ᔑᐸᐱᑚᕬᐱᑎ @skanman@qoto.org
I'm an aspiring human being who loves all things logical and clean. I love programming and analytics. I also like dairy products and surfing. Although they're not clean. So I guess I'm a hypocrite too. I extrapolate when I'm bored. I've been told I should contribute more to society, so if you feel you can improve my understanding of anything, please do so.
Joined Nov 2022
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I had no such brain fog before I actually caught Covid-19 which therefore suggests to me that it is a product of Covid infection rather than of being vaccinated with the assortment of vaccines that I had had long before being infected.
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What do you prefer?
I'm gonna write a children's song..
"the TypeScript is psuedo for..
JavaScript,
the JavaScript instructs the..
Java Runtime Environment,
the Java Runtime Environment was written in..
C,
the C compiles out to..
Assembly,
This is why all our Apps go up in smoke.
It's also why new devs are always broke.
And video game sizes are a joke."
I'm convinced this is the main reason I have no children. 😕
It just occurred to me how some governments like blocking social media, and how blocking Mastadon would be a neverending nightmare.
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Darkness giving way
Mounting chariot of heat
You raise me skyward
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Mastadon kinda reminds me of the BBS days/ internet before windows and everyone got on it.. just a load of nerds being nerdy, I am totally here for it..
Elon Musk purchased Twitter.
Many people leave not liking the control he has over it.
But who is he?
Everyone thinks "eccentric tech billionaire".
That's not who he is, that's a what.
Who is he? He's a guy who loves puzzles. Because they have logical process and a reward for discovering that process. If he can't solve a puzzle it's painful for him.
But why?
Because he has autism.
He has challenges discerning others emotions. He understands logic and technology very well, and that's beneficial because of the profitability of technology.
But he has difficultly with relationships personally, and socially. So naturally understanding these things are a puzzle he wants to understand. If you couldn't understand them, what better tool would exist than a system based on technology that tracks social involvement on a global scale. A social network. So it actually makes sense a guy with autism buys a social network and makes mistakes with it.
Would I hire someone who publicly denounces an autistic guy for buying a social network and learning from it. Nope, I don't care if you're black, white, a Muslim, a PhD, a nobel laureate, an IQ of 180, or gay, it's nothing personal, and maybe you're overqualified, I don't care, I'd still hire you and overpay you, and promote you. But, if you make observations based on limited data, and let social validation emotions override your discernment enough to make that public knowledge, I don't think you'd hire you either if you really think about it. I'm a fan of irony, and a server full of #STEM fans, pro rights, intellectuals, who are bullying an autistic kid. It makes me sad.
Plot twist, making me sad is a great thing because it's something very very difficult for me to do. I have difficulties feeling emotions of any kind. I know the difference between right and wrong though, so that's something 🤷
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Sure. As I understand, mastodon.mit.edu was created by students using the same process any student club or faculty lab might use.
My guess is that, at your institution, the process would start here:
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Today's image is a Nike #missile at the former launch site NY-56 in Sandy Hook, NJ. These surface to air missiles were supposed to protect #newyorkcity during the early phase of the cold war. #airdefense
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So someone messaged me privately and asked how absolute this is.. like would we block an instance calling for genocide. I feel my response is import to reiterate here, so here it is:
Its not just about the authorities, it is about the people whose lives are at risk by that call to genocide having the right to see those posts and use that information to look out for their own safety... If someone is doxed, they should know, if someone is threatened, they should know, and they should be able to take action.
Someone saying violent things online doesnt guarantee some police officer will meander by and take them down. The law only tends to get involved once someone is reported, and sometimes not even then. No one will be reporting a site if no one can see or know it is there.
The question is, if someone is being physically threatened and having their life in jeopardy how are you helping them by blocking the privileges of the **victim** and disallowing the victim the right to see the threat placed against them?
In short, I refuse to take away rights from the victim simply because there is a violent bad actor out there. If the victim doesn't want to see it they simply need to import the block list and the problem is solved for them, so why not keep the power in the victims hands?
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I mentioned this in a private message to someone recently about why a small handful of servers block qoto. I wanted to reiterate it here for the ne...
Can I get some unbiased news source recommendations? I'm down to Reuters as my only source. I'm not conservative or liberal, I'm more or less indifferent to societies causes. But I like to stay informed without having some bold headline trying to trigger emotions instead of informing me on current events.
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"God cannot alter the past, though historians can."
— Samuel Butler
#Quote #QuoteOfTheDay
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DELETE * FROM twitter.tweets WHERE creation_date >= $now;
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A cryptobro DMed me to ask if I wanted to join his mailing list.
I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.
I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.
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Here’s some early #gameplay for my upcoming #rpg lemme know what you think!
#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #madewithunity #unity #3d #unity3d
7am shower thought.
Throughout the next few years as the pandemic tech boom wanes. More tech companies will shrink than grow.
For active investors, it's important to know what shorting is during these seasons. Short selling isn't a complicated thing to understand.
Here is the process example.
Choose a stock that you believe will lose value.
Borrow that stock (don't buy it)
Example: Meta @ 300.00 per share 1 year ago and immediately sell it.
Wait till the stock has dropped in value, today its around $90 per share and buy the shares back.
Return the stock to it's previous owner.
The balance is $210.00 per share that you profited from the stock losing value.
That's short selling, and in the coming years will be easier to predict than choosing to buy stocks that are going to gain in value.
This still carries risks but when a market is going down because of multiple causes, i.e. inflation, quiet quitting, supply chain failures, rising energy costs, the obvious predictions statistically forecast downward trends in various sectors. With all investing, do your homework 1st, otherwise it's just gambling.
Have a great day everyone :)
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Forgot to mention that you can attend this FREE session I’ll be chairing tomorrow VIRTUALLY. For #SSRPWeek at #Sussexuni, @MedVetAcarology and Dr Kalema-Zikusoka will be covering joint action on #SDGs for #publichealth and #conservation.
📅10 Nov 2pm
Free sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/joint-action-on-sdgs-for-public-health-and-conservation-tickets-415894119507
#biodiversity #ecosystems #planetaryhealth #PapuaNewGuinea #Uganda #sustainability #AcademicMastodon
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The use of ionising radiation must always be justified regarding the risk v benefit. No radiographer could justify x-raying migrant children to determine their age and it is good to see SoR speaking out against the suggestion that this should even be considered!
https://www.sor.org/news/sor/society-rejects-plans-to-x-ray-migrant-children
Today's 2am shower thought:
Why are we still designing software like software when it's been just telling firmware what to do since it's inception? Why aren't we instead developing micro firmware that handles universal software requests for IO? All operating systems have kernels that govern what the OS can and can't do, so why aren't the hardware manufacturers making the OS on chip. Where's my Windows NT kernel chip? Where's my Linux kernel chip? An OS preprocessor makes viruses obsolete. Software companies can embed their activation keys to the chip so they can stop piracy altogether. #getWithTheProgram #iot #secureSoftware #privacy #efficiency
I'm an aspiring human being who loves all things logical and clean. I love programming and analytics. I also like dairy products and surfing. Although they're not clean. So I guess I'm a hypocrite too. I extrapolate when I'm bored. I've been told I should contribute more to society, so if you feel you can improve my understanding of anything, please do so.
Joined Nov 2022
