Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town
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In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
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#FediAdmin Mastodon 4.x tip: disabling 'trends' at least gets rid of the public /explore page your instance shows to all unauthenticated users
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Constant reminder (especially for the #TwitterMigration folks):
If you want to use a mobile app, most people will steer you from the so-called "official" one, and that's for good reason. First, the way it's structured runs counter to the concept of a decentralised fediverse.
Second, it's just... missing a lot.
You can try whatever you want, but the common recommendations I see are:
Android: Tusky
iOS: Metatext
I can vouch for Tusky. I like and use it. But play around with the supposed "third-party" apps if the "official" one is frustrating you because they tend to give you a better experience.
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During the great migration away from the birdsite, I hope everyone can pause a moment to ask themselves what it is they want from the Fediverse, and social media in general. Exposure to engagement-maxing algorithms has probably skewed how you think and act around social media, so it's useful to reassess what you expect to find here.
What is is that you enjoy about social media? What is it that you hate? Can you make changes to your behaviors to enhance the former and minimize the latter?
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@joepie91 @crablab As far as I know it's not actually possible to indicate severity in a CB message. The 'Extreme Alert' is the channel it's sent on.
The standard includes types, but that's 'earthquake', 'tsunami', 'test', and 'other'. So for technical reasons it has to look this way. At least the standard that the law refers to.
@crowgirl@hachyderm.io So far, the Venn diagram between those groups has indeed seemed to be a circle.
@crablab@chaos.social Oh yeah, it's definitely a problem - and I don't know enough about the alert system to know how fixable it is within the regulations. My comment was more just to remark that they probably legally *couldn't* have just sent it at a lower severity:)
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I'm consistently getting n word toots dropped into my mentions from randos
yea its always pleromama joints
re: Full-text search on Mastodon rant
@SeanWrightSec@infosec.exchange @buherator@infosec.exchange Yes, that process has been taking place over the last several years. The informed decision was to not add the feature.
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#FollowFriday just @geordie
He made this. I'm so sorry.
@crablab@chaos.social There's some nonsense about regulatory requirements to publish "alert over" notifications at the same severity level and scope or something. I'm a bit fuzzy on the details.
@laurakm@tech.lgbt I imagine that if they tried to start federating, everybody probably *would* blocklist them, too
@Kye@tech.lgbt @paulstich@infosec.exchange Yep, agreed with this. The Internet Archive's approach is a good template for this.
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As a dyslexic, my heart sinks whenever I am greeted by reams of paper to read on top of a character sheet just as a game begins. My partner is #blind , and not (yet) a gamer. I'd love to bring her into the fold. Are there any #ttrpg which are completely paperless, at least for the players? Something where all she'd need to know is who her character is and what they're about.
@kim That's because you recognize the responsibility, a lot of people don't
@kelledy It's certainly something I've observed elsewhere as well, but the infosec community is the only one where I can speak about it from extensive experience :)
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@dl While I do think it is important to be prepared for such a situation, it is also very dangerous to just assume as a fact that that *will* be the situation, and moreso to state it as such.
What breaks loosely organized structures isn't abuse itself, but a loss of trust in the structure's ability to deal with it. Declaring it impossible to do so upfront just makes that failure mode *more likely* to occur.
Losing the openness should be the absolute last resort. It is an option that should be on the table, but *only* after every other possible solution has been eliminated, including (particularly!) the ones that might seem unlikely to work because of (frequently misguided) beliefs about "human nature".
In infosec, there's the "I want to protect others from harm" people, and then there's the "I like having power over others" people, and it is usually *really easy* to tell which is which, and most of the community is the latter type
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@SeanWrightSec@infosec.exchange @buherator@infosec.exchange (Sidenote: did you have an earlier account elsewhere? Because it's a bit odd to call this a "worrying trend" when this has very explicitly been the policy here for *years* and you joined here less than a month ago...)
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@SeanWrightSec@infosec.exchange @buherator@infosec.exchange To reiterate: fedi is primarily a place built by marginalized people for marginalized people, and that means a heavy emphasis on community safety features.
It is neither meant to be a Twitter clone, nor a "public square", nor something that optimizes for "what the majority wants".
Convenience with disregard for the consequences is already the default everywhere else. Why is it such a problem that this is the one place where it isn't? Why does everything need to be like Twitter?
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if pixie.town goes down today it'll be because of a local power outage, there's a big fire in the substation 😬 👁️
- Future new account
- @joepie91@slightly.tech
- Matrix
- @joepie91:pixie.town
- Pronouns
- they/them, he/him, whatever, it's not like I have any idea either 🙃
In the process of moving to @joepie91. This account will stay active for the foreseeable future! But please also follow the other one.
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.
Joined Aug 2019
