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Cleopatra VII died in 30 BCE & the Great Pyramid of Giza was completed ~2560 BCE.

In other words, the charismatic Egyptian queen lived closer in time to the invention of #Mastodon than to the building of the Great Pyramid. #history

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I just saw some fediblock drama again, and wanted to write this status as something I consider necessary.

Husky won't censor any instance.

Servers (Pleroma, Akkoma, Mastodon, Glitch and the rest of them) already provide tools for users to be able to mute users, conversations and whole instances. Husky already supports this.

If your instance blocks other instances, sorry for you. There is nothing a client can fix. But clients shouldn't block instances by default.

That being said, while I'm the maintainer, no instance will be blocked from using Husky.
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on my blog!

dotat.at/@/2023-05-26-whence-t

"where does my computer get the time from?"

a blogified version of the lightning talk I gave at #RIPE86 this morning

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Always interesting to see how each language's standard library reinvents their own date/time implementation. No two are the same.

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Ding Liren is the 17th Chess World Champion: “this match was the deepest reflection of my soul”.
Recap of game14 and tiebreaks, annotations by GM Harikrishna Pentala: lichess.org/blog/ZE95nhAAACYAz

#NepoDing #WorldChessChampionship #wcc2023 #chess #lichess

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Here's what Eugen Rochko's Mastodon gGmbH organisation now controls:

-The Mastodon server software (though the current version is FOSS)
-The mastodon.social server, which has 1 in 7 of all Fediverse users
-The official Mastodon apps, now telling people to just sign up on mastodon.social
-The official website at joinmastodon.org
-The trademark for the word "mastodon", which lets them dictate terms to any server which uses it

This is a tempting package for any potential buyers.

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