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FediTips , 3 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to random

The Reddit-style Fediverse platform Kbin seems to have ceased development 😔

HOWEVER... a fork called Mbin is continuing Kbin's work and is now very active! 👍

Techy people can find out more from Mbin's documentation:

➡️ https://docs.joinmbin.org

...and source code:

➡️ https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin

There are links to Mbin server lists on the Github page, for example there is a major Mbin server at https://fedia.io

#MBin #KBin #Fediverse #Reddit #Alternatives

GottaLaff , 9 days ago to random

Yet another #recall.

⚠️🐶TDBBS voluntarily recalls Green Tripe dog treats due to the potential presence of foreign metal objects

https://www.dogfoodadvisor.com/dog-food-recalls/tdbbs-recalls-green-tripe-dog-treats/

taur10 , 20 days ago to random

I have to laugh a bit at claiming that students don't lose their free speech rights when they walk into school, these same people have made the opposite argument about speech they don't like, so what's good for the goose...
Massachusetts school can in fact ban 'two genders' T-shirt

FediTips , 26 days ago (edited 26 days ago) to random

Are you looking for a Mastodon desktop app?

➡️ Whalebird (Linux/Mac/Win)
https://whalebird.social

➡️ Fedistar (Linux/Mac/Win)
https://fedistar.net

➡️ Tokodon (Linux)
https://apps.kde.org/en-gb/tokodon

➡️ Tuba (Linux)
https://tuba.geopjr.dev

➡️ Ivory (Mac)
https://tapbots.com/ivory/mac/

➡️ Ice Cubes (Mac)
https://apps.apple.com/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884

➡️ Mona (Mac)
https://apps.apple.com/app/mona-for-mastodon/id1659154653

➡️ Tweesecake (blind accessible, Win / Mac)
https://tweesecake.app

➡️ Toot (CLI / TUI)
https://toot.bezdomni.net/

➡️ Retro
https://fedi.tips/using-mastodon-on-retro-computers/

breadandcircuses , 3 months ago to random

Are you old enough, like me, to remember the Exxon Valdez catastrophe, a disastrous oil spill off the coast of Alaska in 1989?

Here's some important info about that event from Greg Palast...

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"Don’t Buy Exxon’s Fable of the Drunken Captain"

The true cause of the Exxon Valdez catastrophe was the oil giant breaking their promises, cynically and disastrously, in the 15 years leading up to the spill.

As for Captain Joe Hazelwood, he was below decks, sleeping off his bender. At the helm, the third mate would never have collided with Bligh Reef had he looked at his Raycas radar.

But the radar was not turned on. In fact, the tanker’s radar was left broken and disabled for more than a year before the disaster, and Exxon management knew it. It was just too expensive to fix and operate.

Today, three decades after the oil washed over the Alaskan beaches, you can kick over a rock and it will smell like an old gas station.

The Fable of the Drunken Captain serves the oil industry well. It falsely presents America’s greatest environmental disaster as a tale of human frailty, a one-time accident. But broken radar, missing equipment, phantom spill teams, faked tests — the profit-driven disregard of the law — made the spill an inevitability, not an accident.

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FULL ARTICLE -- https://www.gregpalast.com/dont-buy-exxons-fable-of-the-drunken-captain-2/

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Capitalism #Pollution

FediTips , 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

There's a new free open source Reddit-style platform for the Fediverse called PieFed. It's still fairly early in development, but you can try out a demo server at:

➡️ https://piefed.social

There's more info on its official website at:

➡️ https://join.piefed.social

You can follow the project at:

➡️ @piefedadmin

It's lightweight and written to make it easier for developers to contribute. (For any devs reading this, it's written in Python.)

(via @Mrfunkedude)

#FediTips #Fediverse #Reddit