Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as
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- https://www.breakdecks.com
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#Netsec Professional. Whitehat #Hacker. #Demoscene spectator. Nerd.
I'm a fan of #Linux, #FOSS, #Decentralization (not Crypto), Crypto (as in #Cryptography), and #Socialism. Always #Antifascist & #Antiwar.
Seattle, WA
Joined Feb 2021
Alex Vranas
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i genuinely do not want to meta post anymore but I cannot physically stop myself
man is really trying to liz truss this isn't he
My "Pleroma instances attract Nazis" post went viral on Pleroma, and the Nazis there were kind enough to reply with a bunch of slurs to show me more instances that needed to be suspended.
Alex Vranas
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*They used to laugh and call him names. Now they're all dead
Aw yeah, did a dist-upgrade on my laptop, thought everything was great, ran into a Python issue, tried to fix it, and somehow broke wayland and the entire network stack...
I also have an 8 year old Thinkpad that I've been dist-upgrading for years, so maybe it's just a sign that it's time to offload and reinstall...
Or buy a more modern laptop.
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John Mastodon
Luci looking like this in the middle of the day. What a life! #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon
@pearlbear Have you looked into Mobilizon and Lemmy? Might not be exactly what you're looking for, but they're definitely in that direction.
Analysis: If you’re rich, you’re more lucky than smart. And there’s math to prove it.
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Protip for the new mastodonians: don't obfuscate names or words - only hashtags work for search so you won't get troll bombed if you say Elon Musk.
Filters, however, work on anything, so those who don't want to see Elon Musk won't see this post.
But if you write El*n M*sk they WILL see it, and that might make them mad, so don't do it okay? Let people use their filters.
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Twitter forced me to delete tweets explaining how to set up an ADS-B feeder and contribute open source, public flight data to FlightAware and @ADSBexchange. I was told these tweets violated Twitter’s rules against posting private information.
@effy This was extremely weird when I thought you had randomly chosen my single-user instance. Like, why did you choose me?
But now I see that this is some sort of clever trick, so that's actually pretty neat.
@hankg I dunno, admin gave up I think...
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@therotund This is excellent news! Poisoning Pigeons in the Park is a valuable piece of culture that should be shared extensively without copyright enforcement.
Alex Vranas
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Oh, wow, Tom Lehrer has released all of his songs into the public domain. Apparently also his website will shut down "at some date in the not too distant future" so now's a good time to download directly.
"In short, I no longer retain any rights to any of my songs.
So help yourselves, and don’t send me any money."
@the_rabid_rabbit And I do agree with you that, in isolation, using the terms "instance" and "server" interchangeable isn't a particularly big deal and is pretty much ubiquitous in this community . It was definitely the least of my concerns, but it seemed relevant to bring up the specifics given how many interchangeable terms they injected into the article.
Ok, we're past whatever that was. I'm too busy looking through logs for work to look through my own logs right now, so I'm just taking another snapshot of everything in case this was a warning sign that things are about to fall apart.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
- Website
- https://www.breakdecks.com
Admin
#Netsec Professional. Whitehat #Hacker. #Demoscene spectator. Nerd.
I'm a fan of #Linux, #FOSS, #Decentralization (not Crypto), Crypto (as in #Cryptography), and #Socialism. Always #Antifascist & #Antiwar.
Seattle, WA
Joined Feb 2021
