leinir @leinir@computerfairi.es
weirdo free/libre open source software person, member of the KDE community since forever, who loves squeaky, slinky and fuzzy things - they/them
Joined Sep 2018
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The last time Facebook embraced an open federated standard they did it for precisely long enough to saturate server-to-server contacts between an already existing userbase and their stuff, then shut off that federation and told anyone cut off by it to just come to Facebook instead.
This is literally something they did. This is in their playbook.
The people running the stuff behind the scenes were blindsided by it; it was an executive decision. Those people wanted to build the thing in good faith and the Business Plan was to let them until the time was right to strike.
That we're again going "It seems to be done right, let's give them a chance" is a little infuriating considering I was pretty impacted by the fallout of the last time.
@cinnamonvector going through their artstation is extremely impressive, too - I had several moments of "oh!" in there, including Homeworld and Foundation, it's... Good:)
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The gender today is the smell of two a.m. just before it starts to hail and sound of contented purring.
@Plus_Ultra that is one of the new locations on Hurston - not sure of the name, but it's super neat, sits in a natural harbour type thing, and there's even a kind of lookout tower structure up a high hill on the shore, with a path leading to it, its... really neat :)
@ottona @Plus_Ultra just the usual: consumables and suchlike, everything else should all be there :)
@Plus_Ultra it's (just) moving the card from the 3.21 column to the 3.22 one :)
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If you use dropbox--they've opted everyone INTO third party AI tools. Go into your settings and turn it off.
@queerscifi hmm, well, if a solar punk type shared world anthology fits inside cli-fi... then The Reclamation Project: Year One could be one :) Proud to have a story in this one, called Sewer Tea, which... people apparently liked? Which was nice :) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49090968
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@TechConnectify This isn't really directly to you, it's to admins reading you and seeing all this.
HEY MASTODON ADMINS, INSTALL FEDIFETCHER IT'S GOOD FOR YOU
https://blog.thms.uk/2023/03/introducing-fedifetcher
It's easy and it works, runs as a cron, fills in the missing replies to posts. I've been running it for a year. You want it.
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Don't sleep on these first results from the world's largest universal basic income experiment ever. (23,000 cash recipients with 5,000 getting UBI for 12 years)
1. Entrepreneurship skyrocketed thanks to the UBI functioning as both startup capital and spending power for people to be customers at those businesses.
2. NO INFLATION!
@Plus_Ultra they do basically say they'll do something fancier pretty much as soon as they got maelstrom to work with, which... given maelstrom is essentially "turn big thing into lots of small things and look good doing so" seems like a sensible sort of thing :)
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ACAB
so a group of russian queer activists residing in germany opened an official petition to the bundestag to help trans people from russia easily flee to germany. it's not some change org shit, it's literally on bundestag's website.
but the issue is, we need at least 5000 votes for it to be reviewed.
you don't have to be a citizen of germany for your vote to be considered. please take a second to vote. lives depend on your decision.
@tryst sounds about right - this also is at least part of the reason I tend to leave that to people who actually know what they're talking about, but at least it should hopefully do the trick :)
@tryst that happened when we got out new oven as well - apparently there's an issue where, if they sit in a warehouse a while, might end up a touch more moist than they can handle, and they basically need to sit on a bench supply for a while to dry themselves out... hopefully it's just that :)
@Saki Vibri is best princess
@cinnamonvector damn, that's not a nice prize... please take care, watch the nastier symptoms, and if you could tell your body from me that it better sort this out with the swiftness, hopefully it'll listen :)
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A reminder: furry is punk, furry is counter-culture. The fandom exists as a backlash to the social rules imposed by our society. This group is the most genuine, most empathetic collection of people you will find in a world where being genuine, lifting others up, and having empathy are seen as weakness. We are all here for many different reasons but we are all in this together.
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For the love of life people just switch to firefox. Chrome sucks. No, Brave sucks too. Get out of there, and get Firefox with uBlock Origin.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
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It's #BandcampFriday, the day where Bandcamp waives their fees and all the profits go towards the artists!
As usual, if you haven't checked out my music I'd recommend my album "In Flux" to start!
Bandcamp Friday's are the best way to support independent artists. On average, when someone buys a copy of "In Flux" it's the equivalent of 1700 individual streams on Spotify!
weirdo free/libre open source software person, member of the KDE community since forever, who loves squeaky, slinky and fuzzy things - they/them
Joined Sep 2018
