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LouInABox@weirder.earth

<p>Berlin-based transfeminist, lecturer, sysad. Nerds about feminism, as well as Linux/BSD, networks, DIY, SciFi,zombies.</p><p>Potential followers: Please interact before requesting to follow, and have some information about you on your profile. I like to have an idea about who&#39;s reading my toots.</p>

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    I use Signal on a google-free LineageOS device, installed directly from the official apk. For a couple of months now, I&amp;#39;m struggling with disappearing messages. Sometimes it&amp;#39;s just individual chats, sometimes all of the chats at once, and I have no idea what to do about it. It seems to happen mostly (but not exclusively, and not always?) after phone reboots and/or after the Signal backup process ran. Most of the time, messages that disappear from the phone are still synched to t...

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    Elephant brain, please help: I remember one of the queerfeminist scifi authors I like having said something along the lines of: &amp;quot;Whatever I write, I will never write about queermisiac violence. I want my readers to feel safe that I&amp;#39;m not going to hurt them like that.&amp;quot; It was in a podcast or a panel talk, and most probably Annalee Newitz, Becky Chambers, or Martha Wells. Does someone know for sure?

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    Special forces raid(ed) one of the trailerparks in Berlin this morning. Media report they used stun grenades, but - as opposed to first reports - no gun fire. On Tuesday, a member of the so-called 3rd generation of the Red Army Faction RAF - a leftwing terror organization that operated in the 1970s to 1990s and publically declared its end in 1998 - has been arrested in Berlin. Apparently, today&amp;#39;s raid is part of the search for her two comrades who are still on the run. RAF was heavily...

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    Does anyone have recommendations for podcast hosting? Main criteria are: - cost-efficient - no forced ads (I know, I know...) - supports RSS / no lock-in into systems like Apple/Spotify - ideally European hosting - no user surveillance, but ideally, some traffic/listeing analysis tools - self-hosting may be an option, but if you recommend that, please elaborate on systems for publishing and statistics. Edit: solved. I decided for wordpress with podlove. :-)

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    &amp;quot;The definition of madness is to keep doing the same thing over and over again, and expect a different result.&amp;quot; (A. Einstein, supposedly) In system administration, that&amp;#39;s often a road to success. What does that say about our profession?