Brecht Savelkoul

First challenge seems to be importing all of my follows without accidentally DDoS'ing my own server. Have to do it in chunks of ~40 accounts it seems.

PSA: I'm going to try out another Fediverse server implementation over at @brecht@pamphlets.me. Importing all my Mastodon follows over there to give it a go. Feel free to follow back already, though if everything goes well, I should be able to automatically transfer all my followers whenever I feel ready to do so.

@Lana Pretty narrow definition of genre maybe, but I think Beethoven's 4th is the most underrated of his nine symphonies.

@bastianallgeier You'd also think that, being professional politicians, they would be aware of the ample political science research that shows these kinds of moves only strengthen the far-right.

@dcz Voted "someone else", because if a software bug can physically break your speakers forever, that's the fault of the manufacturer of the speakers.

@evan I think it should be possible for people to live their life without using any social media if that's what they want, so zero.

@futurebird I do think there might be a decent number of Dutch speakers on the fediverse, but we're not actually using Dutch that much on here, so hard to tell.

@stavvers Does that make it a rare case of Westeners actually discovering something, rather than just arriving late with a bigger gun?

@jalcine In the context of the Iranian Revolution I remember reading that they saw the US as merely the enforcer of a global order that was still dominated by the UK. Maybe similar ideas are still current in areas that used to be dominated by the British Empire and therefore dominant in English-speaking discourse?

From what I understand the Congolese independence movement had a different perspective, seeing the Belgian government as providing the muscle and the US being the brain behind it.

@liztai Is that ever used outside a culinary context? Because I've only ever encountered 青蛙.

@tshirtman @futurebird I think it's possible that the people who say they're immune to advertising are in fact right, but only in the narrow sense of direct influence. You can't escape the indirect effect though, because the more you try to resist being influenced by advertising, the more you'll have to trust the judgement of other people, some of whom will have been influenced by ads. So you end up inhaling it like second-hand smoke whatever you do.

@Eetschrijver @fesshole I think OP is talking about the name "Siemen", which is sounds pretty much exactly like semen. It probably won't appear on any top 100 lists of given names, but it's common enough regardless.

@the_roamer @evan Yep, I read the question the same way, and voted similarly as a result.

@evan I voted "Often" because the majority on social media are just regular people posting in a personal capacity. If you narrowed it down to public figures posting in a professional capacity then I'd drop down "Rarely" instead.

Getting Anglophones to Acknowledge the Existence of Other Languages Challenge (Impossible)

https://tapbots.social/@paul/112527019012155346

@RickiTarr Also if anyone should get a pass for being vapid and ridiculous, it's got to be teenagers.

@afroisalreadyin @neil I've seen something like this when waking up a laptop from hibernate. The default setting for going to sleep should be suspend rather than hibernate though, so on a fresh install I guess it's unlikely to be this, but sharing anyway on the off chance that it is.

@babe Work laptop is still on 10 though, so either way I don't count