kemuri 🦀 @kemuri@social.cleverlibre.org

Happy #caturday from a very sleepy orange tabby! #cats #catsofmastodon

中国很多政策的变更，不是执政者的恩赐，而是下位者不懈抗争（甚至流血事件）的结果。虽然中国的历史书总是隐藏这些对执政党不利的难堪细节。2006年农业税的取消，和江西丰城农民不堪压迫活埋乡长的血腥事件引起中央震动有很大关系。1979年知青回城，也是知青不懈抗争的结果。原本中央的政策是让知青就地转为国营职工。在云南的上海知青发起了多次暴动、绝食和请愿（当年有个口号叫“不回城，毋宁死”），后来政策才松动，知青们得以回到了以为此生回不去的家乡。

“我也想（不做白日梦）啊，但是不行，因为心太痛了” 。这段出自刘瑜老师今年上市新书《可能性的艺术：比较政治学三十讲》中写韩国民主化转型的第二十一讲，全书我最爱这篇。
（刚得知这本书被下架了，全网禁售，但微信读书里还有。）

The alarming reports cataloged a failure to serve kids with disabilities at the Northwest School of Innovative Learning, a private school designed to cater to Washington state’s most vulnerable students.

Despite the complaints, the state took no action to force changes at Northwest SOIL. Instead, it allowed the school to stay open and tap a pipeline of taxpayer money. https://www.propublica.org/article/therapeutic-schools-northwest-soil-invisible-washington @ProPublica w/ Seattle Times

@mattblaze

When livejournal went into the nosedive from which it never recovered, a bunch of code base clones attempted to fill the void. By far the most carefully planned and executed of the LJ replacements was dreamwidth, still up and running to this very day. Here's a writeup of advice from Denise, a founding member of dreamwidth, speaking one admin to another, on what legal issues to anticipate and how to head them off before they become a problem. It's divided into discreet sections and comes complete with relevant links and detailed instructions about what to do with those links where applicable.

Denise is not, to my knowledge, a lawyer, and is not pretending to give that kind of legal advice. Just someone with a ton of relevant experience to speak from, who was good enough to write it up specifically for the use of Mastodon admins.

https://denise.dreamwidth.org/91757.html

上海乌鲁木齐中路，网友投稿
现场的女英雄
被抓的是一个00后，几乎是在场中最勇敢的之一，她力气很大，一直保护着别人不被拉走。她最后自己又折返回去想救更多的人才被抓住。

现场网友补充，大概抓了两车人

Let me tell you a secret:

"kind" and "angry" aren't antonyms. One doesn't exclude the other.

A lot of folks these days will tell you otherwise. If they can be kind and angry, they open themselves up to an idea that terrifies them: "responsibility".

It's important for you to hold, in your heart and in your head, that "kindness" is a quality, and "anger" is a reaction.

If you're truly a kind person, avoiding anger should be damn near impossible.

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无眠之夜，为了保护今晚在上海现场直播的同志ID用文字简述一下今晚直播镜头里发生了什么。
1、警察暴力抓人，强行制服之后把人塞进了停在马路上的大巴。并且据播主口述，现场有便衣，不少。
2、人群逐渐分散的时候，有人领头开始唱国歌，得到众多回应，警察和群众形成对峙。
3、对峙期间，有情绪激动的抗议者在骂警察，同行者都在安抚与劝阻，其中一位朗声沉静地说：我没有敌人。（刘晓波语）
4、之后直播信号开始变差，断断续续得很卡，怀疑在现场安排了屏蔽车。
5、警察堵好路之后强行抓捕女生，群众一拥而上想解救，无果，然后抗议要求放人，仍然无果，双方陷入僵持。
6、抓捕之后开始驱赶，不断重复“走起来走起来”，然后在人群再次分散的时候继续对落单的人围攻抓捕，并且几乎都是冲着身材较小武力值较低的女生。
7、有人挣脱开了，有人没有，能听到直播里一名女生哭着呐喊质问“你们是警察，你们不是该为人民服务吗，你们现在是在做什么？！”，随后又小声哽咽“她们被抓了怎么办”
8、警察继续驱赶，群众不再聚集，逐渐向各个路口离开，警察一路在后方远远跟随，播主自嘲“我们在一起散步”，最后这批已经被分散的一小堆人被大量警察驱离现场，直播结束。

No matter how bad you think Twitter is or is becoming, it's like a cute fluffy cuddle version of the absolute trashfire that's trivially accessible there.

Folks thinking Apple and Google appstores are gonna block Twitter gonna have a big surprise when they find out what goes on in Telegram land

@atax1a This is all dead on. I probably could have pushed the same-domain migration over the finish line, but the risk/value proposition tilted against my favor so I didn't.

Mastodon is absolutely a complicated cluster of services all of which have their own distinct subject matter and nasty little gotchas. Sidekiq on its own is a thing that could fit into the job description for one person, leaving everything else to others-- at least at scale.

Pleroma did a better job at shrinking the scope of things but you still needed to know how nginx did local caching, and how S3 works if you go that route, on top of your DB. GtS is better still from my experience so far. A one line caddyfile and a DB is all you need.

You're still juggling a terminator, the software, a database, and optionally an S3 for media, but it's shrunk down to the scope of "Any web app really"

Shit storms from defederations and traffic reflection attacks via strategic posting are both massive problems that have, by and large, been ignored.

But honestly I think the biggest problem AP has right now is, like email, just how much of it was left undefined in the initial pass and now has been shaped by consensus of the largest/first actors.

GtS is currently having A Problem where they do HTTP Sigs right, but they need to do them wrong sometimes because Mastodon. Mastodon also carked namespacing of AP Activities already, and we're stuck with that.

someone on Twitter asked why we think ActivityPub sucks from a protocol and implementation standpoint, and we're porting it over here with minor cleanups:

several things — from a server perspective, the most popular implementation requires that you become an SRE for Nginx, Rails, Postgres, Redis, Sidekiq, and possibly ElasticSearch. IMO, these (especially postgres) are nontrivial services to maintain over the long term.

once you pick a piece of Activitypub-compatible software, as far as we can tell, you're locked into that particular branch — you cannot simply export a Mastodon database into the GotoSocial implementation, you have to set up GotoSocial brand new, and make everyone refollow you

protocol-wise, we keep finding shocking ways in which activitypub is worse than email; the biggest pecadillo (IMO) is that if i follow 100 people on 3 servers and make a post, my server has to make 100 requests, one per follower, instead of 3 posts, one per server

the way the protocol works is that if two large instances defederate each other, it causes a notification storm for everyone downstream that can overwhelm smaller instances

so! if you run your own, you pretty much have to become a cache SRE, web-tier SRE, DB SRE, queue SRE, Rails SRE, you have to know how to secure unix systems, mitigate attacks, and if you're responsible, you have to do replication and backups.

sure, Docker has made it so that you can stand up all of this easily, but long-term maintenance? are you really confident that you know what you're doing here? Oh, sure, you've offloaded a lot of this to your cloud provider, but then you're now dependent on that provider continuing to work. Unless you're a large corporation with a secure contract, your cloud provider most likely doesn't care about you.

in short, standing up our own mastondong is signing up for a whole lot of Actual Work that we don't really want to do just to talk with friends, and we absolutely must stress that we both worked for twitter for 6 years and run our own **email server* for 21*

#We_Are_Plural_Not_An_Entire_SRE_Org

My rants do not belong in someone else's comments, so here is a shiny new thread of my own.

I am thinking about Whiteness as a Thing & the escape velocity it takes to escape the gravity of that complacency.

I've spent a lot of today seeing a lot of (fellow) white people get very upset at PoC for mentioning their whiteness.

It's the same fucking compulsion as when TERFs object to being called cis, btw.

They think they are default, normal, unmarked.

北京多个小区在居民的抗争下解封了，总结几个重点：1. 发现苗头不对可能要封的时候立即下楼，抓住铁皮工程开始前的时机一步到位把封控扼杀。重点挡在小区进出大门和地库出入口。施工队都是外包的，不会搭自己性命开工；物业和保安是纸老虎，只敢对骂或者看着却不敢动手；社区和街道的工作人员一般最后才来，也约等于摆设。2. 只要不能当场出示白纸黑字➕公章的红头文件，谁都没有权力封，“等通知”或者“疾控口头要求”等等这些都不算数。3. 封控天数和解封条件不明确、不合理也不行，保持压力连续追问社区答不上来解释不清基本上自己就崩溃了。4. 已经封了的小区，只要豁出去在卡口一顿狂骂，还是有机会进出的。基层的也怕事儿，不敢阻拦能量巨大怒气冲冲的人。5. 坚持不做核酸，坚持出门，坚持压马路。形成一定的势头之后，这些牛鬼蛇神的“防疫人员”和“防疫爱好者”就不敢轻举妄动了。6. 鉴别小区群里的“战友”，在尽量保护隐私的同时私下多交流，一旦有什么事互相照应。7. 警察既懒又怕事，不闹出人命基本什么也不管，只要不跟警察发生直接冲突基本可以忽略。

乌鲁木齐的朋友们，
我爱你们！
就像爱这条路，就像爱我的家人。

11月27号上海乌鲁木齐大街民众宣言

虽然说逝者死不瞑目难以安息，我们上海这边的人难以如此言表。但现场有维吾尔族的朋友祈愿同胞安息。
因为我们会记得今日之仇恨，永不会忘记，永远反抗，永不妥协。

最后是那个对警察痛斥“你不满你就打死我！”并让大家彼此拥抱的小哥，他手里举着汉语、维吾尔族语、阿拉伯语写的“十”，代表死去的十名新疆同胞。
默哀仪式举办完毕，大家履行了反抗承诺。
开始现场集体唱国歌大喊口号！“自由！”“我们不当奴隶！”“共产党习近平下台！”

国歌曾经是每个不甘奴役的中国人靠血泪抗争换来的，不是它共产党的党歌。

这首歌本名叫《义勇军进行曲》，是有情义有勇气的战士们所唱的歌曲。

上海乌鲁木齐中路 补充视频
女孩的哭泣与愤怒

2005: Rupert Murdoch paid $580m for Myspace.
2009: he sold it in $35m.

2008: Bebo was sold for $850m, to AOL. The founders later bought it back for $1m. It was regarded as one of the worst deals ever made in the dot-com era.

2013: Yahoo paid $1.1bn for Tumblr. 2019: they sold it in $3m.

Elon Musk paid $44bn for Twitter. If history has taught us anything it's that this isn't going to end well… when there wasn't a viable business model in the first place.

#Mastodon #Twitter #TwitterMigration