Seventh day and still going strong on March of the Covers. One of the fun things is learning new things about songs you like, like youtu.be/a2sk5U6fMwc . The Rascals version is the one I know best, but I've heard the Dead's version a few times. What is interesting is that this is a cover of the Rascals version which is a cover of the Olympics song which doesn't use the original lyrics written by Rudy Clark and Arthur Resnick and recorded by Lemme B Good. So does that mean we all know the same wrong words to Good Lovin'?
Polish PM Donald Tusk said Russia is the real winner of the Middle East war, as oil prices rise and Washington considers lifting sanctions on Russian oil. #Russia
Hmmm, is there any way to share a hashtag with people that aren't necessarily on the Fediverse? On my Friendica I used categories so I could share just some of my posts with people, but obviously that's not an option on most Fedi services, so maybe a way to link people to a hashtag, at least the public toots and woots?
I don't understand this. Isn't every instance essentially indexing all foreign posts though? What makes an instance with no-login search/known network timeline different from an indexer?
social media isn't a private journal, you compose content to share with other people, I get that some want to enforce boundaries and we should try to respect them, but the people who argue against indexers should simply not post if they want to enforce their own boundaries across mediums that have been historically open, like forever.
Signal exists for a reason.
We should stop entertaining ppl who think they have a right to enforce this for all.
If you want it private, set your posts to private, I mean I'd have a problem with a search engine or scraper displaying my private/unlisted posts, but if its public, its fair game. This is like my issue with people who demand certain things be CW'd, the list is miles long and might as well be everything, like we don't have hashtags and filters here, and trust me, if'n someone can't be bothered to hashtag it (though some kind of hashtag index would be nice), they sure aren't going to CW it.
It might be some kind of "vibe dissonance": If someone makes a post on their instance they might feel like they're in control of their data, but in reality the instance will just send that post to almost anyone who requests it. Perhaps options to have allowlist federation should be more easily accessible for admins; if they want to create a sort of closed "intranet" of instances, let them. And IMO it has to be an allowlist because blocklisting is not a solution, an actually malicious indexer would be capable of spawning new domains with fake instances just to fetch posts, appearing only in logs and nowhere else.
With this, we're also stepping into the realm of threat actors. To be online, either to self host, or to make an account, you're exposing yourself. You're opening the front door. If you don't want someone to save it, if you don't want a bot to crawl your server, turn it off & touch grass. You're in public & won't always be respected. There's a level of self agency, maturity, & impermanence one must have. Sometimes you have to walk away. Hosting is insane
Ok, is there any way to block BlueSky content on my Wafrn? I'd originally connected because I'd get errors reply or wooting a post that had Bluesky posts on it, but frankly if'n you insist on using FascistLite messagingβ’, I don't need you on my timeline
ICE has been telling itself all it needs to do is write its own paperwork and it can do whatever it wants. Memos β passed around secretively and publicly acknowledged by no one but whistlebloβ¦
Ok, perhaps today's cover is low hanging fruit, but I'm lazy sometimes, so today you get the Lemonheads cover of Mrs Robinson. Yes, this song was used in The Graduate, or rather parts, but it wasn't written for it, it'd been written by Paul Simon before the movie, and he offered to allow them to use parts of it. In fact to keep making this odd, the film uses two different short versions of the song, and it was a replacement for two songs that Simon had written for the film, but the director didn't like. Seriously, look this up on Wikipedia, its a rather odd story.
I think I'm going to take tomorrow off and have a three day weekend. My feet hurt, my knee hurts, and its been a long week. Goal is $700 with a minimum of $500, and we're at $542 for this week, last week we made $809, so we can definitely afford it. Oh and to make things interesting, this weekend my credit union will be down, some services will be available, but they're making major changes to the computer systems, frankly if'n I understand what they're doing it, they've been needed. It shouldn't cause me any real problems other than likely not having things credited or debited from my account until Tues, assuming it all goes well.
Or something like that. What's going on online and offline...
First, welcome aboard all new followers here, though I do recommend you follow @Chuff instead as that's the main place I post if'n you really want to see what's occupying the echo chamber between my ears.
Speaking of #wafrn , anyone know of anyone providing hosted instances? Some time in the future I expect to replace this blog with a personal Wafrn. Kinda a big deal as #friendica has been my primary #Fediverse software for years, whether on someone else's instance or my own.
Life, there's not much to talk about, work, kill time, work, that's about it. Every now and then the fact that I'm growing old slaps me in the face, like last Sunday. At around 0300, I got up to use the bathroom, checked my apps and found Amazon was throwing money around. Well Ok, guess I'm working, day 6, leaving the house at 0330, few hours of work, then home, nap and errands, perfect. Grabbed second breakfast on my way home, and found I couldn't nap. That took a few days to recover from. That on top of my main gig burying me in work. Yay. Valentine's Day came and went, me and Vik never really did much for it, so was just another day for me. Wrapping up the process of moving my investments that I inherited, the whole process will likely take to around the end of the year, only because the courts will have to be involved in some of that due to the lack of a will or TOD. Also getting my taxes done, same company, that took a while, joint return, and couldn't find Vik's 2024 so that might complicate things a touch.
Got a flea market coming up, I'm actually prepaid for tables at Sunset Hills flea market at their community center for Mar, Apr and May. Still have to sell stuff here, running into problems on that front, each time I think the comics are sold, it falls through, and books should be a fairly easy matter. Once those are gone along with giving his mom's stuff to his family, this place will be mostly cleared out, so once legal matters are done we can downsize. Speaking of downsizing, I think I know where I'm going to wind up, prolly somewhere around IllFallon... I mean O'Fallon, IL. Not real far from here, and certainly not really closer to my family, but I have to say I like that area. That's where I was delivering for Amazon, at O'dark 30, and gotta say, despite not being able to see things and mostly running in and out of suburbs, I gotta say I like it over there. I think somewhere over there or a little bit east, between I64 and I70 will likely be where I wind up. It feels comfortable, if feels like somewhere I could easily move in and just feel right. I've actually seen a property I like in Edwardsville on Marketplace, but that one would be best if'n my family would want to join me. Its not a large property, but its kinda triangular with one corner and the address in a cul-de-sac, and one side on another street. Could buy it chop it up and have street facing for three houses. But, the property has been on Marketplace for a while, so its either a zombie ad, something is wrong with the property, or its a scam. Oh well, obviously time will tell, but we'll see.
March of the Covers is going on, just like this time last year, however this one is happening over on my Wafrn, just look for the hashtag #March-of-the-Covers or follow Chuff. Posts may get occasionally boosted over here. And as always we're building a playlist over on YouTube.
Pictures of me from the WebCam always look so far away, maybe if'n I move it to the shelf over there...
Nah, only improvement is that the camera isn't looking down at me. Oh well, at least y'all can see that I'm bald again, I did that for the new month after not cutting for 2+ months.
Any other news... Well, I'm recovering. Anyone with sense knows that eating at Jack In the Box is risky, but the food is so good... In a junky guaranteed bad for you way, which is why I grabbed breakfast for dinner last night on the way home. Considering how much of a fiasco things were at that store, my order took over 10 minutes to be made, I prolly should've expected this morning, but... Oh well, spent way too much time in the bathroom, limped off to work for a nice light day, then came home napped for an hour or so.
So, that's really everything going on in my #life , what about y'all?
Yeah, more country, but this time an interesting one, He Thinks I Still Care. If'n the title has you scratching your head, its a gender change cover by Anne Murray, the original and otherwise identical version being She Thinks I Still Care first recorded by George Jones. To make it more interesting, Anne Murray was more of a pop start, this being her first country hit.
I swear every time I hear about Fetterman I can't not think of Neil Stephenson's Interface; a story where a stroke victim is implanted with a device in their brain that, basically, allows them to be puppeted by the ruling class. Not that I think that's what's actually happening here - he's just an absolute asshat.
"ICE can deny wrongdoing, but the reality remains the same: Alberto Gutierrez Reyes died while in their custody," Los Angeles City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez told HuffPost.
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US States are introducing data center water usage legislation to address concerns about water consumption, with California, Iowa, and Michigan considering bills that require operators to submit regular reports on their water use.
Ukraine offers to trade its drone interceptors (which work better against Iran's small drones) to Gulf States in exchange for their Patriot missiles (which work better against Russian aircraft and larger missiles)
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is quietly pressing California to tighten voter registration verification for military and overseas voters β part of what it calls a βnationwide β¦ enforcement program.β
If you are confused about why Iran is attacking all of their neighbors, the reason is very simple:
their neighbors are mostly being armed by the US anyways. So regardless of whether they attack a US carrier directly, or attack an air base in Kuwait or Bahrain, either way they are depleting the armaments of their attackers. They can also grind the economies of these US-friendly nations to a halt as everyone takes shelter, further harming the US and their ability to wage war. The goal is a war of attrition: make the US use up 10 missiles and drones for every one missile or drone the Iranians use. Make their neighbors question the logic of cooperating with the US.
This strategy is very obvious, and very effective. There is no doubt in my mind that every single military advisor to Trump told him that this would be Iranβs defense strategy. But try telling Trump or Hegseth that they arenβt the smartest one in the room, you already know what Trump would say: βYOUβRE FIRED!β
There is still always the nuclear option (literally). Although if you watched the interview with Colonel Douglas MacGregor I posted earlier, nuclear strikes might be enough to convince China and Russia to begin open hostilities against the US in the Middle East.
All people of conscience must oppose this war, and demand the war criminals Trump and Netanyahu face justice under international law.
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Fedi.Tips
in reply to Chuff • • •I don't know if this applies to wafrn but you can generally share the web address of the hashtag search results page?
For example ohai.social/tags/bloomscrollin⦠will share the public posts with the tag #bloomscrolling on the server ohai.social
You don't need to be a member or logged in to view this public results page.
ohai.social
Mastodon hosted on ohai.socialgabboman the wafrn dev
in reply to Fedi.Tips • • •gabboman the wafrn dev
in reply to gabboman the wafrn dev • • •Chuff
in reply to gabboman the wafrn dev • • •gabboman the wafrn dev
in reply to Chuff • • •GNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng) :neorenard:
in reply to gabboman the wafrn dev • • •I don't understand this. Isn't every instance essentially indexing all foreign posts though? What makes an instance with no-login search/known network timeline different from an indexer?
CC: @chuff@bark.wolp.chat @FediTips@social.growyourown.services @dansup@mastodon.social
gabboman the wafrn dev
in reply to GNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng) :neorenard: • • •Yeah! Its a grey area.
I could change it to local only search i guess but still.
There is fedi software with choices I dont agree with (akkoma fulltext search does return unlisted posts!)
Its complex and I could look into it a bit
dansup
in reply to gabboman the wafrn dev • • •"it's complex"
social media isn't a private journal, you compose content to share with other people, I get that some want to enforce boundaries and we should try to respect them, but the people who argue against indexers should simply not post if they want to enforce their own boundaries across mediums that have been historically open, like forever.
Signal exists for a reason.
We should stop entertaining ppl who think they have a right to enforce this for all.
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Chuff
in reply to dansup • • •GNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng) :neorenard:
in reply to dansup • • •It might be some kind of "vibe dissonance": If someone makes a post on their instance they might feel like they're in control of their data, but in reality the instance will just send that post to almost anyone who requests it. Perhaps options to have allowlist federation should be more easily accessible for admins; if they want to create a sort of closed "intranet" of instances, let them. And IMO it has to be an allowlist because blocklisting is not a solution, an actually malicious indexer would be capable of spawning new domains with fake instances just to fetch posts, appearing only in logs and nowhere else.
CC: @gabboman@gabboman.xyz @chuff@bark.wolp.chat @FediTips@social.growyourown.services
Chuff
in reply to GNUkko Sauvage (eris-ng) :neorenard: • • •Rusty Shackleford
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