Self-facilitating media node and the brain behind oslo.town! 🧠 You may have chosen to or been forced to use something that I have designed. 🧑💻
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Last Notes npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox My daughter knew two people called Maja but she's recently met two more and "young Maja" and "adult Maja" no longer works to identify them. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…p560 So you can show your support for the football team without looking like a racist. 🙃 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…h0ux @nprofile…fxg8 I'm going to replace the fediverse icon on Wikipedia with this 😘 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Damn, two earthquakes hit Venezuela; a magnitude 7.5 “mainshock” and a 7.2 “foreshock” 39 seconds earlier. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox This morning I made a coffee for myself, breakfast for my daughter, and a cake for a horse. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox There was one tree on our street. 🌳 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Me, using #bittorrent. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox POV: Travelling outside of Europe npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…u8nv Like, for real - companies and organisations sign up to Mastodon and then just expect people to show up. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…zvpa Or, The Pin Prick (UK) store does some very nice #pride 🌈 pin badges. I own several. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…zvpa I am in Oslo and have my band (from Amnesty, not from the @nprofile…vv9j folk). 🌈 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox The French firm #Mistral :mistral: who make the #AI tool #LeChat seem to have renamed it to #Vibe. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…h0ux npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Kyiv Type Foundry have digitised six typefaces from historical Kyiv subway station signage. Their new 'Metro Fonts' are free for Ukrainians to use, donation-based for the rest of the world. Donations will be given to those in need. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Keir Starmer should probably join a trade union. 🌹 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Scottish 🏴 and Welsh 🏴 parliamentary elections, and English 🏴 local elections, will be held on 7 May 2026. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Surely a better way of ending a glutenous fool is to poison his food? Not a recommendation, of course. Just a thought. #whcd #donaldtrump #uspol npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…h0ux Page 3 of one of the best zines I own. Solid advice. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox The bots signing up to oslo.town have AI-generated nonsense as their "reason for joining". 🤖 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…ynd9 'zero knowledge proof'. Sorry for not being clearer. It mentions it in the article you linked 🫢 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…ynd9 Love a good ZK proof in action. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…h0ux I used to be part of one a few years ago that shut down. It's good stuff but also part of me curls up at the gatekeeping. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Good merch in The Lovely Eggs' shop. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Give me your tips for good public torrent sites that often have a good selection of British telly too. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox No notes. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox DO YOU COMPOST? There's an app for that! npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox The latest issue of #EyeMagazine. It looks (and smells) great. 🙌 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…xnks Yow! Congratulations, my friend. 🎧 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…0hde Yesterday I left the X app for Android a single star review in the Play Store which read "This app contains an AI tool that can generate child pornography." npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…8j6p Orion for Mac OS already supports plugins from the Firefox and Chrome Addon catalogue, so yes. You can use uBlock Origin and your password manager. :face_smile_fb: npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox #AskFedi • If you know of a #bitcoin :btc: wallet address that is being used to scam money out of people, what do you do with that info? npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…h5tm Hey @nprofile…73lv! When do we get a Playdate with transparent casing? 😏 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Whilst everyone on my timeline is talking about the Apple Event, I'm here browsing and buying from the @nprofile…h5tm Catalog 💛 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…6r7t The national broadcaster in Norway has been doing this for most of this year, except they include the 'AI was used' note inside the summary box. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox The search engine @nprofile…wu9c have a survey running. They want to know how you use their search engine and how you use AI. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox :bing: has Monero suffered a 51% attack yet? npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…gtq9 stab wieners npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…60lz Big bread Industry 🍞 Its amazing a company can create 446 million in revenue and still lose money at the end of the year. Economies of scale no longer scaling? npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…ndcz @nprofile…8x59 #PedroPascal npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox I know PixelFed exists but it's all just text and video and images at the end of the day - so what if the Mastodon interface just looked like Instagram and then you could sign in using your existing Mastodon account... a concept: npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Woke up with the song Coconut by Harry Nilsson in my head, after not hearing it for about 10 years or more. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox I just posted a about the Modular Film Festival by @nprofile…3vnt npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox I still have a #Threads and #Instagram account for oslo.town and sometimes log in to see if I can lure people away and over to #Mastodon. 🥷 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Appreciating Hayley Williams' website. 🧡 https://www.hayleywilliams.net npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Dang, I passed by the #Øyafestivalen site on the way home today and it made me realise that 'festival season' is quickly approaching in #Oslo. 👯 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox World leaders and people in power should be ashamed that the attack on #Gaza ever got to this point. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox We interrupt your scrolling to bring your this important announcement from @[email protected] npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Successful first family trip to the new Tøyenbadet today. It's a very nice place. I even went on the water slide 💦 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox For our commitment to social networking efforts, I'm focusing on building the most elite and talented community on the internet in oslo.town. We're going to invest {the patreon yearly income} to build these multi-GW clusters. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox YouTube is now recommending me a bunch of videos of people making their own cute little HTML websites, usually on Neocities or what they are calling The Indie Web and its giving me hope.[email protected] npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox "Your local social network" npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Good job to #Electrolux who, in their app and on their website, allow you to buy individual parts for many of their products so you can fix the items yourself. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…udc5 Caturday! npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…ah4v I spotted you two weeks ago walking the dog in the neighbourhood. I was gonna shout but figured that would've been a bit much. Now I regret - I could have said goodbye! 👋 Wishing you a safe trip, happy new beginnings, and much bird spotting. 🐦 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…g8jv As illustrated here in the presentation about Mastodon that I gave recently; showing the same post on Mastodon vs Facebook (after you accept the cookie warning for advertising and tracking) npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…ru80 Related: npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox It was really fun to meet a bunch of people from #Mastodon in person today - thanks for coming along to the #Tekna talk. 🙏 🎉 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Just discovered a peculiar way of finding #Mastodon users... npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…g0z2 I wonder if thats a Brexit tax. 🤔 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Installing the Go European extension gives me the nudges I need to, well... go European. 🇪🇺 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…scv2 Which of the 16 peaked in terms of satisfaction? npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Are there alternatives to The Wayback Machine and archive.is ? npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Many birds are known to use human-made elements in their nests, but Carrion Crows and Eurasian Magpies are apparently stealing and repurposing "anti-bird spikes" as a nest-building material. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…3r43 @nprofile…ynnh I have never heard of tv.garden before today, so thanks for sharing... but of course the very first channel I click on is streaming some tech dude talking about VLC with a traffic cone on his head... #VLC #VideoLAN #TVgarden npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox I have pre-ordered and look forward to listening to the audiobook of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by @nprofile…gd2c & @nprofile…mr93 -- out May 13th npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox The love triangle makes this perfect for a TV drama adaptation. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox It is kinda wild that Donald Trump managed to survive an assassination attempt and Nigel Farage managed to survive a plane crash. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…6r7t Ah, memories. Such a cool game. I loved playing it. #Yoshi #YoshiTouchAndGo #Nintendo #NintendoDS npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @nprofile…r5de Why does this feel wrong? 🤔 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox 1. Go to website npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox I was looking to Mute a single user via #Tusky and managed to accidentally block the entirety of mastodon.social 😱 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox I won both the Lotto and Joker! 😱 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Hmm. Wondering if this was actually worth an emergency warning ⚠️ considering I'm in Løkka. Or whether an SMS would've done the job. 😅 Anyone else get this? #oslo #norskTut npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Told my wife about the @nprofile…g9y7 account and she can't believe there are over 300 people following it. 😅 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @npub1pes…0vfa Ah, but the app went down ⬇️ and the back ups ⬆️ weren't so up and the incriminating messages just happened to disappear 💨 and that's the best technical explanation I'm able to give 🐒 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Anyone else having this problem with WhatsApp? 🤔 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @npub108p…yev6 @npub1xzm…eykm But which one of you is Sonic and which is Shadow?! npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @npub1cus…6789 The media have been banging on about this for two days already. I think most people knew it was coming - and if you didn't, all you needed to do at any point today was look out the window 😆 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox I was the only person in the kindergarten whose phone went berserk at 16:07, but around 20 minutes later in the supermarket, several phones buzzed - but not mine. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @npub1cmg…rzd2 it sounds easier to meet up with your friends and talk with them in person npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox Just testing out #GrazeForMastodon and it not only allows you to interact with other #Mastodon instances easily from your account, but also adds a few UI / UX enhancements. npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @npub1k08…6xvn Yes! But it’s not really open registration. 🥸 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @npub1vtx…cnd8 Can we make sure https://matrix.to/#/#join:gossip.land is on it? 🥹 npub197q5efauc30zst54j02tnzq54v3x6u7h68vs3u7qxmy9c768etgqtvlwqn Matt Vestengen-Cox @npub1lx8…y7v3 I’d imagine that when Mr #DDG says things getting censored are “bugs” I’m going to presume that #Bing is meant to serve DDG uncensored results via the API, where the censoring would happen exclusively on Bing.com
