Klye @khird@qoto.org
Mod
Joined Sep 2018
Some thoughts:
1. It ignores a big regional actor - one that borders both Armenia and Azerbaijan, and has taken an active interest in trying to resolve the NK conflict. For all the attention devoted to Turkey's influence, Iran should see more consideration than it's given.
2. The Caucasus is unusual because, despite the religious differences among the various countries, religion isn't predictive of which camp a particular country falls in. Armenia is aligned with both Christian Russia and Muslim Iran, while Azerbaijan counts Christian Georgia, Muslim Turkey, and Jewish Israel as supporters. This isn't really acknowledged, and selectively calling out Russia, Turkey, and Israel gives the false impression this is primarily a religious conflict.
3. Particularly once you consider those lists of allies, it's no wonder the West isn't hugely supportive of Armenia's claim to NK. The United States is on much better terms with Azerbaijan's supporters than with Armenia's, and the issue isn't important enough to the Americans to annoy their allies by favouring Armenia.
I'm not a lawyer, much less your lawyer, and this is not legal advice. Nonetheless, this sounds like a bad idea.
I think from the law's perspective, it would be in the public domain, but there could be a contract breach with the university if, by submitting, you represent that you hold an exclusive copyright interest in the work. Obviously you can't transfer rights you don't already own.
From an academic perspective, it's self-plagiarism, a form of academic misconduct. Submitting work that you've already published is disallowed, although this is more frequently applied to students trying to submit the same paper from a previous class or something they published in a journal.
This week I discovered the ηMatrix browser add-on. It presents a nifty user interface which gives you fine-grained control over what each website is allowed to transclude from other sources. You whitelist the elements that are necessary for the website to function, and leave the rest blocked. In particular, this makes it really easy to block things like those annoying modal dialogues that adblockers don't cover - but it can function as an adblocker or noscript in its own right.
@dragfyre I don't see UBI displacing the marketing payments. Businesses are still going to compete for their customers' dollars, whether they earn those dollars as wages/salary or are allocated them as UBI, so the demand for influence-marketers will remain.
Influence-marketing is such a low-effort way to supplement income that UBI doesn't seem likely to discourage supply either. By the time you've put any sort of a dent in it, lots of other, higher-effort cottage industries will be in much worse shape.
Well I don't think anyone will pay you to promote their brand on the Fediverse. But I know people who have been offered money to post things the company wants, contingent on maintaining at least six hundred followers, on a commercial site.
There's another flavour too. I don't know that this is common in the Fediverse, but followbots exist on more mainstream social media sites, and customers will pay to have a certain number follow them for a certain duration. This inflates the customer's follow count, which makes it easier to score "influencer" deals.
@carcinopithecus@x0r.be
@realcaseyrollins Why specifically sales tax? As opposed to a property or income tax, or import/export tariffs.
> Freedom was indivisible, a pre-condition. To talk of several “freedoms”
> is to use the language of Europe, not of America….
This seems incorrect - by way of counterexample, the Four Freedoms are of American origin, and the Norman Rockwell paintings depicting them are among the foremost in America's artistic history.
Well, it's the top news story on CBC right now, going by their little widget that shows the five most popular. Per the article, the warehouses were used to store explosives, so it might be unintentional and not a bombing at all; on the other hand, the article notes that Israel and Hezbollah skirmished last week, so I guess it could be a reprisal.
This post (as with all from this author) doesn't appear on QOTO's local timeline when I'm logged in. Nor do I see it when using the "See what's happening" feature while browsing the web interface and logged out. It looks like it's set to public, so I'm surprised it's not appearing. Any thoughts? This seems similar to the behaviour with the bots from last week - but now it's affecting local accounts.
@freemo and when they give spiders drugs you get https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc
@freemo @realcaseyrollins @georgia @tuxcrafting @igel
Actually that brings up an interesting point. If two regimes each set out to "kill all the X they can find" for their respective values of X, is one regime less morally culpable because their were fewer of its X to be found, so it killed fewer?
@realcaseyrollins right. Once you've built the group infrastructure, creating UI candy to make certain use cases (e.g. DM, followers-only) more accessible would be straightforward. But having already implemented the special cases independently, retrofitting groups into the standard, in a way that's compatible with existing servers and clients, seems to be quite a pain.
@realcaseyrollins I think this is backwards actually. Groups should've been the underlying addressing mechanism, with DM conversations (a group of two people) and follower-only posts (a group where only the admin has send privileges) as special cases.
@admin that's slow, runs in O(N). You can do it in O(log N).
1. Start with all plugins as candidates.
2. Enable half of all candidates, and disable the rest.
3. If the problem does reappear, remove all plugins you did not enable from the list of candidates. Conversely, if the problem does not appear, remove all those you did enable. With the remaining candidates, return to step 2.
Repeat until your list of candidates contains only the offending plugin.
@realcaseyrollins I have the JVC (I think) branded equivalent but it might be the same thing under a whitelabel arrangement. My hearing isn't great, but I find them excellent for listening to music & they have remarkably good battery life. The microphone or the upstream-directed connection is really bad, though - I can't use them on a phone call because the other party finds my voice unintelligible through the static.
@jeremiah This (i.e. the passive voice) is widely considered good style in technical writing. You write, "The instrument was calibrated according to standard FOO," not, "I calibrated the instrument according to standard FOO," because the identity of the person doing the calibration is considered irrelevant.
@LittleWytch There's Gitea, which is open source. Git is already *distributed* so making it merely *federated* doesn't have a lot of upside.
To follow up here with my experimentation:
1. I removed the Unicode from my display name this morning, at @dragfyre's recommendation.
2. I also defollowed and refollowed the wiki bot, but not the quote bot, in response to the discovery that I wasn't listed on the followers page of either.
I just recently checked the results, both bots having posted once in the meantime:
1. My home timeline contains the post made by the wiki bot in that interval, but not that made by the quote bot.
2. Similarly, the wiki bot's profile shows the new post viewed from within QOTO, but the quote bot's profile does not. Both posts of course appear on the botsin.space website.
3. Posts dated between 4 March and this morning are still absent, however (i.e. there is no retroactive fix).
4. I also checked an unrelated account on botsin.space which I have never followed, and I discovered that it too lacks any recent post when viewed from within QOTO.
5. I now appear as a follower on the wiki bot's list, but still not the quote bot's.
From these results I infer that:
1. New posts from unfollowed accounts are not propagating correctly from botsin.space to QOTO.
2. Until about 4 March 2020, content propagated correctly.
3. botsin.space either forgot follow relationships originating from QOTO, or believes these relationships were cancelled.
4. As a consequence of 3, even posts made by followed bots do not reliably propagate to QOTO.
5. Explicitly refollowing an account makes QOTO aware of its posts from that point forward, but not retroactively.
I think this federation problem will require intervention on the part of the admins to resolve. I don't know which end that needs to occur on, but I hope @freemo and @muffinista will succeed in working things out. Circumstantially, 4 March was significant on QOTO due to our dustup with sunbeam.city on that date, but it's unclear if or how the events associated with that conflict could have affected federation with botsin.space. In case examining the current state is useful to the admins, I will wait a few days (and longer if requested) to defollow/refollow @bahai.
My thanks to @dragfyre and @design_RG for their assistance in troubleshooting this.
Perhaps! The Unicode was only in my display name, not in my unique handle, so I'd be a little surprised but I've changed it and we'll see what happens.
🇳🇱