Follow me over at @nigel if you want.

This instance is going away.

Goodbye world.

Follow me over at @nigel if you want.

This instance is going away.

Goodbye world.

Hi everyone, this instance is going away due to the price of a .cafe domain and the Minister of War and Finance deeming it unnecesary - with which I agree, as I do have too many domains and so will be migrating to @nigel

This instance will disappear in a week or so, I have migrated follows, but thought I should also post here.

Google Safe Browsing has started blocking websites using #Mailcow for self-hosting email. Google calls them dangerous, and they're right: dangerous to their data-driven business model.

Yet most people still use #Google services. They talk about privacy, even attend #39c3, but stick with Chrome and Gmail.

Time for action! Firefox, @mailbox_org &c. and @kagihq are mature alternatives.

Stop putting it off. Every account you move chips away at Google's monopoly.

https://github.com/mailcow/mailcow-dockerized/issues/6747 #deGoogle

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#ai #technology #aislop #aiart

Noice. Fiddled with the #css a bit on my new #GoToSocial instance to bring it in line with my blog.

Alright, this will do then I think.

I won't be renewing quiescent.cafe when May next year rolls around, even though I do like the domain. $73 is a bit much (NZD).

That's how they get you though I guess, the first year is cheap! Maybe there will be a sale before then. I guess we'll see.

But I might just migrate everything over anyway.

Also VPS are getting more expensive and less reliable than I'd like (for what I'm willing to pay as a hobbyist anyway). If I want patchy reliability I might as well just host from home 😆

Im also on #GoToSocial this time. I've spun it up before to test, but never federated and used it. There seems to be enough folks using it just fine that I'll give it a stab.
I need to make the css the same as my blog I think, because I totally dont have enough to do... 🤔

These goons last December, when they were still small enough to share an egg carton. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy #EggCarton #memories

"The advice that would actually be useful is the advice I couldn't have followed. 'Learn to notice when you're optimizing for looking smart rather than being correct' is great counsel, but it presupposes a level of awareness that took me years to develop. Younger me was a glorious, wondrous idiot. Younger me wouldn't have even understood what I meant."

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/p/letters-to-your-younger-self-are-a-scam by @Daojoan

Credit: @Daojoan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyVt9YZYtV8
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As someone who struggles to socialize, this is absolutely the way I prefer. Let analysis, spellcheck and the compiler be your weapon, not false interest, hearsay and cocktails...

I have been, of late, studying propaganda tactics both historically and in the modern era.

I'm doing this both because I want to be more well equipped to spot manipulation techniques, but also to compare the techniques used by Propagandists to those used by people we would not consider propagandists.

Where do we draw the line?

Love to have quote toots on this site. So cool. Lots of value added!

Ophelia, huntress of flies 😸

#cat #calicocat #silly #caturday #catstodon #photo #catlife #catcontent #kitty #pets #catsofmastodon #AddamsFamilyTheme

all I want is a faithful recreation of Windows Media Player 12 that uses mpv as a backend, is that really so much to ask?

Swiss surveillance could become worse than US

If passed, chat, email & VPN providers from #Switzerland must:

🚨 Log IP addresses
🚨 Ask for ID upon sign up
🚨 Decrypt data upon request

Swiss Bundesrat is still discussing this draft bill, decision will likely be made in 2026.

Let's fight for #privacy! 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/switzerland-surveillance-plan

Lawmakers Want to Ban VPNs—And They Have No Idea What They're Doing https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing

I'm gonna be honest here: banning VPNs is not the solution. People who want to find content like porn will get it one way or another. It is going to harm legitimate users who use VPNs for security reasons, like on public WiFi or for getting inside a corporate network. I can't log into any of our servers/cloud w/o a VPN. All remote employees use a VPN. We replicate data between 2 data centers using a VPN

the ultimate showdown

I'm really hoping for Fediverse help here.

I have a 14 year old niece. She's incredibly smart and extremely motivated when it comes to engineering things.

I want to get her some electronics stuff, like an Arduino kit, but maybe something with wearables, etc. to make it more relevant to her than just a breadboard.

She'll also need some books on electronics, since she doesn't have the background in that.

Sadly, some limitations:

- I can't help her. Her mother won't let my wife or I talk to her. This gift itself will have to be given through a third party.

- She has a learning disability around reading- likely dyslexia, and so we need material that's easy to read

- Her English is not amazing, especially because of the learning disability.

So I'm looking for a kit with a ton of instructional material. Programming, electronics, breadboard, the whole kit and kaboodle.

If you have ideas, please share, and boost!

#Maker #Arduino #Wearables #FediHelp #Electronics

In a little more positive news..

Just successfully uploaded and ran a MacOS build version of my game via #Steam

Only Linux / SteamOS & Android is left!

iOS / MacOS (AppStore) is also working fully

Also changed the name to match the page