Frigate is amazing! My coral TPU is coming in today to take the heat off of the poor CPU.

Got tickets to Oppenheimer on one of the two 70mm theaters in Netherlands. Unfortunately there's no 70mm IMAX theater in NL 😢

@shartlen come on! Take a break! Come to Europe 😄

@shartlen haha that's true! Sometimes just miss the people who aren't here. How have you been though? :)

Amsterdam is a beauty 😍

Haha! Back to Mastodon now that the thread party is over for EU people 😜

Disney's Elemental was a super nice movie 😄

@darkuncle if you *really* wanna know how heat pumps work, watch some of @TechConnectify 's videos 😁

This is amazing 🤣

It was really sad to have to say goodbye to this very nice tree in my garden. But I guess it could have been a lot worse.

The strongest summer storm ever measured in NL is for sure wrecking havoc. Lost a tree in my garden. But a lot of people lost a lot more. Just a few streets ahead, someone lost their car.

The fact that far too many people cannot recognize fascism unless it looks exactly like Nazi Germany is very dangerous.

I just read another news article about why mastodon didn’t make it and is dying. It’s very sad to hear and probably explains why I have to keep adding more server capacity to handle all the people quitting mastodon.

Are #trains in #poland reliable?

Both Twitter and BlueSky - backed by untold amounts of money and white tech bros - are down.

Mastodon - run by trans furries and femboys high on anxiety - is running just fine.

Can I use this instead of the "😋" emoji?

Many people, including those who use Mastodon, have told me they don’t care about decentralization. But they should. Decentralization – or the “asshole limiter”, as I like to put it – is the killer feature of the #Fediverse. Here’s why:

Mitigation of Rogue Administrators: In centralized platforms like Twitter, if an admin (such as Elon Musk) chooses to act unfairly or disruptively - essentially being an “asshole” - their actions can affect the entire user base. In a decentralized platform like Mastodon, each instance or server is managed independently. If a user finds an admin to be behaving badly, they have the freedom to switch to a different server where the administrators align more with their values. This effectively limits the potential damage any single rogue admin can cause.

Protection from Single Points of Disruption: Centralized networks can be disrupted by a single point of failure (such as Elon Musk). This could be a technical issue, a security breach, or a bad-faith actor wreaking havoc. In a decentralized network, these issues are isolated. If one server experiences problems, others remain unaffected. This design effectively limits the potential influence of any single “asshole” on the overall service.

Curtailing Unwanted Censorship: On a centralized platform, an admin (such as Elon Musk) can censor content or ban users platform-wide. In decentralized networks, no single admin has the power to enforce such sweeping control. If a user feels their content is unfairly censored by an “asshole” admin, they can simply switch to a different server where the administration is more to their liking.

Reducing Impact of Unfair Standards: In decentralized platforms, each server can set its own community standards. So, an admin (such as Elon Musk) acting as an “asshole” by imposing unfair rules on one server doesn’t affect the other servers. Users can choose a server with rules they find fair and reasonable, reducing the overall impact of one admin’s unreasonable behavior.

If you find yourself constantly battling with digital dictators on your favorite social platforms, it might be time to join the Fediverse. After all, who wouldn’t want to plug into a platform where the “asshole limiter” is always turned up to eleven?

the idea of being visited by aliens lost its appeal when i realized they’d likely just be some other planet’s asshole billionaires

@stux yeah, it's not allowed in the NL. But maybe try talking to them first?

Got off my call with Reddit just now about the API. Bad news unless I come up with 20 million dollars (not joking). Appreciate boosts. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/