Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt

Useful test: don't join a Mastodon instance that doesn't let you follow https://raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_Pi - defederated by many instances because they hired a policeman who had used a Pi to do police work in the past, and were then unapologetic about it.

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/12/raspberry-pi-shows-how-not-to-mastodon/

Tonight I decided to add candy eyes to our chocolate-dipped strawberries, only to learn that when it comes to desserts there is a very, very fine line between “whimsical” and “cursed”

Welcome to Mastodon! It's a laid back place. But here's a few simple rules you must follow:

1. Make an account on every fediverse server and create a unique introduction post for each one.

2. Put a content warning on any post that is tangentially related to the Irish Potato Famine.

3. Always use the hashtag #icomeinpeace. Otherwise, we will assume you are hostile.

4. When browsing Mastodon, remove your socks. It is customary.

5. Tell five of your friends to join. Yes, it's a pyramid scheme.

Best footnote in a math paper ever.

#Freenet build 1495 released with faster new user entrance, enhanced user experience, and better performance:
https://freenetproject.org/freenet-build-1495-new-user-experience-and-performance.html

#privacy vs. #censorship

this one actually has some interesting data in it

> The European Information Society Institute concluded that IP blocking led to “collateral website blocking on a massive scale” and noted that as of June 28, 2017, “6,522,629 Internet resources had been blocked in Russia, of which 6,335,850 – or 97% – had been blocked collaterally, that is to say, without legal justification.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20221216183427/https://blog.cloudflare.com/consequences-of-ip-blocking/

but it's worth remembering: cloudflare / the #greatcloudwall is one of the leading providers of DNS on the internet, and if they are saying all this what they might be implicitly meaning is 'we can do whatever censorship you want at the DNS level, without you impacting 90:1 or more people who you don't want to impact, and are willing to do this if you just leave our other customers alone'

Over many years, I have been gradually replacing all of the paragraphs in the Ship of Theseus Wikipedia article.

Co-founder of “Food Not Bombs” Global, Arrested today

"Keith McHenry, the co-founder of the global movement “Food Not Bombs” was arrested and jailed by the Santa Cruz Police Department today for the crime of serving food to the unhoused community members. Approximately 10 officers of the Santa Cruz Police Department arrested Keith at approximately 10:00 am today, December 27, 2022, in River Street Parking Garage #10, 24 River Street, as he was setting up tables to serve a meal out of the intense rain.

This egregious treatment of this community hero comes just two days after Food Not Bombs served a free Christmas feast to over 500 unhoused persons in downtown Santa Cruz. Keith is being held at Santa Cruz County Jail facing two misdemeanor charges of blocking a parking space and loitering in a parking garage. The police also confiscated some equipment belonging to Food Not Bombs including tables, cups for coffee and sugar."

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/12/27/18853618.php

#FoodNotBombs #Repression #antireport #mutualaid #FreeThemAll

Startups named for increasingly obscure Tolkien words until I've got to fire up an app called GROND to pay for parking and remember how to spell Cuiviénen to submit an expense report

Our mistake was turning them back on.