Notices by StaringAtClouds (staringatclouds@mastodon.social)

@Gargron Happy New Year, hope it's better than the last

@benroyce @deborahh I'm pretty sure that's how it works

It's been a while since I looked into it & there have been a few releases of the software since then so it may have changed

You could ask your instance admin

@Gargron

@deborahh @benroyce To the best of my knowledge if an instance administrator blocks another instance at the server level, then no one on that instance can see any posts from your instance & vice versa

The instances are defederated from each other, this is how rogue instances are removed

However if a user blocks an instance then all posts from that instance are muted for that user & the other instance can still see the users posts

@Gargron

@eff @zoracon 👋

@arstechnica $8bn for a machine that lies to us

@nixCraft What about the spoon of instant** plus boiling water & milk while shambling around half asleep

** or possibly gravy granules depending on how sleepy I am

@nixCraft There are legacy systems out there that use COBOL or MUMPS or Modula II or some qother supposedly dead languages

They run on obsolete hardware

And people pay a fortune for tech bods with the skills to maintain them

They do this because, often despite many attempts, they've failed to develop a modern system that will process, or sometimes even access, the data & give the same output

I will try not to point & laugh when AI also fails to solve the issue

@arstechnica So we're building data centres the size of several football fields, that consume more electricity & fresh water than a small country just so we can freak people out by faking a dead relatives handwriting

@arstechnica Let me know when hobbyists can cause the machine that generated this crap to burst into flames

@arstechnica ooOOoo this suddenly got interesting

@nixCraft I have 2 words for the person who thought this up

Get fucked!

@arstechnica Please tell me Boeing had nothing to do with the heatshield

@KiwiEV Sounds like something you could host for free on peertube

See https://fedi.tips/peertube-video-hosting-on-the-fediverse/ for info

Courtesy of @feditips

@feditips is peertube browsable or do I need to follow people to find content ?

@feditips I go out of my way to avoid using short links when posting on mastodon as short links can be used to track people

I follow the link in my browser until I get to the actual site

Then I strip away everything after any "?" In the url & resubmit it to get rid of any tracking goo & dribble

Then I cut & paste the resulting url in my mastotoot