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@sam@chven.us

I like , software, , , . Maybe other things too.
website: ✔ https://chven.us
Home: Bodbe, Georgia
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[?]Felix Hlatky »
@mellifluousbox@mastodon.social

I think this is the first dedicated event about the fediverse by a national political party I can remember. Felt good to be there and discuss how we can improve Mastodon further. Thanks @bjoernsta @eskensaskia @madspankow

Five panelists on a stage and an audience at an event by SPD

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    [?]Agnieszka R. Turczyńska »
    @agturcz@circumstances.run

    Parenting.

    A piece of paper attached to some furniture, with following text printed on: Mom’s Gone Weekend Rules * Don't add to the population * Don't subtract to the population * Don’t damage or destroy physical property * Stay out of the hospital, the newspaper and jail

    Alt...A piece of paper attached to some furniture, with following text printed on: Mom’s Gone Weekend Rules * Don't add to the population * Don't subtract to the population * Don’t damage or destroy physical property * Stay out of the hospital, the newspaper and jail

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    [?]Oliver⚡ »
    @oliver@microhive.social

    I've just updated my instance to version 2.77 👍 🎉
    You don't know Snac? But you should: https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
    A simple, minimalistic instance server written in C, no database needed, totally JavaScript-free, no cookies either, not much bullshit.

      [?]tiddy roosevelt »
      @babe@glitterkitten.co.uk

      Good lord. Talk of the ruination of the web on here today I decided to see what it was like just straight up raw dogging my browsing habits for a little while. No ad blockers, no blocking cookie popups etc.

      People actually USE this?!

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      [?]Scott »
      @scottearle@poorlyrendered.com

      @babe Outstandingly horrible, isn’t it?

        [?]Andrew Graves :arch: :linux: »
        @graves501@fosstodon.org

        @babe

        It's insane to me how people go on about their day without any adblock at all. Ads on your phone, fricking smart TV and on your laptop/PC - it would drive me nuts!

          [?]Big Pawed Bear »
          @bigpawedbear@masto.nu

          @babe the web is a horror without add blockers. I use them for accessibility reasons.

            [?]Mark T. Tomczak »
            @mark@mastodon.fixermark.com

            @babe All the time. You end up basically blind to it. Or you end up channeling into the same sites over and over, which will tend to minimize the popups (once they have cookies on your machine, the popups start to relax; if you're always browsing with no cookies stored, they don't know who you are and they frontload all their questions).

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              [?]sam ✅🇬🇪 »
              @sam@chven.us

              that's the way it was at some jobs that I've had. IT didn't want anybody to install any extensions. I did all of my personal browsing on my phone or laptop anyway, but every once in a while I'd pull up the weather or something on a work computer and have a lot of ads.

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                [?]Elena Rossini ⁂ »
                @_elena@mastodon.social

                Just now I saw an article describing Bluesky as the “billionaire-proof” social platform - you should have seen my eye roll. Sure, “billionaire-proof” (quote marks necessary) AND funded by the crypto bros at Blockchain Capital.

                I wonder if the person who came up with the hype of Bluesky decentralization is the same who built up the myth of Space Karen as a genius.

                Sure Jan - but you can’t fool me.

                Media literacy and digital literacy are more needed than ever. I miss the late Neil Postman 🥲

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                [?]Ben Royce 🇺🇦 »
                @benroyce@mastodon.social

                @_elena

                a well known con artist aspect of is that it promises a lot, and delivers little

                and people buy into that

                then they rabidly defend the empty promises

                because they also literally bought into it: they purchased the , they need a financial return

                same is happening with "." because bluesky promised it, people have to believe it. and if you doubt it, you're being "unfair"

                (and i miss professor postman too: he was my thesis advisor at NYU)

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                  [?]Elena Rossini ⁂ »
                  @_elena@mastodon.social

                  @benroyce Ben your last sentence made me GASP. What!?! Neil Postman’s writings (and speeches) have had such a profound influence on how I see the world. I think about him on a daily basis (as in “what would Neil Postman think about THIS?”). I can’t imagine what it must have been like to have had him as a thesis advisor. I’m in awe 🤩

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                    [?]Ben Royce 🇺🇦 »
                    @benroyce@mastodon.social

                    @_elena while

                    i had to go into his office alone which was intimidating while he gave me pointers. but he was warm and outgoing

                    however, him and the faculty set up this retreat for the entire Media Ecology dept up to the Hudson Valley with all faculty and students, and i do remember the look of disappointment on his face when the students played a mock "Jeopardy" game with neil in the alex trebek role and i couldn't answer some rather rudimentary Bible Old Testament trivia 😅

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                      [?]Elena Rossini ⁂ »
                      @_elena@mastodon.social

                      @benroyce awww 😅

                      I would have been so intimidated

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                        [?]Richard Rathe »
                        @nickrauchen@c.im

                        @_elena

                        Indeed...

                        "Information has become a form of garbage, not only incapable of answering the most fundamental human questions but barely useful in providing coherent direction to the solution of even mundane problems." - Neil Postman

                        mdpaths.com/rrr/books/amusing_

                        Book Cover Art "Amusing Ourselves to Death"

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                          [?]sam ✅🇬🇪 »
                          @sam@chven.us

                          just moved my website to another server before I move. I've successfully rsynced my snac directory and reinstalled it on the new server with no apparent breakage.

                          edit: most of my posts are missing. I thought they were there after the move, but maybe it was just browser cache? I'll have to hook up the old drive to my laptop and see if I can resync

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