2026-07-27T23:06:09+02:00 https://nostr.ae Proto Himbo European https://nostr.ae/npub1hkvtr284hvl7lffuhywe687mfhec2ax9r9uxrfe6cmwl6t0utgpq38kytk https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/accounts/avatars/113/448/947/611/730/728/original/73724016d6f0bd50.jpg https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/accounts/avatars/113/448/947/611/730/728/original/73724016d6f0bd50.jpg https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd8cwmmjshagl5gcua6zvgkgjrdylsj4fpk5xfcvq8hj6s0pkae5szyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqyfg3xtt RE: <a href="https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116400199742221741">https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116400199742221741</a><br/><br/>Shoutout to the &#34;voting doesn&#39;t work&#34; crowd.<blockquote class="border-l-05rem border-l-strongpink border-solid"><div class="-ml-4 bg-gradient-to-r from-gray-100 dark:from-zinc-800 to-transparent mr-0 mt-0 mb-4 pl-4 pr-2 py-2">quoting <br/><span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Article"><a itemprop="url" href="/note12petrpdyg57sm7csj8mm7sdalsxuy2lgpa97uss8y5fr5g58v68sgcfs0z" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1">note12pe…fs0z</a></span><br/> </div> This is the key difference:<br/><br/>In 2024, only 63 percent of US voters voted, and Trump became president.<br/><br/>Sunday, 80 percent of Hungarian voters turned out to vote, and Orbán was removed.<br/><br/>Be like the Hungarians. </blockquote> 2026-04-14T02:24:16+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs90qgfn2uasrkjt84lq40esckn0qtq0t0dscm4gqmrlstum0pyqnszyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqyzlujwe I don&#39;t want to cheerlead for #google because they are making the world a worse place every damn day. However, being forced to use #Office354 from #microsoft for the past few months has made me wistful for gDocs, gSheets, and google Slides. It&#39;s weird how much worse Microsoft&#39;s online office stuff works, minute to minute. Obvious features are just missing (I&#39;ve heard they were basically nuked around 2019), and there&#39;s just so much of the mundane functionality, like basic editing, use of keyboard shortcuts, folder navigation, etc. that just sucks. I mean it works inconsistently in many cases, and simply fails to work (when it is advertised as being a feature) in others. Ugh. I want to stop using office stuff on the internet. I don&#39;t know if I can, however.<br/><br/>#complaining #fuckthis 2026-01-30T22:47:35+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsq0ydvwzxwj0c3l70ts35svyvt9f7r36a04k8mphpp3zggypekexqzyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqytaedg9 Pretty sure LibreOffice help-folks in forums are gaslighting the users saying that #LibreOffice Write style application problems are user error. I&#39;ve got the same problems as several help-seekers in forums as recently as a few months ago, and the &#34;helpful&#34; forum replies just keep insisting that what the user is saying they did or didn&#39;t do is false. <br/><br/>I&#39;m convinced LO Write has some bugs in this department, so it feels borderline aggressive for the help-folks to keep insisting that there can&#39;t possibly be bugs; it must be the user.<br/><br/>Edit: A less serious but still frustrating thing: LO helpers online repeatedly state the precedence rules for formatting text (paragraph style, character style, direct formatting, etc.) and simply lament that users can&#39;t handle such an advanced and user-friendly system.<br/><br/>Then they tell someone with a 400-page novel including thousands of paragraphs that, instead of suggesting LO adopt a system where styles might (if users choose) override direct and paragraph formatting, this person should quadruple-click each of their thousands of paragraphs, one by one, then press CTRL+M to remove all formatting, and finally apply the LO style.<br/><br/>If you have to work this hard to ignore a repeated feature request, there is something wrong.<br/><br/>#ui #ux #design #foss 2026-01-28T14:04:01+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2rrqeg8vpdp2qcf8afy0ydhczsjk55krglwugvs5tumaqstkmn9szyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqy0avgdl In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsd4s4t5pn4y7rhyskynlxtvhnv9cdvxfuyp55gr5lq76ru8qry28c0p7vmg'>nevent1q…7vmg</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Having grown up steeped in those stories and traditions: there are many unspoken assumptions in these cultures, and you learn not to question them lest you get a whole lotta subtle or unsubtle pushback. I&#39;m remembering a time when I was teaching a Sunday School lesson and I said many events in the Book of Genesis were probably metaphorical, coming from (I thought at the time) thousands-years-old oral traditions that eventually got written down. Yeah, my Bishop somewhat angrily interrupted to say these were the words of God and we didn&#39;t get to question them.<br/><br/>So you learn to thought-police even when you don&#39;t think that&#39;s what you&#39;re doing. One of the most powerful forms of this is to simply never question some basic assumptions. One of those assumptions is something like &#34;People say this was holy, so it&#39;s holy; all explanations must start from that point.&#34; 2025-12-04T03:01:57+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsfe7kfyrm46ts27529a25n9x57ssk8fx2mg3zcktjh59xqvajvpjczyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqy5ngfyv In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs0hqpu95x8t8wccjt994rjle7cqj3xfwjtuqqz8f9rdp7g3plql0sa7a5se'>nevent1q…a5se</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Side note: I&#39;d be interested in seeing your translation of that :)<br/>(I&#39;m not a classicist and don&#39;t know anything about ancient Greek or Latin; just interested in alt translations of texts I grew up thinking were Written In Stone by some dudes 400 years ago) 2025-12-03T13:16:46+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsv65el99x8hxdzwsn6j2pmgem22q9n5vsy4eg2zqddkf39lp4egzczyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqypz68uw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2kh0w5ducs79xa3jhn0xcju94n2sp8dhyt58ms63g7042gtdg3lgw0wums'>nevent1q…wums</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>OK WAIT WAIT WAIT<br/>Since you seem to know about these things I very much want to ask you something I&#39;ve wondered for a couple of decades but nobody I&#39;ve asked has been able to address: Does the New Testament say that the Roman soldiers gave Jesus ass-water to drink while on the cross?<br/><br/>There&#39;s a passage (I can find it if requested; haven&#39;t searched a bible in a while) when Jesus is suffering on the cross when the soldiers taunt him (I think) and then Jesus says &#34;I thirst&#34;, so a soldier gives him something described (in the KJV) as a sponge with vinegar.<br/><br/>That sounds an awful lot like a Roman butt sponge, and a good chunk of the passages in the New Testament, especially regarding the crucifixion, seem to intend to show both Christ&#39;s suffering and the depravity of the Romans, so it would seem to fit that narrative.<br/><br/>Do you think that&#39;s what the passage is saying? Is the assertion that the Romans gave Jesus a tersorium instead of water? 2025-12-03T05:26:46+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0v5fecyv7xuqwnv7uqm6gwtxh4uvrs60mdvvt7jzvl6m8pa7urhczyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqyj3d4cx In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqszl930l785l7w36yagu4st8ma8ypc4c5cmcuy7xuzhttnccgz8zgq08jvlp'>nevent1q…jvlp</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>That has been tried repeatedly with CBP (later ICE). Sadly, not &#34;burned to the ground&#34; enough, because the problems have persisted over decades. CBP has been known to be the most corrupt and possibly brutal police force in the USA for a long time, and there have been at least two (maybe more) purges of national and local leadership in attempts to change that. Trump, of course, noticed right away that huge numbers of ICE agents were already steeped in cultures of corruption and abuse, and would make a perfect little personal army. He started grooming them for this back in about 2016. 2025-10-28T12:50:27+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsvx0jzl8yn222nj0vur55ez554x2wx3zjvpgdhcwhvhg0v5d9ddsszyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqywdwew2 Dear #bass players: <br/><br/>I feel like I&#39;m losing my mind. I can&#39;t find a bass tab online of the #beatles Come Together that has a specific thing I hear in the (standard, album, spotify, qobuz) recording: It sounds very much to me like Paul is playing two notes at once, high on the neck, at a few points (i.e., the main riff and also e.g. *I know you, you know me*), with a bit of harmony for a second or two, repeating. However, I&#39;ve looked at 10-12 bass tabs online now, and not one has any two-note moments.<br/><br/>My hearing kind of sucks, so it&#39;s possible I&#39;m hearing something else, like maybe John&#39;s guitar and Paul&#39;s bass in such tonal match that it sounds like two bass notes, so I&#39;m open to that. Another possibility is that Paul plays one note of his riff and holds it a bit so it is ringing for half a second while he plays another note, creating the effect. <br/><br/>(side note: holy cow, there are as many takes on this bass line as there are people willing to type tabs into a computer)<br/><br/>#Help me, rock and roll masto :( 2025-09-22T23:43:46+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszen3pujrm8aq79kujjupel2qcetwu68vcnw6zqpttq3y9wtm26lszyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqyk7drmf More crowd wisdom (smart variety) requested: How to sync MS outlook calendar with an Android phone in the least privacy-violating way possible (that still works without a ton of fussing)?<br/><br/>I know MS is a privacy nightmare. However, my job requires it now, and all calendar events will be on Outlook. Missing them is quite bad.<br/><br/>I&#39;d really really prefer not to put the Outlook app on (or anywhere near) my phone. There&#39;s a syncing process that involves setting up your MS 365 account on your phone, but if I can avoid that, I&#39;d like to. IDK if it&#39;s possible. Any ideas?<br/><br/>#request #privacy #microsoft #android #calendar 2025-05-30T14:03:20+02:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsw3yx38u4s3uey4lz5txsesshhsut9wzrsyranqs2et6nk5rfhwlczyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqyz8selg WIE GEHTS FRAU MASTADON<br/>[sic]<br/><br/>(Housemate sent me this and it seemed highly relevant to my #mastodon feed filled with dinosaur lovers, language obsessers, and people who speak German)<br/><br/>[Auf Deutch in das alt-text]<br/><br/>#shitpost #dinosaurs #language #german #deutsch #paleontology<br/> <img src="https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/114/219/442/043/998/217/original/be624e25d661ace9.png"> <br/> 2025-03-24T22:09:20+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsgdn4mute6htkydy6npzc7vakzp40ea9qf7lpvy7f545y0pa5az5szyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqychnv80 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsxh93nqythflvtm2xcptzk8ly07qx24w8l8zqm86nfmk5srnngfwqsmpdc4'>nevent1q…pdc4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I will go further: &#34;universities&#34; are not really doing this, presidents of universities are. A whole lot of faculty and almost all the students probably have a different view.<br/><br/>University presidents (and other upper administrators) are heavily motivated by career protection and advancement. The money no longer coming to the school is only important in the president&#39;s decision because that president knows their career prospects are tied to their school&#39;s financial situation.<br/><br/>In other words, I think it&#39;s even more craven and selfish than you suggest. 2025-03-23T03:47:11+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsz73yem6q8f78703wtjnczclk9caly4a5tmyk7feulyth8tk0wveszyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqyjvpqhy &#34;Rage comes after Nirvana&#34;&lt;li&gt;Me organizing my 3-ring binder of guitar lead sheets, also possibly having uncomfortable existential realizations.&lt;/li&gt;<br/><br/>#ratm #nirvana #philosophy #guitar 2025-03-18T02:10:41+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsqmn5z35azfndpknzjfpawczaxpjtjsx4xgluncnx7glgjd5j5ecqzyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqya9q7uy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs950f28pvpm8n23h248uxha4a5p69lxnjwzzv3lhvgweeyealzr7s4smse4'>nevent1q…mse4</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is very hope-inducing :)<br/><br/>I didn&#39;t see it in the article, but I wonder how this compares to the bird population in various kinds of non-agricultural areas, like wetlands, forests, non-farm fields, etc. My suspicion (absolutely no evidence for this) is that solar farms might be seen as restoring some of the biodiversity eliminated by commercial farming methods. 2025-03-05T13:59:24+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsdrey0peanjufk740yrgh3hs5vpvxlrew3nv7dlc66gkklenlnvsgzyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqy9cxav5 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq7h5tdlmvdf0qzqj0djvqlxmrpuvrlyjs3x6p8jx70e6k3k3234s9uvwn3'>nevent1q…vwn3</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m so very happy I didn&#39;t end up in an industry like that. Yeesh. 2025-02-10T02:09:15+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2nsd23frunf6kw7xmaqakrf2m2x0ajkv3hs39sgztm92h2p50qjgzyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqy4vm7mx Wanna see what a #republican politician is taking away from this mess? My ex attended a virtual town hall with our rep Nick Langworthy (R-NY23) and typed up notes. <br/><br/>The surprisingly weasely:<br/>- Said Trump&#39;s fed funding memo was &#34;opaquely worded&#34; and &#34;could have been more artfully worded and specific.&#34;<br/><br/>- &#34;refuse to politicize&#34; the two airline crashes. Waiting for investigation info.<br/><br/>- RE: J6 pardons: &#34;I would not have issued pardons to those that were violent.&#34;<br/><br/>- Claims &#34;Trump does not want to strip medicare&#34;<br/><br/>The rest:<br/>- “This is the agenda that the country voted overwhelmingly for&#34;<br/><br/>- “Elon Musk is working for the government as a volunteer, to get America back on the right track”<br/><br/>- On cuts to USAID: &#34;Unless you&#39;re part of a transgender education program in the middle east, you probably don&#39;t have anything to lose.” <br/><br/>- Musk&#39;s destruction of government: &#34;There has been nothing unlawful done.&#34;<br/><br/>- Local farm labor force impacted by ICE detentions: only &#34;high-value targets&#34; and people who are a &#34;known threat to community by their own criminal record&#34; are being apprehended.<br/><br/>- Local orgs like Head Start posting &#34;hyperpolitical messages&#34; on social media saying they were &#34;ceasing operations&#34;. “There was a quick rush to shut down services, I can&#39;t help but be suspect to as to why, but you can probably do the math on that.&#34;<br/><br/>- Sanctuary cities: &#34;NY and San Francisco have prioritized the criminal over the taxpaying citizen&#34;, but with Trump, &#34;the world knows that he means business&#34;. <br/><br/>- Mexico &amp; Canada sent troops to the border b/c of tariff threats: &#34;The world has gotten the message that America&#39;s borders are closed”.<br/><br/>Just dumping this here. Reminding myself that he is *less* MAGA-jihadist than some reps. And he&#39;s still a complete bootlicking ass.<br/><br/>#uspol #trump #musk #localpolitics #local #NY #WNY 2025-02-06T13:14:42+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsd0v087w9pcpe454ghj4pt7ymkqw3jgvla2xdyhqhlz9nd54twhlszyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqypr9vwy In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsqhzre26u65nwjz2d7k3c6g0j5n66v40tjz5789h9a7x9er7e4g4c5l934t'>nevent1q…934t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Ooh, they have at least one other option: Gradually replace every actual oversight person with a stooge who will just rubber-stamp corporate talking points. 2025-02-06T00:45:44+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs009m7ywmlq7q4wq5awsy9e67j238wfa89unm3l59535xkk2p6y2czyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqy3cgn4x Have you ever had the experience of being away from your #Fediverse account (e.g., #mastodon) for a few days and having a follower or mutual ask about your absence?<br/><br/>(this might only make sense if you&#39;ve been on the fediverse for at least a couple of months, but answer if you think it&#39;s relevant)<br/><br/>Boost for visibility? <br/><br/>#poll #socialmedia #experience 2025-01-25T20:13:53+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsr5w76h62zk77le845k9ulqz527vkpus2ez9mmnna6szw5ql370vqzyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqyxm2r4d In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs08wql4ns57229xqqufdmdvn4k5vz6hefe5m3mzzj366te5ze6dyq9g7eml'>nevent1q…7eml</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I want to hear about rappers learning to felt, taking up gardening, or curating abandoned media. 2025-01-25T14:34:20+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqszw756xmwrh2w6fa6vd04yfrg8wnfypsazneavq5k3smxrs5pkn6gzyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqyuseuqy Chef: &#34;This creation is based off of Mexican tamales and Vietnamese pho.&#34;<br/><br/>Based off of. They actually said based off of.<br/><br/>#PetPeeveAFood <br/>#HashtagGames 2025-01-23T03:38:01+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0zq69f60nkxf3lzgct3nphmhssuyktqr20x2wq73t8pzwnq5prqszyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqycfk9mz In honor of the excellent discussion started by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1c6z5ztjge4tu2d9re0cq73q368q7cm7fcwjcgs8j38qamxtr5tlssuq3gp" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Ben :bc:</span> (<span class="italic">npub1c6z…q3gp</span>)</a></span> about whether it is okay to swear on #mastodon<br/><br/>#swearing #fediverse #profanity #cursewords #tiktokrefugee #welcome<br/> <img src="https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/867/026/686/218/940/original/dc0a517cebd4368c.png"> <br/> 2025-01-21T16:21:28+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs0g90uxeurekkkeu3wk6ylsgs46klmhwnuegarpkadjhqekklwj4qzyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqyvtp8hh #Mastodon and #Fedierse coders: how hard would it be for a semi-techy person like me (barely know any languages but could put together something in Python) to create a bot that scrapes toots with certain hashtags? Also, I&#39;m concerned about violating TOS or #privacy...<br/><br/>All these awesome song-related events like #ThursdayFiveList, #JukeboxFridayNight, #tunetuesday, etc. generate beautiful, borderline unusable lists of fascinating songs. It would be cool to make a bot that scraped all the titles from, say, #thursdayfivelist, and put them in a playlist. Or just a big document/web page with song.link URLs.<br/><br/>How much pain and frustration would I be bringing on myself?<br/><br/>#programming #bot #scraping #ethics #suggestions #recommendations 2025-01-17T23:50:01+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqstednvzd6672y07najeymfkzjh0uslah5u77m9262qg4tfnfky0vgzyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqya2ye7a #SilentSunday #stillensonntag<br/> <img src="https://media.infosec.exchange/infosec.exchange/media_attachments/files/113/696/481/343/331/410/original/4e8f5a0be63e368a.jpeg"> <br/> 2024-12-22T13:36:10+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqst4967jnd0rf7q66g0nue5y0zgtcgffxwcun2ty654k8xm6p26x3czyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqy2lst8j In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9hwl98cyr90szjz39hzknyvxxh359xzletxn53qrwu2jxstd43eqgcx5gu'>nevent1q…x5gu</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Unfamiliar with them. Going to the searches now. 2024-12-01T14:52:14+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsyps0kne86002sdluk07jtmql4065l42nhth9vm5yp4z6eux26mnszyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqypygjxj In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs09p8edcuq4qmhc23v5pfqyw7vsjgkf5uftn7mwxfqayrleyfsl8sjc8q6t'>nevent1q…8q6t</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>This is a very good point. 2024-11-19T05:24:20+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqsznwtznxv8ehjmfnus4cyakl0qx6aud5ydczq6ud9dy9zf60ezflqzyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqyhy50r0 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs92g5pefn35ljj033h77hh26nzc0u33wfv6r95pdakafq355wf4hcdnkr3r'>nevent1q…kr3r</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>OK except I do shout to the world a lot. They don&#39;t hear me or change anything they&#39;re doing, but I shout. 2024-11-19T05:16:25+01:00 https://nostr.ae/nevent1qqs2arrvvl7s4k9zfcka0manqrfsv3zhj9n9r6s46hn29v2wgjcykvgzyz7e3vdg7kanlma98ju3m8glmdxl8pt5c5vhscd88trdmlfdl3dqy3k0z5f Just went to an intro workshop for some new &#34;innovation&#34;-focused short courses for faculty, staff, and students.<br/><br/>- Drones. Oh, neato.<br/>- Podcasting. Very cool.<br/>- Microsoft CoPilot ...<br/><br/>wtf<br/><br/>#ai #microsoft #copilot #highered #partnership #sketchy #ethics 2024-11-15T17:09:10+01:00