Kajo [he/him] 🌈

It’s quite old: The Black Company by Glen Cook

My niece, who disappeared months ago (she lives off grid, in an anarchist community), has reappeared. I’m going to spend the day with her.

Apart from that, I’m using my vacations to help my partner in her craft business to prepare a fan convention.

My partner is a craftswoman, and she’ll soon be taking part in a fair. She does it 5-6 times a year, and during those times, I spend a lot of my free time assembling and sewing for her.

It’s during these times that I watch to old series (actually, I’m more listening than watching). Right now, it’s Supernatural. I didn’t watch it with any regularity when it first came out.

As a user, I see federation as a system in which one login gives you access to several forums. A bit like Discord, except that Discord is more like chat rooms (the decentralized architecture is not my point).

For me this is a nice but useless feature. I don’t mind having several accounts on several servers, I have a password manager.

And, actually, even in the fediverse, I have several accounts to limit the risk of doxing. I can talk about intimate stuff on beehaw (like being bisexual), because I’m someone else on other instance(s) when I talk about the subject of my PhD or my projects on GitHub.

I promise myself a reward, something a bit unusual that will directly activates the reward circuit, like a handcrafted pastry from a good bakery.

I’m sorry to read that. I’ve seen in other posts you’re jew, and living in Israel. I can’t imagine how hard is it. I hope things will calm down and you’ll find peace.

Seven years and now you’re living alone, I hope you don’t feel too lonely? Do you see other friends? Plan to find another roomate? Or a pet?

I don’t know what’s worse: never having eaten plum pie, or knowing it’s going to take a year to eat some again.

There are fancy recipes, but I cook as my grandma teached my mom: a rustic pie with shortcrust and plums.

The secret is to prevent the juice to soak the dough. So you slightly precook the shortcrust, and you put the half plums with the skin on the bottom (so the skin acts as a little cup for the juice).

When the pie is ready, you can sprinkle the pie with powdered sugar if you like.

Indeed, but maybe it’s a chance to be exemplary, by spreading moderate and compassionate words (for all victims, on both sides).

My only concern is the mental health of the fellow beeples who chose this instance because they needed a bubble of kindness, far for the cruel real world.

The world is insane. A friend of mine died of cancer. And I’ve had some kind of flu/cold for a week.

On the bright side, I finished my Becky Chambers’ books, fixed the extruder on my 3D printer and made the last plum pie of the season. I so wish this was the kind of daily life all human beings enjoy.

Be sure it did. The words don’t matter, feeling you’re not alone is everything.

Pretty well. Busy at work, with lots of things that must be done afterwork.

But last weekend, we took time for a train trip to a bigger city to see friends and visit a museum. It was like little holidays.

• Food and water

• Shelter

• Hygiene and healthcare

• Education

• Human connection

That’s fascinating, thank you!

I don’t know anything about diving. There’s not a limit of dives per day? Like, to avoid that the body is exhausted or something.

It’s good to be at the weekend after a busy week, but it was a good week.

The only bad moment (first world problem) this week was a meeting about “Social Responsibility”. I discovered the ISO 26000:2010 standard.

I’m sorry to inform you that our best hope to save the world and make it a better place, is to fill spreadsheets, follow guidance documents, and have indicators.

We’re so screwed.

Welcome fellow beeple!

I don’t have kid, I really don’t know how relationships works with younglings, but I hope they’ll evolve in the good way

I already saw you complaining about the CPAP. It was a life changer for me (high blood pressure condition), but the tech guy who installed my CPAP warned me it could take some time and adjustments. He also told me that some people never get used to sleeping with this thing. I hope it will work for you.

Thank you so much for all these explanations! I didn’t know the communities/users were so important in the system.

I thought that a duplicate of each post on a instance was automatically sent to all federated instances, and I wondered how the servers didn’t get overloaded by the global activity.

First of all, I’m so sorry that you have been exposed to such horrors. I hope you can handle that, or find help to.

I don’t have a solution, I’d just like to share some thoughts.

1. Some people suggested that AIs could detect this kind of content. I would be reluctant to use such tools, because lots of AI projects exploit unprotected workers in poor countries for data labeling.

2. An zero-image policy could be an effective solution, but it would badly impact @[email protected], @[email protected] and @[email protected].

3. correct me if I’m wrong, but on the fediverse, when a picture is posted on an instance, it is duplicated on all federated instances? If I’m right, it means that even if beehaw found a way to totally avoid CSAM posting, you could still end up with duplicated CSAM on your server? (with consequences on your mental health, and possibly legal risks for owning such pictures)