Notices by Eliot Lash (eliot_l@social.coop)

@thomasfuchs @pgreer @cmthiede They wouldn't add these services if they didn't want people to use them. Many libraries have a "friends of the library" nonprofit organization you can join to directly support your local library financially too. We joined ours and it also provides a discount to buy used books.

Nice article about the future of the post-court-loss @internetarchive from @arstechnica

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/11/the-internet-archive-survived-major-copyright-losses-whats-next/

#InternetArchive #Copyright

For some inscrutable reason this old video popped up in my YouTube recommendations and it's pretty great. Note it is a bit NSFW but no worse than the original #GangnamStyle video. It does have English subtitles if you turn closed captions on:

https://youtu.be/CayMeza487M

#StarTrek #Klingon #Psy #KPop #NoveltyMusic #ParodySong

@mattl for pet supplies I use my local brick and mortar pet stores as well as https://www.chewy.com/
Well except for dog poop bags and auto cat litter trash bags. Those I still get from Amazon...

@mattl Not sure where you live but you could try https://www.instacart.com to order same-day delivery from local brick and mortar stores, some stores also offer delivery through their own websites and apps too.

@cwebber Your post was just a few posts above this one in my timeline. Coincidence? I think not
https://infosec.exchange/@Heidi/114616227717229075

The #REI #union has another action they would like us to take! They would like us to write a letter to REI's new CEO and let her know what we think about their union busting tactics. Please join me!

https://www.ourrei.com/letter

#Unions #Labor

@soaproot @jeridansky @cascadepbs @BakerRL75 @leapingwoman @wendinoakland @Mikal @EverydayMoggie

@cwebber I was talking about Worms with someone and I was searching for OpenLieroX so I could link it to them and came across your old blog entry pretty high up in the search results! https://dustycloud.org/blog/openlierox/

I just wanted to say I had a similar experience, Liero was very popular in my middle school and I have fond memories of it. I haven't played any of the clones much but I was aware of OpenLieroX. I will have to try to get a group together to play sometime!

@cwebber @daniel @domo Also don't forget they host hate speech and allegedly terrorist organizations, and take a libertarian view of their responsibility here as they view themselves as part of the neutral infrastructure of the internet: https://www.fastcompany.com/90312063/how-cloudflare-straddles-its-role-as-privacy-champion-and-hate-speech-enabler

#Babel by #RFKuang was one of my favorite books to come out in recent years. It's dark academia, anticolonial historical fantasy set in 19th century England. With a magic system based on translation that's super cool. You can pick up the ebook right now on sale for only $2.
https://www.polygon.com/good-deals/505728/babel-rf-kuang-80-percent-off-sale-ebook

#Bookstodon @bookstodon

Interesting article about the erasure of non-american #VideogameHistory and criticism:

https://felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrification-of-video-game-history-dfe11f1e08ae

#Videogames

@cwebber Thanks for another great write-up. I chose to read this in blog format again. So I don't think I have any easter eggs to prove I finished it, you'll have to take my word for it. :)

@cwebber Thanks, it was an interesting stream! I chipped in a little, good luck with the fundraiser :)

@ntnsndr so far I have only seen this done in slack and it seems wrong. What if you intended to overwrite the selected text with the contents of your clipboard instead?

@cwebber I've read your entire article, thanks so much for such a detailed & thoughtful writeup. It was very illuminating as I had not come across any discourse yet that really got into the weeds about DID implementations and so forth. I was also not aware of your proposals regarding Ocap. This is interesting stuff I want to try to understand further. I am glad that you are thinking about these pain points with current fedi implementation, we're all feeling them and I hope they can be addressed.

@deutrino @sun @ryanc Also I should mention this works like a + alias, you don't need to log in to their site more than once ever to use it. If I were to write an email address like myalias.1.myusername@spamgourmet.com it will forward one email to me and then shut down. You can allow up to 20 emails this way, or log into their dashboard to add a sender to an allow-list so their emails won't increment the counter.

@deutrino @sun @ryanc I'm only aware of the one domain. It's an old service that's been operating continuously since the year 2000, I don't know if multiple domains were really trendy back then.

@deutrino @sun @ryanc There is a free service for making burner self-destructing forwarding emails at https://www.spamgourmet.com that's been around for a long time. I use it sometimes but honestly Gmail spam filtering is so good nowadays I haven't bothered much unless it's something sketchy.

Okay, I am very reticent to pull off this particular band-aid but let's say hypothetically I wanted to replace #AWS with another managed host of some kind, mostly for low-traffic static asset/site hosting with HTTPS, and maybe periodically running a #Minecraft server or something for very cheap, maybe bulk data archiving (glacier), any suggestions for companies that don't suck or are at least less bad than #Amazon at comparable cost?

#DevOps #AskFedi #AskMastodon #AmazonWebServices #WebHosting

@ntnsndr #Alt4You Screenshot of linked publication header. Logo for "First Monday: Peer-reviewed journal on the internet."
Publication title: "Innovation amnesia: Technology as a substitute for politics" by Nathan Schneider.

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