can we have a mastodon ceo where it's easily and internationally understood how their last name is pronounced?
felix hlatky: no
eugen rochko: no
@ErikUden people manage to mispronounce even the simplest names :D
@Federation_Bot
- Joined
Team, I just discovered that the Heeler house hold are yeast extract-based savoury spread traitors.
There's fucking Marmite in their fridge.
MARMITE.
What the fuck? What the fucking fuck?
@MattHatton looks like Vegemite to my eyes, OG Marmite is a round jar with a round label, the far superior Vegemite is a cylinder with a diamond
@s0 @ThermiteBeGiants @aurynn @futzle well it's not that they're an amazingly great group but I do like the Pinetime as a piece of hardware, and it's pretty cheap, and just made me think that the Pebble OS would be good on it. It seems a bit odd that it's apparently dependent on one particular group to make the hardware when there are definitely other examples out there.
Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/my-next-chapter-with-mastodon/
@Gargron danke für deine Arbeit und deine Ideen :-)
"whois is a kind of repository". Awfully wrong, of course, but I noticed that .lu don't give a lot of details via whois, even, for corporations (try whois microsoft.lu)
"It is hard to notify people of security issues. There is a standard security.txt [RFC 9116] but nobody uses it."
Correction, I do: https://www.bortzmeyer.org/.well-known/security.txt
Folks, if you want to donate to our Gaza Verified families but don’t know who to donate to or are overwhelmed, here’s is a list of all the families, sorted by those who have raised the least in the last seven days:
https://gaza-verified.org/donate/
(The list is based on @fabio’s API¹. It’s also Fabio’s birthday today so wish him a happy birthday, why don’t you and thank him for his excellent work?) :)
🥳
#Gaza #Palestine #GazaVerified #mutualAid #fediAid #FreePalestine
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20 mins outside of #Taipei - Taiwans nature is breathtakingly beautiful
where's that?
"(...) a new study finds that raccoons living in urban areas are physically changing in response to life around humans—an early step in domestication."
@enverdemichelis è fatta, a breve il raccone domestico sarà realtà!
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/raccoons-are-showing-early-signs-of-domestication/
@antanicus @enverdemichelis can't wait
Is new Vic Liberal leader Jess Wilson part of the party’s terf faction?
I only care because somehow my phone number is on their push polling database and I want to be accurate about the accusations I fling at them.
@ahltorp Agreed it's not the complete picture, but all the other data (not in this toot) pulls in the same direction, and these trends have been stable for a long time.
keep in mind that this is all smart metered. they have hourly data from my meter to measure how much I've used, with historical data going back years. but because they based the model on typical usage it completely breaks when faced with near-constant energy consumption throughout the year, thus doing the opposite of what the model was supposed to do.
@gsuberland
Clearly they need more data /s
It's just so annoying that all companies seem to believe they need to become data driven (meaning they need to collect MORE data) without being capable to use the data they already have in a beneficial way 🤬
@Soldusty @TheRaDR Of course we can have different oppinions on the point where dehumanising starts. The way the billboard is designed suggests dehumanising on a deeper level and just because we are upset about the wrong doing of the billionaires for which they should be called out and even kept responsible for, doesn't make it right nor that we want to applaude in a first and maybe even second reflexe or out of anger about their behaviour and actions which led and leads to a lot of suffering.
@charmingLiisa @Soldusty @TheRaDR an interesting point from Cory Doctorrow @pluralistic yesterday on BBC radio4 - if we eliminated Musk tomorrow, he would be replaced by someone very similar. The problem is that we have a social system that contains Musk or Zuckerberg or Gates or Warren Buffett shaped holes in it. It's a while since I heard the slogan #systemchange not #ClimateChange
Good night to everyone: https://t.co/xCR6oL0sDM
@slightlyoff The first chart is talking about sales, and your text is talking about installed base. Those might be connected, and your statement might be true, but using this chart in support of your statement is misleading.
What happens to a man when he wakes up in the morning, listens to a meditation app, works out, takes a shower, and looks in the mirror…and also he’s a trillionaire?!
My sense is that money, fame, power, success, art, family…none of it means a damn thing anymore. It’s like approaching the event horizon of a black hole. The forces of gravity will turn nature inside out. Nothing will make sense, because how could it; if light cannot escape, how can your sanity?
#blog 🔗 https://jaredwhite.com/20251117/become-the-best-self-actualized-version-of-your-trillionaire-self
@jdp23 IMCOTF (In My Corner Of The Fediverse), the discourse around QTs wasn't specifically around QTs, but more in general about whether Mastodon should cater to the clout chasers “VIP”, which would have brough over more people (their followers), even at the cost of opening up to new venues of abuse, which is how QTs were perceived.
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@jdp23 IMCOTF, it was at *this* point that I started seeing that the discourse transitioned into a race thing, as the Black community remarked that they'd been using QT in a non-abusive manner on Twitter and the general response was «nobody gives a shit».
Which BTW was the reason I came out with https://sociale.network/@oblomov/110283781278976674 and https://sociale.network/@oblomov/110469501308245406
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