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Denial of Service (DoS) attacks against Mastodon servers raise the bar on the workload and technical skills of the people maintaining the servers.

This can lead to consolidation of servers. For example, CloudFlare could wind up hosting many of the larger Mastodon instances, as they get attacked. Following this path, the DoS attackers "win".

Perhaps best if instead of consolidation, more federation is used, and more distribted servers are set up. More techs can learn to host. :)

#SaveMastodon

Just found out Heroku's data team deleted a bunch of users' free databases with no backups and no notification and I am utterly aghast.

I'm going to hell for this...

instance : BEq Operation where
beq := (toString · == toString ·)

...but hear me out, it's a temporary instance written as a work-around for tests. It makes it better, right?

@meduza_en and white-washing russian fascist republic kills. Get the fuck out of my home country, you bigots, sexists and russian apologists.

It's funny how white-washing pro-russian mass-media like @meduza_en clashes with white-washing individual russians online.

Take leak analysis for example. There's a guy on the twitter thread who claims that he saw the slurs in 2009 and they're deleted from the codebase by now. However, @meduza_en demonstrates that the code leaked is fresh.

winning in numbers: I have filled 50 GiB with media in 2 months. Before I filled 30 GiB with media in slightly over a year.

People seem to be using mastodon more!

A printed postcard, hand-tinted on monochrome, showing a view of "The Cromlech, Drewsteignton" or Spinster's Rock, on Dartmoor in Devon. Published by Chapman & Son of Dawlish, No 783. Postally used in 1904. #SpinstersRock #Drewsteignton #Dartmoor #Dolmens #Postcards #TombTuesday

🤓 Here's something nerdy. 🤓

Today biglocalnews.org linked up with Datasette, @simon's open-source tool for exploring data.

It's as easy as a single click. Check it out!

It gets worse before it hopefully gets better. No idea what to do with the glass windows, not going to lie, but the base layer is sketched!

Again, a "cheating" entry. I promise, I'll come back to spy stuff some time in February!

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Sunak’s anti-strike bill has PASSED its Parliament stages & will now progress to the House of Lords

AYES 315
NOES 246

If your MP voted to strip workers of their democratic right to strike, force them to work against their will & sack them if they refuse vote them out of office

youtu.be/GWoD_mrh_hw

But at this moment, it feels like a move to is warranted for at least one software system we make, forcing us to contribute to an actual future tech and perhaps move back to as default and make that -like actor library?..

Ughhh, why can't such a great language as Elixir be just a iota more acommodating.

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I'm very upset with driving into the ground in a horrid chain of absolutely uncalled for depreciations. This is not how 1.x software systems are maintained, especially given that 2.x is in the works.

Now I have to make some sort of machinery essentially from scratch. At least they didn't mess up the algebraic data types add-on yet. If I lose it, I won't use .

To Abbey Wood - Elizabeth line

Moody black and white photography of an Elizabeth line train arriving at Custom House Railway Station. I think this was taken on, or very near the first day that the line opened.

#mastoart #art #reflections #railway #train #london #londonunderground #photography #photo #potd #puddle #blackandwhite #monochrome

@escapadesrpg absolutely! We're two Latvians with some friends :3

Rounding up first month of with some illustration work on the 's "Hour of Unity" adventure.

"... bandits and governments 'ave so much in common that they might be interchangeable anywhere in the world"
Terry Pratchett; Raising Steam
#DiscWorld #ToryTaxDodgers #ToryCriminals #ToryCriminalsDestroyingTheUK #GeneralElectionNow

@BreadedVirus together with that distro, I suggest Roadbook program to make pace notes and my "Super-Extended" pace notes, which I plan to improve with more and more turn chains which you can download from this repository: github.com/cognivore/skull-rbr

Clone straight into the root of RSF install and stuff will just work.

Enjoying reading “A Folklore Bestiary” by @TMushmen - it’s evocative and the entries spark ideas. Lovingly illustrated too. There’s even a #DnD5e version if that floats your boat rather than the #OSR #OSE version.

Hat tip to @gbsteve, @gonzohistory and @lostpaolo who all worked on it. Recommended.

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