paris's recent activity
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Comment on cohost.org to shut down by the end of 2024 in ~tech
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Comment on Originally created to soundtrack a video game, Jónsi's solo album ‘First Light’ has an immersive, escapist quality that reflects his inspiration, but far exceeding the original purpose in ~music
paris LinkThis is an extremely laudatory written review, and then the numerical score given is a blindsiding 7/10. What gives?This is an extremely laudatory written review, and then the numerical score given is a blindsiding 7/10. What gives?
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Comment on Personally protecting a piece of prairie in ~enviro
paris Link ParentThe prairie they are trying to protect would die if the trees spread though. It would not be prairie if they let the trees grow rampant.The prairie they are trying to protect would die if the trees spread though. It would not be prairie if they let the trees grow rampant.
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Comment on Is there an independent, cross-device cloud sync platform for ebooks? in ~books
paris LinkI wonder if calibre can be made to work with your use-case? I have my Calibre library synced to iCloud for ease of downloading on the go, but I wonder if any cloud-service (I use Koofr for...I wonder if calibre can be made to work with your use-case? I have my Calibre library synced to iCloud for ease of downloading on the go, but I wonder if any cloud-service (I use Koofr for academic stuff bc Zotero/WebDAV) should be able to be finagled into working?
Koofr has a web interface which is… lackluster, but supposedly they have a app as well which I've never used. Setting up iCloud with the e-reader is almost assuredly a no-go though.
Will be following this to see if anyone has a solution for you. I'm curious too!
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Comment on X suspended in Brazil, fines may be issued for VPN access in ~tech
paris Link ParentNo idea! None that make this as big a stink.No idea! None that make this as big a stink.
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Comment on X suspended in Brazil, fines may be issued for VPN access in ~tech
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Comment on X suspended in Brazil, fines may be issued for VPN access in ~tech
paris (edited )LinkThis isn’t even about the accounts Musk won’t take down anymore. To operate a foreign business inside of Brazil, you must have a person in Brazil acting as representative. Musk recalled all his...- This isn’t even about the accounts Musk won’t take down anymore. To operate a foreign business inside of Brazil, you must have a person in Brazil acting as representative. Musk recalled all his employees, fired the local ones, and shut down the physical location that had been Twitter’s legally required presence in Brazil. The STF told him he needed to have a representative in Brazil to operate in Brazil. He refused. So the business is not legally allowed to operate in Brazil.
- Musk is a liar about his motivations. He takes down left-leaning political rivals on demand.
- The VPN fine is (possibly?) not going to happen.
- The best part of this whole thing was the STF issuing a summons to appear to Musk on twitter. (No link bc 🇧🇷, so source: trust me, bro.) EDIT: this thread on Bluesky has translated copies of all documents.
The mood on twitter last night was jubilant. The memes were perfect, the attitude was amused, so many people were saying they’d finally be free, so many brazilians in fandom circles coming out as brazilian to the shock of their mutuals ahahah It was a beautiful final night. 💙
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Comment on X suspended in Brazil, fines may be issued for VPN access in ~tech
paris Link ParentI just saw the other day that the guy who made Orkut (whose name is Orkut???) wants to remake it! 🙏I just saw the other day that the guy who made Orkut (whose name is Orkut???) wants to remake it! 🙏
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Comment on X suspended in Brazil, fines may be issued for VPN access in ~tech
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Comment on X suspended in Brazil, fines may be issued for VPN access in ~tech
paris Link ParentExcept when the right-wing Indian government demanded he take down (left-leaning) political rivals, he did. So no. He isn’t doing what he’s saying he’s doing by “standing up to censorship.”Except when the right-wing Indian government demanded he take down (left-leaning) political rivals, he did. So no. He isn’t doing what he’s saying he’s doing by “standing up to censorship.”
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Comment on Brazil's top court threatens to suspend X (formerly Twitter) by Thursday night if Elon Musk does not comply with regulations in ~tech
paris Link(Translation courtesy of my phone; bolding reflected in the original source, here.Faced with the lack of a legal representative of the social network X in Brazil, the minister of the Supreme Court (STF) Alexandre de Moraes blocked accounts of the company Starlink Holding, which also belongs to billionaire Elon Musk - which provoked a new reaction on the part of the businessman.
(Translation courtesy of my phone; bolding reflected in the original source, here.
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Comment on Brazil's top court threatens to suspend X (formerly Twitter) by Thursday night if Elon Musk does not comply with regulations in ~tech
paris Link…Whose constitution exactly, Elon?Musk has called the Moraes' decisions regarding X "unconstitutional".
…Whose constitution exactly, Elon?
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Comment on What things do you have are surprisingly good / handy? in ~life
paris Link ParentPainters tape is also great for when you have to drill/screw something into a wall. You make a little hammock of tape beneath the hole, and all the dust falls in the tape-hammock, which is easily...Painters tape is also great for when you have to drill/screw something into a wall. You make a little hammock of tape beneath the hole, and all the dust falls in the tape-hammock, which is easily folded up and thrown away!
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Comment on Yogurrt Recommender v0.2 in ~misc
paris Link ParentI understand, I’m sorry if I came across as antagonistic: I had tried not to, but as you intuited, this is a subject of great frustration for me. I won’t wax on about the damage AI does both to...I understand, I’m sorry if I came across as antagonistic: I had tried not to, but as you intuited, this is a subject of great frustration for me.
I won’t wax on about the damage AI does both to art and the planet in whole, but will insist it does produce harmful outcomes, even if not in the sense you may have meant (as it would with medical information).
Again, I apologize for my rudeness to you.
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Comment on Yogurrt Recommender v0.2 in ~misc
paris Link ParentI'm not sure what medical information has to do with anything. I prefer to not engage with anything made with LLMs, and would appreciate a tag so I can filter things built with it/using it.I'm not sure what medical information has to do with anything. I prefer to not engage with anything made with LLMs, and would appreciate a tag so I can filter things built with it/using it.
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Comment on Yogurrt Recommender v0.2 in ~misc
paris LinkEDIT: Nevermind, this is bad. It's hallucinating books that don't exist. Avoid, avoid, avoid. Can someone add the LLM/AI tag so this kind of garbage can be filtered out? How does this work? It's...EDIT: Nevermind, this is bad. It's hallucinating books that don't exist. Avoid, avoid, avoid. Can someone add the LLM/AI tag so this kind of garbage can be filtered out?
How does this work? It's surprisingly on point with its tags.
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Comment on Signal developer explains why early encrypted messaging tools flopped in ~tech
paris Link ParentThis quote highlights a thing that has been bothering me recently: either people who write software don’t consider themselves creatives, or they don’t consider creatives to be technicians.This quote highlights a thing that has been bothering me recently: either people who write software don’t consider themselves creatives, or they don’t consider creatives to be technicians.
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Comment on Queer: A term from/of the Global South in ~lgbt
paris (edited )LinkAs someone who pretty much exclusively describes themselves using the word “queer” in anglophone settings, I really like this line. Negation isn’t naturally negative (I say, as Wittgenstein rolls...“queer is a material reminder of one’s relation to an unequal structure of power.”
As someone who pretty much exclusively describes themselves using the word “queer” in anglophone settings, I really like this line.
Negation isn’t naturally negative (I say, as Wittgenstein rolls in his grave), by which I mean so much of my social life is defined by what I cannot do and cannot be: in the eyes of my society, I am not so much X as I am not-Y, etc. So to me, instead of accepting my “wrongness” as depicted and decided by the normalized societies in which I live as something negative, I can and do choose to see my “wrongnesses” as points of pride: I am not wrong, but queer.
I think a lot about Jasbir Puar’s writings on homonationalism, when she speaks of the kinds of bodies and peoples that are allowed to be normal, and how new groups are “normalized” at the expense of others. There are parts of who I am and what my life entails that will never be folded into homonationalistic acceptability. That is functionally what it means to be queer.
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Comment on Five minute oil-free mayo from tofu in ~food
paris Link ParentNot necessarily! Soybeans are a staple here 🇧🇷but tofu isn’t really accessible (or priced affordable, when it is).Not necessarily! Soybeans are a staple here 🇧🇷but tofu isn’t really accessible (or priced affordable, when it is).
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Comment on Five minute oil-free mayo from tofu in ~food
paris Link ParentI know someone with a similar reaction to a similar proportion. He says his is because of an overactive vagus nerve. I’m not nearly educated enough to know what that means, but it might be...I know someone with a similar reaction to a similar proportion. He says his is because of an overactive vagus nerve. I’m not nearly educated enough to know what that means, but it might be something to look into?
Archive link: https://archive.is/1Oonr
I really wanted to like cohost but the culture never jived with me, and their lack of updates and financial transparency despite their continued communicated insistence on both, made it hard to trust the project was in capable hands. I’m curious to see how they handle data export, another long-promised and never delivered feature, now that the site has a scheduled death-day; I don’t have high hopes considering they’re already walking back promises about what the site would be “if” they ever shut down.