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Tarmo Tanilsoo Nov 12, 2022

I get that journalism is not universally beloved profession these days (Thanks, British tabloids, Fox News et al!), but it is still better than getting your information from a local market.

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Tarmo Tanilsoo Nov 12, 2022

I find particularly disturbing the talk demanding the news to be hidden behind content warnings, because people can't stomach the real world. OK, maybe somewhat fair play. Can compromise.

What turns me off however completely is talk of downright blocking instances containing journalists because some can't stomach seeing news on the timeline. One reason I use the birdsite is the journalists there. Deciding that we don't do news here, is a big minus in my eyes.

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Tarmo Tanilsoo Nov 12, 2022

I've gradually started to notice a subset of the Fediverse that seems either to pretend that world is a big happy utopic place and therefore shut itself out of the real world, namely the news, and/or wholly hates journalists.
I'm sorry, but ignoring the news won't stop that hurricane hitting you just because you don't want to pay attention. As bad as the real world is, it will eventually catch up with you, even if you try to look away.

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Tarmo Tanilsoo Nov 5, 2022

Obviously I don't intend to leave Mastodon, but I just want to have alternative paths just in case.

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Tarmo Tanilsoo Nov 5, 2022

So... As a backup of a backup path I am also trying to spin up a presence on Fediverse as a form of Wordpress blog. Ideally it should work as @[email protected] .

HOWEVER: When I try to follow the blog from Mastodon, I get stuck with a follow request(which I can not approve from the website side).

Any ideas? Or should I just jettison the Wordpress solution and seek something else(within the capabilities of my hosting provider)?

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Tarmo Tanilsoo Oct 31, 2022

Tooting this while listening to said station on 9560 kHz, with the transmitter in Japan.

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Tarmo Tanilsoo Oct 31, 2022

Fun fact: I got more seriously back to shortwave listening in 2020 so that I could pick up NHK radio in Japanese without a VPN or a C-band dish. I actually have had a bit of an interest in Japanese since 2011, but started pursuing it seriously 2 years ago. I should be around JLPT N3 level by now, and I am intending to take a JLPT exam a year from now.

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biblically accurate bram May 19, 2022

YueScript is _awesome_, i also finally have a use for my dingelstad.xyz domain: url shortner :)

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biblically accurate bram May 19, 2022

kind of weird to see an M1 Pro through htop 👀

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biblically accurate bram May 8, 2022

i did it y'all. go play inscryption, its great

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