Whovian NineThreeSixNine @Whovian9369@cybre.space

Anyone happen to have suggestions for another tech-minded instance that I could jump to?

Cybre felt like such a nice place for that, but the announcement of the instance gradually shutting its doors has made me feel the need to migrate to a similar (Is that even the word I'm looking for?) kind of instance.

TIL: There's a bot detecting blocks, trying to cause dogpiling onto the person blocking.

The accounts and instances being blocked are from the right-wing spectrum, so it looks like the faschs are making use of ActivityPub behaviour again. So maybe consider doing instance-wide blocks then.

I'm currently using Linux Mint.

I honestly /like/ Linux Mint.

(That the servers for software updates are not blocked by my employer is a nice perk, too.)

With that said, if I were to try a distro that's like Mint, what should I try?

I'm reaching the point where I want to do a full wipe and reinstall, so it seems like a good time to play around with options.

my heart is broken. cybre.space helped me learn there were people like me out there (queer, tech nerd, artistic, autistic). where would I even move to?

Dang. I know I haven't been using mastodon much lately, but I'm really bummed to see cybre.space closing.

Gotta find a new instance. Anyone got recommendations for cool tootzones?

I wish academic papers were all freely available and in EPUB format.

Jesus Christ if you look at this art AI thing

https://textual-inversion.github.io/

the galaxy stuff in the "Learning to represent styles" section takes its input from a deviant art artist who died of cancer.

I've never been a fan of copyright but oh my god this is depressing.

Last night I discovered that Garfield doesn't even have a website anymore. It just redirects to Nickelodeon's page.

hey
hey
wake up
wake up
did you know that "WireGuard" and the "WireGuard" logo are registered trademarks of Jason A. Donenfeld???
no?
now you do

what masto instance should I use as my backup? (don't really want to self-host mastodon)

Here at CouldFair, we don't discriminate against our customers.

We pledge to plant one tree in the Amazon rainforest, for every murder facilitated by our services.

This way, we can have a net-positive impact on society, while still maximising revenue!

ahhh... its sad to see this place go but i applaud chr for fighting so this place could live for as long as possible. if anyone has any recommendations for a place where i can move into that'd be nice

P.S. I will deeply miss being able to tell people my handle is "@cybre.space".

Silly posting aside, I want to thank the Cybrespace staff for all their hard work, I will miss this place and I'm sad to see it go, but I understand where staff is coming from. I'm not sure what mastodon I'll be on, but I'll be on Frag-Net's Matrix and other networks. In short, "I'll be around".

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

This domain registrar (Namecheap) does plane-ticket style scumfuckery if you spend too long looking at their list of available domains.

After clicking Make Offer, it prompts you to offer a minimum of $200 from the "domain owner". Then, it adds an addition 20$ for a negotiation fee.

If you clear your cache, the website is magically up for sale again.