rysiek ✅ @rysiek@mastodon.social

All it costs to fulfill the average person's needs for digital services is a $5 per month VPS instance. It's even cheaper if you buy a single board computer and host your services at home.

We've been letting companies steal our personal data and sell it to the highest bidder and destroying democracy in the process all to save what? A coffee a month?

This is one of the worst deals in history.

#privacy #selfhosting

Beware: The US right is now astroturfing up a #walkaway campaign with fake democrat profiles and using stock photos as their pictures.

They're desperate.
#resist

Actieplan tegen de eerste verplichte EU-internetfilter

Stap 1 – Voor het zomerreces: sta niet toe dat JURI in het geheim onderhandelt met de censuur-ondersteunende EU-Raad

Actie 1: We moeten de 750 Europarlementsleden vragen steun te bieden aan een goed democratisch debat en zich te verzetten tegen het begin van ondoorzichtige onderhandelingen!

#SaveYourInternet

https://edri.org/strategy-against-the-first-obligatory-eu-internet-filter/

@vertigo @uranther @ajroach42 MacOS's cooperative multitasking from that day - when a user held down the mouse button for too long, the network stack wouldn't get a chance to run! http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/D/Don-t-do-that-then-.html

I love this project: a riverbed in Amsterdam was drained and the ~700,000 found objects dating from the 1300s to present were photographed and presented online:

https://belowthesurface.amsterdam/en/vondsten

@Gargron @MacLemon I used to have a fairly elaborate regex to catch almost all versions of the "in this house" meme... Don't think something like this can be done reliably with a word filter alone (lots of common words).

My most common use case for filters currently is to get rid of excessive boosts of a post I've seen too often already, but for this the word filter is really a bad workaround that often filters too much.

@saper Yes, Kriesel's writeup is excellent and notes that Germany has banned JBIG2 for archival documents: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning

Adventures in lexical analysis of a selected set[1] of Debian manpages, preliminary conclusions:

The third-most-prevalent 4gram is "1 author joey hess"

@joeyh. do you have anything to say for yourself?

Notes:
1. Roughly 9,000 of 13,480 manpages lexilysed.

by the way there apparently is an influx of new users to mastodon.art? welcome, fediverse art community richer with you and every new creative who joins. (whether you are specifically on this node or elsewhere)

500px will no longer allow photographers to license their photos under Creative Commons https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/1/17521456/500px-marketplace-creative-commons-getty-images-visual-china-group-photography-open-access 🖕

LB context: #500px is removing the ability to upload, download, or search for #CreativeCommons licensed images, with basically no warning. Follow the instructions provided by @eq if you can: https://cybre.space/@eq/100290879824956894

this is an inadvertently great allegory for humanity

New Emoji on bsd.network

Courtesy of the illustrious @pamela / @pmosetc

@cwebber @rysiek @Gargron We're getting there with Lightning Network. But it's early days still. You can already try a working demo for paywalls though: https://yalls.org/