Occasionally Facebook pays me to do little tasks via their "Viewpoints" program. Usually it's stuff like sentiment analysis, voice recognition training, or opinion surveys, but today they were just fucking with me.

**Alex Vranas** · Dec 31, 2022, 21:35

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**lemmyreader** @lemmyreader@lemmy.ml · Dec 31, 2022, 21:35

Dec 31, 2022, 21:35

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Haiku Is Such A Unique Operating System https://lemmy.ml/post/685299

**Alex Vranas** · Dec 31, 2022, 18:33

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**Field-FX** @FieldFX@mastodon.online · Dec 31, 2022, 18:33

Dec 31, 2022, 18:33

Field-FX @FieldFX@mastodon.online

Get ready! The party is starting at 7PM GMT over on https://twitch.tv/fieldfxdemo

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**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Dec 30, 2022, 23:36

**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Dec 30, 2022, 23:36

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**Alex Vranas** · Dec 30, 2022, 16:39

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**Greg H 🏳️‍🌈** @GregHester@toot.community · Dec 30, 2022, 16:39

Dec 30, 2022, 16:39

Greg H 🏳️‍🌈 @GregHester@toot.community

@PeggyJoan I’ve already seen some of “them” deriding Mastodon as a leftist echo chamber. But, if by echo chamber, they mean that fascists, racists, homophobes, transphobes, et al running amok isn’t tolerated, then so be it.

I already do view Twitter as a home for the alt-right. That’s why I deactivated my account earlier this year.

**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Dec 30, 2022, 17:09

**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Dec 30, 2022, 17:09

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Wife has work today, and I don't. I think I might take an extremely long walk today. #Seattle is such a great place to explore on foot.

**Alex Vranas** · Dec 29, 2022, 03:26

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**Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater 🏳️‍⚧️** @emilyaviva@tech.lgbt · Dec 29, 2022, 03:26

Dec 29, 2022, 03:26

Emily Aviva Kapor-Mater 🏳️‍⚧️ @emilyaviva@tech.lgbt

My kids are watching this classic scene from Sesame Street and are just as confused as the Yip Yips. They have absolutely no conception of what this thing is. The humor of the scene has truly come full circle.

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**Alex Vranas** · Dec 29, 2022, 18:36

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**Pepsilora** @Pepsilora@mstdn.social · Dec 29, 2022, 18:36

Dec 29, 2022, 18:36

Pepsilora @Pepsilora@mstdn.social

I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.

When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.

I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps. I have no idea what they're saying but the music is fantastic.

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**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Dec 29, 2022, 03:30

**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Dec 29, 2022, 03:30

Dec 29, 2022, 03:30

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Theory: At any given point in time, there is at least one smartphone screen breaking.

**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Dec 28, 2022, 23:21

**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Dec 28, 2022, 23:21

Dec 28, 2022, 23:21

Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

I feel pretty upgraded today!

Got my new #System76 Lemur Pro laptop, a 9 year jump in hardware over my last laptop.

Figured out that I can switch my Pixel 7 Pro into high-DPI mode, which my eyes are still capable of enjoying.

Feels like the future!

**Alex Vranas** · Dec 28, 2022, 16:48

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**a.Albi** @albinanigans@mastodon.lol · Dec 28, 2022, 16:48

Dec 28, 2022, 16:48

a.Albi @albinanigans@mastodon.lol

😄 finds a Cool Thing you've been following in the fediverse

😒 but it uses pleroma

**Alex Vranas** · Dec 27, 2022, 23:08

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**NLAWScametovisit** @NLAWScametovisit@mastodon.social · Dec 27, 2022, 23:08

Dec 27, 2022, 23:08

NLAWScametovisit @NLAWScametovisit@mastodon.social

🙏 Hi god its me NLAWS. I know we dont talk much but I never ask for anything and I reaaaalllyyyy need this.
#elonmusk #twitter #taliban #OFAC

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**Alex Vranas** · Dec 27, 2022, 21:29

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**BrianKrebs** @briankrebs@infosec.exchange · Dec 27, 2022, 21:29

Dec 27, 2022, 21:29

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Current mood:

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**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Dec 27, 2022, 16:43

**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Dec 27, 2022, 16:43

Dec 27, 2022, 16:43

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I was going to visit my parents for Christmas, but decided that I'd just go visit them the first weekend into the new year because "I have a bad feeling about holiday travel this year".

I love being right.

**Alex Vranas** · Dec 20, 2022, 23:24

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**Janel Comeau** @VeryBadLlama@mas.to · Dec 20, 2022, 23:24

Dec 20, 2022, 23:24

Janel Comeau @VeryBadLlama@mas.to

if 6.5 million people had been eaten by tigers and there was suddenly a new wave of super-tigers that could evade all existing anti-tiger precautions, people would think you'd lost the plot if you declared that the tiger problem was basically over

**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Dec 26, 2022, 06:20

**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Dec 26, 2022, 06:20

Dec 26, 2022, 06:20

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Now, I know, I admin my own private instance, I have the unilateral power to defederate, and I definitely wield it

But anyone can block an instance from the account level, and more people should take the liberty of doing so.

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**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Dec 26, 2022, 06:18

**Alex Vranas** @Alex@vran.as · Dec 26, 2022, 06:18

Dec 26, 2022, 06:18

Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

I see the discourse about QTs is roiling right now, and just some food for thought:

QTs already exist on the Fediverse. Pleroma implemented it a while ago. Getting QT'd has lead to me having to play whack-a-mole with malicious instances telling me to unalive myself, because they weren't happy with my antifacist takes.

The most powerful tool I have here is the block function. This alone has halted dogpiles, and I never had to involve my followers in it.

**Alex Vranas** · Dec 25, 2022, 05:32

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**Rod Hilton** @rodhilton@mastodon.social · Dec 25, 2022, 05:32

Dec 25, 2022, 05:32

Rod Hilton @rodhilton@mastodon.social

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius.

Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software and Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit anyone's ever said, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.