@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-07-24 20:34:31
"'What really concerns me is the whole atmosphere of intimidation.'
Farley, who had attended a number of peaceful demonstrations in the past, pointed out on the day he was arrested, 32 Palestinians were shot by the Israel Defense Forces in Gaza while queuing for aid, a subject referenced on his placard."
#GazaGenocide
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-07-24 17:46:36
related: I figured I should see if I can cut down on the size of the remote media and came across this (fairly aged) post about pruning the caches.
https://ricard.dev/improving-mastodons-disk-usage/
So I have initiated:
# Prune remote accounts that never interacted with a local user
RAILS_ENV=production /home/mastodon/live/bin/tootctl accounts prune;
And the ETA is 33hrs on pruning 325,000 accounts!
lol. clearly I will not be able to do this in an interactive ssh session. I'll setup a cron for it to do its work silently in the background.
How did I miss this basic management?
@timbray@cosocial.ca2025-06-18 04:43:03
Piketty on the need for a wealth tax, with a fairly hilarious French Revolution analogy – Le blog de Thomas Piketty https://www.lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025/06/17/the-senate-beside-the-story/
Ultra-wealthy, the Senate beside the story
By opposing the 2% minimum wealth tax on the 1,800 French people whose net worth exceeds €100 million, after the measure was adopted by France's Assemblée nationale (lower house of Parliament), the upper house, the Sénat, has shown just how disconnected it is from the issues of our time. This is nothing new. Between 1896 …
Continuer la lecture I've found Wallabag (#replacement for #Pocket, in case anyone…
@me@mastodon.peterjanes.ca
2025-05-22 20:30:15
@arXiv_mathCO_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-22 08:34:30
Stable matchings with switching costs
Boris Pittel, Kirill Rudov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.14362 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.14362
@wfryer@mastodon.cloud2025-07-07 12:48:24
Now that "Pocket" is shutting down, do you have another "Read It Later" platform / solution you are using?
https://getpocket.com/farewell
I've started using Pinboard for social bookmarks… not exactly the same, but this could be my alternative?
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-06-06 12:20:45
China's Hainan province tests letting some corporate users bypass the Great Firewall and access the global internet, as it seeks to become a free-trade port (Ben Jiang/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy…
@pre@boing.world2025-06-12 16:14:57
So farewell then Pinetime Watch 🪦.
It isn't showing any signs of charging. even after a completely-flat battery reset. Last hope gone.
Now nobody at all is running my custom software I think, and I have no way to fix the bugs.
Could replace it, but I'm not really paying any attention to the things it measures anyway. Heartrate is too unreliable to be useful and steps seems likely to be counting my leg-jiggles since I tend to hit 10,000 most days without trying or leaving the flat.
The software which tracks my time and mood is probably better running on the phone really. Easier to add notes and detail. Can't really input text from a watch. Location data can be added in ways the watch couldn't.
So back to not wearing a watch at all I think. Who needs it now we all carry pocket watches with internet and telephony.
#pineTime #smartWatch
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-07-22 20:38:17
@cdarwin@c.im2025-06-29 23:39:17
How was Joe Biden forced out of a presidential race for a disastrous debate and for looking frail and for confusing names,
but this man, one of the most ignorant men to ever be elected to any office, allowed to continue on as president and treated as a normal, serious leader??
https://bsky.app/pr…