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@jonw@hackers.town @c0debabe right, I didn't know they all used their apps as networks, Apple's network is orders of magnitude larger though. But yeah, that makes them all quite bad.

Just using your own device would be useful enough I think, because it'd work for remembering the 'last place you saw it' so as long as your item doesn't get moved you can find it back

@jonw@hackers.town well there's a big difference with the conventional bluetooth trackers that only worked in range of your own device, whereas Apple's now uses their 'Find My network' to have every Apple device on the planet act as your search coverage, greatly increasing how much and how far you can track your tracker (anywhere there's other Apple devices)

@tastytea @erikk@chaos.social that's exactly what authorized fetch prohibits, docs.joinmastodon.org/admin/co except it doesn't give a shit about user-level blocks I guess

@erikk@chaos.social afaik authenticated fetch is supposed to fix this by every instance basically asking back to mine if they can see it, but of course it only takes a bit of malicious server software to circumvent it..

..... i go over to the pleroma user i blocked *ages ago* and find a recent toot of mine boosted on their profile.

our instance has authorized fetch on.

what the fuck.

how to get out of bed in the morning:
have something to look forward to...

@goat@hellsite.site sorry to bring this up but has your therapist been seen converting large amounts of silver into cobalt, this sounds a bit suspicious

Again doing random webstuff because I saw a pretty color (the dark grey). Just focussed on the general blog layout, the homepage + navigation is still a mess (same tho).
Taking last time's criticism into account all the colors pass accessibility checks now

charcoal.dev.cthu.lu/projects/

If your ideology is named after a person, you’re in a cult.

Pretty wild how common the "your library needs to reinvent wheels at least 500 lines worth or else it's BAD" mentality still is, you'd think it's obvious that small dependencies are the perfect 'do one thing, do it well' philosophy...

@polymerwitch @kawaiipunk something to keep in mind with matrix is that your server will also do a lot of outgoing federation requests to other servers, so to hide your ip from them as well you do need some kinda local vpn

@polymerwitch @kawaiipunk the quite nice setup I run for pixie.town is hosted at home, but renting a tiny vps (at Hetzner but could be anywhere) that all the traffic gets vpn'ed through to obscure my home ip

when someone complains about all the wasted space on a website that could have content in it, i ignore all their website design opinions forever

it's such a bizarrely common take that empty space is wasted space and you should have information blasted into your eyeballs from every square centimeter of the monitor. please space things out nicely so i can read them normal. i am willing to scroll, that's fine

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the only redeeming feature zoom has (and jitsi works just the same) is that it's based solely around you joining meetings, you can't just get cold-called out of nowhere like skype/teams etc

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