sem

I thought he was a rich ruler interested in extending his lifespan

Electric scooter :p

It really depends on the channel, but sadly, mostly no. I am in one cool one that is part of the tildes network, and I am in lots of ones on libera, but they are less active than they were 20 years ago. There are still many people on there, and it is a good vibe. Especially if you want to chat about programming or FOSS stuff.

If you try it and like it, it is worthwhile to configure a always-on connection that you can detach and reattach to - which is how discord and everything modern works. IRC being old means it is an extra thing to do, bit well worth it! Some people never go that route though.

Ok that makes sense, thanks!

I’ve heard of the mighty mongrel mob, but I didn’t ever hear of mongol nomads.

Creamed

Less about sports teams

More about injury prevention

I don’t get it

You start out in 1954 by saying, “N----r, n----r, n----r.” By 1968 you can’t say “n----r”—that hurts you, backfires. So you say stuff like, uh, forced busing, states’ rights, and all that stuff, and you’re getting so abstract. Now, you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is, blacks get hurt worse than whites.… “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, uh, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N----r, n----r.”

Yunohost has backups

Get the Steam Engine, from the Source :)

It still can’t function without an appview so PDS is not decentralized, but stuff like blacksky is. Hence people being reachableon some appviews and not others now, because of different moderation decisions.

Yeah, they want money and clout

Even this seems too hard. I don’t know what @ and @home are, or how to find out, for starters

What does this mean?

Data stealing? I thought people are just giving it away.

Although I remember when the fb app was discovered to be spying on other stuff outside of usage within the app, whenever that was.

Another sem 👽

How do we deal with oligarchs including Xi?

Not on my server :D

I agree about all of this, but I have a counterfactual example to post. I was going on a long hike in the woods once, and I found that it was extremely uncomfortable to be alone with my thoughts for such a long time. I tried focusing on the nature around me, but it was just uncomfortable. So I eventually caved and put on headphones and it really helped to listen to something else as I was walking through this beautiful spot.

So now I see headphones as situational. Sometimes they do help when you don’t have enough stimulus to distract you from your own thoughts. If your own thoughts are particularly annoying, but in general I do try to be in appreciation of the nature around me. The birds chirping, the leaves rustling, the people going about their lives, etc.

Why would they flag a human as a bot?

I have been disappointed in tuta myself as well. They seem to be too privacy and security focused at the cost of being hard to use.