Tootfinder

Me on Wednesday (pasted verbatim):
“low maintenance on the 4xe Jeep, too, but I do expect their servers to require me to do some stupid update and brick it at some point because they're terrible.”
Stellantis on Friday: pushed update that bricked probably thousands of Wranglers.
Fortunately, mine seems fine so maybe I was safe from the update in Canada. Or mine was late so didn’t get it before they cancelled.
Friday of a long weekend. They don’t have a rollback pla…

To fediverse admins:
If you see an attempt to create a copy of a Gaza Verified member’s account on your server, without having heard from me first, please suspend it and get in touch with me if you can.
I have asked the Gaza Verified members not to migrate their accounts without telling me first so I can reach out to one of our friendly server admins (…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

@… laufen eure Server mit Ökostrom?
https://www.thegreenwebfoundation.org/tools/green-web-dataset/get-verified/

Hey folks,
I’ve set up a separate account for Gaza Verified on my personal Mastodon server.
Please follow @… for newly-verified account updates, etc.
Also, please direct people to this account instead of mine for verification. (If you are asking people to apply for verification, please do so kindly and remember that all we verify at Gaz…

Why can't we have this?
A social platform where your data lives on torrents. Signed with your own keys. Direct and group messaging can run on the same network. No central servers. No outages. No kill switch.
Scales naturally. Users control everything. Nobody can take it down. Nobody can lock you out.
Feels obvious. Still doesn’t exist. Why?
This could replace Facebook, Twitter, Bluesky, X (maybe even Mastodon, though ActivityPub is a different beast). It would be…

Let’s put everything through CloudfFlare, what could possibly go wrong.
Can’t hold our last Gaza Verified interview right now because CloudFlare is down and Jitsi Meet uses it.
#centralisation

On the non-zero Love numbers of magnetic black holes
David Pere\~niguez, Edgars Karnickis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12418 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.12418…

On the non-zero Love numbers of magnetic black holes
Black holes are believed to possess vanishing Love numbers, which implies that they do not deform in the presence of external tides. This fact has been verified in a number of scenarios, that involve tides of bosonic fields of various natures (e.g. scalar, electromagnetic and gravitational), and has triggered active research in trying to identify the underlying reason. Surprisingly, two counterexamples have been found recently. The first, concerns charged-field tides on electrically-charged bla…