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CppGuy

@CppGuy@infosec.space

I'm an oldish software developer in the UK. Cis het man, married to Mrs Wife since for ever.

I'll always accept your follow request unless you're a bot, a spammer or a troll. I don't always follow back. Feel free to follow me back or not, whichever you prefer.

I've chosen a server that blocks Threads, because I don't trust Meta's intentions towards its users or Fedi. I'm in the process of migrating from @CppGuy.

Avatar is a photo of a Jersey bay, with a boat setting out to sea.

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futurebird , to Random stuff
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Have you thought much about, or engaged with "liminal space" content in the past 10 years? (Through a reddit group, tumblr, compilation videos etc.)

Regardless if you care about such content now, if you ever spent some time enjoying or being disquieted by such images and media... that's "engaging"

If you don't know what this is about you have not. If you know what it's about but just never paid it any mind? Same.

CppGuy ,
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@futurebird
I'm way, way over 40 😆 and I have no idea what this is about. I've voted accordingly.

Could someone please give an example of this kind of content (preferably not horror), just to satisfy my curiosity? Thanks!

deadsuperhero , to Random stuff
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Weird question: can anyone recommend an email hosting service that is more or less just an inbox/outbox? No groupware or collaboration, just spin up a bunch of accounts and integrate them with your own suite of apps?

I'm really interested in using Nextcloud as a full replacement for Google Workspace in our organization. It's really good! There are ways to automatically provision accounts in there, through SSO or other kinds of integration, so that new people get access on their first login.

But, almost every hosted email service is kind of trying to be their own Google Workspace alternative, with bells and whistles that I don't really need.

CppGuy ,
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@deadsuperhero
Adding for visibility. OP is looking for a hosted email service without a load of extra functionality. More details upthread.

davidrevoy , to Random stuff
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My treasure

A webcomic in four panels (no speech bubble) Panel 1: In a cave containing a treasure with a lot of gold, a young adventurer is chased by a monster: a treasure with big teeth. She drops all the gold items she had on her escape. Panel 2: While climbing a mountain of bones and skulls to reach the exit of the cave, the adventurer throws a bone to the monster. It is startled. Panel 3: Like a brave dog, the monster returns the bone to the adventurer, happy to start over. The adventurer has a think about it. Panel 4: Later, in a city, the adventurer walks proudly and happily with her new "dog" (the monster's treasure) on a leash. This one is a happy one. Mini Fantasy Theater, by David Revoy (www.davidrevoy.com) License: CC-By-Sa
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    CppGuy ,
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    @cptcv @davidrevoy
    Je me suis posé la même question !

    aral , to Random stuff
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    Dear @Gargron,

    A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.social’s second server rule:

    “2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…
    Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.”

    https://glaad.org/smsi/report-meta-fails-to-moderate-extreme-anti-trans-hate-across-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

    Can you please defederate from this server to protect the trans people on mastodon.social?

    Thank you.

    PS. It’s run by these guys: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

    CppGuy ,
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    @fabio @aral @eatyourglory
    is like a tumour: it cares only about its own survival and growth, regardless of the effects on the society on which it feeds. It doesn't matter if people are slaughtered brutally, democracy gets perverted or the UK and the EU are weakened, as long as it helps Meta show more adverts.

    The decision we face is not whether to defederate millions of people who would otherwise set up Fedi accounts: it's whether to defederate millions of people who want to access Fedi via Meta, with all the toxicity and dirty tricks that entails. We have no reason to believe that Meta will behave honourably and openly towards us, because we already know how they behave towards everyone else. Giving them the benefit of the doubt means waiting for them to miraculously change their character because we think we're a special case, and then crying into our milkshakes when we realise it's too late and we're drowning in Meta's garbage.

    Don't think they care about Fedi: they really don't. To them, Fedi is something that Meta can use either to make money or avoid fines, and if Fedi is ruined in the process, so be it.

    Our response should be to defederate them and to publicly explain why, in a well written, authoritative piece that anyone can see without needing a Fedi account. users who want access to Fedi can set up Fedi accounts: either on civilised instances, where we'll welcome them, or on fash instances, where the rest of us don't have to think about them.

    CppGuy ,
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    @Rik_Dhuyvetters @fabio @aral @eatyourglory
    It's not a mistake. They're keeping you engaged by keeping you enraged. And it's not good for you:

    https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/study-social-media-use-linked-to-decline-mental-health

    (The headline refers to social media in general, but the article is specifically about .)

    CppGuy ,
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    @fabio @aral @Rik_Dhuyvetters @eatyourglory
    Understood. But I feel that we who understand the issues have a moral duty not to help : not by feeding it information about ourselves, and not by doing anything it can use to increase its users' engagement with its platform.

    If Meta's users can access Fedi from where they already are, they have less incentive to step outside and find an experience free of advertising, tracking and Meta's unhealthy mind games.

    CppGuy ,
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    @fabio @aral @Rik_Dhuyvetters @eatyourglory
    We can't wait for people to move to Linux: we have to help them. I've managed to move two family members and one friend to . I've got maybe a dozen people regularly using because I refused to use and wasn't afraid to explain why. I've migrated at least three people from to .

    IMHO, allowing Fedi to become a small curiosity on the outskirts of would be our death knell. We mustn't underestimate how evil is. They don't tolerate competition, they don't play fair, and they don't care how much damage they do as long as it makes money or entrenches their hegemony.

    Everyone here knows the three E's: embrace, extend, extinguish. Are you ready to be embraced?

    DenisCOVIDinfoguy , to AusCOVID19 group
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    🇬🇧Britain faces worst sickness crisis since 1990s as millions quit workforce | http://telegraph.co.uk

    ‘Legacy of pandemic’ blamed as illness-related inactivity climbs to 2.7 million.

    @auscovid19

    Source: https://telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/03/23/britain-worst-sickness-crisis-1990s-millions-quit-workforce/

    This is the second-longest sustained rise in sickness-related inactivity on record and just one month shy of the record set in the 1990s. The think tank described the sharp rise in the number of people who are neither in work nor looking for a job as the “legacy of the pandemic”. Louise Murphy, senior economist at the Resolution Foundation, said Britons were getting older and sicker, which did not bode well for reversing the trend. She added: “We can’t be sure of what the future will hold. But we definitely don’t see any indication that this is starting to turn a corner and go down. “So, all that it would take is another couple of months of increases and things will be looking even worse than in the 1990s.” The UK is still the only G7 economy where employment is yet to recover to pre-lockdown rates, and a total of 9.25 million people of working age are now classed as economically inactive. The Resolution Foundation noted that 90pc of the increase in overall economic inactivity had been driven by younger adults aged between 16 and 24 and older adults aged between 50 and 64 since the start of the pandemic.
    It said the rise in ill-health had a “knock-on impact” on welfare claims. “There has also been a rapid rise in the number of working-age adults claiming sickness and disability-related benefits,” the Foundation said, adding that people in their early 20s are now more likely than those in their 30s or early 40s to be claiming benefits related to a health condition or disability. Official projections by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) published this week show spending on health and disability benefits is expected to rise by more than a third over the next five years from £65.7bn in 2023-24 to £90.9bn in 2028-29. The Foundation said the most “striking” increase in benefit claims related to personal independence payments (PIP), which is now the main non-means-tested benefit for those with health conditions or disabilities. The benefit can be claimed by people both in and out of work, though OBR analysis suggests just 16pc of those who claim PIP are in work. New PIP claims have increased 68pc between early 2020 and early 2024, according to the Foundation. Adults aged between 55 and 64 are the most likely group to be claiming PIP, with the most common conditions including osteoarthritis and anxiety. However, the Foundation highlighted that the number of new PIP claims in England and Wales is up 138pc for 16-17-year-olds, and up 77pc for 18-24-year-olds
    Ms Murphy said: “What’s striking is that on one end, we’ve got more young people out of work, particularly due to poor mental health. And we’ve also got a big number of older people aged 60 and over who again are struggling with poor health. “I think that U shaped trend by age is what is worrying because for young people, we’re concerned that this will have a knock-on impact on their future career trajectory and earnings. And at the other end, if we have lots of people in later life who are not able to work, they are therefore at risk of having low incomes. “There is also the risk that we are then writing off people in their 50s and 60s.”

    Britain faces worst sickness crisis since 1990s as millions quit workforce ‘Legacy of pandemic’ blamed as illness-related inactivity climbs to 2.7 million Szu Ping Chan 23 March 2024 • 6:00am Britain is on the cusp of the worst sickness crisis on record following a post-lockdown surge in worklessness that is driving a “rapid rise” in benefit claims. Analysis by the Resolution Foundation showed the share of working-age people who are economically inactive owing to long-term sickness had climbed “consistently” over the past four-and-a-half years from two million in the summer of 2019 to 2.7 million today.
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    @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19
    Thank goodness the pandemic is behind us and isn't real, eh?

    🤬

    CppGuy , to Random stuff
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    Normalise walking into a car showroom, asking to see the car's privacy policy, reading it, and walking out in disgust.

    https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/

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    And you're already late for the test!

    CppGuy ,
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    @skydog @georgetakei
    I'm approaching retirement age, and I still have dreams about exams I haven't revised for and lessons I can't understand.

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