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Plutarch
@plutarch@gotosocial.plutar.ch
Work In Progress Mk. III
Also/formerly known as Shoe Bill. I had technical difficulties on my last instance, and decided to simply register another silly domain that also ends in .ch, and migrate and otherwise start over. So that's what I did.
I'm the only one here; this is self-hosted.
See introduction post (pinned).
AVATAR:
My cat in front of the monitor; the wallpaper is the default for Noctalia Shell, which is an owl.
HEADER:
Me, suspended off the floor on both hands, my entire bodyweight over my left arm.
All media that is my own work is distributed according to CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise stated.
Opinions are my own. Any reference to any product is not sponsored unless otherwise stated.
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Joined March 26, 2026
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he/him
Alignment:
anti-anti-anti
Replying to
@alice@lgbtqia.space
There are some men to whom the highest level of authority is a little old lady.
This is, in a lot of cases, because they grew up in an environment where the biological parents were in and out of jail and everything else that goes with that, presumably either lost custody early on or were never particularly interested anyway, etc. If not themselves, then those they grew up with, were often raised by their grandparents. They see some woman who's old enough to be their grandma, and there's no scenario in which disrespect is attempted never mind tolerated.
You're describing some men who get that, and unfortunately, too many men who don't.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
Imagine, even being a cop yourself, and not thinking that's hilarious‽
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
Sometimes I kinda wish I had these things, to delete them. Twitter, streaming subscriptions, etc. Would that be virtue signalling? Well, it doesn't matter now, because I can't. 😂
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
Uh. I meant that playing the Imperial March for cops walking by was hilarious… but yeah, that's just disappointing.
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
Anthropomorphizing machines and programs was kind of a cute game...
R.I.P., Clippy.
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@fullywoolly@mastodon.social @kajer@infosec.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
Yeah, exactly; this stuff is like whack-a-mole. That's why more people should self-host; that way, you can start by blocking the ASN and then go from there. Then you're still playing whack-a-mole but with an unfair advantage; at least that's something. Obviously, they're supposed to respect robots.txt anyway, and some of them actually do. Honestly, if I were still able to federate properly with only a .onion and without an actual URL, I would do that instead, and this is probably the biggest reason why (and yes, I tried, and no, I couldn't figure out how to make it work, and then I finally gave up and just got a real domain name like a normal person, just because I had to (also, .onion is literally free, so there's also that)).
I really want a sign that says:
NO TRESPASSING
Violators will be eviscerated.
The ears. 😂
As a wise man once said: "As a wise man once said, 'As a wise man once said'"; as a wise man once said.
#Shitpost
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
"Eye contact" (weird, lol).
Replying to
@alice@lgbtqia.space @veronica@explains.social
Even Claude is less accurate than humans on average, at understanding sarcasm, or irony, or some combination thereof. Frankly, it takes things even more literally than I do, and that's really saying something.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
I built one for my dad (R.I.P.) and it has the exact same motherboard as mine—so same socket, obviously—but his had an i5 instead of an i9. So I might just swap it, initially just to confirm (or rule out) that this is actually the issue, and then maybe just keep running that for a while (assuming that works, of course). If it's RAM, I'm hosed; my RAM was $600 when I bought it and ~2,500–$3,000 at current prices.
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@Linux_in_a_Bit@infosec.exchange
I think people who've already been doing this for years forget how much they've already learned.
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@steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
Yeah, supposedly, I'm at like 30-some-odd (celsius) under normal circumstances, but I technically can't tell by just looking at it if that's accurate or not.
I've always wanted to hire a private investigator to investigate myself. Just start by doxxing myself for them, and then be like, "Come back with whatever other information you're able to find."
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@fullywoolly@mastodon.social @kajer@infosec.exchange @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
Also feel uncomfortable inviting traffic onto a home network too.
1,000% agree; that's why I don't. I run this server in a VM and I expose this site via Cloudflare Tunnel. I do realize that Cloudflare Tunnel is not FOSS, and that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make because port-forwarding is worse. Everything it exposes, in my case, is FOSS and that's good enough for me; it's simply not worth it to have an entry point.
Is there any blockchain, the "currency" of which is worth so little that no one will ever buy it or spend it in the conventional sense? By design, I mean; actually just a blockchain, and the tokens are worth several zeroes past the decimal of a penny, and they always will be, and that's technically still proof of work? Is there something I'm not understanding here? I'm trying to picture having the ability to prove things cryptographically, and where that thing is worthless for any other purpose, and that's the point; that thing, technically, barely, being backed by something "real"… Again, maybe I don't get it, but I'm not seeing the reason why that is not useful.
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@fribygda@fribygda.no @alice@lgbtqia.space
There's a decent amount of lore regarding mastodon.cloud and none of it good.
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@alice@lgbtqia.space @TimWardCam@c.im @crouton@aus.social
I forgot about him, lol. Bad politics, I take it(?).
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@kimlockhartga@beige.party @rickscully@heads.social @evan@cosocial.ca
If someone blocks me, I have no interest in interacting with them ever again, unless and until they decide to change. If they do, they know where to find me, obviously. So I would never go find them someplace else just to hopefully be able talk to them there. I would have nothing to say to them; simple as that.
It feels like people want counterculture minus the dystopia, which is an oxymoron.
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Some NSFW (unsurprising); SOME OF THESE MIGHT BE FALSE POSITIVES, I haven't personally checked.
Happy Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month: https://tourette.org/awareness/
#Tourettes #TouretteSyndrome #TS
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@catsalad@infosec.exchange @alice@lgbtqia.space
Noooooooo............. You're thinking of antimatter. That's all you need is one of those things and you're instantly a trillionaire. :kappo:
This is… interesting…
Prosocial behavior, the act of helping others, is essential to social life, yet spontaneous environmental triggers for such behavior remain underexplored. This study tested whether an unexpected event, such as the presence of a person dressed as Batman, could increase prosocial behavior by disrupting routine and enhancing attention to the present moment. We conducted a quasi-experimental field study on the Milan metro, observing 138 rides. In the control condition, a female experimenter, appearing pregnant, boarded the train with an observer. In the experimental condition, an additional experimenter dressed as Batman entered from another door. Passengers were significantly more likely to offer their seat when Batman was present (67.21% vs. 37.66%, OR = 3.393, p < 0.001). Notably, 44% of those who offered their seat in the experimental condition reported not seeing Batman. These findings suggest that unexpected events can promote prosociality, even without conscious awareness, with implications for encouraging kindness in public settings.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44184-025-00171-5
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
I boost every post I've already bothered to look at, unless I have a specific reason not to boost it.
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@Elleaster@ohai.social
The only time I want to see someone's car in a video is when the video is literally about their car. People who make car videos don't just sit in their cars while parked; that says a lot.
There's something I like about the Fediverse—and, at least in theory, about any social network that is correctly referred to as "decentralized"—and this is one of main reasons why I've stuck around for as long as I have here. That is, you will never have a community here that revolves around you personally, no matter how popular you become here. You will find that impossible on a technical level, and that is at least somewhat by design. If you stick around long enough to have amassed a considerable number of followers, then by that point, you will have already realized that the Fediverse does not revolve around you and that it never will. So, by demonstration, you are okay with that. This is why self proclaimed and so-called influencers are few and far between here.
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org
I've literally never heard of anyone liking EA; it's probably more accurate to say that they're universally hated. I think "bone to pick" is probably an understatement, tbh.
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange
"Minimum wage is not supposed to be a living wage" is literally their answer if you ask them about it, which is every interpretation of the word wrong, obviously.
Randomly remembering the time when I realized that I needed a new phone, when I talked to someone over the phone and they commented on my southern accent.
This is going exactly where one would expect: I do not have a southern accent. :myGenuineReaction:
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@alice@lgbtqia.space
Okay, I simply have to put more effort into my ramen now, thank you.
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@Elleaster@ohai.social
Yeah, but if I'm in a quiet area, I'd rather just stand outside, honestly. I realize it's subjective, but personally, I think that as long as whatever background noise you have doesn't sound bad in its own right, it adds something.
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@alice@lgbtqia.space @crouton@aus.social
I mean… I've always assumed that the most expensive padlock ever can still be defeated instantly with a sledgehammer… right?
A new low for country music? A report at eleven.
I'm curious just how far it would be possible to go, in terms of functionality, if one were to make a Fediverse server and a web frontend to go with it, where said frontend is written entirely in HTML and CSS and nothing else. Would it even function, enough? I feel like if so then that simply has to be more secure than anything involving JS (or whatever else like that, but that I know of offhand, JS)… right?
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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org @steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co @anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz
I really regret not having just gone with a full AMD setup instead. My GPU is AMD and that thing works great. Should've just gone all the way with that.