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*with physical exercise

I apparently also started the day with a typo

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In a totally uncharacteristic move I have started the day physical exercise

what doesn't kill you makes you stronger: it increases your modulus of elasticity but lowers your strain at yield, reducing the area under the stress-strain curve so you are less tough and more brittle

Old blogpost bamp:

#BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization
rys.io/en/167.html

> BlueSky’s decentralization is a similar kind as with cryptocurrencies: sure, you can run your own node, but that does not give you basically any meaningful agency in the system.

> “Neutrality” and “speech” and “voice” and “protection from bans” is mentioned right there, front and center, in BlueSky’s overview and FAQ. At the same time moderation and anti-harassment features are, at best, an afterthought.

ok i am still extremely bad at playing the keyboard but with something like two hours of practice i did eventually manage to play the first twelve bars of that song you were hoping for without any wrong notes

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That feeling when you had a great idea for a post and then you forgot it

girls open mastodon only to boost everything they see, then close it

a lot of people are trying to tell me that every reply I make is put on the Home timeline of every person who follows, but that seems obviously untrue (just from what I observe from the posts I see on my Home timeline, I only see replies if they're between 2 people who I follow). But I can't find that behaviour documented anywhere and I'm confused about some of the details.

(3/?)

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this is only indirectly related, but the general sentiment “programmers!” reminded me of this, which I drew ten years ago

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why is it called godot with C# support and not godotnet

Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Push-up bras $3,600
Utility $150
someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

The three million toothbrush botnet story isn’t true.

is there a word like "acquaintance" but for being a fan

like I recognize that a person exists and makes good media but I also don't follow them

retro web revival is going to become such a niche that once people start funding it we'll see a renaissance of the dot com bubble

They continue to misunderstand or refuse to acknowledge the risks of the protocol, and this paragraph is a decent example - you are free to choose a different service if you dont like something. Its a market, consumer choice solves. Notice the "well behaved" part though. Adversarial actors can and will follow you, and there's very little you can do about that since identity is so cheap on the protocol. You can just infinitely spawn accounts and troll someone into oblivion in a way that isnt possible on other mediums. You can simply block all new contact, but then that activity will likely still be visible to everyone else on the platform, shrouding everything you post in hate, spam, etc.

Id love to be wrong about this, but when they truly open federation I cant see how it wont go off like a bomb, or else require really strident relay-based moderation, as the devs described to me here: github.com/bluesky-social/atpr

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