Notices by Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net), page 2
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Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 07-Nov-2022 23:56:48 JST 
Alexandre Oliva
don't forget, when talking about features and interfaces, that there are different interfaces and apps that people could be using, if they're even using a mastodon instance rather than some other fediverse software. not all apps expose all features. sometimes we find ourselves in situations similar to telling someone else to locate the red-highlighted text in an email, just to find out that the person is reading email with a braille interface
#TwitterMigration -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 19:17:32 JST
Alexandre Oliva
yeah, we're probably talking about the same person indeed, thanks! -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 07:54:27 JST
Alexandre Oliva
oh, are you not of the "curiosity is killing me. can we send them email to ask?" kind? :-) -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 06:57:13 JST
Alexandre Oliva
speaking of updates... an acquaintance of mine transitioned years ago, but our instance still shows her dead name. I find that somewhat dissonant myself, and I suppose she'd be quite disappointed to find out it's still there. was your script meant to update that too? in case you'd like to look into it, I can DM you her handle. -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 05-Nov-2022 06:25:31 JST
Alexandre Oliva
wow, that was fast! was it their own choice? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 30-Oct-2022 05:04:51 JST
Alexandre Oliva
could you point at some that said so, just to be sure?
I've seen enough false claims about others' allegedly finding stuff offensive or inappropriate, that later turned out to be fabrications, that I'd rather have a little more evidence before accepting the takeover and phasing out of a meaning for a word -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 27-Oct-2022 11:43:46 JST
Alexandre Oliva
why only one? all of them sound fitting to me :-) -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Oct-2022 23:24:03 JST
Alexandre Oliva
maybe they're just confused?
"just stop oil" could be legitimately misunderstood as referring to oil on canvas artwork, no? :-P -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 01-Oct-2022 18:22:21 JST
Alexandre Oliva
I wouldn't mind if my profile and posts were visible to robots.txt-abiding web spiders such as search engines, but I've come to terms with the notion that social media timelines are transient and, much to my disappointment, posts in them become very hard to find after even a short while, and several users go through the trouble of deleting their own posts. even URLs that search engines might index and show would likely not contain the searched-for terms as posts get pushed to earlier pages.
for more permanent records and presence, I recommend another medium such as a blog over whose URLs and posts you'd have a lot more autonomous control -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Sep-2022 17:49:43 JST
Alexandre Oliva
I meant the portable telescreens themselves, but yeah, ultimately what the banks are demanding is the use of their own apps rather than standards-compliant web browsers -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Sep-2022 00:46:14 JST
Alexandre Oliva
people make decisions, yes
but these people are selected by power structures to make decisions that favor the shareholder's return on investment over anything else
if these people privilege interests that conflict with shareholders', they get replaced
factor in that stock trading is currently controlled by algorithms, and that the humans in charge of them make decisions about them under similar constraints, and you should quickly realize why the dominant species in the planet is the corporation, an early form of artificial intelligence that we now serve, and that doesn't care at all about our future, even if it still depends on us to carry out its actions
that's the reason why we seem so doomed
we must take control back from them very soon if we're to stand a chance of surviving
https://www.fsfla.org/~lxoliva/#singular -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Sep-2022 00:46:09 JST
Alexandre Oliva
spreading awareness of the need to fight back;
speaking about software freedom and taking back control over our digital lives tomorrow;
voting bolsonaro and his gang out on Sunday;
looking into publishing shortly, maybe even this week, an article about my legal struggles against banks' attempts to impose the use of tracking devices
it's not much, I know, but it's what I'm managing to do. how about you? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Sep-2022 00:44:33 JST
Alexandre Oliva
it's still sept 26th here, but I don't mind celebrating this one early ;-) -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Sep-2022 00:44:01 JST
Alexandre Oliva
companies hire third-party developers to customize, develop and improve software for them all the time. it seems to be even more common than licensing off-the-shelf software. what part of this doesn't seem to be working? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Thursday, 29-Sep-2022 00:43:58 JST
Alexandre Oliva
I wish my non-technical neighbors used free software. without that, this scenario isn't even possible. now, once they do, it will only happen if they get out of the proprietary mindset, realizing that the possibility is there. we've got a long way to go, but there are plenty of requests for enhancement in change trackers, so I think what we're missing is in density, not in kind -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Sep-2022 04:53:19 JST
Alexandre Oliva
nice artwork. thanks for raising the issue. I hope other concerned citizens pick it up, to the point that authorities to act on it -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 10-Sep-2022 11:50:29 JST
Alexandre Oliva
that's just discrimination based on disability. if he were blind and accidentally bumped into people, or deaf and failed to respond when people asked him questions, it would be easier to notice his condition; those are a lot better understood, and regular people don't expect people with such disabilities to overcome them and act "normal" by just making a personal effort to learn how to see or hear, like they do of conditions they can't notice, understand, nor respect. what saddens me the most is that some people claim to be for tolerance, diversity, inclusion, and safety, but they will go out of their way to make society intolerant and unsafe for people with this sort of disability, excluding us without as much as trying to understand what makes us different, special, and valuable in various ways -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 10-Sep-2022 11:49:52 JST
Alexandre Oliva
about a major GNU contributor, in this case -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 10-Sep-2022 11:47:10 JST
Alexandre Oliva
how about harassing them because of false allegations about them, is that ok in your opinion? -
Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Sep-2022 13:27:55 JST
Alexandre Oliva
wonderful piece of work! somehow I'd never come across it before. thanks for sharing, and for resharing ;-)
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