Notices by Some Internet Person ✡︎ :ally: (admin@mastodon.ai8w.ddns.net)

There seem to be a lot of misconceptions about how to set up #mastodon .

I'm here to clear them up.

1. You do not have to sacrifice a duck. Any waterfowl will do.
2. The bit about dancing around naked in a forest glade? While dancing is fun, you may just walk.
3. When the demon appears, you needn’t chant in Latin. It is fluent in all languages.

The rest of the guide is correct.

#MastoAdmin

NEW #PRIVACY ISSUE WITH #facebook As of tomorrow, Facebook will creep into your bathroom when you're in the shower, smack your bottom, and then steal your clothes and towel. To change this option, go to Privacy Settings > Personal Settings > Bathroom Settings > Smacking and Stealing Settings, and uncheck the Shenanigans box. Facebook kept this one quiet. Copy and Paste on your status to alert the unaware.

@MastodonEngineering

Just upgraded to this (via glitch-soc) and everything seems smooth...

One thing I wish existed was a way to set a max-chars-per-toot variable once in a main config and have all the various spots that need to be edited reference that variable instead of the fixed value of 500.

I'm sure someone has suggested this in the past, but every time I update (which is weekly) I have to stash my changes, then re-edit three or so files to get back to where I started.

Thanks for all the outstanding work. I'm actually learning things from your (the plural "you" there) code.

@GossiTheDog @jerry

The memes today are ON POINT! #Crowdstrike

@freemo I (mostly) agree with your point.. it was just the troublemaker who blocked you isn't the author of the first toot... and you're probably better off without that troublemaker anyway.

@freemo
To be fair, though.. the toot to which you replied was authored by a different person than the one who asked for citations... or at least a different account.

To those who believe that hating those who hate you will accomplish anything at all: you're wrong.
Those who hate you will only feed on your hatred of them, which will only feed your hatred of them, which will only fuel their hate even more, until all that is left is hatred.
If you're someone who hates those who hate you, tell me now so I can engage /dev/null.

@wild1145

There are people who would moderate for free given the right motivation.
"Keep the actual nazis away" is a good reason to want to moderate... but you'll want to find people who know the difference between "someone slightly to the right of me" and actual nazis...

@freemo

@freemo

...not really.
I had an account on there. I asked one question which, I suppose, someone took offense to. Next thing I know, I'm suspended - cant see anyone. I questioned/appealed the decision and never heard back. 30 days later that account is toast and can't even talk to people who'd friended it in the first place.
This was late 2021 early 2022.

Then I made an account on infosec.exchange.. Jerry was very cool. Then I got the idea to spin my own instance up.. and here I am.

No, these bad decisions at universodon have been going on for at least two years.. It's only becoming APPARENT now.

@wild1145

@freemo @wild1145

Universodon making bad decisions with regard to who they block/limit/ban?

SHOCKING.... not.

@freemo

Color graphics were available on SGI, NeXT, and SUN at that time.

@stux

@freemo

I believe it was written on a UNIX machine in Russia sometime in the mid 80s, and, yes, graphics like that were possible...

The article also states that the version the kid was playing was a PORT, so it's possible graphics were polished.

@stux

@freemo

That looks like the gameboy version? Far from the original.

But, yes, the gameboy version that's what happened.

The article is talking about something not changed by Nintendo

@stux

@freemo

Careful, there... someone will demand you define "clearly", "cruel", and "evil", not to mention "deserve".

Apologies, I could not resist. ;)

@stux

@flexghost @freemo
I guess some people can't stand thoughts that don't align with their own.. and then they wonder why the "other side" seems so disconnected...

@freemo

Methinks you're being trolled.. Either that, or this person has been living under a rock.

@DoesntExist @justpeachy @Pineywoozle @realcaseyrollins @MoiraEve @georgetakei

@freemo

And here I am trying to figure out the easiest way to flush my server's block list without destroying the server's database...

I could do it via SQL query, but I'm not certain that's ALL that the server software needs done...

Been messed up before like that... Cleared the addresses, but there were other references and that software never worked the same. Ended up wiping and starting over.

It'd be nice if we had clear documentation for using the cli and scripting it... I just haven't found it yet.

@freemo

At any rate, Mel's situation is more dire than mine. If you could spread word and ask around, that would be fantastic for them.

@mel

@freemo

These days, recruiters talk to you about a job, tell you they're going to put you up for the job, and then you never hear back. Even after you message, text, call, and email multiple times.

Seriously, this isn't a sob story - it's reality.

@mel