Nostr notes by Nemo_bis 🌈

Interesting. Rossmann is a customer of my employer and my ...

2026-05-06T21:28:29Z

In reply to nevent1q…nwc7
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Interesting. Rossmann is a customer of my employer and my employer's values include "customer is a friend". I'm feeling it more now. :)

Fair enough. BTW the same can be said about email these days: to ...

2026-04-28T18:08:24Z

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Fair enough. BTW the same can be said about email these days: to create a gmail account you probably need a SIM which in many countries requires valid ID.

So we exclude even the lowest possible threshold of official/monetary authentication. Now we're left only with person-to-person trust. It's ok, but it requires a lot of work from some volunteers, so that's another form of inequality that emerges.

I share the ideal goal and I want to understand better. Say an ...

2026-04-28T15:27:31Z

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I share the ideal goal and I want to understand better. Say an event is organised by an EU-based association for its own members which requires a payment of 0.01 € to an euro-denominated bank account for membership, is that still bad? (I'm implying it would be a regional event with no aspiration to cover all geographies. After all, even if it's online, timezones would be a restraint anyway.)

«Your bank might be financing nuclear weapons», #ICAN kindly ...

2026-04-24T07:14:23Z

«Your bank might be financing nuclear weapons», #ICAN kindly informs me by email. And sure enough it does.
https://divest.icanw.org/financial_exposure_nuclear_weapons_2026

Some of my other banks are not on the list but I bet they finance #nuclear weapons too.

Maybe but not quite (you'd have to acknowledge the death ...

2026-02-25T13:42:41Z

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Maybe but not quite (you'd have to acknowledge the death first).

E.g. "The Semantic Web: Two Decades On" (https://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/174651):

«The results presented herein highlight that the original vision of the Semantic Web still eludes us, though major strides have been made in recent years.»

We had one with the Semantic Web but then look what happened. :D

2026-02-24T20:54:57Z

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We had one with the Semantic Web but then look what happened. :D

I don't know. Signal is a centralised entity so it's an ...

2026-02-10T15:47:25Z

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I don't know. Signal is a centralised entity so it's an easy target for such enforcement orders and had an easy answer ("No"). As for Matrix, I guess the Matrix Foundation could shut down matrix.org in select countries (after all it's only a cost centre) while EMS would keep doing business in the same countries (a shutdown would be their customers' decision to make).

The linked statement does hint that customers would probably just abandon Matrix and switch to USA/Chinese competitors.

Element opposed Chat Control, see ...

2026-02-10T08:02:07Z

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Element opposed Chat Control, see https://element.io/blog/element-signs-chat-control-open-letter/

It's actually consistent for governments who push for messaging backdoors to want their communications to be secure. They don't want *their* messages to be snooped. When each government hosts their own messaging infrastructure according to a common standard, no one company will have to be the arbiter of which government gets to spy other governments.

https://doaj.org/ "14,025 journals without fees"

2026-01-19T13:35:36Z

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https://doaj.org/

"14,025 journals without fees"

Well we can't know. Maybe the EC keeps statistics of ...

2025-12-22T18:30:57Z

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Well we can't know. Maybe the EC keeps statistics of engagement on the fediverse and they count how often they get ratio'd! Maybe biting their ragebait helps keep the account alive because it juices up the stats.

But in any case, a bit of circlejerk on EU policy matters is not all that bad. It's ok to write "to" the EC while really it's only a conversation between the people who follow that account.

Damn, I'm sorry that happened to you. Did it get worse as you ...

2025-12-13T14:44:00Z

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Damn, I'm sorry that happened to you. Did it get worse as you got closer to ~10k followers?

Something I try to do: I reduce the reach of the posts which seem likely to attract discussion I'm not really interested in. For me it's often enough to mark them follower-only, or follower-only *and* in a reply to someone else. If I were on glitch-soc or #HomeTown I'd probably try local-only posts. Hard to say what works really.

Something like Metro AG? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG

2025-11-13T21:02:33Z

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Something like Metro AG? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metro_AG

It would be fun to see if 100k accounts suddenly stop being ...

2025-09-23T20:58:02Z

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It would be fun to see if 100k accounts suddenly stop being active on some social network or other.

Thanks. FWIW, as of #Firefox 141.0 built by #Fedora ...

2025-08-20T08:35:16Z

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Thanks. FWIW, as of #Firefox 141.0 built by #Fedora (firefox-141.0.3-1.fc42.x86_64), that `browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled` is set to false by default.

IIRC the most complicated signup process I've ever seen was ...

2025-08-19T14:33:37Z

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IIRC the most complicated signup process I've ever seen was for Weibo (I gave up). Did you need a Chinese phone number?

Well we do have ...

2025-08-18T16:20:43Z

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Well we do have https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:3D_models_of_buildings (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:STL_files_of_buildings ) on #WikimediaCommons

Non ho capito se l'interruzione si applichi anche alle ...

2025-08-08T14:11:18Z

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Non ho capito se l'interruzione si applichi anche alle esportazioni già precedentemente approvate.

Finnish bank fails to send #email to me, finally succeeds to a ...

2025-07-10T07:25:06Z

Finnish bank fails to send #email to me, finally succeeds to a different address but

Authentication-Results: mx.mail.ovh.net;
arc=fail (as.1.microsoft.com=pass, ams.1.microsoft.com=fail (body has been altered)) smtp.remote-ip=a.b.c.d;

Now this inspires confidence. /s

#Microsoft #MicrosoftSMTP

Good finds! Added to #Wikidata. ...

2025-07-01T13:42:48Z

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Good finds! Added to #Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&target=Nemo+bis&dir=prev&offset=20250615163651&limit=4 #FediMeta

To avoid looking like a math distribution centre focused on ...

2025-06-09T09:13:29Z

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To avoid looking like a math distribution centre focused on toruses.

«Mozilla has found that Bing doesn’t monetize traffic as ...

2025-05-04T08:54:59Z

«Mozilla has found that Bing doesn’t monetize traffic as efficiently as Google»
https://www.theverge.com/news/660548/firefox-google-search-revenue-share-doj-antitrust-remedies

What can this mean, if not that #Google sells out users (and their personal data) harder, thanks to their abuse of a monopolistic position? If Google's abusive monopoly profits stopped, this premium would vanish for #Mozilla too. How can DoJ say that it's fine for it to continue? Getting a cut from a criminal cartel is not a right.

Other remedies will need to compensate.

#antitrust

I guess the question is are there Mastodon meetups in Berlin? :)

2025-03-27T14:08:01Z

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I guess the question is are there Mastodon meetups in Berlin? :)

Cats are collaborators and will be removed too. The entire area ...

2025-03-23T08:17:18Z

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Cats are collaborators and will be removed too. The entire area will be turned into a zoo for wolves.

I don't remember. :) I just want to be sure it doesn't ...

2025-03-20T06:23:29Z

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I don't remember. :) I just want to be sure it doesn't phone home to Google. Years ago I didn't find better ones on f-droid (but I've not been testing new ones now).

I use AnySoftKeyboard but the Finnish keyboard mysteriously fails ...

2025-03-19T21:47:03Z

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I use AnySoftKeyboard but the Finnish keyboard mysteriously fails to install from the default app store... Very annoying.

Why do they have an #interreg logo?? Hydrogen?

2025-03-14T11:10:47Z

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Why do they have an #interreg logo?? Hydrogen?

Anche RRF/NGEU è in gran parte una finta. ...

2025-03-14T07:21:16Z

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Anche RRF/NGEU è in gran parte una finta. https://mamot.fr/@nemobis/114159571023359318

Just leave a postcard in every mailbox in Berlaymont, Parliament ...

2025-03-10T21:00:49Z

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Just leave a postcard in every mailbox in Berlaymont, Parliament and the European quarter. :)

5000 for 110 € (A6, double sided, 300 g/m²). https://www.flyeralarm.com/be/p/flyers-drukken-4191540.html#/p/FV-9401247&/l/5756

Non è passato manco un mese da quando la destra #UE (sedicente ...

2025-03-04T18:21:52Z

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Non è passato manco un mese da quando la destra #UE (sedicente "frugale") ribadiva il totem del limite dell'1 % del PIL per il bilancio UE (1200 G€ su 7 anni). Guarda caso i soldi ci sono sempre purché non vadano al beneficio del bene comune (tipo adattamento climatico).
https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-pushes-double-eu-budget-over-e2-trillion-debt-borrowing-scheme/

Mononoke. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke

2025-02-21T20:46:55Z

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Mononoke. https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke

A shared object storage like https://jortage.com/ works quite ...

2025-02-13T14:05:41Z

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A shared object storage like https://jortage.com/ works quite well for media. It's not clear how relevant the database size is when you do proper cleanup (https://ricard.dev/improving-mastodons-disk-usage/ ).

#MastoAdmin #FediMeta

You probably need to get help from an existing Matrix user ...

2025-01-20T07:20:08Z

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You probably need to get help from an existing Matrix user who's involved in Horizon funding, otherwise this is impossibly hard. What about German healthcare?

The website https://gaia-x.eu/ got confusing, might still be worth joining.

Any project needs padding to cover the academic partners' fixed costs. Only GÉANT gets significant money for infrastructure https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101194278; in https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101147319 , https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101129751 the main suppliers get 2-10% of the pie.

Boud (npub1lu5…4v8s)

Thanks! A very reasonable price if you ask me. Italy is planning ...

2025-01-17T12:03:53Z

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Thanks! A very reasonable price if you ask me. Italy is planning to spend *billions* to supposedly secure their insecure military messaging at the network layer.

Would you be able to name a price if one such "nation-scale ...

2025-01-17T10:42:05Z

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Would you be able to name a price if one such "nation-scale deployment" wanted to pay you to switch Synapse Pro to AGPL and maintain it as such for, say, 5 years?

Wild track on the entire river as seen on the map! ...

2025-01-15T14:12:54Z

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Wild track on the entire river as seen on the map!
https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.266667&mlon=7.183333&zoom=12#map=17/51.266171/7.179458

Somehow agrifish always ends up getting the copyright directives ...

2024-12-06T18:08:27Z

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Somehow agrifish always ends up getting the copyright directives too. ^_^

If you know someone who may need a little office space in ...

2024-11-27T11:13:30Z

If you know someone who may need a little office space in #Helsinki among friendly associations, please let them know about our space in Haaga, now publicly available for offers:
https://www.majavantila.fi/en/posts/2024/office-space-haagan-tori/

#MajavanTila #cooperative #yhteisö

Most land use in Denmark is industrial animal farming for export. ...

2024-11-23T19:16:48Z

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Most land use in Denmark is industrial animal farming for export. Such inefficient food production can be shut down with zero impact on global food security.

The only difficulty is finding a non-offensive way to pay farmers to destroy everything they were doing and do nothing instead. Ireland has a sensible plan but not much happening yet.
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2024/0418/1444255-dairy-exit-scheme/

Unfortunately I see no evidence of a contraction.
https://agricultureandfood.co.uk/news-and-statistics/news/denmark-s-record-food-exports/

#vegan #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange

It ought to be clear to everyone now that deciding to leave the ...

2024-10-21T15:04:36Z

It ought to be clear to everyone now that deciding to leave the #EU with a 51.9 % majority of voters in a referendum was madness. Joining with a 50.4 % majority may turn out not to be the best idea either. (And yes, I also have reservations about the 50.8 % majority the Maastrich Treaty got.)

A #vegan victory at the #CJEU today! «Food labelling: where no ...

2024-10-04T10:03:01Z

A #vegan victory at the #CJEU today!

«Food labelling: where no legal name has been adopted, a Member State may not prohibit the use of terms traditionally associated with products of animal origin to designate a product containing vegetable proteins: That said, where a national authority considers that the specific arrangements for the sale or promotion of a food
mislead the consumer, it may prosecute the food business operator concerned»

https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2024-10/cp240168en.pdf

It's unrealistic banter in a FAQ (as is the current version) ...

2024-10-03T06:29:53Z

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It's unrealistic banter in a FAQ (as is the current version) so it will never be true nor false.

Proton did and does the same.

Ah, Microsoft è stata bandita dal Belgio? :) ...

2024-09-05T05:33:27Z

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Ah, Microsoft è stata bandita dal Belgio? :) https://mastodon.social/@wchr/112877121198432100

Well there's https://jointhefediverse.net/join?lang=pt-br and ...

2024-09-03T16:50:46Z

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Well there's https://jointhefediverse.net/join?lang=pt-br and https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/ but if you mean a landing page from which to create one's first fediverse account I don't know. Perhaps some of the multi-project client apps, if they also support account creation? https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-clients

There's also an extensive curated list by @npub1uzc…mh57 at ...

2024-09-01T06:09:46Z

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There's also an extensive curated list by kariboka (npub1uzc…mh57) at "Instâncias Brasileiras do Fediverso" https://social.harpia.red/objects/bfa4af87-4eed-4097-b817-7bc9dd5c3192

wakest likes your bugs ⁂ (npub1xse…lgk3)

Well we know a few from the statistics ...

2024-08-31T15:23:44Z

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Well we know a few from the statistics https://mastodon.help/instances/en?lang=409&desc=&minu=10&maxu=30000&minau=50&minc=&exnox=1&exregc=1&inths=0&exappr=0&exlcko=0&ord=rand&p=1 and they seem fine, but Ursalzona :ursa: :v_cadeira: (npub17g6…a279) is confirmed to be available to be listed (while the others I've not asked).

wakest likes your bugs ⁂ (npub1xse…lgk3)

Nice, now can we get at least one pt-br instance on ...

2024-08-31T09:43:43Z

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Nice, now can we get at least one pt-br instance on joinmastodon.org? ursal.zone is available but has not heard back from you, apparently: https://ursal.zone/@Ursalzona/113055979622428538

There's maybe some pickup in activity at ursal.zone, which ...

2024-08-31T06:54:10Z

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There's maybe some pickup in activity at ursal.zone, which seems to be the only (federated) Brazilian Portuguese instance with over 100 MAU. I've asked the admin how to help.
https://ursal.zone/@Ursalzona/113055191266435136

#FediMeta #Brazil

Already tried the tenants union? ...

2024-08-30T20:20:53Z

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Already tried the tenants union? https://www.hyresgastforeningen.se/kontakta-oss/?r=Uppsala%20l%C3%A4n&l=Uppsala

In my experience, videos fail to load when the tab has been open ...

2024-08-03T06:47:32Z

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In my experience, videos fail to load when the tab has been open for a long while, because it tries to switch to an ad but gets blocked, but everything works normally after a simple page refresh.

"#Signal is expensive" was very informative. ...

2024-03-27T07:06:17Z

"#Signal is expensive" was very informative.
https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

40 % of the infrastructure expenditure is burnt to send #SMS codes.

I was forced to receive an SMS from Signal more than once after the first time. The SMS arrived from a sender I had never heard about. Signal's subprocessors are not listed on https://signal.org/legal/#privacy-policy (which doesn't even acknowledge the existence of #GDPR).

#infosec #privacy

@npub10ra…24jw #EuropeanSleeper is raising capital right now. ...

2023-06-14T07:46:15Z

Jon Worth (npub10ra…24jw) #EuropeanSleeper is raising capital right now. 😇