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

To the people who are like “What did you expect to happen when you picked a .af domain, are you idiots?”

Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the start
Yes, we were aware that political circumstances could change
But thumbing your nose at conservative autocrats as an even minor form of protest is fun
In the end pretty much everyone has migrated out successfully (and I’ll continue to help anyone who remains)
We’ve all gotten a fun story out of this

I’ve been signalling the probable demise of queer.af to my followers for the past year. We knew the end was coming; we just anticipated it to take a little longer

So long; it was fun while it lasted.

🎶 : Beste reijsende, vellkome in de internationale nightjet naar Zürich.

(SBB jingle with Dutch following sounds absolutely cursed.)

(Oh no, they use the full-train announcements though I turned off the speakers 🤐.)

a fedi instance is like a rock, and its users are like the bugs that hangout under that rock

Please, I beg of you, create a security@yourdomain.com email address for vulnerability reporting purposes. Bonus points if you create a security.txt file at both / and /.well-known/

That final e-mail before your domain does dark at the regsitry:

Afghanistan ccTLD Network Information Center ( af NIC ) queer.af has been suspended in the registry and will no longer be included in zone file generation. This means that any services connected with this domain, such as websites or email addresses will cease working shortly. Please contact your registrar if you have any questions about this process. Your registrar's details are as follows: Name: Gandi SAS Website: https://www.gandi.net Email: support-en@support.gandi.net Phone: +33.(1)70.37.78.80 Fax: +33.(1)43.73.18.51 Address: 63-65 boulevard Massena Paris 75013 Ministry of Communications and IT Mohammad Jan Khan Watt Kabul Afghanistan

very nice climate policy you've got over there, so much that the most pro-eco green low-carbon traveling option is hilariously uncompetitive compared to taking a plane

day 2478456789293489085 of waiting for the EU to regulate prices of international (sleeper) trains so they can get anywhere near being financially viable option for anyone except very wealthy enthusiasts

you want to make people excited about your game? MARKET YOUR GAME

you want to share your excitement with other gamedevs?
WRITE A NICE DEVLOG OR JUST SHARE YOUR EXCITEMENT

STOP MAKING OUR PROFESSION A CONTENT MILKABLE ONE, THAT IS NOT WHAT GAMEDEV IS, ITS SETS VERY UNHEALTHY EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT OUR PROFESSION IS TO PEOPLE WANTING TO BECOME GAMEDEVS

Is there a GUI program (for Linux) that can manage a keyboard using QMK?

I recently found out that mine uses that and can do a lot more stuff than I thought it could, but it's all managed through key shortcuts and possibly like, manually editing config files and rebuilding the firmware 😅

Hello fellow admins!

It would help users migrating from queer.af if you would temporarily add the following to /etc/hosts:

65.108.48.233 queer.af

The domain was suspended this morning without warning.

For users attempting to migrate, there’s an alias domain for the UI setup at: https://queer-af.alioth.systems

Thank you everyone for flying queer.af; sorry for the abrupt end, but it was out of my control, and you were all (hopefully) aware of this possibility anwyay.

Hey Mastodon, can I tell you a fact I've been obsessed with since I learned it last year? You know that time in early spring when you just wake up one day and suddenly everything is green, as if it happened overnight? That happens when we have 10 hours of daylight - that is the magic amount that encourages everything to grow. The day when we have 10 hours of daylight is sometimes called "Persephone Day" - it's when she returned from the underworld!

h/t to the person who opened hackertyper when the NOS pointed a camera at their laptop #hackerhotel

@flimpie @cato at 30c3 the NDR filmed me typing on hackertyper:

https://youtu.be/qrcPoyBdKzo?t=54

(I did tell the camera guy what it is. he loved it for B-roll)