Reminder for all folks on here, especially #NewHere, that if you're using #Mastodon as your #Fediverse home, you can easily:

👉 filter out stuff you don't like, or that makes you anxious or sad, from your timeline:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/#filters

👉 mute specific threads, and block specific accounts or whole instances:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/#mute

Other instance software and client apps might have similar affordances.

Today might be a good day to test these tools, as a form of self-care. 

“If you're always in bed, how do you get stuff done?”

Well...

Human nature being what it is, it seems extremely likely that sometime today we will see millions of U.S.-based TikTok users installing some shady or "free" VPN software just to get around the ban.

So even though we banned TikTok, ostensibly for security reasons, we end up creating an even bigger security problem when millions of people install some app that can read and modify all traffic.

A chat server running on powerful hardware collapsing when handling more than 100 events per second isn't acceptable. Events scale up based on room activity from non-local users including spammers too. It's an issue for a server with 12 users too.

https://element.io/blog/scaling-to-millions-of-users-requires-synapse-pro/

The first coin minted by the #USA did not say "In God We Trust" (that came decades later)

Instead it said "Mind Your Business"

It meant it literally, but we can take the modern meaning of the phrase (as in "mind your own goddamn business, butt out") as a proper reply to the #US #Government for the next 4 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugio_cent

The PC is Dead: It's Time To Make Computing Personal Again

My new essay on how we lost control of personal computing to Internet surveillance, DRM, and extractive business models—and how we can launch the era of Personal Computer 2.0

https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/3292/