Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

Seeing Big Tech folks jump into the fediverse and – without so much as a “how do you do, fellow kids?” – roll up their sleeves to write the rules, dream up commercial services, and pontificate about how advertising should run on it. 👀

#fediverse #BigTech #corporateCapture #warning

@estrapade @s0 I think IT culture has real issues with implementing things that would help the implementer, without considering its impact on others.

There's a good argument that this mirrors a lot of historical powerful groups with similar attitudes throughout human history.

@alicia Just before I head to sleep, I figured I’d give you another Mastodon explainer to help you orient. 😁

There are 3 timelines on Mastodon: home (people you follow), local (people on your instance) & federated (every toot your instance knows about).

Most apps will let you switch between them.

Whether or not you see a toot is explained in this handy flowchart made by Per Axbom.

Enough people used my flowchart on the visibility of a toot as a an example of “how complex Mastodon is”, that I just had to make one on the visibility of a tweet.

The visibility of a tweet is always unpredictable. A post on Mastodon appears chronologically in a transparent and predictable way.

Just sayin' 😜

#FediTips

The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash.

You can download and hash it yourself, and it should still match - 1337e2ef42b9bee8de06a4d223a51337

I think this is the first PNG/MD5 hashquine.

A cryptobro DMed me to ask if I wanted to join his mailing list.

I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.

Hey Mastodon folks

You may not be aware but there is a thriving community of people sharing photos of MOSS

Like, several times a day man, it's great

They have a hashtag:

#Mosstodon

moss moss moss moss MOSS

Hey, I have an idea, why don’t we make the keyboard shortcut to bookmark a page in a web browser the same as the shortcut to exit a terminal session. That won’t get confusing at all. After all, no one ever has the wrong app selected…

PS. Bonus points if you can pick a letter that doesn’t actually appear in the word “bookmark.”

#design #petPeeves #terminal #browser #keyboardShortcuts #dev

when will people finally realize that we can't separate our issues one from another? everything is connected. we all are in the same boat. but they decided that they are just gonna be petty bigoted bitches who think that they can oppress others or ignore the oppression of others, despite being minority themselves.

shame on you. shame on transphobes who are queer. you are traitors.

so, let's see.

there has been a nationwide push against trans healthcare in USA because of the whole groomer rhetoric

and now gay people are at stake too for the same reasons.

i want to find the gay conservatives, "LGB Alliance" supporters, TERFs and just come to them and slap them in their faces

because you motherfuckers are so stupid that you thought that fascists were going to spare you if you supported their bigotry.

you were tools, and you were used.

This is an old project, but by some miracle it's still working and I woke up this morning wanting to celebrate the things I love more.

This Inkplate e-ink screen shows Conway's Game of Life, seeded from tarpits I have on the Internet. The tarpits are programs on my computer that superficially look like insecure Telnet and Remote Desktop services, but actually exist to respond super slowly and make bots scanning the Internet 'get stuck'.

When a bot connects to the tarpit, the data it sends gets squished into a 5x5 grid and 'stamped' onto a Game of Life board. Data from a bot at the IP address 1.1.x.x will get stamped on the top left corner, data from a bot at 254.254.x.x will get stamped on the bottom right corner.

Conway's Game of Life, a set of simple rules that govern whether cells should turn on or off, updates the display once per second. The result is that bot attacks end up appearing as distinct 'creatures', that get bigger and more angry looking over time (as their centre is updated with new data). After the attack finishes, the 'creature' eventually burns itself out.

Despite that description, it's a really chill piece of art that doesn't draw too much attention but I can happily watch for a long time.

Credit for the idea goes to @_mattata, I had been wanting to make a real-life version of XKCD #350 for years before seeing his Botnet Fishbowl project.

#projects #inkplate #esp32 #eink #infosec #tarpit

Proposed resolution:

When Tumblr joins the fediverse by implementing ActivityPub, we should:
- Defederate Tumblr if they inject ads into the federation for our users, and
- Defederate Tumblr if they place federated posts (our posts) alongside ads.

No ads on fedi.

Edit: This is a PROPOSAL. The intent of this is not to dictate terms, but to encourage admins to develop and consider policy before the crisis happens.

#MastoAdmins #mastoadmin #meta

can't help but read this in a british accent

Some background reading that may help to explain why for-profit companies "embracing" Activitypub makes some of us antsy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Me: Bills payed
J: Bills? We have bills?!
Me: Yup
J: This is not the anarchist utopia I was promised