Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

We need a positive PR campaign on masks. We need to rebrand them as a symbol of compassion & empowerment. Our leaders have tricked many into believing they are oppressive but we can turn this around. #Covid

@joepie91 I've yet to see an energy consumption comparison that shows any context at all.
Doing software no one needs, endlessly duplicated to get the 9s nobody needs and low latency for all the world that no one needs, but it's written in Rust and thus at least those thousand servers take 40% less energy.

#fediblock tallship @ too many instances to name

this dude has alts all over the place (literally like 15+), and he uses them to insinuate himself into open source + activitypub development as much as possible, post absolutely unhinged right-wing, bootlicking, anti-immigration rants, and boost himself from his own alts

if you're a masto admin, i recommend searching for the username 'tallship' in your moderation interface, and suspending every alt you see

you might also find it beneficial to suspend domains that host that dude, since they tend to be undermoderated 'free speech' places (aka sources of hate speech)

Some people consider (or perhaps misremember) the "goto fail" bug as an example of why goto is dangerous, but really it's an example of why if-statements without braces are dangerous.

-Wmisleading-indentation exists now, but I don't think it solves the problem entirely - especially if you have auto-indent tooling in your IDE, or if you happen to be cursed with the requirement of using an ancient toolchain.

This write-up covers it well https://dwheeler.com/essays/apple-goto-fail.html

At some point a desire to minimize "drama" acquires all of the repressive and intrinsically conservative qualities of calls to "leave politics out of it" --

Not a fan of "drama" myself, but ignoring politics isn't a luxury I can afford. And what is drama is often at root political and what is political is nearly always ... dramatic.

algorithmic timeline where you shake your phone and then tap it against the desk to get the posts to settle in a new order

Having watched the eightpoint.app situation for a while, rage.love will be defederating in a week because of the admins' decision to bring back Slaanesh despite her deceit about her identity and without any indication that she is no longer a danger to trans women. ( https://eightpoint.app/@Smutty_Tiefling/109506532416662564 , also see attached screenshot) Mods coming right out and saying they don't care about Slaanesh/Laurelai's victims they don't know is extremely alarming to say the least, among other expressions we won't use on the admin account. This is how abuser-enabling cliques form and we want no part in it.

Black/Indigenous users who are looking to leave eightpoint and think rage.love would be a good fit should feel free to DM or email this account for an invitation. #FediBlock

#FediBlock

details here https://kolektiva.social/@AuriBlackCat/109507426502181295

tl;dr the administration is still supporting LB

Batman but he finally gets therapy to deal with his parent's loss and realizes dressing up in a suit to beat up petty criminals is a trauma response and begins to invest billions into healthcare, police abolishment, fair housing, and drug treatment which drastically reduces crime to the point capitalists plot to eliminate him and when the succeed, this prompts the Justice Leauge to go after the industrialists responsible for his death, which give the general populace a chance to seize the means of production and the military is afraid to act because Superman has promised to destroy one military base for every civilian life they take.

That would be a pretty cool story.

"Ben je nog steeds bang voor corona?" Ik ben niet bang, ik ben goed op de hoogte. Ik ben ook niet bang voor krokodillen maar ik weet dat het niet gezond is als ik te dichtbij kom.

https://genders.wtf from @effy is extremely good, please submit more bad forms asap

so now I'm wondering: if you have created and/or run both a Minecraft *and* a mastodon (fediverse) server, which did you find easier to do? (if you haven't done *both* please just choose "Spiderman" to see poll results, and please boost for maximum reach!)