NerdResa @NerdResa@witches.town

Chromecast, if you are going to ignore what I call 'soft' network policy, I'll make it 'hard' network policy.

For those that don't know, the Google Chromecast device uses Google Public DNS out of the box and ignores anything the resolver values it gets from DHCP.

The only way to force it to use DHCP provided resolvers is to block it's Google Public DNS access.

https://mastodon.zombocloud.com/media/s9wRL5Om01nydEQE_DA

Just remembered that a few days after the G20 protests (which caused a gigantic wave of terrible horseshoe theory discourse in the German media and completely disregarded any cases of demonstrated police violence) there was a rather big gathering of Nazis somewhere in Eastern Germany, where people were doing Hitler Salutes and were selling Nazi paraphenalia.

The police did nothing and there was no debate whatsoever.

Everytime something like what's currently happening in the US happens, I see people on twitter point towards Germany and say: "They have outlawed Nazis!"

Which is technically true? But doesn't really change anything, when you're dealing with the same type of instituionalised blindness for fascism.

No Law fully protects your country from breeding fascists.

Liking things is actually pretty cool and I Hate And Shit On Everything is one of the most tired, played out netzone cynical tuff guy attitudes you can have.

*2017 Global Internet Map*

#mapporn #internet

Full: https://i2.wp.com/geoawesomeness.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/global-internet-map-2017-telegeography-Geoawesomeness-large.png https://todon.nl/media/HnbTwex2FuSeXDc17YM

20 year old advice on helping people with computer problems is not only timeless, but also imho much more generally help-oriented useful.
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/how-to-help.html

"Beginners face a language problem: they can't ask questions because they don't know what the words mean, they can't know what the words mean until they can successfully use the system, and they can't successfully use the system because they can't ask questions."

What bothers me about the misogynistic googler screed is the reactions of people that seem to think it isn't wholly bad. That this idea of 'idealogical diversity' is worthy of further study.

Because in context of the screed it is the paradox of tolerance repackaged. A plea for the tolerant to tolerate intolerance. http://tx0.org/eb

Someone know #spanish instance? Please retoot, ty😙

I should probably add: I'm in Berlin so I need a router for the Berlin Freifunk OS (Kathleen)

Any suggestion for a router to use for #Freifunk? I heard TP-Link doesn't support flashing a new OS anymore, so TP-Link is out.

A people-owned internet exists. Here is what it looks like

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/26/people-owned-internet-exists-net-neutrality

'The best person to send you links matching your interests is a time-traveling version of yourself:

set a periodicity when you bookmark a URL, and the tab will re-open in the future, be it an hour, a day, a month, a year, or a decade!'

#libreMonday

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/time-capsule/

using the Time Capsule #addon? please let a review!
developer: @maxlath

There's an anthology of Speculative Fiction stories by trans authors coming out next month and I'm on it, alongside 24 other amazing authors!!

It's called Meanwhile, Elsewhere and you can pre-order it now.

http://topsidepress.com/product/pulpware-device/

#tranLit #trans #sciFi #fantasy

[Picture is the book's cover]

https://witches.town/media/gOl7W9Ckozg01_W2jdI

Both Twitter and Facebook can put quite a heavy load on old hardware in their standard web interfaces. One easy solution I found:

Both have less resource-hungry mobile web versions ( https://m.facebook.com/ and https://m.twitter.com/ ).

Depending on your browser, you might not actually get shown the _least_ resource-hungry version though. You need to send an obscure or nonsense user agent string, et voila, you get Facebook and Twitter web interfaces without JavaScript and much multimedia.

Hi,

kennt ihr Organisationen, die Verpflichtungserklärungen organisieren?

Es geht um den Aufenthaltstitel einer Person, die aus einem sogenannten, aber nicht wirklich sicheren Herkunftsland kommt.

Es ist halbwegs dringend :-/

Danke schonmal im Voraus und liebe Grüße,

Malte

"People trying to comment on articles will now be forced to prove they understand what it's about.

That's at least at Norwegian broadcaster NRK's website, which will present people who want to leave comments with a quiz that asks them about what the story is actually about."

This is pure genius.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/nrk-norwegian-news-site-comments-read-story-understand-post-quiz-questions-a7607246.html

Kenya had an election today. There were serious, grounded concerns about related violence. So far, not only has this not happened, but polling stations seem to have been run better than in much of the US.
Of course, most non-Kenyan media won't bother reporting this unless it changes for the worse, so here: enjoy the mundanity of an election running smoothly enough to not make world news
https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2001250673/decision-2017-updates-how-kenyans-voted-across-the-country