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Public Service Warning
Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when Musk pulled the employee purge.
It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.
We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.
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If you're trying to find journalists on Mastodon, I've created a verified database of several hundred here: http://presscheck.org. Since the backlog has become enormous, the unverified waiting list is now public also: http://presscheck.org/pending
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#Inkvent day 16: Serendipity
This is a navy blue with both shimmer and sheen (actual sheen, not like yesterday’s).
Twitter slowly descending into the dark web.
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Many of the journalists Elon suspended today on Twitter are here on #Mastodon. Please follow and boost:
Drew Harwell, Washington Post
@drewharwell
Donie O’Sullivan, CNN
@donieosullivan
Steve Herman, VOA
@w7voa
Micah Lee, Intercept
@micahflee
Tony Webster
@tony
Matt Binder, Mashable
@MattBinder
That was fun, 50GB of disk chewed up all ready - added a symlink to a mount of 100GB to cache, then mucked around and realised various things prevent it from working without directly being mounted
Back up and working.
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Woah. Watching Twitter misuse our research by putting warnings on links to Mastodon.
Here for example is the warning that @georgetakei "may be unsafe."
In a study led by Ben Kaiser at Princeton, we tested the effect of interstitial warnings on user behavior.
https://www.lawfareblog.com/warnings-work-combating-misinformation-without-deplatforming
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GitHub is rolling out support for the free scanning of exposed secrets (such as credentials and auth tokens) to all public repositories on its code hosting platform.
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Today, Twitter suspended It's Going Down (@igd_news), a longtime anarchist and anti-fascist news source that had never previously run afoul of the Twitter rules. At the time of their suspension, they had 108,000 followers.
Elon Musk was lying through his teeth when he said he believes in free speech. He bought Twitter in order to suppress the voices of those who seek an egalitarian society. Since taking over the platform, he has reinstated avowed neo-Nazis and taken guidance from those who explicitly support fascism as he targets journalists and activists.
More background:
https://crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary
You can follow IGD on Mastodon here:
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At the urging of a few folks here, I decided to run a test to see which social networks clicked through most on this week's scoop about a hack of the FBI's InfraGard program.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2022/12/fbis-vetted-info-sharing-network-infragard-hacked/
LinkedIn tells me I have ~100k followers there. 80 Linkedin users commented on that story, but it looks like only about 25 of them actually clicked the link the first 24h!
A number equal to about 2 percent of my 350k Twitter followers clicked on the story (6600).
In contrast, the story posted here generated 3300 impressions in the same time period, even though I had (at the time) only about 15,000 followers. Also, That 3300 number would probably have been higher, but for the fact that I forgot to add the versioning link and edited that into it afterwards.
That tells me that, for now at least, engagement on Mastodon is significantly higher than on either LinkedIn or Twitter.
@firstyear I don’t know if this is the type of thing you need, but I’ve discovered some long term things in Linux I didn’t realize:
Namespaces. (Which other things such as docker use)
You can isolate networks etc for a process tree. I use this to have isolated and multiple VPNs on a single box for multiple users.
I think you can namespace other resources too (such as memory) but haven’t experimented with that part.
@selzero@vmst.io my gut feel is that there should be no IP input into an AI system if you intend to have non infringing output that you can use or further create IP from. But yeah, regardless of the origin, these are straight up rip-offs. Cease and desist letters from heavily backed lawyers in the mail I’m sure.
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A mob of red deer stags in Richmond Park, they were on the edge of the woods and unless you stopped to look from most angles they were perfectly hidden, I crouched down to take the shot, that's when I could see how many there were (shot with a long lens it looks like I was a lot closer than I actually was). #RichmondPark #RedDeer #Stags #RedStags #WildLifePhotography #Nature #Photography #AltText
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#throwbackthursday to this day 5 years ago when I found the chosen one while going for a walk in the woods
#tirol #austria #winter #photography #shotoniphone #NaturePhotogaphy
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Tokyo makes solar panels mandatory for new homes built after 2025 http://reut.rs/3HETIlV
Joined Nov 2022
