Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

In case you're wondering why #RaspberryPi is making the rounds:

The makers of the computer that can be made into a near-infinite# of unassuming devices, has hired a man whose expertise is hiding #Surveillance gear inside unassuming devices.

That in itself is understandable (he's a maker), but so is user concern.

Instead of addressing that concern, RasPi started blocking & mocking anybody who questioned the new hire.

...

IOW: RasPi is now Mastodon's first-ever real "Person of the Week"

We have now issued a #fediblock silence against raspberrypi.social

While we've not been great at communicating these in the past, it's something I intend to do more often.

In this case the social media manager on their main account was harassing others and generally being a bad member of the community. We've silenced for now, and will review in 48 hours.

We maintain the full list of sites we have moderated against - https://mastodonapp.uk/about/more

The Christian instances I'm aware of are:
- https://deacon.social/about
- https://episcodon.net/about
- https://firefaithfellowship.com/about
- https://onlinelutherans.com/
- https://rcsocial.net/about
- https://sheep.network/about
- https://theres.life/about
- https://theway.social/about
In German
- https://kirche.social/about
In Russian
- https://yhwh.tube/about/instance
I think their a Christian instance. I'm not sure.
- https://dingdash.com/about
A zombie instance. It still runs but no one uses it.
- https://vantil.refchat.net/about
Besides browsing instances. Also consider following hashtags.
#Christian #FediChurch
Note: Originally typed this in a thread. Thought the wider fediverse might be interested.

Previous-gen laptops are on sale!

Get yours now: https://s76.co/PreviousGenerationSave

#system76 #laptops #savings

Apple has finally killed its ill-conceived plan to scan photos for CSAM. This is a direct result of work by experts and activists. Speaking up is important and sometimes we win.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-communication-safety-messages/

@jimbob @scottmatter TBF that's a huge issue for email where it's between private parties and you want to convey ideas that aren't supposed to be seen by anyone else. It works for a Twitter style social media because the whole idea is that everything's public.

#funny

#LossyPNG

Hi, hello, here is my #ArtVsArtist
#ArtVsArtist2022
#Art #MastoArt #Illustration

Scariest computer moment?

Okay, so let me tell you about my doorbell, from a #networking perspective.

When you push the button by the door, it sends a message over the #zigbee wireless mesh network in my house. It probably goes through a few hops, getting relayed along the way by the various Zigbee light switches and "smart outlets" I have.

Once it makes it to my utility closet, it's received by a Zigbee-to-USB dongle, through a USB hub (a simple tree network) plugged into an SFF PC. From there, it gets fed into zigbee2mqtt, which, as the name implies, publishes it to my local #mqtt broker.

The mqtt broker is in the small #kubernetes cluster of #raspberrypi nodes I run in my utility closet. To get in (via a couple of #ethernet switch hops), it goes through #metallb, which is basically a proxy-ARP type service that advertises the IP address for the mqtt endpoint to the rest of my network, then passes the traffic to the appropriate container via a #linux veth device.

I have #HomeAssistant, running in the same Kubernetes cluster, subscribed to these events. Within Kubernetes, the message goes through the CNI plugin that I use, #flannel. If the message has to pass between hosts, Flannel encapsulates it in VXLAN, so that it can be directed to the correct veth on the destination host.

Because I like #NodeRed for automation tasks more than HomeAssistant, your press of the doorbell takes another hop within the Kubernetes cluster (via a REST call) so that NodeRed can decide whether it's within the time of day I want the doorbell to ring, etc. If we're all good, NodeRed publishes an mqtt message (more VXLANs, veths, etc.)

(Oh and it also sends a notification to my phone, which means another trip through the HomeAssistant container, and leaving my home network involves another soup of acronyms including VLANs, PoE, QoS, PPPoE, NAT or IPv6, DoH, and GPON. And maybe it goes over 5G depending on where my phone is.)

Of course something's got to actually make the "ding dong" sound, and that's another Raspberry Pi that sits on top of my grandmother clock. So to get *there* the message hops through a couple Ethernet switches and my home WiFi, where it gets received by a little custom daemon I wrote that plays the sound via an attached #HiFiBerry board. Oh but wait! We're not quite done with networking, because the sound gets played through PulseAudio, which is done through a UNIX domain socket.

SO ANYWAY, that's why my doorbell rarely works and why you've been standing outside in the snow for five minutes.

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Every Toot down in Tootville liked Fediverse a lot
But the Grinch, who lived just north of Tootville, did not!
The Grinch hated Fediverse! The whole federation!
Now, please don't ask why, there is no explanation.
It could be his app's round trip times weren't tight,
It could be, perhaps, the bots weren't counted right.
But I think that the most likely reason of all,
May have been his net worth's $42B too small.

4 identically shaped parts which twist together to form a regular tetrahedron. Inspired by @robinhouston's recent post (but with a different split)

It's 2022, and #Android STILL can't simply DISPLAY #PDFs without saving them to storage and opening them in a third party app.

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