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fun how the gargron library for blurhashes broke mastodon going from ruby 3.0.5 to 3.0.6

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oh no i completely forgot the chai tea i made, and now it's cold

Well. I've just learned a couple of things about the spec and its process that are giving me serious concerns about the long term.

I'm refraining from sharing details here right now, because they would be extremely easy to misinterpret, and it's not an immediate problem to worry about.

However, I do think that it's time to start seriously thinking about forking the protocol, and I've created a room for talking about this: :pixie.town

If you're interested in working on this (as a developer, as a technical writer, as a spec designer, or something else), then please join the room!

However, it's important to recognize that such a spec fork will impact many existing communities and developers, and so breaking compatibility is not to be taken lightly. If possible, it should be avoided.

So if you feel like burning everything down and starting over, this is probably not the project for you. Also, I do expect everybody *not* to harass Matrix core folks over this.

If those things are not an issue for you, then please join! :boost_requested:

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Instance admins are often targeted by the instances they block, with the admins of the toxic instances emailing them straw man arguments and sealioning questions meant to have them question their decisions and trick them into thinking they're being unfair.

As I'm often asked for advice with how .art deals with these shitheels, in the next toot I'm going to provide a simple guide that anyone can use the next time the disingenuous admin of Another Toxic Instance emails them.

I've been an admin here since 2017

And I've been banging the "defederate from bad instances" drum the whole damn time

And all you fuckers over at handwringing dot social or pearlclutchers dot online have been telling me that I'm bad for blocking them because I'm being alarmist or a HOA or whatever

Well now there's a whole academic paper about the CSAM (child abuse sexual material) on instances that we already knew were shitty

Anyway, block the bad instances, they're not that hard to spot

While it’s easy to laugh at their incompetence, please don’t forget that fascists have always been incompetent. And yet, as history has shown time and time again, this in no way means they’re not dangerous or that they cannot cause widespread pain and suffering.

#x #ElonMusk #twitter

i continue to be in awe of the red panda's fluffy dorito ears

@mxdragon some self-promo, think we got some nice kits that also offer a very pretty end result tindie.com/stores/tilde/
might be slow to ship with holidays (hacker camps) rn

I would never get Fyre-fested, because I have enough shit with me to last an entire month

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At work, i like to use the 20-20 rule: look at computer for 20 seconds then get bored and spend 20 minutes on my phone

im packing sooo much questionably useful shit for just a weekend festival, and still feel like im forgetting important stuff

like, if there were some kind of industry that was being run by real demons from hell it wouldn't be a sexy night club or a bar or something, it would be a uhaul car rental agency

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