If you're a white person and want to be an ally, you have other options than victim blaming.
Make sure your instance blocks racist abusers. Ask what measures they're taking to ensure the safety of BIPoC folk on your instance. Ask the developers of your instance's software what tools they're implementing to help combat racism. Ask them what demographic of people they're listening to when developing those tools (I can pretty much guarantee hardly any are listening to Black folk).
USpol, KOSA, Harris
see parent post: https://scholar.social/@so_treu/112877843513910811
abortion access
The Iowa abortion ban has gone into effect, and Iowans are going to Illinois for abortions. If you can donate to the Iowa Abortion Access Fund, that would be great:
Hi everyone, I'm looking to relocate to another instance, mine is closing in the future!
Please boost
I'm souls, we have been very happy on plural.cafe but we sadly have to migrate.
I'm looking for an instance with strong moderation / blocklists & closed signups, not a large instance and mods / admins that are approachable!
We like computers, do queer community work IRL and are from the EU! If you need any more info please do ask. I'm not really sure how all of this works :]
Thank you so much 🙇
I've probably asked this here before but…Linux geeks: Is there any such thing as a smart .forward replacement? What I mean is, I know that when an Email comes in, if the user has a file called .forward (for those whose screen readers mispronounce this, the file is called dot forward), that Email is forwarded to the Email addresses in that file. However, as far as I know, the forwarding happens for all incoming Emails, indiscriminately. For some situations this is okay, but there are situations where I want to ideally automatically forward Email to a person or list of people, but in case spammers ever get hold of that address I don't want that to get forwarded, as then that spam would appear to be coming from my server, and going to otherwise trusted/willing recipients. So does anyone know of any type of system that forwards Emails, but has some configurability, for example, only auto-forward Email from these trusted Email addresses, etc? Another possible solution would be some sort of web application that receives Emails to be forwarded and holds them in a queue pending my manual review, at which point I can add the sender to a trusted sender's list to be auto-forwarded, forward the Email, not forward it, add the sender to the naughty list so to speak, etc. Maybe @adam would know? Please boost for reach. Thanks.
Every time an app complains that it can’t be ran if a phone is rooted it just makes me wonder how bad their shit really is if “we can trust everything from the client because it cannot lie to us because google said it is so” is what they rely on
honestly, “device attestation” is another one of those things makes it seem like the infosec community has just kind of given up
never trust data from the client, your system must be secure even if the client could lie to you! Unless I guess the machine is using magical pixie dust to make sure the client can never lie to you, making everything fine
I wonder to what degree concern trolling could be defeated (on a policy level) by outright banning 'concerns' in policy discussion and only allowing input to be expressed in terms of 'needs' (since that implicitly leaves open how to fulfill those needs, whereas 'concerns' attack a specific implementation and often imply another)
CW ableism (Pink News whistleblowing)
So it turns out Pink News's CEO has told staff to "be careful" hiring neurodivergent people because they'd use their disabilities to excuse poor performance and be hard to get rid of due to employment law. Solution: don't support this ableist rag.
See the whistleblower account on X for more:
The second thing is well worth more discussion. And I'm gonna take a hard stance on this. If people of color still find ourselves dependent on a small team of white devs to get what we want, that is a failure of the principles of the fediverse.
I understand why it still feels like we have to ask the mastodon team for things. I'm not dismissing the reality of where we are. But our goal should be actively move away from this dynamic. How do we do that?
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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
Feel free to flirt, but if you want to actually meet up and/or do something with me, lewd or otherwise, please tell me explicitly or I won't realize :) I'm generally very open to that sort of thing!
Further boundaries: boosts are OK (including for lewd posts), DMs are open. But the devil doesn't need an advocate; I'm not interested in combative arguing in my mentions. I am however happy to explain things in-depth when asked non-combatively.
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.