Ain’t humans cute by projecting their morality on everything they lay their eyes on?

Good to know, thanks!

Ah that must be it sorry. I thought they had decorelated phone numbers and IDs

with a focus on how technologies that incorporate fungus can provide an alternative to plastic, leather, and other problematic materials, as well as provide fuel and clean our air and water.

Plus some are just delicious.

Groups have an encryption key that I guess you receive from other members upon joining.

Spaces is an underused feature that I hope see gain more traction! It makes Matrix a credible competitor to Slack and Discord

Not really, have used it for years like that. But you need to set it up initially on your phone. The newish feature (less than a year) is that I think they do not require a phone number to set up a new account.

Reading the end of the manga Nausicaa told me everything about the actual reactionary-environmentalism of Miyazaki.

Yes, except this is of all lemmy users, not just slrpnk.net, which is just one of the instances measured.

Yes, but I find it interesting to see that despite having a theme, slrpnk.net is as spread as generic instances and less clustered as, e.g. programming instances, lgbt, anime or nsfw ones.

I also find it interesting to see which communities bridge users from several instances: /c/ubuntu is the link between the french-speaking world and programming? /c/dragonball is the most mainstream anime community. I also find it interesting that the tankies communities, despite a few bridges, look extremely isolated.

That’s really interesting! It shows which communities share users. I am part of jlai.lu, a french-speaking community that is relatively isolated by also slrpnk.net that seems very spread out!

Would it make sense to compute the standard deviation of each instance’s communities? It would give an idea of which are islands and which are more extended. Not sure if it makes sense to compute it more on 2 dimensions or on the original 21934 though.

Hey all, not really an announcement, but I am looking for communities/people who are interested in the non-profit parts of robotics. There are many interesting projects out there that care more about the impact than the profitability and I would really love to find a community that talks about robotics without orbiting around the last silicon valley fad. I am also a bit at loss that this content is mostly on twitter. I wish we could somehow help them get free from it, and allowing me to delete my account there on the same occasion.

Is there something convenient to repost things from twitter into the fediverse, preferably without inciting people to create a twitter account to follow the original content?

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Was looking for a light blogging platform that did not have the ephemeral mindset of twitter/mastodon in order to post progress on my own projects. May give it a try!

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Not competent enough to give you advice, but if you are in western Europe, I can recommend you to come to Laval (France) in december, for the next gathering of intermediate vehicles.

I went last year and met hundreds of competent enthusiasts there and learned a lot: https://slrpnk.net/post/3845835

We need both.

There is more to life than basic services, but these should definitely be provided for in a non-profit way.

Pirated many things when I was student. When I started earning a living I realized that the amount they ask for is really not excessive so started paying for several media, but they keep insisting on making sure that what you pay has less usage value than what you pirate. Stopped buying CD when one was designed to not play on my computer. Stopped paying for movies since they decide to tell you where and when you are supposed to watch them.

I gladly pay for books (which half of the time I then pirate to read on my eReader) and video games but the other digital media are trying to establish a toxic relationship and I’ll have none of it.

I really think there is a strong potential in these things. Don’t get fooled by the simplification of seeing opinions in a 2D graph. It helps to explain, but the reality of what these things can (potentially, not sure about this particular implementation) do is to really find across the thousands of dimensions of the debate space, statements that may help you bridge groups.

Imagine person A, strong humanist, no-border, intransigent on human rights. Imagine person B, authoritarian, xenophobic and traditionalist. They are unlikely to agree on statements like “ethnicity X are subhumans” (strong reject by A) and even a middle ground in the form “citizen of ethnicity X should have slightly less rights” is going to be (understandably) rejected by A. The idea is not to find a middle ground on strong disagreements but to find nuggets of agreements in their views from which conversations can started. Statements like “Police should obey the law of the country” is maybe not going to be enthusiastically endorsed by A and B but is a possible ground for agreement.

One of the most positive effect is that both groups can be genuinely surprised by some of the other group opinions. B may not realize that A actually agrees on some anti-smuggling measures and A may not realize that B actually strongly approves of preserving native American rights. Reasons may diverge, implementations diverge, but fishing for agreements is a precious tool in order to mend societies.

This comes from g0v, a very cool (and IMO pretty solarpunk) group. It started as a militant group doing “shadow version” of government agencies in Taiwan, making them better and less “political”. They made a ton of interesting things, one of the core founder is an interesting character

Here is the source: https://github.com/pluralitybook/plurality

I was invited once in a nice traditional onsen and at one point realized that between the polished stones and the bamboo pipes fed directly by hot springs, the raw fish and the rice served in traditional pottery, I was enjoying a luxury vacation in a place using mostly prehistoric tech. That changed my view (a bit) on tech paths.

If only we had kept our population low enough to only live in places where life is particularly easy, well… life would be particularly easy!

“onsen tamago” is just a name for a boiling style, it is rarely done in an onsen water, many restaurants will propose it.

Another popular one is the “perfect egg” with a solid white but a liquid yolk (my favorite!)

Where I was living “omelette” was a word for the runny kind, but the well cooked one (much more common) is tamagoyaki