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As many users have asked for it, there is now an option to make the number of followed and following accounts public (still disabled by default). These are only the numbers; the lists themselves are never published.
Some fixes to blocked instances code (posts from them were sometimes shown).
Fixed non-appearing buttons Approve and Discard if the account requesting a follow were being followed.
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
This release has been inspired by the songs All Is Lost by #KatieGarfield and All Is Not Lost by #TonyAnderson.
#RaspberryPi 500 Computer Launches with the Official Raspberry Pi Monitor, Based on #RaspberryPi5 https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-500-computer-launches-with-the-official-raspberry-pi-monitor
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Photo of the Raspberry Pi 500 computer with the RaspberryPi Monitor and Mouse.
The rebels in Syria might inadvertently be doing more to help Ukraine than we are.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha walked out of the OSCE plenary hall in Malta as Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov began his speech.
Earlier, in his speech, he had called Lavrov a "war criminal."
In addition to Sybiha, the foreign ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic, and several other foreign ministers and diplomats also left the hall.
Just to add, this is not a "you do you" situation.
The danger from #Meta is they allow hatred to spread, and that puts people in danger who don't even use Meta's networks. The hatred radicalises people who then do nasty stuff in real life against innocent victims. Radicalised people don't block Meta, they keep being fed more hate.
This cycle leads to real life violence of the worst kind:
This is not an isolated case.
Please defederate #Threads 🙏
Just got an email thanking me for creating and sharing my NixBook project built on #nixos
He's apparently been installing it and using it for weeks on a number of computers.
Nothing feels better than #OpenSource winning, let me tell you!
The project in question is here:
https://github.com/mkellyxp/nixbook
Students from dozens of schools across Georgia are refusing to start the school week.
They are protesting against police violence and expressing support for the demonstrators.
#Georgia #Georgiaelections #Tbilisi #Protests #EU
Students of Batumi State University have halted the educational process and declared a strike.
They are calling for an end to violence against protesters, freedom of assembly, and a return to European integration.
#Georgia #GeorgiaProtests #Batumi #Protests #EU #EuropeanUnion
MIT has a set of books labelled "Open Access" but it's a little clunky to find them on the MIT Press site, and so I've gone ahead and mirrored 400+ of them here:
https://archive.org/details/mit_press_open_access
that's funny, because I've always thought a lot of apps behave pretty much like a website and the app is unnecessary.
This is a very good and informative piece done by PBS. Explains everything you need to know about #Georgia and #protest there.
#Tbilisi #georgiaprotests #freedom #democracy #politics #worldpolitics
Georgia's ruling party, the Russian puppet regime "Georgian Dream", is showing who they truly are. Openly cutting ties with the West, specifically the EU, so they can once again make Georgia an autocratic Russian colony. The people of Georgia are having none of it and the regime is beating them to a pulp. The regime is also targeting journalists because they are embarrassed and afraid of the world and the Georgian people seeing who they really are. But we see. #Tbilisi #Georgia #EU
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Young woman facing a police line in Tbilisi at night with smoke, wrapped in an EU flag waving a Georgian flag.
Libreboot T480 and Libreboot M920 coming soon, on https://minifree.org/
If anyone still wants Haswell (4th gen) T440p, W541, 9020 etc, order now. It'll be gone soon (won't be deleted from Libreboot, only minifree).
Libreboot replaces proprietary BIOS/UEFI firmware. I run the project; Minifree sales fund the work.
I'm doing a new Libreboot release soon, with ThinkPad T480 and ThinkCentre M920q support. Intel 8th gen. They'll replace the Intel 4th gen (Haswell) machines that I currently sell.
edit: my move isn't about politics. Looks like things are not going to be much better where I'm going.
I watched live on TV as #Georgian #journalist Guram Rogava, was assaulted by one of the unmarked "police" operatives, while he was reporting on brutality against protesters in #Tbilisi #Georgia
Politicians and activists are targeted explicitly, what seems to be a clear punitive operation.
Hey, we are "Head Cleaner" and this is our new album "Play Both Sides"
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an orange vintage cassete tape with black stipes labeld: "Head Cleaner" and at the bottom part "Play Both Sides".
made by TapeLine.
Zebra Rock, a mysterious rock with black and white stripes, captured by Perseverance in Stereo3D
To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye
Calibrated images by the Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State Univ., Sol 1268, Sep. 13, 2024
#Mars #Perseverance #ZebraRock #FreyaCastle #3D #Stereo3D #stereoscopy #geology #planetaryscience #Mars2020 #rock #rocks #solarocks #science #Stem #astrodon #Mastcam #MastcamZforall #photography
Added a new user option to disable automatic follow confirmations (follow requests must be manually approved from the people page).
The search box also searches for accounts (via webfinger).
New command-line action import_list, to import a Mastodon list in CSV format (so that Mastodon Follow Packs can be directly used).
New command-line action import_block_list, to import a Mastodon list of accounts to be blocked in CSV format.
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/
What are Follow Packs?These "follow packs" can also be used from #snac pretty easily. To do it, just download the list you are interested in and run the following command for each one:They are just packaged topical lists of up to 35 accounts you can follow from your Mastodon or other Fediverse account. You can follow the entire pack by importing a file. And the entire pack loads into a list, so it becomes a feed for that subject. You can also just browse for accounts you might want to follow individually.
So, they’re like Bluesky Starter Packs?
Yes, but not quite as convenient. It’s not hard, but because Mastodon does not have a one-click way to do this, you need to download a follow pack file and then use Mastodon’s import facility. Instructions are provided in the directory and also below.
snac import_list $BASE_DIR $USER_ID /path/to/the/file.csvThe list will be created and the accounts inside followed. After that, you'll find a link to the list at the top of your private timeline. Please, take note that these lists are not automatically populated; they will eventually fill with the new posts from the new accounts, that will also appear in your timeline.
snac's web UI does not allow maintaining these lists, but you can do it with any Mastodon API client or from https://mastodonlistmanager.org (which is, em, also a Mastodon API client).
Nearest I can think of is the Fediverse music platform @funkwhale , more info at https://www.funkwhale.audio
In 1945, the US War Department realized that its soldiers stationed in Europe fighting the Nazis probably needed a good pamphlet explaining what fascism was, and how it occurs ...
... so they wrote one
and in it, they noted that America was not at all immune to this
So they explained how fascism would come to the US
Heather Cox Richardson writes about it in the latest edition of her newsletter: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-26-2024
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A screenshot reading:
The War Department thought it was important for Americans to understand the tactics fascists would use to take power in the United States. They would try to gain power “under the guise of ‘super-patriotism’ and ‘super-Americanism.” And they would use three techniques:
First, they would pit religious, racial, and economic groups against one another to break down national unity. Part of that effort to divide and conquer would be a “well- planned ‘hate campaign’ against minority races, religions, and other groups.”
Second, they would deny any need for international cooperation, because that would fly in the face of their insistence that their supporters were better than everyone else. “In place of international cooperation, the fascists seek to substitute a perverted sort of ultra-nationalism which tells their people that they are the only people in the world who count. With this goes hatred and suspicion toward the people of all other nations.”
Third, fascists would insist that “the world has but two choices—either fascism or communism, and they label as ‘communists’ everyone who refuses to support them.” It is “vitally important” to learn to spot native fascists, the government said, “even though they adopt names and slogans with popular appeal, drape themselves with the American flag, and attempt to carry out their program in the name of the democracy they are trying to destroy.”
Perhaps, after some time I could make a business out of the vineyard, but I'm not sure if they really have enough land for that. I'm thinking about things like having people come to work on the vineyard, try the wine etc. Apparently, people do that just for the experience. Also, could do a bed & breakfast type thing at the house, but the house needs a little work (bathroom, shower...)
Any thoughts anybody?
@wine@a.gup.pe #wine #saqartvelo #sakartvelo #kakheti #winemaking #vineyard #grapes #georgia
If the rules of a social media platform tell you that you have to listen to Nazis, debate with fascists, and let trolls stalk you in order to use it, change the platform.
Coming soon to a #Fairphone 5 running @postmarketOS near you!
There's a lot of petty shit slinging between users of different platforms, each declaring theirs best and others terrible.
Most platforms are extremely diverse and everyone's experience of them is going to differ.
Use whichever social media platforms you feel comfortable with and want to use. If that's fedi software, great! If it's not, that's great too!
You're going to know what suits your needs and tastes best and be able to weigh up what's most important feature-wise for you.
