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- UFoI Member
- http://UFoI.org/u/freemo/
- Website
- http://JeffreyFreeman.me
- Gitlab
- https://git.qoto.org/freemo
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Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
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@freemo@mastodon.acm.org @louis77 @wild1145 @SrRochardBunson @BobMastodon @oliphant @freemo@qoto.org Emacs.ch being on the <Recommended “Bare Minimum” List>, really? For a single moderation dispute with babka.social in June 2023 where we defended the rights of an Arab Jew to speak out AND resolved the issue with babka.social in consent.
Now we are considered to be on the level of pedophile, and racist instances. We run a clean and well moderated instance since Nov 2022, and mastodon.art decided that we should be in this list because they "don't like us"?
Really guys, if it weren't for the endless hours of work we put into this instance, it is our users I care about and they don't deserve to be treated like this.
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@wild1145 @freemo @SrRochardBunson @BobMastodon @oliphant After seeing a lot of lost followers for our Emacs.ch instance, I came over this post. We've been on this block list for no apparent reason and despite many efforts from multiple of our users to get removed, we never got any serious response from whoever put us there, expect "we don't want white tech-bros".
Too bad that Universeodon did blindly implement it. It is abusive, and I hope you would reconsider.
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Similar experience.. we basically got "It doesn't matter if the accusations are real, it doesn't matter you have clear proof it was fabricated/a lie. You are on their block list and thats the criteria, take it up with them (mastodon.art et el).
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...not really.
I had an account on there. I asked one question which, I suppose, someone took offense to. Next thing I know, I'm suspended - cant see anyone. I questioned/appealed the decision and never heard back. 30 days later that account is toast and can't even talk to people who'd friended it in the first place.
This was late 2021 early 2022.
Then I made an account on infosec.exchange.. Jerry was very cool. Then I got the idea to spin my own instance up.. and here I am.
No, these bad decisions at universodon have been going on for at least two years.. It's only becoming APPARENT now.
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In the past they were actually kinda responsible about it. They used to do due dilligance and made responsible decisions. Seems around the time they got a new moderator on board everything went down hill and due dilligrance went out the window. No surprise that was when their use based went running to the hills and has decreased every day since then.
This is just the last step they needed to take to kill the server.
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Just FYI apparently #Universeodon has switched to the incredibly abusive and poorly maintained oliphant block list that is itself dictated, in part, of mastodon.art's abusive block list.
See my response here: https://mastodon.acm.org/@freemo/111908751487276074
As well as the Admin admitting this is the case here: https://mastodon.acm.org/@wild1145@universeodon.com/111889411895912635
very disappointed in their lack of due diligence.
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I also just checked and this seems to have monumentally damaged the use count on the server.
I dont know exactly when this was enacted but in recent months the user count for the server plummeted from 80K to 20K and has month by month been continually decreasing since then as people flock away from the server. I suspect the use of this extremely abusive block list, and perhaps similar decisions are a large part of the reason.
I also just checked and this seems to have monumentally damaged the use count on the server.
I dont know exactly when this was enacted but in recent months the user count for the server plummeted from 80K to 20K and has month by month been continually decreasing since then as people flock away from the server. I suspect the use of this extremely abusive block list, and perhaps similar decisions are a large part of the reason.
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Just FYI apparently #Universeodon has switched to the incredibly abusive and poorly maintained oliphant block list that is itself dictated, in par...
Just FYI apparently #Universeodon has switched to the incredibly abusive and poorly maintained oliphant block list that is itself dictated, in part, of mastodon.art's abusive block list.
See my response here: https://mastodon.acm.org/@freemo/111908751487276074
As well as the Admin admitting this is the case here: https://mastodon.acm.org/@wild1145@universeodon.com/111889411895912635
very disappointed in their lack of due diligence.
It would be pretty idiotic to reject someone based on this.
That said I do agree that very detailed medical records, anonymized, should be attached to all blood. This would save lives by allowing people to reject blood selectively so they can still get treated, its better than letting those people die.
@damngoodtech I will check them out, thanks.
I was under the impression, maybe incorrectly, that the USA has put sanctions on Russia such that going there and interviewing Putin is being treated as illegal and he is risking jail time.
If i was wrong, and there is not legal pressure I agree with you.
Irrelevant. I mean yea tucker is a piece of shit, and he is exactly the sort of piece of shit Putin would want to interview him.
But anyone who goes and interviews someone and the USA says that person isnt allowed to be interviewed, then the journalist will absolutely get my support for that act.
The only way anyone could fault Tucker for this move is if it werent illegal. Then you can argue he did nothing note worthy as a journalist, didnt risk anything, so all he did at that point was propaganda for an asshat.
But yea the very act of the USA making it illegal puts Tucker in the right.
Fellow nerdicators... what do you use as a replacement for google calendar.
Most important thing is having something cool, unique, innovative, and just plan novel, not a remix... something special :)
OSS is a plus, and having a beautiful web front end is also a huge plus
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@freemo Yes non-euclidean! It is a red and blue tree inside the poincaré disk model of hyperbolic geometry.
- UFoI Member
- http://UFoI.org/u/freemo/
- Website
- http://JeffreyFreeman.me
- Gitlab
- https://git.qoto.org/freemo
Admin
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
Pronouns: Sir / Mister
(Above pronouns are not intended to mock, i will respect any persons pronouns and only wish pronouns to show respect be used with me as well. These are called neopronouns, see an example of the word "frog" used as a neopronoun here: http://tinyurl.com/44hhej89 )
A proud member of the Penobscot Native American tribe, as well as a Mayflower passenger descendant. I sometimes post about my genealogical history.
My stance on various issues:
Education: Free to PhD, tax paid
Abortion: Protected, tax paid, limited time-frame
Welfare: Yes, no one should starve
UBI: No, use welfare
Racism: is real
Guns: Shall not be infringed
LGBT+/minorities: Support
Pronouns: Will respect
Trump: Moron, evil
Biden: Senile, racist
Police: ACAB
Drugs: Fully legal, no prescriptions needed
GPG/PGP Fingerprint: 8B23 64CD 2403 6DCB 7531 01D0 052D DA8E 0506 CBCE
Joined Jul 2018
