Notices by xnite (xnite@infosec.exchange)

@hellomiakoda oh I thought I replied to a post about achievement unknown for unknown. O.o

@hellomiakoda That's an amazing accomplishment! I wish I could do that, but it's unknown to me how. 😢

@ernie @mattl So we are within the last 60 days of the credit card expiration date for the last customer still using AOL dial up? Is the customer aware of this change or have they already passed on half a decade or more ago?

@tyil @mgifford damn ur right. lol. I see a few though I know are just trollfarms tbh. But it does kind of seem to confirm the "in general this seems to be the case".. I've seen a lot of backlash about threads joining federation, and the thought of X even federating if they wanted to. Honestly exactly my issue though. It's like you have to pick sides no matter what.. every instance has this and that instance blocked.. show me one that doesn't block anything but then also doesn't wind up, in itself, getting blocked.

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Self hosted is pretty good but in past it has been really hard to find/fill my feed. Not to mention the demands on disk space seems to get quite intensive after a while.

@tyil @mgifford I am new to my current instance. It seems as if, and I hope I'm correct, that as long as you conduct yourself respectfully then even unpopular opinions are okay.
But the general culture that I've witnessed, in my multiple attempts to adopt the fedi, is that instances have been ready and willing to block entire other instances which do not wish, or see purpose, to moderate particularly "offensive" behaviors. I entirely support the idea that an individual has the control to block people or instances that they don't jive with, but it just feels like it's ignoring the real problem. I feel like people, with clashing opinions, can get a lot more done by communicating and working out their differences rather than condemning and avoiding the discussion all together. We should all be a little more like Daryl Davis who has converted many KKK members away from the Klan through simple human compassion and understanding. https://www.ted.com/talks/daryl_davis_klan_we_talk

@mgifford This may be an #unpopularopinion however Twitter/X seems to be one side of an extreme, and then the generalized community among Mastodon appears to promote the opposing extreme. As long as the platforms are divided there can be no actual productive civil discourse on the matters at hand that divide us as a people. A truly non-bias approach where questions are asked and answers provided without the casting judgement is what is necessary to promote unity among the people of our society. The division between platforms is only mere representation of the actual division among our people. Maybe the solution is to promote and advocate federation among all social platforms and work towards a common goal. To set aside differences and try to understand. In the words of the late great Ozzy "Learn how to love, and forget how to hate".

@hellomiakoda interesting. ARM arch I imagine? Can it run gcc? lol

@hellomiakoda Hey so what is this linux phone btw? I haven't really heard of any of that stuff.

@hellomiakoda Sadly the only calendar that used to sync across all of my devices was outlook.. now it's inaccessible from many of them the way that I have done in the past and so now, often times, I am disconnected from looking at my schedule unless I'm on my phone.