Alan Avram Shteynberg ☑️ @absolutus@qoto.org

How Does FreeConferenceCall.com Make Money? (2012)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17762414
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Hi everyone!

Nice to see some friendly faces in here!

This is my first Mastadon toot and I don't understand it yet so I'm just going to pretend like this is Twitter and share something funny..

Alex Jones is a disgusting human being, with a disgusting message. I in no way support anything he has ever said; I do however support his right to say it.

I also support net neutrality and just as an ISP runs its own private hardware but can not sensor the content over its network (if net neutrality is enforced) I see social media in much the same way, it should be protected from censorship.

It is scary and ironic how extremist liberals called for InfoWars to be censored while in the same breath ridiculing anyone on the right who claims fake news is a real problem.

Even when both groups agree they still refuse to admit it.

I want to introduce everyone on the qoto.org instance to our newest moderator: @arteteco

I really appreciate him helping out. He also posts cool DIY projects so consider following him.

Me: What ya doing?

Alan: Reading!

Me: Oh nice, what are you reading?

Alan: Cat pictures

::long pause::

Me: Ummm, looking at cat pictures isnt reading.

Alan: Well they have captions

@absolutus

Today's dinner. Cheese stuffed beef (goat and young Dutch farmers cheese) and then some homemade Mac and cheese with 4 cheeses (young farmer, old farmer, goat, cheddar) and a no carb, no calorie pasta. Literally the best Mac and cheese I ever ate or made.

Best yet. This is DIET food. The whole meal has 3 carbs and almost all of our days calories is this one meal. To eat like this and say I still rocked the diet with really low calorie count is pretty damn epic. 35 lbs lost eating this stuff!

Today's meal was effectively just every shellfish known to man.

What if people were paid for their data?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17595564
#hackernews #tech

100% truth

I pass these beautiful guys often as it's right next to my house. I've got into the habit of carrying a few carrots with me for them. They get so excited when they see me. If I pass by without at least stopping to say hi they baaaaa at me in discontent.

Wondering what the best practice would be on #mastodon for people talking in more languages.

I don't like to have my timeline spammed with languages I don't understand, so would avoid writing in another language here. So what, making another account? Would be useful to have "subchannels", like #peertube does, so that one may just follow my English posts.

Any thought on the matter? What would you consider the best practice here?