Ok, been trying a few new social medias out, and have very quickly come to decisions. Holos isn't for me, Loops is a great idea, and Wafrn is awesome. So, if'n you're following me here...
This place for the foreseeable future will be where I post my long blog entries, as well as where I follow Diaspora users ( @Andrew Pam any chance you have an AP account?) as well as my RSS feed reader.
@Vextaur will stick around, and hopefully the upload problems will be fixed so I can post my short videos, usually commentary on something work related
The specialty accounts here ( @The Taur Nation and @Recalls ) as well as the Admin account, @Kāpitan until I get my own hosted Wafrn instance. ——— So why's Holos going so soon? Really as I've mentioned, its not for me. I really recommend it for those whose social media is done through their phone, only one device is supported, and your phone/device is the server, you connect to the rest of the Fediverse via a relay so the only data that's anywhere other than your phone is the boosts, likes and friend requests from the Fediverse that came in while you were offline.
Why Wafrn? Amazingly enough despite being so young, its very polished, and somehow manages to have a lot of that Tumblr feel. Plus I love how posts are displayed there, along with the silly extras. Once I figure out how to link people to just post groups like I do categories here, I'll likely pack this place up, but that could be a while.
@mʕ•ﻌ•ʔm jesuiSatire .. ᘛ⁐̤ᕐᐷ Hosted, I'm rather clueless with computers, @GoFedi took over when SpaceHost shut down. Not sure for my Wafrn, no one really offers it yet, but I do have a lead on someone that might.
I don't have anything that speaks ActivityPub yet... but I plan to set up Friendica, and after your positive reviews I am interested in looking at Wafrn.
@Andrew Pam If'n you like Diaspora, I'd say give Wafrn a try, maybe jump on a instance like bark.wolp.chat where I am and take it for a test drive.
Friendica is pretty cool albeit a bit weird, I think its strong suit is if'n you like to do long text posts, images there's lots of other choices. Oh, and it doesn't do sound or video files.
@🌴 Seph 💭 👾 Hi! I discovered Wafrn thanks to you. I've created an account and I find it absolutely fun. I'm still figuring out how the "bite" function works, but otherwise I like everything.
Besides Diaspora, I also use Mastodon, and in the past I've used other free social networks like GNUSocial.
By the way, my Wafrn username is @diegoch.at.app.wafrn.net
Video. How to wash teargas out of someone's eyes. Use water only. Have them kneel and put their head back. Keep their hands out of their eyes. Use a squeeze bottle and wash from the inside by the nose outwards.
Video. Hong Kong protesters carry a waterproof bag filled partway with water. They pick up tear gas canisters with thickly gloved hands (tear gas canisters get hot) and put them in the bag and shake to neutralize the tear gas.
Short term, Tim Cook’s been terrific in creating gazillions in shareholder value for Apple and squeezing every penny out of its customers. In the long term, he’s been inflicting massive damage to their reputation for years now. Think different indeed.
“Apple’s Tim Cook is among a group of CEOs being eviscerated for traveling to the White House on the same day Border Patrol agents killed a Veterans Affairs nurse in Minneapolis.
"Cook, who gifted President Donald Trump a 24-karat gold desk ornament on his last White House visit, returned on Saturday to attend a dinner and screening of the first lady’s new documentary, ‘Melania.’”
When we look back on his leadership in the future, let this be Tim Cook's legacy.
“An insane encapsulation:🚨”The same day Trump’s agents kill a VA ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple & Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser *was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files.” -P Thakker “If you’re a CEO🚨willing to sit in the co of this regime, your “shareholder value” excuse feels pretty🩸blood-soaked tonight.” -R Wilson #NoMoralCompass#Murder#AlexPretti#TimCook#Jassy#USPol thedailybeast.com/billionaire-…
We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:
"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."
"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."
PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:
-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’
-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’ ‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’ -‘email addresses used in the last ten years’ -‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’ -biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris -business telephone numbers used in the last five years -business email addresses used in the last ten years.
We cannot speak for all Africans, but in various countries of Africa, we think it is fine, and we hope Europe copies USA. The reason is that we believe there is a brain drain and capital flight from Africa to the West. So this kind of thing the USA is doing will stop, or at least reduce it.
Moreover, China and South America (Brazil) plus BRICS+ countries are a better association for Africans.
In any case, even if Africans still want to study in USA universities, there is e-learning. That can be the case too for those who want European universities.
But overall, many in Africa think it is good for #Africa.
I really need some help with some specialist knowledge. Please boost for reach.
Does anyone have a detailed comparison of the carbon footprint of composting foodwaste as opposed to an anerobic digestor with the gas being collected and burnt for fuel?
Background and more info.
Tomorrow I'm going to be asking a question at my local District Council (UK) about their new food waste initiative.
They are going to provide a new weekly food waste collection with the rollout providing new bins but also plastic bags to put food waste into. The plastic bag is be removed at the disposal facility which will be incinerated.
Food waste, after the plastic bag removal will be put in an anerobic digestor with the aim to syphon off the gases for "energy use" which I'm pretty sure means burning them.
Our current system is the food waste goes in our green bin and goes to a large composting facility.
I'm pretty sure of my assertion that providing single use plastic bags that will be burnt will increase rather than reduce their carbon footprint.
My question I can't find the answer is the following:
Is it more carbon friendly to hot compost food waste or to use an anerobic digester which harvests the gases to be burnt as fuel.
Does anyone have a detailed, nuanced, comparison of the carbon footprint of composting foodwaste as opposed to an anerobic digestor.
Deadline to question is 20hrs (sorry for short timeframe got the original date wrong). However if you miss the deadline but have useful info I'm sure this is the first round.
Please boost for reach and thank you for taking to time read this long post.
I just found out that Tim Cook attended a private screening of "Melania" with Donald Trump at the White House the night after ICE killed Alex Pretti. Where the fuck even are we, as a country? As a society? No, I will not forgive and I will not forget. Apple was already pretty much dead to me, but if I ever needed a reminder as to why I'll never buy another Apple product, this was it.
The White House held an advance screening of Amazon's new Melania Trump documentary that included guests Mike Tyson, Erika Kirk, and Brett Ratner, the film's director.
I get "but but but, I have to look out for my company!" as an excuse, I can rationally see why someone would think that. But it's an unforgivable position. I'd rather fucking resign. Show a little goddamn backbone, for fuck's sake.
I will add this though: I'm NOT going to be upset at anyone who buys Apple stuff, or anyone who works at Apple, none of that. Totally 100% don't care, not my beef at all. I'm mad at Tim Cook and Tim Cook alone.
You've got to pick your battles. Me yelling at someone for buying an iPhone is going to accomplish nothing but making them resentful toward me. I view it like telling people to use paper straws instead of going after the oil industry. I would politely suggest that they not support Apple, but beyond that, no.
@keirFox @bigtuffal Fairphone offers a murena /e/os version. De-googled, european companies. My iPhone is quite new so I don’t want to e-waste it just yet, but when the time comes to replace it, I will probably be looking in that direction. I’m still picking the walled-garden-vines off my legs and getting my data self-hosted first. I foolishly started using sign-in-with-apple and you can’t export passkeys
@bigtuffal @Truffles Have patience with others with regard to this. Many want to change but it isn’t immediately obvious to most consumers what to change to or how to go about it. It’s better to show alternatives to others and assist them in their efforts than to call people out for a purchase choice they might not even have known had an alternative much less how to go about that shift.
@keirFox @bigtuffal The good news is that GrapheneOS has said they’re going to announce a partnership with an unnamed non-Google hardware vendor early this year, to be available some time late 2026 or 2027. That’ll be my next phone.
See now THIS - THIS I could get on board with. If it's a built from the ground up "I can just buy it and be DONE" phone. I'd absolutely consider it. Because it wouldn't be the whole "Buy [insert random generic well known android phone here]" and then flush too much time down the crapper rooting it / wiping the vanilla OS and installing Graphene or whatever your flavor of custom ROM is." Just...not an experience I want. I just want to buy the phone, set it up and be done. I don't want a project.
"We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA. We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material. In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights." announced the European Commission.
An investigation published by Declassified UK revealed that the Israeli government is funding an online advertising campaign appearing in search results in Britain targeting Doctors Without Borders, a humanitarian medical organization providing essential services in Gaza and other areas.
Google transparency data shows that the Israeli government advertising agency pays to display the ad when searching for terms such as “Doctors Without Borders” and “MSF,” directing users to an official Israeli report accusing the organization of “serious misconduct” and aiming to undermine Israel’s legitimacy internationally.
This comes in the context of Israel opposing the organization’s use of terms such as “war of extermination” and “genocide” to describe events in Gaza.
Gotta say, as I expand into Wafrn... Spread like mold? I keep finding stuff I like, from being able to bite people, after all pokes are boring, or the barking and confetti when I woot, yes, woot not toot, and other cute things, then there's the little details...
Believe strongly in alt text? Its default required in the settings, you have to go and turn it off, or your media posts won't send without having something in there.
Sharing links? Sure, it sucks that you can't see the preview until after you post, but things like GoComics which never shows a thumbnail or synopsis here on Friendica works perfectly.
I think @gabboman the wafrn dev could prolly use some help on the project, but so far, what it does have works really nicely.
So, I've started migrating the people I follow over to my Wafrn account, @Chuff , following them there and unfollowing them here... And got into the B's and realized something, Wafrn doesn't give me any way to see my followers list nor migrate it far as I know which means I have no idea who I'm following over there.
Eh heh, heh, oops.
Well, no problem, just downloaded the list here, so at least I'll be able to recover the rest of them if needed, I do expect to switch to my own hosted Wafrn in the future if'n I'm lucky, poked one hosting service abotu it already even though I'm not remotely ready to do it.
Why my own? To avoid some of the stupidities I've had to deal with on other people's instances, once got warned about not CW'd a picture of a cowtaur (cow person upper body, cow lower body), not because of sex, not because she was topless, but because you could see her udder. Yeah, that was the straw that broke my back and why I just have my own instance. Currently here I have... 5 accounts? Not sock puppets, this one, Admin, Recalls, Taurs and the newest, my porn account. Yeah, that's enough to justify my own instance.
EDIT Eww, that is one ugly and barely useful CSV file, only exports two things, user account names and whether I can see their posts or not. Following, follower or mutual status not included, nor is the profile name. Bleah.
We the People demand Justice for cold-blooded murders & executions of Alex Pretti, Renee Good & every single person & child harmed by the #TrumpRegime ABOLISH ICE DEFUND DHS IMPEACH NOEM #REMOVE TRUMP open.substack.com/pub/america/… #RIPAlexPretti
Does anyone know of a fail2ban type service that I can run on a linux *router*, not the host itself?
I want to be able to handle excessive traffic both in the "failed to login via SSH" sense, but also the "sent a squillion boring HTTP requests over a time period".
I know that encryption will make this awkward, but there are certain fingerprints I suspect could make this somewhat functional (e.g: many short-lived connections).
You can set up nftables to do rate limiting; I suspect you can then get it to log when rate limiting has happened; so I think you could then feed that to fail2ban - all on the router??
Hi, Im Jude (he/him) I’ll post a fanart once in a while but im mostly a hypeman for other creators ! I’m here because I like to accumulate and discover fandoms and creative interests ~
I listen to a bunch of Kpop but I’m definitely going to yap about #Ateez and #Xlov 🤩 Probably other musicians will come up too.
Otherwise im always into queer fantasy in general, dnd and real play shows specifically ( #dimension20 and #criticalrole ). Any queer rewriting or interpretation of lotr is 10/10. I’m also going through the mdzs books and saw tgcf animated recently :)
Daniel DiDonato, 18, drafted new state senate districts at home on free software – and a judge picked his map ahead of professionals’ efforts to remedy voting rights violations
democracydocket.com/news-alert… The fascists have limited resources to consolidate power in the remaining free US states right now. They want states to make it easy for them to kick down doors and continue terrorizing, disappearing, and murdering good Minnesotan citizens for no reason other than to act on their indoctrination and training over 12 years of public education to remain loyal to the nation and continue to vote their conscience in free elections.
The fascists aren't fucking around. Lots of Minnesota soccer moms, my fellow good citizens bless them, are learning this right now in their volunteer civic training and on the street.
The Big Beautiful Bill provides the funds and institutions for the fascists to build the necessary human transportation networks, the slums to concentrate the overflow of good, decent, everyday folks who voted a certain way, and the work camps, death camps, and battlefields where they will be transported to and exterminated.
The fascists will use voter rolls obtained via violent coercion or flat out theft to decide who best to terrorize, who to disappear, who to murder first. Once the people on the list are taken care of the fascists will continue to terrorize, disappear, and murder us - at will, without provocation, without justification.
Regardless of whether it stays non-violent or turns into a pointless war of attrition (that no one except the very few fascists in power want) plan for terror, plan for detention, plan for death, in fact, expect it. When it happens to one of yours you will be as ready as you can be to set aside emotional paralysis, follow your training to do the right thing which includes setting aside time to morn.
And that my fellow humans of the world, is this tiny insignificant laborer and Minnesotan nobody's current take on what's going on outside, right now.
This cartoon is by me and new guest artist Mike Lawrence. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. Each panel shows a frizzy-haired guy, and in each panel he’s in a different setti…
Starting today I'm using my Wafrn more, but it won't completely replace this place. At the very least, this will still be my blog, at least unless I find a better platform for that. Oh, and following pod people (Disapora users), at least until they move to something ActivityPub. And RSS feeds.
So, what does Wafrn lack that Friendica has? Categories, useful as I can share links to just part of my blog here Diaspora compatibility Feed reader, this is one of the neatest features here, they show up in your timeline just like anyone else you follow Hashtag auto complete/suggestion, kinda useful so we don't wind up with a thousand variations on the same thing Link display in post creation window, if you paste a link into the creation box on Friendica or Mastodon, it displays the summary so you can see what the post will look like, Wafrn, you have to wait until your post is on your dashboard No following or followers list
What's it missing that I want? Queue function like Tumblr, something that Friendica has made clear they see no point in An easy way to share internet links. This one isn't on Wafrn, for Friendica and Mastodon I use an extension on Firefox, I think this is a fork, of the older FediShare extension, and this one I don't think is supported as it seems to be a bit out of date on what services it supports. It'd be nice to see someone take over it and maintain it as its useful for sharing things.
Other bugs/glitches? Relatively minor stuff, tried to upload a video that was possibly too big and got no error, just no video attached to the post. If you search for someone then follow them, the page doesn't refresh the button status, the follow button doesn't become an unfollow, rather it stays a follow button
Seriously, that's a long list of nitpicks really, and like stuff @gabboman the wafrn dev will likely fix as time goes on since Wafrn is young, and none are a deal breaker. I'll prolly switch to hosted Wafrn instant at some point in the future, just have to figure out costs and what I want to do with this place.
@gabboman the wafrn dev I can imagine, not even to a full version yet, right? I figured none of that stuff has any chance of happening any time soon, but hey, a pup can wish, right? And the Fedishare extension thing is kinda unrelated, though it does annoy me that that extension isn't maintained considering how little maintenance it'd need.
Not sure if'n it'd help with either the Diaspora or the RSS feed thing, but IIRC, the original developer of Friendica created a library of modules to be used in Fediverse apps on GitHub, SocialHome and one other use some of the bits.
As to the list, I think it depends on goals, want to stand out, consider the queue function, prolly fairly easy thing to add, and useful as its main purpose is flood control. Bring it up to Mastodon/et al features, add some manner of follower/followers management and/or fix the hashtag thing. Want to kill Diaspora? Add compatibility.
Really this is a wish list, and if'n any of it happens, cool, if not, oh well, just impacts what will be my main Fediverse app
They think the whole situation in Minneapolis is a complete gong show, that ICE lacks training, and that they shouldn’t be allowed to hide their faces.
On top of that, they believe ICE is going to cause them harm because, in the public’s mind, there’s no difference between them and ICE.
I mean Seattle local cops maced like a six year old in the face in 2020, then washed that down by teargassing an infant in their crib a few weeks later.
The only difference between local cops and ICE in practice is that one of them are federal cops.
@nullagent I’m not defending local cops but we can’t deny a major escalation has occurred. A few officers, while off duty, have been threatened by ICE—specifically those of colour.
No doubt, though, ICE exists because regular cops have been militarized.
Caveat here: I am not an American. But as a Canadian watching this unfold—just a few kilometres from the border—this is scary as hell. Especially with all this annexation talk.
"Pretti had a gun on him. An administration that once wrapped Kyle Rittenhouse in a loving embrace after he brought a rifle to a protest & killed two men took an interesting view of that fact. “This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage & massacre law enforcement,” an unsigned Homeland Security post said. "
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in reply to 🌴 Seph 💭 👾 • • •Good choice are your selfhosting, like self self or is the friendica stuff attended by kinda third party like weingaertner-it.de
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in reply to 🌴 Seph 💭 👾 • • •That's definitely a gameChanger for the fedi and all of us!
Have a look here:
tupambae.org/directory
That's supposed to be an exclusive friendican forum group setup.
tupambaeOrg [stable] | Directory
tupambae.orgAndrew Pam
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in reply to Andrew Pam • •@Andrew Pam If'n you like Diaspora, I'd say give Wafrn a try, maybe jump on a instance like bark.wolp.chat where I am and take it for a test drive.
Friendica is pretty cool albeit a bit weird, I think its strong suit is if'n you like to do long text posts, images there's lots of other choices. Oh, and it doesn't do sound or video files.
Andrew Pam
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in reply to 🌴 Seph 💭 👾 • • •Diego* (diaspora social)
in reply to 🌴 Seph 💭 👾 • • •@🌴 Seph 💭 👾 Hi! I discovered Wafrn thanks to you. I've created an account and I find it absolutely fun. I'm still figuring out how the "bite" function works, but otherwise I like everything.
Besides Diaspora, I also use Mastodon, and in the past I've used other free social networks like GNUSocial.
By the way, my Wafrn username is @diegoch.at.app.wafrn.net