Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

I have not presented to mastodon yet the fact that my cat knows to ring a bell whenever she has an urgent need that I must fulfill! #MagicalMinka

I taught her to do it because her previous way of notifying me was pulling any paper out of my shelves and destroying it. this is much less destructive.

she used to ring for all kinds of things, but ever since she's chosen my roommate over me she only returns to my room to ring when she's hungry or to complain that my roommate's door is closed.

terra server (2022, declassified and colorized)

Christmas decorations are going up! You’ve got the tree, lights, asbestos… Wait, what?

For decades, asbestos was sold as artificial snow. It could be bought in boxes to be sprinkled onto trees, ornaments, nativity scenes, etc. It was so popular, many older ornaments still have traces of asbestos.

It was also used in film. The most famous scene with asbestos snow is in Wizard of Oz (1939), when snow falls on Dorothy and her friends, waking them up.

#histodons @histodons #christmas

Mastodon 4 adds a new endpoint, /api/v1/instance/domain_blocks

This endpoint contains your instance's block list in an easily machine-readable format. As far as I know, the only tool that currently uses this endpoint is the kiwifarms one.

The endpoint does not require any form of authentication, so it's very easy to scrape. I recommend editing your web server configuration to prevent access to the endpoint until there's something legitimate that uses it.

#fediblock #mastoadmin

I wish we could rely on governments or companies or other institutions to be there for us. But increasingly we will not be able to. *We have to do it ourselves.*

Housing, community safety, cyclist/pedestrian infrastructure, local journalism, education, preventing drug overdoses, running social media…It is all up to us. There is no one else.

It's a dizzying realization. It's terrifying…but also incredibly empowering.

Does anyone else feel this way?

🐦

if the ear resonates with sound waves for your brain to interpret as sound, does that mean when I put a square wave in Famitracker my ear drum is doing binary

@ifixcoinops I'm trying to find #theowlhouse people
PLEASE!
No one seems to have moved from the bird app. I don't think they learnt how to fly yet....or they're all penguins in which case i'm in big trouble because I was only on there for the artists 😭

operator precedence parsing was solved 100 years ago, y'all just cowards

Everything *else* aside, having a government account hosted on a community server seems an awful lot like having a government website hosted at something like

bobspersonalpage.com/users/~InternalRevenueService

Just spotted some graffiti that said "abolish bedtimes"

The modern German train experience of "your train is delayed, so you wouldn't make your connection. However that train is also delayed, so you'll make it" 😅😅

I have mixed feelings about the Tumblr ActivityPub thing. On one hand, that's a lot of users that will now be able to interact with our open community here, and I feel like that can be a good thing. I always felt like fedi culture and Tumblr culture were very similar too. However, a major company becoming part of the ecosystem is an entry point for companies to take over the ecosystem. I think the current owners of Tumblr are decent people, but if Automattic or Tumblr get acquired again we may end up in a situation where a company wants to take over fedi for the benefit of its shareholders.