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jens

@jens@social.finkhaeuser.de

Building a people centric next generation internet.

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IPA: jɛns ˈfɪŋkˌhɔʏzɐ
Tags: #p2p #interpeer #interpeerproject #privacy #encryption #foss #humanrights
Also: #metalmittwoch
Nazis: fuck 'em with a nail bat. :antifa:
#web3 / #nft: is toxic and must die

Mojo Jojo is my spirit animal.

All my toots are CC BY-NC-SA.

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alex, to random
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The “great” thing about England is that when these articles come out and you google the person who wrote them it’s not something boring like “their dad is a trust fund manager” it’s “their dad is a baron, their grandfather edited the newspaper this appears in, and their family founded the private Bank of England”

*all true of this writer

jens,
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@onepict @aoanla @tanepiper @cstross @alex It's a telenovela, but in good clothes, and with the stiffest of upper lips.

rooster, to random
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jens,
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@rooster And now you can, too!

Netscape Navigator animated logo.

jens, to random
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This is perfection on so many levels.

jens, to random
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Free Software: "let's build free stuff for each other"

Open Source: "let's attract unpaid volunteers to write code we can extract value from"

Meta joining Fedi: "let's reduce our cost by letting unpaid volunteers deal with the distribution load of a platform our users dominate"

There's a pattern here, folks.

jens, to random
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I would like to remind folk today of the so-called "Nazi bar" problem:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nazi_bar

"A space in which bigots or extremists have come to dominate due to a lack of moderation or by moderators wishing to remain neutral or avoid conflict."

You can extend this to Meta. No, plenty of folk joining their AP-enabled service will NOT be bigots or extremists.

But Meta is. Because they already treat the fediverse as a place where "shot-callers" need to be influenced.

jens, (edited ) to fediverse
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Every argument I have seen so far for not immediately defederating from boils down to one of two points.

  1. The security of is rubbish; blocking won't help.

To which my response is: Yes, mate, I'm sure you're also handing out copies of your house key because crowbars exist.

  1. The users of don't deserve to be blocked out.

That's something I agree with, actually. But they're not my responsibility. The accounts on my instance are. Which makes this something...

jens, to random
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"He said the Linux Foundation’s adoption of Open Tofu raised serious questions. 'What does it say for the future of open source, if foundations will just take it and give it a home. That is tragic for open source innovation. I will tell you, if that were to happen, there'll be no more open source companies in Silicon Valley.' "

Uh, well, you're just making the argument for copyleft right there, dude.

https://www.thestack.technology/hashicorp-ceo-predicts-oss-free-silicon-valley-unless-the-open-source-model-evolves/

jens, to random
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Hey you!

Yes, you!

There's a job open one team over from mine: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3836681577

Want to come work with me?

jens, to random
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So many unpatched servers.

Every server that I'm currently receiving spam from hasn't patched CVE-2024-23832.

Please do so immediately if you run an instance. If like me you're using @mastohost - kudos for taking this seriously!

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-23832

jens, to random
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I got my wife Star Trek captain's pips. Yesterday, she wore them at work, in her role as Mission Director. One of her colleagues called out "captain on the deck!"

Space nerds. 😜 🤩

jens, (edited ) to threads
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Between @downey and @aral getting issues with , is it too much to speculate that they're preparing to go along with moderation rules?

Any other, similar experiences? @doot and @nightjar had issues before, Someone got banned for calling Rowling a TERF, me for calling a AfD-adjacent person a Nazi (that was years ago).

Thanks to feedback, I'm unsure if this is new - which would be good, it could just be the same old issues. Can we collectively watch this?

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jens, to random
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Communication by sharing videos is a fucking disease and must die.

jens, (edited ) to Metal
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Every once in a while, I have to pull out this video to show to people just how the Oboe^Wclarinet is.

https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=50vL1uAXn7s

jens, to random
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Let's merge the code bases of sharkey and mastodon and call it megalodon.

jens, to threads
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I'm not sure this is the best possible mapping, but this edit was inspired by some of the and apologism I've seen the last few days.

jens,
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... things in the wrong direction.

The insidious thing is that it is helpful, even while this move occurs.

But the help comes at a price.

Folk in and similar are not willing to pay that price.

That's the entirety of the argument.

jens,
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Which is to say, by neglecting externalised costs, they make the project appear more sustainable than it is.

The narrative that FLOSS is largely volunteers scratching their own itch is toxic to sustainability. It has a long tradition from other charitable work that heavily relies on volunteer effort. There is no surprise that FLOSS communities engage in this self-deceit.

But who benefits from that?

It's not the FLOSS projects themselves. It's not the general public relying on them.

jens,
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What's worth highlighting is that Embrace, Extend, Extinguish pushes from somewhere near the middle panel towards panel 1 on the left.

That's what happened with the office document formats, with email, with the web, even with most Linux distros.

And now it's about to happen with and fedi.

As FLOSS communities, we sit in the middle panel, and are happy when someone comes along with more resources to help out.

Which makes us vulnerable to ignoring that they do so in order to push...

jens,
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But as an adjacent observation to this, a lot of FLOSS wouldn't survive without making that compromise, either.

Which only serves to highlight how vital it is we find better ways to support it.

Because what we're discussing here is how we can prevent things from going worse.

We're not even discussing how to make things better (notable exceptions exist).

jens, (edited ) to random
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You've heard about the man vs. bear thing. Now for the ultimate poll:

Would you rather be trapped in an outhouse in the woods with...

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jens, to threads
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Here you go, fedi!

jens, to ama
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Maybe it's just me, hut whenever I see someone invite for an #AMA, I feel compelled to ask only stupid stuff.

Anyway, I won't be answering immediately as we have afternoon plans, but #AskMeAnything. I will respond before noon tomorrow CET.

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jens, to random
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So, has decided to become completely unusable, by showing this "prove that you're human" screen and then redirecting back to it in an infinite loop.

It is stunning with how does nothing to convince me to change my habits (it's probably due to the pi.hole), and I just decide not to use that site ever again.

jens, (edited ) to random
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Most important poll. :boostRequest:

jonny, to random
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all jonny knows is charge they phone, mythic humanoids wiki category, eat hot chip & lie

jens,
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@jonny @aud I can give you a partial answer here. The dwarves, for example, tend to be based on German folklore, which in turn has roots in German history. You pretty much just have to visit a mine here to learn about that.

So the TL;DR is that in mining towns, boys tended to help with work from around age 4, sorting rocks outside the mine. From around 8, they went to work in the mines.

Contrary to popular notions, mines contain all kinds of minerals mixed together, so whatever the mine...

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