Notices by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 (osma@mas.to)

Fascists will never run out of enemies. They may easily run out of friends, though.

Either side may not even be aware that on the other side, someone is engaging in an activity that warrants blocking, because an unbridged account can engage in whatever - including replies, boosts etc without becoming visible to the OP.
@tchambers @jdp23

Immagona argue (again) that the way BridgyFed works, it enables convenient stalking, prevents cross-network blocking and fails to communicate interaction - so while it's apparent the intent was to respect privacy, in practice it is the opposite.
@tchambers @jdp23

No facility to moderate/manage/promote replies from others. Ie, not delegating the ownership of replies collection including its post order to the OP server. This is an ActivityPub/Streams sin, but it creates havoc everywhere including Web UX.
@tchambers
@fediversenews

Climeworks operates a plant in Iceland that pulls air through a system designed to capture CO2. Thing is, running the fans takes so much energy that to offset Iceland's CO2 emissions, they'd need 4x Iceland's electricity production.
https://heimildin.is/grein/24581/

Sidenote, as I wanted to check that onboarding out...
*sigh*
@tchambers

See, every military procurement of every nation should include right-to-repair clauses. ESPECIALLY if it's fighter jets from a foreign supplier.
https://www.404media.co/army-will-seek-right-to-repair-clauses-in-all-its-contracts/

Also, exactly how predictable is it that a person who would advocate, even reward people for dropping out of university would also engage in education shaming?
https://www.newsweek.com/2017/03/03/peter-thiel-fellowship-college-higher-education-559261.html
@kims

A year later, search as a service for fedi servers of all sizes is forming up. This is very welcome.
https://www.fediscovery.org/

@mho @feditips @tchambers

@mho
This is exactly why I've been arguing that there should be a (number of) search index and API-only services which provide this capability to individual servers. Well, that, and the related point that requiring each server to redundantly index the fedi to provide a search for their users is rather wasteful and expensive.
@feditips @tchambers

There are many striking statistics in @ragnarbjartur's dashboards about the russian war in #Ukraine, but I think this is the most striking one in light of the "can Ukraine hold on" storyline. The kremlin is bleeding - quite literally. The question is, how long can they bleed before there's no russia left?
#SlavaUkraini

Well argued, Anders. Yes, putin has a plan of response. It may be a bad plan, one that Ukraine was able to predict even, but a plan nonetheless. And lots of young, badly trained russian barely-men will die as a result. Ukraine's hope is that it will cause a revolt - though if there are no men capable and experienced enough to prosecute that revolution left, it will fall to the russian women to do so.
RT @anderspuck
https://krigskunst.social/@anderspuck/112987538917639093

My plan of self-hosting my fedi presence using Takahé didn't work out - that project is utterly dead. I don't want to stay here forever, this server has made defederation decisions I've never agreed with. I don't want to run Mastodon, but something else might work.

What should I be looking at?
#Fediverse

@inthehands
1. For the S&P 500 to be overpriced not *everything* indexed to it has to be, just the overweight, over-AI'd tech stocks. A strong enough correction (one is due) will average the entire index down. Investment strategy: underweigh tech portfolio.

2. Post-1950 annual returns may be unattainable because of a second phenomenon Goldman Sachs completely ignores: climate crisis.

This chart, in its various iterations, will never cease to amaze me. Energy analysts have failed to correctly forecast solar installation scale and acceleration for many decades and never seem to learn that a linear projection doesn't work for an accelerating development.
@gwagner

@dansup
I get the same version - not through the release pipeline yet.

@dansup
I'm getting this trying to post on pixelfed.social. Android Early Access, Play tells me 1.0.0, last updated yesterday.

@jeffehobbs
A candle is approximately 80W of mostly heat with a little bit of light as a byproduct. So several orders of magnitude more power than the 10Mbit/s needed to stream 4K video and in the same.ballpark as displaying that video on a 60" television.

The qualitative difference of a good book and a Netflix stream notwithstanding...
@karppinen

@snarfed.org
Thank you for your work! Federated social media needs to bridge protocol borders.

@dave
Same database for all local domains.

Timelines are obviously made for each user, but the toots _not_ on that timeline (which still impact hashtag and search, plus coverage of replies) will be locally available if any other users' graph had them pushed in, regardless of their domain.
@ricmac @takahe @evan @evanprodromou @gotosocial