Free Speech wins!

https://www.billboard.com/pro/afroman-trial-verdict-rapper-wins-lawsuit-cops-music-videos/

Afroman won a jury verdict Wednesday (March 18) clearing him of wrongdoing in a lawsuit filed by seven Ohio police officers, who claimed the rapper defamed them by releasing music videos that mocked them after a failed raid on his home.

The verdict came in an unusual lawsuit filed by members of an Ohio county sheriff’s department over songs and social media posts by Afroman (Joseph Foreman) that harshly criticized the guns-drawn 2022 raid on his property, which yielded no charges.

@YoungBlood oh no! what will the controlled opposition do if they can’t illegally get 0.00001% more votes. Will someone please think of the pedofiles children?!?!

Its a fun distraction for them to larp as if they’re really “debating” anything. This is yet another collaboration between the “two” parties of the Epstein class to distract from actual issues like justifying to us how universal healthcare is impossible because Iran still exists, and we can’t prosecute pedophiles and human traffickers because it would ruin the economy.

What we really need is competency testing, both to hold office or even to vote for who gets in office. You need to pass an exam just to be able to LEARN how to drive, why is it less important when deciding on who to let “Drive” our government. If you don’t know basic facts like there are 3 branches of government, you shouldn’t be entitled to a vote.

BTW Illegals already can’t vote, even if we gave every benefit of every doubt and assume every single one of them votes democrat (they dont, surprised pikachu for all the conservative husbands losing their mail order brides), the numbers don’t add up to anything remotely significant to matter. But they’ll spend hours “fighting” about this as if it matters.

successfully migrated from Nginx Proxy Manager to Traefik tonight.

Wish i had done it before i had 50+ services and 30+ subdomains, but better late then never. The main advantage to this over NPM is traefik has better integration with docker and can use labels to setup the subdomains automatically instead of having to manually setup each subdomain in nginx.

The Afroman Trial is going great, his lawyer is making these cops look like complete fools.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uwNFjm3mWk

@eff Its not JUST about control, its also about making it so that advertisers can have a way to tell who the humans are, think about it, would meta and them all WANT to age gate when they know their product is addicting to children? Of course not, they just see the writing on the wall when it comes to the dead internet. Imagine how much more they will be able to charge for ID verified impressions and ad views.

Remember how we used to actually make use of space with desktop GUIs? I know there were some absolutely terrible ones, but we had limited screen real-estate and would present as much information as we could.

Now it's like... welp guess we'll make an absolutely abysmal garbage design but it's OK because everybody has large monitors or something.

Mastodon is 100% the early days of social media all over. Some of you will already be familiar with this story.

My weather station (a very nice Netatmo that has served very well) crapped out after nearly 10 years of excellent service. I asked for recommendations here for a new station that would play nicely with #HomeAssistant, and hopefully, also HomeKit. I received *many* recommendations, with Ecowitt (and the brands it manufactures for) taking the lead.

A connection on here offered me their *unopened* Ecowitt weather station for a very generous price. It arrived yesterday, and I set it up, and it's already doing a great job. Works offline, talks to Home Assistant without any problems. I just need to do a couple of bits of configuration jiggery-pokery and it will pass data to HomeKit.

This is very much how things were when I first joined Twitter in 2007. In spite of attempts at #enshittification of everything, the #fediverse is putting up a good fight.

May your day online be as satisfying as mine was yesterday.

LATER EDIT: I’ve been thinking, and I do realise this good experience isn’t necessarily what happens for everyone. It’s still the case that too many good people don’t find a welcoming place here, especially if they are queer or of color. If this is you, know that I see you, and that I will always try to be welcoming and listening, even if you have things to say that bring me discomfort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37H88vcOSfo

Oh man this Afroman Trial is lit, almost feel bad for the one lady cop, but not really.

dude cmon, take a picture of your ID. it's not a big deal just upload your ID to the computer. bro don't be weird, just take your social security card and tape it to your forehead. what are you, a pedophile? mail a notarized copy of your birth certificate to chipotle headquarters

don't you get it? the only way to make sure children are safe is for you to put your genome sequence in your ad reads on youtube. bro cmon. look. i've mailed you a usb-c blood test. upload the results to www. hitler .com or i'm IP banning you from spotify

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I setup a web page with a photo timeline of my former cat Mew. I really miss him, its been 12 days since he’s gone.

https://mewbuttpie.neocities.org

"We care about your privacy!"

Us and our ONE THOUSAND, FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR "partners". Hah ha!

Also fuck off!

www.theguardian.com/society/2014...

‘Poor people don’t plan long-t...

@HelloIt_sMe45
Same thing i used to do when i bought a laptop that came with windows. Never even let it load and immediately replace OS with linux.

@alice

Those who keep complaining that wind turbines do not work when the winds are not blowing, just realized that oil does not work when the Hormuz Strait is not open.

DNA Lounge Update, Wherein Live Nation / Ticketmaster slips the noose again
https://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2026/03/13.html?utm_source=sp_ma

@kevinrothrock

> The court rejected the claim, pointing out that the organizer of the action has the right to change the rules or stop it. The Law "On the Protection of Consumer Rights" does not apply to advertising campaigns.

Yep that tracks.

@rl_dane

Its Not an ideal solution but i recently realized peertube (which uses ytdlp) can also import tiktok feeds. If you have specific creators you want to follow on tiktok you can follow them on peertube instead.

Captain’s Log: Sweetmorn, the 71st day of Chaos, YOLD 3192

Upgraded the GravityWell’s internet connection to full 1Gb/s. Most stuff is already on the VPS with shared 10Gbps, but this should improve things for Jellyfin, Peertube, and various other streaming stuff and large file downloads.

Setup a new VM with working backups of all the services and planning to have a second one setup just for testing and deploying new things. Hopefully it will mean less things breaking in production.

Will be deploying various different “Discord alternatives”, Stoat/Revolt, Flux, etc for folks to check out and test with. Either they will eventually be bridged -or- removed depending on what people think of them and how well the run.