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

Here's my plan. Confiscate the assets of everyone with a net worth over a billion dollars to bring them down to a billion dollars. If they complain, bring them down to a million dollars. If they complain again ...

Well if it isn't cryptocurrency spam coming from the biggest, open instance on the #Fediverse. 👀

I wonder if this is at all related to challenges with moderating an instance of *checks notes* 200k active accounts? Or with moderating new accounts on the only instance actively promoted in the official apps?

Thankfully we can always defederate! What's that? It's the biggest instance so there are real concerns about a lot of people losing connections? Whodda thunk it!

The size of mastodon.social is breaking the moderation story of the #Fediverse.

Moderation on fedi relies on:

1. instance admins and moderators being able to manage bad actors on their own instance;

2. instance admins being able to silence or defederate from insufficiently moderated instances.

Mastodon.social's size and the speed new accounts are set up there means that 1. is very difficult. The size of m.s. and the clout of some of its users means 2. is a hard decision.

bees :)

#WorldBeeDay #bees #insects

After recapping a dead Macintosh SE/30 at the #HomeComputerMuseum, we switched it on to see if our work had made any improvements. We were greeted with this startup screen.

It's #WorldBeeDay! I love bees, especially bumble bees. I worked for a beekeeper for one full year, so I got to do every seasonal activity of beekeeping. Each time I witnessed bees emerging from the hive, I cheered them on: "Go bees, go!"
Yes, I am a nerd for nature.

Stop using pesticides and rip out that environmental abomination you call a lawn. This photo of a Vosnesensky Bumble bee is from my lawn-free yard.

#SaveTheBees #bees #bumblebee #macro #Ecology #insect

Folks running GoToSocial on single-board computers: how's it going? How's performance been? Any issues? Are you running with a connected USB hard drive, or just with on-board storage? Curious to hear about it

If you use KeePass 2.x (NOT KeePassXC or KeePass 1.x) then your master password has been leaked into your RAM in cleartext - the fix won't be released until June, but you can get an unstable experimental build with a fix right now, or you can uninstall keepass and move to KeePassXC: https://www.pcworld.com/article/1923963/an-exploit-can-reveal-your-keepass-master-password-in-plaintext.html

Like, regl is *really* cool, and it would allow so many novel experimental things if more people knew of its existence and wrote tutorials about it

I wish regl would get some more love, rather than everybody's focus on three.js (which has a pretty questionable architecture and is really difficult to extend for experimental stuff)

But bringing a bunch of streaming media on an external HDD and having Jellyfin was the right call 100%. Why stream when I can just bring all my media on little box? This is what they want to take from us.

I've launched the accessible numbers project! 🎉

https://accessiblenumbers.com

How to design services for people who need help with numbers.

It's been stressful and I almost gave up. And while the site isn't perfect, I think it's in a good place.

I hope it's useful to many.

Site by @davesmyth