Mastodawn

@Natasha_Jay thinking out loud but it appears that there is no consensus on what the world's problems actually are.

Some countries might start wars to protect their grip on power, be it it's influence, treasury, or fear to be overrun by competing nations.

Some regimes want to protect a certain way of life, and view outside influence as a corrupting factor. Wealthier and more powerful societies can project culture that overwhelms local traditions.

Much of it seems to revolve around fear.

Telurius Eye Mar 3

AI6YR Ben Mar 3

LOL true Mastodon verification:

YOU MUST VERIFY YOURSELF ON MASTODON BY:

- Posting a picture of a cat in your lap
- Random photos of flowers
- Wax poetic about your favorite episode of Star Trek TNG (or your hate of the series)
- Random, undecipherable technical blabbering about ham radio electronics
- Mention something about your favorite Linux command line
- Say hello to your many LGBTQ followers/friends here, just because you're glad they're here
- Toot a picture of some mushroom you ran into while walking in the forst
- Something something astronomy
- Random gadget/device/bicycle post
- Post a random picture of a tree or window
- Photo of your sewing/mending project!
- Hand drawn art post

Telurius Eye Feb 27

Gina Feb 27

RE: https://social.overheid.nl/@stasdigi/116137945588485139

The Dutch Minister for Digital Economy and Sovereignty joined Mastodon just now 🥳 Proud of our gov officials for using ethical social media #TheNetherlands

Show thread

Telurius Eye Feb 27

@tay this is the wizarding equivalent of an intern who pushes to prod

Telurius Eye Feb 27

Tay Feb 26

🧙‍♂️ I told my apprentice to find a way to achieve immortality and he decided to attempt a ritual to abolish time itself and got eaten by the fucking time worm 😭

Telurius Eye Feb 14

jbz Feb 14

💥 Discord Exodus Begins

｢ Unlike Discord, Matrix is federated. You don't have to use their main server. You can spin up your own homeserver on a Raspberry Pi or rent a VPS in a country that doesn't demand your ID card to send a meme.

The trade-off? The user experience is still... rough. ｣

https://michael-dev-tech.github.io/Website/matrix.html

#discord #matrix #ageverification

Discord Exodus Begins

Telurius Eye Feb 14

Grow Your Own Services 🌱Feb 14

You don't need the internet to look stuff up!

You can create your own 100% offline guide to human knowledge by installing @kiwix on your phone or computer and then using it to search offline copies of Wikipedia and other wiki-based reference works. There's more info about this on the official website at:

🌱 https://kiwix.org

(I use Kiwix to store https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Main_Page which gives travel tips for the entire planet. It's like a real life "Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy" 🙂 )

#Wikipedia

Kiwix - Home

Kiwix is a nonprofit organisation making free knowledge accessible where the Internet is not. We create and support open technologies that bring the world’s knowledge Offline via our own open-source software dedicated to providing offline access to free educational content, and more…

Kiwix

Telurius Eye Feb 14

adafruit Feb 14

Meta Wants to Scan Every Face You Walk Past 👓🔴

Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/meta-wants-to-scan-every-face-you-walk-past/