My Gentoo machine is in storage.

I would expect that a person’s tolerance for spam will make a difference. I’d rather miss messages posted by people I’d like to interact with than to have spam appear regularly in my feed. So for me, a WoT relay might be good enough.

Cool. I am hoping that the people and groups generating headwinds for you will get out of your way.

Oh, wow, Alex. I thought you had moved to NY or PA, done the protest and commune thing, and then moved (back) to TX.

I saw that. I tried to explain to him that Minds itself was sending his posts elsewhere, and that this constitutes permission to display them. But I don’t know whether he saw it.

She was a do-nothing Attorney General in California. Why would anyone be surprised that she didn’t do much as Veep?

Congratulations, Alex. I thought you were already married, but there’s no harm in reaffirming your commitment to one another.

Nostr has 35K weekly active users? How does one measure this?

I hope you win easily, but how do we measure active usage? Count npubs publicly posting within a 7 day period on each known relay?

I think that’s just not reliable. That’s a whole different issue than censorship resistance.

Outdoor Restaurant or subway?

I am not against pineapple on pizza, but I would not eat it myself. I don’t even like pineapple on pineapple.

Q: Why can’t cows watch movies with lots of drama?

A: Because it makes them feel too eMOOtional.

We could not see the aurora borealis from here. I think it was just too much light, since people in smaller cities around us were posting photos of it.

I have it on my tablet, but I very rarely even open it. It feels like a ghost town. The built in directory is full of dead sites, so there isn’t much to see.

Grandson_3 (age 3) must have seen a show with robots reciting the alphabet. He’s been saying “ABCD Robot” in his best bot voice for a week or so.

That might choke off the growth in spambots, but it will also cut down on legitimate users.

I mean, I have said for years that we’re not doing our users any favors by hosting things for free because the so-called “free” sites and services they currently use are “free” because they sell people’s data to unsavory organizations around the world. And when we provide our services for free without those funding mechanisms, we teach people not to help support the services they use, which traps them on sites that are ad farms / data brokers.

I’m on Nostr and the Fediverse, though not on any Mastodon instances, and I was definitely outside looking up into the sky.

I saw the 2017 eclipse, so I knew this is worth every effort to see.

I feel the same way. I’m about to leave my job, but when you spend 6 months or more each year staying in hotels, you learn that hotels and their service companies are as malicious as any “hacker”. Never ever use the Internet unprotected at a hotel.

I took my grandsons out in the yard to watch. We didn’t get totality, but were less than five percent off. That’s still surprisingly bright. We didn’t see the corona.

I explained that they’d be twenty somethings when the next one comes to the US.