Someone needs to invent a Pizza Pop that doesn't split at the seam in the microwave.
Yes, Pizza Pockets exist, but they are not the same.
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Now that I've successfully made some small tweaks to my fork of #NomadNet. I'm working on adding a conspicuously absent feature to search the text of the open page in the browser for a user-supplied string.
I've been informed that this has been an oft-requested feature that nobody has currently found the time to work on. Considering I've never really worked on a large #Python project before, I'm happy with the progress I'm making so far.
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Hi, I'm Nat. I draw silly, little comics about my life and things I find important. I'd like to give the Fediverse a try because I'm tired of fighting predatory social media, algorithms, and poop-faces of tech bros.
Let's hang out and be nice to each other. 
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I've made my first tweak to #NomadNet but have nowhere to submit a pull request.
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Update: I submitted my PR to the lead developer over LXMF. He's going to review it, but there are others queued ahead of mine.
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I think the only way to get things upstream is to git format patch and send it to Mark via LXMF
@abortretryfail I did message him, but haven't heard back.
Edit: Never mind. He got back to me. He conceptually likes it, but has a few other PRs queued up ahead of me before he can formally review it.
alt + y would be very annoying for people using it on a linuxphone
@PocketVJ aka magdesign I kept the originals intact as well. I didn't want to break anyone's UX. Also, my understanding is that if a keybinding is handled by the OS (or terminal emulator) it won't be passed on to the application.
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Even machine generated code has documentation - sometimes too much.
go to rns.recipes there you can talk ti the developer
rns.recipes - Reticulum Network Stack
Community forum, resources, and tools for the Reticulum Network Stack.rns.recipes
@Michel 🪱 Fortunately things are named well enough that I can mostly work out what everything does. He has made some... interesting choices though. I want to do a bit of a refactor and have offered to send my changes upstream for review. I know he's not doing feature requests these days, but nothing stops me from implementing changes and fixes, even if only in a private fork.
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@🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) Have you ever encountered this lock? It seems pretty interesting.
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YouTubessa voit nauttia parhaista videoista ja musiikista, ladata alkuperäistä sisältöä ja jakaa kaiken ystäviesi, perheesi ja koko maailman kanssa.Vsauce (YouTube)
yes, they're *really* complicated to decode, but they're cheaply made and break fairly easily.
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@🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) When you say "fairly easily", do you mean through regular wear and tear, or if someone tries to break it?
they don't weather very well. The screws rust out, and the insides are plastic, so they break down with use too.
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@🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) That's unfortunate. 🙁
I mean, it'll work for your gym locker 🤷🏼♀️
I just wouldn't leave it out in the elements or use it for anything valuable.
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Look, you are not required to put sharks in the swimming pool.
But nor are you prohibited from doing so.
This swimming pool is entirely neutral on the issue of sharks in the swimming pool. Sharks are beautiful and graceful creatures.
If you do put a shark in the swimming pool, the shark is your responsibility.
Oh, and you don't have to tell anyone if you are putting a shark in the swimming pool.
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Just saw a YouTube video where a guy took some wood ash, water, and a bunch of other common ingredients and made soap with it. That's cool and all, but then he said it was "chemical free".
Setting aside my typical argument about how a "chemical free" product is objective nonsense... my dude, you literally just made lye, which is a pretty harsh chemical.
Lye is pretty much everything "chemical" that we mean when we say "chemicals"
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> Setting aside my typical argument about how a "chemical free" product is objective nonsense
... which would be willfully missing the point since there's an implied 'industrial', or maybe 'petroleum-derived', before any such usage of 'chemical'. As with software freedom, the point being local reproducibility. But I'm sure you knew that. Moving on ...
> you literally just made lye, which is a pretty harsh chemical
True that. Fight Club has a pretty good demonstration of just how harsh.
... which would be willfully missing the point since there's an implied 'industrial', or maybe 'petroleum-derived', before any such usage of 'chemical'.
The fact that you had to add "or maybe" demonstrstes my point there. I hate imprecise language. It causes unnecessary confusion, but I digress...
> I hate imprecise language. It causes unnecessary confusion
Fair enough. But jargon is a standard feature of English. Many words and phrases have specific meanings in particular contexts. If the context is ignore, then a lot of language use will seem much more imprecise than it actually is.
Eg 'industrial' is commonly used as shorthand for 'powered by or derived from fossil fuels' in environmentalist discourse. Assuming a more general definition, prunes meaning from the discourse.
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This is one of the many reasons why the Titter-style microposting medium was probably a bad idea.
A group of people who are familiar with each other can use jargon terms in context, and add clarification when they know some participants are new to their specialist usage. When the potential reader is 'anyone', context collapse is inevitable.
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@Strypey Yeah, perhaps the problem in this case is me. I have a habit of taking the things people say too literally (reason number 423 that I think I may be on the spectrum).
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Root #monsterdon post #TheDunwichHorror1970
I've read a bunch of Lovecraft, but I forget: is this one of the fish people stories? #monsterdon
No, this is the Necronomicon deep dive, Sam is the less creepy brother, one.
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Regarding the pre-show: Those spandex uniforms do not look to be apropriate atire for running around in the snow.
Then again, what are they apropriate for?
What are my credentials you ask? Well, I have nice eyes. #monsterdon
The book is said to be able to open a portal to another world. I don't believe this, but I'm not going to fuck around with it... because reasons. #monsterdon
I mean, in this case, that's honestly a good call. #monsterdon
Of course I know what I'm doing. I'm staying in the middle of nowhere with this guy I met yesterday and no phone. #monsterdon
How many red flags does this woman need? #monsterdon
Good choices being made all around, I see. #monsterdon
Dude just fell down the stairs to his death and you're worried about the birds? Really? #monsterdon
Also, doesn't this woman have, like, a job to go to or something? #monsterdon
she's constantly drugged
Sheriff's weirdly chill about this unreported body. #monsterdon
Let me just run into that spear for you. #monsterdon
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Wait, why isn't he responsible for his actions? #monsterdon
And she's suddenly sober again? #monsterdon
I'm going to have to re-read the story. The movie didn't much match my recollection of the book at all. #monsterdon
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So I just made a pull request to a buttplug.io repository under my government name. (That sounds extra wrong given the context.)
That's probably fiiiiine... right?
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White nationalists are always allowed to "protest" without being arrested or called terrorists and that's how you know which side the government is on.
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I mean imagine being a police officer and you have to stop those people. I wouldn't want to seek a fight with those people.
🎶 Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses 🎶
Also you forgot the part where they got presidential pardons and then often got put back in jail for something else.
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Okay, I've never really paid it much much mind because I'm typically neither a fan of interpreted nor dynamically-typed languages, but I have to admit that I've been having a lot of fun* playing with #Python.
* My definition of "fun" may differ from yours.
Try type hints😀 Gets nicely rid, mostly, of dynamic typing.
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Another tornado warning
Tornado warning over. Tornado watch still in effect.
Nope amother tornado
We're still here. Tornado risk is gone, but we've been wothout power for the past two hours, the server that hosts my usual account is down.
No word on when power will be restored, but we're otherwise okay.
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Power just came back on. Time to bring all my services back up.
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As an analogue to my "local businesses, nonprofits, and community groups please use RSS instead of exclusively posting to Instagram" rant, please consider "please if you have an event calendar, make it a ***calendar*** and not an image on Instagram."
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I am begging people, please just make *websites*. Not Instagram feeds, not X posts, not Squarespace slop, not e-mail newsletters, *websites*.
You know, those things that I can view without needing an account, a specialized app, shittons of spyware, etc.
(Yes, this is too salty, sorry.)
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This is just salty enough.
I think the point is here is the "just". Webpages need more effort than postings
@lobingera I don't really agree; so much of what I see is people bending over backwards working around whatever patterns some corporate middle manager thinks is good for engagement.
There's a lot of invisible effort that goes into making corporate social media do anything even remotely useful as an outreach tool.
Hard agree, having done stuff in a research group doing routine insta posts. It's a grind, with few tangible results and the ever present risk of being stuck at a nazi bar. An institution hosted blog would have been /would be far better - for both comms reach and building a useful institutional record.
Agree, my reaction was to the boosted comment and i was missing the start of the thread ...
... from around here (i'm loosely connected to research projects) the expectation is to have public info "visible" in "established social media" and this is an (imho) result of "search engines have degraded ..."
agree with everything but "newsletters" or even better RSS is an excellent way to stay in touch with people without needing social media.
@niccolo RSS is a great thing to have on a website! It doesn't take setting up e-mail or gathering a lot of PII from readers that's then a liability for when something leaks!
sure, but I'll take a newsletter over any form of social media ANY day!
But as a matter of principle, I agree.
@niccolo That's fair, yeah. I personally find it a little annoying that newsletters became the norm, given that e-mail really works best as an interpersonal thing and not for broadcast, but still. Definitely splitting hairs at that point.
in my bubble, everyone is on social media and basically nobody uses newsletters. I wish it was the norm to complain about it and push people towards RSS! 🤣❤️
@niccolo I have a blog/newsletter available as RSS *and* by email. So many readers do want it as mail, so why should I block them out? It's just a service.
ah, ok, then I really missed the point, sorry (most newsletters I subscribed to, have a website).
Let's mandate age verification so that you need to make an account to view my website, too! ;)
seems like a normal amount of salt
earlier this morning i was talking at my screen about how the app developers should be filleted like a fish. that was probably too much (in fairness it was uber)
@whitequark An excess of salt aimed at Uber doesn't seem all that excessive, no.
agreed! I just made this website and it has felt far more rewarding than any quick thing.
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Was Musikpädagogen über Carl Orff und das Dritte Reich wissen müssen. Ein Leitfaden für Eltern und Lehrkräfte, gestützt auf begutachtete Forschung.echtorff.org
We have a project website. No accounts. No commenting. No cookies. No GDPR-relevant data storage. Soon a special RSS feed.
_Exactly_ because of this tendency towards apps, newsletters, feeds (or maybe because I was WWW-socialised in late 1993...).
Too salty? Needs a dash more, in fact: Don't just make websites, but use plain, static HTML if possible. Pages that load fast and can be restyled on the client, without all the framework bloat.
We're GOOD, Cass.
Done. All statically generated with no cookies and no JS too.
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I have zero tech experience, what’s the best way to just make a website?
takes out the mining gear to get a few tons of salt to add to your post.
tillmanreuter.xyz is my new site for a few days now. Curious what you think!
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the problem with websites is you can’t do short posts telling people how clever you are and if they’d just cough up five bucks a month (which otherwise buys you Wordle and the Times cryptic) they’d be able to read just how clever you really are. Substack however is great for that.
I heard it’s a thing. 😀@bstn
this is not salty this is being so fucking tired and we all are and that people won't put the effort cuz they are also fucking tired and so done with everything and why aren't we either manslaughtering peope who own a billion of anything or comminiting mass suicide is completely out of how anyone should expect the world to be we are all beyond insanity at this point
💯 I am not creating an online account just to view your menu.
And please be sure that it has an easy to find link to the RSS feed.
I get the saltiness. The sheer amount of local businesses in my area with NO WEBSITE, but a Facebook page is too high.
It may seem petty to some, but I have decided to do what I can to avoid businesses with Facebook as their main online presence.
Why not mastodon accounts? They can be browsed without login!
Sorry for having a website plus an email newsletter (that can be read also via blog and RSS) plus a Mastodon feed. 😜
we have a website that all of our events get posted to but sadly the instagram and email news letter get more traction but I make a point of having the freely accessible website
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Websites *without fucking cookie banners*...
no, it's not.
it would be nice if you could point us in the right direction, though.
i ask as a former, very loyal Wordpress user.
I did that purpleidea.com and someone filed an invalid DMCA notice to Google and Bing and so on and even though I've filed a counter-notice, I'm still being ignored and site traffic is way down.
well we can't have that can we. Thankfully soon the scraping load on domains will make cloudflare or similar centralized and controlled routing infrastructure mandatory for all (◕ᴗ◕✿)
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I totally get and agree with the spirit of this post, but what if you don't know how to make a website and can't afford to commission someone to make it for you? Also, having made the website, how, especially with Google favouring large businesses with their algorithms, do you get news of it out there if not by social media?
Oh, and add RSS if you have regularly changing contents (like a blog). I will not subscribe to your email newsletter but will be happy to add your RSS feed.
@Lapizistik RSS is a great thing to have on a website!
A bit off topic but not really, the abuse of Discord everywhere for everything made me mad
The most stupid thing that I see pretty often is for an open source project putting all the resources in Discord (changelog or guide for ex). And of course these things aren't accessible somewhere else (for example, the fucking git where the files are !!! )
It's very rare to see this bad behavior for solid projects, but for "little" thing like game mods, it's very common
The most stupid thing that I see pretty often is for an open source project putting all the resources in Discord (changelog or guide for ex). And of course these things aren't accessible somewhere else (for example, the fucking git where the files are !!! )
It's very rare to see this bad behavior for solid projects, but for "little" thing like game mods, it's very common
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This is generating great discussion and content. I agree to websites for entities with resources to create great websites with commenting, group discussion features etc. as needed. But with entities with limited means, I think mastodon/RSS/newsletters etc may be easier. tx.
So 'this App could have been a website' is the new 'this mmeting could have been an email'?
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In the "White Mirror" series I talk about positive ideas for using digital technologies in a way that can improve our lives. The title is a reaction to the popular "Black Mirror" series of often dystopic visions of our digital future.Nicolas Zahn
remember when Microsoft word would let you export the document as an .html web page so you could just save it to your site and link to it?
Good ole days.
Yes! I used to work at a public library. There was a server crash or something and the central 'local history' site that area library's used to make their photos etc. available crashed. So the director set up ours on a Facebook site. I had a fit. Why should our patrons, whose taxes pay for library access, be forced to sign up for a proven predatory platform in order to take advantage of that access?!!!??!!!!! That's the antithesis of what a public library is! (Fortunately the director who replaced him agreed with me and changed this.)
My husband and I have just decided that, if your menu or company information requires me to go onto Facebook/X/whatever, you don't get my business.
we just need a way to prevent them from being scraped and sourced by these llm shitheads
@caitp @Cassandra has had an adventure The trick is doing it in a way that isn't an accessibility nightmare.
I've been feeling this for years now. I'm tired of getting links to facebook groups and sites when I want to find out about local events or find gaming groups.
I LOVE THIS!
And you probably don’t need a PDF for that, HTML is just fine
@Henning Buddenbaum @Cassandra has had an adventure Honestly, markdown is usually sufficient. Launching a whole modern browser to read your document is probably overkill. (Though, I suppose there are lighter weight browsers available.)
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@me well, this was about websites, so HTML shouldn’t be overkill.
I have a blog? That I neglect? 🫤
@xgranade@wandering.shop give me a free domain and a server, and i will
Ha. And I thought I’m the outlier.
As a part of my due diligence as "owner of a nightclub" one of the questions I often ask is, "what are other venues up to these days?" In order to answer that question, I wanted to assemble a calendar listing with all of the events happening at my town's other venues with capacities of our size or smaller.
Surely they all provide ICS or RSS feeds. Surely.
Ho ho ho, I had to write 2k+ lines of code, with custom scrapers for 112 web sites.
I used to live in a place where the municipality had a big fat link to an .ics file on their website with all the bins pickup dates. One click, got it in my calendar software.
It could be that fucking easy.
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Ottawa has an app called "Collection" where you can check what kind of trash is supposed to go in what kind of bin, and get a schedule tailored to your home address that will notify you when it's time to put your bins out or when your pickup will be affected by a holiday. It's great, albeit, an app when I'd prefer less of those in my life.
But ... in the last 6 months or so (probably around when the recycling pickup was outsourced and some people's schedule changed) people were upset about missing pickups in my neighbourhood facebook group, so now someone posts a screenshot of what the next day's pickup will be in the facebook group each week, which by nature of facebook, appears in my feed some time in the several days following when the pickup has already happened....
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@geekysteven I still like technology. I just hate the tech industry, and try to be careful about what technologies I do adopt.
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@me I mean, the appeal of the shiny new tech was that it could do a task. Now we have additional cost and it's far worse at any task.
@geekysteven Oh yeah. Most modern tech has hardware specs that my younger stuff couldn't have fathomed. It's just that the locked down software it runs is utter trash (and in most cases, actively harmful).
Still, there are some promising technologies out there, and also things that can be hacked to actually respect their end users. You just have to wade carefully through the minefield that is the modern tech landscape.
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To be fair, I knew what I was doing was janky and should have known better.
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Just got an email from a hotel I stayed at over a decade ago. It started thusly:
[GUEST FIRSTNAME,fallback=Dear Guest],
I feel so seen.
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It's funny how the "common sense" crowd only seem to apply said "common sense" when it aligns with their interests. It's almost as if they want to frame their views as immutable fact that must not be questioned.
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It says something about the state of modern browsers that my preferred way for reading things on the web from my tablet is to:
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Otherwise, I chew through battery in no time flat. As it stands, I've been doing so for many hours straight and still have 88% battery.
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I sometimes, if not frequently, use "term" in emacs. It's a very good terminal.
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It's my understanding that this would not work under Wayland, while such functionality is one of the cornerstones of X11.
@tom grzybow I use
emacsclient -nw. No windowing system required.
You lose a fraction of the potential functionality of emacs though.
@tom grzybow Yes, but I also don't have an X server on my tablet.
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I just today upgraded an old Dell Pentium 4 with a Pentium Core Duo CPU. I didn't even know this was possible until I stumbled upon it...
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Been looking for an iOS compatible #reticulum client for Katy. There seems to be exactly one (Retichat).
Unfortunatrly, it doesn't seem to work properly, and I can't prove it, but I think it's MitM-ing the messages.
Finally found another Android client that's working on an iOS port. I popped over to the project's GitHub page and what's the first thing I see? A .claude directory.
Welp, back to the drawing board.
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> Unfortunatrly, it doesn't seem to work properly, and I can't prove it, but I think it's MitM-ing the messages.
I believe such claims are inappropriate because it makes a serious allegation without providing any supporting evidence.
Claims of this nature should be backed by reliable sources and proofs. Without such evidence, perhaps it is better to avoid presenting speculation as fact.
@Pol Dellaiera The reason I suspect it is because while I was receiving her messages, she was not receiving mine, though I was getting confirmation that they'd been received. They were sent directly, not via propogation nodes.
That shouldn't be possible.
Perhaps you should investigate a bit more and eventually ask on the forums (rns.recipes) ?
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You meant Ratspeak?
@govardhana Nope. Haven't tried Ratspeak yet. I was trying Retichat.
@govardhana Oh, sorry, I just realized you were probably talking about the otjer one I mentioned but didn't name. It was Columba.
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Root #monsterdon post #TheStuff1985
Having to finish up some baking at the beginning of #monsterdon so I can only half watch.
Okay, baking is finished. What'd I miss? #monsterdon
Who just eats random shit off the ground? #monsterdon
kids, lots of kids
@Raederle That was a very old looking kid.
Life pro tip: If you're going to try to assassinate someone, maybe don't do it in a truck emblazoned with your corporate logo? #monsterdon
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Who's playing this video game? Nobody's actually looking at the screen. #monsterdon
The Stuff is playing the video game...
NGL, I weirdly kind of want yoghurt now. #monsterdon
Yay kidnapping! #monsterdon
The hatch on a private jet just opens that easily? #Monsterdon
Surely nothing can go wrong hiding inside an empty tanker truck. #Monsterdon
Burning it off? Really? #monsterdon
How does stealing one of the trucks prove where its contents came from? #monsterdon
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it does! carmax!
It's the ONLY way to prove where it comes from!
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You made a successful ad campaign for an addictive substance. Surely you can make people like me. #monsterdon
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Thanks credits. I wouldn't have known that this story was fictional if you hadn't told me. #monsterdon
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One of the things I really love about #reticulum is its ability to seamlessly route traffic over literally any communication medium that can handle at least 5 bits per second. I'm also reminded of a YouTube video I watched a while ago where a guy was able to send data (at a very slow rate) over a literal tin can phone. Sadly, I can't find the link.
Anyhow, I think you can probably figure out what I am now legally and morally obligated to do.
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It finally happened. I'm surprised it's taken me this long to run into right wing conspiracy nonsense on #reticulum.
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@Hannes Deeken Where does your confusion lie?
I was not aware of any right wing conspirancy regarding Reticulum and was surprised.
@Hannes Deeken It wasn't regarding the network itself. I just stumbled across some nodes that were hosting general conspiracy nonsense.
Given how attractive the network would seem to doomsday preppers and so-called "free speech absolutists", I expected that sort of thing to be more prevelant.
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Ah, I see, that makes sense now 😁
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Gentle reminder, when someone is sharing some small piece of resistance they have done, DO NOT SHIT ON IT. Do not tell them it isn't enough or it's still bad because blah blah other stuff...
Everyone is tired and overwhelmed and trying to find some accessible way they can push back. Cheer that!
Celebrate the small; celebrate the imperfect.
No single action is gonna solve everything, but a whole bunch of small actions start the sea change.
Don't punch down when we all need lifting up.
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very well said my friend and it needed to be said ... thank you ❤️🔥 .... Boosted 👍🏾
Good reminder! I know I can get pretty pessimistic around midnight after reading too much news that day.
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Got your Point. Well, Resistance Starts with the Truth... I'd Rather Shit on It like you Say at Least for Making a Constructive Point. I Actually Call this Lifting Up and Being Realistic Preventing Going in the "Wrong" Direction Once Again. I Don't Think Imperfection is Better than Perfection lol
Got your Point. Well, Resistance Starts with the Truth... I'd Rather Shit on It like you Say at Least for Making a Constructive Point. I Actually Call this Lifting Up and Being Realistic Preventing Going in the "Wrong" Direction Once Again. I Don't Think Imperfection is Better than Perfection lol
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@juliensueur
First off, unless someone asks for your critique of how they are doing, it is very likely unwelcome.
Secondly you have failed to grasp the core concept of what I stated. Just because you think shitting on someone else's efforts is helpful (and unsolicited criticism is 100% shitting on someone) doesn't mean you didn't just shit on them. And what I am saying is don't do that.
It's demotivating and the opposite of helpful. And what you want is to help.
Fair Enough, next time I'll Just Lie and Motivate Them in Their Bullshits Until They Realize their Mistake by Themselves like I Do or i Did in the Past. Then : Good Luck ! Appreciate what you are Doing ;) By the Way, I Think Everything is Criticism Anyway, Good or Bad
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@juliensueur
Sigh.... You've now had two opportunities to listen, and squandered them both.
So here's some Unfiltered Truth to help you Do Better:
Interacting with you has been profoundly unpleasant. You seem to be quite the asshole. Which is why I am blocking you now.
Well said, I did it, too!
@juliensueur@vivaldi.net
@NatureMC
Yes, thank you for helping me find another person to block! Any time someone makes a great, common sense post like yours, I look through the replies for the jerks I haven't blocked yet.
Yes, thank you for helping me find another person to block! Any time someone makes a great, common sense post like yours, I look through the replies for the jerks I haven't blocked yet.
@MaryAustinBooks @NatureMC it's like the fedi immune system!
I read the first reply, thought, hmm, looks blockworthy (hostility, lack of engaging in any constructive way). There's almost always a second message which confirms that and this time there indeed was and I blocked. Then saw this thread about other people reaching the same conclusion.
I say that not because I deserve a medal (I'm sure I don't), just encouraging other people to recognize this pattern of behavior and don't be afraid to block people if it seems warranted to you. @juliensueur@vivaldi.net
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Yeah, I am trying to leave more space for the climb down; I get that everyone is strung out and grumpy and sometimes needs a nudge back to humanity.
This was not a a successful nudge.
@juliensueur @Star12Mt @kerravonsen so you're saying it's better to do nothing than to do something? Because what you're doing here is coming into a disabled person's comments, someone who is followed by a lot of other disabled folks like myself, many of us are housebound or bedbound and literally cannot "do" very much. We get upset because we are constantly told that what we can do is not right or not enough, and it makes us feel like we shouldn't bother doing anything at all.
@juliensueur @Star12Mt @kerravonsen It actually takes a LOT of our daily energy allowance for some of us to make an extra phone call or email, which may be things that others barely have to think about at all, but for us, we may be risking absolute exhaustion the next day for doing one small extra thing outside our routine. And here you are saying it's fine to go ahead and shit on people for not being perfect enough in YOUR opinion? And who the hell are you?
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Thanks for the Blocking. You Know, in This World, Everyone is Kind of Disabled, Psychologicaly or Physically. Me First lol. And for Answering, I am a Nobody just Passing By Waiting for my Own Death.
Thanks for the Blocking. You Know, in This World, Everyone is Kind of Disabled, Psychologicaly or Physically. Me First lol. And for Answering, I am a Nobody just Passing By Waiting for my Own Death.
In my Cllr role I keep saying to activists; I can only work with what I've got! It's often never enough. But this, in reality, is how progress is made.
"...even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward."
Thanks for the reminder! We need everyone, everywhere, doing everything they can.
But what if their small piece of resistance was shitting on something? Wouldn't it be best to shit on something in solidarity? Frankly, is there anything in this administration that doesn't deserve to be shit on?
Cheeky answer:
It's hard enough getting people's hearts and minds aligned, to get butts all lined up to shit in solidarity would be a real challenge.
More seriously, cheering on individual efforts is still an act of solidarity.
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You know, you're right. And with the current state of food inspections in the US, the chance of people's shit being solid is also far less. Just another complication about getting people aligned in resistance.
Those who punch down are expressing their anger in all directions. Perhaps they think that scolding will prick people to greater effort; perhaps not.
Yes, it is not enough, it is never enough, because, as you say, no single action is going to solve everything.
As the saying goes, "The perfect is the enemy of the good." Those who demand perfection are always going to be disappointed.
even if you are SURE it's performative. If you're that sure, I guess you know them personally so address it with them.
How do you eat an elephant, indeed.
One bite at a time.
Exactly this. Thank you.
Yes please!
This is true for so many things that may not register as "resistance" as well.
If it's the direction you want the world to go, celebrate it, encourage it, don't belittle it, even if it's not <there> yet.
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I made this a few years back.
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@grumpy4n6 You are absolutely right and I am probably guilty of doing this. Sorry.
It's very frustrating and discouraging when so many people think that their little tiny thing -- signing an online petition, wearing a certain color hat, sharing a meme -- is going to turn the world around. Especially when so many of these people fail to do the big things: vote, call their Senators and Congress people, attend Townhall meetings. It's the bragging about Slactivism that I'm against.
I think some of this disparagement activity is ratfucking sponsored by the Bad Guys.
It's kind of like the 1960s adage that the guy in your radical group who tells you you need to stop messing around with useless protests and get violent is the undercover cop.
@mattmcirvin excellent point. It absolutely is part of the authoritarian playbook to demotivate and generate a sense of powerlessness and inevitability.
Also, thank you for "ratfucking" that's a new phrase for me. All my old swear words are worn out.
It seems to be a term that originated in the context of mid-20th-century college pranks and was applied to national politics during the Watergate era.
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if I could pin other folks’ posts… this would be the one.
YESSS.
Is one allowed to ask:
This specific action seems less useful then this other action, so why do the former ?
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Nope.
Unless they ask for a critique re the efficiency of their resistance don't offer one. What they need to hear is "yay you!" or "good job pushing back!"
You are however allowed to ask:
"How can I help?"
well, I've been protesting since we tried to levitate the pentagon and I think you are wrong
it drives me insane all the time and energy people put into useless "protests"
@failedLyndonLaRouchite you sound burned out. 💙
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Good discussion! Whether it's performative or not, a lot of uncertain people trying to find ways to engage with be lurking and would see folks being shot down for being perforative and then doubt themselves and their motives and be less likely to try something out of their comfort zone. It demotivates all around.
It isn't always about who you're talking to, it's also about who's quietly listening.
@geonz That is indeed a good point. It's a chilling effect.
🏆 Great note. I hate it when people do that. If they need to judge someone, loan them a mirror.
I love this….. I find myself frustrated or hopeless because I’ll think to myself “my small act of resistance doesn’t make change”. I needed to hear this so thank you.
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It does!
The humans in power want us to loose hope and think, our small efforts do not matter, but they do.
Every drop counts!
Every light, no matter how small, contributes!
And with many of the little actions, we can become a flood.
Just keep going in your pace!💪
Feels related to the two videos I watched. One was higher effort, and judgy... The other felt like it was a good job. Mind you, maybe higher effort and judgy is still good? I don't know.
This is very true and needed saying. We need to normalise tiny positive actions. 😀
also good reminder, if your resistance isn't legal, don't tell anyone about it
@jonahgibberish Definitely not on Fedi, and not on Signal either.
yes, tho this doesn't mean there should be all fluff and no criticism
it just means you should focus on the good parts, and "point positive", towards how to make things even better, instead of negative, of what they did wrong or are in danger of doing wrong
and ofc try to minimize the amount of criticism in any one feedback, too much will just make you feel like you're shit at it, but a little bit of actionable feedback can help you move forward much more easily
it just means you should focus on the good parts, and "point positive", towards how to make things even better, instead of negative, of what they did wrong or are in danger of doing wrong
and ofc try to minimize the amount of criticism in any one feedback, too much will just make you feel like you're shit at it, but a little bit of actionable feedback can help you move forward much more easily
Never be silent.
It is all about moving the needle.
And eventually send them back the flood, so they drown in their own shit.
Beautifully put!
Brava, Valerie;
Very well said.
Very well said.
I often point out that simply being on the Fediverse is an act of resistance, because it helps us build this network, which mainly just needs to keep bringing people in if we want to eventually replace the corporate ones. You can volunteer and do more, but simply posting here and interacting with things here is a big help.
unless they do something that's actually useless, like voting, or calling their congressional representatives. then it's okay to shit on them, right? /s
and of course if they vote for either of the two major candidates it's our civic duty to call them a fascist
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Yes! Thank you! It's not a race, and it might not even be a marathon. I like to think it's a hike.
☝️Two follow up thoughts from the conversations on this thread:
Patience.
For a lot of people, this is their first foray into non-compliance. They are going to start with small things within their comfort zone. This isn't a failure to do bigger things, this is training for it.
Self compassion.
If you are finding yourself angry at how little others are doing, you may be burned out. Rest is resistance too, as is pivoting to joy or humour in how you protest.
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what I admire most about Buddhism is that the pre-eminent precept is "before all else, practice kindness"
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Sane things happening now as what our parents told to us about the years before WW2 in Holland. Or written in books from that time.. Fight direct, or under water ? Dutch situation is not as dire as Canada yet, but certain groups are forming again after defeated with the last elections. Those groups seem to have an endless supply of money. Who is who ? Active in the local cultural sphere as volunteer opens view on the several opposing interests in the area.
Tautoko.
If everyone did one small act of resistance today the fight would be over tomorrow.
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"The Grain of Sand" , or "Adding the 49 , perhaps even 50 cents".
lots of small things add up to something big.
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Yaaaaaaaaaas!
Brilliant point. It's a sign the Overton Window is shifting. Which gives everybody else more social permission to push back. This is the kind of feedback loop that drives change. Wahoo!
Yaaaaaaaaaas!
Brilliant point. It's a sign the Overton Window is shifting. Which gives everybody else more social permission to push back. This is the kind of feedback loop that drives change. Wahoo!
We gotta remember that there is safety in numbers, and every flood is made up of so many raindrops.
Ye gods of not being an asshole! THIS
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It seem that to the general public ADHD simply means you have 1 second attention span. I can tell you that ADHD people are the ones who can spend 8 hours completely immersed in a task that looks boring, pointless and absurd to a neurotypical person, all while they forget to pee, eat and sleep. Good thing we don't forget to breathe. It's called hyperfocus. Hence I am confident that many of the world's most impressive feats have been achieved by ADHD people. It is full of contradictions.
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I would say it is more about the how able you are to inhibit thoughts from becoming actions.
Sometimes that means losing focus on a task.
Sometimes that means blurting out something you didn't mean to.
Sometimes it means fidgeting.
Sometimes it means the world is gone to you while you stay narrowed in on a really demanding task for hours... or consistently for days, weeks, years.
learning about hyperfocus was the thing that made me consider getting tested for ADHD.
I don't have trouble focusing, I just can't control where my focus goes, and I have zero sensory filters, so my attention goes all over the place when I get too many different stimuli.
It certainly doesn't help that all my senses are unusually sensitive.
@draco Yeah, that's why for me the perfect work environment is either perfectly silent and free of distractions, or hyperfocused chaos of an event. The first one is harder to maintain, the latter is more exhausting.
I absolutely agree. I wish I had more control over my hyperfocus, because when it kicks in, I stop thinking and just start doing.
There might be a few neurotypical people who did awesome things, but honestly? Having ADHD helps so much doing these things... If only we had more control over it!
@unfa🇺🇦 A thousand times this. This is the reason my father thought the doctor who originally diagnosed me was out to lunch. He's since come to learn a lot more.
Literally denied having it for years because I was convinced as a child the hyperfocus I had was fundamentally incompatible with having what was called ADD at the time.
I'm pretty sure that most of the historical "absentminded professor" types had ADHD.
I have ADHD, diagnosed around 1995, and medicated at the time. I have a genius level IQ and can hyperfocus. Taking care of daily life? Not so good. 😂
My family always said that a bomb could go off and I wouldn’t notice if I had my ‘nose in a book’. Same thing with my life in Electronics and Coding. Now I write novels.
Apparently I ‘fake’ respond to conversations, but have no clue what anyone said, or that I did so. Fortunately, my better half understands that now and when she wants my opinion knows to interrupt whatever I’m doing and make sure I am focused on her instead of the task at hand.
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@cflynnbooks I relate to all that you wrote here so hard.
@Cornelius Flynn @unfa🇺🇦 My mother used to say that when I was on the computer, I wouldn't notice the house burning down until it took the power out.
She probably wasn't wrong.
Also, the fake responses thing was a real problem all throughout my schooling. I could even repeat back verbatim what had been said without actually absorbing it. That frustrated (and confused) even me.
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This is one of the reasons why I didn't realise my son had ADHD - I had no idea about hyperfocus.
my favorite description of ADHD is "we are actually really great at paying attention, we are just absolutely unable to control what will we pay attention to"
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Our internet connection is extremely unstable at the moment. I've had to reboot the cable modem four times in the past hour. I imagine it's due to the fibre optics they're installing outside.
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me: "I'm prepared to answer your riddles three!"
sphinx: "oh, you knew about the riddles three?"
me: "yes , you're a sphinx, it's a rather well-known thing that I gotta answer three questions"
sphinx: "oh wait did I just waste the first question?"
me: "hmm, that depends on updog"
sphinx: "what's updog?"
sphinx: "oh, you knew about the riddles three?"
me: "yes , you're a sphinx, it's a rather well-known thing that I gotta answer three questions"
sphinx: "oh wait did I just waste the first question?"
me: "hmm, that depends on updog"
sphinx: "what's updog?"
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Social engineer hacking ...
my tabletop party did this to a sphinx once. they played the sphinx like a goddamn fiddle.
they get to a sphinx and just stare at it. the sphinx gets fed up and asks "what'd you come here for? just to stare at me?"
they say "we came here to enter, we did not come here just to stare at you"
the sphinx goes "alright, i was getting worried. now, answer my riddles three and the door shall open to-"
they say "but we already answered them"
the sphinx then commits the fatal mistake of asking "when?"
the party cheerfully answers "now"
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail: 3 Questions [HD]
YouTubessa voit nauttia parhaista videoista ja musiikista, ladata alkuperäistä sisältöä ja jakaa kaiken ystäviesi, perheesi ja koko maailman kanssa.nOizyGR (YouTube)
@cstross Sphinx vs the fae
A sufficiently pedantic sphinx might claim that "hmm, that depends on updog" was an incorrect answer to the second question.
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“Have you read the new Crichton?”
“He’s dead, how can there be a new book.”
“Ghost written.”
“So it’s not by him and they paid some desperate kid to not have their name on the cover? Have some fucking respect, I’ll pass.”
“No, it’s cool, they used a Raspberry Pi, a surplus Russian GRAVEDUST unit and an CP/M emulator running WordStar to let him write from the Beyond. With a signal booster they reckon they’ll get a trilogy or two before he fades completely.”
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Meta: the MicroFiction part is that they could source a Raspberry Pi in this economy.
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Memory prices up 500% in the past year — because of AI
YouTubessa voit nauttia parhaista videoista ja musiikista, ladata alkuperäistä sisältöä ja jakaa kaiken ystäviesi, perheesi ja koko maailman kanssa.Pivot to AI (YouTube)
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Woke up this morning to a very large unexpected bill that needed to be addressed immediately. Managed to put the immediate fire out (or at least reduce it to a manageable simmer) but it took several hours of negotiating and it burnt essentially all of my spoons for the day. I should have just written the rest of the day off and done nothing else.
Katy and I decided to go run an errand anyway because we could turn it into a nice relaxing bike ride, which honestly sounded pretty appealing. Unfortunately, the errand went sideways and resulted in me having to spend another hour on the phone putting out another urgent fire.
I've done what needed to be done, but I know I'm going to pay a heavy price for overtaxing my system like that. The spoon tax is real.
'tie a knot and hang on', as they say.
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@Linux in a Bit Are you still active on the Reticulum network? I took some time away and can't seem to connect to your node any more.
@Linux in a Bit That would certainly explain why I haven't been able to reach it. I guess my hiatus was longer than I thought though. 🙃
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Root #monsterdon post #StarOdyssey1979
Aargh! It's Sol 3, not Soul 3. #monsterdon
I mean, I don't expect a cinematic masterpiece from #monsterdon but everyone is so damn wooden and emotionless.
What tue hell did they do to R2D2? #monsterdon
"But an act such as that is against the law!"
My dude, do you want to save the world or not?
And nobody found the glowing eyes suspicious? They weren't exactly subtle. #monsterdon
Why is this guy dressed like spiderman? #monsterdon
I just need a spaceship. It's not like that's a big deal, right? #monsterdon
Again with the oo-fohs? #monsterdon
Convenient that he has those blinking lights to indicate when he's knocked out.
He went from suicidal to "Tilly, my darling!" at breakneck speed. #monsterdon
Light sabres now? #monsterdon
Well, that sure was a movie... I guess. #monsterdon
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Give people a complete program for the usecase you've envisioned and they'll complain about edge cases and missing features.
Give people powerful primitives and a way to arbitrarily combine them, and they will build the program they need themselves, programs which you've never dreamed of.
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Give people powerful primitives and a way to arbitrarily combine them, and watch 99% of them leave you for someone who provided a complete program for a usecase they've envisioned, and the people will complain about the edge cases and missing features all the time, but still use that complete program over your powerful primitives. And that way, you've built a community filter that removes the lame 99% of people, and leaves you with the cool 1% you can enjoy being friends with and nerding out with about building programs which you've never dreamed of 😛
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Of course this is about Minecraft.
Any resemblence to Unix is coincidental.
Give people powerful primitives and a way to arbitrarily combine them, and they will build the program they need themselves, which is an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of the complete program you would have given them.
@niconiconi @Wolf480pl This code is a mess, but it's my mess.
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Okay, I'm playing with the #ReticulumNetwork again. My NomadNet node is back up at
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