FinchHaven

Twitter refugee. Linux since 1995. Radical Progressive-Leftist. Photographer. Weather. WX. Social content consumer, not a social content creator.

Loc: Salish Sea, Cascadia, North America

whoami: @ FinchHaven @ mastodon.sdf.org; MadokVaur @ Discord and Twitch

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Now -r--r--r-- on teh Tweeters

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2023-06-17 23:00:04

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@npub1g7t…n6x7
Not knowingly or willingly pushing yet *more* people onto the designated “Official” #Mastodon instance
Seriously
Is there no end to this de facto monopoly?
1,193,465 Total users, ATM
Will there *never* be a point when someone will say “enough”?
cc @npub1g8e…qdqf @npub1xzm…eykm

2023-06-17 14:09:20

#MOTD: #Mastodon dot sdf dot org status check @ Saturday 06/17/2023 07:08:17 PDT
Very stable at 14K Posts, 318 (-1) Following on eight lists, 205 (+3) Followers @ Saturday 06/17/2023 07:08:17 PDT
Lists:
Twitter Refugees; Infosec/News; Mastodon; Mastodon Bots; Mastodon Coders; Mastodon Covid; Mastodon Law; Mastodon Weather
Instances I watch daily in browser tabs:
m.ai6yr.org / public / local
journa.host / public / local
hachyderm.io / public / local
fediscience.org / public / local
cc @npub1sny…ax7g

2023-06-15 17:08:51

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Enjoy some down-time
You deserve it!

2023-06-14 22:07:50

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
So, is this now despite Joe Manchin?
I’d heard he was pulling strings on this nomination

2023-06-13 16:34:09

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@npub1nd8…2zkd
Maybe HIllary's bathrooms don't have locks at all
Or is it Hunter's bathrooms?
I get this all confused

2023-06-13 15:05:45

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Sorry
Skimming on first cup of coffee

2023-06-13 14:41:25

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
#emptywheel has updated her useful article "TRUMP NEEDS CLEARED LAWYERS, NOT JUST ANY LAWYERS":
"Update: Kise filed what appears to be a permanent notice of appearance, with Todd Blanche filing as well."
Here:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/06/13/trump-needs-cleared-lawyers-not-just-any-lawyers/
cc @npub1crl…mv08

2023-06-09 17:13:41

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@npub1u6a…9sea
I've indirectly followed this #Lemmy issue, or rather seen a lot posted about it
It's not the software side of it so much as the #Moderation (or lack, or style thereof) on specific Lemmy instances
Tankies, Neo-Euro-Nazis, homophobia, etc etc
Lax moderation generally
You may need to do some homework beyond just the technical #Federation side of it all
No: I do not have time to provide links for you
cc @npub1094…2wum

2023-06-08 18:52:02

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
[hangs head in shame]
@npub1q4y…x7aj @npub1gzy…ts3z @npub1yme…r5de

2023-06-08 17:52:44

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@npub1q4y…x7aj
Wait wait wait
Has anyone tried pouring some salt on Pence then?
Worth a shot, anyway
cc @npub1v2s…mqq5 @npub1gzy…ts3z @npub1yme…r5de

2023-06-07 21:11:20

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@npub1psy…pasy
I don’t get this endless sales job on the Advanced Mode
Why do I want to cram everything into one Brave browser tab when I can have six or eight full-screen tabs open to any of several Mastodon views I want, like I do now, and reload or change each tab separately?
It makes no sense
Except as Yet Another Latest Shiny Object(tm) we should swoon over
What’s the real need here?

2023-06-05 22:36:04

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@npub1aq2…4nfw
How about if #RFKjr gets asked if he even has the faintest clue about what he’s saying about #Vaccines, and exactly how he thinks he knows what he’s talking about?
Which I’m sure #ElonMusk never did

2023-06-05 19:06:26

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@npub17ge…hgsu
#DeathStranding?
You mean the game I've already played through twice?
Two years ago?
On my #PS4Pro?
That Death Stranding?
#WWDC

2023-06-05 12:05:04

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@npub1ulm…hweg
Very interesting
I find my feeble mind doesn't follow the text narratives well, but I do so love looking at pretty pictures
Then, here, I tripped over "intelligent design" as a modern theological concept but we won't go down that rabbit hole :)

2023-06-05 11:50:23

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@npub1ulm…hweg
I'm finding all your posts fascinating, mostly because I love the graphic style of patent drawings -- most of them look like they could have been drawn 150 years ago
But (layman that I am) I keep coming back to the same question on a lot of them:
How does someone get to lock down a patent on *that* simply on the basis of *that* drawing?
And how "different" does something need to be to be...
...different?
Anyway, fascinating!

2023-06-04 01:42:45

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@npub1vr4…92wq
Yes
That is true
And the [bad] thing is, it's not possible to put someone you must Follow on a List, and then see them on that list only
It almost makes any list irrelevant 'cause you're going to see them anyway in your Home feed

2023-06-04 00:17:28

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@npub1g23…qxj3
You’re not
I saw that, ignored it, and moved on
My history in US civil rights goes back to 1965 and before, really
I have nothing to prove to that person
Nothing I could say or do would ever be enough
#Mastodon

2023-05-29 16:27:24

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@npub1dh3…rgvh
"They've created this system around her that is operating on inertia alone, on autopilot until her term ends or she dies"
Why should #Feinstein's office staff put themselves out of work any sooner than they need to?
#Biden #Democrats #Gerontocracy

2023-05-29 00:20:07

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@npub1d0s…egda
Or the changing of the rules thereof, in mid-stream
Or so I've read

2023-05-27 17:32:43

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Gotta stick up for the crew :)

2023-05-27 17:08:06

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@npub125a…8hk2
"I'm an eccentric retiree after 30 years as a nurse"
I see
I see
And you apparently have never heard of either Elie Mystal or GottaLaff
Well, I have
And you know what tweets and retweets are as to their content and provenance?
So what do you know, exactly?
cc @npub1v2s…mqq5

2023-05-26 12:43:36

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@npub12xf…9ps4
The United States of America is *not* a single-breadwinner family that falls into crushing debt and bankruptcy when the single breadwinner dies
The Unites States is a sovereign nation with its own sovereign currency that is a world monetary standard
Also, learn something about the political history of the Debt Ceiling
It's a fiction created by the Republican party to make sure that all the Poors don't get their own Obama Phone for free
cc @npub1cy0…ggw4

2023-05-25 00:23:50

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Well
The good news is that at least some #Cryptospam made it past #ElonMusk's #Moderators and into #Musk's #Twitter feed while they were waiting
So it's not all a loss
hahaha...
cc @npub17qm…pur3
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/110/426/470/400/086/504/original/f0185465cf70ee39.png

2023-05-24 23:00:03

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Because no True American(tm) wants any of those deadbeat students to get a free Obama Phone!
Wait...
...is that it?
#StudentDebt

2023-05-18 16:26:52

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
"the Democrat Party"
Yeah
The Republicans have deliberately refused to ever say "Democratic party" for decades now
Might be interesting to do a search and see if this was Grover Norquist's idea, or who...

2023-05-18 00:57:56

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Heather and Marcy were two of my very first notable "follows" or whatever the hell we called them back then...
Bookmarks, I guess it was
Digby and Emptywheel

2023-05-17 11:39:18

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Interesting
In the past that has meant either the post or the account itself has been vaporized

2023-05-17 01:26:49

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
Wow
The account shown in the screenshot over on hachyderm dot io i still up
Somebody asleep at the wheel over at @mastodon.world?
Just reported it with a copy-pasta of your text, your name removed of course

2023-05-16 23:45:03

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@npub178r…qekt
Ya know, you've seemed just hell-bent determined to piss off *someone* with either your posts or your replies
Hard pass

2023-05-15 16:29:11

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@npub16gl…syzj
OK
Trying to understand what value I'm receiving here
I watch https://firesky.tv/ -- rarely
Frankly there's little more there than my own Mastodon Federated stream -- a firehose of...
...rando posts
So this is an rss feed of your posts
Yet when I load your rss feed into Feeder -- in either view mode -- all i get are login nags
Needs work, or what?
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/110/373/642/232/102/314/original/9866b046fb7be3a7.png

2023-05-13 16:06:36

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
I don't usually indulge in personal anecdotes but sometimes they're relevant
Anyone who has not day-to-day associated with someone affected by elderly senile dementia and/or Alzheimers needs to sit out the entire #DianneFeinstein saga
My immediate downstairs neighbor descended into senile dementia over the three years she lived here
In that time she never managed to learn my name
In that time the only thing faintly coherent she ever said to me was
"You bastard! You bastard!"

2023-05-13 01:27:57

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@npub178r…qekt
Fascinating thread
As a photographer myself (but no architectural photography, only art gallery interiors) I want to go look at some photos.
To me, with my roots as a university art major and drawing classes and vanishing points and all that I wonder what looks more "real" -- tilt-shift architectural photography or the standard lens, tapered-tall-building look
Want to go outside and look at reality to see what my eyes and my brain sees, but everything is two stories at most

2023-05-12 17:49:12

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@npub1v2s…mqq5
"...communities do their own content moderation (thereby relieving Bluesky of that burden)"
Paul Rohr @npub1nts…wpfp has thoughts:
"Does this bsky architecture just replicate Jack's threat model from when he was running a #BigSocial site?
auth = delegate to PDS
censorship = have govt chase PDSes
bad content = blame labellers
bad algo(s) = blame FeedGen marketplace
...could the intention be to shed liability for all those thorny problems by...outsourcing them?"
https://mastodon.sdf.org/@pevohr@hachyderm.io/110327799928604062

2023-05-10 15:22:37

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@npub1zx4…s6fq @npub10xz…gh6y
"when they don't have the type of infrastructure to handle his type of show AFAIK"
Looked into this a bit last night:
"And look at that
Twitter offers:
"How to create a broadcast"
Using the Media Studio Producer
Or at least it used to
Wonder if it still works given all the *cough* tech changes..."
https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/how-to-use-live-producer#create-broadcast

2023-05-07 19:17:30

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@npub1pqk…z65u @npub1gsm…5y8l
"This is why people from Mastodon need to understand that the Fediverse is bigger than Mastodon and much of what they see on Mastodon isn’t necessarily how it actually works"
Mastodon is not how Mastodon works?
I know Mastodon is not *the* Fediverse
"much of what they see on Mastodon isn’t necessarily how it actually works"
So I have to leave Mastodon to understand how a Friendica group really works?
Hard pass on that

2023-05-07 19:10:12

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@npub1pqk…z65u @npub1gsm…5y8l
This is the tab I've been camping on all morning
What am I not seeing?
Other than I've just refreshed it after about an hour?
And no, I'm not on Friendica in any sort of logged-in sense
And if I'm inferring you to say that the only way I can see this Group "correctly" is to be logged in to some Friendica instance, it only confirms my larger point: this Group is only of a very narrow, specialize interest
At best
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/110/328/972/268/801/184/original/f59a06b9b3564095.png

2023-05-07 19:10:12

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@npub1pqk…z65u @npub1gsm…5y8l
This is the tab I've been camping on all morning
What am I not seeing?
Other than I've just refreshed it after about an hour?
And no, I'm not on Friendica in any sort of logged-in sense
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/110/328/972/268/801/184/original/f59a06b9b3564095.png

2023-05-07 17:55:03

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@npub1pqk…z65u @npub1gsm…5y8l
One more thought
@npub1gsm…5y8l says it has 210 Followers ATM
I have bookmarks for about 15 [instance_name] /public/local/ servers
Most of those I have some affinity to (with?) and there's some reason for me to sit on their Local feed and read what's going on there
I typically have four open all day long
Fediverse News is like an instance Local feed where I have nothing in common with 90% of what's posted
Granted it's only a test
But some affinity is needed

2023-05-07 17:33:56

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@npub1pqk…z65u @npub1gsm…5y8l
Two thoughts
1) I might just edit you out of my replies when it's clear the OP isn't really replying you at all, but only to someone way down the resulting thread
2) I'm seeing Fediverse News as a headless reply bot
It doesn't seem to post original content
If all it's doing is endlessly Boosting anything with its handle in it, I'll pass on that
I've already turned on "Hide Boosts from @npub1gsm…5y8l" and things have quieted down quite a bit
Don't need the noise

2023-05-07 16:52:04

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@npub1pqk…z65u @npub1gsm…5y8l
Seems you've been pushing it pretty hard and heavy
Or am I missing something?

2023-05-07 16:19:14

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@npub1gsm…5y8l @npub1pqk…z65u
How did that make it through to initial publication in the first place?
There were at least two words that should have hit delimiters right at the moment of posting
Hell, I could probably manage to write a regex to do the heavy lifting
Are you doing any sort of initial filtration at all?

2023-05-04 23:55:48

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@npub1v2s…mqq5 @npub1t95…0kzy
They'll come to an agreement, money will change hands, all the critical records and documents will become sealed
Trump skates again

2023-05-02 18:35:22

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@npub1lj7…zczx
Oh, good
Twitter Nanny comes to Mastodon then, via AI?
Hard pass
What if the person I'm calling a moron actually *is* a moron?
What then?
https://mastodon.sdf.org/system/media_attachments/files/110/300/527/796/891/291/original/992ae743c668d5c3.png

2023-04-29 00:05:04

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@npub1pqk…z65u
I'll just rudely insert this question I posted earlier:
"Account portability is the major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol. We consider portability to be crucial because it protects users from sudden bans, server shutdowns, and policy disagreements"
List the different #Bluesky instances that --> right now <-- one can move to if "sudden bans, server[s] shutdown, and policy disagreements" take place
Where's the *other* Bluesky that I could move my account to?

2023-04-28 23:16:25

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@npub1lsl…9c2x
OK
What have I missed?
"Account portability is the major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol. We consider portability to be crucial because it protects users from sudden bans, server shutdowns, and policy disagreements"
List the different #Bluesky instances (for want of a better word) that --> right now <-- one can move to if "sudden bans, server[s] shutdown, and policy disagreements" take place
Where's the *other* Bluesky that I could move my account to?
Right now?

2023-04-19 15:50:29

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#[0] #[1]
And here we have arrogance at its darkest
"I do not live in the world you live in. If you don't like what I tell you about my affluent, comfortable, learned perspective, go away.

2023-04-19 15:25:55

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#[0] #[1]
Edit:
"...they should have gone to trial so the judge could force Fox to apologize on the teevee and restore some small element of faith in the national judiciary that most in the [spits on the ground] general public have for some reason lost"
But the general public
feh...
They're so general, and so public
[crawls back under his rock]

2023-04-18 21:01:06

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#[0]
Whips out his #[1] standard boilerplate:
"DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I AM!?!?!?"
"DON'T YOU KNOW WHO I KNOW!?!?!?"
Apply as needed
#[2] #[3]

2023-04-10 00:19:52

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#[0]
My personal selection of bots, and growing:
Sheep Every Hour Bot #[1]
AZ Emergency Bot Bot #[2]
PossumEveryHour Bot #[3]
Mastodon Users Bot #[4]
Earthquake Reports Bot #[5]
World News Bot Bot #[6]
Big Cases Bot Bot #[7]
Endless Bees Bot #[8]
Bunnies Every Hour Bot #[9]
News Bot #[10]
USGS Volcanoes (bot) Bot #[11]
NWS Seattle (bot) Bot #[12]
Not all bots are bad