Kerron Fedistä kun ...joku valittaa somen sensuurista ...joku etsii (eurooppalaisia) vaihtoehtoja perinteisille someille ...joku kertoo jenkkisomessa boikotoivansa jenkkituotteita ...tapaan ihmisiä livenä ...joku ihmettelee miksei eurooppalaisilla ole omaa somea ...joku valittaa somen algoritmista ja siitä ettei tavoita seuraajia ...jos joku kaipaa someltaan nimenomaan keskustelua (asiallista vieläpä)! ...törmään tyyppiin (tai ajattelen häntä), joka on yleensä ollut edelläkävijöiden joukossa somessa, mutta jota en ole vielä täällä nähnyt. ...joku valittaa että mainoksia tai mainoksiksi naamioituja linkkejä huijaussivutiille on liikaa somessa. ...tapaan kaverin, jota haluaisin seurata Fedissä. ...joku valittaa, että näkee somessa liikaa tekoälyllä tehtyjä kuvia …joku valittaa somen vihapuheesta ja moderaation puuttumisesta ...näen, että joku yrittää puhua somesta aiheista, jotka todennäköisesti sensuroidaan ...näen, kun joku käyttää somessa kiertoilmaisuja voidakseen välittää viestiään ...joku koittaa postata jotain ja se tulkitaan sääntöjen vastaiseksi sillä se kritisoi metaa, sensuuria tai äärioikeistoa. ...joku haluaisi pitää useampia sometaukoja ilman, että se vaikuttaa näkyvyyteen. ...joku haluaisi, että hästägejä seuraamalla näkisi oikeasti uusimmat julkaisut, eikä suosituimpia ...olen tuttujen kanssa istumassa iltaa
(Jatka listaa.)
Jos kerätään joka päivä pari pistettä, niin sana leviää arvaamattoman laajalle.
PS. Ja tähän ketjuun saa tulla leuhkimaan, jos on esim kerännyt paljon pisteitä, tai saanut pisteen tilanteessa, jossa joutui ylittämään oman mukavuuskynnyksensä.
@hannamorre @nemeciii Tajusin vasta nyt tuon haasteesi ja "pisteiden keräämisen" tietoa levittämällä. Lista sinänsä on käyttökelpoinen vaikka nyt joku ei lähtisikään tätä pelillistämään. 🙂
Boss wanted to make me "redundant" so she could give my position to her son at 2x what I'm paid. I had my cousin pretend to be a union rep & brought him to a meeting with her. She changed her mind about the redundancy & gave me a raise. Now joined a proper union seeing it works.
As someone who is totally blind, the Fediverse is the only place where I have ever been able to follow people such as photographers, artists, or even those who post pictures of their cats or the food they ate. The reason is that most of them use alt text. They take the time to describe the images that my screen reader can't recognise. Some write the descriptions themselves, and others use tools such as altbot. Some worry that their descriptions aren't good enough, especially when they are new at this. Let me assure you, not only are they good enough, they are extremely appreciated! If the rest of the world thought as you did, it would be a much better place. Don't hesitate to ask if you're unsure of something, but never think that we don't notice your effort.
I find Trump as repulsive as most people here, but as a German, one thing I want to push back on is focusing only on one man.
Hitler's rise was possible because he was able to exploit the racial hatred and conspiratorial thinking that already existed.
It's MAGA acolytes that see Trump as an extraordinary figure. He was a reality show grifter with a crumbling business; Hitler was an undisciplined drifter with delusions of grandeur.
It's the soil that matters, not just the rotten harvest.
When a company promises “never” to do something, we’ve seen that this promise is valid only until they simply do. Corporate promises are worthless in all cases unless we invent a mechanism to enforce them.
The Very Computer have this urge to make their machines work Exactly The Way I Fucking Want... That inevitably leads to complex monstrosities. I'm sure there is an XKCD for this.
oh-kay phew. some final cleanup, and then it's time to launch the alpha of this torrent tracker designed for rapid-response data rescue where a bunch of people each scrape chunks of a big thing and then recombine it later, where nobody can store the whole thing in one place because it's too big. then early next week we'll have the system for claiming and handling in-process scrapes. then we start fucking around with the fun stuff. has there ever been a torrent tracker that speaks activitypub to distribute uploads around between instances? because this one is gonna.
bittorrent tracker software, and generally p2p indexing software has hit a creative slump, and i'm trying to give it a little frankenstein bump of electricity to bring it back to life
this has been a group project but we haven't discussed public ID yet so i'll hold back for now. also you are welcome to join up and hack on a really sick thing as well. there is a lot to do and a huge amount of open ground that just hasn't ever been done in bittorrent tracker space, or distributed indexes space.
here is the part where i would usually say all the stuff i always say about how the only survivable archive is a distributed archive, and about how they won't be able to kill our ability to understand reality or our cultural memory, but i am tired and satisfied for a minute. you know the deal
special invite to any #BitTorrent heads out there who want to contribute to our uploaders guide, seeders guide, torrent creation guide, or want to help get the tracker scraping and announcing part off the ground. if you ever wondered what it would be like if there were better social overlays to bittorrent where trackers could announce around peers based on explicit social relationships, curate collections collaboratively across tracker instances... that's the kinda sicko shit we're into
I quite enjoyed this article as it spells out in a more general level how future looks like based on what's currently happening "in the US". Also hint how to prepare at the end, as we can't possibly know which eventualities arrive first.
It could be wildfires, a pandemic or a financial crisis. The super-rich will flee to their bunkers – the rest of us will have to fend for ourselves, writes columnist George Monbiot
A Guardian article from 2021 making rounds in bsky presents a claim by Craig Unger in American Kompromat that KGB/FSB has had influence on Trump with some anecdotal evidence. This would explain their recently expressed views well, and could help understand their motivations, possibly regardless of the truthfulness of the claim (as a "wrong but useful model").
Doctorow on Piketty: r > g, or how wealth usually concentrates, how it didn't in the previous century, and how we're steady back to normal from that exceptional period. And how and whether a 1-2% wealth tax would suffice to fix it.
Thomas Piketty's 2013 unexpected bestseller (a 750 page economics book translated from French!) *Capital in the 21st Century*, offers a very convincing explanation of our political decay, and it continues to serve this purpose as the decay undergoes alarming acceleration:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
You know why we Germans are so pedantic about data protection? Someone around 90 years ago went through all records available, selected people with certain criteria, with the help of IBM, and then killed them all.
We don't want to be on any list.
And now the US Gov and Musk are trying to get access to all data they have about every person and put them into a big fat DB and run AI over it.
Actually; Even more so in the Netherlands. The Dutch had migrated to a fully IBM/Hollerith Machine backed public administration ('digital' first, bedenken second oder so) before the invasion. After the invasion, the German's were just like "uuuuh, we know these machines! Got a query to run, let's call our IBM consultant!";
This is why (by %/population) so many more were murdered in NL; And why the Dutch resistance burned archives:
@tfiebig Fascinating, I see the Auschwitz posts here on Mastodon and there are some many deported from The Netherlands. But also France and Norway stand out.
A straight white guy friend was complaining about not being able to find any gaming groups for WoW that weren't full of MAGA assholes. He said he keeps joining guilds with older (60+) casual gamers like himself because he can't keep up with the kids, and he'll start to make friends, but then they will reveal themselves to be Trump-lovers. He asked, "What am I doing wrong?"
I said, "First of all, your screen name is Russian. Leftys are gonna be wary of that, and the Alt-right loves it. Second, you should put some social signals in your bio, like pronouns."
"Okay, but how do I tell people I'm cool, but I'm not gay or trans?" I explained to him what "cis" and "ally" mean. He had never heard of this before, which showed me what kind of online spaces he was landing in.
Next, I said, "Look for the furries." "But, I'm not a furry?" "Yes, but the presence of furries are like lichen. They are a sign of a healthy ecosystem."
This was about 3 months ago. Now, he tells me he joined a guild labeled as LGBTQ-friendly and has made several new cool friends. He says, "I thought they would be talking about sex all the time but it's just a regular group." He mentioned that there are many women and PoC in the group too, and "Everyone's so nice on dungeon runs, telling people they did a good job and being supportive, sharing loot."
I didn't tell him that this is what the whole world would be like without patriarchal toxic masculinity, because I think he figured it out himself.
Mä sain tekijänkappaleena M.U.L.E. -lautapelin, mutta en oo jaksanut pelata sitä kertaakaan kun sen pelin valmistelu yksinään kestää niin pitkään. Ehkä vielä jonain päivänä...
Pasilan Veturitalleilla vapaana viihtyisä pöytäpaikka hiljaisen työn tekijälle 1.3. alkaen, vuokra 120e/kk. Tilassa työskentelee kääntäjiä, valokuvaajia (erillinen studio) ja muita luovien alojen...
Danish citizens have launched an online petition, signed by 200,000 people, to purchase California. The petition notes that purchasing the Golden State would provide Danes with more sunshine, dominance in the tech industry, limitless avocado toast, and easy access to Disneyland. In return, California would get the rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.
Can they buy Wisconsin, please? I'd take that offer! 😆
Tänään ei vielä uusia kuvia, niin tässä muistoja vuosilta 2020-2021 joita jouduin kaivelemaan talon 3D-mallia varten, jonka taas tarvitsen sähköpiirustuksiin...
Mut siis laitoin kaveripyynnön sieltä tänne, koska tää mun Friendica-serveri oli nurin ja halusin kokeilla, saanko esim. sun Friendica-postaukset näkymään Mastodoniin.
(I used to share a thumb rule about switching workplaces that change is for the better. Unfortunately that's just a general idea and not always true. Even less so for switching the cultures and languages that surround you. That's always risky. However, for some, the risk of staying in place is currently increasing. Hope for the best and prepare for what clearly seems to be rapidly unfolding.)
-= We hoped we never had to do this but here we are and we now have to do this. =-
American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country.
We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out.
So we made a wiki.
We are collecting information on possible exit routes into various countries. We focus on work, study and self employment visas as they are available at the moment.
I'm Hungarian. Complaining is our national sport. So allow me.
I was born behind the iron curtain. In 1989 it seemed that we were going to be free and it really looked like freedom was forward and repression was backward and the world moved ever forward and eventually all of us would be free.
And now I get to see, from the inside, the West sliding backwards into fascism.
You don't know where you are going, but I do. It's painful to watch you harming yourselves like this.
I feel your despair. I left Hungary in 2012 and the last few months really felt like I am living in a constant déja vu. The pattern is the same. First the schock, then the wishful thinking that eventually the electorate will realize that the populists cannot deliver (spoiler alert: they won't), the opposition will be busy with some symbolic rearguard action for a while and then slowly but surely the apathy kicks in.
I visited Hungary at the turn of the century and fell in love with the country and its people. Since then, I watched the rise of Fidesz, Orbán, and repression with alarm and sadness. You have been the canary and the miners are not listening.
@dngrs @mykhaylo I understand where this came from and I decided to engage in good faith. Orban has been an enemy of many, but he's been especially hostile to Ukraine and a traitor to both the NATO and the EU.
@soulexpress To me it seems that a peaceful end to this is no longer possible. The die is already cast. These people will not willingly relinquish their power.
@soulexpress given that the military machine of the United States is unbelievably well-equipped and well-trained, and the same is true of the NSA that reads every word any of us says, that means we're probably fucked for the next 40-50 years. A long period equivalent to Franco's reign. unless these idiots make the mistake of declaring war on China.
@humanhorseshoes That would be tough on the many people, in Budapest particularly, some of whom I've just spent time with, who are actively and creatively struggling and building alternatives.
@markhburton @humanhorseshoes Yes, but they could have had an actual revolution in 1989. They didn't. They could have opened the communist archives and purged the people of the old system from public functions like the rest of Eastern Europe. They didn't. They could have protested against Orban en masse with pitchforks and torches every day in the last 15 years. They didn't. Instead, they mostly vote for him.
@humanhorseshoes @markhburton There was a bit of pussyfooting at first, and Merkel looking aside in exchange for Big Auto's interests in HU. Then they had to keep their own rules of due process and long deadlines. But it happened for the first time a few weeks ago that HU permamently lost about a billion EUR and this will continue. The weakening of the HU economy might topple Orban's power in 2026.
@EevaXTiina I was in BP in 2002-2003, and again for some months in 2005. It was, indeed, a great time to be there. It felt like there was a blossoming of art, creativity, and possibility. Watching as freedoms and the social fabric continue to deteriorate has been heartbreaking.
Tänään, kuten eilenkin, taivastelemme sitä ihanuutta, kun tavan tietotyöläisen kone alkaa huudella että kohta maksaa maltaita Windows 10:llä työnteko, ja pitää hankkia uus kone jotta pyhä Microsoft ei lähetä tulta ja tulikiveä yllemme maallisesta taivaastaan. Ihanasti valmiiksi asennettuna saadaan uudessa koneessa uusi käyttöjärjestelmä. Joka sitten kompastuu omiin jalkoihinsa, estä töiden keskeisimmän TV-käännösohjelman toimimisen, ja pakottaa etsimään minkä kommervenkkien taa täysi uudelleenasennus on tänä vuonna piilotettu.
Päivitykset on yhtä ehtymättömät kuin päivittelyt kahvikutsuilla - loppua ei näy, vaikka päivä uuteen käy. Versio 24H2 tosin onnistui syömään laitebrändin suoman tyylikkään taustakuvan, niin että joku näkyväkin muutos tuli.
Windows päivittelee enemmän kuin keskiverto kahvihuonemyyrä. Lähes joka kerta, kun oon alottanut tunnin ja ehtinyt kertoa oppilaille, että tänään katsotaan kuvia uuden tehtävän alustukseksi, Windows siihen, että voi hyvänen aika mitä kuvia nyt kyllä päivittelen tässä eikä mitään kuvia katsota lasten kanssa nytten.
En tunnistanut otsikon lainausta, mutta ihan vahingossa ja muista syistä luin sen juuri Wikiquotesta! Rispektit Haddock-sanaston kasuaalista tiputtelusta arkikielenkäyttöön.
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Mutta toivon myös, että joku alkaa puolitosissaan keräämään irtopisteitä. 🍄🍄🍄