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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@riverseeber.net

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Computer Science undergrad student. I run a blog where I talk about technology, political science, and anything interesting. riverseeber.net/blog US […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ defcon.social/@riverpunk, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 4m

You guys remember when Netflix was like $9/month, and it got you unlimited ad-free streaming of basically everything. And then 20 years later there's 12 different streaming services that all cost $20/month so you can watch 3 back-to-back ads at the beginning of every episode? And you guys […]

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inpc @inpc.go.mxtthxw.art.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

An internet router with antennae that makes it look like a spider, its hung up in the top corner of a room to look more spidery

River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

@thevhswizard sorcerers are trade workers; wizards went to grad school; witches, warlocks, and mages got themselves a bachelor or associates degree.

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

"Loneliest Girl in the World" by Noah Floersch music.youtube.com/watch?v=4nCKNx1II…

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

"Straight Line Was A Lie" by The Beths music.youtube.com/watch?v=8jpC0bXQ8…

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

"My Only Sense Of Purpose" by Elio Mei music.youtube.com/watch?v=s8l7zTN3d…

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

"Elio" by Elio Mei music.youtube.com/watch?v=gDAlOvE6T…

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

My morning music for y'all "Armies of the Lord" by The Mountain Goats music.youtube.com/watch?v=7H4xFVdxL… (cont.) #music

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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Meme butters cat (with bow tie and holding a phone receiver)
Caption: “thank you for calling tech support. have you tried sitting on the keyboard?”

River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

anyways, just figured I'd share the (TikTok video 💀️) that prompted this whole thread out of me. I can't stop thinking about this way of describing it. Plot-based media, as opposed to TikToks. Everytime I'm stuck scrolling on my phone, feeling like I can't […] [Original post on defcon.social]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

In his book "Fahrenheit 451," Ray Bradbury presents us with an imagined future world that is entirely engorged in media -- not any media, however. They are invested in the easy media of the television, and have been taught to fear the difficult media that is books and literature, to the point […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

The rise of the internet promised a world where creators could meet viewers without needing to go through traditional gatekeepers like publishers or TV stations. They just upload their video, and interested viewers could click and watch². At the time, a lot of what was shared was creative stuff […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

Does anyone else find it weird just how much non-fiction media we're suddenly consuming, what with the rise of short-form social media content? Not really non-fiction in the sense of documentaries or prose books or anything. I mean, all of the different TikTok apps are littered with videos a […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

@pthane yep, exactly. PeerTube doesn't have creators on it. If it were to attract those creators, it would be able to properly compete with YouTube. But in order to get those creators, it needs to figure out an actual business model. After all, most channels nowadays are small content creation […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

forgot the footnote ¹ Bluesky is in that funny middle space between "it maybe could become sort of federated one day and maybe be a FOSS champion of an open internet" and "this thing is run by evil transphobic crypto capitalists, and they very well might enshittify long before we build the tech […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

I really want to see alternatives to Big Tech social platforms actually start to pop up. I want to see competitors to YouTube and Bluesky¹ and Instagram and Facebook. I want to see competitors that properly *compete*, and are actually capable of taking in massive amounts of their users! I think […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

I don't know entirely where I'm going with this, but I just feel like as great as PeerTube is sort of right now as a proof of concept on a technological scale, I don't think the social/economic aspect has been proven out. I think in order to succeed, PeerTube will need to find *some way* to give […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

PeerTube doesn't provide ad revenue. It also -- at least in my experience as somebody who hasn't really used it for very much -- doesn't have great search or discovery features outside of local posts by users on the same instance. Maybe that gets better if I make an account? But anyways, it […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

Some thoughts about PeerTube I've been having. My biggest complaint about PeerTube as a viewer is that there's really not much interesting content on there (most creators only post to YouTube), and even when there is, very few of the people I follow on YouTube are on PeerTube. There's a […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 29/09/2026

> Been struggling to get stuff done all day. > Decide to hide my phone, so it won't distract me any further. > Close all tabs for social media that would distract me. > Finally get to work > I need my phone to login to the 2FA for literally all of my tasks > I know for a fact that if I grab […]

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piku :ace_verify: :aro_verify: :green: minor! @piku.blahaj.zone.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

yo example.com got an upgrade

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iwein @iwein.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Xkcd 1732 was made ten years ago, but we're still _exactly_ on the "current path", which is, without exaggeration, the doomsday scenario. If we can't get the needle to move only a tiny bit over a decade, we need to be a lot louder apparently. For full accessible […] [Original post on mas.to]

Tail of xkcd 1732 from 2026 url in the main post

River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 26/09/2026

well, not sure if I'll end up building a client for it or not, but I wrote the beginnings of a spec for it codeberg.org/rseeber/web-over-markd…

Push operation complete.

Several small pack-files for deletion upon the next.

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 26/09/2026

A thing I've been thinking about recently. Many websites are built with static site generators, using markdown source files, which are just the "content" of the page, without all the html for the layout of the page (including navbars, background images, and the geometry of the page). What if […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 26/09/2026

Hm, random thought. StackOverflow content is licensed under a CC-BY license, yeah? Would there be legal challenges if somebody wanted to scrape the site for historical posts and set up a federated alternative to it? Like, import all the old stuff, then allow new users to ask and answer […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 26/09/2026

I need more project ideas tbh. Maybe something fun related to #IRC or some federated chat thing like #XMPP or #Matrix? Perhaps I could run a bot or something, plug it into something, and allow commands (from me? from anyone? idk) to actually do something on the server it's on. Unless maybe I […]

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Flock thinks it's cameras have a legal right to privacy in public. 😂

Flock Safety has issued a legal demand seeking the removal of a public map showing the locations of approximately 300.000 of it's surveillance devices across the United States.

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:privTri: Volpeon :areonNSmol: @volpeon.at.icy.wyvern.rip · 21/09/2026

Yess de cuckstoel is nog vrij

Photo of a an Odeon cinema VIP bed for 2 people. Right next to it is a single small seat.

River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 21/09/2026

@cascheranno this piece of writing was directed at a tech enthusiast audience who is assumed to understand what a kernel or a CPU architecture is. I could reformulate the writing to use analogies for a typical person, but then I would lose the salience towards the tech audience who I'm trying […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 20/09/2026

So it's literally got recursive submodules. And recursive makefiles for those modules. I call a setup script that calls a makefile that then calls another makefile. I feel like I'm building a Rube Goldberg machine... And the worst part is that it literally works.

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 20/09/2026

I lowkey feel like I'm in git submodule hell with this thing lol It's already a big project with like 3 different parts. The web app frontend has a markdown editor that's a git submodule of something I forked. The API handles login security with the SLIM C++ library I wrote. Since I can't call […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 20/09/2026

Spent some hours working on my Mycelium website editor project. It's now got proper functionality for handling users, including logging in and signing up. And in general everything is fairly functional. The only really important thing left is I need a better solution for actually hosting the […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 14/09/2026

@lexi oooh nice! I'll check this one out!

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 14/09/2026

@ulveon oh interesting, looks very cool! I love aero design of it!

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 13/09/2026

while we're at it, if you're following me, feel free to drop below and say hi! What kinda stuff do you like? Any hobbies, favorite media, or other cool things you do? I believe I may need to go to sleep now, but I promise I will go through and look at all of these notifications in the morning […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 13/09/2026

oh lol this made it to trending :ablobcathyper:

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 13/09/2026

I feel like I should put tags on this, but I don't think #genz and #trans are particularly well followed by genz or trans folks. Oh well. #queer #college #transfem #transmasc

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 13/09/2026

I need to find more GenZ and/or queer/trans folks to follow on Mastodon. Especially looking for more mutuals tbh. It would be nice to make some more actual friends on Fedi. Everyone should boost this to help me make more mutuals. :cyber_boost_request: And come follow me if you fit either of […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 12/09/2026

Tonight's mood is "Straight Line Was A Lie" - The Beths music.youtube.com/watch?v=8jpC0bXQ8…

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 12/09/2026

Are there any good listings of small indie blogs anywhere? Like, blogs that publish at least somewhat regularly. Ideally as like an .opml file or something, all organized that I can import into my feed reader. I really wanna follow more people that talk about queer topics and other […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 11/09/2026

Are there general purpose programming IDEs other than VS Code that don't absolutely suck? PyCharm is okay but kinda bothers me (also I don't like needing to install multiple IDEs for different languages), and it won't use my terminal environment properly for some reason. A lot of the other […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 11/09/2026

my issue with light theme is that every single app theme for light theme just uses the same boring white as their background color. On dark themes, there's a variety. Accent colors that fit with an application's branding or color theming. On light theme, the background is always 0xffffff white […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 10/09/2026

I just wanna spend all my time programming my cute little programming projects and doing writing and rotting on the internet. Is that so much to ask?

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 10/09/2026

Somehow I always end up surprised at the beginning of a semester when I realize how busy I am with college. You'd think I would learn to anticipate it.

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 08/09/2026

Wow I have a whole byte of followers now! Crazy to think about...

Screenshot showing that I have 256 followers

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 08/09/2026

Random question for Fedi: What are some good #wiki projects you know of, other than Wikipedia? Especially those related to #tech, but anything really. I know of the Arch Wiki, but I've yet to come across anything else that parallels those two in terms of usefulness. Any good stuff I should be […]

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 08/09/2026

@august i thought this was a weird fedi math joke until i remembered there's a written and a practical test for your driver's license

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 08/09/2026

[bad, nsfw] @puppygirlhornypost2 oh kind of like a werewolf

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 08/09/2026

Big day for my toots on the ol' Fedi network (i got 12 likes)

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River 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @riverseeber.net · 08/09/2026

YOU CAN ACCESS YOUR GOOGLE DRIVE FROM THE FILES APP ON ELEMENTARY OS??? I'm actually so impressed right now, that's amazing. I didn't need to set shit up, it just grabbed my account that I already signed into and now it just works wtf this is amazing. Maybe I need to get this set up with my […]

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