Bruce Heerssen / is on Nostr

#Sailor, #cook, #linux enthusiast, proud #feminist

Sometimes I hack together #perl scripts.

Right now, I'm probably driving a reefer across the United States.

My old Twitter handle is @BruceHeerssen. I don't go there anymore.

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2024-09-07 18:29:39

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Propaganda is effective. Perhaps the most dismaying aspect is how simple, transparent, and predictable it often is.

2024-07-07 16:46:14

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And again, I ponder the age-old question.
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2024-07-02 02:19:37

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Isn't openSUSE Arch-based anyway?
I tried Arch. I thought it was very impressive, but too fiddly for me. I can see why people like it, though. It reminded me a bit of Gentoo, back in the day.

2024-06-27 21:38:17

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I have done some research and made a startling discovery. I don't know quite how to put this, but:
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2024-06-07 03:57:39

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I hope so. I've been at this Mastodon thing for about a year and a half, and already I have about as many followers as I had at Twitter after 13 years.

2024-06-07 03:20:04

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Well, I think that's the perception among outsiders. The question is how to change that perception.

2024-06-07 02:53:29

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Creatives often want, above all else, to have their art seen and appreciated. I think there's a stigma about the fediverse that says you won't have that here. That a person's reach is extremely limited in the fediverse. I don't know if that's actually true or not, but until that perception changes, it's going to be hard to attract major creative types. (Of any kind: artists, journalists, musicians, etc.)
It's a bit of a chicken and egg problem.

2024-05-29 20:42:13

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How is a Trump presidency better in that regard. I think it would be far, far worse. He would enable Bibi to kill every remaining Palestinian.
And it's not only Gaza. It's Ukraine. And Thailand. And Indonesia. And the list goes on. Trump would cheer all of it on.

2024-04-20 12:23:46

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LOL. I should have left the poll open longer. I'll probably try LibreTranslate when I find the time, but I'm not in any hurry.

2024-04-19 05:57:25

I finally got around to enabling language translation in my Mastodon instance. I went with DeepL because it was simple and fast, but I'm uneasy with sending other peoples' posts to an outside service, so I'm considering using LibreTranslate instead. LibreTranslate requires setting up a service on my VPS, which is not inconsequential.
Thoughts?
#Mastodon #LibreTranslate #Translation #DeepL