Notices by Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com), page 2
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Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Sunday, 27-Nov-2016 18:39:22 UTC 
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@maiyannah Ok, so to sum it up. The four presidential candidates of this year were:
1. Hillary, nuff said.
2. Trump, nuff said.
3. What's Aleppo guy.
4. Viva la Fidel lady.
America, fuck yeah. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2016 20:32:49 UTC
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There's a pattern on the fediverse: an instance gets the community its admin cultivates. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2016 13:07:38 UTC
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Heh. Twitter accidentally suspended it's CEO's account. Took a few hours before it was unbanned. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2016 11:01:59 UTC
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@maiyannah When given the choice to hang around people who call themselves saints and people who call themselves sinners, pick the sinners, they're less likely to be evil. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 29-Oct-2016 18:21:44 UTC
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@purplehippo @maiyannah You know, this convo is very comical if the only Jeb you know is Bush. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 22-Oct-2016 08:57:46 UTC
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@maiyannah @purplehippo I thought DNS had the concept of secondary DNS servers. Wonder if it's possible to have multiple DNS servers at different orgs to limit the impact of something like this. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Oct-2016 08:19:30 UTC
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@maiyannah Sure. But it's still funny to see the Walloonian cock block the European powers that be. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 18-Oct-2016 18:12:21 UTC
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It's quite funny how one part (about half) of Belgium can block CETA despite the rest of European establishment really wanting it. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 10-Oct-2016 17:38:05 UTC
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@pennyfortheguy @mjd There's also systemic issues with the first past the post system that make it really hard for a third party candidate to get elected. Since in first past the post the candidate with the most votes wins if you like A best but don't want B to win it can be more strategic to vote for C if you think enough other people are going to vote for C. Translated to the current election, if the people who don't like Trump split evenly to voting Stein and Clinton Trump will be the winner.
Even if the media were to be completely fair and the system hasn't been rigged by the two major parties to throw up as much hurdles for a third party as possible the voting system would still pretty much guarantee a third party not having a fair shot.
The only real possible change is a replacement of a major party, but that's hard given the need for vast amounts of money and supporters which requires a huge organization which requires a major party. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Monday, 03-Oct-2016 18:15:36 UTC
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You can disagree with the stretch of this article, but this is true:
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about the 2016 electorate after dozens of polls, it’s this: The Republicans could have nominated a mile-high mound of flaming medical waste and between 38 and 43 percent of the American electorate would have voted for it over Hillary Rodham Clinton.
(http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/donald-trump-week-five-takeaways-229032) -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 24-Sep-2016 16:51:37 UTC
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@mangeurdenuage Does libreboot contain actual development though? I thought it was just about removing proprietary bits from coreboot and adding GNUisms like Makefiles and texinfo. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 24-Sep-2016 16:43:06 UTC
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@bob @mangeurdenuage That's assuming anyone cares enough about libreboot to want to take over maintainership and probably get in a lot of trouble with Ms Rowe. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Sep-2016 17:19:23 UTC
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@maiyannah @gameragodzilla Didn't stop Christians going after Jews for quite some centuries though.
One issue with the Qu'ran may be that Islam is extremely resistant to updating their holy texts. Now Christianity never did that in a too overt way either but with translations and everything there's been quite some opportunities to translate texts based on meaning the translator thought was meant. This allows for a quite natural process of subtly revising all too archaic passages. The Qu'ran on the other hand was written in Arabic and from what I understand may not be translated. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 17-Sep-2016 12:38:34 UTC
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@bob @bobjonkman It's not that hard really to containerize. Just take a run of the mill Apache container and do the usual dance with installing the necessary PHP extensions.
The bigger problem would be what to do with the database. Containers aren't really good for storing data as they're kind of expected to be replacable, it's how you do software version upgrades for example. So all data you want to keep has to be stored outside the container. There are several approaches to that like Docker volumes but in my experience those don't necessarily work reliably. Or you could run a database in a different container or on the host, but then you have some manual work configuring them.
There's also a matter of how to do the basic configuration. GNU Social / postActiv requires some choices (like site name and kind of site) to be made before it can be used. The current install method asks questions through a webpage and stores them, not ideal for containers though. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-Sep-2016 08:50:11 UTC
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Some activities have more status associated with them than others. Helping others is considered noble and noble carries a high status bonus. In the olden days coding had a low or even negative status bonus so people looking for status didn't come near it. Now that coding is hip it gets status oriented people dominating the communities of particularly visible subgroups of coding (e.g. nodejs).
In the past visibility was limited geographically. You could maybe get some news articles about you in the newspapers but that's hard and usually it's only the local papers. With the rise of the "social" media however it's much easier to become visible to much more people.
As a result particularly high kudos topics like social justice attract much more status oriented people than they already did. Those dominated the community at the expense of actual progress. With the eventual result that social justice has become a negative term for a lot of people.
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Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-Sep-2016 08:42:33 UTC
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We see this pattern in coding. You have people who code because they like coding. You have people who code because they like problems to be solved (the famous scratching an itch). And you have people who like the benefits of being a coder, the fame (yeah, programmers have positive status now, crazy world).
In the "making the world a better place for everybody" (usually abbreviated "social justice") environment there's a similar observation to make. You have people who work to help people because they like helping. You have people who help out because they want to fix injustice. And you have people who want to be seen to be helping.
Group 3 has a big incentive to be very vocal and communicative. If you want to be seen to be doing X you need to be visible. Thus group 3 will be very active in "the community" even if they're not the ones doing the actual work. And they'll shape outwards appearances of "people doing X".
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Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 10-Sep-2016 08:35:05 UTC
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A thought. People working on a task X can be motivated by multiple things.
1. The enjoyment of doing X. For example coding.
2. The result of doing X. A program to solve the problem you have, money (in case of work).
3. The result of being seen to be doing X. For example status or money. Regular salary should be more of a case 2 though as it's ultimately dependent on getting results, except in really dysfunctional organizations.
People can be motivated by different things to different degrees. For example one can enjoy coding, the result of it and being seen as a hacker.
Some people are highly motivated by being seen to be doing X but not so much by doing X or the result of doing X. That's a bad situation because if X is solving a problem get people who are interested in making the problem look bigger and their contribution to solving it look bigger but not to have the problem go away (they'd lose the status of doing X if the problem is solved).
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Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2016 19:25:04 UTC
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How typical. After enough of an uproar including Norwegian ministers getting involved FB reinstates the napalm girl image it had removed for nudity. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Sep-2016 17:14:27 UTC
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@clacke That's true and yet it's true in a vastly different way than it is true in Europe. The US has cultures which overlap to a much greater degree than those in Europe. -
Verius (verius@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 07-Sep-2016 17:07:29 UTC
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Thread on HN which is basically ranting about how Europe isn't like Silicon Valley and isn't innovative and such because there's no Uber coming out of Europe.
I'm probably some stupid European but I _like_ the fact that this is not Silicon Valley. I like the fact that we don't have crazy VC's throwing stupid money and forcing companies to do hypergrowth (though that plague is migrating here as well). I like the fact that we tend to appreciate a health work-life balance. And I like the fact that we actually have different cultures on the same continent.
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