bonifartius 𒂼𒄄 @bonifartius@social.cleverlibre.org

Alright, I did set up a fedi containment instance especially for generative art, feel free to sign up.

Follow me on @lain and feel free to make an account there.

So monstrous: Over 100 incubator babies at risk due to fuel cuts to Gaza by Israel: UN says

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/22/over-100-incubator-babies-at-risk-due-to-israels-fuel-cuts-to-gaza-un

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BREAKING: Blocklist blocklist promises to block all fediverse instances which use blocklists, as blocklist war escalates

> While progressives have historically claimed to represent the interests of the disadvantaged, with COVID they have focused instead on surviving at all costs at the expense of the poor, including, and this is my second point, by endorsing authoritarian means: censorship, repression, and public shaming.

Good thread: https://twitter.com/MurielBlaivePhD/status/1716157939407605972

Sad news from Argentina when the clear front-runner loses at the last minute.

What will come of this is more and more the people become withdrawn and give up on society, until eventually a power-structure emerges which by sabotage, assassination, and terrorism, gets its way by force. And most people will shrug and say it's unethical but necessary.

@p @wjmaggos @amerika @jeremiah @Moon Technically, we are now all using the alternative. GNU Social used ostatus, that was the default on the fediverse. But now we use activitypub, which is at least the second fediverse. With that comes the divide between the blockbot side of mastodon and pretty much everyone else. So you are right, we are the default on this side... it is the blockbot users that single themselves out. It doesn't matter how big either side is. Dark fedi is their framing and it shows their bias and need to see the other side as bad which is counterproductive, especially if you want decorum.

I say this as someone who has been around since the GS days too so I have seen fedi change over time, for the worse from my perspective. More users doesn't make the experience better. It seems to have led to dividing the fediverse further and led to negativity.

A lot of people will post like an arsehole because it is a filter, they know what upsets the blockbot side of fedi. But this is often on specific posts where the blockbot side attempt to take control with their suggestions, suggest to block instances which causes drama or bring their mainstream social media attitudes to a space where people tried to escape from that or got booted out from that. This behaviour is fueled by both sides. Is it fair to expect just one side to be nice without even addressing why they behave as they do? There is reasoning behind it. Remember, the fediverse over time has attracted a lot of outcasts seeking to escape the mainstream or being forced out of it for not conforming to it. Bring the mainstream here, and where do they get to go?

Gym time

cc @RealRaul
The band is apparently Moranbong but I had no luck finding lyrics :/
SnapInsta.io-[MV] Jong Hong-Ran - Beautiful Girl (예쁜이).mp4

NASA JPL’s Voyager Team Is Patching Up Both Voyagers’ Firmware

It’s not every day that you get to update the firmware on a device that was produced in the 1970s, and rarely is said device well beyond the boundaries of …read more
#hacking #projects
https://hackaday.com/2023/10/22/nasa-jpls-voyager-team-is-patching-up-both-voyagers-firmware/

The "red eyes in camera pictures" thing was actually pretty cool looking back

the other day i was losing it trying to find the "the water goes up" post so now i'm posting in with the text "the water goes up" so i'll find it next time i search "the water goes up"