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Looking for people who know something about early computing, especially in the Netherlands. Please boost and help me solve the mystery of this custom made plate that used to belong to my grandfather Bram Jan Loopstra, one of the pioneers of Dutch computing. What do the pictures mean? #computing #history (EDIT: Wow, thanks for the overwhelming response! You may have to check the post on my instance to see all the MANY helpful reactions.)

feels like i should know this person but can't find much about them, hmm

you ever play with a concept in your mind and come to a word that just already exists (bonus points if it even has the same meaning as the joke you were trying to make)

yeah i just went from software to hardware, im real smart

*general who has only ever played chess* look we just need to get one soldier to the far side of their borders and they become head of state

ip blocks for the ip block gods git.pixie.town/f0x/nixos/src/c

it's neat seeing my request log dry up lol
do still gotta add a user-agent filter because fedilist (ran by a fascist) scrapes over tor

If people are against FediBlock as a concept or a tool, it's probably bc hit dogs holler.

"I don't like being held accountable for my continuos harmful behavior and its bad when you call me out on things"

It's giving DARVO and utilizing your marginalized markers as a shield against your behavior suggests that marginalization is an excuse for lateral abuse.

It isn't & I said this before. It's a common tactic on here specifically, something I've not seen on other SM spots to this extent

are they...you know
[mimes mainstreaming far right talking points]
a journalist

wow, attending #cvqcon2023 and the hotel is so incompetent. first they announce that everyone has to move to the room whose number is one higher than our current room number, the next day they tell us to move to the room whose number is twice our current room number. what's next, moving us from room n to the n-th triangular number?

im going to do kitchen nightmares but i visit instance servers and i rag about them having poor moderation and no backups

the three-body problem 

“I would never have thought that actual fucking aliens would be involved!”

I CANN buy yet another domain i don't need, right?

Fediblock, meta 

If you can't do the simple basics of crediting @CaribenxMarciaX n @gingerrroot for fediblock you truly are part of the problem

updated list, as a few switched from ipv4 to v6 and vice-versa :")

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right, of course PIA just doesn't give a fuck about abuse through their vpn's

I have a separate instance that doesn't really federate, and it's been quite 'interesting' to monitor the logs for all these scrapers.

Also Friendica is very noisy for some reason? requesting a bunch of endpoints on discovery even tho you don't really federate with them

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@angilly @f0x text search that bypasses blocks (i.e. literally anything that scrapes fedi into a centralized data store) is an enabler for harassment and is therefore a massive red flag

just because the data is there and the use is permissible doesn't mean it's ethical

Assorted list of Fediverse scrapers you might want to block on the network level (some more malicious than others)

git.pixie.town/f0x/nixos/src/b

another scraper by an (ex-?)twitter employee, running without recognizable user-agent (uses the typhoeus library with defaults)

creating some full-text search federation wide search... macaw.social/@angilly/10959740

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