2026-03-31T21:16:11+02:00 https://nostr.ae Roberto von Archimboldi https://nostr.ae/npub1zjt9gsux04neazh04a9hd4400z9lqr5t9h8lnjl9rggs72aycmnssp6a2t https://kolektiva.social/system/accounts/avatars/109/386/893/837/446/750/original/8d0a5fd51889b89b.png https://kolektiva.social/system/accounts/avatars/109/386/893/837/446/750/original/8d0a5fd51889b89b.png https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsz2dhw0ld3c7qqe8r736rqpzphql39r66u4r76f85cymw2td498yczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwldkpdd Today seems a good day to remind people that conspiracy theories seem to provide psychological cover for the dissonance that comes with someone actually attempting the transgressive thing that you wished for but weren&#39;t brave enough to undertake yourself. <br/><br/>No idea why that might be<br/><br/>#USPol 2026-04-26T15:55:02+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs80fgesh0cacfm300vr83nvugqqnj60s6769yuxhan0ck49zyvjggzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww580u54 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfwa6du5ayj4hp643we42a7ca4d0lsdwfyamqseg52jcypkwx50aghmhvkc'>nevent1q…hvkc</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>can you explain this a bit more? I missed the original 2026-03-31T22:25:18+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx6c89u9aauaqmapc4n9fx689wqsjt6jk69s48yd4yfy7zgv88vmczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww4hnh7h In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswgc03ph6xlletvynde7e0m289wr2fmphh628nl40xf6yxsmd20jg5w3aqz'>nevent1q…3aqz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I guess, though I haven&#39;t followed either very closely, that the scandals are different. Clinton was unlawfully conducting government business from her private server. She then compounded it by deleting some (or all?) of the emails. Patel was stupid and got his private emails hacked. He has done nothing unlawful.<br/><br/> The real comparison to Clinton is Trump retaining government documents in his toilet in Mar a Lago. The comparator to Patel is perhaps Hunter Biden and his laptop. The hoohahs seem similar, but with the polarity of the commentators reversed.<br/><br/>Feel free to correct me on this one 2026-03-31T22:19:56+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst8s4609aahfnd0jphm5enr4hf7xc023xpwylkqxesmm7d9w0kv3gzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwglh7u9 I had a victory today. It made me very happy and it kept somebody housed<br/><br/>#OneGoodThing, #SharingJoy 2026-03-31T21:16:09+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0ar3p35sftfera9tzsc4v0eq77j94xhz4pp2n7ppr2a5t00752ugzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwd0ksj9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8ty5tdktpjf0029uvfrsv48ncd944mzlx89nnsvjcekwq96vyz3gjgufhu'>nevent1q…ufhu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I agree, but surely that is what everybody who is trawling through his emails is really hoping to find? 2026-03-31T19:00:29+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswalkq6huy2590rpmyw0weczcvpre9qfpvzxhcjwc229atn89qfyqzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww2crkny How come I haven&#39;t seen any Kash Patel nudes?<br/><br/>#KashPatel, #Disappointed 2026-03-31T10:18:28+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf274sp0z7xwa3jfnvw06mqfur587rqjuma06whfpvxldxzlc24sszyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwqwru5a In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfsn4yjzq375nfyzrdk3mqhfhqw2nwcq4zz0w2qcjgexm5nxgrhtg3lcx5n'>nevent1q…cx5n</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I probably read it too quickly. It also seemed to be saying, get involved in the Labour party but get Long-Bailey elected and get involved in the Green party. That seems wrong for the reasons articulated. These parties are bourgeois parties. I&#39;m happy with the idea that we use our limited power to win concessions by backing Corbyn or Polanski, but that has to be from outside of the party. We have to articulate our rejection of their world even as we support taxing wealth 2026-03-30T15:21:42+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw42drx4kptzku2k6np3042myt63exa7de2xyvzmqd9pxk3z4ffrqzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwjjfpln In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9cc09dcyu7cqdr8vh576hmd6vfen7rsp56zasdlp5j304jhs5llgl6yjq2'>nevent1q…yjq2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think that this is not quite right. You are right that voting &#39;left&#39; will inevitably lead to disappointment and disillusionment. The reason given is correct. These parties are not revolutionary. They are committed to the status quo. That is to say, they are bourgeois political parties. It also seems right that revolutionary politics is built through long term political engagement. It then seems that conclusion has to be that the struggle has to be outside of the mainstream, parliamentary parties. Sure, vote Green if you want, but the working class must build its own political organisations that articulate its own interest and perspective. That must be the long-term project, not struggling to get a reformist elected who will inevitably sell us out and return the ground to the worst aspects of the bourgeoisie 2026-03-30T14:42:08+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0xt485t53nufrs0ahluge3xzcrxsj2j8762htmgwsmrmcn8v5tcczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwjw6a66 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrapx9zrgl7harcs9pafwe44226xvv6aqcdfwj0hxakm7lxqdh8jq2zn2jh'>nevent1q…n2jh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>that is true, but those places are rightly blocked by the majority of instances because they exist to let people attack and harass other users.<br/><br/>The ban people for expressing views that may in fact entail exclusion of some out group moderation of the majority of the fediverse is what leads dot social to exclude Palestinians. Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany is quite plausibly antisemitic. No one doing it really wants to exclude Jews for being Jews. If it upsets you, the response is to block the user yourself or engage with the &#39;antisemite&#39; to point out the problem. <br/><br/>I do think that the TERFS are at best useful idiots for the hard right. At worse they are part of the hard right. I also think that there has to be space for people to have a different understanding of that.<br/><br/>I also understand that you might want not to have to deal with some particular set of views. That makes sense. Fortunately instances exist in which the moderators will block instances that do allow such discussion. I suspect babka blocks a lot of the plausibly antisemitic anti Zionism. What I don&#39;t want is for that moderation to be the default. It upsets me when I see it happening 2026-03-29T15:40:19+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0f68d05343d8ylrl8e87urktw4deyuz8u6n07guv2qp4saztcxcqzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwyh7hcv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqrdlm4g0rpz3trju782002zn6259zxy2yw97us0texxx55w7v96grstgm0'>nevent1q…tgm0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>no, but because I think that people should not be kicked off mastodon for being wrong, even for being wrong in ways that are very offensive. I can expand on that thought if you want 2026-03-29T14:59:42+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8cja3xtphllcy4vf4vmnv8vyk486nr5fr7hlsgzu6ff8c4ztnzcszyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww222l5l In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxf2pttdsxyq2239jqrt7k52nwenur0vjajfcu6p696zfyyvwjhwqdp5ftj'>nevent1q…5ftj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This has to be right. A friend of mine pointed out to me that banning trans women from elite sport is to impose an upper limit on what it is to be woman. The corollary of that is you make men&#39;s sport the open section and the women&#39;s game the consolation prize. This can&#39;t be a feminist approach 2026-03-29T14:31:39+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgs6djaaxwm89nx99zl43nfwfuk95xza366z0ch56myrzl7prshuczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwqxjenf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8f0nm0c7e0pfaxf2c7ayuz5vy6m0a6wdyje3d8n6t072ue2t4dhs09lxvm'>nevent1q…lxvm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you alright or just busy? Normally you greet the world earlier. Have a lovely Friday 2026-03-27T20:48:31+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9gfzp5lc5xg56fagdz3f7pzwz0qppfn940p66t69g772cnpt8ckczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwcun2au In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxwv9kdg47dgnue2evx6vd5ms7nf0n0drpa8gnqgaaxna5te5e2sct5hs32'>nevent1q…hs32</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>If I was the Green party, when Labour try to scare people by claiming that they are not serious on defense, I would be trumpeting loudly my unique commitment to energy security. That takes the form of renewables and not backing wars in the gulf. <br/><br/>I would take the same line when they describe my economic policies as dangerous 2026-03-26T22:57:30+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsync4x2j9f87xavlyl7aehvcecqjrpszpyvdphlrhywf8w7kgdytczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwallk4s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswnvw8f9d4xqnkk8stf50u5zt8jel0cf863t4kk9qtamxsx24hj6c2atgw7'>nevent1q…tgw7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>is that &#39;free&#39; as in &#39;freedom&#39;? 2026-03-25T19:05:12+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8534ek39qxz25jtl0upf6d96s0epkdsyy6nehysz6grx5unkuhpgzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwhuwknj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrx3qdsxgjaaqrudjh46agqfgxnfjyzzx08tsdg0n45sy7d20lfns8kmnmw'>nevent1q…mnmw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>that made me chuckle 2026-03-24T16:46:38+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsxvxrdhfdyc9u9rvsydgww6eudy4yv2l47eaq24gsmtakzfer8z3qzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww0t0uxc So there are many terrible things about Sir Keir Starmer. His complete disregard for the meaning of what he says is one. Here is a snippet from his forward to &#39;Restoring Control&#39; the immigration white paper:<br/><br/>&#39;It is a wound, as I said on my first day as Prime Minister, that can only be healed by action not words. This White Paper is just that.&#39; <br/><br/>My friend, it is 80 pages of policy proposal. It is literally words.<br/><br/>#KeirStarmer, #Knobhead, #UKPol 2026-03-24T16:14:24+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8uj02xne9q37ft55w3tn9ehq4fgsnnltvau0mnv86wna6uwr4gqszyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww7vzlqj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsttp4h7lhzhte6q7us50gtfcs9st5k0argvrk36uzv0muddkyx4ngu9jcmt'>nevent1q…jcmt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m with John Brown on this. some guy who has never been exposed to serious left organising comes to the conclusion that the problem is rapist Jewish peadophile billionaires -- maybe he spent too long on mastodon. Sure, he is racist and reactionary, but there is hope. He needs persuasion. It is not that hard precisely because he has started from a realisation that he is being oppressed. He just hasn&#39;t yet understood oppression or power. He is not deeply committed to the idea that Jews are an oppressive alien power. He hasn&#39;t even realised that is what he thinks and how could he? 2026-03-23T19:52:10+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsre205zgq670fqt0qqh0naxl2t3llwaeeu60msvuymaarfrev8qwszyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwjlf0n6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8n7x8u6swquvry8mlsvx63rrs2c5ss2a93n5qf7arpjeu2fuxf3s8gz8lt'>nevent1q…z8lt</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>they were wrong and possibly stupid about their &#39;after Hitler, us&#39; position. It should also be acknowledged that the popular front with the liberals has also been a disaster for the working class 2026-03-23T19:33:38+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf5vxm6dql7myyyy692uak7s7lm3wj62v73czgjurt9xyalcrdrlczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwd249sc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw7v8pzeevdv69ctxpk8auqkwdeckrer7mf7tlyvksyn999jm5nqgcgrv8r'>nevent1q…rv8r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>thank you 2026-03-22T20:36:39+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrvk05aawk5sa05csegussc2utc8eqpd44a9qh3jfzcku8gkhcn8szyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww6nlv83 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstyn5m3w4d7wayuyfqxwuvjxte6tenlsqm4e5jn3lpkdtf7k6cj2cez7wh4'>nevent1q…7wh4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>can you expand? I am sure that you are right, but I am not quite clear what you mean 2026-03-22T20:30:54+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8840h5s0hm39tm6dwlk6ruzgcu0qfcdff3wm67gxffd7xeccktmgzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwlmk8ml In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxsveztt50n46ht9z7qrlhvqurnurrr700jsdn6wsq7jpkmcq8husfht3xy'>nevent1q…t3xy</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>that is a good point. <br/><br/>I guess I think that the US with its trillion dollar armed forces can pursue its imperial agenda. Not that it should, but it can. The Europeans are just paying a tribute to the US. At current expenditure levels they can&#39;t even provide auxiliary services to the empire. <br/><br/>All this talk of increasing budgets to build an independent defense policy is really just a smokescreen for being in a position to actually serve the US. In this case send boats to the med, but what Washington really wants is to hand over the war with Russia. <br/><br/>Its clear that they can&#39;t do anything at the current level. It is clear that they are ok. They would be better if they stopped being imperialists. The money saved could be used to build alliances and projects that made everybody richer. Perhaps I am naïve 2026-03-21T09:49:30+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqex404v4ljsr5kwxnerpkns4y5ql8v5tlqjr0cs00dk5vx9wklfgzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww3sygl9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqxcqancawelm0avdp239fd0v2l3lwgg585ex9p7j0vnrkjmgeccqfltj2u'>nevent1q…tj2u</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>personally I love reading my email in a dedicated mail client like Thunderbird that supports PGP. It handles key management very smoothly. <br/><br/>The problem is that more or less the only people who use PGP are protonmail users. Almost none know how to import a public key into proton. Their reply to you will be unencrypted.<br/><br/>Still email in a proper client is a joy, especially if you have more than one email address 2026-03-20T09:45:34+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszugg7my57wentcl5wdra8zrhfrsdrn8ptfmtm6qw80kv2ajpz42czyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwwpmcl8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsf74h8ykuq8ceu327wykj653zmzmaktv77h2c59gy3unh4ng3eswcyef4u6'>nevent1q…f4u6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I try to be more IkkleGemzUniverse in my approach to Mastodon. In that respect you are very helpful to me 2026-03-17T12:53:47+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp5ty4gsfgt6ecldq99vt9z68ukk3r0gukjyxyug8cv43wgnnnu9qzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwuchtp4 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsghl4dw3l30mnmknkzxya2mylgy3dr026ckq6djav79lf9kcvaqzcvxf6tl'>nevent1q…f6tl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>your kindness, grace and DIY approach to server management are all inspirations to me. I am sure that those skills would be appreciated by some groups local to you 2026-03-17T09:31:21+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqvvdcx7wvgut8ea6qf28haf6jqawrsrzma0d7aur8mcw8tkzwldczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwkvmdx8 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstg99vugllscxhylcnprm9ayz9xmqmzpds2u6nrk65r9af3s9yzxcn5uvg0'>nevent1q…uvg0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>you, definitely you 2026-03-16T21:01:32+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst2wzk2erptwk7xuvt57dl9e9445ttsu7ehd9rjyseec8gtgz2jhszyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwtee5w7 I love how many great photographers there are on mastodon. I guess some of them are on pixelfed too. I like that too.<br/><br/>(Maybe too many pictures of cats, but I have a filter for that) 2026-03-16T10:55:33+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsx9g63cvkst0ahsejxp7qnm3jx3r2wj6rrpk64ytcyen5xx8vqc5czyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww8ke2ph In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszsn2tgh3e2pwxe0rjanr2d3qmz7mymyvzteugu3wxlje75j3kmkgxslqxv'>nevent1q…lqxv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>good idea. I will implement that 2026-03-16T10:09:17+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0e3uw7qn44rn7napgtp2znwkaw6av6u8wrg9ddrkr74feyyn903czyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwsqlwsg In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsvf6nk9mad6fhu9lvgjqdtqxrmcwvq3c2qhj5q6h90hlvmn3m88gsu3ql7f'>nevent1q…ql7f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>thank you. I will check it out. <br/><br/>Weirdly it was mostly my user that was trying to reset. I guess my name is on the website. But the admin user is called &#39;admin&#39; which would seem a more obvious name to try 2026-03-15T23:23:16+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswgp2u9tce3yqzxl4frhh0tssq62f4m3hz86nrje6sawg30wmvp3szyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwrnwuup In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsw4ztecdw82tfsna364kam70233xz4twhr8nr8vst2m4xlurwsm3gzyptk7'>nevent1q…ptk7</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>thank you. That is very helpful 2026-03-15T23:20:21+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszqrre8ctngyvznh20e4x88wfctsl34h6reppxjnszg2whm2atwgszyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwhwpc6k Can Mastodon help? Our little charities wordpress keeps trying to send me a password reset link. What is going on it says that the reset request is coming from 222.167.186.247. What do I do?<br/><br/>#Wordpress, #HelpNeeded 2026-03-15T23:00:37+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvvn74ttk02wamh9c368csfa4tp3am6z34muc6anu7qr858ttjetczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww7448j0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswhug5qhsyescpx3ldantge8te4j9m06lcc8uphhezgsmfc3zhz0s5g5hyv'>nevent1q…5hyv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I would be thanking my subconcious so hard if I dreamt that 2026-03-14T14:07:52+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspgn5u2zxxqnymgn3hqyzmx2xr6xyqdkn2yz6vzvy7p2h9xscx92czyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww3flzcr In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9uvq8w3nwc0k7uv4y3ssu5pnf5mwl2u0p8k7lg7lshv5pd0jvhdg60w0en'>nevent1q…w0en</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I like to dip my genitals in the curry and then eat my own balls. I don&#39;t have any raiita because that would be feminine 2026-03-12T19:48:30+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszrpntyc6smskuj526eznajuuktjk3zmuhc3pxq7838nrjjxwjr8qzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwdy44tm In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdqf74kmuqvxs98s2wqhz2hqzm7j375ut8swsutplxjzyu5jq0n2czgc5uw'>nevent1q…c5uw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>pain is so tough. You have all my sympathy 2026-03-10T21:16:41+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrjcvlf4je8cv9ernjrpmnkjdctd6sdw04t26l4ltsept2ytk04jgzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwwwtd6f In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqstrnj0zn9lnlhk2hz6z4shunvyqnd2c382j6c4wad8ggjj69c068g89chuu'>nevent1q…chuu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I am sorry to hear that. Pain is the worst 2026-03-10T21:06:29+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw3rq6apycwc72xf4t0up85ugswex4wr4s7ua6k74l4ac7qn7c25szyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww6xdrzd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdud2cff2lfrxdup6hdrrcszvjj2rhpxhtf4hddxcgdqh62w5t6sstztsjl'>nevent1q…tsjl</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh yeah, I never thought of that angle 2026-03-10T21:02:37+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsg4tnjhsetgx9txudafwm5qs75x3exf78ggr0qfy3k9kx7n0uhn8gzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwws53dur I think that I am getting something wrong and maybe being unfair, but I don&#39;t quite see why all you coders are so upset about LLMs in code and then I am slightly suspicious that the real objection is being hidden. <br/><br/>The objection seems to break down into 3 distinct complaints:<br/>1. The tech doesn&#39;t work<br/>2. It is doing people out of job<br/>3. It is bad environmentally and exploitative<br/><br/>1 may well be true, but is a shallow objection in the sense that if and when it turns out to be false, you should adopt vibe coding. If true, it is a good reason to avoid automatically generated code. It makes more work and projects worse. It can&#39;t explain the hostility. It can&#39;t ground that avoidance as a principle. It just a heuristic. <br/><br/>2. Is a bit rich coming from coders. Computers are ubiquitous because they do people out of a job. They were adopted at scale precisely because they reduced the need for human labour. Don&#39;t forget that in the 1960s a calculator was a job.<br/><br/>3. Is very true. It is awful. It is also true of clothes, food and the hardware it runs on. It must basically be true of every product we use. Veggies are grown by exploited migrant labour. Clothes are made in sweatshops in Bangladesh. The minerals and metals used to make the machines are mined in hellish conditions. I get not wanting to have one more thing that destroys life on earth and exploits racialized people because, hey, racism. But you need to take more radical action than raging against the slop machines. It requires concerted, independent, international working class organisation and action, not a boycott of one particular product. You really should take the organisation seriously. It is the only way we have a future on this planet.<br/><br/>Here is where I get uncharitable. I once read an interview with the less charismatic of the two programmers who wrote Elite (Ian Bell I think). He was complaining that no one had to write machine code anymore. It wasn&#39;t real programming to use libraries and abstractions and things I don&#39;t understand. I could imagine that Von Neumann thought that assembly language was cheating. You should just set the switches. <br/><br/>It feels like the objection is that it is no fun just having to think about the architecture of your code at the highest level, describe the problem you want solved and get the machine to solve it. If so, that is not a deep objection. Coding has changed and you will have to learn new skills that may be less interesting to you. <br/><br/>#LLMs, #VibeCoding 2026-03-07T12:01:14+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq6xcl5vxxramv6smax6gtaujyrja9u76x383a3nsz4x6stu2uq4szyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwvyfknh In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9zy50f4vlznh6e4c9mzjn6yls6ekx7ewfca3u3dph7n0t700j8xszln0ur'>nevent1q…n0ur</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>what gets me is that the most popular political party in the UK right now has mass deportation as one of its stated goals. It is also wants to remove the possibility of a non national having permanent residence.<br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/22/reform-uk-ice-style-agency-end-leave-to-remain-zia-yusuf">https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/feb/22/reform-uk-ice-style-agency-end-leave-to-remain-zia-yusuf</a><br/><br/>somehow Nigel Farage is still part of polite society. This strikes me as much more problematic than either the use of a rude word or the failure to edit it out 2026-02-25T10:39:11+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszd277tlzxdrrm77ct7g3ptf8d95pkc0gecl3pfzsh2mgc49s2a9szyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww6nqeh6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs203hn8utfyjqw3jp62uykrcurlex6d06tz2jkd5wxzyulwt74z0smfhqj5'>nevent1q…hqj5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>just for fun:<br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIUbHJ7yrBA">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIUbHJ7yrBA</a> 2026-02-22T21:47:47+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs87h48wa55jkxgkecm5tufeam3emgtjlgnyr47zd7zx6edez5a4egzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwuv99mc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz67aaqq06qr8rnwqagndkuccsfw9arcme0teegtdskgetr6vckpgpj5mqj'>nevent1q…5mqj</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it is an instance that was set up by some popular podcaster. I had high hopes for it. There was a lot of buzz a while back when it opened. It occurred to me that I had not seen much beyond the initial flurry 2026-02-20T11:15:01+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgs2dkhshjqchwj3u8dn3eypzxar2um6xzwmr93lmqrmkl2m6lrmczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwkys9t9 What happened to all the forkiverse people?<br/>#forkiverse 2026-02-20T10:10:37+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqsdt8zy2kqnqvpzyj7jyy2ejcph83cvr06stwjdapqmah9hsxlkszyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwhrcl2d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxyjx0gz5cta3wwf8ydpms238vdcdncneg8v2msuh2f92jj3hu0tc3j9nwx'>nevent1q…9nwx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>they still are if you move fast enough 2026-01-19T20:56:30+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs9076rg2m8aeja7m49p88akvyqqkmn4rqsvzmg4e26mjnzpljhxhqzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww5nm3jl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs24umn0q237ym7gg52nte6425sc3036fvqy3093sc5h78rfcl3k6ccayyfd'>nevent1q…yyfd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>do we know why the government decided to release some prisoners? 2025-12-18T23:15:58+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst50tsrumnme7pwqp6e74dxe5umws9mc0tgajksatzuun2w4zc72qzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww9pnf5j I&#39;m opening a can of worms, but now that I have a shiny server, I want an RSS server. I want to be able to point my phone and computer at it and see all my favourite blogs and podcasts. I also want it easy to install, configure and maintain in Debian. What do people recommend?<br/><br/>#RSS, #Debian 2025-12-18T23:14:55+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspc5n7v040c7gs6nhy56vddhm64wf4kw5gtyw6n068ptd4ttjhu9gzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwnj37rv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsz7607x0qv95tf0fd8wlkt6j4c7jjxjsakxgu20pkd6zqzc6ugqjc4dtx4a'>nevent1q…tx4a</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>thank you. Could I move the nextcloud installation to one in a container? It has a lot of data on it. <br/><br/>It turns out that I am getting something about the update to bookworm wrong anyway because it decides that the new kernel has a problem and can&#39;t be configured 2025-12-17T00:59:09+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0drgyvekqh9hhlcgy6krrncmkwws6gsg8ws4wn2kg50mkfkyhusqzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww6cfj8d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsrr4js0c2l8cxvnl62q75w9gqcdjfuv4xq2cl6lmaj2p88hvamjgg7f8gpx'>nevent1q…8gpx</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think that you are right. Can you create an outline in Okular? If not, do you know how I could? <br/><br/>And thank you so much 2025-11-13T11:46:25+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp0d942p9p73gpl7y9nw5s4e5062zuz58qatwdllsew573mfhyfzszyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwdl9kh6 I need advice. I would really like to create a single giant PDF from a bunch of smaller PDFs and I want it to have a load of bookmarks or a contents tab that lets me jump to the indexed page. <br/><br/>I foolishly thought that I could use okular for this. I have been dutifully bookmarking my smaller PDFs but it now appears that the bookmarks do not actually form part of the file. They are somehow stored elsewhere and when my particular instance of okular is loaded it has access to all of my bookmarks. I can&#39;t access them if I open my PDFs with a different instance or a different reader. <br/><br/>I would really like a way of exporting the bookmark file and importing it into a new document as a table of contents. Is that possible? If not, how do I start again to achieve my goal? <br/><br/>#Okular, #PDF, #FOSS, #HelpNeeded 2025-11-13T10:50:52+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs22sjx77rslesayz5jxejqduem7pnnggv2uscauqwv06y8v8cm8pczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww9xhcwn In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8cufqn9cmxf5hc59n4484asx9vr5s6tf08y7r4tlkvulah5he4ag3ezy6f'>nevent1q…zy6f</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I am no baker, but I have never heard that excellent term. I think we maybe say &#39;cream the butter&#39; 2025-10-27T22:18:02+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqkx43fvx554j3x4ju3tw2sytt9pgdql42srrwvtq5jcntul7tsyqzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwsvdzh9 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdn5yhnvqcwjlhchj9dqlm9cvhp52srjqh22zgf3utgl30q2htzpsypfplw'>nevent1q…fplw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>they also burnt down a mosque last night.<br/><a href="https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25518203.peacehaven-mosque-fire-live-updates/">https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25518203.peacehaven-mosque-fire-live-updates/</a> 2025-10-05T10:37:32+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfj76ntvpeks8u943naas49ru78578pgsh6nxc6y0t8fk6ng93gegzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwd5pyuc In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfyw7y5273r8ywh4jl2ymgpsxpcyegmt0l3ufpd0fy6rwsekkalssxdq4qv'>nevent1q…q4qv</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>is this a giant cinnamon roll? It looks awesome 2025-10-03T21:20:35+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0ced0vym7thf9wfe6jvls3kxazsp2khmx47u562gkaqvdz8z60ygzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwt68nux How much would it cost and how long would it take to develop a really good speech-to-text and control by voice program for Linux? Something that would be a replacement for Nuance&#39;s Dragon Naturally Speaking on Windows.<br/><br/>Talon exists but it isn&#39;t open source and, importantly, doesn&#39;t adapt its model to the individual user. It also has no real editing functionality. You can&#39;t change and correct text by voice command. Its model is pretty good. There are a few open source speech to text programmes but they are slow and have really limited functionality. <br/><br/>This makes me sad because I cannot simply switch away from Windows with the end of ten because my major use of a computer is to write and edit documents. <br/><br/>#Linux, #FOSS, #Talon, #DragonNaturallySpeaking, #Accessibility 2025-10-01T09:06:00+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswh9cqyat6crmatka6s94vtzhz4ku445y7ncwuv09k7yfdu2n9csqzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwn0hrn6 Can someone explain to me the difference between someone publishing their research in an open access journal and then a pharmaceutical company using that to develop some profitable, for them, drug and an AI company taking work in the public domain and training an LLM on it?<br/><br/>They seem equivalent to me and yet the sentiment round here is that open access, good, making Creative Commons work available to LLMs, bad 2025-07-01T21:03:16+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswtxgytz6lj3rf9wcydvm67jt9agkgzjn8wsej4x93fjqm67rdgeczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww9wx7gj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsy2c8lpjamft5e5pvtdyclm6yuax03tljqe5tv4ze228f3uvzk9kqd0m7rw'>nevent1q…m7rw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it was Great Shelford in Cambridgeshire 2025-06-29T22:03:57+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq26xwdf0r2q7cx6wkuvxqgrvu0ajwc4dwunzskfer2wwr69r0auczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww9j373n In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9lwag2l0usm389yzm0ufj8r7tynlrm0seq3hruhz7q52zwd09u3cquzfp6'>nevent1q…zfp6</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>congratulations. What is the job? 2025-05-12T11:06:34+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswa9q3lncwjtd3m0cf6q632uyt3v6kem94chp8q7vt0a329j2s2yszyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww4vck8u Saw a quince in flower today. Not only do the fruit look like giant pears, the blossom looks like giant pear blossom too. This made me very happy. <br/><br/>#SmallCheeringThings (super-sized edition) 2025-04-16T21:40:32+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdz4c3krlgkxe73gqh9kwht2f42af6k2lg7399x63965f50u52fcczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww7jd388 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2rpy5g28s4jx7v6zenr6prqleafzcah6d5xqfhd2c9qja5jl8q5cpax7yz'>nevent1q…x7yz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t know why that brings a smile, but it does. It gives a sense of the possibility of victory 2025-04-15T08:25:15+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs8gf7rs9vjl3q0ypafptqkd7kqrwmpsqw3nzsy9lxkmakffa03ulczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwewtgr7 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgl2wqycpeenn9ffkrlg9hqpma7u09du00g2nhk3ddltra4566rcqdp05t2'>nevent1q…05t2</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>what fresh hell is this? 2025-04-15T08:17:40+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqspf80ry90v2u4aausu3nqug7dm9d9feev9l70vgqdqwe50mgx3j3gzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww093gj9 This is what the European Union is. I don&#39;t understand how people are unable to see what is in plain sight simply because it is on the African side of the Med.<br/><br/><a href="https://www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/briefing-on-the-ongoing-violence-against-black-migrants-in-libya">https://www.refugeesinlibya.org/post/briefing-on-the-ongoing-violence-against-black-migrants-in-libya</a><br/><br/>#Refugees, #Libya, #FortressEurope, #Migration 2025-04-14T12:18:52+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp7jfcxjsnyzntf6t6ekuqwn9f4nzerdupdhqdu8ywql75ymx2j8qzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww8khrdp In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgpjsrphtzukt49wczesnm4r52nlm8580j76370x6lv6s7m6gwk3sefuha3'>nevent1q…uha3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I love it 2025-03-24T15:26:57+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0jhwsknmn53vlx2hhr028ht0s4ljan79ryl4s84usmfhz5pkk9lqzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwm6dtk5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd7wxftmm3eqgkyrwt5gx4spxm2x4qvsgjnlg0vju9w2eglwvrpzg7etwal'>nevent1q…twal</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I think that discussion of work and disability and benefits is a red herring. The issue is not the number of people on some form of income support because of disability. The issue is the cost of rent. The benefits bill, including disability benefits, is so high because rent is so high and housing costs are including in the numbers being bandied around. Benefits are a massive subsidy to landlords. <br/><br/>If this government was serious about reducing the benefit bill it would bring in measures to prevent rent seeking. The obvious would be the end of assured short term tenancies. More subtle would be enhancing renters rights and beefing up enforcement, both with more inspectors and massive penalties for infringements. Even just paying for the enforcement of existing regulation would be a better use of money than job coaches. None of this will happen, as Reeves&#39; only vision for &#39;growth&#39; is further inflating the property bubble 2025-03-22T12:09:27+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdaajpcjqd626wpxz8rykcuzuvhsevjv8sv52ys4p0597x0xp6lygzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwz2kska A little group I am part of has its own server. It hosts our website and a nextcloud instance. It is on a Hetzner machine. OK so far so good. The problem is that the person who set it up has left and I am the only one foolish enough to try to maintain it. The problem though is that I don&#39;t know how.<br/><br/>It is still running Debian Buster. I tried to follow a guide to at least upgrade it to bullseye, but something breaks. I think that it is something to do with its network configuration. This is mostly because I saw a comment that said if you are using a KVM Host with bridged networking, then you need to add bridge_hw eth0 (or whatever your network interface is called) to your network config otherwise the network won&#39;t start and you won&#39;t be able to reach the server. Weirdly I can SSH in after the upgrade, but the console shows lots of networky error messages and the website and nextcloud become unreachable. <br/><br/>Fine, I don&#39;t any one will be able to help from that error description, but maybe you can point me at a foolproof guide to upgrading. I can&#39;t find one in the Hetzner docs.<br/><br/>#HelpNeeded, #PleaseHelp, #Debian, #Hetzner, #Buster, #Bullseye, #HelpMyServerIsARadioactiveDisasterZone 2025-03-21T00:22:38+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv6nz9002l8jrakzuzq8llfwl0u8ws36ft9adx3nn3k353xevk3uqzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwg47cca Another banging track by Brighton fediverse artist <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1nuuauk3mt2t8fqmzfeq3xvxzq0u0malqtepk54gvvjm7yzyaprtqqcgjr3" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Meljoann</span> (<span class="italic">npub1nuu…gjr3</span>)</a></span> . If I have this right, here is the peertube link which you ought to be able to access in your fediverse app but I have probably misunderstood. Any way it is a great tune:<br/><a href="https://tv.gravitons.org/w/487hAsHvR4j4m567qhUrTK">https://tv.gravitons.org/w/487hAsHvR4j4m567qhUrTK</a><br/><br/>#Brighton, #Fediverse, #Peertube 2025-03-12T23:29:15+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsp9p4antsvzd2esu3779ackkapx2lhkkd7y2k8frga8vspjvgeznqzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwzrde37 Like a lot of people, I use the onomatopoeic word &#39;zjuger&#39; for &#39;hand blender&#39;. How is it spelt? <br/><br/>#Spelling, #Words 2025-03-08T13:13:41+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvwxdgeyjrsuwrf6w0j0rfchhkklc0kdk99hp4s77yjn8gz6f27qczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwclrw3x In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs8cqv65zncndtfyq7hsl20qkaunmn8pgy6h5zt2fdeqtrac2uq3hgnt3gd3'>nevent1q…3gd3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Malcolm X, like so many of the Black revolutionaries, got it in more ways than one unfortunately, but yes McCarthyism was used to smash the revolutionary workers movement that is so badly needed today. <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub105j3v3pu26np0y2u370f0hu7zpca6c6807tlevkyqwan3eru0asqqr0yvz" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>CrimethInc. Ex-Workers</span> (<span class="italic">npub105j…0yvz</span>)</a></span> put it so much more eloquently than me:<br/><a href="https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/21/become-an-anarchist-or-forever-hold-your-peace">https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/21/become-an-anarchist-or-forever-hold-your-peace</a> 2025-02-25T12:40:45+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdrv34kcy3nq93z977hgfer02tu4qa4qd3w6jl7nxkv8sum5g068qzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww7hfl4k I think that the political problem those of us in Europe and the US face at the present moment is that the US establishment has pivoted away from the neo imperialist multilateralism of the post war period to old school imperialism of the 19th and early 20th century. The principle is simple. The colonies are there to be pillaged, see India under the British or the current US demand that Ukraine surrender up most of its mineral rights. See also the tariffs on Canada and the threats to occupy Greenland and Panama.<br/><br/>This then requires determined anti imperialist resistance. Unfortunately so much of the left is soft imperialist, hence the love for the European Union or the callous sacrifice of Gaza to avoid the &#34;literal Nazis&#34;. The EU will quite possibly respond to the shift in Washington by re-arming. They will, as Nesrine Malik advises in the G, start trying to build their own empires. It will be soft sold as defending Ukraine from Russia and liberating NATO from control by Washington. What it won&#39;t do is bring liberation to anyone, including the oppressed of Ukraine. <br/><br/>Domestically the new mood in Washington is to finish the job Reagan started through massive inflation, mass deportation and generally terrorising the working class into giving up what little the white section won through the New Deal. The inflation will shake part of the Republican&#39;s base, the small time manufacturers and business owners. Although not part of the vision I&#39;m sure, it is hard not to see that section being paid off with empire&#39;s spoils. Like in Europe there will be no establishment opposition to the imperial project. <br/><br/>As always, the oppressed and those who believe in liberation will have to reject the siren call of a popular front with a section of the establishment and develop our own internationalist, anti imperial movement for the liberation of all. 2025-02-24T23:26:08+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2nfcjy66q6kufunhw8rnz2kyfjahdalhaukwhx86jmx7lyunur4czyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww3etcx6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxyaam54sjvm8kk9u8pnkm6h39pf5u4m098f0ed79xzkecnw0dkxcuh54zq'>nevent1q…54zq</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>it will get sunnier and more beautiful 2025-01-27T11:31:43+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvgwkdja6qads0nrw2wfa80g5m44gyz5mtd579rmuqs856cgtsp2gzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwvw272j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswwjyzd9dx3gwlatjx2ppzwzcfeqt3j8ygg575dewqtww7ht2sejg52ll3s'>nevent1q…ll3s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Hamburg is nice. I think that you deserve a beer 2025-01-20T12:03:30+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsrtc48zsy9wcntvlesgqyfht2nes2ea4ksacnee4d5y7uvrn8zm5szyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwt8yt2d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsv076zwz5nqenjun0xk2677vvvyrawf5rcvhh0uszn24kh8hsjtwctm6pp0'>nevent1q…6pp0</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>would you be up for sharing some of the photos? That would be cool. Merry Christmas from a stranger 2024-12-24T15:15:57+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgjpja25s44g3xha5c9ylg0erd8a67cjyunz8tcvytakz3xx0u24czyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwyryjh3 Can I have some book recommendations please? I love Bolaño, Joyce, Joy Williams, Muriel Spark, Austen, Lawrence Sterne, Coetzee, Dorris Lessing and Wole Soyinka amoung others to give you some ideas of my taste. Currently reading &#39;My year of rest and relaxation&#39;, Ottessa Moshfegh and enjoying it wholeheartedly. <br/><br/>#Books, #Literature, #Fiction 2024-11-28T17:08:56+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdxkmqm7czphctuftg8tpgvd20jruz3782cmyqjgglqvlls2pqpkgzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwy28ac9 Here is something that puzzles me but is totally trivial. <br/><br/>If you want to watch the BBC&#39;s iPlayer you need to have an account. If you want to do it legally you need to have a licence. It would seem trivial for the BBC to require you to link a license to your account. Presumably you have a database linking licence numbers to names and addresses with license numbers. Instead they don&#39;t. When I signed up, I could use a non existent email address, name and physical address. I&#39;m happy about that. Why don&#39;t that make it a bit harder to cheat the system? <br/><br/>#InfoSec 2024-11-25T10:02:00+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvk2ktq4ux4x60fa0ccuujuxfxr2sf3ujqfpk8r03w86eysmmverczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwwlfdjt In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg3lppr3fegqdt2ekuj25fs3wfy53q56xc8p6xyxza5hr05t7rlxgymjmxh'>nevent1q…jmxh</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>but to a dead tree? I don&#39;t think that you did wrong. It is just sad all round. A dead tree, a sore head... the world is not made for us, but it doesn&#39;t have to be so blatant about it 2024-11-22T12:49:42+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdgcs8p6leynp8vcxztx2qv2t0urnj2sp45fk27phyjfmelauffnqzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwwcs4qk In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsfd3jkdlh95ntlnn5zlk485j8smryctmd949n5c6s90pahey5u50s39rzsd'>nevent1q…rzsd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>oh no. This sounds tragic 2024-11-22T12:30:43+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsppymlkqn9uqzdu8z02dxeg3p2ys0jqr2m9qd98v9rs2l5k84s83szyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwnefqug In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsggc4p03f68k633cr5smnfvxhfct5vvaffvnkh0tt0pamg948wn8gst6drd'>nevent1q…6drd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>true, yes. But it is exactly what so many I see round here seem to want. They want moderation that shuts down positions that are thought to bottom out into hate and, with the exception of my people and Zionism, often do. You can&#39;t moderate like that. If someone is prepared to talk, they are prepared to treat you as part of the human community, even if in the end they are committed to your inferiority. 2024-11-22T12:28:24+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswqz96aff74ffv4xxu0nrrnjnj2cstxzq9lnlucaa69pewwxdn27czyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwl76a37 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsgddqjllsrv4dp2dxxj20t9x43yq29uphdu8egym7ddcetghv3alsulzgxn'>nevent1q…zgxn</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>sounds tough. I hope that it was a friendly tree at least 2024-11-22T12:19:28+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqswfrcq00vkuyavcydr3fceqa6h2nt8l256gckye0a7w0xn2xa3n3szyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwsk053u In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqswzqj6hjfrgrmena64j87crueees7g6g3rsm7lexkjat6tkq8a2qcgtyc38'>nevent1q…yc38</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>this is bloody awful and I am sorry. I am now going to get on my hobby horse. This is a consequence of a particular and terrible politics of &#39;trust and safety&#39;. <br/><br/>You cannot ban people from large, public instances for expressing views in good faith that some or even most people from a minority group finds offensive. For a start, the minority group might be wrong. Jews who adopt an anti-Deutsche style of view of antisemitism are just wrong. You can ban them from your niche instance that serves a different purpose from being mass media, but don&#39;t confuse the two.<br/><br/>Anyway Mastodon.social needs to grow up and restore your account 2024-11-22T12:05:42+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfksf9utpzadgyw89f4vqs590rmgg6csdellgjcmd2qh02rwwfahszyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww7xtz7s In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0nh45hgvaygw9w3ll09f565dal0gpwjwyvuytu72rq06upvkrpnqyg07xz'>nevent1q…07xz</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>hopefully you had &#39;safe search&#39; turned on though 2024-11-21T17:23:40+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv6nfsrtzfydafsk00psuy648upxwuhyl8s4gpvs9g854u507qe7szyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwupu83r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0jr9may47wc9ad2ykrujrcd40ppfj76cgj423tvh0twljukty04sh2r65j'>nevent1q…r65j</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>he certainly agrees with you about farmers holding valuable land but living off low incomes. It is why the land is clearly overvalued when considered as an input into the farmer&#39;s business. <br/><br/>He doesn&#39;t consider the passing of farm land in terms of land management. He is rather dismissive of the idea that farming should be an inherited profession. <br/><br/>I guess the challenge you face is explaining why encouraging heritability of the profession is a better way to encourage good land management than by reducing the value of the land to its value as input into the business. <br/><br/>You presumably want your kid to inherit the most value, so you look after the land. That makes sense, but if we moved to a model in which farms were bought and sold because they were businesses that people wanted to invested, you are also incentivised to maximise the value of the farmland as farmland. <br/><br/>My suspicion is though that the land value as farm land is low, given the food business, so you will in fact be incentivised to run down the value of the asset to extract the maximum rental value now. In other words, to hell with the land, après moi, la déluge. <br/><br/>As I keep saying, I don&#39;t know. I can follow the argument enough to see how it works but don&#39;t know enough to evaluate it. 2024-11-20T22:50:29+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0vmrz42jrsz5xkcjh756lkzm3lwvs9zhh6dtg5a0k8lqqx570pwqzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwf2zuk6 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsg5egxqhtmp2mtv39yjf50hyjcyqvf7f2ykn7r4c8kgkr594cfz5c8ejzun'>nevent1q…jzun</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Richard Murphy, has been arguing that the tax break is what has pushed up the land values because it has turned farmland into a finacialised asset used precisely to avoid inheritance tax<br/><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9J0GpnXNhY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9J0GpnXNhY</a><br/><br/>I have no ability to assess the argument. It seems plausible, but more plausible still is the idea that land values are high in the hope that the land will be rezoned and available for housing. Speculation as much as anything else 2024-11-20T21:48:56+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvfkmscve027ukx3pqh0usmpq2jve8gvyf6nc99g6z98nt7kt482qzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwrzv5dk I am disabled. I have a very straightforward, physical disability so my access needs are quite simple. Nevertheless the idea that I can expect them to be met in a way that requires no effort and no compromise from me, something that some parts of the disability rights movement seem to believe in, strikes me as entitled, capitalist, offensive and wrong.<br/><br/>Building ramps, door openers, lifts, fixing pavements, removing street furniture and accessible design takes effort. It is work from other people. It makes the world worse in other ways. I can put the work in to deal with other people or go the long way round. Sometimes it is on me to put the effort in. That is how community works. That is what it is to be human. It is only the capitalist who thinks that all their wants and needs should be met below the cost it imposes on others. <br/><br/>A social media that is fine tuned to be just what some subset of users want is capitalist. It is a virtue of the fediverse that it is really irritating and requires a load of effort. It is human like that. <br/><br/>#DisabledLife, #Disability, #Access, #Fedi, #Mastodon 2024-11-19T10:29:17+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsf5pqlppe00c30m2thd45t8dgqfvpx5atp8kvtx4mwewaqk37qrqgzyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrww3j8hhs In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqwhm2n4p6q68pr0nld59uzewdrwktz4hy7zfln6ez5wxdv7l6jgqva8q2s'>nevent1q…8q2s</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I agree with Bob here. Genocide has a very precise meaning in law. Isreal&#39;s actions should lead to convictions under the genocide convention. In common parlance it is quite amorphous. <br/><br/>When I hear speak of genocide I think of something like the systematic murder of the Tutsis. I don&#39;t think that the Israelis are (yet) trying to kill every last Palestinian, although that is in fact just one way of committing the crime of genocide. <br/><br/>As a consequence, I think that it is more helpful to speak of what Israel is doing as the complete destruction of the Gaza strip and an ongoing masacre of the Palestinians. What they are doing in the north of the strip is ethnic cleansing. They may well be planning to extend that across the whole territory. <br/><br/>Dictionary writers are not authoritative as to meaning any more than journalists are authoritative as to truth. Dictionary writers both try to give a definition that captures usage and make editorial decisions as to how we should use a word. Journalists try to describe what happened and take a view as to the events significance. 2024-11-17T00:49:30+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsglugq7ktejf5qurj6q2c56eaqp8nva7gq9fcrljdnvx8fp7hld4czyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwr6n99r In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsdhmvqg9uj3099r6l4y0y55c6tn2lujs4mqjlm4g93x3x99gkcrjskq5scm'>nevent1q…5scm</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I don&#39;t think so here. James&#39; point is that evidence is always inclusive, so God remains an open hypothesis.<br/><br/>But deeper than that if, as you say, a scientist takes &#39;true&#39; to mean &#39;indicated by the evidence&#39;, then, given that what there is would be described by the totally of true sentences, the scientist thinks that what there is, the world, is dependent on what we have evidence for. This is exactly the crucial bit ofJames&#39; position. <br/><br/>My suspicion is that scientist don&#39;t have any particular metaphysics. It is open to them to have the much better view which is that knowledge and truth are separate things. You can think that you know something, that phlogiston is burnt when something catches fire, but just be wrong about that, despite it being the best available hypothesis 2024-11-15T09:36:33+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst2at9s0crxjpvfa9ua6jvr0782lr4tmqtxp3uq7sy4huzunchxwszyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwqr43rf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq80kkmps0trgwup4w8g86s8qte8w29yju87wreg9tlmcf76zs20cfzpn0e'>nevent1q…pn0e</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>good luck. I hope the hip keeps improving 2024-10-21T11:32:57+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0qa8jutwrj2z7utswx9rz5s4eq5mdncecj8hlqzs06c3rlkvhurczyq2fv4zrse7k0852a7h5kakk4aughuqw3vkul7wtu5dpzret5nrwwmxghgc Trying to work out what I personally want to see more of on here. I like working class history and current affairs, news from outside the imperial metropole and discussion of art and literature. I do like a niche interest post, even when it is not my niche. You do find a few people who can provide a decent, thought provoking analysis of our current political predicament and response to the big news of the day. I think what that adds up to is an indymedia version of the new york times. <br/><br/>I don&#39;t find much of that. Maybe I just need to find my hashtags and my people 2024-09-08T09:41:17+02:00