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My Mastodon account has a 12,000 character per item limit.

It seems to be the server-code, not the protocol…

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There ought be a do not follow recursive links switch for it, Hoomin…

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That utter-desparation is engineered into our civilization.

What happens when you prevent the “inferiors” from having living-wage, while you pour wallowing-wealth on the executives?

They have to overwork, to make ends meet, is what, which breaks parenting.

Then, when you’ve broken parenting for a few generatios, the manufactured ocean-of-attachment-disorder manufactures a plethora of narcissism, which itself produces mass-shootings.

2024 was down 200 mass-shootings, in the US of A, from the peak of 700/year, to only 500.

You are seeing engineered eradication of human-worth, for moneyarchy.

Isn’t ruling-over-the-destruction-of-the-Earth the “greatest thrill-ride there is”?

We NEED to do objective calibration of the harm that policies & political-forces, & put force against what is actually harming our world’s human-viability.

Not what the marketing-programs-for-the-special-interest-groups want us acting against, the red herrings…

They’re getting more vicious, we need to get TF up & begin fighting for our species’ life.

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There’s a “philosopher” who the far-right techbro-oligarchs rely on, whose blog is grey-something-or-other…

I tried using wget & there’s a bug or something in the site, so it keeps inserting links-to-other-sites into uri’s, so you get bullshit like

grey-something-or-other.substack.com/e/b/a/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/etc…

The site apparently works for the people who browse it, but wget isn’t succeeding in just cloning the thing.

I want the items that the usable-site is made-of, not endless-failed-requests following recursive errors, forever…

Apparently one has to be ultra-competent to be able to configure all the disincludes & things in the command-line-switches, to get any particular site dealt-with by wget.

Sure, on static-sites it’s magic, but on too many sites with dynamically-constructed portions of themselves, it’s a damn headache, at times…

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Oh, 1 other point, discovered in trying to post this as a single-post, & being blocked by the PieFed coding…

On the instance I want to run, I’m going to be doing really long articles, so having a character-limit of 4000 or something won’t work.

Please code PieFed so that the instance-admin is offered your default, but is allowed to set a max-character-limit for posts of whatever they want, like 16k, or 32k, or 64k+ chars, if required, for that instance,

instead of having to find the places in the source-code to have to change, & hope they caught all the locations, without understanding the code ( I’m not a programmer … yet … someday … : )

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Continued: the “between 3 & 5000 characters” statement is false:

it has to be shorter than some other arbitrary amount, or it won’t post.

The new-account icon might be better in-place for 1/2-month?

( rather than a mere week … it takes awhile for a person’s unconscious-mind to do its normal thing, & novelty jams that, so the warning might want to match the natural unconscious-mind-cycle? )

“Automatically delete content based on phrases in user name”

Here’s the one which got my goat…

88 is a Buddhist-culture thing.

You know how prices end in .99 in North America?

Go look at images of markets in Buddhist cultures, & you’re going to see $x.88 instead.

( …sigh… I don’t know if it is search-engines eradicating “88” because of the white-supremacists’ identification with it, so now the ASIAN evidence is disappeared, XOR if the Buddhist culture has been eradicated from Asian pricing??

Either way, I looked, & couldn’t find any evidence of it, even though 3 decades ago, in Chinatown, it was absolutely normal to see prices ending in $something.88 instead of $something.99

8 is the completeness number in Buddhism, see?

Whatever.

Further, since I remembered why the White-supremacists think “88” is a validation-symbol for them, I’m linking to the Wikipedia Swastika ( that name is Sanskrit, btw ), which is an ancient Hindu, Buddhist, Hopi, & Navaho symbol, simply because it is the shape marked around the North Pole, by the Big Dipper, in the 2 solstices & 2 equinoxen.

You can see from the Wikipedia page that the nazis stole other-people’s symbol, & White-culture generally is adamant that all other people’s Swastika is nonvalid because only the White nazis count.

( this low-key racism is actually pervasive: when I shaved my head, last century, I was automatically assumed to be nazi, not Buddhist, for doing-so, but the Buddhist skinheads had been going-bald & meditating for millenia … but they don’t count, because they’re yellow or brown, or something?? the whole “only White history counts” grates on history’s blood, I tell you… )

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika

In my religion it symbolizes the equanymity of G-D/OceanOfAllAwakeSouls.

So, that bit in the blog-article is assuming that all meanings are White-culture meanings, so every symbol is only gauged according to White history…

that’s a gotcha I’m asking people to not presume to be Universal, or Universally-valid.

Yes, among White culture, White symbols are pervasive, but the narcissism of presuming that other-cultures aren’t valid, because they aren’t White … is not proper, you know?

The list of sites which cannot be linked-to, because they’re disinformation … oughtnt that be openly-published?

( same as the “dirty dozen” disinformation-pushers that The Guardian identified, a few months back )

Actually, given how ideology uses “it’s banned, which proves it’s true, because they’re suppressing us” … ideological pseudo-logic …

it’d probably be strategically-stronger to identify every last one of them, & give, say 4, examples of each of their violation of truth, & have that set-of-evidences shares throughout the Fediverse ( do the work 1 time, everybody benefits from it, if it’s done right )

the blog-post ended there, so that’s it, for this commentary…

1 “random” bug in PieFed is the use of too-similar colors for vote-arrows & voted-on-arrow: green & blue, in dark mode, simply are not different-enough to reliably see the difference, for me, & I’m not colorblind ( font-size has to do with it, too, obviously: too-few-pixels to see significant difference … )

For the truly-color-blind, though, there needs to be striking difference-in-brightness between the 2, or an underline under the voted-one, or something…

Gratitude for the work of PieFed, & for the work that went into the systems identified in that blog-post, & into the blog-post itself!

I’m only wishing that humankind’s infrastructure were capable, available, rigorously-correct ( multiculturally-so, not just USA-centric, as the Internet is pushed to be, by Western tech ), & as completely enabling of humanity’s LivingWorth & LivingPotential as possible, while suppressing the narcissism/machiavellianism/sociopathy/nihilism/sadism/etc now taking its gloves off, re ruling our world ( “Dark Triad” is the root of what I identified, there, but there are more dimensions than the psychology-profession allows to be dimensions-of-human-evil. Evidence, not institutional-consensus is the best guide : )

Salut, Namaste, & Kaizen,

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Big platforms will aggressively sabotage any country who tries taking their malwares from the population: better to go scorched-earth than to TOLERATE alternative/competition, right?

I won’t be surprised when entire-countries’ devices are bricked to teach the country a lesson, while the Russia+Trump alliance begins their total-war on that country…

Countries have already accommodated allowing all critical-infrastructure to be proprietary, in tech…

they are owned, & cannot get out of that with the incompetence that they got into it, with…

Exactly as the tech-oligarchs intended.

I’m a geek, & it makes me want to puke, what’s been accomplished, against humankind’s viability, by tech-people…

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