The lockdown project for one of my parents neighbours was to build a scale model of the lake district from Lego. It’s now in the local museum.
Heya, this is kinda a begpost, but not directly.
You might have heard of fedi.monster, a self-titled "anarcho-communist collective"
These people help 140 instances (including mine) operate by providing managed hosting to people who don't have the technical backing (or in my case, spoons) to run an instance by themselves.
They've just moved to using OpenCollective for their funding to be upfront about their finances.
Their one sysadmin is looking to take a permanent break and they're aiming to hire people to fill the role; if you know of people with those talents, and who are looking for some work - please get in touch with them at hello@fedi.monster
Otherwise, if you can spare money and want to donate to keep fedi.monster going; you can do that on their OpenCollective page here:
https://opencollective.com/fedimon
It's been really liberating being able to have my own little corner on the internet and not having to worry & faff with all the associated costs that come with running a Mastodon server.
I really appreciate the work of the people at FediMonster and I hope that they can keep going and providing such a valuable service to the community 💙
We are planning to release critical security patches for versions 3.5, 4.1, 4.2 and nightly this Thursday, Feb 01, at 15:00 UTC. We encourage server administrators to plan for a timely upgrade to ensure their Mastodon server is protected.
À une majorité de 16 contre 1, les juges de la Cour Internationale de Justice reconnaissent le risque de génocide à Gaza, imposent des mesures conservatoires, et imposent à Israël l'obligation de présenter devant la Cour un rapport attestant de la bonne exécution des mesures.
RE: https://social.sciences.re/users/minimaliste13/statuses/111822520974081362
I am very familiar with this “annual install count” concept from Apple, because Unity team had given us extensive training in the past months🤣
La publicité, c'est de la merde.
Un exemple ici, filmé par mes soins ce midi au métro de la gare Saint Lazare à Paris :
18yo sends "I'm going to blow this plane up. I'm a Taliban" to friends in a private message on Snapchat.
message gets intercepted by British intelligence, which warns Spanish military
actually it was just a joke, there is nothing.
18yo is accused of "public disorder" (for a *private* message), the state is trying for 22,500€ of punitive, and the Defense Ministry wants 95,000€ for sending jets
Mass surveillance at peak efficiency
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68056421
est ce que des gens en fauteuil roulant ont une bonne mutuel et quel prise en charge vous avez eu? quel prix par mois?
retoot svp!