@BeAware And for the record, if the admin of any instance finds their way into my mentions trying to get me to gamble with them, the whole instance can go in the trash as far as I am concerned.

I'm a single-user instance. I can defederate whoever I please. I might as well say something as I go, since this is a huge red flag from an admin.

@BeAware The admin "damon" has a threads.net link in their bio where they are far more active. They also harass people who talk bad about for-profit microblogging services like Threads and Bluesky. If that's what we can expect from WD's admins, I am done. They've had really poor reporting anyway.

lmao, the WeDistribute Admin has their Facebook profile linked in their bio. #fediblock

Cryptocurrency people are so funny. Recently someone with deep pockets spent six-figures embedding 9MB of encrypted data into the BTC blockchain.

I read a write-up about it one some website dedicated to cryptocurrency, and the author was especially impressed with the fact that encrypted data cannot be decrypted without a key. He noted that "not even ChatGPT could decrypt it".

Of course Cryptocurrency people don't understand cryptography... That's why they buy pretend internet money.

There is something so incredibly funny to me about watching a journalist that specializes in Cryptocurrency encountering a 9MB blob of encrypted data, and marveling over the fact that a language model couldn't magically break the cypher.

And then to tell the world that this is how he tried to decrypt data, with zero awareness that they're saying something devastatingly stupid to anyone who actually understands the topic.

And cryptography is literally the backbone of the tech he covers...

Pleroma Dev and "Gleasonator" Admin, Alex Gleason on his blog.

Vs.

on Pleroma...

#FuckTERFs #FuckNazis

@mattl Set that thing to 1 * * * * already.

What's with email newsletters always telling me it might take weeks to process my unsubscribe request?

It's a database, just remove me from it. It takes literally milliseconds.