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Crossposted from Twitter 

“These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.” - Najwa Zebian

Good morning!

@amolith@masto.nixnet.xyz excuse me, you're saying this is a friend of yours?

That is rather mean.

Mastodon is not, and possibly never can be, the platform which will break the Twitter/Facebook/Youtube monopoly.

It is a Twitter-clone with perhaps something more of a social dimension.

But to really take on Big Tech what the Fediverse needs is a viable alternative to Facebook and neither Mastodon nor Pleroma fulfills that function.

Mastodon/Pleroma are too ephemeral. Real connections can be made, but they are the exception that proves the rule.

The fediverse must evolve.

#Fediverse #FediverseRising

@amolith@masto.nixnet.xyz Now try to spell Greenwich.

English is truly a beautiful language.

Just realised I misconfigured this Mastodon account. I had the setting to reject unknown DMs enabled.

If you DM'd me in the past and I didn't reply, I'm sorry. Please, feel free to send me a new DM again!

@sexybiggetje @amolith@masto.nixnet.xyz his personality melts girls AND snow!

@sexybiggetje Salami isn't even that good. Ultraprocessed meat is yucky. I agree, there should be other flavours of pizzas.

"I imagine 99% of your thought process is protecting your self-conception, and 98% of that is wrong."

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Chrome will block video ads that “people find to be particularly disruptive". Conveniently enough, YouTube ads are not so disruptive, so they most probably won't be touched.

"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others"

Use Firefox markosaric.com/firefox/

Does anyone have an invitation for lobste.rs that they'd like to share with me? Thanks!

@cb I do the same, except in the form of a blog. My personal blog is a collection of notes and things I learn, so that I can reference it in the future if I ever encounter a similar problem.

From HN discussion - "This is why I use ad blockers and a pi-hole server" (news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2)

This is GDPR in action. Wow.

@ultem @xerz Moving the ports is nothing more than security through obscurity. Bots are already a non-issue if they're running rate-limiting tools.

That being said, I do have the tendency to move ports to number 7777. But not for security reasons, it's kinda an inside joke.

@xerz
Have you implemented the usual SSH hardening measures?
* Move SSH port to something high
* Use fail2ban or similar
* Disable root login
* Use Public/Private key auth instead of passwords
* Make sure the passwords you do use are secure and not re-used somewhere else
* Alert on positive SSH logins (e.g. via mail)

Just set up my Tor relay metrics.torproject.org/rs.html

It's reachable at IP 54.38.239.109:9922 with fingerprint 8BC3BBF901101500F58FEB9DA401B6725FB78AA6. Enjoy!

If you are interested in leaving #Medium (and you should!), there's
a nice script to migrate to Jekyll

github.com/Donohue/medium-to-j

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