trust.

We have the computing power today to make computers more human, instead of what we've done in the past where we taught humans how to work with computers.

@sil I would make sure to get a designer involved for better text, more trying to illustrate the point. But certainly knowing the nature of the noise added to the system would give you better results, but I don't think I have to. For instance, it'd be hard to know precise values on how many people lie about committing a crime. Your error bars increase, but if things are that close, it's not actionable data anyway.

@tinker the facade is where all the really nasty stuff hides.

@sil I like the idea of lying (you can decide if that's true or not). I'm curious if we need to let the user choose whether they lie or not. In theory this would likely be as statistically valid, but would give users the feeling of being in control of the data.

"We're going to send this data about your computer to Canonical:
[Nope] [Adjust values] [Sure]"

@tinker looks like a toy you'd get some use out of: https://github.com/maxchehab/CSS-Keylogging

When looking for "People are Strange" and now I'm a little concerned how many songs in my collection can be found with "strange" as a search term.

I support required sick leave. I get confused when conservative politicians at the state level try to impose on cities instead of relying on markets and elections to handle equalization of values. — https://www.texastribune.org/2018/02/16/legislators-challenge-new-austin-sick-leave-mandate/

While I'm not a big fan of Abbott, when looking at who he's running against you have to agree "Abbott is the only responsible choice." — https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2018/02/16/recommend-greg-abbott-gop-primary-texas-governor

Still undecided on the portraits themselves, but I found this interview interesting to learn about the artists and the styles. — https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/commentary/2018/02/16/obama-portraits-different-typical-presidential-portraits

@RussSharek @federicomena you do not. You just have to run the service. No firewall configuration required.

@cjwatson ah, interesting. I dropped my account there, but they started getting really weird after the buy out. I couldn't imagine how far it has gone today.

@RussSharek @ted @federicomena with Pagekite you run a small service on your computer that connects through the firewall to them. It uses a port, but it is a random numbered port and configured to only talk to them.

With DDNS you have to configure a well known port number to be available and accept connections from the entire Internet.