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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 07:35:16 JST 
simsa04
Well then... @administrator is there a way you can block this user from contacting me or appearing in my TL at all? Her behaviour borders on harrassment. (I told her not to address me but she keeps doing it and I want this to stop.) Thank you. -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 07:30:35 JST
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In fact, 130 kwh/month is pretty much. It's 1560 kwh/year, and I am way below with around 950 kwh/year. Or is that the usage of two persons in one flat? -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Jun-2023 00:04:54 JST
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Thank you! -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 22:29:38 JST
simsa04
@administrator
There doesn't seem to be a way for me to unsubscribe from atomicpoet@calckey.social. (gs.net only returns an unspecific error message.) Could you please unsubscribe me from that account? Thank you! -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 22:28:29 JST
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@administrator
There doesn't seem to be a way for me to unsubscribe from atomicpoet@calckey.social. (I only get an unspecific error message from gs.net.) Could you please unsubscribe me from that account? Thank you! -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 09:31:59 JST
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Finally some !rain. The night just became exquisite. \o/ -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 07:41:22 JST
simsa04
My reply was to tinydoctor, not to you. I have no interest in talking to you. Stop addressing me. -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 05:25:23 JST
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Exactly. As I want a gnusocial instance the idea arose if you or elbinario could service-host one. But thanks anyway. -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 04:28:16 JST
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@administrator @elbinario
Hi there. As I feel that gs.net isn't quite the right instance for me any more, I was wondering if you could imagine setting up and hosting a single-user instance for me for a fee? -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 04:23:24 JST
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No, I ended the contact with Lohang. Also he didn't manage to put up a gnusocial instance by himself, got a mastodon run and some single-user instance instead, the latter running software I dont know. But reportedly he isn't happy with it, as many things (federation) don' seem to work properly.
I look for a gnusocial host but don't want to do the hands-on work by myself because that, for me, is a waste of precious lifetime which I can better spend on something else. -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 03:21:22 JST
simsa04
With regard to the "single tenant web": Do you have any gut feelings about the usage of energy and hardware resources the Fedeverse would need and consume in the small tenant web (STW) vs the current semi-centralised form (SCW)? Ideally, if every user had his own instance, wouldn't that consume even more energy than larger instances do now, given the amount of conversation-posts that always have to be repeated again and again in every call and response? (You wrote a text on that latter a few months back.) So, although a STW may be preferred for various reasons, ecological reasons may drive others to opt for the SCW. -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 03:13:03 JST
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Always funny to watch people's conflation of "decentralized" with "independent / unhampared communication". In fact, decentralisation offers main instances the same power over user interactions *across* the fediverse as would "walled gardens". As a result, the old distinction between "closed" and "open gardens" makes no sense any more. More important is who can scale first and can thus set the standards. The rest follows suit or disappears in his invisibility. But people have been warned. They wanted the fediverse to grow and expand, and that means that Rochko and his Mastodon won. -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Jun-2023 03:02:33 JST
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Does anybody know a similiar hosting service for setting up gnusocial instances?
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 19:54:13 JST
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The Romanian Center for Documentary Photography https://cdfd.ro/en/
« In-depth visual investigations of local topics in Romania and beyond by mixing various media such traditional documentary photography, sounds, video and various visuals »
Photographer Ioana Cîrlig, whom I admire greatly, is a co-founder of the Center. -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 05:53:57 JST
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So the Dear Leader of Mastodon is branching out into Meta? And Meta creates some P69? I'm not surprised. This is what happens when free software projects accomplished all the necessary preparatory work for centralised players to use the code and scale quickly. This is what "freedom" achieves. The domination of the rudest player. (And I would count in the Dear Leader of Mastodon for how he damaged the Fediverse.) But as long as people don't reflect on these negative sides of "free" software, things will keep being like this. Perhaps it is indeed a good time to leave the Fediverse for good. -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 01:11:51 JST
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Of course. And I don't agree with the arguments of the article that try to paint a pardon as a way to "weaken" Trump. (You cannot weaken someone who doesn't accept rules and craves for power.) To me the benefits lie rather in a possible strengthening of Biden's position – with regard to the "Wechselwähler", i.e., indepdendent or persuadable voters – and a possible easing of the aggressive antagonism between strata and parts of the U.S. society. -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 00:15:55 JST
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Chip Muir, "Nine reasons Biden should pardon Trump" https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/4049903-nine-reasons-biden-should-pardon-trump/
This is indeed an original proposal to ponder. Not bad at all. -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 23:59:46 JST
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Full or partial nudity appears in a lot of your collages; I noticed this in your various posts on social media as on your blog. But it never occurred to me that it is in itself a topic or why you come up with a specific collage at the first place. To me it serves various functions.
Sometime it feels like you use nudity simply for the hue, as an element in the composition, to create darker brightness without losing the warmth of the colour.
Then there is the aspect of contour and plane: straight, harsh lines vs. curved, bend, voluminous surfaces, to create a sense of space, depth, but also movement.
Then there are topical reasons. Time and time again you return to subjects from the Stone Age and the neolithic period. The Venus of Willendorf, e.g., has appeared repeatedly, and I wonder if it is perhaps her iridescent character of Mother and foetus, that keeps your mind puzzled.
If I had to guess and give it a name, the use of nudity in your collages has much to do with expressing ambiguity and ambivalence. In that it follows other traditions.
In the Yoruba religion the Orisha ("demi-god") Yemaya is said to be the Goddess of the Sea. But in fact she is the goddess of the *depth* of the sea. And the depth is not a thing but a *difference*, the changing in-between of surface and below. We usually have names only to name things, not to name differences.
So perhaps, what you're doing in your collages, is trying to give differences a being of their own. -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 12:02:41 JST
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Every testicles Michelangelo drew, painted, or sculptured, were "pretty humble". They were depicted in order for people not indulge on them. (Like a modern monument in the park: Authorities place them there for people to look the other way. To make a space invisible, put a monument into it.) -
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simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 11:40:54 JST
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Yes, under pope Pius V (16th century). To make Catolicism appear more humble, in the contest with Protestantism.
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