Posts by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
(DIR) Post #9nOvcicmt9nTxWRJ8y by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-09-29T02:44:10Z
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"Madoka, do you know what entropy is? You see, civilizations throughout the universe need to send lots of encrypted messages, and they need lots of unpredictable random data to generate keys. As interstellar alliances grow larger and larger, we're using more entropy than our quantum random number generators can produce. But we discovered that magical girls release huge amounts of random noise! So Madoka, you and your friends' suffering keeps our data secure."
(DIR) Post #9nWkpq1T3Vukf0mlpA by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-02T21:20:54Z
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@amic what's the beep code for "notice me senpai"
(DIR) Post #9nbAUM08iSilhs1DP6 by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-05T00:26:22Z
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@mastodon Tomorrow at 3pm, @maxj and I will be upgrading to 3.0.0 and also migrating the instance onto dedicated hardware with a lot more memory and disk. Expect a couple hours of downtime around then, it'll be way more awesome when it comes back up!
(DIR) Post #9nbAkGU104TzE3ZzrU by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-05T00:30:10Z
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we might screw around and enable ElasticSearch finally
(DIR) Post #9nccFA8hWnEARrWmFk by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-05T17:12:22Z
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the board games industry doesn't want you to know the truth! wake up, meeple!
(DIR) Post #9ngRrMgUeELv1idySW by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-07T13:35:28Z
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@mastodon we're finally back online on 3.0.0!The new hardware @sipb gave us (thanks @cela!) has 33% more disk space, 3900% more RAM, and 23 more CPUs, so the instance should be a lot less sad now :)
(DIR) Post #9ngSIu4ccEvGOs3qYi by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-07T13:40:27Z
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@maxj @mastodon @sipb @cela 😜
(DIR) Post #9ngeKltvAfjr5AiH9k by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-07T15:55:04Z
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@SmoothUnicode I too only eat end-to-end encrypted pudding
(DIR) Post #9ngvUeVpCAKsHdjumO by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-07T19:07:32Z
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I'm Faye, friendly local mastodon admin, my job is reading emails about hashtagsso many hashtagsso many emails
(DIR) Post #9ngviAfMxVtZlueN04 by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-07T19:09:58Z
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y'all need to stop using hashtagsor at least no two of you can use the same hashtag so I don't have to review more "trending" hashtagsfigure out a way to divide them up amongst yourselves
(DIR) Post #9nhNDRCGFKkEmPAViS by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-08T00:18:07Z
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@danne @maxj seems to be a SIPB member's private server that they're keeping in the machine room
(DIR) Post #9njbalWSd3Go9bYQvg by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-09T02:08:39Z
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https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/12126I know I'm not the only one who was annoyed by the lack of this feature; hopefully coming soon to an upstream near you :)
(DIR) Post #9nt7gIgoVaoCYS7ozg by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-13T16:20:36Z
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@maxj Amawoq (iOS mastodon cwient) has a featuwe that wepwaces aww instances of “toot” with “awoo,” which is gweat, but it is a bit ovewzeawous and wepwaces “toot” even when it’s a substwing of a UWW, bweaking winks to the mastodon GitHub wepo (tootsuite/mastodon). This is absowutewy a featuwe and not a bug.Though awoosuite/mastodon shouwd pwobabwy be a mastodon miwwow whewe aww text is wun thwough https://www.weddit.com/usew/owoifiew
(DIR) Post #9nzLMnRwe3c48k8ITI by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-16T16:22:13Z
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Show up and testify in support of a statewide moratorium on government use of face surveillance in Massachusetts! There's a hearing on October 22, full details are at https://action.aclu.org/webform/ma-face-surveillance-hearing along with a form if you want to RSVP!
(DIR) Post #9o3O3DVNTLIxIrmWkC by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-18T15:11:10Z
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Tell Congress to ban government use of face recognition surveillance nationwide at https://www.banfacialrecognition.com/
(DIR) Post #9oECgN3mor3ZWJL54i by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-10-23T20:25:37Z
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Chelsea Manning refused to give secret testimony at a grand jury, and still has about a year left of her 18-month jail term (see https://xychelsea.is for ways to support her financially or just write her a letter). Matt Gaetz and his gang of assholes disrupted secret testimony for the impeachment inquiry by forcing their way into the room, let's see if they get anything more than a slap on the fucking wrist.
(DIR) Post #9pVp31Lzrsmf1KphEe by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2019-12-01T06:17:40Z
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A friend at USC is researching the indie tabletop RPG community, if you play or design indie TTRPGs and have time to fill out this survey that'd be awesome: https://forms.gle/1X4AD6adwA5CBmz17
(DIR) Post #9sdoI6EHPNsCndNW7s by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2020-03-03T20:23:12Z
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https://calendar.mit.edu/event/furry_first_friday_5628 🤔
(DIR) Post #A5WJEreDbXllyo8Cbw by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2021-03-24T01:49:55Z
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tbt the time RMS made a shitty gay joke on csail-related@, and a couple people told him offand he said that since only a couple people were offended, clearly everyone else was fine with it and it wasn't a problemand then all of us told him exactly what we thought of thatand then some rando told us to stop dogpiling RMS
(DIR) Post #A5WJj9Aj0w3J1AmAN6 by dukhovni@mastodon.mit.edu
2021-03-24T01:56:32Z
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this was while I was acting as a volunteer liaison between the FSF, SIPB, and MIT to provide on-campus event space for LibrePlanet free of charge, and I had a fun little moment of "why the fuck am I doing this, exactly?"anyway, if you haven't already run across https://rms-open-letter.github.io/ , go check it out and add your signature