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Tomorrow I will finally have a functioning dishwasher again \o/

while numerous humble fediverse admins are signing The Anti-Meta Pact

it seems some untold number of high-profile ones have signed the opposite

The Meta Vow of Silence

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The anti-Meta fedi pact continues to grow, with more and more instance admins pledging to block any Facebook/Meta instances! fedipact.online/

If you run a fedi instance, consider signing it too: cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view

with the threat of meta's project92 looming on the horizon

i've created the ANTI-META ADMIN PACT

please sign if you're an admin/mod on a fedi instance

who has the ability and authority to defederate

and you pledge to do so when meta inevitably bursts onto the scene

SIGN HERE (now with 100% less google!): cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view

VIEW SIGNATURES HERE: vantaa.black/pact

#meta #facebook #barcelona #project92 #mastodon #fediverse #FediBlockMeta #FediAdmin #p92 #MastoAdmin

And I really hate it when people do this, because it ends up demotivating a lot of people from even trying - they just *believe* these absolutist statements, and now it definitely won't be possible because nobody even attempts it anymore

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That's not to say that there aren't things that are *literally* impossible, of course. But like, you do at least need to be able to explain *why* it is impossible, what the fundamental barrier is? And not just assume it based on observed results?

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Something that continues to baffle me is how many people will draw conclusions about whether something is *possible*, purely based on whether it has succeeded so far - without any attempt at understanding *why* something has succeeded or failed before, and whether that might be possible to change by changing the circumstances.

And like, this is not just a neurotypical thing. I see plenty of ND folks do this just as much. And the conclusions are always super absolutist - not "I don't see how to make this work", but straight-up "this is clearly not possible at all".

@BlackMastodon
Obviously, be careful and do your research as a White person offering a leg up and a POC person receiving that leg up in the business world.

But when a White person, especially a White person in power vouches for you in the business world, I've found all of a sudden doors fly open for you.
Its wild. 🤔

But offer to mentor a POC/Black. Offer to review a resume. Offer to put in a word for them. Mention their name and their work.

THAT is REAL ally shit.
#blackmastodon #blackfedi

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What if any resource under `/.well-known/permissive-cors/` automatically had maximally permissive CORS policy, by default? Would save sooooo much roundtrip latency on preflight checks.

spicier take 

Relatedly: "making Nix more accessible" does *not* mean "giving it a static type system"

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"Nix is insufficiently accessible" and "something like Nix is absolutely critical for the future of computing" can both be true at the same time

It is my intention to block any commercial companies operating fediverse servers from accessing mastodon.radio users and content.

I think that companies like meta building fediverse compatible services is an existential threat to this network and the first step in Embrace, Extend, Extinguish.

Related to this, I have signed @vantablack pact fedipact.online

#instanceAdmin

Website: "Your User Agent has been banned. Please try again with a different client configuration if you believe this was a mistake."

me: *sets User Agent to 'fuck you'*

Website: *works*

Is there a JS libsodium implementation somewhere that uses the Web Crypto API? Is this even possible with what the Web Crypto API offers?

reddit, question 

So, what's the latest on the Reddit shitshow?

It occurs to me that fedi seems to be the only place where I can actually get answers to my weird-ass niche technical questions

So yesterday I was writing some code that talks to fedi servers, and I entered foo @ baz.bar as a test ID and what the hell, turns out that domain not only exists but also is running an actual Mastodon instance

Guess I should've listened to the "use example.com for testing" thing

Browser extension development question: is it still possible (including in Chrome!) to intercept response headers of all HTTP requests?

Don't need to modify them or anything, but I have an idea for an extension that identifies 'compatible' sites by a server-provided response header (to avoid having to inject any code into the page).

The header name is known upfront (and is a custom header), but it should be intercepted for every pageload that is visible to the user, regardless of domain.

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