Notices by David Gerhart (gearhead@fosstodon.org)

@GottaLaff @WarnerCrocker

My chill was so bad, I pulled on a knitted hat and sweater ... Oddly, it's helping.

It's not over. It may be worse than 2020 and go on for days.

Bend like the reed, but do not break.

We did what we could. Now it's up to the lawyers.

@KamalaHarrisWin

FWIW - That #KamalaHarris feels compelled to take the stage with multi-felon #TFG is gut-wrenchingly awful. Putrid.

I'm ashamed of us. I feel sorry for her, and hope she keeps her composure - well, mostly.

Let him have it, Madam VP.

#Harris #HarrisWalz #HarrisWalz2024 #Voteblue

Used to be that publicity had guardrails. Bad press was toxic to business. The presumption was that consumers lived by the conviction of their moral values.

In the current era the most egregious failures are valuable.

#Xitter abuses millions of customers in #Brazil - because the ongoing publicity is more valuable. Out of legal spite.

Seems ironic that the worst political offenders posture as advocates for returning to mid 20th century values.

#X #news #ElonMusk

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/31/x-offline-brazil-elon-musk

One wonders when Kelly, Edmunds, Cargurus, Carmax, Autotrader, Avis, Enterprise ... others will experience justice - wrapped up in an anti-competitive action...

The automobile industry is the worst where gouging and fixing prices are concerned.

IMHO.

#Monopoly #RealPage
#Fraud #AntiTrust #News

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/justice-department-accuses-real-estate-software-company-realpage-of-scheme-to-hike-rents

@davidtoddmccarty

Watched the #DemocraticConvention

Like:

A multi-course, family style meal with with many friends.

Coming home after a too long absence, like a great evening conversation with colleagues, dogs at our feet and cool drinks under the stars.

A welcome change in the weather, gentle rain after drought - the earth scents the air with new life.

#HarrisWalz2024 #harris #KamalaHarris

@kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

@atomicpoet

I almost snagged some NVDA yesterday.., and thot… hmmm. Same reason. Thursday. The summer slump?

@CatDad

Use #blockforharris to share abuse profiles. Block ‘em and so may others…
#mastodonforharris

@vantablack

Could be donors are trying to prevent the fascists from burning it all down if #TFG gets a second term. Including the experiment we have going with mastodon.

@cwebber

Watched it, you're a voice for the #Fediverse !

Congratulations.

You were great and your words were compelling - which means well chosen for the audience. You made it easy to distinguish the important differences and protections distributed ownership brings to Social Media.

Thanks for making the time in your (what must be a grueling) schedule.

Rha Rha's.

@BeAware @bsky.brid.gy

Works great! Thanks mucho.

@blacklight

"If you don't like Nazis, white supremacists and conspiracy theorists, you kick them out and demonetize their content, period."

Appeasement and neutrality are false hope for the intolerant. Reason is neutered.

Ask Neville Chamberlain.

#Substack

@steveo1049 @tw000 @Teri_Kanefield @jerry

Another method, is to post via a separate server instance - to serve the toot requests, leaving the primary to serve 'normal' traffic. Let the 'mirror' server grind out serving the excess traffic.

I'm probably way off on the assessment tho...

@steveo1049 @tw000 @Teri_Kanefield @jerry

I wouldn't agree that it's a fedi-bug. But a consequence of equal access over the internet.

Hosting on a platform that is dynamically responsive (AWS, Azure, GHS) and designing for high requester peaks seems appropriate.

@tchambers @alwirtes

"Defederation should be a nuclear weapon saved for (*) unmoderated servers."

Appeasement / quasi-neutrality is no strategy.

In the specific case of #hate speach: Recall history and in this context the lesson is crystal clear:

Neville Chamberlain enabled Germany via the “Munich Agreement” Millions died because of such cowardice.

IMHO - Any tolerance of intolerance is nothing less than enablement. Ask Neville.

@KatM

An important question is being brought before the FCC - suspension of the FOX broadcast license.

https://www.mediaanddemocracyproject.org/fcc-license-renewal-challenge