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mick

@mick@cosocial.ca

Average middle-aged guy from various places in Ontario.

Collector of various nerdly interests.

Into #running, #books, #chess, #videogames.

At least a little bit #buddhist. Trying to lead an examined life.

I believe that we have the right to safe digital spaces where we can build communities free from corrosive capitalist influence.

Working to build a sustainable, non-corporate web as a volunteer with #CoSocialCa

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mick, to random
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This comic has popped into my mind every month or so for the past 30 years.

evan, (edited ) to random
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What is your relationship with your instance owner?

mick,
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@evan “its complicated”

mick, to random
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There’s this trope in zombie movies where the outbreak is just starting to take hold and the viewer catches glimpses of news reports about the emerging threat on TVs that are unnoticed in the background.

The characters don’t know that the world is ending just yet, but the viewer has a premonition of the disaster that’s just ahead.

Anyhow, feeling a bit of this about H5N1 at the moment.

mick,
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@n3wjack that was last week’s alarming development, ya.

Previously it was “unprecedented global outbreak in chickens,” followed by “outbreak wipes out elephant seal population.”

This week seems to be evidence of spread to… dolphins? Bad vibes!

mick, to gaming
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Sopwith is 40 years old! I can’t even guess at how many hours I spent playing this when I was a kid.

https://fragglet.github.io/sdl-sopwith/40years.html

pluralistic, to random
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Combine Angelou's "When someone shows you who they are, believe them" with the truism that in politics, "every accusation is a confession" and you get: "Every time someone accuses you of a vice, they're showing you who they are and you should believe them."

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/19/make-them-afraid/#fear-is-their-mind-killer

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mick,
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@pluralistic another banger

timbray, to random
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I asked meta.ai to generate an image of “a free oboe concert in Shibuya”

[yeah, I know, but it’s been a long day. I also asked for an image of Neil Young fighting a dragon, but it refused.]

mick,
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@timbray this dude is jammin’

evan, (edited ) to random
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Have you seen a laser show at a planetarium?

mick,
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@evan McLaughlin Planetarium in Toronto.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/McLaughlin_Planetarium

The show was set to a selection of Guns N’ Roses and Metallica tracks and was cleverly titled “Metal Roses.”

It was the mid-90s and it was glorious.

mick, to random
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Intense windstorm overnight. Pleased to discover my yard furniture still in my yard.

mick, to random
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The train station in Port Hope, Ontario, was built in 1856 and was refurbished in 1881. It was restored in 1985 and here’s what it looks like today.

No staff on site. If not for the announcement board I might have mistaken it for abandoned.

Old train station.
Old train station.

david_megginson, to books
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Big 💡moments in history

"Hey! What if we cut that scroll into pieces and sew them all together on one side, so that a reader can easily jump straight into the middle?"

Main benefit: Random access to information (dictionaries, encyclopedias, tables of contents, indices, etc).

Side benefit: reduction in repetitive strain injuries from unrolling scrolls.

#books #codicology #information

mick,
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@mpjgregoire @david_megginson this functionality is available in the Glitch-soc port of Mastodon, which we're not currently running.

https://glitch-soc.github.io/docs/

Gargron, to random
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Oh, today is my 8th anniversary of working on Mastodon. I was 23 when I started, finishing my last year of university, still living at my parent's place. I had no idea what I was getting myself into or that it would consume the next 8 years of my life almost completely.

mick,
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@Gargron incredibly grateful for your work Eugen!

mick, to random
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Just finished listening to “The Bezzle” from @pluralistic - and it’s great!

Cory has now managed to write two thoroughly entertaining, gripping thrillers featuring a forensic accountant as the main protagonist.

Seriously! No spoilers, but this book features exciting spreadsheets!

Looking forward to more Martin Hench.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250865878/thebezzle

RainofTerra, to random
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Ugh, feels so expensive now for hosting our mastodon server, thinking a lot about just hosting it at home and having Linode host the object storage and front the reverse proxy. We have plenty of hardware and bandwidth (10Gb fiber) here. 🤔

I could also just downsize the linode probably but that would involve shrinking some file systems to fit within the reduced storage or migrating to a new Linode and ugh.

mick,
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@RainofTerra a little while back we started exploring dedicated VPS at OVH and its incredible how much more expensive cloud stuff is for small deployments.

A Digital Ocean droplet with similar RAM, storage and CPU costs $250/month as an OVH VPS we picked up on sale for $15/mo.

mick, to random
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Didn’t we already try Fascism and Measles and decide we were better off without them?

SteveThompson, to Israel
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Not seeing any of these concerned 'protesters' posting their horror about the slaughter of innocent Israeli women and children. But the West is supposed to be all gooey and distressed when Hamas propaganda is blindly pushed our way.

"Yazan Abu Jama, 5: Bedouin family’s only son slain by rocket"

https://www.timesofisrael.com/yazan-abu-jama-5-bedouin-familys-only-son-slain-by-rocket/

"Killed by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip in Ar’ara on October 7"

mick,
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@SteveThompson curious what “propaganda” you’re referring to.

I am distressed by the senseless murder of civilians.

That the IDF is currently engaged in the mass slaughter of civilians is deeply distressing.

The death of Israelis at the hands of Hamas and other bands of murderous thugs is also distressing.

It’s not “gooey” to be horrified that one of the best equipped militaries in the world is carrying out crimes against humanity on an unthinkable scale.

mick, to random
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Trust & Safety doing the good work of keeping us free of spam. Thanks team!

mick, to climate
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13 C on Feb 9.

Not a fan of “traditional” February weather, so I’ll take it, but this is a more than a bit creepy.

mick, to random
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Overdue for a guillotine emoji.

virtuous_sloth, to random
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Hey @coop, has anyone seen anything like this?

I decided to see what Googling my handle would return and after hitting a few on our server I got this URL which seems to be an imperfect mirror of my profile here.

https://atomicpoet.org/users/$AUnO2tvWcP1nsQHDRg

mick,
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@boris @virtuous_sloth @coop right.

That server does behave differently than Mastodon, which won’t display the locally-stored version of your profile to non-local users.

That is rather odd. They’re more-or-less indexing the entire Fediverse for public display.

mick, to Canada
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The Government of is accepting input on a “Regulatory Framework for an Oil and Gas Sector Greenhouse Gas Emissions Cap” until February 5th at midnight.

The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment have set up a one-click letter to make it easy to let your representative know that the cap must be strong and fair, quickly implemented, and free from loopholes favoured by the oil and gas industry.

https://act.cape.ca/newmode_emissions_cap_framework_feedback

mick, to animals
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I guess it’s a bit chilly in here this morning.

mick, to random
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Haley hanging in there on the slim hope that the DOJ or some lump of fat in a vein takes out the orange one before the election. 🤞

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@evan far out:

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mick, to random
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I guess the idea is that dropping American-built explosives on the Houthis from American-built drones and planes will somehow be more effective if done by Americans instead of Saudis?

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