Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti 🇲🇹

@rafelbev
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Software architect with a sysadmin, FLOSS and devops interest. Jack of all trades and master of some. Java Spring Kubernetes Networking
Keyoxide$argon2id$v=19$m=64,t=512,p=2$bI9T1N0iOyGTNPOQrfPqWQ$N+UJebPTCMLovff3lcfJ8g
OPENPGPhttps://keyoxide.org/18c6cf6065e5a42e7d3695a38ba90e7668425abe
Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti 🇲🇹Nov 20, 2022

In the start of 2022 I mistakenly fell into the trap of stopping my daily 5k runs in the name of "not enough time" due to work. I went down a slippery slope of not managing to keep up and prioritise my life and couldn't get my shit together. Physical exercise equals #mentalhealth and was a life saver when I kept at it during the pandemic.

Now that I restarted, I feel much better about myself and slowly am finding my feet again. One day I will join back the gang when I feel fit enough. Soon

Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti 🇲🇹Nov 19, 2022
Finally managed to enroll in Google Pay. Great that finally, #Malta is not considered a second class country due to its size. Baby steps Google, Play Store next?
Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti 🇲🇹Nov 19, 2022
Stephen FryNov 17, 2022
Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti 🇲🇹Nov 19, 2022
Andrea Junker Nov 17, 2022
JOURNALISM 101 RULE: If someone says it’s raining, and another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the fucking window and find out which is true. — Now more than ever.
Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti 🇲🇹Nov 19, 2022
Esteban MoroNov 19, 2022
Almost 180k new users joined #mastodon yesterday, a new record. This third #twitterMigration wave happened after Musk's Twitter 2.0 ultimatum to #Twitter workers. Each wave is stronger than the previous one. Here is my updated plot showing the three consecutive waves.
Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti 🇲🇹Nov 19, 2022
Nothing much to sayNov 19, 2022

Java annotations sometimes feel magical.

#java

Show threadRaphael Borg Ellul Vincenti 🇲🇹Nov 19, 2022

@erskine

#Brexit was problematic for #Malta given we used to import all products from the UK, car imports and even electric plugs are the same. Given the size of the market here we already are starting to see products not in English anymore but in Italian. Sucks to be an island nation.

However GDP looks like on the upside on this side of the continent, so there is the silver lining

Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti 🇲🇹Nov 19, 2022
Show threadCaroline Orr BuenoNov 16, 2022
Asymmetric information warfare takes place on a battlefield with no rules and no consistency — it seeks to confuse you to the point where you don’t know what your enemies are doing or even who your enemies are. It seeks to overwhelm you and break you down by subjecting you to an ever-shifting state of reality.
Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti 🇲🇹Nov 19, 2022
Show threadmidwayNov 19, 2022
I think the software is pretty good. But the dirty little secret is that the two largest instances using this software (forks of Mastodon) .... aren't federated. They are running closer to the traditional social media model. That says something about what people like.
Raphael Borg Ellul Vincenti 🇲🇹Nov 19, 2022
Andrew (Television Executive)Nov 18, 2022

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.