Post @post@qoto.org
#Mathematics #Macroeconomics #Engineering #ComputerScience #Programming
#Ecology #Environment #Democracy #Freedom #Equity #Liberal #Socialism #PostKeynesian
#Inkscape · 
#Gimp · 
#Blender · 
#VLC
#WordPress · 
#Mastodon · 
#PeerTube:
searchable
Joined May 2019
Continuous also in space and time, right?
@garrett @f00fc7c8 @Migueldeicaza
Elon Musk has done humanity a great service by buying up Twitter and exposing the systematic and criminal manipulation it operates.
Twitter has censored reputable doctors in favor of corrupt institutions that have enforced a narrative and measures without scientific evidence.
It was already clear what was happening with the Lancet-gate and the rest, but it is good that the involvement of social networks has been confirmed.
Here there is even a study on the suppression of dissent on Covid19:
Post
boosted
@cassidy I think it'd be nice to have e2e messages in Mastodon, just because I have people here I don't want to give my phone number out to just to have a truly private chat in Signal.
This points to at least two problems with Signal:
1. Signal is wrong to use phone numbers (even still).
2. It should be easier to hop over to e2e chats with people regardless of the tool. (Like one time links to hop on to an e2e chat.)
Having e2e in Mastodon would alleviate it a bit.
But at least corporations are run by professionals which are often limited by some measures to ensure privacy and it's hard one would risk to be fired just to read a random conversation by strangers.
Instead on Mastodon the instances are managed by enthusiasts and are often not professional, but ideological and childish and I can definitely see them looking at private conversations.
Let's face it, most people just can't handle power responsibly.
Yes. Literally impossible for a skeptical¹ person to being convinced because the vast majority of people have accepted everything passively and therefore do not know how to argue.
[1]: skeptical in its orginal meaning of "who is in search", not only doubting (from Ancient Greek σκέψις / sképsis = research).
Post
boosted
Just found out ChatGPT is three Wikipedias in a trench coat.
Context: it's me that was reported days ago for sharing papers and the mod of this instance had to chim in and state that it was controversial but legitimate.
I'm literally questioning others to teach myself but many people are too lazy to counterargument and prefer to report as misinformation what doesn't fit whatever narrative they inattentively listened to from the mass media.
Let's add to the list "reporting users on Mastodon for misinformation, fake news and conspiracy theories" @freemo
Study: "Censorship and Suppression of Covid-19 Heterodoxy: Tactics and Counter-Tactics"
Abstract
The emergence of COVID-19 has led to numerous controversies over COVID-related knowledge and policy. To counter the perceived threat from doctors and scientists who challenge the official position of governmental and intergovernmental health authorities, some supporters of this orthodoxy have moved to censor those who promote dissenting views. The aim of the present study is to explore the experiences and responses of highly accomplished doctors and research scientists from different countries who have been targets of suppression and/or censorship following their publications and statements in relation to COVID-19 that challenge official views. Our findings point to the central role played by media organizations, and especially by information technology companies, in attempting to stifle debate over COVID-19 policy and measures. In the effort to silence alternative voices, widespread use was made not only of censorship, but of tactics of suppression that damaged the reputations and careers of dissenting doctors and scientists, regardless of their academic or medical status and regardless of their stature prior to expressing a contrary position. In place of open and fair discussion, censorship and suppression of scientific dissent has deleterious and far-reaching implications for medicine, science, and public health.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11024-022-09479-4
@axi0kers0s@infosec.exchange @naciketas @rothgar@mastodon.uno @emama @steffy @macfranc @scuola
Guarda che una sindrome è un insieme di sintomi, questa cosa del far finta che una sindrome come ADHD sia una patologia di cui si può essere affetti è solo un modo per vendere più droghe legalizzate ("psicofarmaci") ed una scusa per non ammettere quanto avvilenti e disumani siano diventati gli ambienti come quello scolastico.
Why #EuroMOMO keeps changing its #ExcessMortality data? Here there is a link to my post from 4 days ago and it's not the first time they change the whole 2022 records:
Also it's worth noting that Protocol Labs (the ones who invented and develop #IPFS) has hosted over the years a lot of conferences about research on protocols, check their YouTube channel, it has a great variety of high-level content:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJvMzILpV3b4AWXTEeQjcng
The focus of Protocol Labs, rather than supporting the world of cryptocurrencies, is to promote the development of protocols rather than services. #ProtocolsOverPlatforms #ProtocolsOverServices
We can say that #Fediverse is precisely this concept: a set of protocols like #ActivityPub as opposed to a centralized service.
Also notice that many are interested in taking advantage of IPFS both in #Matrix and in the Fediverse, in particular in #PeerTube that is currently based on #WebTorrent but it could also take advantage from IPFS deduplication and ease of helping with seeding.
P.S. here there is a recent video on Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, NTFs and web3 that is worth sharing even with people who know nothing about these:
"Crypto: The World’s Greatest Scam."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORdWE_ffirg
It does a good job of revealing the speculative nature of this world in an entertaining way.
Indeed it is a common misunderstanding to associate IPFS with the blockchain also because a cryptocurrency, Filecoin, was created together with IPFS, based on storage rather than on computing (therefore less energy-intensive I suppose) which was supposed to allow an economy that encourages the redundancy of data and therefore the resilience of the network. It is true that it is used in conjunction with NFTs but just because it is convenient to "own" just the IPFS address to an image.
About deleting data, it's really just like BitTorrent: as soon as there is someone that shares it it will be available to others, they just need to know the address instead of a .torrent file.
To be clear, I resisted cryptocurrencies from the very beginning thanks in part to the #ModernMonetaryTheory, whose proponents had framed Bitcoin as a speculative financial security (as opposed to actual money) as early as around 2010, when Bitcoin was still the plaything of techno-anarchists.
Security has always been an excuse not to adopt SVG more (and even if it were, a new vector format could be introduced, but as you said it can be sanitized).
Video codecs also introduce security problems and they are one of the main attack vectors towards multimedia systems embedded in cars and more.
Post
boosted
I was playing with image dithering both as an aestetic and a way to make images smaller recently, inspired by solar.lowtechmagazine.com and others.
I made these four as title images for the collapse blog post series using the following Imagemagick script:
convert image.jpg -resize 840x840 -strip -colors 4 -ordered-dither o8x8 image-dithered.png
#Mathematics #Macroeconomics #Engineering #ComputerScience #Programming
#Ecology #Environment #Democracy #Freedom #Equity #Liberal #Socialism #PostKeynesian
#Inkscape · #Gimp · #Blender · #VLC
#WordPress · #Mastodon · #PeerTube:
searchable
Joined May 2019
