Notices by Râu Cao ⚡ (raucao@kosmos.social)

Woke up to blue skies at @hackerbeach today. The morning cofe tastes even better now.

@burrito.space Bocas del Toro, Panamá.

@lain @dansup Plz rename to Pixelfred immediately.

@84dee6e676e5bb67b4ad4e042cf70cbd8681155db535942fcc6a0533858a7240 It hurts both my brain and heart, that so many FOSS developers advocating for open protocols and open networks have given in to cynical anti-bitcoin FUD, and positioned themselves against a truly open-source, decentralized, permissionless, inclusive, fast, and cheap alternative to the utterly centralized, controlled, surveilled, exclusive, proprietary, corporate currencies and payment systems of the world.

Lightning works.

Went for a little hike through the jungle and around the property. Interesting flowers everywhere.

Off-grid #hackerbeach paradise found! Solar power and rain water only, Starlink for Internet, a bunch of nice humans, and two good-hearted doggos. Only accessible by boat, and with a coral reef for snorkeling on the door step.

I'm going to try something new for Getting Shit Done™ this year. I'm going to set one priority goal per calendar week, putting it somewhere I see it all the time, and documenting the results.

Let's see how it goes...

@drsimevans Electricity prices having tripled since 2020 is conspicuously missing from your analysis.

@lain LowER in sugar. 😂

Dat German tea technology.

Nobody uses Linux on the desktop. Nobody uses XMPP. Nobody uses email. Nobody encrypts email with PGP. Nobody uses RSS. Nobody uses the fediverse. Nobody uses Nostr. Nobody uses the Lightning Network. And nobody uses bitcoin as actual currency.

Allow me to introduce myself; my name is Nobody.

@lain Poorly photochopped product images in stock photos is a whole new category of Chinese art now.

@eighthave Yeah, comments pushing for quick merges instead of adding actual code reviews, or for handing over maintainership altogether, should immediately raise some flags in maintainers' minds. Personally, I found that further probing and asking for actual contributions were good strategies to evaluate intentions.

@404mediaco There's nothing batshit crazy at all about a company owning the URLs on their own domain. That automatically includes public usernames on centralized services.

@404mediaco Similarly, when someone is banned from a fediverse instance, that's the right of whoever controls the domain of the instance. They can then also do whatever they want with the username afterwards.

This is why portable objects and client-side signing of all content are important.

@LALegault @TheAdmin You can just block any user or bridge domain yourself (and there are really only 2 generic bridges). They're just like a normal fediverse instance for that matter.

And use the normal reporting tools for your admin to see any actual violations of your server rules, so they can also do the same that they would to any fediverse accounts or domains.

@Hyolobrika https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/national-international/icc-arrest-warrants-netanyahu-gallant-alleged-war-crimes-gaza/6005569/

Looking forward to the German government's mental gymnastics, when they try to explain why they're still supporting a government whose prime minister they would have to arrest now, the minute he steps foot on German soil.

@Haydar "Don't encrypt email, because there's always metadata! But do use Signal (with metadata on one central server, tied to KYCd phone numbers), because some XMPP clients let you turn off OMEMO!!"

Logic, how does it work? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Haydar Looks like the whole article boils down to an ad for their private key directory thing. And the first half is basically just "listen to me, I'm an expert, all these other people are dumb".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority