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Darius Kazemi

your wifi network is insecure, mine believes it has the power to succeed. we are not the same

Renalia

@sugar giving me an idea to broadcast a public, unsecured WiFi signal that's just called " :) " just to see if that SSID alone causes people to go ".... Yeah you know what, no thanks"

Nash

@sugar one of those router login splash pages but it just says, "are you mad at me? 🔘yes 🔘no"

Darius Kazemi

Finally the politically incorrect building advice I've been craving

Lore System

@darius 💠 "Did you put a power supply in your computer? Here's why you fucked up"

Darius Kazemi

When I ever have complaints about work I read the wiki page for Dizzy Gillespie

Darius Kazemi

"there has been a tremendous shift in enthusiasm, attitudes, and indeed poll numbers, both on the Democratic side and among the fascists, who are suddenly caught pants down fucking the furniture on the deck of the Titanic"

(ETA, this pull quote is not the thesis, but it was too excellent to not pull, & if it draws in readers, great)

Hats off @VickyACAB

all-cats-are-beautiful.ghost.i

#uspol

Can-crisociality 🦀〰️🥫

I just sent this essay to my sister who is A Normie and then I was like... does she know about the couchfucking?

I'm *pretty sure* she does? It was on tv

mori_au 🇦🇺

@inquiline “yeah, we know, but stop killing our vibe”

Well said-

Most of this essay is well read and makes reasonable points, but now just ain’t the time. After November, then go at it, but for the next hundred odd days, better to be frenemies and ensure Small Hans faceplants hard 😆

Darius Kazemi

I have multiple monitors controlled by Linux Mint Debian Edition (Cinnamon desktop). Sometimes when I wake my computer from sleep it only displays the login/password prompt over part of the display. You can see open applications and the desktop even without logging in, just by waking up the computer!

This seems... bad? I am having a ton of trouble searching for solutions since I can't really properly name the problem I'm having.

Darius Kazemi

RONALD REAGAN is a valid troll name

Darius Kazemi

inspired by @darius's talk at #fossy24 about the study he and @kissane did about fediverse moderation, i figured i would outline how treehouse moderation works.

so if that does not interest you, feel free to mute this thread.

Ariadne Conill 🐰

first off: screening new signups has helped us a lot.

when we first launched treehouse mastodon, because we have high profile community members, we attracted trolls basically immediately whose goals were to disrupt operations of the instance.

the most notable incident involved a person who signed up for an account and then immediately uploaded multiple pieces of media which were CSAM.

this actually has wound up going very badly for that person, who has had to cancel his podcast several times because his door has gotten kicked in by law enforcement due to this, and other maladaptive behavior.

first off: screening new signups has helped us a lot.

when we first launched treehouse mastodon, because we have high profile community members, we attracted trolls basically immediately whose goals were to disrupt operations of the instance.

the most notable incident involved a person who signed up for an account and then immediately uploaded multiple pieces of media which were CSAM.

Jacob Lewallen

@ariadne I saw @darius speak at Eyeo in 2019 and can vouch for how inspiring he can be. I immediately left his talk and followed his template for getting a Mastodon instance up and running.

Darius Kazemi

Hello #FOSSY24! I have work this morning but I will be around in the afternoon, excited to meet people!

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@darius Dm me if
U a stunner so
We can link up?

Darius Kazemi

Also looking forward to @darius talking about community governance for smallish Mastodon servers at #FOSSY

2024.fossy.us/schedule/present

328 | Fri 02 Aug 5:30 p.m.–6:15 p.m.

"The research sought to identify current server administrators’ most promising models for mitigating those risks and outline the biggest and most important gaps in risk mitigation, with the aim of helping the broader Fediverse level up governance quickly, safely, and collaboratively."

#fossy2024 #fossy24

cc @instance

Also looking forward to @darius talking about community governance for smallish Mastodon servers at #FOSSY

2024.fossy.us/schedule/present

328 | Fri 02 Aug 5:30 p.m.–6:15 p.m.

"The research sought to identify current server administrators’ most promising models for mitigating those risks and outline the biggest and most important gaps in risk mitigation, with the aim of helping the broader Fediverse level up governance quickly, safely, and collaboratively."

Darius Kazemi

Bboringley D Gelfand when Bradley D Gelfand shows up

Darius Kazemi

"Public Work is a search engine for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sources.”

public.work/

Darius Kazemi

@hhra absolutely wonderful quote from Onyx

> "we just found out about somethin we don't like out here, knowumsayin, called the BNP or summ'n like that, and we ain't havin it..."

Darius Kazemi

James C. Scott died recently (RIP) and I gotta say his Seeing Like A State (1998) is one of the best books I've ever read about the Fediverse

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Climate Jenny 2.0

@darius Okay, I’m putting a hold on this book at the library.

Luis Villa

@darius it is only "one of" the best because The Art of Not Being Governed (Scott, 2009) is the best book about the Fediverse

Darius Kazemi

Fedi I have a weird request that is hard to just search for, so I want to crowdfund some suggestions, because what I'm looking for is...weird to even categorize.

I want suggestions for things that are
- Competitive games
- That utilize toys or other physical components (besides, say, just cards or board game pieces)
- That can be customized or tuned in some way

Examples of what I mean, some of which these categories are really the only things they have in common, are:

- Slot cars, mini 4wd, RC car racing
- Bakugan, Beyblade, Bdaman
- Robot fighting

They can either be branded packaged goods, or homebrew/open/freeform kinds of things. But I really love these types of physical object games aside from traditional board games, and I like customizing them, either by having components that can be swapped around for different loadouts, or things that are completely custom.

Fedi I have a weird request that is hard to just search for, so I want to crowdfund some suggestions, because what I'm looking for is...weird to even categorize.

I want suggestions for things that are
- Competitive games
- That utilize toys or other physical components (besides, say, just cards or board game pieces)
- That can be customized or tuned in some way

lori

(this sort of description is why I refer to darts as Beyblades for adults, because at the end of the day you get the same fun of combining three parts that come in cool colors or whatever and affect the movement of the object)

campbell

@lori Paintball guns and lacrosse sticks have these qualities, and I’m realizing that I was way into this exact kind of thing growing up because I wanted both despite having basically no real way to use them

Darius Kazemi

is there a word for the kind of word-reversing where you preserve letter pairs that form a functional unit? like “sdrawckab” (“ck” left unswapped) or “erewhon” (“wh” left unswapped)

Darius Kazemi

Anyone going to be in Portland, Oregon USA for FOSSY next week? I'm speaking about the Fediverse governance research I did with Erin Kissane (not @-ing so she doesn't get @-ed, as you do)

2024.fossy.us/schedule/present

I am also available for recommendations for things to do around town, such as: oscilloscope museum vintagetek.org/

#FOSSY2024 #FOSSY

yomimono, level 65312 cat bed

@darius Oscilloscope museum?! I’m not going to FOSSY unfortunately, but thank you for letting me know this exists

Ed Summers

@darius I wish I could be there! It sounds like your talk will include some preliminary findings about what you have found in your interviews, or has that already been released in some form?

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