🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@freemo it's good to have @QOTO back

Israel apologists have been amazingly defensive about its latest acts of terrorism in Lebanon. It’s extremely important to them that everyone believe it’s awesome and good to turn electronic devices into thousands of bombs placed throughout unsuspecting civilian populations and then turning around in a day or two and bomb them without mercy.

#NewMexico from the article "In an effort to prevent migrant crossings from the southern border, Texas installed a razor wire along its border with New Mexico, not Mexico — upsetting the southwestern state’s governor."

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/texas-new-mexico-border-wire-b2615743.html

Just an FYI, on Thursday (2 days) we will be re-attemping our 5-in-1 update. It will be a very major update so expected as much as 3-days downtime as we are finally moving to the new architecture. We **will** be up at the other end with hopefully everything working and a few new features.

GREAT change is approaching. NIST will standardise prohibition of requirement of composing passwords from various character styles, and requirement for periodic password changes. These are harmful and obsolete rules. Now they will be treated as a cybersecurity weakness https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-4/sp800-63b.html

@freemo ahh i can almost taste it from those descriptions! don’t think i’ve seen coconut cream on sale around here; i’ll have to look around and give this a go. now that i think about it, i still have a big bag of hemp hearts from when i used to eat them a lot, but have fallen out of the habit! almond milk sounds like a good flavour combo to pair with the hearts as a starting base anyway.

@argv_minus_one

Sane healthcare would be one that addresses both sides of the equation... greed from unregulated for-profit healthcare that drives prices to insane levels due to supply and demand being broken (demand is infinite since people will give everything to live longer). It also needs to address the other side of the coin with highly-regulated universal health care, which is the lack of a free market to drive quality so things like wait times, availible medications, and other issues arise.

There are a few solutions to this but the best one I have heard is co-op based health care. Essentially healthcare where the owners are the patients of the companies they use, and there are no owners otherwise (so all owners are equal owners). When you move to a new healthcare company then you loose ownership in the old one and gain ownership in the new one.

This gives you supply-demand pressures that ensure your healthcare caters to what you want and need (or else loose their funding by patients moving), but keeps prices in check by eliminating the greed factor since any profits go back to the patients and insurance holders themselves.

@stevebenen

We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024. Thank you for being part of the Mozilla.social community and providing feedback during our closed beta. You can continue to use Mozilla.social until December 17. Before that date, you can download your data here (https://mozilla.social/settings/export), and migrate your account to another instance following these instructions (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-social-faq).