volkris @volkris@qoto.org
Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
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What t-shirt size fits on the 12 foot skeleton? How many Xs before the L?
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One more mention for anyone interested in tiptoeing into #BlueSky
I currently have 5 codes if anyone wants to try it out. As I've mentioned previously, it is more Twitter-like, but the top accounts have been used to being in a closed system and mostly just talk to each other which is... weird.
Not bad for real, unfolding American news. Otherwise, eh.
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Also if you’re a #puppet builder and/or performer, I’d be happy to expand the server and give you a channel. So far I’m the only puppet-based video maker I’ve found on the #fediverse but I want to carve out a friendly little space here for puppet folk
Reach out! Always happy to chat.
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I'm all for open source services, but realistically, what potential issues are there with using GitHub?
Every contributor has a copy of the Git repo, so isn't the worst case basically losing access to issues and similar data? And even that is very unlikely.
Tagging for people interested in #ActivityPub and #Mastodon development
Finally figured out why I hadn’t had much luck with edited posts on Micro.blog making their way to Mastodon. Mastodon requires an “updated” date, n...
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Why Starship IFT-2 upper stage didn't quite reach orbit but exploded instead:
#space #SpaceX
RT https://twitter.com/SpaceOffshore/status/1745946623958483273
#Biden's strike on the #Houthis shows once again that he screws things up coming and going.
The complete lack of response was probably not great, but apparently he was worried about escalation.
But then he overcorrected, with a strike of magnitude that won't bend incentives but will grant the escalation that was exactly what he was supposedly looking to avoid.
It's really the story of his whole administration, incompetent administrators lurching left and right as they find themselves in way over their heads.
Nobody's better off from that, and it's tragic to see so much death and destruction coming out of that utter failure to engage rationally with the world.
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Browsing #hashtags is quickly becoming useless. Even important ones for #MastoAdmin like #Fediverse and #Mastodon are filled with toots of random #photos and #art. Some even promoting their #porn or #gamedev #gaming project. Even random #journal or #blog posts FILLED with random irrelevant hashtags. It's quite infuriating...if you know what I mean.🤦♂️😬
It's the kind of #Trump moment that I love to laugh at.
The quote as best I care to remember it from his town hall:
Retribution? I won't have time for retribution. I'm going to be making America successful. That success is retribution.
Ah, so no time to make America successful?
I always say the way to undermine Trump's chances in the election is to focus on pointing out to his potential voters that he fails at the things those potential voters think he's good at. Too often people attack Trump in ways that actually make him look good to those voters.
Believe it or not, a lot of Trump supporters think Trump can talk good. Amazingly enough. So I would think making fun of his rhetorical gaffs would be a minor path of criticism, pointing out that he actually can't put sentences together as well as his supporters think.
But ah well, at least I'll laugh privately about these occasions.
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I have such grand ambitions for this account. Once I reach 100,000 followers I will launch a tshirt store. It will contain only one shirt that has a picture of a frog and says "A frog a day keeps the government away". The shirt will cost $20 and you will all buy it.
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"ActivityPub and ATProto break #siloing in different ways.
#ActivityPub is built around URLs and can "socialise" more or less anything on the Web, which is great, but they don't touch the underlying substrate—either you run your own server or you…are at the mercy of an admin.
#ATProto, on its side, provides a good initial foundation for an extensible #PDS designed around user agency and credible exit.
…you can be guaranteed to be able to take your content elsewhere."
https://berjon.com/ap-at/
So much reporting on Trump's claims of immunity miss the actual argument:
It's not that #Trump
can't be charged with stuff, but that charges related to a president carrying out presidential duties must target the office and not the individual personally.
A core question is whether Trump was actually carrying out presidential duties, but one can't raise that if they don't realize what the argument actually is.
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The sky was looking ominous so I asked Siri, “Surely, it’s not going to rain today?”
And she replied, “Yes it is, and don’t call me Shirley.”
That was when I realized I’d left my phone in Airplane mode.
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500 logs.
Despite various countermeasures which significantly reduced its severity, I still seem to be experiencing the Mastodon Stampede DDoS where people are occasionally getting HTTP 500 errors.
The problem is that while I see these errors in my...
https://jwz.org/b/ykIG
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When a carefully thought out post on an important issue barely sees any activity, but a basically frivolous post trends.
@javi asks an excellent question about local testing #fediverse development
Those of you who develop any fediverse based project, how do you do to locally test any change you are making that involves federated content?: (P...
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Just so you know, I'm not, and have never been, particularly concerned about #privacy or about companies harvesting my #data, or about targeted #ads. I know that a lot of people are on the #Fediverse explicitly to get away from those things, but that's not me.
I joined #Mastodon because for a long time -- long before Musk bought it -- I was becoming disillusioned with all the inane technical changes on Twitter since I joined 24 years ago. Changes designed to pander to the masses, while leaving technically-minded people like me behind. Changes like encouraging people to attach images to tweets, changes like algorithms highlighting tweets you should be interested in, changes like Quote Tweets.
I joined Mastodon because I was looking for something similar to the Twitter I fell in love with back in 2009, and I believe I found it. All I've ever wanted was an up-to-the-minute, blink-and-you'll-miss-it, algorithm-free, reverse-chronological timeline of my followees' tweets and retweets, and I found it in Mastodon.
That's why I'm here. Not because I have some sort of philosophical or religious objection to the likes of #Meta or #X or #Threads or #Facebook or anything like that, but simply because in Mastodon, I found the network I've been looking for for the past 24 years (and I'm becoming increasingly disillusioned with all Mastodon's changes which seem to be designed to pander to the masses and leave us technically-minded people in the lurch, but that's another story).
With that in mind, if Meta wants to join Threads to the Fediverse, I say go right ahead. The more the merrier! If #Bluesky wants to do the same, wonderful! If Elon ever wanted X to do the same (fat chance), I say come one, come all! The Fediverse is for everyone.
As long as they behave themselves. Hell, I'd be perfectly fine with Truth Social joining the Fediverse. As long as they behaved themselves. ;-)
It sounds like people might be drawing the wrong takeaway from the report that #Trump was recorded speaking to election canvassers.
On the surface there's nothing really new. He was public at the time criticizing election officials, calling for review, and asking that processes be put on hold while he conducted his challenges. This was no secret.
BUT, one thing that stuck out at me from the report is that he apparently offered to provide the officials with legal representation.
Trump critics might be caught off-guard by this nod that he proposed to follow legal processes.
This report might end up being marginally exculpatory, when so many are reacting as if it's a smoking smoking gun.
It's a case of people being aware just what they're putting on the table.
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Since I guess everything is political these days, I'll identify as extremely liberal but without a home in US politics.
Mainly, there's so much misinformation out there that people in society have trouble even organizing into coherent political groupings. So I'd rather not talk about politics but instead focus on information and education. Nothing else matters until the bedrock of fact is buttressed.
But... people are always going to be wrong on the internet, as the saying goes.
So: Old man yells at clouds is a famous joke from The Simpsons, and it probably fairly describes what we do when venting on social media.
Just speaking into the void, since I figure it's an exercise in futility to conduct discussions on these platforms.
Joined Dec 2022
