Trying out Kbin now at @KelsonV@kbin.social (I know, I’m boring with my usernames). So far, so good, though I have to unlearn…

Trying out Kbin now at @KelsonV (I know, I’m boring with my usernames). So far, so good, though I have to unlearn the search-by-URL approach for finding groups (both local and remote.)

GoToSocial seems to have the same issues it does with Lemmy: I can find my profile on KBin, I can find a “magazine” on KBin, but I can’t follow either from here. I wonder if it’s similar to the issue Bookwyrm fixed recently, or if it’s just another case of an ActivityPub server that doesn’t sign fetches?

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“I think we are dealing with a dominant cultural belief—one might say a national spirit—that …

“I think we are dealing with a dominant cultural belief—one might say a national spirit—that believes that any people who suffer aren’t actually people, because if they aren’t people then we won’t have to take care of them—and so, if neglect makes them so desperate or unsightly that they cause us discomfort, then we can get rid of them, blaming them for causing the discomfort that resulted in our having to inconvenience ourselves with their disposal.”

https://armoxon.substack.com/p/the-die-ers

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politics (general)I figure that's how we ended up with a bunch of religious rural …

politics (general)


I figure that's how we ended up with a bunch of religious rural working-class folks voting overwhelmingly for the multiply-divorced big-city hotshot who barges in and thinks he knows how to do your job better than you can. Twice. And remolding themselves to be more like him as the years went on.

That's how you end up with people calling Liz Cheney's political suicide “cowardly,” because she “sided with the Dems” in the Jan. 6 probe

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politics (general)I mean, *everything* gets shoved into a binary. Coke vs. Pepsi, Windows vs. Mac, …

politics (general)


I mean, *everything* gets shoved into a binary. Coke vs. Pepsi, Windows vs. Mac, Twitter vs. Mastodon.

And then those binaries get lumped together, as if all Coke drinkers use Windows and all Pepsi drinkers use Macs. Even though they don't.

And then those groupings start to homogenize. The Coke drinkers who use Macs start thinking maybe they should use Windows, or maybe they should keep the Mac and start drinking Pepsi instead.

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politics (general)Politics should not be a team sport with only two sides, where your team …

politics (general)


Politics should not be a team sport with only two sides, where your team is always right and their team is always wrong, and any criticism of someone who happens to be on your team is dismissed whether it's in good faith or not.

We should have shifting coalitions based on each issue being discussed. Not semi-permanent factions where everyone has to pledge allegiance to one side or the other.

But everything gets shoved into a binary.

Maybe (most) humans are just wired for it

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Nextcloud Apps

If you use a Nextcloud server, there’s a good collection of apps (some official, some third-party) that work with it. The ones I use:

Nextcloud – main app, does authentication, file access, optional auto-upload photos Nextcloud Notes – kind of like Google Keep, but simpler. (IIRC Carnet is more like Keep, and also open) Nextcloud Talk – instant messaging, supposedly can do voice but I’ve never used it for that Nextcloud News – RSS reader that syncs your feeds and read/unread through your Nextcloud server

Plus these apps that aren’t Nextcloud-specific, but work with it and other sync methods:

OpenTasks – ToDo list (needs Dav5x to sync) DAVx5 – Syncs contacts, calendars and to-do items between any CalDav, CardDav or WebDav servers and your Android system, so you can access them with any local contacts or calendar app. (For instance: K-9 Mail can use contacts from my Google account and my Nextcloud account, and Simple Calendar can do the same with my calendars.) Floccus – Bookmarks manager that can sync across multiple desktop browsers and the mobile app, using any of several sync options including Nextcloud

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Bruce Schneier on catastrophic AI risk: > I actually don’t think that AI poses a risk to human extinction. I think it pose…

Bruce Schneier on catastrophic AI risk:

I actually don’t think that AI poses a risk to human extinction. I think it poses a similar risk to pandemics and nuclear war—which is to say, a risk worth taking seriously, but not something to panic over. Which is what I thought the statement said.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/06/on-the-catastrophic-risk-of-ai.html

Later in the post he adds:

Surely we can spend the same effort on AI risk as we do on future pandemics. That’s a really low bar.

Ouch.

#security #ai #risk

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