@someonetellmetosleep Strong agree
re: infosec meta, question
@ruby Unfortunately that one has just turned out to be fed-friendly :(
Results of today's #StreetComplete trip:
- The optician was closed due to an eye surgery
- The social housing corporation's office is up for rent
- There are now two branches of the same flower shop within the same shopping area. In addition to the two supermarkets of the same chain we already had.
I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried.
re: subtoot
@scanlime Also I am disappointed but not surprised by the *many* folks on that instance inventing an imaginary reason for the fediblock and then criticizing that, instead of, y'know, listening to the actual reasons people have been giving.
@ardaxi @whreq Even verder gezocht, is https://www.attema.com/nl_NL/producten/connectivity/k25p25-plattebuissysteem/k25p25-toebehoren/3168/a25-uitbreidingsdoos-wit-ral-9010?c=1797 + Attema K25 kokers niet wat?
@brainblasted Worth noting that Automattic itself does not have an entirely clean slate either; for many years, if you wanted to move your free blog away from Wordpress.com, they have been charging a *significant* recurring fee (currently $13/year) to set up a redirect.
It's definitely pretty shitty to lure people into a "free" service, and then basically hold their linked-to domain hostage by charging quite a bit of money for something that costs them virtually nothing to maintain (in fact, it would cost less than continuing to serve up the blog, which they *don't* charge you for).
Also makes any promises of long-term interoperability pretty suspect...
I have mixed feelings about the Tumblr ActivityPub thing. On one hand, that's a lot of users that will now be able to interact with our open community here, and I feel like that can be a good thing. I always felt like fedi culture and Tumblr culture were very similar too. However, a major company becoming part of the ecosystem is an entry point for companies to take over the ecosystem. I think the current owners of Tumblr are decent people, but if Automattic or Tumblr get acquired again we may end up in a situation where a company wants to take over fedi for the benefit of its shareholders.
@scanlime I wish it were that easy outside of fedi
infosec, politics
@ava Mmm, I'd say that this issue in many ways predates the "official recognition" of infosec as a field, much of infosec history is colored by it.
For example, there's long been a problem of many in the infosec field being just straight-up power-hungry assholes, who wield their knowledge as a sort of 'weapon of dominance' over others.
Government/corporate recognition of infosec has basically just laundered those practices, as long as they are in the service of capital and oppressive power.
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