Posts by alex@friends.deko.cloud
(DIR) Post #AQXi1MnL6zUBpmdwnI by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2022-12-12T21:14:14Z
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Melanchomikerin2022-12-12 11:47:26Beautiful Elsass#mywork #photography #photographie #photo #foto #travel #colours #elsass
(DIR) Post #AQYZ3tOCBzeJ4dyJzU by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2022-12-13T07:10:03Z
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Any why an instance running a frontend which doesn't (shouldn't at least) affect interaction with other instances would get banned for it?
(DIR) Post #AQYZk15jwgtJ7nQSrQ by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2022-12-13T07:17:32Z
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The question was "why" :)I mean I don't even know which frontend other instances use because I don't go to them.
(DIR) Post #AQYduOtEibh1e8mgVM by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2022-12-13T08:03:29Z
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Well, that's weirdly strange.Free software is free software, things people use it for is what matters.
(DIR) Post #AQZRe5MAZROu8ijP9M by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2022-12-13T17:01:02Z
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Not sure if it is right move. Smoking tobacco seems to be going on its own and if the tendencies continue it will be just another exotic and expensive habit few practice.Prohibition however can spark unwanted interest. Forbidden fruit and all. Just think about it from young people perspective - there is something only older people have right to obtain. Not even adults - but older generation. Tempting.
(DIR) Post #AQZcXrPiazIWegcqa8 by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2022-12-13T19:23:27Z
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No, it is weird that when you use something absolutely neutral by its nature some people see it as association with things completely unrelated to you - just because someone else touched the same thing.In fact I tend to think that such approach doesn't only makes everyone's lives harder but also empowers bad actors by implying their significance.Just my opinion of course.
(DIR) Post #AQZiRI9pMdynIURZtQ by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2022-12-13T20:28:59Z
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To each their own I suppose :)
(DIR) Post #AQZqHtbc4r66B6TGD2 by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2022-12-13T21:57:21Z
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Old Moscow subway map I found. Late USSR. Notable shops listed next to the stations - "Wallpapers", "Car parts" and such.#Moscow #history #Москва #ностальгия #alshr
(DIR) Post #AQcgHjr7uWAds8tRqq by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2022-12-15T06:48:26Z
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♻️ [2022-12-01 01:18] Кибераутизм:Projected pedestrian crossing somewhere in Russia.#BraveNewWorld #ПрекрасноеНастоящее #alshr
(DIR) Post #ARAnp7bZwGJQV3Y5B2 by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2022-12-31T17:53:27Z
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There was one thing about 2022 I couldn't shake off - it was the year of postirony. Before that some things in the world and especially certain parts of it were mostly steadily going to shit and some other things were getting better - but it was obvious. This is bad. This is good. This is just stupid. This trend goes here, that one goes there.The most of 2022 I was overwhelmed with the feeling "What the fuck this is? Is this for real? Is this for serious?"From the senseless war missing both goal and means, the following events and to little insignificant things like "farmers expressed their support for the army by aligning their cattle in shape of Z" - it all just seemed either missing sense or implying some twisted one and it was impossible to tell which is which.#HappyNewYear2023 And #Fuck2022 I guess.
(DIR) Post #ARCIaFHAQbdhgSLcga by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2023-01-01T11:13:02Z
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New Year Night 2023 in City-17 (no, actually it is Moscow)https://friends.deko.cloud/media/BAACAgIAAxkBAAIk52OxamA8UoQwwabDhDlqNSXJCkFrAAIBIgACby6RSRWn46n-MbZzLQQ.mp4#Moscow #MeanwhileInRussia #Москва #alshr
(DIR) Post #AREvjCkBUpjuxw6SSu by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2023-01-02T17:41:44Z
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I also feel a little nervous in such circumstances. These guys often hang around the city center, especially on holidays and weekends. It is not like they grab anyone they see but still it is clear why they are there. Also they have very little responsibility so whatever happens it will be your problem and not theirs.In general we have a lot of security measures in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg - cameras and metal detectors everywhere, baggage scanners on subway and train stations, sometimes even malls, lots of police, when some public event happens it is always fenced off. Myself I find it depressing. Some older people find it strangely calming - like there is danger outside but it is under control.Smaller cities have much less of it (and police in general), sometimes too little.
(DIR) Post #AREwyei5ttKe023atM by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2023-01-02T17:55:47Z
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My cats express complete solidarity :)P.S. If you use Friendica from the web you can still add alt text by inserting photos first and then typing it between img tags: [img=...]alt text goes here[/img]Example:
(DIR) Post #ARFFWHjJe4r5kRoW1Y by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2023-01-02T21:22:53Z
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Yes, Friendica doesn't show alt text for some reason. But it is there :) Here how it looks in Mastodon (or you can just check image properties in desktop browser):Myself I never added alt texts for images but recently I stumbled upon a few blind people here using screenreaders and now I'll try to remember to use this feature more often.
(DIR) Post #ARGkWpXpDNMAMM8gAC by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2023-01-03T14:45:29Z
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#ТакойДень #Москва #alshr
(DIR) Post #ARqaaE4oz8U0R7MCA4 by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2023-01-20T21:42:53Z
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Weird, usually it is the other way round.
(DIR) Post #AS6WLz3uinB0WmFERs by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2023-01-28T14:12:12Z
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@nixCraft😁
(DIR) Post #AS6cf8ENSK4ABueW8m by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2023-01-28T15:22:57Z
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(DIR) Post #AUm80GH70n4gkhDuPA by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2023-04-18T11:41:04Z
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I watched something on YouTube and then exited to main screen. There were some "shorts" YouTube offered me to watch.One was about girl in short dress and long socks doing shuffle dance (very cute), one was how to fix furniture hinges (in absolutely the most barbaric way imaginable) and one was showing a high caliber mortar loaded and fired.From background voices it was clear the mortar video was shot in Ukraine but unclear on which side. So the comments came from both and generally divided into two types: "Yeah, pound these motherfuckers!" and "Yes, this thing can really fuck things up!"One was different though. It came from someone with name written in Arabic language and it said: "The loader's blood drips on the projectile. This war is just crap like every other one."At first I thought it was some allegory but then the video looped and I saw it. As the humongous shell was loaded several large drops of blood fell on it.The following satisfying blast of the shell departing made it easy to overlook this but the guy with the Arabic name saw it. I wondered where that person came from. Syria? Iraq? Afghanistan? But it felt like out of hundreds of commenters this person really knew what the war was.#nowar
(DIR) Post #AVLtVk4flSBAWpW0ie by alex@friends.deko.cloud
2023-05-05T17:48:25Z
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Today WHO announced end to COVID-19 as global health emergency. The announcement itself is not very important as we all felt this way for a little while but I think this day should be marked in our calendars. So we can see it in a few years and remember the #DaysOfCoronaThat feeling of danger and uncertainty. Closed shops and empty streets. The global race for cure and how it turned into the vaccine war. Governments readily turning to draconian measures and violating their citizens' rights. Also people (educated people from developed countries) readily trusting untested substances and treatments or not trusting even basics of medicine and seeing mind control in vaccines and nanoworms in masks.Many, many more things we saw in these three years. But almost all of them resulting in social conflicts and division of people, sometimes in really ugly ways. We all talked how the virus caused cytokine storm in its victims turning their immune system against their own bodies. The most of us missed the real cytokine storm happening all around us - with us being the cells going haywire or just trying to survive.Some day we will want to talk about it.