I have decided, as a #selfhost with just two other people on my instance, that I'm going to limit threads.net following the example of @Jerry quoted below. I didn't know that you can “unlimit” specific accounts! This is an interesting option.
For other admins who might not be familiar, I am discovering this too for the first time:
When you ‘Limit' a domain (under Federation—>Add new domain block) and then click on that domain in the list it brings you to the screen in the first picture.
You can then see which accounts have been organically “stored" (i think of it more like being "noticed”) by the server. I’m excited that @stonekettle is there! I miss him!
Next session of the #IETF e-impact group for decreasing "#environmental impact" of networking technologies is meeting up 15-16. February! It's online & open to all; we will talk about protocols & #sustainability, drafts & carbon-aware routing ... and all the topics that you might bring, such as #DeGrowth, #permacomputing, planetary #limits, #ClimateJustice...
They've helped me replace broken pieces and augment my table setting of my Noritake stoneware, which I bought for myself as a "thank gods I'm divorced" present in 1991. The pattern has long been discontinued, but I've gotten another 5-piece place setting, another luncheon/dessert plate, 5 dessert bowls, and a hostess set (sugar/creamer, chop plate, serving bowl).
I drew the line at the $250 platter, though. #Limits
Catholic Pope speaking to the (so called) "world leaders" at #COP28 : " The drive to produce and possess has become an obsession, resulting in an inordinate greed that has made the environment the object of unbridled exploitation. The climate, run amok, is crying out to us to halt this illusion of omnipotence. Let us once more recognize our #limits, with humility and courage, as the sole path to a life of authentic fulfilment." https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2023/12/02/0848/01842.html#inglese
@becha Just today I heard about #Limits for the first time, in the context of slow computing / permacomputing / more with less. This is serendipity, thanks for sharing!
I've been trying to advance #sustainability since about 2007. I originally have a background in #engineering and #design, and did a PhD about technological substitutes for critical resources. However, #energytransition has been my main focus.
I firmly believe that broadening #democracy is THE key to sustainability.
The Alabama government’s briefs before the three-judge panel in September referenced a concurring opinion by #Kavanaugh that questioned whether “race-based redistricting” can “extend indefinitely into the future.”
Alabama further relied on arguments — also rejected by the U.S. District Court — that a subsequent U.S. Supreme Court decision this same term ending affirmative action in college admissions (called Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard ) compels the Court to find that a state’s use of a map in which “race predominates” now violates the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection. As in Milligan, Kavanaugh filed a concurrence in Students for Fair Admissions, emphasizing the potential for #time#limits on race-related policies.
In addition, there now appears to be a significant connection between Alabama’s post-Milligan map redrawing process, #Leo’s powerful national dark money network, and Kavanaugh.
The tangled web of previously unreported ties centers around #Marshall, Alabama Solicitor General Edmond #LaCour — dubbed “the architect behind Alabama’s voting rights defiance” — and the D.C.-area law firm #ConsovoyMcCarthy, the firm founded by William #Consovoy, a now-deceased former clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas who represented Shelby County in Shelby County v. Holder.
In Shelby County, the Supreme Court invalidated Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act and its vital preclearance provision, which protected against unilateral state changes to voting rights and maps in states that had a documented history of racial bias in administering elections in order to disenfranchise Black voters. #LeonardLeo#scotus#darkmoney#clarencethomas#FedSoc#ShelbyCountyVsHolder#VotingRightsAct#racebased#affirmativeaction
@freemo Just for the record for Mastodon's API I was looking at docs.joinmastodon.org/api/rate… as for the other place you might hope their website might be up to date help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-….
Then again maybe there's a different page in X Corp-land. I'm not sure about encouraging the buying of a verified account. I can see that up to a point, but then again they seem to have taken action urgently and without warning which may point at infrastructure issues. Then again with so much transparency I'm sure the world would know about that.
I see reports from admins of large instances having a rough time with the mass influx and old twitter habits, whereas smaller instances are islands of tranquility.
I’m not an admin, but it seems like a no-brainer to me. If you aren’t trying to profit in some way from running an instance, keep it small.
What is small? That depends, but 1000 active accounts might be a good maximum.
In the grand scheme of things, I’d favor supporting the admins who keep #overhead and #energy demands as low as possible. #Limits on everything! Accounts, toot characters, images, posts duration, … The name of the game would be #minimalism. That would fit my sense of #economy, #ecology, and #community.
I guess the #mastodon software is a big #footprint. That’s a different problem.
The Modern World Can't Exist Without These Four Ingredients. They All Require Fossil Fuels
Four materials rank highest on the scale of necessity, forming what I have called the four pillars of modern civilization: cement, steel, plastics, and ammonia are needed in larger quantities than are other essential inputs. The world now produces annually about 4.5 billion tons of cement, 1.8 billion tons of steel, nearly 400 million tons of plastics, and 180 million tons of ammonia. But it is ammonia that deserves the top position as our most important material: its synthesis is the basis of all nitrogen fertilizers, and without their applications it would be impossible to feed, at current levels, nearly half of today’s nearly 8 billion people.
On monday I'm presenting a paper on solar.lowtechmagazine.com during the 'Computing within #Limits' conference.
In the paper I'm describing the design choices we made, such as designing for unavailability and how they were based on reducing a few key metrics such as data transferred, calculations per request and use of third party services. This opens up a way of thinking about #degrowth and ICT. We should be looking in to that waaaay more.
The paper also tries to implicitly answer the 'how do we do sustainable web design?' question and argues aiming for reduction (of bytes transferred, computation and infra required) as useful rule of thumbs guiding a design. That is to say, solar protocols, 'low tech look', 3.5MB dithered images, green CDNs etc ain't it.
However, it also self-criticizes solar.lowtechmagazine.com for the fact that it is so unreproducible and a very limited and 'easy' use case. So yeah no answer but thinking through degrowth should definitely be considered as the direction of the answer..