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SirBoostALot

@SirBoostALot@hear-me.social

I tend to boost a lot of content, in three categories:

Technical - mostly computer related stuff, mostly Linux or MacOS related. I particularly like things that make life easier for users.

Political - Mostly USA/Canada related although I may occasionally boost posts from other areas of the world. I oppose fascism and the politics of the extreme right.

Religious extremism - Particularly Christofascism and similar attempts to co-opt religion as a tool to advance fascism, hate and intolerance.

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TechDesk, (edited ) to twitter
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“No other American megabillionaire businessperson has so publicly fostered ideological relationships with world leaders to advance personal politics and businesses.”

The @nytimes looks into Elon Musk’s use of X to build influence with nationalist and right-wing politicians, publicly backing their views, aggressively confronting their enemies, and even personally intervening in X’s content policies in ways that appear to aid them — and all to the benefit of his other businesses. Here’s more.

https://flip.it/J77dC7

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SirBoostALot,
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@TechDesk @nytimes Paywalled.

SirBoostALot,
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@Mir @rhymepurple Another place you can get free domain names is freedns.afraid.org - they have been around nearly forever and all you have to do is log into their site and go to any page once every six months (I guess so they know you are still alive) but they will email you a notice a couple weeks before that time is up. And at least for me they have always been very reliable.

GottaLaff, to random
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I’ve been on phone w Verizon all this time. Mr. Laffy’s been on with them for 2 1/2 hours on his phone, been disconnected 2x, being sent to diff numbers which lead him back to the original. We were JUST told that oops! They don’t cover the Internet connection! Frontier does! Wrong number, folks! So Mr. Laffy called Frontier. Guess what? Frontier’s tech support is not working today! GAAAAA!

He’s now calling again & trying a different extension. So, covering is, well, on hold. 🤬🤦🏻‍♀️

SirBoostALot,
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@GottaLaff Wonder if it could be tied to this: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/04/18/232242/frontier-communications-shuts-down-systems-after-cyberattack

admin, to random
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I just updated https://phanpy.hear-me.social to the latest production version.

Updates are listed here: https://github.com/cheeaun/phanpy/compare/2024.04.17.b6cf53c...2024.04.19.5145730

@cheeaun

SirBoostALot,
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@admin @cheeaun The thing I like about is the ability to quote a toot.The one thing I don't like is the inability to boost with just a single click. Why can't we have one client that does both?

SirBoostALot,
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@admin @cheeaun One other thing I am not finding in is any way to mute someone. I tend to mute people who post in languages other than English because I can't read them, and there is too much in my timeline already, so I am just trying to remove some of the clutter. But there is no way (that I can find) to mute in Phanpy without reporting someone, and I don't want to report them, I just want to mute them.

SirBoostALot,
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@admin @cheeaun Thanks, I found it. Not really obvious but at least it is there.

SirBoostALot, to USpolitics
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Ted Cruz Slapped With Campaign Finance Laws Violation Complaint
https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2024/04/ted-cruz-slapped-with-campaign-finance-laws-violation-complaint/

SirBoostALot, to threads
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My opinion is that the correct response to Fedi Garden (or any other instance that says they won't federate with an instance that federates with ) should be:

"You go to hell!"

This is no different than if you throw a party and invite several people and a few of them say "we won't come if certain other people you've invited are there." If you are polite, you might say "Sorry, we'll miss you." If, however, you think they are just a bunch of assholes trying to tell you who you can or cannot associate with, you might tell them to just f**k right off.

I get it, they all hate Zuckerberg, but they're not punishing Zuckerberg. If anything, they are driving Mastodon users to create Threads accounts so they can communicate with their friends there, rather than communicate with them through Mastodon. Zuckerberg couldn't care less. It is your USERS you are hurting if you block Threads.

I get defederating an instance if they are doing something really bad. But wanting to be able to follow Threads users in and of itself is not bad. Zuck is arguably bad, some other individual Threads users are bad, but the bulk to Threads users are probably not bad and I for one would like to be able to read what they post without having to set up an account on Threads. And if the people don't like it, they should be told to stick their nonsense where the sun don't shine.

Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: “Block Threads to Remain Listed”
https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/block-threads-to-remain-listed/

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