szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Hello #SFBA!
We've heard and read a lot about the potential upcoming Meta project that intends to join the fediverse. We have also seen many instance admins committing to blocking these instances as soon as they appear. We are not going to commit to suspending them at this time, but we also won't commit to federating with them. As always, we **are** committed to giving potential problem instances extra attention; and this one will have our eyes fixed upon it.

We do not know when they will release their service, but when they do our moderators will be keeping an eye out for content that violates our CoC or otherwise threatens our users. Just like any server, if they become a nuisance or violate our server rules they will be limited. If there is risk of harm to our users, we will suspend them.

Please continue to report anything you see, and happy tooting!

#Meta #Project92 #MetaThreads

@szescstopni

Well, this is something you don't see every day. A dead #squirrel was lying on a sidewalk next to the street. Two #turkeyvultures were trying to pull out its intestines. One of them gave me the business, or maybe it was just trying to spit out squirrel hair. #birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #nature #photography #cleanupcrew

Hug your #FediAdmin today.

There's a lot of shit flying in the #Fediverse lately and a lot of times perspective seems to get lost. Yes, there are things we need to talk about, and yes there are things we will not agree on. And that's okay.

But leave the pitchforks and torches out of this.

Fedi admins put in the hours and effort and emotion into making fedi happen. Sometimes they make decisions we might not agree with. We should criticize, but we should not pile-on.

Niemcy: 10 mld EUR dotacji dla #Intel to być może przesadzona kwota - debata trwa.
Polski rząd: kwota subwencji z pieniędzy podatników dla firmy Intel jest tajemnicą handlową firmy Intel
#WTF

Apple has been going to war over the intellectual property rights of its logo. Its latest target is a 111-year-old Swiss fruit company.

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/apple-vs-apples-trademark-battle

#Apple #BigTech

Guest post: How China’s rural solar policy could also boost heat pumps https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-chinas-rural-solar-policy-could-also-boost-heat-pumps/

Strange things one comes across on a walk....

#walking #sculpture #woodwork #Pentax #PentaxK70

Lisko from Finland: Mom, I think I see a fish! #dogsofmastodon #Mondog #dogs

I invite all interested in glycobiology to the conference "Paths of Glycobiology", which will take place @IITDPAN in Wrocław, 28-29.09.2023. Among invited speakers: Elisa Fadda, Francis Jacob, Iain Wilson.
Please register:
https://tinyurl.com/ae9wkt79
There is no fee!
#glycotime

The 1901 German paper I've been translating is the first time I've seen a scientific paper use the phrase "throw the baby out with the bath water," and in German even!

Oh FFS if you are signing NDAs to cooperate on developing apps in a *free and open ecosystem* YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG. The party demanding the NDA is clearly already acting in BAD FAITH...

So a little while back @pluralistic discussed the #enshitification of the internet and it has me wanting to remind people that the pioneers of enshitification, from which techbro VCs got their inspiration, was undoubtedly the large home appliance oligopoly.

My parents had appliances thgat lasted 30+ years before replacement.

The appliances I got with my house in 1999 have all been replaced in the past 4 years (that is, they lasted about 20 years)

The average lifespan of such appliances made in the 2010's is apparently a scant 12 years.

But it's more than that...in my observation they are not only less durable, they objectively do an inferior job performing their actual purposes.

My new dishwasher looks spiffy and runs quiet but has a filter that needs cleaning 3 times as often and can't clean hot chocolate residue out of a mug.

My new fridge farts and also has some sort of disposable filter to replace.

My new clothes washer can connect to wifi but sometimes has a hard time rinsing.

...

Fuck Facebook and yes I will deadname them

Lato to jest moja ulubiona pora roku między innymi dlatego, że uwielbiam patrzeć na miny Świadków Jehowy, jak stoją przy tych swoich stojaczkach i gapią się na moje dziary z gołymi babami. ❤️❤️❤️

- Gdzie jesteś?
- A w biurze jeszcze, właśnie kawę robiłem ☕

#Wyprawa2023 #HomeOffice #office #biuro #praca

I am Mastodon instance / server window-shopping.

Character limits info for each instance / server is what I'm after.

Anyone got a list?
Or a link?

Or want to contribute to a thread with character limits shared in the comments?

#MastodonServerCharacterLimits #CharacterLimits #InstanceAttributes