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Mastodon issue tracker is where dreams go to die

Informed consent? Never heard of it!

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i

but uhh, number go up, so surely everyone wants to publicly expose more data, even with `AUTHORIZED_FETCH` and `DISALLOW_UNAUTHENTICATED_API_ACCESS`

quote tweets 

while I get that it's a possible harassment vector, it seems only marginally easier than sharing a link or a screenshot of a toot?

something i think properly implemented QTs would add though is that they can re-use the toot-dereference/signing logic a boost has for example, so a remote instance you have blocked still won't be able to quote toot you, or see the toot a qt is referring too (because it always has to contact your instance for the content, and it'll just say no

As a bit of extra background: I've been professionally auditing (probably thousands of) FOSS dependencies for years now, in a high-risk environment, and *not once* have I run across deliberately malicious code, not even questionably broken code, really.

Every single issue so far has been a security issue, none that were likely to be disguised backdoors. Many of them very common security issues that most developers are likely to create themselves when reinventing wheels (eg. when avoiding dependencies out of a misguided fear of malicious code).

That's where the *real* risk is.

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This also feels like one of those cases of the metaphorical-law-I-forgot-the-name-of, where people perceive an uncommon event as being really common because it's so uncommon that it gets widely reported every time it happens, and therefore skews people's perception of its frequency

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I was watching cat pov videos and realized there's literally a video game for this

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BREAKING: Free Software Foundation announces that its GIMP ("GNU Image Manipulation Program") will finally shed its controversial name, becoming LIGMA ("Libre Image and Graphics Manipulation Application") in mid-2023.

bear comes to the doctor, says he's not feeling himself, it has become unbearable

dancing really is the only way I'll reach the steps goal heh

it's truly fucked up how large the car parking for the airport is

led strip was a great success, and the small powerbank has more than enough capacity to power it 6+ hours

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drugs, music playlist 

started a playlist called "drugs" as a joke and found the Alcemist remix of DMT, so good

music.youtube.com/playlist?lis

look i made some party stuff last-minute!

alt text: addressable led strip belt under my t-shirt, showing an adaptation of the fastled demo reel
u.pixie.town/pixie.town/eTIdsl

money++ 

just finally got my sizeable invoice paid

i hope my financial decisions tonight will be sound....

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