@DesRoin @geekdom I myself will be moving to mstdn.social because @stux is awesome, and I can support a whole bunch of Fediverse services with my donations.
Jochen Lillich
IT operations black belt and greybeard geek. German living in Ireland. Founder/CTO at freistil IT. IT trainer at Monospace Mentor. Sysop of the Mastodon instance Geekdom.social.
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For any fans of Severance, national parks and forests, or the tallest waterfall on the planet, I made a t-shirt that might interest you: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/72195583-dieter-eagan-national-forest
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geekdom.social to shut down in May: https://hub.geekdom.social/updates/2025/02/10/shutdown/
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GEEKDOM.SOCIAL ADMIN NOTIFICATION
In light of the recent changes at Meta, I've decided to join the #Fedipact and block Threads. Sub-par moderation was one thing, active support of bigotry is one very different thing.
My decision is based on basic decency, but as an EU-based instance, there's also a legal angle that should not be ignored.
-- Jochen geewiz@geekdom.social
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@geewiz another handy thing Obsidian let's me do is Micropublish from the command pallete. Works elegantly with micro.blog.
BTW, I now have a Now Page! https://www.geewiz.dev/2024/12/23/now-page.html
Using Obsidian as my blog editor https://www.geewiz.dev/2024/12/23/use-obsidian-blog-editor.html
PSA: To separate my personal account from instance administration topics, I've now created @geekdom as our official administration account.
Please follow the account for future updates on our Mastodon instance!
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I suppose that rather than thinking of this as the hottest year ever, we should think of it as the coolest year of those to come. Just for setting expectations.
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New #LiveStream at 13:00 UTC! On today's Full Stack Live, I'm going to give the next lecture in my Linux Administration Master Course. We'll install a Linux VM and get acquainted with the GUI and the command line interface.
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New #LiveCoding #LiveStream at 13:00 UTC! On today's Full Stack Live, I'm going to fix a bug in our hosting dashboard. Join me for a chat about #Ruby, #Linux, #DevOps, and anything else you like!
Click "Follow" on the stream homepage to get notified automatically in the future!
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This is REALLY important.
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment and counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Let that sink in. It costs less than accepting homelessness.
#Finland #Helsinki #homeless #cities #homes
https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/
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"COVID-19 long-hauler now on long-term disability warns others about the 'invisible disease'"
"I'm quite an active person and after having COVID, I treated it like any other cold. I went back full throttle into my exercising, work and everything, and I just didn't have the same energy."
"By October, Argoso was on short-term disability. After a brief return to work, she's now on long-term disability."
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@daringfireball John, I love ya, but I don’t think you could be more wrong about this. You and I don’t have a lot to fear from Facebook downloading our data from Mastodon’s APIs. We’re both reasonably successful, straight, politically average, white men of similar age. What do I care if Facebook knows about a picture I uploaded of my cat?
But a lot of my users are in one or more different categories from us, and they’ve told me they’re horrified by the idea.
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Meta’s new app “Threads” is up pre-order in the App Store. Let’s do a quick check on what data they want from you compared to the official Mastodon app, Mammoth and Ivory.
Spoiler: Meta wants to know and track everything about you, and Mastodon doesn’t want anything.
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New Gist: The Road from Perdition
I propose a solution to all of RTE's problems. It will also see the licence fee abolished and you'll never have to watch another #RTE Player ad again.
Tell me you're not interested!
This is the Gist.
(Given Twitter's demise, I wonder if you might give this a little boost if you see it. Many thanks)
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Opsitive Office Hour #LiveStream today at 13:00 UTC! Grab a beverage, bring your questions, and share your learnings around #Linux #SystemAdministration, #Ruby coding, and #DevOps! Or simply drop by for a chat before the weekend; that's fine, too. :D
Click "Follow" on the stream homepage to get notified automatically in the future!
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One week left to sign up for my #Linux Administration Master Course! If you'd like to learn everything important about the operating system, its tools and how to use it in everyday work, this is the course for you. And it's free!
https://be.opsitive.com/linux-administration-master-course
Please boost for better reach.
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I must say, with all the fuzz about #Meta and things #Fediverse, I feel that I was right *not* to give up on the #BBS scene back in the late 1990s. So be prepared, the future will be ASCII / ANSI ... 😋
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Stop thinking of Twitter, TikTok, IG, (et al) as social media sites.
They are **Content Refineries.**
Like processed food manufacturers they take user content & extract the most addicting/engaging content. Brains eat it up but in an unhealthy “devour the whole bag of chips” way.
They make hyper-processed social media junk food.
Mastodon is more like a potluck. We're all bringing dishes. It's a mess. Kids are running all over. But we are, at least, real people sharing real things.
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