Notices by ben (ben@mastodon.lubar.me)

@tek just a protip for Mastodon admins:

if you block fedi.app, it will implicitly block all subdomains of fedi.app as well, so consider blocking fedi.app instead of or in addition to search.fedi.app

#mastoadmin

unsharp masked jazz

linearly interpolated jazz

high yield low quality jazz

Don't call them boomers if they don't explode, causing a horde of zombies to attack you

complaining about a problem existing in one place is not excusing the same problem existing in a different place

update: it has now been over 50 minutes since I rebooted and the computer is at 6% of a windows update

the exact same windows update that was 13% twenty minutes ago

"there are nearly 30 genders now"

🤝 same energy 🤝

"niagara falls contains nearly 30 ounces of water"

People discovering over and over that the fediverse isn't magically a better place than corporate social media, it just gives people better tools to make it be.

@thomasfuchs can't imagine why a device for telling time that can play audio would have an alarm feature

that's just being silly

like having a headphone jack on a device commonly used with headphones

@isolategab nobody's talking about the largest fediverse instance, https://you-think-your-fake-numbers-are-impressive.well-this-instance-contains-all-living-humans.lubar.me

"these companies only care about money" is not a reason to give up.

it's additional information that goes into your problem solving method.

due to a font issue, I am now at a party for people named Ian

giving a very quiet shout-out to librarians

@denikombucha

"look, I'm just saying you should decide whether nazis are good on a case-by-case basis"
-- someone who completely misunderstands the meaning of at least one word in that sentence

"If we try to stop the fascists, the fascists will try to stop us from stopping them."

I guess the solution is to just let the fascists continue completely unopposed, then.

If there's any chance of failure, better make sure it's a 100% chance of failure.

Mozilla, just blacklist the goddamn certificate.

You gave Symantec a harder time than you're giving the Kazakhstan government, and Symantec was just incompetent, not outright malicious.

Firefox developers on the fence over whether stopping fascism is worth it because "the fascists can just fork Firefox"

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567114

@bclindner @brainblasted just to give you some idea, here's a list of sites virustotal.com has seen hosted on the same IP as that one: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/ip-address/188.166.59.33/relations

@meena @spookywitch @darius windows 10 falls apart a lot on its own

the difference is that it won't let you fix it