Raccoon :verified:

Computer Scientist, Media Creator, Programming Teacher, Business Consultant, Psychology Enthusiast, and AI-Safety Warrior.

I use this account to talk about my professional and academic interests. If you want my art or politics, check out my Mastodon.Art profile instead.

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2025-03-17 20:36:14

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@nprofile…saa7
Independently confirming this one from techhub.social.
#FediBlock / #InstanceBlock
freysa.ai
Spam - Instance is flooding the timeline with AI generated spam.
A glance over the timeline shows a ton of #AI generated content, repeating the same phrases over and over again in different contexts, seemingly to build fake discourse and infiltrate real discourse. Accounts are over a month old, meaning administration has not done anything about it. Blocking as #Spam, recommending other server #staff do the same.
- TechHub #Moderation

2025-02-18 06:18:07

I noticed a #vulnerability with the way #Mastodon displays link previews earlier that I haven't gotten around to reporting on the GitHub.
There was a spammer using a link with a preview that was basically a screenshot of an image behind a CW, making it look like there was an image to unhide, but when you tried to click it, it would send you to the website they had linked. I also saw a variant with a fake video preview.
It is very hard to tell the difference between this fake image and a real one, and I think that needs to be changed, perhaps with something perhaps with something that makes it clearer that you are looking at a link preview, and will be taken to a website if you click it.

2025-01-20 03:31:23

Has anyone ever set up #Mastodon to have like, buttons to show different versions of the page? I would really like to set it up to have multiple translations of stuff like the about page, but it doesn't seem to support the HTML that would be necessary for just flipping through divs...

2025-01-19 21:44:16

Bonjour! #TechHub has finished moving servers from the #US to #Quebec in #Canada, ensuring our ability to remain a space for (mostly) #FreeSpeech and an alternative to billionaire run #SocialMedia, without as much worry about interference of far-right authoritarian governments.
Still working on some of the migration, including work-in-progress translations of some of this stuff to French, Spanish, and Portuguese, but that's on the way, and the server is now located in Canada.
#KeepCalmAndFediOn #Mastodon #Fediverse

2025-01-17 20:29:20

Imagine being so insecure that you have to pay people to help you fake being a "#WorldClassGamer", and you have to buy a major social media platform to stop people from calling you out on it.
The world of #ElonMusk must must be a very pathetic one.
#Twitter #Gaming

2025-01-16 20:08:16

#Twitter sniping really should be a more common pastime here on the #Fediverse. If you have an account there, go repost my latest ad for Fedi...
https://x.com/RockstarRaccoon/status/1879983265643393444

2025-01-13 02:44:15

IF YOU ARE ON A #TECH INSTANCE THAT IS CLOSING DOWN, YOU CAN ALWAYS MOVE TO #TECHHUB.
We just got a new server in Canada and are adding new moderators: we are well-connected, and ready to bring in anyone who needs an account here. If your server is #ShuttingDown, and you want to talk about #programming, #engineering, #electronics, #AI, #gaming, or anything else #science and #technology related, please come over here right away so we have time to get everything transferred!
#FediTips: To move an account, make the new account, and go into Settings -> Account, and use the two options at the bottom to link each account to the other. You can also download all your data, and import some of your old #Mastodon data on the new one.
If you need help, feel free to contact me: I am open to helping anyone who needs it with making #accounts, moving accounts, and getting set up on a new #account.
#fediverse, please #boost this to help get people #moving from the closing servers!
#FediMigration

2025-01-08 15:31:22

Time for a #FacebookChallenge!
Go log in to your old #Facebook account, make a quip about unpopular policy there, followed by a comment about how there is a nonprofit social network that doesn't have these problems, and a link to JoinMastodon.org (or similar onboarding site). Bonus points if you see posts by your friends complaining and respond to those too.
Let's get this #FacebookMigration into full gear and grow the #fediverse!
https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/793/447/457/917/961/original/317b652c7acae782.png

2025-01-08 15:00:17

Sometimes I think the only reason #FediMeta is so dread-inspiring to people is they're taking it too seriously. Like, y'all, we need to relax for a second, remember we all have the same core principles, and you can always just block a server if they're platforming something you can't tolerate on the timeline. At the end of the day though, we're all just trying to build a network which is friendly and welcoming to everyone. Let's not let the #meta discussion district us from that

2025-01-03 19:25:14

As much as I like to stress that we are open for people who are moving here from other servers, I don't really care about that. People can move to or from other servers as much as they want.
Now, people coming to TechHub from #Twitter... That's a metric I'd like to increase. 😈

2025-01-03 19:09:04

While it probably won't be an issue for 99% of users, just wanted to post another reminder that #TechHub will be moving our server (on which this #Mastodon instance is hosted) from the #US to #Canada, in response to the hostile administration of Elon Musk and Donald Trump. This was planned back in October, contingent on the election results, and will be completed by the 20th.
We will be stationed in #Quebec, where the admin lives, so expect more options for #French speakers, which will be implemented alongside #Espanol and #Portugues as we work to cater better to #CentralAmerica and #SouthAmerica (including #Brasil). We will also be subject to #CanadianLaw, which should not be an issue, as the main difference would be hate speech, which we already explicitly don't allow.
Just letting the #Fediverse know what's happening here. Otherwise, expect business as usual: we will remain committed to providing an open and friendly large-server option for #Tech workers and enthusiasts in #America.

2025-01-01 18:07:45

It is currently the sum of all the numbers from 1 to 9 cubed.
#math

2024-12-25 16:16:28

I feel like #SpaceKaren is giving free #donation advertising to #Wikipedia with this message.
If you don't want to donate to Jimbo, consider responding with a donation to the #EFF or #ACLU, as he's effectively threatening to target independent media here, and these are the groups which will be on the front-line against him when he takes control of the regulatory system...
https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/714/345/192/245/345/original/23492bedd40fb0b2.jpg

2024-12-25 16:09:03

If "intellectual property is theft", and #art is #IntellectualProperty, and "#AI generated imagery is theft"...
How do those two concepts reconcile?
Just noticing those two thoughts juxtaposed and wondering if people have thoughts...

2024-12-25 12:02:09

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@nprofile…0938
People who speak for "All Christians" should perhaps only speak for themselves: not only do a large chunk of Christians not believe this sort of gender-binary ideology, but there isn't much of an opinion being stated on it in the gospels.
YOU don't believe in the existence of intersex people or non-binary genders, despite evidence. That is a faith that is separate from religion. You just happen to have found a church that (I'm assuming) agrees with that ideological position.

2024-12-20 19:30:14

Seeing as everyone in conversations about #Fediverse software seems to criticize #Mastodon and praise the better featured, if slightly more confusing interface of #Misskey, I'm going to make a comparison that praises Mastodon...
Mastodon handles posts from other servers better.
Misskey's method of primarily referring to every post with its own identifier is fundamentally flawed, and maybe difficult to fix without breaking a lot of systems that are linked into it. This system not only makes it difficult to figure out what something is by the URL, or manually type a URL for that matter, it also makes it more difficult to fetch posts which the instance doesn't already see.
Mastodon doesn't have that problem at all: not only can you see who the post is by and what server it's from simply by looking at the URL, you can literally just change the domain in the URL and you will get the same post on a different instance. Mastodon servers have better compatibility for the most important thing, posts.

2024-12-20 15:59:27

Live as if life will go on,
As if you'll still be here in a year
Because it will, and you will.

2024-12-15 19:34:52

I may have already posted this, but a good metric to consider with an organization I've been thinking about lately is, "how fucked would you be if the person in charge suddenly became a full on Nazi?"
With a #centralized Network like #BlueSky, where you can't just pick up and go somewhere else, you are absolutely fucked. Everything you have work to build on that network is now part of a Nazi Network, whose systems are run by Nazis for the Nazi effort. This is what happened on #Twitter: the company was bought by a Nazi who made it a Nazi propaganda mill.
With a #decentralized network like #Fediverse, you don't have that problem.
Even if Eugen Rochko randomly decided that, instead of photos, he was into bringing back the Third Reich, and that #Mastodon would now be software explicitly for pushing the white supremacist agenda, we would just move on and let the forks pick up where he'd left off.
Even if the #ActivityPub team became a White Semen Cult of some kind, the protocol is public: we'd be fine.

2024-12-15 18:51:32

Still finding it amusing that #BlueSky was all about being a better, "#decentralized" #SocialNetwork, where you could get away from the #enshittification and corporate bullshit that was making all #SocialMedia bad, but they aren't even decentralized, and don't have any sort of feature to move outside of their walled garden, and already are talking about #ads and #subscriptions.
Like, people have already bought domains for this, already built sign ups for those domains, already invested in the server infrastructure for hosting servers for what is basically someone else's social network, in anticipation of some sort of #Fediverse-like decentralization, something that has not been implemented beyond a box diagram as far as we know... And here we are, watching them implement ads and subscriptions, something which would be undermined by that, instead of just doing that.
At this point, I'm feeling pretty confident about my earlier assertions that "#BSky" might be Bullshit.

2024-12-13 23:06:43

Looking into ways we might better serve multiple #languages (English, Canadian French, American Spanish), wondering if anyone has suggestions for how to make the About and Policy pages multi-lingual in a way that looks elegant... Perhaps we could add some light JavaScript to them to hide and show different language sections? Is that a thing that works?
#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin

2024-12-06 06:49:22

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@nprofile…l5w8
Speaking as a Biden apologist, I'm not upset by the things that people are saying about the United Healthcare CEO, and I don't think I'd be that upset about the stuff with Biden either: politicians are vessels for policies, not heroes to be worshiped. There's no sacrilege in having issues with Biden, or even hating him, especially for not going after Netanyahu more aggressively, even if he did a lot of good things for America and the world.
My only hope is that people recognize in the next election, assuming we get one, that the Democrats are generally preferable to the Republicans, on pretty much every issue at this point. You can hate them all you want: the people in power are the enemy. Just be strategic when you get a chance to choose who's in power.

2024-12-02 18:25:30

Good News: @nprofile…g8jv just responded to the GitHub thread, and apparently they ARE working on #QuoteBoosts for #Mastodon!
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/309#issuecomment-2508707249
https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/113/584/626/076/338/810/original/6f64e381dc42937a.png

2024-12-02 07:54:39

After seeing how #FediAntisemitism can be useful as a tag (not getting into the issue of false positives on it), I'd like to see something like that for other #Moderation issues we see on the #Fediverse.
I propose we start using the tags #FediRacism, #FediQueerphobia, #FediTransphobia, and #FediAbleism when posting about examples of those things.
This will have three major uses...
1) Serve as a more specific warning to instances that are actively trying to protect themselves against those things. (eg, Black or Queer instances that need to spot #Racism and #Queerphobia fast to protect their users from #Harassment)
2) Give us a more direct way to track these issues on the network at large, and thus collect data on them.
3) Provide a more granular tagging for #FediBlock and #InstanceBlock posts.
I would like to say all this with the disclaimer that these tags always have false positives, so I encourage people to check the receipts before they block.
What are people's thoughts on this?

2024-11-26 08:18:42

Just a note to people, perhaps even a #FediTips #PSA...
We don't get anything from having more people on our servers. In fact a lot of #servers limit sign ups after a certain point because of the resources required for large user bases.
When people offer to help you move from #Mastodon.Social, or to their #instance, it's usually because Mastodon.Social is widely considered to offer the worst experience, and they think they can get you a better experience elsewhere.
I realize that it probably looks suspicious to people who aren't fully aware of how the #Fediverse #SocialNetwork is run, because it's very different from other #SocialMedia, but moving servers is good for everyone involved, especially if the server you are moving to is more in line with the kind of thing you want to talk about.

2024-11-18 14:45:46

Looks like #Mastodon.social is getting hit with one of those #spambots that tags random people with an ad. Better keep an eye out, #FediMod / #moderators. Bit of a #Spam wave going on, might spread to other servers soon.

2024-11-17 16:45:00

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If you still have a #Twitter account, consider boosting my posts about the #Fediverse there...
https://twitter.com/RockstarRaccoon/status/1858185244014162136

2024-11-17 16:06:07

Reminder that you can post about #Mastodon / #Fediverse on sites like Twitter, using the hashtags people are using to criticize them. I go there sometimes and talk about how we aren't owned by a crazy billionaire and how blocking actually works here.

2024-11-16 17:03:16

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@nprofile…s3fs @nprofile…6jwp
Looking at the stuff from this account, as someone who's worked with text-based generative AI, I'm seeing a lot of the patterns of on llm trying to string together science ideas without a clear understanding of what those ideas are, and saying that the 27 km long thing could circle the Earth three times, because that's a thing that shows up a lot in popular Science journalism.

2024-11-12 18:58:50

Making the switch from the #Developer version to the #Game-ready version of my #Nvidia driver, as I am starting to worry that the intense focus on #AI may be hampering it's usefulness for #rasterization and other aspects of the #graphics and #modeling workflows I use it to accelerate. I was using the developer version for things like #Blender, #GIMP, #Unity, and occasional experiments in analytical #AI, but if it's only good for the last one, and #GenerativeAI at that, I don't see the point.
Will post if I have any thoughts on what the outcome is.

2024-11-09 15:19:26

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@npub1txm…xp6c
Note that part of it might be that you're on Kolektiva, which is blocked and limited by a few of the major servers.

2024-11-07 18:09:10

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@npub1ane…7zqz @npub1nng…5che
I'm guessing you are using the accounts to scrape public posts that you wouldn't otherwise be able to see?

2024-11-04 04:27:12

As we get closer to the election, I have realized something which is important to the #fediverse, be it #Mastodon, #Misskey, or any other #instances...
Elon Musk, the person many people fled Twitter to avoid is now effectively a member of Trump's inner-circle, and should Trump win, he will have direct influence over the #FCC and #FEC. The consequences of this will be disastrous, not only because it will end all regulation of his businesses, but will allow him to directly attack the Fediverse using regulatory levers. While it's not clear if there is any legal backing for this, most #US based #servers cannot handle this.
This is on top of the partisan fight over #NetNeutrality, which Trump went after during his time in office, but Harris will likely protect, just as previous Democrats did.
That is why I have no choice, not simply as an #American citizen in a marginalized group, but #TechHub's head of #moderation, to tell my fellow American users to vote for Kamala Harris.
Our #Network may depend on it.

2024-10-17 14:21:10

So apparently they are having problems over on #BlueSky because of #Musk trying to remove the #Block button on #Twitter again.
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/bluesky-x-twitter-elon-musk-block-b2630894.html
I went ahead and made my usual dig about how #Mastodon / #Fediverse is pretty well hardened against that sort of thing at this point. I know part of it is that we have less influx, because we are a mature Network rather than the new shiny dangly thing, but I figured I might be able to snag a few users...
If anyone wants to retweet...
https://x.com/RockstarRaccoon/status/1846915880053047325

2024-10-07 18:30:34

I live on the coast of #Florida where #hurricane #Milton is supposed to hit, so I'm planning an #evacuation.
Remember that #evacuations don't have to be far, nor are they always necessary: I live far enough inland that I'm not in any of the evacuation zones (A through E), which means I am not at risk for the most dangerous part of the storm, which is the storm surge expected to happen along the western coast of the Florida peninsula. I've decided to try to go further inland anyway, so I'm calling up people in the cities East of here to see who has a place I can sleep Tuesday and Thursday nights.
Whether or not you are evacuating, if you live in Florida, make sure to bring in anything in the yard, put anything you can't bring in against the house, put up coverings on your windows if possible, pull down or trim loose branches that may become debris, get everything that isn't waterproof off the floor in case of puddles, and park your car in the garage or against the house facing south.

2024-09-29 04:58:30

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@npub1gr8…c639
Is it actually Whitemud Creek? That sounds like the kind of thing in AI could be making up.

2024-09-25 20:51:07

Just wanted to say, as a #FediMod, I really appreciate that #Mastodon lets me click a button to caption screenshots of text for me. It means I don't have to caption these racist / sexist / pedophilic things I put up on FediBlock / InstanceBlock.
Thanks Mastodon!

2024-09-25 00:26:17

So apparently the #Trump supporters are shooting at #Harris campaign offices now, and I think it really underlines something about the #violence that Trump has inspired this election cycle, and how there is this clear split in how it's being carried out.
Trump has inspired two people to shoot at him this summer: an anti-election anarchist, and an elderly man with a criminal record. While this is obviously really bad for reasons that have already been enumerated, it's also targeted entirely at a single person with power.
Trump has also inspired numerous people to shoot up schools, churches, synagogues, Walmarts, and now a Harris campaign office. These pro-Trump shooters aren't even targeting people who might have the power to do something, they're just targeting bystanders.
I hope this doesn't scare people away from publicly showing support for Harris, and that people remember that, if nothing else, they can't see who you vote for.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna172463
#shooting #USpol

2024-09-17 21:37:38

Normal Idea: spend billions to deal with periodic flooding.
Crazy Idea: stop building houses on the beach.
#Florida #JustFloridaThings

2024-08-05 21:49:07

Saying it again to remind everyone...
CIS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/05/nx-s1-5064358/olympics-womens-boxing-imane-khelif-lin-yu-ting
#CisWomenAreWomen #ImaneKhelif

2024-08-05 21:49:07

Saying it again to remind everyone...
CIS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.
https://www.npr.org/2024/08/05/nx-s1-5064358/olympics-womens-boxing-imane-khelif-lin-yu-ting
#CisWomenAreWomen #ImaneKhelif

2024-07-22 08:24:48

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@npub1psa…xhme
Note that, for the purposes of Fediverse connection, it would also help to have hashtags. I don't remember how those work in wordpress, but people can filter things out of their timeline based on them.

2024-06-17 07:03:45

"Why do you block all the far right instances but not the other political instances??"
Because people on the communist, socialist, and anarchist instances actually believe in peaceful coexistence, so they can can go for 5 fucking seconds without harassing minorities or calling for a second holocaust or lusting after 12-year-olds.
#FediMeta

2024-04-11 03:02:10

#astronomy #uspol
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sE-RUu9ClsU

2024-03-22 16:45:00

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@npub1kpw…xzz4
...I'm not sure the average doctor is really part of that decision process, or really directly benefits from it...

2024-02-24 00:02:31

If you ever notice a lack of #Trump supporters on your timeline, it's not because we don't allow it on the mainstream #Fediverse, it's that most people who openly support Trump can't resist going on some sort of slur-laden racist / sexist / anti-democracy rant long enough to actually gain a following on here, so they get banned and then run back to Twitter or Gab or Poast to complain about how we are all liberal snowflakes or whatever.
We don't have an algorithm to boost inflammatory content here, we have users boost for themselves.

2024-02-18 21:52:59

Just wanted to point out, with the ongoing #spam attack on #fediverse / #misskey / #mastodon, this kind of happens on every social network. The only reason you are hearing about it is because #moderation #staff is normal users who use the normal channels to talk about it, and we actually take it way more seriously than the corporate social networks do.
Like, this represents most of the traffic on #Twitter, and they don't seem to care, so it speaks volumes about the fact that you can see us talking about how we don't want that here.

2024-01-29 02:05:19

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1ztt…tvss
As someone who was actually crippled by the disease, I do think that you underestimate how serious a situation things were in 2020, especially when you say there was overreaction and panic. There were people in the government literally arguing that we should allow the entire population to be infected so that we could move on as quickly as possible, while doctors were screaming at them that there was no evidence that people couldn't have repeated serious infections, and that we didn't know what the long-term consequences would be.
The people who wanted to let the entire population get infected called the doctors "alarmist".
We now have a dozen variants, 10 to 20% of people who got it have serious long-term consequences, and managed to develop a vaccine to prevents those consequences within months. If it had been taken more seriously until the vaccine was out, as the "alarmist" doctors wanted us to, we would not be where we are now.

2024-01-28 02:48:01

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@npub1ztt…tvss @npub1kpw…xzz4
Just wanted to point out a potential skew you both might be missing here: Long COVID isn't very thuroughly defined, because it's not yet even understood as anything beyond "symptoms after infection has cleared due to damage."
This could include the type of permanently crippling nervous system damage that I have, but it could, in some studies, include ANY symptom which lingers for more than a couple weeks after infection.
Could it be possible that 80% of patients who test positive and end up in the study haven't fully recovered by a month later? Could it be that the study only includes more severe cases?

2023-12-25 03:04:13

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@npub1typ…c8hh
As a fan of Dave Seville, all I'm hearing is Dave Seville singing slowly, which was the entire trick he used to make these. That's why he's considered to be one of the pioneers, if not the creator, of electronic music.

2023-12-22 18:52:46

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@npub18r7…xrw4
Was literally arguing with someone last night about whether Joe Biden was going to do anything about the marijuana stuff, and they didn't believe me, and here, the next morning, he does this, on top of the fact that he's trying to get it rescheduled to a much lower level of substance regulation.
Let's also remember that this is a massive blow to several negative-externality industries, especially the government-corrupting private prison industry, which have been using the extreme laws against marijuana as a source of profit and power.

2023-12-16 17:25:39

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@npub1kpw…xzz4
Interesting. I think the only thing I find disagreeable is your welfare versus UBI thing. What's your actual argument there?

2023-12-13 02:12:48

#FediBlock catposter.club
After a long time of hesitation, I finally come across a post from them that warrants an immediate server block: the admin went on a rant about how he doesn't use "N***** software". I'm going to go ahead and include TechHub and anyone else who wants to block in that category for him.
https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/111/570/680/439/467/872/original/aed4e82866dcea78.png

2023-11-27 20:46:25

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@npub1kpw…xzz4 @npub1gu8…l2y0
I would like to note that I have also posted content condemning the Israeli Government's violence, and didn't do anything to block him or respond to the other 2 posts in the report against him, seeing as they were simply death-tolls of the genocide in Gaza. I'm pretty sure I told him that the Judaism link was the only issue I had, and it is unreasonable for him to conflate that with me somehow being a Zionista.
I might have accepted the addition of a comment like "Zionism hides behind Judaism, turning religion into violence." but he decided I was trying to "fool" him by stating that Jews would find it hurtful to see a symbol of their culture turned into a symbol of violence like this.
Once again, the anti-Zionist message is fine, it's the conflation of Judaism with genocide that is a problem, and I'm starting to question how he doesn't understand that by now.
(Also, for future reference, I am female, and use she/her pronouns)

2023-11-26 06:15:30

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@npub16ra…zpy2 @npub1kpw…xzz4
Either that or an energy drink, and you know what they say, "mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell."

2023-11-24 15:07:29

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@npub1gu8…l2y0
Toda la situación me parece inquietante, y no creo que nada de lo el que gobierno de Israel haga sea o diga aceptable. Sin embargo, el gobierno de Israel no son los Judíos, y los Judíos no son el gobierno de Israel.
Es ofensivo porque está tomando un símbolo del Judaísmo, y convirtiendo el Judaísmo en violencia, que es el objetivo Zionista.

2023-10-12 20:15:31

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@npub14xf…y8qf
As a moderator on a server that discourages porn in the main feeds (we're geared for tech-industry professionals, and there are better servers for sex-work professionals), I really appreciate this as a reminder to your followers. The Fediverse is a diverse place with lots of different inroads and perspectives, and it's important to recognize that, even though an account may be totally legitimate, it's content may be restricted on good-faith grounds from other servers.

2023-10-11 03:19:44

Reminder that every time you post something interesting on #Mastodon, you are moving along the goals of the #Fediverse, by creating content for other users to follow. This is what builds the network and makes it an interesting place to be!
Keep on posting!
#TheContentMustFlow

2023-09-30 06:59:45

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@npub1mhp…6t73 @npub1jzv…76na
I'm just glad the state of web dev has finally stopped being "Use jQuery to do things that could be done in a single line of JavaScript, CSS, or even pure HTML."

2023-09-30 06:54:09

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@npub1mhp…6t73 @npub1jzv…76na @npub1a3e…l320 @npub14m8…g6v3
PHP just has too much legacy code still running in it, too many people still using it, too many people still willing to maintain it as a useful standard language, for it to really die at this point.
Other languages I've seen die did so because either there was a proprietary developer backing them who lost interest in maintaining them, or because people just didn't want to use them.
Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if Google pulled the plug on Go or Rust or whatever they're pushing right here without warning tomorrow, simply because they don't have the attention span. I also wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft came out with another one that turned out to just be a pile of problems touting features that have been standard everywhere else for the past decade.
PHP has its issues, but we can at least trust that it will be there tomorrow, with plenty of support for whatever we need.

2023-09-30 06:49:27

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@npub1mhp…6t73 @npub1jzv…76na
Why bother with CSS, when Active X can automatically add inline styling to your HTML?
Better yet, why bother with HTML, when you could just publish your web page in Visual Basic?

2023-09-30 06:43:29

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@npub1mhp…6t73 @npub1jzv…76na
Nah brah, he gonna use Perl to push ActiveX plugins.

2023-09-30 06:37:51

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@npub1mhp…6t73 @npub1jzv…76na @npub1a3e…l320 @npub14m8…g6v3
For all of the complaints and flaws, PHP is a mature, well supported language. It has more years of code written for it then literally any other language in common use today, save maybe C, simply because It's been around since the very early days of HTML.
Sure, it was meant to automate the layouts and some of the content of small homepages, but there's been solid support for it for all that time, and development in good faith for the purpose of being used by everyone. ASP and other imitators never had that going for them, they never even got off the ground compared to PHP.
For the entire time I've been programming in PHP, people have said it's on the way out... And yet everything they said would replace it has either become a legacy language you have to struggle to maintain work in, or a dead language you had to scramble to convert your work over from.
I wouldn't be surprised if it stays relevant for another 15 years.

2023-09-28 16:04:13

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It depends on what you mean by "free speech": there's a whole body of discussion around what constitutes freedom of speech, and where its boundaries lie.
Liberdon is the only big one I can think of that isn't blocked by the rest of Fedi, because the mods enforce rules about hate speech / slurs and harassment. You can go to servers that allow it, if that's what you really want, but it's a deal breaker for like 90% of users, so they're blocked by nearly everyone else. Twitter also allows everything that doesn't offend Daddy Elon these days, but I wouldn't recommend Twitter to anyone.

2023-08-18 18:50:07

On #Twitter right now, telling people that #Mastodon has better #block and #privacy features than Twitter, on top of a better community.
Reminder that you too can do your part!
https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/110/912/115/345/573/479/original/8e748cabc6473d80.mp4

2023-08-18 18:50:07

2023-07-28 03:31:37

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@npub1xzm…eykm
Only 250? For a network with millions of users? You do understand that they will be sold out in seconds right? At least give a chunk of the people who want them a chance to buy them...