Pillowfort has announced that they're in danger of shutting down if they can't raise $25,000 by the end of 2023, and have launched a fundraiser to raise the money they need. PF has had its ups and downs, but after 5 years it's still here and still dedicated to providing a space for NSFW creators, and if that's a vision that speaks to you I implore you to share this information and donate to the fundraiser if you're able!
To the Pillowfort Community, Transparency from myself and my Staff is part of the foundation that makes Pillowfort so great. The news I am about to share is not easy. But it is important for you, our community, to know what is going on.
@alatiera @lea I, for one, am happy to take this occasion to learn that apparently I have dedicated haters on the chan. It means I'm arrived at the apex of my career, and thus I can start winding it down
@ebassi @alatiera @lea realistically speaking, you are probably the most famous GNOME developer, so it's obvious that people will have a lot to say about you
@Ralph too late: these people are already perfectly replicable by a basic chatbot trained on reddit. That's why they are all worried of AI taking over and torturing a simulacrum of themselves for all eternity.
@Cwiiis I grew up on Usenet, and have spent 25 years of my life on public forums; I also don’t have a pathological need of people “liking me”, and I don’t derive any sense of self-worth from the approval or disapproval of people I don’t know…
That, of course, doesn’t prevent me from thinking a bunch of these people should discover how chemical fires work directly up close, but other than that, I stopped caring long ago. It’s the cost of doing open source software
heh, I'm mature enough at this point to admit that my ego can't stand being subject to those sorts of people on a regular basis... Even seeing it second hand I find almost intolerable 😛
@Cwiiis it’s definitely not for everyone, and I don’t blame people checking out of the whole thing: it’s relentless, and it gets worse every year, because the old hands move on, and there are more people taking full advantage of the fact that they can’t get punched in the face over the Internet for what they say
I found your profile in a 4chan /g/ thread that discussed how bad you are, then checked you out and realized it was just the usual pathological 4chan users.
@ekaitz_zarraga It's very low effort; I could do a much better job in sourcing an hyperrealistic gigachad veiny cock instead of that soyboy cuck symbolic penis
One of the best things about Turku is that you can listen to Radio Robin Hood there!
RRH has a lot of the same energy as the early web and the heydays of IRC (with maybe a bit more communism tbh). People and small communities jamming to their own thing, broadcast to an unexpectedly wide audience.
Radio is an incredible medium and it’s always fun to see someone do something a bit weird with it!
Recently, "Very Finnish Problems" posted a very strange list of "fun facts about the #Finnish #language". As a linguist, I wasn't amused at all, and here, finally, comes my own version: probably not that "fun", but at least with some real facts. kielioblog.wordpress.com/15-1-…
(A non-native English version of this blog post.) Recently, the blog called Very Finnish Problems published a list of “fun facts” about the Finnish language. As a typical killjoy linguist, I was a …
“Pedro Sánchez a prisión”, “la Constitución destruye la nación”, “viva Franco”, “unidad nacional”… Le hacen la venta del producto a Sánchez ellos solitos, episodio XXXIV
Anyone want a free piano that runs in #Juce without the need of Komplete Kontrol, and has a lovely reverse option when you use your modwheel? Record And Play - #TheCrowHillCompany - Attic Grand: youtu.be/3Ot78DXi8_Y
Here, I'm testing out the new piano from The Crow Hill Company, which is the first of hopefully many offerings.It's got quite a rugged sound, but that certai...
Rumored to be in the works for the past year, the initiative appears to have begun rolling out recently, with email solicitations being sent to potential buyers.
#FairEmail, není jiné aplikace v #Fdroidu, která je každý den aktualizovaná. Vývojář musí být fanda Archu 😀 Jinak za mě asi nejlepší emailový klient pro #android Vývojář musí určitě
Používal jsem Fairemail roky a vcelku spokojenost. Byla to náhrada za K9 mail, který mi sice vyhovoval víc, ale chybělo tam několik drobností k dokonalosti (např. swipe akce). Když do K9 vstoupila Mozilla, dal jsem mu druhou šanci a musím říct, že nyní je fakt super. Oproti Fairemail méně funkcí, ale celkový dojem lepší - vše funguje a neztrácím se v nastavení. Nicméně, oba jsou opravdu povedení klienti. @vesp
@Archos :distros_arch: :matrix: #FairEmail je fakt super. Z pohľadu používateľov v mojom okolí sú dôležité vlastnosti, že je plne lokalizovaný do češtiny aj slovenčiny, veľmi dobre sa používa s čítačmi obrazovky pre ťažko zrakovo postihnutých, má perfektne vyšperkované kanáli oznámení, je možné si nastaviť sledované priečinky, funguje s viacerými účtami, okrem bežných spôsobou prihlasovania podporuje aj OAuth2 prihlasovanie na Microsoft 365, Google a pod. Predpokladám, že K9 zvláda tiež mnohé z týchto vlastnosti vrátania použitia s čítačmi obrazovky ako je napr. Talkback, ale tak je v tesnom závese za FairEmail.
Zrovna přemýšlím nad alternativou Outlooku pro Android. Používám jej kvůli pracovní poště a hlavně kvůli synchronizaci kontaktů z adresáře... Asi zkusím.
@fabia_man Já ho používám už dlouho, je to fakt super klient. Na synchronizaci kontaktů a kalendářem mám Nextcloud. Úkoly mám přes Vikunja aplikace. Vše jde synchronizovat přes DAVx. Tak aspoň nejde nic přes Google 😊
S tím bych si dovolil nesouhlasit. Můžeme se na smrt dívat jako na součást života, je totiž nevyhnutelná, ale pouze v případě, je-li přirozená. Jakákoli jiná příčina, smrt skutečně posouvá na protipól k životu.
This is the first thing I’ve seen from a major press outlet that even resembles a stick in the eye of conventional economic wisdom. And it is absolutely on point.
We must scream at the top of lungs, and shame any who dare, try to defend the conventional orthodox economic machine that is tearing our children’s future down around their ears. #FUCKNORDHAUS!!!
Please, I beg you, circulate this article as far and wide as you can.
Aznar, uno de los cinco peores expresidentes del mundo según expertos internacionales
Aznar en la lista de “Los malos ex” junto a un tailandés, un filipino y un nigeriano, por no ayudar al bienestar político de su país elplural.com/politica/espana/e…
Phew! Thanks to new data from ESO's Very Large #Telescope, we now know that a white dwarf that was set for a close encounter with our Solar System in 29000 years isn't actually headed our way. Turns out that the intense magnetic field of the #star had biased the previous measurements of the approach speed. You're welcome everyone! 😉
#𝕶𝖆𝖗𝖑𝖘𝖇𝖆𝖉 1/ Gejzír zvaný Vřídlo je nejvydatnějším pramenem. Všechny další zdejší prameny jsou jen jeho rameny. Putují z hlubiny dvou kilometrů puklinou přibližně pod chrámem Máří Magdaleny. Dříve aragonit občas utěsnil ústí Vřídla a tlak vody si prorazil jinou cestu. Tomu se říká výbuch Vřídla. Většinou při něm padaly okolní domy. Někdy vznikl nový gejzír, Někdy ale při výbuchu naopak Vřídlo zmizelo. I na řadu dní. To se pak místní scházeli před kostelem a modlili se za jeho návrat…
Numerosas personas se han concentrado este viernes en la sede del PSOE de Madrid para protestar contra la ley de amnistía y para pedir la dimisión del presidente en funciones, Pedro Sánchez, que aún no se ha sometido a la investidura.
Está muy bien que quienes protestan contra la amnistía tienen los conceptos jurídico-políticos tan claros que son una parodia de si mismos.
Quien piense que Franco es libertad, o que Franco es preferible a una amnistía, o que la amnistía es la antítesis de la libertad, no tiene nada útil que decir.
Haven't been able to stop thinking about the process that went into the original delegation of the .io domain to its current manager, so I looked back to what the administrative situation for the root domain was in 1997.
1997 was pretty chaotic for the Internet, with eternal arguments going on about who should administer the generic TLDs, which new generic TLDs should be created, and so on. Country-code TLDs were sort of a sideshow to all this - as far as I can tell the only "policy" around who got to request their creation can be summed up as "code is in ISO3166, looks legit" combined with a test to see if whoever was asking for it had the technical means to run a registry. The governing document at the time was RFC 1591 (datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/…).
It's obvious to see what was going on here. While the argument going on outside was all about new gTLDs, the still-just-run-by-Jon-Postel IANA did not see its function as getting involved in politics -- it was just a body for assigning technical identifiers and absolutely didn't want to get involved in making judgements about what a country was. In a system which had previously run on concensus rather than authority that would have been the norm. This was absolutely fine for the first couple of decades of the DNS's existence because shysters and money-grabbing opportunists weren't really a thing on the academic Internet, but there was a window of opportunity here for someone clever enough to realise that if the country code was obscure enough you could grab it, run it as a generic TLD and rake in the cash before national governments spotted the potential themselves and spoiled the fun.
You can see some of the reasoning. Only a few years before 1997 the idea that someone wanting to run a country TLD should have to get high-level permission from their government would have been seen as totally ludicrous as most governments had no clue what the Internet even was. In most of these cases the registrations were carried out in good faith by people who acted _mostly_ in good faith even as the domain business became incredibly lucrative years later.
So here is my take. I don't really believe there was _ever_ any agreement with the UK government to register these domains. I just think that someone at the UK government must _assume_ that as they got registered then they must have agreed to it at some point. I certainly don't think the UK government is getting any income from this other than in the usual form of VAT paid on registrations and any other taxes the company incurs if it's still a UK business entity. It has no direct power over ICB's control of those domains anyway.
And if someone really *had* gone to HMG in early 1997 and said "Hey can I run the DNS for Saint Helena?" they'd have had no idea what they were talking about, and even if they had the question would have percolated through a bunch of different government departments before they found out who was responsible for having opinions about the DNS anyway. Education? Trade and Industry? The Foreign Office as it's an overseas territory? With the change of UK government in May 1997 there would have also been a lot of upheaval and delay as the Civil Service had its priorities rearranged by a bunch of new ministers which would have slowed things down even further. Simply speaking, the government just doesn't move that quickly.
And so it came to pass that .io, .sh, .ac and .tm were delegated within a short amount of time in 1997 to a company founded a year earlier in the UK.
Anyway, Companies House information tells us that Paul Kane divested himself of ownership of Internet Computer Bureau (.ac, .sh and .io) a few years ago but still retains ownership and overall control of the .tm registry. ICB was then owned by Afilias (another big registry provider) which then merged with Donuts and became Identity Digital in 2022.
Here's the thing. I'm not entirely sure the UK Government has any control at all over .io. Even trying to take control of it themselves would probably require extensive legal action to prove that it's something they have the right to control over, and that might not even work. It's not even wholly clear that handing what is now the BIOT over to Mauritius would establish Mauritian ownership of the ccTLD.
Ultimately, the issue of Chagossian sovereignty is orthogonal to the issue who who controls the .io ccTLD. You can certainly say that the domain controversy has done a very effective and very useful job in shining a bright light on injustice -- but the people who can solve that problem are the governments of the UK and Mauritius. And if you really want to see that solved, treat .io as the sideshow it is in what is a very real and very human story of persecution and injustice.
This memo provides some information on the structure of the names in the Domain Name System (DNS), specifically the top-level domain names; and on the administration of domains. This memo provides information for the Internet community.
@dwarf We'll do that when we move Thunderbird over to @mozilla, but it seems shady to automatically add followers for what is technically a different product/account. Especially without their permission, you know?
Despite earlier worries, the new owners of Bandcamp, though they HAVE fired the entire employee union bargaining unit, are still holding Bandcamp Friday
This concept — “Executive Function Theft” — is such a lucid description of a constant source of frustration that, like the author, I can’t believe it hasn’t been named before and dug into.
It's the thing “where one entity offloads things they consider unimportant onto some other entity they consider unimportant”. Once you see it you can't unsee it.
The phrase arrived in my head so completely formed and concrete that I couldn’t believe it wasn’t already established in the lexicon, but at least preliminary searches suggest it is not…
Bicycles - why you might need more than one. Redrawn for 2023, as 11 years after my original we ride different bikes. Also: now available as a mug or t-shirt: davewalkershop.com/ (Free UK postage today and this weekend, 3rd -5th Nov)
Reading this article on "effective altruism" and "earning to give": newstatesman.com/long-reads/20… Some of it doesn't really surprise me, but the QALY score that William MacAskill came up with for blindness does. Only 0.4? I'm pretty sure the blind people I know aren't living only two-fifths of a full life.
Editor's note: This article was originally published on 20 September. On 3 November, 'Crypto King' Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty of fraud and money laundering. Sophie McBain looks at whether the
EA is lowkey eugenicist, so they tend to do this sort of arithmetic hate crime whenever disability comes up. I haven’t read all of this particular article but it seems like a good collection of the links between the ideologies truthdig.com/articles/longterm…
![A screenshot of a forum topic.
Quoted part: "Feel free to assume that, at this point. You have been incredibly uncooperative, for a person asking for help."
Reply: "The only person who is uncooperative is you. I have literally asked the same question to other maintainers of gui libraries and they can always answer. Only you don't seem to understand. If you don't know English then you not be on forum pages."
[A picture of your truly with a superimposed penis pointed at his mouth]
"I don't even care if I get banned I don't even use Gnome."](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/472723 "A screenshot of a forum topic.
Quoted part: \"Feel free to assume that, at this point. You have been incredibly uncooperative, for a person asking for help.\"
Reply: \"The only person who is uncooperative is you. I have literally asked the same question to other maintainers of gui libraries and they can always answer. Only you don't seem to understand. If you don't know English then you not be on forum pages.\"
[A picture of your truly with a superimposed penis pointed at his mouth]
\"I don't even care if I get banned I don't even use Gnome.\"")
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