DecaturNature

DecaturNature, 23 days ago to Games

I'd like to try a little social experiment. It is 5:37 Eastern Time (US). Could someone in the central time zone reply to this message, and ask someone in the Mountain Time zone to reply, and so on? Can we get around the world? (feel free to skip time zones with few residents)
#games #world #fediverse

dangillmor, 1 month ago to random

This report, from Just Security, is the best compendium of Trump/Republican dictatorship planning I've seen.

https://www.justsecurity.org/92714/american-autocracy-threat-tracker/

Read it, please, and pass it around to everyone you know -- especially people you don't agree with politically.

One notable aspect of this report is that it puts budding fascism in context. Big Journalism doesn't do context, so we have to rely on smaller organizations and motivated individuals most of the time.

Again, please read it and pass it along.

DecaturNature, 1 month ago to mastodon

What is the function of the "Notes" field that we see on profiles? It seems that when I add a note, I get a confirmation that it's "saved", but when I come back to the profile, nothing is there (usually). Sometimes I also see the note on other profiles (especially if I click "back" to get to another profile). I tried this on multiple accounts -- on my Mastodon server, on another Mastodon server, and on a Lemmy server. I guess I'll need to submit a bug report, but I can't even find basic documentation about how this is supposed to behave.
#mastodon

shoq, 1 month ago to random

@dangillmor @tchambers A Florida high school teacher wants to do a class fediverse class project. She needs a list of at least several dozen journalists presently active on ActivityPub platforms. My lists are too eclectic and selective (and too many have faded away). Can you refer any you use? TIA

DecaturNature, 1 month ago to Georgia

If you know someone who needs medical care but cannot pay for it, look into the Financial Assistance Policy of your local medical providers. For instance, Emory will provide full "emergency and medically necessary" care for a family of 2 with under $25k of income (in addition to other situations as well).
https://www.emoryhealthcare.org/-/media/Project/EH/Emory/ui/insurance/ehc-financial-assistance-policy.pdf

This financial assistance is supported by the Georgia Indigent Care Trust Fund.
https://dch.georgia.gov/providers/provider-types/hospital-providers/indigent-care-trust-fund

The billing office will not necessarily tell you about the availability of financial assistance, nor is this information always clearly posted in the hospital.

#Georgia #healthcare #emergency #Atlanta

pluralistic, 2 months ago to privacy

Give the people what they want

#mobile #mcommerce #AppsAreCrap #AppsAreWebPagesSkinnedInEnoughIPToFelonizeMods #privacy #AccountFatigue #AppFatigue

StillIRise1963, 2 months ago to random

"The New York Times reports that Trump is planning to 'build huge camps to detain people,' and 'to get around any refusal by Congress to appropriate the necessary funds, Mr. Trump would redirect money in the military budget.’ "

"How many people? ‘Millions’ writes the Times. And not just immigrants: Trump is planning to send his enemies to them, too.”

https://www.rawstory.com/hartmann-trump/

DecaturNature, 2 months ago to journalism

I recently stumbled across 'Metric Media', and was shocked to see dozens of seemingly legit local news websites that were nothing more than partisan propaganda mills. Today I learned that a name has been coined for them "Pink Slime":

"Pink slime websites are loosely defined as partisan sites masquerading as local news and funded by dark money."

https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/unmasking-pink-slime-a-shadowy-world-of-partisan-sites-deceptively-pose-as-local-news,248657
#journalism #propaganda

futurebird, 2 months ago to random

Remember when I was posting about ideas to share with your liberal friends that make more sense than giving money to Biden (aw come on!)

Local races, local orgs are better.

I found a good one. This group is doing a recall campaign to get rid a of literal torch carrying nazi who won by just 36 votes while hiding his ties to racism and extremism.

https://www.enidsjc.org/

DecaturNature, 3 months ago to Atlanta

This is great work. The "Atlanta Magnet Man" cleans up metal debris using magnets on a bike trailer -- he recently crowd-funded a $4000 sweeper to get glass and non-metalic debris. We could use this in Decatur.
https://www.wabe.org/the-atlanta-magnet-man-is-saving-our-car-tires-one-bike-ride-at-a-time/
#Atlanta #Georgia #biking #litter

DecaturNature, 3 months ago to mastodon

Are there any good podcasts about Mastodon and/or related topics?

A web search found the following:

1. Dot Social from @Flipboard, which seems to be exactly what I was looking for. (https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/21/flipboard-stops-tweeting-launches-new-podcast-about-decentralized-social-apps/)
2. Several podcasts that had episodes introducing Mastodon, Fediverse, or Activitypub: Thoughtworks (https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/podcasts/technology-podcasts/welcome-fediverse-exploring-mastodon-activitypub-beyond-special), Just a Spec (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/activitypub-the-fediverse-and-you/id1687677712), The (marketing) Science of Social Media (https://open.spotify.com/episode/69RnitpQNC0IOKESNMVlL8)
3. Social media and politics (https://socialmediaandpolitics.org/). This looks tangentially relevant, but has no episodes specifically about Mastodon.

#mastodon #podcasts #fediverse

DecaturNature, 7 months ago to mastodon

Survey - how do you promote your Mastodon instance? I'm thinking of writing a letter to the editor to the local news website. Can anyone point me to examples of a letter to the editor? Since our instance is focused on the Atlanta region, a local news website makes sense. Maybe other instances would write to a magazine that serves the same community.
#Mastodon #fediverse #admin

jd, 7 months ago to mastodon

@davew explains why Mastodon isn't the One – and I agree. It is a ridiculous pain to subscribe to someone when you are 'outside the silo' of your own instance. Please fix this. /jd

Dave Winer writes: '...Here's the bottom line. If subscription isn't one-click in your federated social media system, go back to the drawing board and re-do your architecture, because it won't work...'

Why Mastodon isn't The One
http://scripting.com/2023/10/11/131337.html

#Mastodon

DecaturNature, 8 months ago to cycling

Notice to bicyclists: Many little kids love bike bells. If you see one watching you on your bike, give them a ring and a wave!
#bicycle #kids

jerry, 8 months ago (edited 8 months ago) to random

EDIT: while this did solve some problems for some people, it didn’t solve the notification issue that was reported.

I just found and fixed an issue with infosec.exchange that I hadn't seen in a long time. The problem was that sometimes feeds would not refresh, particularly notifications. The problem started around the time I upgraded to 4.2.0, however that isn't the problem. A look at the web server error logs shows lots of instances of this error:
24: Too many open files

This is a problem I fought a lot in the early days. The issue is the file limits in ubuntu are too low for busy web servers (infosec.exhange web servers regularly have 3000-4000 active connections)

The fix is pretty simple - adding
LimitNOFILE=1000000
to the nginx.service file. The problem is that when I upgraded mastodon, I also upgraded nginx. And apparently, like a bastard, nginx replaced the system service file, which no longer contained the LimitNOFILE=1000000 statement.

Hope that helps someone else...

ajroach42, 8 months ago to random

If your head hurts, drink some water. Helped me tremendously.

Jorsh, 9 months ago to random

I see people on here still defending their use of Twitter.

Stop frequenting the Nazi bar, especially when the majority of patrons want you to die.

How long do you think it's gonna be before they doxx you?

I don't want to shame anyone but can we please be serious about the Nazi problem?

DecaturNature, 9 months ago to random

Georgia is seeing an increase in COVID hospitalizations over the past month (via CDC's Resp-net). While hospitalization data is still preliminary for anything after July 15, the ER test data shows a clear and sustained increase in region 4 (the southeast USA) since late June.
https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/resp-net/dashboard.html
https://www.cdc.gov/surveillance/resp-lens/dashboard.html

Resp-lens data showing COVID tests at Emergency departments. Increase stated around week 24 (ending June 17) and picked up after week 28 (ending July 15), matching the increase in hospitalizations from preliminary Resp-net data.

rmdes, 11 months ago to fediverse

Something I really really can't wait to be able to use and have on #activitypub #mastodon #calckey etc.. Is Public Lists that we can follow, heck even better, Public lists that a curated bunch of people can craft and then have those Public Lists as much visible than the current Directory of people on each instance.

And yes, people should have the right to set "I don't want to be in any public or private lists" on their account to stay in control.

#fediverse

DecaturNature, 11 months ago to Games

Challenges Games & Comics is moving from North DeKalb Mall to Northlake Mall. @Decaturish https://decaturish.com/2023/06/challenges-games-and-comics-moves-to-northlake-mall/
#DecaturGA#DekalbGA #games

seachanger, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to fediverse

What #mastodon needs is for me to be able to find people and posts by searching for them. I feel comfortable saying this after a full year of use. from my lips to @Gargron ’s ears 1/x

kas, 1 year ago to gardening

Ivy Broomrape (Orobanche hederae)

/cc @plants | #gardening ]