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
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what's The Light Side Of The Fediverse?
broadly speaking, instances that have active moderation against bigotry
it's the opposite of The Dark Side Of The Fediverse
where nazis and TERF's and cryptobros and such are banished to
The Dark Side is the instances none of the good ones federate with
Fascism friendly platforms
For context, "Mr. Bond" is currently serving a 10 year prison sentence for "Glorification of Nazism". His music was played during a livestreamed mass shooting at a synagogue.
Fascism friendly platforms
I've been reporting this Neo-Nazi podcast for the past 4 months, and Spotify keeps telling me to "be patient" while they "look into this", and now they're complaining that I keep reaching back out since I "already opened a ticket".
They're dead to me.
Fascism friendly platforms
Forget your outrage about the Joe Rogan Podcast and type "1488", "SS Waffen", or "White Pride" into Spotify search.
They're not even pretending to moderate their platform. Not talking about the JPEGMafia song, that one slaps. Just take a scroll through all the fashy podcasts and playlists.
Terminating my account in favor of Deezer, which appears to proactively find and delete hateful and violent content from their service.
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It’s not boxed wine, it’s cardboardeaux.
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how do i get back to the federation timeline
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How I'm beginning to feel about Twitter and Meta:
“You know, when I was a girl, the idea that the British Empire could ever end was absolutely inconceivable. And it just disappeared, like all the other empires.” — Doris Lessing
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Mastodon is now at 1 million users … same as Twitter was in 2008 when I joined (as @james_slezak@twitter.com )
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Just a reminder that "self-hosted" doesn't *necessarily* have to mean literally hosting on a computer in your house. It just means you're in control over it.
Took a fun photo of the Bellevue skyline reflecting sunset from the Leschi neighborhood in Seattle.
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Some of you are likely already aware of this, but I organize a group called PhilTel aiming to install free-to-use payphones in Philadelphia. We are having an install party at @iffybooks on December 17th where we will install our first phone (more info here, https://iffybooks.net/event/philtel-free-payphone/)!
We will also be distributing a zine that explains the project and some of the interesting things you can do with the phone.
Hope to see you there! https://philtel.org
All these new servers/users/followers are filling my poor little single-user instance up with data fast. There's so many of you!
Already knocked myself offline trying to move everything to S3, and failing at it.
I know what I did wrong, so I'll be trying again later today after sanity checking my process.
I can only imagine what it must be like to run a big instance. o7 to the community admins out there. Thank you for your service.
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Also, it's really handy to have a $25/year linux VM in the cloud with lots of net bandwidth to which I forward ports via autossh from trash computers in my basement.
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Today in a meeting I joked that I wanted to display bad apple on the IP phone that my employer gave to me.
That's a nice evening project, so I'll take you on the journey of trying to get this working. [Thread]
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mastodon used to be an incredibly small, tight-knit, and like-minded community.
then april 2017 happened and more people came in that mastodon.social could handle, so we adapted.
things change, life moves on. this isn't the first endless september and it won't be the last. meet new people, make new friends, be kind, etc
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"If you hate watching a billionaire destroy the place you live online, wait till you hear what they’re up to with planet earth."
- Meghna Jayanth
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It's pretty staggering the amount of election disinformation plaguing the Birdsite right now. Just straight up lies about how elections work. Republicans are ramping up for another complete election-denial shitshow.
We need to start acknowledging this as an existential threat to democracy, and treat it like election fraud in and of itself when politicians start repeating these lies in an attempt to overturn legitimate results.
- 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
