b_chocolatey @b_chocolatey@qoto.org

@graf i know no one cares about us, but if you're giving out admin badges for helping peeps, could you tag me too?

@NEETzsche @Humpleupagus @ShariVegas ya'll are overreacting and need to go for a walk/put down the podcasts or something

@NEETzsche @Humpleupagus This just hit me like a ton of bricks.

I just made sure to remind my older brother, who has still largely disowned me, what my encryption key pair is. Just in case.

@NecroKvntPuke
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Kinda crazy that people are just now getting their hands on current gen consoles, and if last gen is anything to go by, Sony should be doing a hardware refresh in less than a year.

It's unlikely sony will do it because they've been struggling with pandemic supplychain stuff and you really just can't find their hardware anywhere

I wonder about Xbox though, Series S has been on shelves for quite some time and in abundant supply. When will we get a new Xbox..

Maybe 2023?
2024?

I used to collect for Gameboy and GBC like a decade ago and I have a ton of gamebois and a big stack of games

But like
Going out with a gameboy color in 2022 is a lil..
Idk
I'd be embarrassed to be seen playing it at this point lmao

@enigmatico would be super cute to have a wooden box with an LCD and a tiny linux box with wifi

DIY AIO machines, just add power

would love to stay up, since i've done absoluteky nothing but work today, but i've got church in the morning. can't dally any longer.
goodnight, fedi! make sure you're up in time for church!

@thor
If fedi was a person it would be locked up in an insane asylum, in solitary confinement, with a straitjacket.

1. Invent banking.
Wow, we quite outdid ourselves. I wonder how can we do worse 😈
2. Outlaw gold. Go full fiat.
Excellent.
3. Central banks gifting money to irresponsible too-big-to-fail banks.
That's it. I'm going over to cryptocurrencies.
4. MtGox gets hacked.
It looks like the perils of centralization are ever present, even here. I am sure there's something to learn about all this.
5. Keep building cathedral-sized centralized exchanges.
That looks like a little to greedy.
6. Binance is bailing out FTX.
...

Last #fediverse comment and then I go to bed. There’s nothing watching you. You can like a picture of a cat and nothing will steer 100 more cat pictures into your feed. Nothing fills your screen with cat food and cat beds and ads for cat services. You can visit the timeline of someone #NSFW and nobody knows and nobody cares. It doesn’t feed anybody’s AI model about you and who you are and what you’re like. You’re not for sale here. The timeline: it’s chronological. There’s no steering it or reordering it or buying the top slot. It’s just like the weather. It just happens. Lean into it.

every squirrel you see is currently on a dare from another squirrel

Hey y'all, welcome to Mastodon. I've only been here for a week myself.

As with any platform, it'll take some learning, but I like what I see, thus far.

Thanks for the follow, and I promise to figure this out soon.

The German word "Stern" means "star".

The German word "Hagel" means "hail".

The German word "voll" means "full".

The German word "sternhagelvoll" does NOT mean "starhailfull".

It means "completely drunk".

Enjoy your drinks responsibly - and our language!

Comic about religion
#midjourney #AIArt

:hacker_f::hacker_s::hacker_e:

There are some minor slowness issues; the pipe is clogged. Abnormally high request volume for a Saturday night. One of the issues is boring: we're getting flooded with deletes because Mastodon is retarded about deletes, and three users that have a lot of posts (names aren't similar but they might all be the same person) have decided to delete their accounts (or they got banned), so that's one delete per user. Most instances this floods pretty badly; some instances have had to reject deletes during deletestorms because it is expensive to do this one at a time, swamps the DB. (If you are getting a lot of deletes, you might want to consider temporarily ignoring them.)

The other issue is we're getting flooded with requests from someone's attempt to scrape a handful of Poast accounts via FSE. They're doing this via Tor, so the fix is based on behavior rather than traffic source. All of those accounts were on the previous list of accounts from the last time this kind of scraping happened; it's been at least several months since this specific guy cropped up, I think at least a year. (Other accounts on the list included their Gab accounts, associated accounts, etc.) I suspect it's the same guy as last time, because it's the same accounts and their bot is also too goddamn stupid to notice errors, it's still hitting those accounts even after I turned the screws on the rate-limiting for that. I don't know why anyone would hammer my server to get all of the posts by these guys, but that guy can go fuck himself.

The deletes shouldn't affect anyone here, but some Poast accounts' pages will be inaccessible for a while. The accounts will still be visible, you will be able to interact with them like normal, but if you try to view their pages, you will get errors. It looks like there weren't any 5xx errors that resulted from that, but it has jammed up the pipes a bit.

There's also some other weird shit going on at the moment that should make a bit more sense once that noise is cleared up.