Courtney Stanton @courtney@witches.town

RIP Bob Taylor, who played a role in the creation of the ARPAnet, the personal computer, Engelbart's mouse, Xerox's desktop metaphor, and more. Also (this guy didn't slack) co-wrote "The Computer as a Communications Device" (1968) with Licklider.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/technology/robert-taylor-innovator-who-shaped-modern-computing-dies-at-85.html

for real though i'm not yet convinced that you can compare blocking instances with blocking people when people are free to move and subject themselves to the moderation of instances that others are happy to federate with

Just saw that, and it felt way too relevant to this instances to not share it with you fellow witches…

https://witches.town/media/ea6waTaaWhZKR4RvXSA

Excuse me, I think you left your cat outside.

Wow and Japan has bounced right back. Also mstdn.jp already has 35k users again. (Hope they have backups this time… 😅)

Starting to think this might actually be a success story for the Mastodon network's resiliency.

https://mnm.eliotberriot.com/dashboard/db/network-drilldown?refresh=30m&orgId=1

Okay, here is the GitHub issue as I promised: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/1847 Feedback wanted

When the world has the Way,
running horses are retired to manure the fields.
When the world lacks the Way,
warhorses are bred in the countryside.
No crime is greater than approving of greed,
no calamity is greater than discontent,
no fault is greater than possessiveness.
So the satisfaction of contentment is always enough.

–Tao-te Ching, ~300 B.C.E.

Excuse me, I think you left your cat outside.

https://dolphin.town/media/pbMVkIDOFunbRnPTwJI eeeeeeeEEEEEEEE

Friends Forever.

I'll believe "guys" is gender neutral when straight men talk about how many guys they've had sex with

Female Lavellan and Makkachin in London Today

KIND>CLEVER

Here are instructions on how to do what I did, if you are interested: https://hastebin.com/ipotitefiz.rb

I have applied a domain block of type silence with reject_media toggled on to pawoo.net, because of increasing reports of loli content.

This type of domain block is not yet exposed from admin UI, so I'll probably follow up with an explanation on how to do it, but if you're an instance admin you can just use the "suspend" option for a nuclear solution to the problem.

I also intend to open up a GitHub issue for discussion about content caching strategies.

#introductions
Greetings, I am Lieutenant Commander Data of the Starship Enterprise. I am a Soong-type android, and though human conceptions of gender do not constrain my functioning, I identify as male. I have a cat named Spot, about whom I have composed several poems.