Show newer

@ambulocetus hey those are good answers, I'd check out the mortician first. If I became healthy and continued to eat people, that's socially unacceptable. 😂 Have a great weekend.

@ambulocetus If I'm not mistaken, people are animals too. I could be wrong. I've been wrong before. I would think a very experienced veterinarian would have no problem with people. But, if a zombie was feeling better, who should he seek to help him feel sick again?

@ambulocetus oh philosoraptor.. how I miss thee.

meta trollreply 

How about everyone can delete 1 other persons post everyday?

20th Ethical Forum of the University Foundation
Thursday December 1, 2022, 2 - 6 pm
dedicated to Caroline Pauwels (honorary rector VUB) who passed away on August 5, 2022.
« Is politics part of the universities’ job ? »
ethicalforum.be/node/161

The last couple of days I've been experimenting with the modes on my phone. The "do not disturb" while sleeping is fine but my choices for the "driving" mode might need some work. I thought the reading out of whatsapp messages might be useful, particularly on the way in and out of said place.

Turns out I have a new found additional understanding of what VI people with screen readers are going through. When you've had the nice lady in your phone read "upward pointing finger with palm facing outwards" ten times because one of your colleagues likes to emphasise his messages with a follow-up screen full of ☝️ you begin to feel a fraction of their pain.

I have the option of turning off the reader. Not everyone does. I'll be thinking about that.

@bykimbo It could also be misconstrued as the middle finger by the visually impaired.

I couldn't agree more though, accessibility was never designed to be a convenience feature. Programmers who borrow a feature to supplement another feature are just lazy. As far as manners go. I wouldn't expect this to improve any time soon, but do try and enjoy your day.

I dabble in poetry 

An ode to Venus

A fist full of rage
And a fist full of peace
Yet I claw through the sage
With neither of these
Should I open one hand
keep the other clenched
A hand full of sand
And the other is drenched
I swim through the sea
With neither of these
I'd drown where I reach
The mangrove trees
A feast for the fish
A crime for The Times
A deal with the devil
In the angel's eyes
I'll climb that rock
With neither of these
I'll see you at the top
Through the fresh pine trees
So where should I be?
With hands like these
In the sixteenth room
Of the Louve hath me

@bernardrentier I see, there's no software I'm aware of that imposes will on to others, and I'm grateful for that.

However in my brief stint of psychology classes: to change the will of others, simply alter their valuations. Being that you say it's been well developed, to make researchers use it more, requires an incentive. I haven't the slightest idea of how to incentivise that. I will give it considerable thought.

@bernardrentier I see you're using the Mastadon client for iOS which I believe limits the character count for making posts in the client. Our server instance, Qoto.org, is capable of 65,500 character posts, if you use the web, or install the PWA version of the app.

To use the PWA version of the app in iOS,
1.) Open qoto.org in the safari browser.
2.) Select the share button, as if to share it with a friend.
3.) One of the share options will be 'Add to homescreen'
4.) Select add on the upper right hand corner of the screen.

@MelissaPhillips Greetings Melissa, be it that Qoto is a STEM oriented instance of Mastadon, there are a heavy amount of people with patience here as STEM activities require patience, curbing the toxicity quite well. I hope you enjoy your stay here and having a lovely week.

@skanman If you're interested in the general framework, Dr King has a great talk on youtube

youtube.com/watch?v=1v6cgSkiHi

@cyrilpedia oooh I seeeee! I wrote my idea all wrong too. I can explain it better with an analogy. As a programmer, I'm limited by my hardware in 2 ways. What I can program for or program on. While the hardware evolves dramatically, the method usually stays the same. Thus, the act of programming has stayed the same. No reason for a change in manufacturing. It's optimal, and peak. We've programmed the same way since the inception of computers. Almost ;-). Right after the inception of computers, manufacturing code went through massive drastic changes. Code was once upon a time manually punched into sheets of cardboard to be fed into the machine. The process of programming rapidly evolved into the process it is today, not slowly, but quickly then optimized. What triggered the change in manufacturing though was the hardware environmental limitations evolved, creating more dynamic efficient ways of programming(replication). The evolution of the cells manufacturing process reached it's peak due to its chemical(hardware) and environmental limitations. But 4 billion years ago, when life originally has estimated to have formed, environmental conditions weren't as diverse as now, but the earth cooled off to a median balance and has stayed in that median balance the majority of its existence. Thus manufacturing has stayed the same, but the original causality of it's evolution makes perfect sense, and why it hasn't changed.

Ironically I'm pretty sure cell manufacturing and replication is going to evolve again in the next 100 years, but by force. We've already got carbon nanotubes, quantum motors, optical tweezers, we're beginning to assemble molecules manually. I'm pretty sure we'll be able to transcode DNA in realtime eventually, and have the hardware to make / repair / copy cells. Sounds like a cure for cancer, and death.

What a fun time to be alive. I'll die before I learn everything I want to learn.

@cyrilpedia hey forgive me, I know nothing of your science, but permit me to take a shot in the dark here.

There are predatory cells right? I would think the antenna began evolving when the first multicellular organisms appeared. I think the first multicellular organisms were actually single celled organisms that cohabitated well. This makes a disadvantage to single celled organisms. So single celled organisms that have protrusions could defend defend better because hey, they're like bumpers. Somewhere in the middle of this single vs. multi cell war. That wasn't enough. But if 2 single celled organisms that could detect each other and behave like a multicellular organism, the balance is finally there. 1 eternity later.. multicellular organisms adapt this too. To counter this, the protrusions on the single celled organisms are not only sensory but predatory. Balance achieved again. Up till here I think they were mainly parasitic. But once they got the ability to stab consume using a sensor, this became a 2 way street. They could also inject. This provides a doorway to alternative replication. What happens when the old way is less affective? It dies off. The transcription was there once upon a time. Not needed anymore. However with complex animals, it's still a good way to go as they live longer as a community and generally protected by thick outer membranes.

Ok I'm done, you can laugh at me now for writing so much on something, I have a highschool education 20 years ago on. But I like stretching my brain in directions outside of tech.

<rant> I did some searching, it appears federated architectures will be the future of most platforms. What I'm disappointed in, is where are the federated platforms that will change the world? Not just for sharing things, but actually do jobs. Where's my federated banks? (Not currencies, banks that accept all currencies), where's my federated schools? Where's my federated VPNs? Where's my federated search engines? Let's connect the offline to the online for a moment. Where's my federated logistics? (Pretty easy actually). Where's my federated power plants? Let the governments continue to govern.. but end their personal side cash machines. </rant>

@bernardrentier how would you feel about a search engine that you ask a question, and instead of it dumping 20,000,000 results, it reads the content of the results and conglomerates the data into 1 page that delivers data based on relevance and accredited citation?

Show older
Qoto Mastodon

QOTO: Question Others to Teach Ourselves
An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance
All cultures welcome.
Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.