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madargon

@madargon@is-a.cat

Chief Emoji Officer on is-a.cat instance

Too chaotic for a paladin

Amateur artist and junior IT administrator. Mostly self-trained in chaotic and often destructive ways. Opponent of mainstream social media and nasty digital surveillance, wanna-be cypherpunk. Linux user since 2013. Fully degoogled since December 2019. Fully BigTech-free since March 2024.
Synesthete. That weird freak who sometimes uses Daedric alphabet. Even weirder freak who use bare IP address instead of some server name.
Cryptography is my only religion - does Church of Wael look for new members?
In my free time I draw or write stories, first of all for my fun.

I publish my works under CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

Writing here in English/Polish.

Migrated from https://mastodon.online/@madargon
Indexed in tootfinder (https://www.tootfinder.ch).

#sysadmin #linux #degoogle #corpfree #privacy #cypherpunk #drawing #art #fedi22

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madargon, to drawing
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My first contribution this year :blobCat_party:​

I hope I will draw more of them next days...

madargon, to neverwinternights
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@Bwee if I would feel the need to create my own in less than a year you would be one to blame :dragon_happy: :cybredragon_side:

pawel, to random Polish
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Są portale społecznościowe. I jest LinkedIn.

madargon,
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@pawel ciekawy zbieg okoliczności że parę tygodni po tym jak usunęłam tam konto regularnie widzę tutaj posty pokazujące, co tam jest nie tak :blobcatjoy:

madargon, to drawing
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I saw some photos of them, they are called Bluestripe Butterflyfish (I hope I noted it well :D)

madargon,
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@teapot_ben Thank you very much. And yes, it is not photo or generated thing, I drew this only looking at photos.

madargon,
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@sapphire thank you :blobcatheart:

madargon, to linux
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Did my taxes via government website... And now I want to scream about support on ...
Why the hell login via identity card is so much pain every damn time?!?

madargon,
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@MartinBe Maybe it is somehow related to their smartcard reader software, distributed via the same government sites. I remember how I laughed reading their manual, definitely wrote by someone who never saw Linux.

madargon,
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@MartinBe Every service there, related to taxes, voting, some weird services using their "inbox" etc. are the same. Chain of weird redirections, sometimes with as suspicious addresses as real scam sites. And I dare you to use adblockers in browser...

madargon, to neverwinternights
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Inspired by this photo → https://oldbytes.space/@federico3/112330965871635778
Not even sure if it was original, I saw it here many times independently last few days, from various accounts posting this.
I imagined it as some #snake - #dragon - #cat #creature, most possibly living underwater so it could move quickly in this shape :blobcatjoy:​

#drawing #art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #krita #ArtWithOpenSource

madargon, to random
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rose, to random
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holy shit. they actually called it "reply guy". seeing the Torment Nexus and copying it for profit is one thing, but seeing a reply guy and being like "I can monetize that" is a whole new type of evil.

madargon,
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@peteriskrisjanis @rose I thought it was satire when my friend sent me link yesterday.

var, to privacy
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madargon,
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@var After five years... damn, I still feel there are privacy loopholes I don't see yet...

pascaline, to random
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Hm, someone never writes their own posts and only boosts other persons' posts. Legit? Maybe I am too suspicious.

madargon,
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@pascaline I know poeple using social media (various, not only fedi) this way. Rather harmless, until they propagate weird spam posts with suspicios links.

madargon, to Cat
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It's my jungle and my spot. I want to lie here all day and look cute :blobcatpusheen:

Similar photo but slightly further, more flowers and leaves visible in the foreground.

madargon, to drawing
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Not sure why I had this idea for the first time... Maybe it was some conversation about values, ethics and whether "everyone has a price"... And later I needed any reason to experiment with style with clearly cut shadows (I usually draw with gradient, it's more natural for me).

LukaszD, to random Polish
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Co można robić z mydłem? Odpowiedzi na literę M

madargon,
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@LukaszD teraz mam flashback z tych memów z początku pandemii "mydli-mydli" :blobcatconcerned: 🪰

puppygirlhornypost, to random
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@madargon do you memorize ipv6 addresses? internal dns servers are based in my opinion but yeah fuck using the big ones like 1.1.1.1 8.8.8.8 out of principle because they're centralized dns. i mean dnssec but still, the registrars and so forth it gets really political. i just use 1.1.1.1 with 8.8.8.8 as fallback because it just works ™️ though i respect efforts such as https://wiki.opennic.org/start

madargon,
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@puppygirlhornypost Didn't try hard enough yet :blobcatjoy:
I had times I remembered my "main" IPv6 address - DigitalOcean gives 16 of them, my nginx uses first from that list.
In work I mostly ping servers or log via ssh using IP addresses. I feel it is kind of... more reliable?

alexpsmith, to random

Good morning from Wollongong, for those who celebrate.

madargon,
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@alexpsmith Wow! So fantastic colours! What species is it? 🦜

madargon,
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@alexpsmith Thank you :foxx3:

LukaszD, to random Polish
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Coś, co można znaleźć w przychodni.
Odpowiedzi proszę na literę Z

madargon,
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@LukaszD zaczynam żałować, że tu nie ma reakcji na posty jak w tych wszystkich instancjach *key bo bym dała 😂

darnell, to meta
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#Meta should just offer people in #Europe (& the rest of the planet) a simple option: either opt in to have your personal information sold to advertisers, or pay a fee to use #Facebook, #Instagram, #WhatsApp & #Threads.

It works for #YouTube (I pay them to avoid ads), as well as other news organizations. It’s really that simple.

👉🏾 Meta could face further squeeze on surveillance ads model in EU | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/25/meta-ads-data-retention-ag-opinion/

madargon,
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@darnell No, privacy is human right, not thing to put a price tag on it and sell. Nobody should be coerced to pay for not being psychologically manipulated and exploited.

And this only apply to ads in their awful serviced. Paying users wouldn't be free of tracking, only data would be used for other purposes. This is big horrible con.

madargon,
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@darnell If their business model rely on exploitation, manipulation and general disrespect these companies shouldn't exist at all.

madargon,
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@darnell But data are STILL siphoned off - there's a big lie paid tiers are free of tracking. Only there is no ads visible. And displaying ads shouldn't require invading poeople's private lives and activities. There wers context ads for example.
Maybe it's good time to finally separate first thing from the second.

madargon,
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@darnell Yes, I absolutely don't trust them and don't use. I cut from my life few of them and never touched the rest. And I block connections to their services if I find them. Never thought they are critical.
But there are people who don't use it voluntarily but because of external factors (employers, stubborn families, various service providers refusing to use other communication channels) forcing them. And they don't deserve to be "punished".

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