robryk @robryk@qoto.org
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
Ah, and for even more confusion:
if A defederates C, and someone from C responds to post from A (that they've gotten via e.g. third-party boosts) then this response:
a) will be visible on C,
b) will not be visible on A,
c) I _think_ will be visible on unrelated instance X if someone from X follows the response's author and the response was not unlisted or mentioned someone from X (I haven't verified this experimentally, but this follows from how I understand ActivityStreams).
@niconiconi Wouldn't the expressions be longer and thus take more RAM per cell?
Note that the standard doesn't say anything about blocks, so each piece of fedi software can do something different.
Mastodon implements suspension by refusing to accept any signature from the defederated domain as valid[*], refusing to actively talk to it, and iiuc dropping users from that domain from some lists (e.g. followers' lists). More importantly, it doesn't tell any other instance about this block (and i think this is actually a shared decision by most fedi software).
The latter property means that B can't even tell that A suspended C, so had no way of knowing that A would not want its messages forwarded to C.
The former property implies that A will ignore boosts of messages from C (because they point at an invalid message).
[*] I didn't verify experimentally, but it seems to, somewhat amusingly, have also applied to Delete messages, so i assume that if A defederates from C, it will stop honoring C's requests to delete messages it has previously received from C.
How much difference should we expect between placebo and the (nonexistent) arm that got nothing? (The reason I'm asking is that I would expect that most participants could tell whether they were getting the placebo pretty quickly.)
I think a better argument than the data protection one is rather about this being akin to price dumping, where you do that to deprive others of users.
> if they'd prefer to be somewhere that chooses differently, I will do everything I can to facilitate them.
I don't think this is a universally held standard, esp. that Mastodon's block semantics make that very hard to do after the fact (because the blocked instances might not see the "user moved" message, so followers won't notice; also follows from blocked instances get dropped on the floor immediately last I've checked). I think at least some people would be way less prescriptive if that was commonly understood as a baseline standard.
@rysiek I grow really weary of the broken "following" state machine on fedi; something sometime caused me not to follow you anymore without any notification (and this is not even the real brokenness, where if things go out of sync on both ends _user intervention_ is required to get them back in sync).
@nazgul The r/steam thing reminds me of users of Polish social site Wykop posting images of rhododendrons to complain about attempts to censor complaints about GDPR compliance (because the Polish abbreviation for GDPR is RODO).
the future of fedi, fediblock or defederation, general call to action now
Do you by any chance have a pointer for a reasonable complete summary of what is publicly known right now?
atypical nail polish
You might wish to know that there are nail polishes that change color with temperature, some that glow when exposed to UV and ones that change color depending on recent averaged UV exposure (I thought I saw one that could be used as more than a binary indicator, but can't easily find it now).
I once tried to make a diffraction grating on nail polish (by using a stamp to transfer from a CD-ROM with shiny side removed), but sadly it didn't work (either due to some silly surface tension issues, or due to smearing).
Czy to jest względnie rzadsze niż ludzie którzy mają np. sklep spożywczy po drugiej stronie rzeki?
propaganda, misinformation, cultural trauma, lived experience
@ramonita@kolektiva.social @mybarkingdogs @meo_mun @asranarchism
How do you pick thresholds for e.g. terrible? I can't quickly cube up with any approach that would be communicatable and not rely on comparisons with other existing examples.
@wonderofscience https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DPNtHsYqoY is an anime-style description of part of how otters' environment had shaped them.
@mgorny czy to nie jest też problem dla rolników (z powodu niskich prędkości traktorów)?
@TMEubanks @coreyspowell thank you for making a comparison with something other than the accuracy of our best measuring instruments.
@dreadedchalupacabra @whitehatbofh
What are the t-shirt bots?
@m0bi13 Jak ten ociekacz się trzyma kupy? Jest lutowany czy spawany punktowo, czy może jakoś jeszcze inaczej?
@whitequark The best way to mislead is to say carefully selected true things.
I enjoy things around information theory (and data compression), complexity theory (and cryptography), read hard scifi, currently work on weird ML (we'll see how it goes), am somewhat literal minded and have approximate knowledge of random things. I like when statements have truth values, and when things can be described simply (which is not exactly the same as shortly) and yet have interesting properties.
I live in the largest city of Switzerland (and yet have cow and sheep pastures and a swimmable lake within a few hundred meters of my place :)). I speak Polish, English, German, and can understand simple Swiss German and French.
If in doubt, please err on the side of being direct with me. I very much appreciate when people tell me that I'm being inaccurate. I think that satisfying people's curiosity is the most important thing I could be doing (and usually enjoy doing it). I am normally terse in my writing and would appreciate requests to verbosify.
I appreciate it if my grammar or style is corrected (in any of the languages I use here).
Joined Nov 2020
