trebach

@trebach@masto.ai

Contains tactical swearing. Requests are just to make sure you're not a bot, asshole, or scraper.

Toots deleted after 2 weeks unless I need to hang onto them.

#Poetry whenever I go off on one.

Confirmed the following sequences are prime: 439402956431211397+152803454223092870n for n=0..21
405806196149584877+152804082223092870n for n=0..20

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stux, to random
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

In the Netherlands, our 'great farmers' now wanna shoot wolfs with paintball guns :nkoFacepalm2:

Soon also in the Netherlands..

Shooting farmers with paintball guns! (Only pink allowed cause they hate that)

trebach,

@stux All that'll do is piss off the wolves and the farmers.
Also your asshole neighbors will be huffing the paintball propellant if they aren't already

trebach,

@stux @dpflug Some countries have replaced CO2 with NO2 (laughing gas) for environmental reasons

stux, to random
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

Kids walking around with thousand euro iPhones on schools and such is apparently normal :blobcatblueegg:

Unfort those mega calculators are mostly used for things like toxic TikTok and not educational purposes :sadlinux:

trebach,

@stux Give them a Voyager. It looks advanced enough to be a Samsung Note but it's 17 years old, so it can't run apps or have a web browser

AdmiralFrosty, to random

Trying to set up a at home, but turns out my doesn't let you change the DNS server at all.

trebach,

@AdmiralFrosty doesn't either. I just bought a modem and router and changed the DNS on the router rather than rent their locked down modem/router combo that they want a subscription to control for me

stux, (edited ) to random
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

Wtf is dis sjit :amaze:

Like for real or AI :blobcatgiggle:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65981876

trebach,

@stux Bullshit the two of them made up as a joke

w7voa, to Virginia
@w7voa@journa.host avatar

A state lawmaker who referred to herself as "Trump in heels' is ousted after losing Republican primary race. https://www.wtvr.com/news/local-news/glen-sturtevant-wins-primary-june-20-2023

trebach,

@w7voa These things happen when you're so unhinged that even other members of your own party doesn't want to work with you

kde, to random
@kde@floss.social avatar

If you are Redditor, we would like to know your opinion: r/kde has been closed for several days to unsubscribed users in protest for the company's latest decisions. Should we open r/kde up now or wait? Tell us what you think by filling out the poll here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/14f2hym/should_rkde_open_now_or_be_kept_private_until_the/

trebach,

@kde I don't think it matters anymore.

If you close, the admins will reopen it and you will be demodded. They don't even care about maintaining the facade of listening to users anymore. Anything that gets in the way of their gravy train will be obliterated

rysiek, to fediverse
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

Hug your today.

There's a lot of shit flying in the lately and a lot of times perspective seems to get lost. Yes, there are things we need to talk about, and yes there are things we will not agree on. And that's okay.

But leave the pitchforks and torches out of this.

Fedi admins put in the hours and effort and emotion into making fedi happen. Sometimes they make decisions we might not agree with. We should criticize, but we should not pile-on.

trebach,

@inherentlee @rysiek Holy shit. I can't see anything on Fedi that would warrant such a response

rysiek, to bluesky
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

Funny how when got the first few thousand accounts all of tech media immediately started tripping one over another covering it and getting a collective aneurysm. :blobcatroll:

Meanwhile, gets ~70k accounts over 2 weeks, and (with the fine exception of ) not a peep. :blobcatgiggle:

trebach,

@rysiek Follow the money. Which outlets are owned by Conde Nast/Advance Publications and this have a vested interest in not mentioning it?

stux, to random
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

Ahh.. the nasty posts coming from the .art admin where written by welshpixie herself… :sadlinux:

That’s such a huge disappointment. Like the admin account she’s also blocked on mstdn.

trebach,

@mejofi Did you read this: https://mstdn.social/@stux/110570709034574825
@stux

trebach,

@stux If you starting throwing around accusations, you need receipts. Otherwise people will assume you're making things up.

This is concerning to me both as a user and as a business associate because it currently appears as you've defederated on a whim, slept on it, and then refederated after you regretted it in the morning. You have to make your case that there was good reason to do so beyond the summary you've provided because defederation is the nuclear option

rysiek, to random
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

Looks like Reddit management has seamlessly transitioned from the "fuck around" phase of running Reddit to the "find out" phase, and yet so far missed that fact. 🍿

trebach,

@rysiek @kcarruthers I think they're just looking at metrics and not realizing that subs forced back open are being filled with random shit like pictures of John Oliver looking sexy (/r/funny and /r/gifs)/artistic (/r/art), water vapor and applications thereof (/r/steam), and long videos of random noise

trebach,

@kcarruthers @rysiek He actually provided more pictures on his Twitter as additional source material

trebach,

@rysiek @kcarruthers If there weren't a writer's strike going on, I think he'd cover it

JakoJakoJako13, to NFL

Help me out here. Like a lot of ex-redditors, I made my way to the fediverse to find a whole new world of social media. Is it confusing at first? Yes. It takes a moment to adjust and learn the difference between an instance and a server and all that. But the one thing that confuses all hell out of me is @name. Not because it doesn't make sense. I get that on the most basic level if I wanna find user @JakoJakoJako13 that's what I need to search for. But mainly because it doesn't work in the way it's proposed to work across all instances/servers/services. Which is if I search for @nfl on Mastodon or Calckey or any fediverse server I should be able to see what they posted. Most of the time, that's not what happens.

First we need to look at Lemmy because they've kinda thrown a wrench at this cog. What is this: !nfl? More importantly what is [!] doing there? Well that's the NFL community on lemmy.world. But to be super distinct, its a place. Not a person. What happens if I search for that on Mastodon? It returns nothing? What if I change that to @nfl. I get a user on Mastodon with 16 posts that don't populate on Mastodon. Same thing on Calckey but 0 posts instead of 16. Why does this happen? That user (to my knowledge) doesn't exist. On Lemmy, it's a place. A place where a collection of users congregated to make a collection of posts about the NFL. You could argue it's the same thing on Mastodon but instead of a dedicated place it's a subject and it's out in the open.

A noun is a person, place, or thing. So far in the fediverse we've concentrated on a person @ and a thing #. Mainly because the groundwork is there thanks to twitter. The fediverse's implementation of interactivity only focuses on the user. It has only looked at the @ of human interaction and not the whole noun. If this idea of connecting across servers want's to fully work then each service needs to come to an agreement on how they want to implement places !. We've got the user part down. We've got the thing part down. Only using an @ and a # leads to small talk. Need proof. See Twitter. If you want deep thoughtful discussion, you need the !. And in my analogy that is the place. And like in real life when it's all working together it leads to a community.

So I guess what I'm proposing, is as much as we hate reddit right now, Mastodon, Calckey, Lemmy, Kbin, and so on need to find a way to incorporate places together to get the whole idea of the fediverse walking.

I shouldn't have to enter a full URL to get Mastodon to populate the contents of a user or place. That's not the way we've been told this works. We're being sold on the model of @name. Well @name wants to see what !nfl is saying about over on !different. Until we standardize that, the fediverse will only ever be a half baked idea.

trebach,

@JakoJakoJako13 @nfl @JakoJakoJako13 I think we do need separate notation to separate groups from users, reserving @ for users.

The leading ! can be used for communities/groups, but we need to be consistent across applications because as you said, it's a mess if we conflate the two concepts and have them use the same syntax

CharlieMcHenry, to reddit
@CharlieMcHenry@connectop.us avatar

I’m a long-time user with the karma to prove it. I love the site, but have been absent now for several days. PLEASE, stay off of Reddit for at least the next few days, we’ve got a point to make - that our community is mightier than the greedy corporation. The CEO says it will “…all blow over soon…” Let’s prove him wrong. It’s hard, but we need to stay off the site until management gets the point. It’s ok to explore profit-making moves, but it’s not ok to attack the community and valued third party app devs.

trebach,

@CharlieMcHenry I wonder if they've worked out that a lot of their page hits are just people deleting their accounts or scraping its content for posterity

rysiek, to random
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

The is growing fast!

Since start of June, Lemmy went from ~1000 (as reported on the-federation.info) to ~22k monthly active accounts:
https://the-federation.info/platform/73

Kbin went from ~200 (not a typo, two hundred), to ~31k monthly active accounts:
https://the-federation.info/platform/184

I would risk a hot-take that Threadiverse today is where Fediverse was in April 2022: some infra exist, some long-established communities are there, and there is now sudden popular interest, stress-testing the network.

trebach,

@rysiek The people most impacted by the changes effective July 1 are moderators, so I can see a lot of them leaving and the enshittification accelerating as there are fewer people around to ban the karma-farming bots

rysiek, (edited ) to random
@rysiek@mstdn.social avatar

A few days ago I made some predictions about the and :
https://szmer.info/post/349217

tl;dr:

  • soon media will discover Lemmy exists
  • they will miss Kbin exists
  • once they eventually notice it, they will be befuddled about it; Kbin will get called a "fork" of Lemmy at some point.
  • more Threadiverse instances will start turning off registrations to deal with the deluge of people joining
  • media will call this "elitist" (as opposed to BlueSky or ClubHouse being…

🧵

trebach,

@rysiek needs a list of communities like and Mastodon have.

It's up to about 25 now, https://KBin.pub/ is behind on listing them, and https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list doesn't list https://kbin.social/ on it

trebach,

@aroom Agreed. Poor @ernest has probably been sleeping on his keyboard for the last month after long days and/or nights of coding. The last thing he needs is me adding to his workload
@rysiek

tchambers, to reddit

Listings of subredits that are, or are about to go dark on Monday: https://reddark.untone.uk/

trebach,

@tchambers The site has gone down at least twice, so they are streaming the total and when subreddits go down/up and the size here: https://www.twitch.tv/reddark_247

tchambers, to fediverse

Facinating to watch a potential to the fediverse. The and teams are dealing with all the same issues that Mastodon and other fedi microbloging sites did - but in even a faster timeframe as much of Reddit appears to be set to go dark on Monday. Questions of how to onboard, questions of centralized vs distributed onboarding, questions of how to explain servers and federation, and deep questions of how to scale if traffic is anyting like it could be Monday...

trebach,

@tchambers About 500 subreddits have already gone private. KBin.social has already had to scale up their VPS thrice and Lemmy.ml closed registrations

feditips, to fediverse
@feditips@mstdn.social avatar

Apparently Reddit has now banned a subreddit dedicated to the Fediverse Reddit-alternative Kbin:

https://sakurajima.moe/@chikorita157/110517156242412322

If you're on a centralised platform like Reddit, this is what they can do. Centralised platforms have all-powerful leaders who can do whatever they want, and you have no alternatives if you disagree.

The point of the Fediverse being on lots of servers is that each server's power is limited. If you disagree with one server's actions, you can move.

trebach,

@feditips They already banned and then unbanned /r/LemmyMigration

lukem, to random

Okay then. Where is my popcorn.

https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_about_changes_to_our_api/

trebach,

@lukem I don't think there's any need for it. Admins will pick maybe five questions that they can give a weaselly or complete non-answer to and go hide

stux, to random
@stux@mstdn.social avatar

Reddit blackout: Subreddits to go private on Monday

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-65855608

trebach,

@stux Lemmy instances are seriously being overloaded right now because it and KBin are being recommended as alternatives.

However said people are also getting banned on Reddit for it by the admins

Jonsnow93, to random Dutch
@Jonsnow93@mstdn.social avatar

Morning hugs from Whasy are the best!❤️ Make today a wonderfull day

trebach,

@stux @lukem @Jonsnow93 Is Whazy related to George and Washy?

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