Amikke @Amikke@social.cleverlibre.org

With the recent Fediverse drama going on, this image came to mind. Be careful about who you think to push over the edge, because you just might make it worse.

https://pbfcomics.com/comics/deeply-held-beliefs/
#Mastodon #Fediverse #ShitHappens

BREAKING: Mastodon CEO Eugen "Gargron" Rochko announces that Mastodon will soon support ActivityPub, enabling integration with the wider fediverse for the first time.

BREAKING: Free Software Foundation announces that the GIMP ("GNU Image Manipulation Program") will finally shed its controversial name, becoming LIGMA ("Libre Image and Graphics Manipulation Application") early next year.

Today I will blow your mind. 🙂

Most entomologists refer to bees as vegetarian wasps, as bees evolved from carnivorous wasps about 120 million years ago.

But did you know that there exist species of Vegetarian Wasps called Pollen Wasps - Pic 1 (Wikipedia), and Carnivorous Bees called Carrion Bees - Pic 2 (Ricardo Ayala)?

The wasps don't have pollen carrying hairs so they eat the pollen and regurgitate it at the nest.

The bees have special gut bacteria to digest meat.

#bees #wasps #insects

It's super frustrating to work with computers for a living, because it means I know:

1) Exactly how bad they are
2) Exactly how good they can be under perfect circumstances
3) Why we have 1 instead of 2.

@kaia Why are people from Norway so good at editing files in Linux?

Their ancestors are vi-kings.

Dwa pytania, które dziś nurtują Amerykanów.

Guy on poast with a swastika in his handle that says Ukraine is bad because it’s full of nazis

@Gargron
+ives:
* Offered a unified platform to distribute games
* Offered a unified platform for multiplayer
* Invested in FOSS to advance gaming on Linux
* Invested in hardware to experience Linux as a gamer
* Has experience with game development/publishing

-ives:
* Investing in Linux because they can't control Windows
* Helped destroy physical mediums
* Uses DRM
* Enabled half-assed games to enter the market via Greenlight
* Normalised terrible refund policies to start with (anti-consumer rights)

Valve may not be my friend (they're a company after all), but they offer better service than the dozens of other distribution platforms that have appeared since.

I'm still mad that JSON, a static plaintext-based data serialisation scheme is `application/json`, but an active application written in JS is `text/javascript`.

Posting my favorite computer in my collection: the red Sony HB-101 MSX. It’s utterly underpowered but just look at it! The color! The 80s futurism! The little joystick! The handle!

So someone messaged me privately and asked how absolute this is.. like would we block an instance calling for genocide. I feel my response is import to reiterate here, so here it is:

Its not just about the authorities, it is about the people whose lives are at risk by that call to genocide having the right to see those posts and use that information to look out for their own safety... If someone is doxed, they should know, if someone is threatened, they should know, and they should be able to take action.

Someone saying violent things online doesnt guarantee some police officer will meander by and take them down. The law only tends to get involved once someone is reported, and sometimes not even then. No one will be reporting a site if no one can see or know it is there.

The question is, if someone is being physically threatened and having their life in jeopardy how are you helping them by blocking the privileges of the **victim** and disallowing the victim the right to see the threat placed against them?

In short, I refuse to take away rights from the victim simply because there is a violent bad actor out there. If the victim doesn't want to see it they simply need to import the block list and the problem is solved for them, so why not keep the power in the victims hands?

Introducing Mastodon battlepass.

Tuesday update on the #mastodon growth. 135k (!!) users join yesterday. Also, I'm zooming out the plot to see the evolution in the number of new users through the last year. I'm going to need a logarithm scale pretty soon 😎

They straight up admit that Soapbox is the best FE and the only reason people shouldn't use it bc they don't like it's creator's personal views. 👌

RT: https://seal.cafe/objects/e9f0fd3b-95a9-41e8-9e57-6e6633d3bb8a

C isn't a programming language anymore

https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/

#programming

Delaware judge discovers hidden entity recruiting people to be patent trolls

Link: https://ipde.com/blog/2022/11/04/a-wild-hearing-chief-judge-connolly-flips-over-rock-finds-mavexar-llc-crawling-around-controlling-patent-litigation-and-giving-hapless-patent-owners-just-5-10/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33504777