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@pee_zombie I suppose so, though I "should" use a JSON library instead of the python abstract syntax tree. Just in case someone exposes their block list.
(mastodon.radio blocks instances--I wanted the whole picture.) I took the union of this and two other instances (mastodon.radio and mathstodon.xyz) and one where I don't have a login (mastodon.social). 55K instances is impressive. Mastodon is superior to the site that cannot be named--you can take your marbles elsewhere, and it's resilient.

@pee_zombie Thanks. Well I cheated then with the python code I posted, since I used the python ast module to parse the output as if it was python. I could be pedantic and parse as JSON...

@pee_zombie Gee, numerous instances:
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import ast
import requests
from sortedcontainers import SortedSet
def getPeerSet(url:str) -> SortedSet:
r = requests.get(url)
return SortedSet( ast.literal_eval( r.text ) )
instance = ['mastodon.radio', 'schelling.pt', 'mathstodon.xyz', 'mastodon.social']
peers = SortedSet()
for inst in instance:
url = 'https://' + inst + '/api/v1/instance/peers'
peers = peers.union( getPeerSet( url ) )
for elt in peers:
print(elt)

@pee_zombie A RESTful API with python list syntax (unless it's JSON--looks like python). Many thanks!

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"It is time to get militant about the gun violence which is plaguing this country. We all have a civil right not to live in fear, to be able to go out in public, to go to a baseball game, to a political rally, to a restaurant, to a dance hall, without fearing that we, or someone we love will wind up dead or maimed for life. This is as important a civil right – guaranteed by the 5th and 14th Amendments to life and liberty – as the right to vote."
-- Marc Susselman

Is it possible to see the list of servers that your instance knows about? That would be helpful. It would also help if the list of servers blocked by your instance were publicly available. -federation

A python program for 2-way texting with the REYAX RYLR998 33cm band LoRa module and the Raspberry Pi 4. GOTA with a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.5, a RYLR998 module, five wires and ten female-female GPIO connectors. No threads: only asynchronous non-blocking I/O calls.

Code: github.com/flengyel/RYLR998-Lo

Side-by-side SSH sessions into a Raspberry Pi with an attached RYLR998, running rylr998.py. Yellow is transmitted text; magenta is received text. LoRa indicator flashes red on xmt, green on rcv.

For reasons I cannot entirely fathom, I ordered a Meshtastic Station G1 from Tindie, and now I have to reprogram the firmware for 33cm amateur use, following meshtastic.org/docs/software/p

By sheer coincidence I had three 18650 3.7V 2A batteries on hand identical to those in the photo here: uniteng.com/wiki/doku.php?id=m

Good thing my Waveshare LoRa HATs resisted my programming. The REYAX RYLR998 led to a programming project (still in progress), and God willing, I might even build a 33cm band repeater.

@astrid
I use bitwarden because it imprisons passwords in their cells under humane conditions.

I had a strange dream that I was in this hotel-like building that had rooms furnished with a bed, a small desk and chair, and a lamp. A man was making my bed and told me that my room was ready.

"Why am I here?"

"You're here to die," the man said

"I see. Do you know what my condition is?"

"I don't know. I only make the beds and clean up. Someone else will tell you."

"The room is nice." I had aged and was now mentally diminished. I stood in the doorway not knowing what to do.

@lain It's an ancient story, no less true on that account.

The difference between value and price, recognized by traders, institutions, market makers, etc., attempting to make a buck on the market, has spawned individual theories for determining the value of equities, options, commodities, etc., as opposed to their price (such theories are sometimes known as the trader's "edge") and methodologies for not losing your shirt (risk management). Both are needed.

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Somewhere I read or picked up in the environment that "value" is a "Marxist" notion (and therefore, "non-economic" and "illegitimate") and that "price" is a capitalist notion. But equity and commodity traders continually seek "undervalued" shares and commodities, meaning shares and commodities for which "the market" has cleared prices below their "true" value. Also, there isn't a unitary "market" but many mechanism designs for clearing prices. Otherwise, there would be only one thing to learn.

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Useful test: don't join a Mastodon instance that doesn't let you follow raspberrypi.social/@Raspberry_ - 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.

techdirt.com/2022/12/12/raspbe

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