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Mathematics Ph.D. Likes hanging out with almost everyone regardless of political views or anything else.
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Joined Mar 2019
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Believe it or not, I am everyone on the cover of Castle Risk.
Late in 1985, my dad was contracted by Parker Bros. to paint the cover for the game. I was off for Winter break from my freshman year of college, so he had me pose for *all* the figures in the painting.
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RT @GCarbin@twitter.com
The probability of below freezing temperatures by Saturday morning is high everywhere but the western U.S.
@Lee_in_Iowa It depends on which server you are on and other factors, but rate-limiting is generally done (not just on Mastodon, but on Internet protocols in general) to prevent denial-of-service attacks.
Doesn't mean you were doing anything wrong, by the way. It's just that if there were no limit, someone with a script could bring down servers by simply flooding them with bogus requests.
It's possible you might want to talk with your server admin about whether they have this set too low.
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#Astronomy is threatened: three quarters of major observatories affected by light pollution.
Light is polluting the #sky above most observatories and that immediate action is needed to decrease the amount of contamination coming from artificial light.
#LightPollution
https://www.ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/three-quarters-major-observatories-affected-light-pollution
The paper by Falchi et al. (2022):
https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2929
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I really struggled with the icing for my gingerbread barn and it accidentally became a gingerbread slaughterhouse.
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While cleaning up the Lastpass mess, I discovered that, at some point, Lastpass dumped a plaintext config into the unprotected note field for all Wi-Fi Password entries.
This means that all these Wi-Fi passwords were exposed in this breach - no master password bruteforcing necessary. Has anyone else seen this behavior with Wi-Fi Password entries in Lastpass? Perhaps this is just a weird thing that only happened to me?
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BLOG POST: Why the Fediverse is Revolutionary https://blog.atomicpoet.org/s/vOcINMxQd#
An explanation for what the Fediverse is, and why it's the biggest communications revolution in a generation.
This is the blog version of a thread that I made a month ago. I've compiled it into one long form article.
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Sad juxtaposition in my timeline.
A post about survivors of Mariupol right next to one about survivors of Auschwitz. Both about the struggle to live under inhumane conditions.
#Ukraine
#UkraineRussiaWar
#RussiaUkraineWar
#RussianWarCrimes
#WWII #Nazis #WarCrimes
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The biggest threat to democracy is not just Trump, but a Republican Party obstructing all attempts to hold anyone accountable, remaining fully committed to the quest of installing authoritarian rule by a reactionary minority. Did the Committee make that clear enough? 5/
@megumin Too late
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RT @Max_Fisher@twitter.com
We’ll never know for sure because it’s impossible to track the authoritarian takeovers that don’t happen, but there’s a decent chance this just became one of the most important pieces of legislation in the last half century https://twitter.com/ericliptonnyt/status/1606371014568443904
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Max_Fisher/status/1606376604111736832
@ubergeek I'm out 90-some miles east of you and it's windy af here as well.
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I swear to God, journalists have become so swept up in so-called "Web3" hype, that they're seeing blockchain where there is none.
To the people in the back: the Fediverse has nothing to do with cryptocurrency, tokens, coins, etc.
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A mere half inch of snow has brought all package deliveries to a halt in Portland.
@atomicpoet Short answer: no she is not.
Long answer:
First, how are we supposed to rework Twitter when we don't have any control over it?
Second, much of what she mentions are features, not bugs, of decentralization. Much of the rest are fundamental misunderstandings of Mastodon and Fediverse in general; most servers, be they general, math, or Equestria related, aren't going to ban you for talking on an off topic subject, either just with people on their server or with people on another.
Third, there's no restriction on having multiple accounts on Fediverse (I have two handles in active use, one that I am going to migrate to my own instance, and a few others that are inactive or redirected).
Fourth: even if Mastodon has issues, there's other ActivityPub software out there. I'm planning to use Akkoma for my personal instance.
I get the feeling she spouted this without doing much if any research, and thought that she could get away with that because of her degree.
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I spent six years living in a falling apart hunting shack in northern Wisconsin with a living room window that overlooked Lake Superior.
One of my favorite things about being there was watching storms roll in across the lake.
Extremely lucky to get this shot by waiting for the lightning to start and repeatedly mashing the shutter button.
#photography #storm #lightning #longexposure #lakesuperior #wisconsin
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The Intercept's Lee Fang worked with Elon Musk on a "Twitter Files" story and used the opportunity to launch his own personal Substack, knowing his colleague at The Intercept @micahflee is still banned by Elon Musk for his factual reporting on Musk.
If Lee Fang is going to boost his own personal substack at the expense of any kind of principled solidarity with his colleagues, why should I continue my recurring donation to The Intercept? I'd rather my money go directly to Micah and Robert Mackey than to indirectly fund Fang's work - let Fang raise money on his own substack.
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J.R.R. Tolkien Sent Illustrated Letters from Father Christmas to His Kids Every Year (1920-1943)
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Mathematics Ph.D. Likes hanging out with almost everyone regardless of political views or anything else.
Akkoma: @ML2
Joined Mar 2019
