Notices by Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net), page 2
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 29-Jan-2022 01:33:14 UTC 
Alexandre Oliva
did its cooler fan fail again? ;-) -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 19:43:15 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
servers are really no harder to operate, but propaganda has convinced people that they should leave it to the experts, as a means to capture their data and make them dependent. reversing that belief seems hard.
OTOH, keeping data stable (safe against loss) in consumer devices, especially ultraportable ones, is a bit of a challenge. the best answer to that so far has been live backups.
I know a better way to approach this: local apps, encompassing all the logic (no client/server separation), using dumb p2p storage for the data.
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 04:35:29 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
he's privatized much of power generation and transmission, so now any efforts to enable rooftop generation are going to be taken as threats to those profits. regulation and public funding could confront that, but I'm not hopeful, it's going to be an uphill battle. which sucks, because our hydroelectric generators are operating at low capacity and a lot of thermal plants are making up. a significant overlap between their owners has led to speculation that reservoirs of hydroelectric plants have been emptied so that they could run and sell the more expensive power from the thermal plants. which sucks for us, because they're not only more expensive, they also pollute more, and the fresh water has not been easy to replenish -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 04:12:35 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
meanwhile, in brazil, bolsonaro's government has granted 109 private banks access to citizens' personal records and biometric data collected by government's online services, electoral authorities and by states' identity document issuers
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jan-2022 03:42:31 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
when antivaxxers stop believing and spreading lies
after over 9e9 shots total, anyone who thinks it's experimental after health regulators everywhere say otherwise is living in an imaginary parallel reality. and whoever claims the vaccine is riskier than the virus must be able to credibly demonstrate at least 9e7 fatal victims -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jan-2022 07:34:39 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
what's most incredible about this date representation is that it was introduced after Y2K. it wouldn't have worked up to [19]99
think about it. someone implemented that after all the many years of preparation and patching decades-old systems for Y2K, knowing (or, worse, without realizing) that it had at most a couple of decades of use. how screwy and irresponsible is that? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 31-Dec-2021 13:42:53 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
.oO cancel debt, not people
happy GNU year! -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Dec-2021 16:56:07 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
.oO you can't expect to be taken seriously if you claim the vaccine kills because it contains or makes your body produce parts of the virus, and also that the virus doesn't exist or won't make you really sick. you gotta pick consistent conspiracy theories -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Dec-2021 21:38:26 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
honest question: have such secure enclaves ever been used for anything but granting remote parties power over the user supposed to own the device, so that they can command the device to betray the user in ways that cannot be appealed or worked around? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 08-Nov-2021 20:35:27 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
remember when web site designers worked really hard to cut down the amount of nonsense on the web page so it would spend fewer server, network and client resources, and would load faster? those were the days. that was before surveillance capitalism took hold, I suppose. -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Oct-2021 02:43:35 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
funny thing, when I read stuff aloud, it's like DMA, it doesn't go through the CPU, and I can't recall what I've heard. I only retain what I read if I read it quietly -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 25-Oct-2021 22:50:16 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
nah, it was entirely fictional AFAIK. Eureka was the fictional city of genius inventors in the series. no amount of internal motors could enable a ball to dynamically change its weight. though mass is energy, in day-to-day life you can most often assume it's conserved, which is why I found it so creative and amusing -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 19-Sep-2021 17:11:32 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
I'm not superstitious, but this works even if you don't believe it :-) -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 18-Sep-2021 05:58:45 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
.oO it's software freedom day!
it feels a little ahead of the right date, but I'm not one to pass a free software celebration
let's make it a fortnight-ish freedom fest, from today through to Sept 27 (GNU launched, FS coined), and on to Oct 4 (FSF founded) -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 23-Aug-2021 22:24:02 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
.oO new blog post: atracids (on funnel web sites)
https://www.fsfla.org/blogs/lxo/2021-08-23-atracids.en.html -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 30-Jun-2021 02:11:09 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
.oO GPLv3 has just turned 14, and GPLv2 has just turned 30. time flies: 2 more years and GPLv3 will be half as old as GPLv2. I'm told the FSF, that publishes, maintains, and defends them, is running a fundraiser. please support it if you can! fsf.org -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 18-May-2021 23:50:24 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
> whatever was necessary to stop the attacks
is firing missiles into civilian buildings supposed to be analogous with the above?
is it necessary? does it stop the attacks?
it's too simplistic to swallow the story of retaliation or defense. nina paley's "the land is mine" goes back centuries of "they did it first". it's not like israel has been treating palestinians decently and they have no reason to be unhappy; see e.g. https://alirezahayati.com/2021/05/18/israeli-apartheid/
what I expect of the strongest force in the area is self-moderation and setting a good example, even when defending from attacks. responding to rocks with nukes is not proportional; handmade explosives vs military missiles isn't either, just to a lesser degree -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 18-May-2021 21:13:37 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
would you say it's ok for the police to invade densely populated slums shooting everyone who happens to be in the vicinity of a dangerous criminal who lives there? or would it be better if the police were more cautious to avoid killing the innocent in the pursuit of their goal of neutralizing the aggressor? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 15-May-2021 15:06:20 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
is dying of a preventable disease due to lack of medical care because the physician gets paid by taxes worse than being unable to afford it? is collective payment of healthcare through taxation any worse than through insurance businesses? aren't there lots of doctors, good and bad, who don't care who's paying or how in deciding whether or not to offer good care? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 02-May-2021 14:19:46 UTC
Alexandre Oliva
the greatest challenge of automation for a capitalist economy is that machines don't produce surplus value, only human labor does
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