sparseMatrix

joined 2 years ago
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What the fuck y'all, what happened to all that freedom of expression that's supposed to come with federation?

Y'all tryin' to fuck up a wet dream.

[–] sparseMatrix@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Actually, so would I for almost everything - except journalism. Why? because wikipedia was never intended to be used that way. Reading news there is like searching for a palimpsest on a roll of recycled toilet paper. Sure, it could be there, but why would you ever think to look there for it?

Wikipedia has a big part to play, but this kind of thing just brings the information war right up onto the pages of what is arguably the best reference we have.

Curation suggests that we should protect it from becoming involved in an ideological tug of war lest it be damaged in the process.

 

I've had a lot of fun over there and met a few really cool people. I hope they are all over here as well, because I just had it with the 500 character limitation.

It's been a sometimes thing, and I got really good at using every last character I had -- at the expense of proper literate writing, spelling, and punctuation.

FUCK THAT. I BUTTFUCK THE LANGUAGE AT MY PLEASURE, not because I have to distill it down to 500 characters or less.

It doesn't squeal, unless I make it squeal.

The point is, language and speech are means of self expression, and 500 characters bleeds all the color out of my art.

SO SEE ME HERE!

[–] sparseMatrix@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The solution is real simple, don't turn to wikipedia on matters that are politically charged. Get your news from a news outlet, instead of expecting that a crowdsourced online encyclopaedia might be up on current events.

[–] sparseMatrix@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago

I came here to say 'Fuck Russia's Govt"

and that I feel bad for the Russian people.

 

I've been 'inhabiting' mastodon.social since about the beginning. I've often been frustrated by the limitations imposed by 500 characters of text.

It's just not enough to really express a literate view without splitting up a post among several posts.

Clearly, there are ways to circumvent the limitation, which illuminates it as a futile attempt to control the expression of others.

I know that was never the intention of Mastodon developers. I will reserve judgement as concerns Twitter.

Anyway, since the beginning of the 'great exodus' of mastodon.social users to their own community instances, I've been trying to sort out where I 'belong'.

Well, actually it just might be here :)

[–] sparseMatrix@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is anyone running this yet?

 

This is mocked up with mdf. The real deal will be made of black and white sheet HDPE sheet stock, maybe some lexan here and there...

Raspberry Pi 4 8GB (in cast aluminum armor/heatsink), Redragon 60% mechanical keyboard, corsair optical mouse, bcm and 30000mAh staged battery capacity (works out to around 8 or nine hours), and a 7" touch hdmi screen that is not connected or visible in the frame.

Of course, it will not only run off mains, it will do so simultaneously with recharging.

Firmware is updated to boot from any suitably configured USB device, and currently outfitted with raspberrypiOS+home dir each on it's own 32GB PNY USB thumb drive.

no nonsense unpowered usb3 hub.

It's gettin' there :)

Up next: cellular data capability.

Oh I also have solar capability for recharging in the rough.