Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

Insurance is such a scam.

"You're protected*"

* Except you have to ship everything that was damaged to us, at your cost.

* And you only have ten days to do so.

* And first you have to pay to get an independent repair cost estimate for everything. Like who even does that nowadays?

* And if they do pay out, they will only pay what the going price is on eBay or Craigslist (!?)

* And the insurance is void if the power spike was longer than 1 ms.

If there's one thing I would like to see change about #fediblock, it would be that I would like to see the reasons why you are implementing the ban, beyond two words. Screenshots of said bad behavior, etc.. so that other #mastoadmin can have more context to judge for themselves and their own users.

Right now it feels very "he said, she said" with no receipts, drama between server admins blocking without talking to each other, etc...

"The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so."
- 11th Circuit panel, per curiam

@webuiltthiscity If my older zoomer kids post on IG at all, it's to stories so their friends see it. More like Snapchat, I guess. They don't love social media in general. Not in the way my GenX generation adopted it.

I hold the philosophical position that if two things are indistinguishable, their difference is irrelevant.

"What if we live in a simulation?" -- irrelevant
"What if you couldn't tell the difference between taking to a computer and a real person?" -- irrelevant

But more precisely, it's begging the question to say "imagine something was indistinguishable, now how would you treat it differently???"

Comet C/2020 F3 "NEOWISE" reflected in Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, California (7/10/2020).

This is a single frame. There was moon light illuminating Fannette Island and the bay. I did a little dodging and burning and color grading in #darktable running on a Linux box.

Sony a7rIII, 55mm prime, f/1.8, 5sec, ISO640.

#astronomy #comet #astrophotography #astrophoto #photography #laketahoe #lake #emeraldbay #sierra #linuxphotography

Welcome to #Whammageddon. The challenge: during the month of December, go as long as possible without hearing the song “Last Christmas” by Wham. Post when you lose. Covers don’t count. Have fun.

https://www.whamageddon.com

They should give Donald Trump’s tax returns to Justice Alito so everyone will know what’s in them.

@nancybaym @natematias i have been very upfront that I coined it as a joke many years ago, and then it took on a life of its own, without me doing anything in support of it after the initial coinage.

I think that @shengokai has had a lot of important things to say on the topic of Mastodon and race, so was really glad to see him interviewed for this piece - and also this quote from @creatrixtiara highlights an incredibly important point. https://www.fastcompany.com/90817452/can-mastodon-be-a-twitter-refuge-for-marginalized-groups

I wanted an instance
- in #english
- with reasonable and #openMinded rule set
- #LGBTQ+ friendly (even if I am not, but most of my #friends are)
- that did not block other #instances, at most muted but open
- with open minded #admins
- with extended functionalities
- #STEM oriented

I ended up with #qoto, pretty happy about it!

Have also considered:
- #Japan, #Linux, #art, #3D, #vfx, #FOSS, #FLOSS, #blender oriented ones.

At #today, would also consider their aderation at the #UnitedFederationOfInstances ( #UFI )

I know for a fact that @freemo might want to participate in the #conversation @thibaultamartin @matrix

UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-ditches-ban-legal-harmful-online-content-favour-free-speech-2022-11-28/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-ditches-ban-legal-harmful-online-content-favour-free-speech-2022-11-28/

#news #technology

Hi. It would help me a lot if I could get a HEAP of responses to this poll. The goal is to get a decent enough sample for the results to be predictive of the wider user-base right now. I dislike asking for boots but this is SCIENCE... or something. (Thanks.)

How do you use Mastodon MOST of the time?

On a phone, or other touch screen device?

OR

On a device with a keyboard like a laptop or desktop computer?

(If it's half and half choose the middle option.)

"waah waaah mastodon is slow and glitchy sometimes, how can you bear it"

bitch I grew up with dial up. I scrolled endlessly through the hampster dance, half the jpegs broken. I spent an hour looking for and downloading a simple mp3. I waited my 54 minutes to continue watching a ropey stream of true blood with unsynced audio. I still use tumblr. you are like tiny baby

It took more time than I'd like, but I managed to block all of Twitter and Meta's servers in my hosts file.

Best to nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

Please remember during the holiday season that the elf on the shelf not only creates your child's first paranoid surveillance system but also invites the fair folk into your HOUSE, what are you THINKING

Just when it seems the news couldn’t get any worse, they discover 4,000 new pages of #Hegel.