✅ I have not said mean things about Erdoğan

You get a Bhopal! And you get a Bhopal! Everyone gets a Bhopal!

environmental effects

Fortune article last year just talked about water and power in just the chip sector: The chip industry’s dirty little secret: It’s very dirty

“At Intel’s Arizona campus, where the new facilities are still unfinished, the company already emits about two tons of hazardous air pollutants quarterly.”

the kicker will be when new-from-China plus 100% tariff is still cheaper than American made …

not to mention one of the reasons we eagerly off-shored electronics fabrication in the first place is because it’s a toxic nightmare

other than similarity of services, I’m pretty sure the two aren’t affiliated

but Cloudflare tends to be a little more “corporate” in its approach so more likely to block archive.today (and libgen and sci-hub)

are you using Quad9 DNS?

(Catbox and Quad9 have an ongoing squabble – usually it’s just a matter of waiting for a day for things to clear up)

(considering what’s left behind on Xitter, that’s probably a good thing)

user level moderation: blocking, muting, and filtering – and block lists, mute lists, and filter lists can all be shared and subscribed and updated

• did you have a chance to test with any GoToSocial or snac2 based instances?
• there’s also moderation issues – a lot of people leaving Xitter are ending up on Bluesky because it has better moderation and onboarding

https://piefed.social/

and converting them to modern languages: Basic Computer Games

“There are two types of people: those who back up and those who haven’t lost data … yet.”

“We have always lived in slums and holes in the wall. We will know how to accommodate ourselves for a while. For you must not forget that we can also build. It is we who built these palaces and cities, here in Spain and America and everywhere. We, the workers. We can build others to take their place. And better ones. We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. The bourgeoisie might blast and ruin its own world before it leaves the stage of history. We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing in this minute.”

—Buenaventura Durruti, Van Paassen interview (1936)

BSD community seems to like snac2

Shantanu Narayen’s still not giving you a free license

Elon decided Microsoft’s Tay chatbot was a guidebook …

Elon Musk removes blocking feature so he can finally see what his kids post

more of a miracle he didn’t copy Johnny Cab …

maybe OcapPub ?