the mugging write up neatly illustrates your theory (it’s a weirdly dumb premise that somehow is taken seriously) but what i want to know is, stemming from Eliezer’s example in the wiki article, why would simulated humans outside of my plane of reality hold moral status?

the 2000s were a much simpler time

related: techhub.social/@alextecplayz/1…

TLDR: Microsoft Authenticator KNOWS what accounts you add to the app, and sends telemetry regardless of your choice. Massive privacy issue in my eyes, because this could make you unique.

If possible, stay far away from all proprietary 2FA authenticator apps.

If you use oathtool from the Bash command line, your secret (private key) will be saved in your Bash history.

Avoid that by prefixing the oathtool command with a space, which will keep the command out of history entirely. Or, newer versions of oathtool will allow you to enter your secret from standard input: you can paste it from a password manager.

Google authenticator is more discreet.

And there are other apps too.

> Who is really left?

Don't forget all the #GNU projects!

Bash, Coreutils, Dia, Emacs, gawk, gcc, GCompris, GIMP, gpg, grep, GRUB, Guix, Jami, glibc, Mailman, make, octave, parted, sed, Taler, wget, to only name a few 😃
gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html

@tom @darth @BeAware Thanks for tagging me!

I just added a link to the FAQ section of a related project, which includes this information.

It was previously a bit buried, here's the direct URL: github.com/stefanbohacek/fediv…

@darth @BeAware I don't think there's a standardized way to share to a generic fediverse server yet, though I may be mistaken.

I know @stefan made this github.com/stefanbohacek/fediv… awhile ago I don't know how many platforms it supports

@BeAware well that's kinda obvious, isn't it? I am on a Mastodon instance but we are not on Mastodon social media

But I get what you are saying. Many newcomers don't quite understand the federation concept at all, not to mention various software behind instances.

What I think would help Fediverse a little bit is to persuade publications to remove the "share to Mastodon" button from their articles and replace it with Fedi share button if the API is the same on all?

@darth @tom @BeAware Ha, thank you!

The big drawback of the original implementation of the button is its reliance on JavaScript, which is needed to determine which URL the site visitor should be redirected to based on the server.

With the WordPress version, that can be handled on the backend, so JS would only be needed to switch the logo, more of a nice-to-have feature.

I've just been a bit sidetracked with other things, but hoping to return to this over the next few days.

@woozle @darth Users don't run the mastodon software, instance admins do.

For example, How do we get #Fosstodon to switch to the #hometown fork?

@woozle well we can’t just run other peoples’ software. Mastodon is his and I respect his decision to do whatever he wants with it. As community we can try to influence the development and if it does not work for us we can fork it and have it go in a different direction. Who knows, maybe those who forket it could eventually get their pull requests accepted upstream some day for that “happily ever after”.

So and org CAN develop Mastodon, but differently branded.