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@mangeurdenuage what could the issue be? :UbelSmirk:
@mangeurdenuage :gondola_head: 🌿

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... and here is the finished painting that I posted work in progress shots of yesterday - have a happy day with my happy tuxedo cat!

Happy tuxedo cat - handmade acrylic painting --> karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featur…

#art #painting #cats #caturday #CatLovers #pets #cute #animals #kitten #AnimalArt #PetPortrait #tuxedocat #tuxedo #giftideas #handmade #TraditionalArt #kunst #cat #artist #arte #kittens #katze #BuyIntoArt #CatsOfMastodon #MastoArt #FediArt #FediGiftShop #MastodonArt #WhiskersWednesday

A black and white Tuxedo cat stands in front of a dreamy abstract background in various shades of blue and gazes curiously upwards. Soft, loose, abstract brushstrokes create a sense of depth and movement around the cat. The cat's tail is raised in a curved shape. Happy Tuxedo Cat is an acrylic painting in portrait format hand-painted by the artist Karen Kaspar.

Happy Tuxedo cat by Karen Kaspar

Karen Kaspar Official Website
#caturday #pets #cats #MastoArt #fediart #art #cute #catsofmastodon #cat #whiskerswednesday #handmade #animals #painting #fedigiftshop #buyintoart #catlovers #kitten #katze #animalart #petportrait #traditionalart #kunst #artist #arte #kittens #tuxedocat #giftideas #mastodonart #tuxedo

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Dan ganas de caminar por ahí con cuidado para no pisarlos.

#art #photography
#mastodon #friends #MastoPhotography #love
#CreativeToots #mastoart #streetphotography #streetart
#catsofmastodon #cats #artwork #FediArt #animals #animal #humor #coffee #breakfast #tea #nature #books #fedicats #MastoCats
#Photograph #cute #books #foods #follow

ALT Camino hecho con cara de gatos
#photography #mastodon #books #cats #MastoArt #fediart #CreativeToots #art #fedicats #cute #coffee #nature #catsofmastodon #love #animals #Humor #artwork #streetphotography #streetart #animal #friends #mastocats #breakfast #tea #photograph #foods #follow #mastophotography

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18 bucks on aliexpress to get the ark of covenant :akko_mmh:

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Testing prototype space suit intended for use in NASA's Apollo moon landing program, Mojave Desert, California 1962.

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This is what happens when you forget to close your office window in Svalbard, Norway

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young men want to become egyptologists because they love mummies

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Yesterday I figured I'd try setting up something I could use to work with my critique group. I was looking for collaborative editing, chat, etc. Nextcloud looked like a good candidate, so I gave it a go.

Well, Nextcloud is obviously designed to be an enterprise solution. That thing repeatedly hammered my poor little VPS into the ground on the simplest of operations. I took it out and restored Mattermost, which is great for chatting with a curated group and some other Slack-like tasks, but doesn't support collaborative editing.

The search continues.

#NextCloud #GoogleDocs #Mattermost #collaboration

#Nextcloud #googledocs #mattermost #collaboration

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Sometimes the question comes up if we have any DNS servers to point at. The answer is no, we only do authoritative DNS (for now anyways :neocat_3c:).

There are multiple other projects that do recursive DNS in the EU or based out of the EU though, like
- quad9.net (@quad9dns)
- mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-h… (@mullvadnet)
- stats.ffmuc.net/d/tlvoghcZk/do… (@freifunkMUC)
- digitalcourage.de/support/zens… (website in German, @digitalcourage)

european-alternatives.eu/alter… also has some more


Quad9 | A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy

A public and free DNS service for a better security and privacy
Quad9
@Digitalcourage @Mullvad VPN @quad9dns @freifunkMUC

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John Cleese & Jul 13, 2018 • € My American friends are asking me about President Trumps's observation that the British 'like him' I regret this is quite unfounded The explanation for this canard is that Trump is pronoid Pronoid is the opposite of paranoid. A paranoid person thinks, without any basis in reality, that everybody is out to get them. A pronoid person is someone who thinks, without any basis in reality, that everybody likes them The fact is that the British loathe Donald Trump This is because he is the polar opposite of a 'Gentleman', who has qualities the British admire. A fine example is Gareth Southgate To the British, a ' Gentleman ' is a man who is modest, well-mannered, self deprecating, quietly intelligent, considerate of other people's feeling, and well-informed. He is not vulgar, inflated, vain, boastful, noisily ignorant, sleazy and common as muck I hope this clears up any confusion

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We all need a bit o' peace and quiet.

So, until April 30th, you can grab a lil old-timey queer romance of mine, that I wrote specifically to escape the world into, for free.

Use the coupon "APBZF" on Smashwords, and get Red Castello for free.

smashwords.com/books/view/1389…

#RedCastello #Reading #Promotion


Red Castello

One day, full of so much rain, Lotty realises that there is something more that she wants in life. Just a little escape, might make everything so much better.
Smashwords
#reading #redcastello #promotion

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I just went down a bit of a rabbithole starting on YouTube, and I'm currently asking ChatGPT about the same thing. I use the same Google account to log into both. When YouTube starts recommending me more videos related to that, which inevitably it's about to, where is it getting that data from: itself or ChatGPT? 🤔

#Google #YouTube #ChatGPT #AI #Data

#Google #ai #data #youtube #chatgpt
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Google doesn't know what you talked to ChatGPT about
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Bhavani Shankar 💭
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OpenAI can be selling all your data to advertising companies like Google to make some extra bucks. Especially when this data doesn't enhance chatgpt's competition.

I dunno if that's the case though.

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@Christian Wolff Download Ollama and some some LLMs and then your chats will be local and no one can share them besides you. Ollama can work on just CPU and does not require an expensive GPU. It is free and open source.
@Day Use X Mockin' Uh

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It’s dangerous out there, take Harry the Highland cow. He’s cute and cuddly. 🥰 #TimelineCleanser
#TimelineCleanser

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This little ferret is practicing for a catnapping examination. :blobcatfluffowo:
A light-furred ferret sleeping on a light-blue towel, stretched out in a position that nearly resembles a knot.

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A Confused Country

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gnome 47 is so beautiful with the new accent color thing
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@jade It is funny, when Gnome was initially released in 1999 as an Open Source Alternative to KDE (which had just released in 1998) I was not impressed. It was lack luster and was missing a lot of features that I thought I wanted. Later on I decided that having all those features I never used was not so great. I have been using Gnome as my preferred Desktop Environment for decades now. I have tried many others and really am not impressed. I am not likely to change DE anytime soon.
@jade

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A young woman with long blonde hair, wearing a gray knit beanie with a pom-pom and a blue and yellow Ukrainian flag draped over her shoulders, stands in a public space at night holding a protest sign. The sign reads: 'RUSSIA CAN STOP THE WAR ANYTIME BY LEAVING UKRAINIAN LAND.' The word 'RUSSIA' is stylized with dripping red paint, resembling blood, and the words 'UKRAINIAN LAND' are highlighted in blue and yellow. Her expression is solemn and determined. Behind her, neon lights and blurred city buildings suggest an urban setting, possibly a well-known square or gathering place.

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Smart.
Chefs always keep a spare onion under their hat.

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True, but wrapped in grease-proof baking paper so the smell doesn't get into their hair

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“What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance.”
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My dad predicted Trump in 1985 – it's not Orwell, he warned, it's Brave New World

The ascent of Donald Trump has proved Neil Postman’s argument in Amusing Ourselves to Death was right. Here’s what we can do about it
Andrew Postman (The Guardian)

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Try posting lots of photos of Ukranian churches. I've found MAGA don't know anything about the history of Christianity in Ukraine (or elsewhere.)

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Aboutaleb scheef het #poezie
#poezie

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'The confinement is unbearable': Migrants describe being held at Guantanamo

Laura Romero (ABC News)
#uspol #trump #fascism #gitmo #guantanamo #asylum #venezuela #resistfascism #migrants #guantanamobay #PrisonCamp #resistice

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Would you like to see a restaurant doggo? Of course you would. He’s a ginger eyebrow dog, and everyone knows those are very good dogs
A medium-sized dog reclining on a tiled floor. His body is mostly black, as is his head and ears, but his lower legs, the sides of his muzzle and, adorably, his eyebrows are ginger

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It was sunny today and I met a bee 🐝
Closeup photo of a bee emerging from one purple crocus in a group of about 6. The crocus petals are bright purple and the inside of the flowers are bright yellow-orange.

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Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English
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Photo by The Onion on February 28, 2025. May be an image of 2 people and text that says 'o e Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English the ONION'.

Trump Signs Executive Order Making Official Language Of U.S. Remedial English

WASHINGTON—In a move designed to promote unity and establish efficiency at the federal level, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday making the nation’s official language remedial English.
The Onion Staff (The Onion)

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I have never been more ashamed to be an American.
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@Jennifer I Have never been proud or ashamed of an accident of birth. I did not chose nor have any influence in being America. Nationalism is just another form of prejudice.

I am proud of the fact that I voted against what is transpiring today in America. That I did everything I could do to avoid it. It is unfortunate that I failed; though I did what I could reasonably do.

If you also have done what you could then you have no reason to be embarrassed. You did the right thing. We are not responsible for the rash and irresponsible behavior of others. Even if we must live with their mistakes.

We can get through these four years together. Stay strong.
Take Care

@Jennifer

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Speaker: Lesley Carhart, Cybersecurity expert and Director of Incident Response at Dragos | LAI

Lesley Carhart is a Principal Industrial Incident Responder at the industrial cybersecurity company Dragos, Inc.
Lesley Carhart (Leading Authorities, Inc.)

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Bear Mask by artist Robert Davidson Jr. #haida
Bear Mask by artist Robert Davidson Jr.
#haida

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this with everyone talking about their fave alternative browser
a thought bubble with 4 "trails" indicating 4 people thinking the same thing. the thought bubble text reads "I can't way for society to collapse so my ideology can rise from the ashes!"

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them: write a sad story using only 4 words

me: sudo rm -rf /*

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@nixCraft 🐧 You do not actually need the asterisk. It will work fine with just forward slash 😉.
@nixCraft 🐧

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#Today 28

Good day!

This is, literally, my view.

The place where I’m babysitting a handful of animals (Evie the Cat is here). Where my car battery died after 10-years.

I’ve setup collaborative hikes & my writing journal for March. Next, notes on the sequel to Deadly Stroll, which is Exhumed Reflection.

Be everwell.

#WritingLife #AmWriting #WritingCommunity #Aging #HealthyLiving #HealthyLifestyle #GetOutside #Hiking #Trails #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photography #LandscapePhotography

Mountains rise beneath a blue sky dusted with thin, wispy clouds. To the left and right, the peaks are covered in conifers, but are rocky and snow covered higher. Between them, a towering wall of rock rises over a high valley that ancient glaciers carved. Majestic is the word that comes to mind.
#photography #today #writingcommunity #amwriting #hiking #nature #landscapephotography #naturephotography #getoutside #trails #healthylifestyle #writinglife #aging #healthyliving

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So the good news is that it's Friday.

The bad news is that Doug Ford and his conservatives won another majority and will be in complete control for the next 4 years here in Ontario.

Cheap booze, weed shops on every corner.

A depleted public health and education system. Private care that only the wealthy have access to.

All while his buds get rich and the divide between the middle and upper class widens.

The people of Ontario are stupid. We get what we deserve.

#ontario #ford #toronto #NeverVoteConservative #conservative

#toronto #NeverVoteConservative #ontario #Ford #conservative

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if statements will be added to this method until functionality improves.

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I have Kiwix and an offline copy of wikipedia on my phone, and my local Gen Z was so surprised and excited by the concept that I thought we should have a dedicated thing for it. Cheap e-reader plus 128GB SD card plus no wifi.
A picture of a slim little e-reader (a Boox Poke) in some guy's hand, displaying the wikipedia page about wikipedia.
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Ooh I want! I have a dump from wikidata but it doesn’t have any photos or other media; did you do anything special to grab all of that?
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@matt kiwix.org did the legwork.

Explore Offline Wikipedia and Educational Content with Kiwix- Kiwix

Discover the power of Kiwix - your gateway to offline Wikipedia and a vast array of educational content. Access knowledge anytime, anywhere without an internet connection. Explore the benefits of Kiwix today.
Kiwix
@Matthew Abbott

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Between

As the light erupts across the sky
your morning has just begun
as cries of avow are birthed
I sing to you my little one...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between

You can endure no more of this abundance
Your girths limit has been reached
Ill content and miserable
I say to you my child...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between

Your barren face has lost its color
You are barely there at all
starving and desperate
I reason with you...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between

Not a thought for anything else can be
she is all that you will see
obsession overcomes thee
Will you hear my plea...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between

Her softest touch has torn your heart apart
madness grips you to your core
grief has manifest rage
listen to my screams
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between

As the light dims across the sky
your twilight finally arrives
as sorrow finds its rest
I utter my last goodbye...
'tis not at this extreme
'tis between

Unus Nemo ~ aka Jamie Roy Robillard
Published: 2013 then again on 2014

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Jesus' theology as preached by the modern conservative movement:
tumblr.com/thepragmaticatheist…

The Pragmatic Atheist

Tumblr

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Everything That Is Nothing

I am everything
that is nothing
I am nothing
that is real
everything surreal
is my ideal

my strength is my weakness
my hope is my despair
my voice is my silence
my life is unclear

the truth is a lie
the hope is my bane
the way is a myth
the joy is my grief

~Unus Nemo ~ AKA Jamie Roy Robillard

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Challenges

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Server Update

I have managed to fine tune my instance for now. Though I will have to see how it handles heavier loads when new users signup. For now the logs only show anticipated issues. Such as graphics that are shared that are not to encoded to the standard and thus throw exceptions. I would rather those exceptions be handled though for now it is not a big deal as it does not affect the server performance.

I am still learning the Friendica codebase so it will be sometime before I can work out issues such as these. And there are far more pressing issues.

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