Mastodawn

My experience of the #fediverse :

Year 1 (2023):
It feels a little lonely as 99% of my friends stayed on Big Tech platforms.

Year 2 (2024):
I start a blog - #TheFutureIsFederated - to explain the fediverse to "normies"... and I make a lot of new (techie) friends.

Year 3 (2025):
My techie friends encourage me to start self-hosting with #YunoHost... and I do! (GoToSocial, PeerTube, NextCloud...) I LOVE it.

Year 4 (2026):
I plan to buy a Heltec to try out off-grid mesh radio communication 💁‍♀️

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BleepingComputer Mar 3

Amazon has confirmed that three Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and one in Bahrain have been damaged by drone strikes, causing an extensive outage that is still affecting dozens of cloud computing services.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/amazon-drone-strikes-damaged-aws-data-centers-in-middle-east/

Amazon: Drone strikes damaged AWS data centers in Middle East

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random input Mar 3

AkaSci 🛰️Mar 3

Tardigrades, the toughest animals in the Universe, failed to survive in simulated Martian regolith (surface material).

Researchers tested tardigrades with exposure to martian regolith simulants; their health and activity declined substantially over 4 days. Curiously, they did much better when the regolith was washed, leaching away some of the salts and other chemical compounds.

Testing on plants, animals and humans TBD.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-journal-of-astrobiology/article/shortterm-survival-of-tardigrades-ramazzottius-cf-varieornatus-and-hypsibius-exemplaris-in-martian-regolith-simulants-mgs1-and-oucm1/8A91986096FB533FB264DD056F549DF2#article
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random input Feb 25

F-Droid Feb 17

The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.

https://keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.

We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.

Thank you for your support!

Keep Android Open

Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

random input Feb 25

I was wondering why there is no new release of the #musicproduction software #LMMS since 2020. I was thinking the project was dead. today i checked the discussions on their github page and i learned that the new version is on the way. 🥹 @LMMS #foss #daw

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Shantini Jan 25

People spend billions of dollars on advertising, normalization, and bullying to try to convince you that hegemony, patriarchy, and oppression are the natural order of things and that we would always ultimately end up here. If there were truly no other options for how to live as a society, would they need to expend so much effort?

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𝕯𝖔𝖔𝖒𝖘𝖈𝖗𝖔𝖑𝖑™Jan 20

Algorithmic media systems have broken collective sense-making. Deepfakes and synthetic media accelerate a post-evidentiary condition. Institutions are responding with technical theater instead of structural change. The real scarcity is no longer information, but information processing capacity. Power now flows from asymmetries in cognition, not access.

random input Jan 15

When i transitioned from big tech social media to #fediverse i unfollowed everybody on my #instagram. Somehow my instagram feed became less shitty than before. I think i broke free from other people's influence on my #algorithm. Jean-Paul Sartre was right, "#Hell is other #people".

#socialmedia #hellscape #sartre

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