Tuuktuuk

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[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 1 points 4 hours ago

So, of if you deploy a lot of external plugins, Facebook can be made kind of worthwhile? That's aa little funny :)

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 3 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah, for what I know I my family used to post a lot there as well. Facebook just mostly stopped showing any content from them some years ago. But when nothing really comes out of it, they don't bother. They post something, I see some commercial content instead.

I post something, they see some commercial content instead.

I'm a bit surprised to hear Facebook works for some people like it worked a decade ago!

But also, Finnish culture is very different from US culture in how we talk and when, so maybe the algorithm just doesn't recognize the Finnish kind of engagement and considers us utterly uninterested in each other? Or maybe I've just been lucky and FB had been hiccuping? Dunno, there's no meaningful difference between PieFed and the little of what FB fed me that was not crud.

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 5 points 13 hours ago

Facebook hasn't worked that way for me for years. I'm surprised to hear it still does to some! Almost everything in my feed was all kinds of random groups I'm not even a member of. And a lot of content promoting Russian military vehicles in a very ridiculous manner.

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 7 points 13 hours ago

I like this text very much!

People should concentrate more on what's important in life :)

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 3 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

Do you have them on Facebook, then?
I kind of do, but Facebook hasn't shown me anything from them in years. Makes their being there largely irrelevant.

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 2 points 13 hours ago

Just keep sending them cool memes from here or from Mastodon. Some will find them interesting and join up. Most won't. Also, you'll need some interesting group they will want to be a member of on Signal or Matrix or XMPP. That way, they also have a chat platform available for their friends as well.

And if you link to something in the Forumverse, link them through an instance you'd like them to use. So, even if the community is on some Lemmy instance, link to it through something such as piefed.social, if that's what you think would benefit them the most as a choice for a home instance!
It's a pity this does not work on Mastodon, though, because Mastodon always tries to push users to the instance where the message was written from, if the user is not logged in. Complicates things unnecessarily when the domain is different in every damn link! But with a widely federated Forumverse instance this problem doesn't exist, because you can link to everything through that. And the people opening the link don't need to understand anything about Federation. They just see this thing called piefed.social, and that there's plenty of content you keep throwing at them. Without telling them to join.

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 2 points 13 hours ago

Not just any random escalation, though.

The narcissist has a plan they are following their game. If that escalation is part of their plan, that's is absolutely not how you deal with them. Escalate, by all means. But only in a way that benefits your situation.

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus -3 points 13 hours ago

EPA could absolutely just ignore the law when making regulations. It wouldn't even need any congressional authority. It just makes the law and when someone sues them, the judge says "nah, it's okay with me" and that's it.

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 7 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

You're here. For me this has been a good replacement for whatever I was earlier using Facebook for.

What is there on Facebook that PieFed or Lemmy don't cover?

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 1 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (2 children)

You need to follow some PieFed or Lemmy communities and you'll see their content. But not in a way that works very well. I really like the idea behind Friendica a lot, but it's also clear that its developers have lost the track of their own code and do not completely understand what the program really does anymore. The idea is that there's something like PieFed that understands also several other protocols than just ActivityPub, so you can use one thing to follow almost all of your social media. Which is an awesome idea! But, it doesn't really work in practical terms.

It looks like there is no well-thought architecture behind its programming code, and instead they just add features atop other features without thinking about consistency or clarity of the programming code.

Typically when the UI is as convoluted to use that of Friendica is, there are also a lot of security problems in the program. I assume that it is possible to breach any Friendica account using some bug that has made its way into the code.

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 2 points 14 hours ago

At least Wiktionary completely agrees with you!

[–] Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus 4 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (7 children)

That's the same as saying there's NO ONE on PieFed.

FenderStratocaster, you are on Friendica yourself. Your comment saying there's no one on Friendica is visible on Friendica – therefore, you are there just like you are Lemmy, PieFed and mBin.

(But yeah, my use of Friendica mostly ended after two days, because it's clunky as hell! I had a feeling that whatever little thing I want to do, I need to first fight the UI like a mouse trying to kill a dragon.)

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Hitchhiking equipment (anarchist.nexus)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Tuuktuuk@anarchist.nexus to c/hitchhiking@anarchist.nexus
 

"Hey, there are these two-port USB things for the standard 12 V socket (the "cigarette lighter") in my closet! Maybe I should actually write a word or two about them on that community!"

So, let me spill out something about useful hitchhiking paraphernalia

  • That 2-socket USB. Outside Europe it is still relatively common that the only USB port a car has is used for charging the driver's GPS or phone. I'm carrying a 12 V plug with 2 USB sockets so that I can plug the driver's device to that and still also charge my own phone.
  • A small laptop with a 7 hour battery life, plus a laptop charger that can be plugged into the 12 V socket were a wonderful combination! Even in middle of the complete emptiness of Kazakhstan I never ran out of battery on my laptop because I could charge it in every car. Obviously this meant my laptop essentially ran on gasoline, which is not necessarily the most eco-friendly way to charge your computer. But, it's possible.
  • A low tent in a dark colour. I had a dark-green Forclaz 2 tent, which is tall enough in one spot to sit upright, but otherwise had just enough space for my legs not to hit the ceiling. It was surprising how easy it was to camouflage it almost invisible! That tent model is now discontinued, but the concept was of a lot of use for me, until a horse stepped on the tent and broke it. Meh.
  • A small cooker that can be fed with branches. It produces so little smoke that you can hide in almost any roadside ditch and nobody will know you're cooking with fire right next to the national arterial road!
  • Cooking oil, garlic, soy sauce, spice powders. With those, you can make a different food each morning and evening, out of just a few ingredients! Also, cooking oil is good help for starting a fire in some circumstances. It needs to heat up to quite a high temperature so that it starts vaporizing and is able to burn. But once it burns, it is able to help even relatively wet wood start burning hot enough that the rest of sticks will catch fire as well!
  • A very thick marker pen. Because there are situations where it is very useful to write a sign saying which way you're trying to go.
  • Duct tape. And: They basically don't sell duct tape in Asia! Everything I was able to dig up in central Asia, China or Thailand was of a very low quality compared to what I was used to back home! So, bring enough from back home if duct tape is a necessity for you like it is for me 🤣

And of course: On highway service areas you can very often find food people have left uneaten and clearly untouched. Easy way to stay fed! I kept bringing dirty dishes to the rack where they are supposed to be brought. When the workers see you help them while waiting for leftover food to appear, they don't seem to care of you being in some corner where you don't disturb the paying customers.

Happy travels! 👍

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