Show newer

@zkat Ah, in that sense. While it's a bit fire-hosey, it also ends up being pretty relevant to my interests in general (certainly more so than the Twitter homepage :p), I guess that might not be the case for everybody

@the_all Elongated Muskrat bought the place, and is (among other things) talking about "authenticating humans", which sounds an awful lot like a real-name policy

@zkat Isn't that what the federated timeline is for, though? That shows toots from all instances your instance is federating with in some way, AFAIK.

@wilbr @nowherestudios @AudreyJune I think this is basically (one of the things) that the whole Sudbury Valley school model is based upon, as well: youtube.com/watch?v=awOAmTaZ4X

@rigatonimonster it's this famous study where they said to a kid, "you can have one marshmallow now, or two marshmallows later," and the kids who took the two marshmallows had higher SAT scores and better life outcomes. This is supposed to prove that being able to delay gratification is good, rather than proving that people whose life experience has given them reason to trust authority and go along to get along have an easier time succeeding

hellsite vs fediverse follow expectations 

@thufie I feel like the problem here might be that there's no clear distinction between 'mark as friend' and 'subscribe to feed' (and I also see that sentiment reflected in the other replies). Both of those are often expressed as a 'follow', but with very different motivations!

@maralorn@chaos.social I don't think it's that simple. He's a pretty high-profile person, and that comes with a certain responsibility not to do undeserved damage to others through one's fame.

I think he's shirking that responsibility here, and actively doing damage to the federated development ecosystem, with claims that don't really hold any water (which he's been told many times, and refuses to do anything with).

I understand the deletion-after-the-fact on the part of the CCC, if the intent was never to record it. But I don't think Moxie should be immune from criticism for this decision, at all. The rules are different when you have a lot of public influence.

@maralorn@chaos.social @ikonoklast@chaos.social Also, the recording should still be available at berlin-ak.ftp.media.ccc.de/con (and maybe other mirrors).

@maralorn@chaos.social @ikonoklast@chaos.social Not a very plausible argument, considering that his blog post (containing, AFAIK, basically the same arguments) is still up, without any discussion facilities.

@f2k1de@chaos.social I'm so annoyed that they don't allow people with Supersparpreis-tickets anymore :(

@Bobo_PK@chaos.social Coincidentally, or did they finally figure out what's going on? :P

@f0x That's probably a much more comfortable datacenter than the average commercial one, though.

Datacenter tourism is interesting, but ultimately commercial datacenters are hot, loud places, and not in the good sense :)

having to go to the datacenter for maintenence always sounds cool to me. My "going to the datacenter" is just walking downstairs to the utility closet and giving my laptop-server a boop

@tari_alfaro@mastodon.technology Usually, as a badly-thought-out "security measure", to try and prevent things like shell injection on the server side (when the correct way to solve this would have been either a better process API, or at least escaping).

It's worth noting that minds.com definitely falls into the "clueless about security" bracket. They have quite some... history (also in the area of sketchy business practices), and are hilariously incompetent.

Sources:
- vice.com/en_us/article/pga9xz/
- medium.com/your-anon-central/a

like it could just be you put one in your profile name like

🔵 / ✅ doin good ayyyyyy

⚫ /⚪ hanging in there but maybe say a nice thing if you have the energy

⛔ /🚫 /🔴 doin real bad please be nice and give me space if i ask

⚠️ / 🆘 having a crash please be nice and/or assist if you're up for it

like that way all the triggering detail stuff is still under an mh(-) CW but also you can still safely share your status and know what's up with friends

Show thread

@GreenandBlack in New York most folks have an unlimited metrocard, and people who are too poor to afford one will often ask to be swiped in by people on their way out. it's generally polite New York etiquette to swipe these people in.

the city government has tried to crack down on it claiming that it's costing the city money (lol), but the response to that from the resounding majority of New Yorkers has been "fuck you"

regarding the whole fedibooks drama 

the FSE admin is still mad about what happened and he's talking about how i abused my power

i know i abused my power, but i believe that abuse was justified. the amount of harassment i've experienced from FSE is unreal. i found it entertaining at first because of how easy it was to mess with the harassers, but as time went on it began to grate on me, so i just blocked FSE. easy as that.

as the admin of a community, you hold responsibility for what your users do. i had even asked p (the admin) to ban one of the particularly shitty people once (i'm pretty sure this person was the guy who went on to make that wages of sin death site) and he refused. if you allow abuse to happen when you're fully aware and able to stop it, you're being a bad person. i'm sure you learned about being a "bully bystander" in primary school.

so this community of shits decides they want to use my service for free. i could have just banned their bot, but that wouldn't have sent the right message. they almost certainly would have recreated it on a different instance in an attempt to hide it from me. so i decided to really show them that they weren't welcome by posting the oauth token, allowing anyone to post from this bot.

sure enough, i've seen a few other shitty people saying that they're revoking fedibooks' access to their bots. this is exactly what i wanted - nazis know they aren't welcome now.

the rise of the far right is a very real thing, and it won't be pushed back by peaceful protests and letters to congressmen. stonewall was a violent demonstration. we need to play outside the rules to show these people that they aren't welcome, and this whole pbooks drama is a perfect example of that. i could have just banned the bot, but i took it a step further, and now nazis are afraid to use my service.

i'm not saying that my actions are comparable to stonewall or anything. i'm saying that every act of resistance, no matter how small, matters. given how angry and upset the FSE community is about this, and how other alt-right types are leaving fedibooks, i'd say i've won.

i don't plan on doing this again, but i will if things get bad and nazis start to think they're welcome again.

Show older
Pixietown

Small server part of the pixie.town infrastructure. Registration is closed.