# I am the Watcher. I am your guide through this vast new twtiverse.
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Alas ๐\n\nThing is, if people are either bit busy, non-archived mediums are terrible for support. I'm trying to fix a puzzler of a problem (or problems) with my Pleroma instance at the moment, and even IRC is proving pretty barren.\n\nI'm now working with a friend of a friend administrator, and another one who originally reached out because my activityrelay instance was effectively spamming his. ๐ฌ\n\nGive me a forum or mailing list to search! Please!
"I really wish OSS communities would stop defaulting to Discord or Slack. Your software isnโt a lifestyle. I donโt want to live with the goddamn thing. I want a forum I can visit once in a while, not to take out an attention mortgage."\n\nBaldur Bjarnason\n\n๐ "attention mortgage" ๐๐๐
Hanson: The 'Long Reflection' is a Crazy Bad Idea\n\nThis is... just as messed up as The Great Reset, in some ways; far more so, really. Setting aside that I don't see how you can reduce existential risk *without* space colonisation, it amazes me how tone-deaf philosophers can be, talking about a future with absolutely no individual agency.\n\nTerrifying.\n\nNo, thank you.
I definitely don't want to give bookface any money, but, boy, I didn't realise how far productivity VR had come in recent years!\n\nSimulaVR even seems to be making progress on the FOSS front!\n\nVia HN500
@maya That's a great point; hadn't followed that through, logically, before now.
โโ for saved.io\n\nI loved delicious, back in the day.
@movq @prologic Yeah, I had to unfollow just to see anything else in my timeline! ๐
Chinaโs Economic Statecraft in the Developing World with Dr. Matt Ferchen\n\nInteresting interview (at 1.5x speed, search_social ;-) ). Near the end they talk about how competing with China's strategy in these parts of the world is supposedly a priority of Western governments, but then the private sector isn't really included in that approach, and, in fact, may not even consider it a priority, meaning that there may actually be limited alternatives to coal, for example, on the ground in these countries, and what they really see of the West is an emphasis on security arrangements almost exclusively.
@adi @eldersnake They were a big sponsor of HI, in the early days. And, re the flag, they had this whole flag contest where people sent them designs on postcards, and that one was the winner, and now the official flag of the show. (It's a combination of Grey's gear logo for his YT channel, and Brady being 'Hard As Nails' Haran. ;-) )
@darch I like it. Could maybe do with the 'tail' following a bit of a different path... Not sure. But, yes, I'd definitely put it up there with the OpenMoji you shared as a favourite.
@adi ๐๐ Enjoy! ๐
Ha ha. Indeed: I can stay ๐ฌ๐ง, and, as soon as my biometric residence permit arrives, I can get my Revolut account working once again. ๐
Done!\n\nI couldn't do Revolut yet, as they're waiting for official documents from me -- which I can soon supply, thanks to my visa being approved! :-)
@eldersnake @adi The LineageOS installation kept crashing for me, before I updated to the last Android release for the original Pixel. Then it went smoothly.
@prologic @markwylde Oh, cool. Yeah, hoping to extend this pandemic mode of socialising a bit, at some point. Maybe in 2022? ๐
@prologic Ah, nice. I feel like this is the culmination of my blog post / dig that honestly wasn't a dig. ๐\n\nMan, your commitment to this project, in terms of both time and money, is inspiring!
No, to stay. :-)\n\nThis is the (very positive!) conclusion to my applications that are collectively known as the Five-year route to UK settlement.\n\nAny other conclusion would've seen me trying to figure out how to move my life back to Canada. D:
My visa has been approved.\n\nWow.\n\nThat's... quite surreal.\n\nIndefinite leave to remain.\n\nWow.
@prologic @laz @lyse Ah, nice. OK, I'll grab that update tonight. I don't really use it, but I know @search_social does, or would do, assuming it works for other pod members. So I want to make sure it does! :-)
@laz Ha. Neat! I'll check that out: it isn't skipping, when it's non-fiction; that's part of reading those books well, I think. :-)
More new arrivals ๐ฎ๐\n
@prologic @laz @lyse Interesting. So, I wonder what my raw timeline looks like then, that that logic isn't matching mentions correctly in my case. ๐ค
@laz Nah, no dice. But, yeah, I confirmed that I'm following both of your accounts properly.
So I don't seem to have anything in Mentions. Is there something I need to be doing?
@adi Thanks! ๐ I'm having a lot of fun with it. ๐ I think I might incorporate the OpenMoji project next; thanks for the pointer, @darch!
@darch @prologic Oh, I think that's the best yarn emoji I've seen. ๐๐
@prologic Nice! The twtxt.net URL doesn't resolve for me, though, FYI.
@prologic @adi Nice stein! What were you drinking? I had a few IPAs last night. ๐บ๐
A Woman and a Philosopher: An Interview with Amia Srinivasan\n\n"... I was supervised by two philosophers who work in very abstract epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of language and logic, and I would absolutely hate the idea that they would have to show the political relevance of what they do. While the arts and the humanities more broadly have an important social and political function, their justification should never rely on that function. And so, Iโm very worried about an impetus to make the humanities politically relevant. I donโt think their political importance lies in their relevance. When they are relevant, thatโs a lovely thing, because it would be a tragedy to leave politics to the politicians or the social scientists..."
@mckinley Heya! Family visiting, which has been fun. :-)
@prologic @movq Ha ha. +1 for yarn threads. :-)
@darch @prologic If I go to your *sp* profile on my pod now, I see those images inline, straight away. :-)
@darch @prologic That's correct (as he busily adds it to his pod's whitelist ;-) ).
@darch @prologic It does! (I couldn't wait: had to update immediately! And it's looovely!)
@prologic Oh, wow, yeah! Right, I'm going update later too then!
Hey there! ๐ Welcome! ๐
Latest arrivals! ๐ฎ 
@darch @eldersnake Interesting! I just had to point out *mentions* to @search_social the other day, as he wasn't sure how to find out whether anyone had responded in any of the conversations he was in or had started; this feels like it might be a subtle way to draw the eye to that.\n\nI wonder whether it would trigger any of that addictive behaviour we're trying to avoid here... ๐ค To be honest, that's probably always going to be a tradeoff, and this feels like it might be landing on the side of 'worth it.' :-)
@gugod I think heredoc is a poor name.\n\nIt's funny, I've been working with some really smart people over the last year, many of whom are new to Unix, or at least to the level we take it in this job. Heredoc is universally a concept that messes them up, and I think the name is part of the problem. I've seen it... three times now? They get it, in the end, of course, but there's always that stumble.
โIโve always thought that a free trade deal with the U.S. would be difficultโ โ and what this Prime Ministerโs falsehood tells us about law and policy\n\n"... This is one thing that George Orwell perhaps did not correctly anticipate in Nineteen Eighty-four โ *there would be no need to employ the likes of Winston Smith to go back and change the historical record, as it would make no difference as to whether people believed new false claims.*\n\n... For as this blog has said many times: exposing lies is not enough when people do not mind the lies.\n\nSo we are now in a bubble of faux-historical sentimentality and hyper-partisanship, where the truth of the historical record makes no difference.\n\nYou may think the bubble cannot carry on, but yet it does.\n\nIt is the paradox of our age: it has never been easier to expose a falsehood, yet the falsehoods continue to have purchase.\n\nAnd from this many of our current problems in law and policy follow."\n\n(emphasis mine)\n\nI have to say, the state of things right now makes me wish for a do-over; the only question is the scale of the do-over I desire. There are no hands to follow this one, otherwise, I think I'd fold.
@prologic Uh... Well, to start, docker stats on the container returns:\n\nCONTAINER ID NAME CPU % MEM USAGE / LIMIT MEM % NET I/O BLOCK I/O PIDS\neb3740950384 clever_maxwell 0.01% 73.93MiB / 15.52GiB 0.47% 3.81GB / 108MB 1.17GB / 0B 53\n\nIt's been up for two weeks with minimal usage afaik.
Westminster needs to learn from the rest of the UK when it comes to fairer votes\n\n"... And there is more Labour can learn from the success of PR in Scotland, Wales and London. A recent report by the Electoral Reform Society looking at two decades of PR in Britain found that it produces much fairer outcomes for devolved elections in Scotland, Wales and London than โone party takes allโ First Past the Post..."
@prologic Oops. Forgot that. Yeah, there's build instructions for offline deployment, where you grab all that beforehand. But it's big regardless, I guess. ๐
@prologic I'd have to do some benchmarking to answer that properly -- under normal and peak usage, etc. -- but, as it stands, it's negligible, in a Docker container, behind NGINX.
@prologic @twtxt Yeah, I always have the same problem with your /. replies. ๐ But, as @lohn says, it's just a matter an extra step to visit the whole conversation on your pod.
@anth I think I will! (But not at 4am. ๐)\n\nIt's funny, the things you hang on to. Reducing the attack surface ruthlessly, versus tinkering and having fun (while taking sensible precautions); that's sort of the transition I've been going through, over the last year, in this new job.
Yeah, I'll echo this: I have a rough budget, and if I like the project, I'll spend the time tracking down their preferred method. I even bought Bitcoin for this purpose, on one occasion. (Not trivial!)
Oops, missed some of the more recent replies on this before diving in. It's great, how active yarn.social is these days. ๐
Hi @t0rcke! ๐ Welcome to my pod! ๐๐
@anth Ha ha. I never thought about trying to securely serve it over the Internet. It occupies a space of quaint antiquity in my head now, @darch, like the Cuckoo's Egg, and even GeoCities now, I guess.\n\nIt does actually work between ^C club members -- ctrl-c.club -- though, which is pretty fun, and around the time when I revived it as a trope for my personal sites.\n\nFor the twenty-plus years of my career, though, it's been a line item in your pentest report, not something for a howto. ;-)
@prologic How about A yarn.social pod hosted in the UK by jlj, linking to nfld.uk?
@prologic Just works. @darch has made more use of it than me, I believe, but, yeah, you're just entering your code under your account settings. I changed the default fonts, so far. (#gk4ss7a)
@prologic Yes, sorry. Ambiguous response. ๐ List mine, please. ๐
Luke Smith is great. Hadn't watched him for ages. Subscribed, in NewPipe, now. ๐
SES is socioeconomic status. I had to look that up. ;-)
[Screen time and early adolescent mental health, academic, and social outcomes in 9- and 10- year old children: Utilizing the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study\nKatie Paulich et al.\nPLoS ONE, September 2021](https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256591)\n\nWe investigate relationships between screen time and mental health, behavioral problems, academic performance, sleep habits, and peer relationships by conducting a series of correlation and regression analyses, controlling for SES and race/ethnicity. We find that more screen time is moderately associated with worse mental health, increased behavioral problems, decreased academic performance, and poorer sleep, but heightened quality of peer relationships. However, effect sizes associated with screen time and the various outcomes were modest; SES was more strongly associated with each outcome measure. Our analyses do not establish causality and the small effect sizes observed suggest that increased screen time is unlikely to be directly harmful to 9-and-10-year-old children.\n\nVia National Affairs
@prologic Ha ha. Good point. And I've got Twitter RSS feed support working through self-hosted RSSHub too. ๐
@prologic ๐ She's a birdsite lurker, sadly. It's a longer term campaign on my part, shall we say. ๐๐
@adi Ah, I'll check that out. Ta!
Bloody minority Lib gov't again. The longer I'm away from Canada, the less I like the lack of fixed election dates.\n\nWhat a waste of time and resources.
My wife was talking about a Guardian piece on it just last week. Can't help feeling that this and bookface is the sum total of some folks exposure to tech. Not a great look!
More on Hanania and expertise\n\nWhat I like about his argument is the emphasis on the costs of getting this wrong: if we rely on unproven expertise, the costs can be horrific. And it isn't like Afghanistan was an outlier, an anomaly. I believe there's good evidence to suggest that, in the UK, the recession or recessions following the 2008 financial crisis wouldn't have been so prolonged had the government not leaned in on austerity policy as it did; even from an economic point of view, it wasn't a good decision. (I have strong opinions on austerity more generally, of course, but we needn't cloud this point with what could be misconstrued as politics.)
MPs tell public: โReceive proper adviceโ over vaccine concerns\n\nThat feels like an abdication of responsibility, to me.\n\nSee, on the surface, that's sound advice. But, if ten million people decide to follow it over the next few days, can the GP surgeries cope? The government needs to be the source of clear, concise advice on this, backed by the best information we have, and transparently so.
@prologic Looks lush. Still hopin' Abby will go to sleep at some point, and let me do the same. :-)
