Packet switching and the Internet (well. ARPANet) were designed to route around failures and be operational even in the extreme case of nuclear war (tho ARPA themselves have gone back and forth as to how much this was really a design consideration)
Lots of engineering and analysis went into designing technologies that could implement Baran, Kleinrock, and others ideas with the available hardware of the day.
The Internet was never meant to have massive single points of failure. It was always meant to be a highly distributed system. Connecting many people to many resources was the point.
Today Mastodon fully transitions to a nonprofit organizational model. Simultaneously, Cloudflare goes down, breaking some monolithic social media platforms controlled by oligarchs. Fortunately, you can read about all of this in the Fediverse which just keeps working.
While #cloudflare US-east1 is busy fixing a good part of the Internet, parts of Matrix/Element, X etc down, good old decentralized #chatmail continues unimpeded and without degradation :)
In other news, there is a new #freebsd community maintained β€οΈ #deltachat desktop install:
"In Canada, roughly two-thirds of the population favour prioritizing clean-energy development over fossil fuels, and 85 per cent want federal climate action to be maintained or strengthened"
The #refinery was targeted by Ukrainian forces, resulting in explosions and a fire in the area. The extent of the damage is still being assessed, the General Staff said
They also highlighted that footage of the strikes shows the launch of Ukraine's new #Bars #jet #drones.
Ukrainian forces struck the Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery in Russiaβs Samara Oblast and a drone storage site belonging to Russiaβs elite Rubikon unit, Ukraine's General Staff reported on Nov. 16.
We created a searchable database with all 20,000 files from Epsteinβs Estate
To make this massive data dump more accessible, COURIER has compiled the 20,000 documents from Epsteinβs estate into an easily searchable repository via Google Pinpoint. Use the search tool here.
Well, well, well. If it isnβt the system of checks and balances. Weβve missed you, buddy! Long story somewhat short: ICE has been terrible for years, but itβs been much worse undeβ¦
Whatβs hilarious about Trumpβs underscoring how important it is for LLMs to be allowed to learn from anything anywhere regardless of copyright or IP laws is that all the big AI models we hear about are based in the U.S.
Does anyone think for one second that heβd be this adamant about their being allowed to learn everything they can with all laws put on hold if these systems were based in, say, China?
Nope, but if you actually listen to the guy talk for more than 5 minutes you realize he's not all there. Dude will ramble about magnets aimlessly for 30 minutes without understanding what magnets are or do.
@That_One_Guy Oh, for sure. Heβs clearly not all there mentally.
But of course the Republicans will never admit that any more than the Democrats would admit that even as president Biden wasnβt mentally fit, either.
And I get the βGotta support our figureheadβ aspect of many things and especially politics, but youβre dealing with economies and nuclear weapons here, yβknow what I mean? This isnβt shit to be trifled with under the guise of just toeing the company line.
A printed or electronic notice informing you of your EU air passenger rights must be clearly displayed at the airport check-in desk, at check-in kiosks and on-line. If you were denied boarding, your flight was cancelled, you experienced a delay of more than 2 hours at departure or you arrive with a long delay at your final destination, the airline must give you a written notice setting out the rules for compensation and assistance
The really sad thing about this is, why did the Airlines have to be forced into taking care of their passengers in the first place? It just PROVES Corporate America just wants to treat their customers as nothing more than ATM machines.
She was fine when this rhretoric was endangeround democrats, republicans who wouldn't bend the knee or when her own rhetoric was endangering minorities or the survivors of school shooting that she harassed.
You know this is a spectacle, right? A show. Thatβs what it is. A performance for social media. With blood. Pete HegsethΒ just orderedΒ the twenty-first strike on a suspected drug boat. Thrβ¦
Just so I'm clear, South American migrants brought their cattle with them as they climbed over and under the border the wall, took all of our jobs, stole our health care, used our snap benefits, and bought every available home.
#quote by Hasan Kwame #Jeffries #video in link: https://x.com/ProfJeffries/status/1990148443025662257
Ok, yesterday was fun. Well, sorta, I mean I don't really like doing D zone, north St Louis County, there's some real sketchy neighborhoods up there.
That said, one notable thing was an apartment complex I hit, nothing special about the design in and of itself, but this is only the second one I've found in the St Louis metro, which is kinda impressive considering the size of the area, and the amount of places I've delivered to, and these aren't even close to each other. Weird.
The second thing was fun, I delivered to a very Christian house, y'all know the type, right? Well apparently there's a bit of a feud between them resulting in the neighbor putting up a Fuck Trump flag on his garage. Seeing that, there was only one thing I could do, visit... And give him almost all of the stickers I had in my car and wallet that I got from Plastic Jesus, as well as hanging out for a bit and telling him about the Fediverse. I'll be going back soon, and dropping off links to this blog and more stickers.
While yesterday wasn't a great day, that definitely made it better.
Today is the 5th anniversary of the FediTips account π₯³
I started it because of the nasty stuff happening on centralised corporate social media (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc). These corporations promote "engagement" through algorithms that radicalise people into frenzies of bigoted hatred π
I'm trying to help people use alternatives instead of feeding the beast.
β All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters, no matter how long they really are
URLs can be as long as you want, they will never exceed 23 characters of your limit.
Tillykke - happy anniversary! And thank you for all your helpful tips and for helping people settle in and make connections with one another in the Fediverse.
I imagine at this point some of your older tips are obsolete, as both tech and online behavior have changed. Is it worth triaging your older tips with that in mind?
Here's a question for the Fediverse tipster: I was recently suspended from an account on another server without contact other than a suspension notice. Now access to the account is unavailable. My question: Do admins have the ability to issue warnings before turning off an account? Also, can admins provide a reason for a suspensions? (In my case, none was given.) I ask these things as a shocked person who hasn't been disciplined on social media before. Thanks!
Thank you, FediTips, for taking the time to respond to my post. Mainly what I wanted to know was if admins have a range of options to choose from with "iffy" content. I take it from your helpful response that they do.
I have literally slept wrong and been unable to get up due to the pain before. (In my defense though, I was in multiple major car accidents and my spine is screwed up. So it's not all due to age... Still, this happened a whole lot less when I was younger I do grudgingly admit.)
It is depressing when you find you have reached that age where basic stuff like sleeping, sitting, sneezing even just crossing your legs can lead to serious agonyβ¦to those older and wiser, what is the solution? Never to rest?
Decent Osteopath if fortunate enough to have access. For a initially painful, regular, deep tissue massage. To relieve all those tight muscles pulling everything out of whack. Then hopefully a good manipulation to crack a few things into place.
Also low impact isometric, isotonic, isomotion exercises and use a Bullworker myself. Helps tone the muscles. 72 and still going strong after very successful musculoskeletal treatments on various traumatised areas, like lower neck and lower back over the years.
my dude is like living in a game made by ea,just lying there and suddenly HP drops to zero. The game physics even makes your model twitch and shiver as it gets stuck in the bed π€£π€£π€£
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