Nordstahl @Nordstahl@social.cleverlibre.org

I really need to trust my instincts more often.

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@Lowie I was recently told Post was owned by another billionaire & that he helped the new owner of the #birdsite finance the purchase. I can't personally confirm this. When I left the birdsite, I had only heard of Post and TribeI, besides Mastodon, so I was lucky I chose #Mastodon because I really love it here too! ❤️ I've been here less than a month, but within 2 weeks, I considered Mastodon "home" and tipped my instance's admin. 😀 #TwitterMigration #TwitterRefugee #LoveMastodon

Greetings. Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1 computer room late one night when the high Santa Ana winds outside started disrupting power. Hit after hit, very dangerous for the minicomputers, disk drives, and other equipment in that room, since we didn't have uninterruptible power supplies back then.

I made some calls and it was decided I should shut everything in the room down. Everything. I phoned the ARPANET NOC (Network Operations Center) at BBN and explained the situation, since I was about to shut down IMP #1 (essentially, a refrigerator-sized router) on ARPANET which sat in a corner of the room, and doing this could cause disruptions if done in an unplanned manner. The IMP was *always* running -- I had never seen it powered down.

I worked my way around the room, powering down terminals and disks, and printers, and the power supplies on the 11/45 (ARPANET Host #1 - UCLA-ATS) and the 11/70 (Host #129 [1+128 on IMP #1] - UCLA-SECURITY. Back then my email addresses were LAUREN@UCLA-ATS and LAUREN@UCLA-SECURITY -- no domains yet.

The usual roar of the machines gradually got quieter and quieter, until only the IMP was left. I pulled down the power switch. Now there was dead quiet except the hum of the lights, a situation I'd never experienced in that room before. Very odd feeling.

Suddenly I heard a click -- the IMP was powering back up by itself. Damn. I pulled down the switch again. Quiet for a time, then click and it came back up yet again. Before I started thinking about screwing around with its power cables or turning off breakers that could have unexpected effects, I called the NOC again to ask them if they had any ideas.

"Oh yeah. We should have told you! There's a little switch that controls auto-restart. Surprise!"

So I found and flipped that little toggle switch, powered down the IMP again, and this time it stayed down. I had turned off the ARPANET -- at least at UCLA. -L

https://t.me/United24media/2349 🇯🇵🇺🇦 In the city of Minami-Soma, located in the exclusion zone of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, they say they received a lot of help from Ukrainians after the accident caused by a powerful earthquake in 2011. Therefore, they decided to give 20% of the profit from the sale of these watches to help Ukraine. (PHOTOS) #Ukraine #News #War #Russia

It isn't "winter" until it's cold enough to need gloves just to go fill the bird feeders. A very chilly/cold minus 15 degrees Fahrenheit out this morning. #Winterwonderland #Minnesotawinters

LANGUAGE: It’s enslaved persons, not “slaves”. We are people who were ENslaved. When you say “enslaved”, you make clear that someone else did this to us. When you say “slave” you speak the language and mindset of the people who did this to us. This is important. It is not semantics. #history #language #enslavedpeople #Black #Mastodon #words

swiftonsecurity is one of the raw undisputable success stories of the internet and im struggling to think of an internet persona i respect more

Ted Cruz slammed Biden for going to St. Croix despite vacationing at the Ritz Carlton Cancun as hundreds froze to death

Rick Scott slammed Biden for being on a beach while he himself was on a luxury yacht in Italy

Without hypocrisy, Republicans wouldn’t have any values at all

Anyone else struggling with donating to the food bank (I have), but knowing that food banks are not the solution to the problem ie solving poverty & housing insecurity is? And UBI.

But also know the need is very real, especially now with inflation so high & grocery prices ⬆️?

#inPURRection #gattini #kittens

TikTok is now banned from all U.S. House of Representatives-managed devices.

How long till it's banned entirely by Apple and Google?

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/international-business/us-business/article-tiktok-banned-from-devices-managed-by-us-house-administration-arm/

George Porter Jr. And the horn section (l to r: Brad Walker, Jeff Albert, Tracy Griffin, and Brian Graber) on George’s 75th birthday.

@Lowie Dodging it so far.

Your regular reminder that art looks much better on Mastodon when you untick 'crop images' in Preferences / Appearance

#MastodonTips #NewHere

Thomas Benjamin Kennington, 'The pinch of poverty' (1889)

#art #flowers #poverty #capitalism #painting

I could impromptu give an hour+ presentation on how complex "What antivirus should I use" actually is.

The answer is Defender [for consumers, ATP whole other discussion not negative just way more points] is fine and stop downloading Office2013 activation crack torrents.

But it's also true some vendors have interesting approaches and if you like it, you can pay them. Everybody being on Defender is a single point of failure and attack. Monocultures are a terrible result.

This platform is really growing on me. I appreciate that there is real enthusiasm for and interaction with posts--and that even nuanced discussion is possible. Thanks, Mastodons!

It’s not a masterpiece, but it’s mine. Our ours.
This is the first painting I made after my Mom passed in January from Covid. She was one of the pioneering early art therapists in the US & left lots of art supplies. I donated many of these to an unhoused art outreach program in Delaware- folks on the edge were her passion. And, she herself was one. Cantankerous, rebellious, some say crazy. She’s the best.

Acrylic, acrylic pastel, glitter & cellophane. #MastoArt #FediArt #Art

With the size of my twitter database I ended up having to use this branch of the build system - https://github.com/11ty/eleventy/pull/2633