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Torontonian, Widower, Krusty & Retired (Atheist) — GNU/Linux Hobbyist, Peace 4 Ukraine, #Geopolitics #TruthSeeker #Russophile #antiNATO #antiNAFO & Atlantic Council #antiSurveillance #EFF #Privacy #MMA #UFC. #NoBots Instant block if no user icon present.
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Today is Sunday, 27 November 2022.
https://libreboot.org/ will go offline this evening, for a few hours, possibly into the morning of 28 November.
This is because I'm (physically, across town, on my bicycle) moving the servers to my new network. DNS changes gotta trickle down.
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Nerd stuff
#Mastodon from the #terminal https://youtu.be/Se5YdvcZGMw
Cool! Obviously, posting via #tut!
LMAO!🤣
@beaveinflow@mstdn.ca
Tweets should just be called bird shit at this point.
#RIP #Entertainment Both were huge in the early 80s
| Fame and Flashdance singer Irene Cara dead at 63 | CBC News https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/irene-cara-obituary-1.6665460 |
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Hey #Mastoadmin community, I am one of the admins on zeroes.ca with @trendless
I hear rumours of a mailing list & a discord server to get assistance in tuning mastodon during this time of hypergrowth.
Can anyone DM me the coordinates please?
We are assessing options to grow.
I have experience scaling ruby apps but I am sure others have gone before us, so I would like to leverage whatever learning has gone before us.
Thanks! #fediadmin
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I'd like to build a heatmap of places I visited during the last two month.
I have Google location history json file, but the only site I can google out is broken.
Any advice?
What I’ve been called and why I use the #Russophile tag on my profile. In jest of course.
#snowden
Content Warning: Russophile Post (Actually a funee)
Gotta be a Russian Army Squirrel
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"Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual paywall"[1]
What's next?
- Oven only goes above 300F with a $50/month "Heat Plus" subscription
- Dishwasher can only be used more than once a week with a "Sparkle" plan
- Insulin pump that requires active Internet connection and a $5/day "Sugardaddy" service charge
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🎥 #9: Mastodon from the Terminal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se5YdvcZGMw
A 3-min video where I explore using `tut`, a terminal user interface (TUI) for mastodon, where you can create new posts, browser your timelines, view your notifications, and more...
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Fascinating to see tech people learn that setting up a Mastodon server, keeping it secure, paying the bills for hosting and the 24/7 devops...
...is the easy part.
Proper steering of a community and keeping tabs on moderations is 95% of the work.
Don't start a server if you're not willing to learn and do that.
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#introduction New universities in the #fediverse!
Pls see the thread above (3 posts in total) for the current list of #universities with an official account on #Mastodon. Many of them are new.
#introductions #university #academia #academicmastodon #Canada #USA #Germany #Netherlands #Mexico #Norway #Hungary #Ireland #France #Switzerland
Today downtown #toronto Gardiner expressway.
Photo Credit: Lisa Mai on Facebook.
@niceontoast Ready for the event this evening? #MMA #UFC
#GeoPolitics #Russia #Oil Analysis of Price Cap on Russian Crude
The Great “Russian Oil Price Cap” Charade
For those unaware, the EU and other Western nations have a December 5th deadline for implementing a cap on the price of oil purchased from Russia. The West has come to the conclusion that they cannot live without Russian hydrocarbons, but they need to appear to be doing something to limit the amount of money flowing East. Thus the Russian Oil Price Cap dog and pony show was born.
Supposedly, the price would be set high enough for Russia to have an incentive to continue selling fuel to the West, but low enough that the profits from these sales would be massively reduced for Russia, a supposed win-win for the West.
However, to make such a scheme function in a manner that actually hurts Russia, they’d need China and India to play along, and well…, that ship has sailed 🤣.
Currently, the market price of a barrel of oil is $83, for example, and Russian oil already sells at a discounted price of approximately $60-70 per barrel in Asia, due to the current sanctions. The proposed price cap will most likely be around $60-70 per barrel. For perspective, Russian oil companies can profitably sell oil at any price above $30 a barrel, and Russia can balance its budget at prices above $50.
You can already see the Western leadership doesn’t believe in its own policy. In addition to the price being set at basically what China is currently buying oil, the proposed rules wouldn’t apply to oil sent via pipeline over land. This is an abysmal failure when it hasn’t even started…
Why is this such a dud of an idea? As mentioned above, without Asia joining the price cap regime, Putin can simply call their bluff, and refuse to sell fuel to the West, and they know it. The business lobby in the West would also never allow a policy that actually reduced the flow of hydrocarbons, and the people are already suffering the worst inflation scene in generations. BUT they need to look like they’re doing something, so here we are.
-Zin
Edit: I’m just now reading that Russian crude already sells at $52 per barrel in the Urals, so the price “cap” would actually be $10 higher 🤣
It’s obvious that this policy is really about cleaning up the appearance of what’s already happening, not about any new attack on Russian finances.
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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#71 Increased Circle
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2022/11/twig-71/
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Is capitalism possible without primitive accumulation? Asking for a friend.
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FUN FACT: You can flash an X230 with Libreboot without using external flashing equipment but you do still need to take it apart. I added a guide:
https://libreboot.org/docs/install/ivy_internal.html
I still recommend external flashing. The internal method (for replacing Lenovo firmware) is actually harder.
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Now that we're starting to see more impersonation accounts on Mastodon, a reminder that verified websites are a thing. It's not perfect, but implementable at the individual level, and this is how we know for example which of these is the real @stephenfry - and it's not the one with the meaningless checkmark. :)
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