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mekka okereke :verified:  

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

You know the drill by now. I don't like talking about Black history. Americans know Black history. I want to talk about white American history. In other words, racism, and the erasure of both positive achievements of, and injustices suffered by, non-white people. That's what people don't know.

Try this: Ask your white US friends what the statue of liberty celebrates.

Now ask your Black friends. Or French folk of any color.

#BlackMastodon

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Jons Mostovojs  

Here's my Jan 18th entry. Grapple mechanics made fun in . No opposed rolls, just difficult martial artist (strength) checks and still a fun and meaninful tactical mini-game! And, in the best tradition of , some combat moves that are relevant to the rules.

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Jeff Moe  

@jonn

"Iceland ISP free speech" turns up a few:

flokinet.is/

orangewebsite.com/

1984.hosting/

Good for DNS, looks like they do hosting now too:

njal.la/

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Jeff Moe  

@jonn

Thinking further on this, hosting in places like Iceland, Finland, Romania, maybe Bulgaria (still?), etc. can be a way to differentiate your server from others.

"Hosted in Iceland"

A geographically diverse Fediverse increases it's strength.

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Jeff Moe  

@jonn

It's a hard problem, in that in the end, you're still on a corporate / military network.

I'm not saying it is a solution, but it may be worth considering hosting in countries like Iceland, that have more protections (see: Icelandic Modern Media Initiative).

No matter what the hardware is, you should still have backups, as they can just power off your server. :)

I don't know Digital Ocean's physical network offhand.

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Jeff Moe  

@jonn

Looking up DigitalOcean, they are publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE:DOCN for search.

The largest institutional investor, located in NYC, has very little about themselves on their website:

iaventures.com/

Other major investors include the usual Blackrock, Vanguard, JP Morgan Chase, etc.

I'll leave it to you to judge the evilness. ;)

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quadra  

caves, kobolds and yet another secret entrance. think this is the 9th way in 😅 #dungeon23

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Jeff Moe  

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

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pvh  

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.

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Jons Mostovojs  

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?

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Jons Mostovojs  

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.

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Thought Punks  

RT @ImagesAlbum@twitter.com

🐦🔗: twitter.com/ImagesAlbum/status

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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!

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Chris Bond  

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

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Ben Welsh  

🤓 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!

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Jons Mostovojs  

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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Peter Stefanovic  

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

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Jen Moran  

I laughed harder than I should have at this.

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Jons Mostovojs  

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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Jons Mostovojs  

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 .

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