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I have not presented to mastodon yet the fact that my cat knows to ring a bell whenever she has an urgent need that I must fulfill! #MagicalMinka

I taught her to do it because her previous way of notifying me was pulling any paper out of my shelves and destroying it. this is much less destructive.

she used to ring for all kinds of things, but ever since she's chosen my roommate over me she only returns to my room to ring when she's hungry or to complain that my roommate's door is closed.

Note to self (and maybe others)

"TypeError: Cannot read property 'isPartial' of null"

... means that you've probably passed null/undefined into the `.for` method on a model

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@f0x ^ yet somehow this was frequently one of the more reliable Matrix servers in existence

@cgranade @zkat I think a frequently-overlooked (and much more impactful) aspect of this, is that centralized systems nearly always come with a requirement for marketing/analytics infrastructure, which frequently consumes orders of magnitude more resources than the actual thing being marketed

Christmas decorations are going up! You’ve got the tree, lights, asbestos… Wait, what?

For decades, asbestos was sold as artificial snow. It could be bought in boxes to be sprinkled onto trees, ornaments, nativity scenes, etc. It was so popular, many older ornaments still have traces of asbestos.

It was also used in film. The most famous scene with asbestos snow is in Wizard of Oz (1939), when snow falls on Dorothy and her friends, waking them up.

#histodons @histodons #christmas

Mastodon 4 adds a new endpoint, /api/v1/instance/domain_blocks

This endpoint contains your instance's block list in an easily machine-readable format. As far as I know, the only tool that currently uses this endpoint is the kiwifarms one.

The endpoint does not require any form of authentication, so it's very easy to scrape. I recommend editing your web server configuration to prevent access to the endpoint until there's something legitimate that uses it.

#fediblock #mastoadmin

I wish we could rely on governments or companies or other institutions to be there for us. But increasingly we will not be able to. *We have to do it ourselves.*

Housing, community safety, cyclist/pedestrian infrastructure, local journalism, education, preventing drug overdoses, running social media…It is all up to us. There is no one else.

It's a dizzying realization. It's terrifying…but also incredibly empowering.

Does anyone else feel this way?

🐦

Relatedly: I wish Objection.js actually had meaningful error feedback instead of just throwing a meaningless stacktrace nested 10 levels deep

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@whreq @ardaxi Ik heb met die 'gecko-tape' ook succes gehad op mijn textuurplafond, maar die is wel gelijk een stuk dikker dan de gemiddelde montage-tape

@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt Right, am not using the built-in console though

TIL: in VS Code's file switcher 'command bar', you can just enter a path:line:char stacktrace entry and it'll jump directly to the correct location

re: infosec meta 

@Kye@tech.lgbt Basically absolutely zero attempt to understand the reasons for defed, or even acknowledge that hey, maybe these marginalized folks might actually understand a thing or two about threats to their safety

re: infosec meta 

@Kye@tech.lgbt The replies to Jerry's original post about it are basically almost entirely "they clearly don't understand threat models" and/or "they're overreacting", with a significant dose of "they should unblock us so that we, the experts, can teach them proper risk modelling"

infosec meta 

The thing that gets me about the infosec.exchange thing is that at least Jerry seems to understand and respect the choice to defederate...

... which is something that cannot be said for seemingly its entire usebase

I blocked infosec.exchange, in line with Scholar's no-cops policy (I know, strictly speaking not cops, but DHS is close enough for us)

A user on Scholar wanted to migrate there, asked me to un-suspend them while they did that

It took ~ 35 mins for users on infosec.exchange to start sending us harassing messages

Not cool

if the ear resonates with sound waves for your brain to interpret as sound, does that mean when I put a square wave in Famitracker my ear drum is doing binary

@ifixcoinops I'm trying to find #theowlhouse people
PLEASE!
No one seems to have moved from the bird app. I don't think they learnt how to fly yet....or they're all penguins in which case i'm in big trouble because I was only on there for the artists 😭

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