Notices by kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org), page 64

@elomatreb

i can't cure lack of knowledge any other way.

If you're in the US and thrilled about the FCC's proposal to repeal #NetNeutrality regulations, here's what you can do next:

* Buy Netflix stock and tell them to behave reponsibly as a company.

* Tell the pro-neutrality crowd that they are being used as tools to enable Netflix to be subsidized by your ISP bill.

pondering how to *responsibly* bring FTS to mastodon.

key points:

- FTS would be opt-in on a per-post basis

- Accounts would have a setting for the default opt-in/opt-out

- The opt-in/opt-out would be added as an ActivityPub message attribute

- A visual warning would be displayed for opt-out posts advising that the opt-in/opt-out only works for servers you trust, similar to the other warnings of that nature.

@mememan @claire

mastodon a long time ago had FTS patches.

they were abandoned largely because postgres FTS doesn't provide the capabilities a typical user expects out of FTS.

fundamentally, social software which claims to also be "free software" shouldn't do two things:

- lie to users

- obstruct access to functionality that is trivially accessed outside the software

AGPL is very clear: software is meant to work for the *user*, not the *admin* and not other third parties.

welp, i guess i should rebase on mastodon master.

to be clear: the only way to be absolutely sure that your statuses are not exposed to full-text search are to (1) never ever federate with anyone and (2) use only an instance with an admin you trust (because they can go into postgres and search that way).

seriously, that is the "cool story bro"-est of the "cool story bro"s i have seen in a long time

@shadowfirebird @Elizafox

it really depends on what side of the authoritarian vs libertarian side of the neo-con spectrum you land on.

libertarians are neo-cons that wish to smash the state and replace it with corporate rule. snowden and assange are people who would be this type of neo-con.

seriously that is up there amongst other bullshit like:

- IRCv3.3 hasn't shipped in 3 years because it's now a "living standard"

- InspIRCd is memory efficient because it's written in C++ and leverages RAII heavily

- grsecurity and PaX are critical for linux security

mastodon doesn't implement full-text search to "protect" you!

HahAHAHaAHAAhAAAHHAAAHHAAAHAHAAAAH

THAT IS THE MOST HILARIOUS BULLSHIT I HAVE HEARD SO FAR THIS WEEK

gargamel doesn't want to implement full-text search for your safety! HA.

more like he doesn't want to add another 2GB RAM requirement on for a lucene implementation such as elasticsearch.

this is seriously the most ridiculous theory i've ever heard this week, and i find it funny that gargamel jumped on that explanation.

@Siphonay @Elizafox

did you know that it is possible to be a neo-con without being transphobic, homophobic or racist ?

i sure love it when misinformed people try to "dumbsplain" things to me by recycling hype

@claire

yeah i am sure a white cis male is really working hard to protect you!

or he just decided to say that because it sounds good from a PR perspective.

@claire

lordie you people are *way* off base for why mastodon doesn't have full-text search by default.

the real answer is because full-text search in postgresql is ridiculously expensive and doing it for real would require storing the toots *twice*: one copy in postgres for forward lookups, and one copy in lucene for reverse lookup (searching).

basically the cost of the feature outweighs it's usefulness in most cases.

@claire

tell that to Alphabet, Inc.

@claire

ETHICAL DESIGN OF MASTODON

L O FUCKING L

i wonder how many people remember that SNOWDEN is a neo-conservative and only whistle-blew on the NSA because he disliked the surveillance apparatus.

@Elizafox

"common sense" is not the same thing as "instabanned."

"instabanned" is reimagined traditional IRCop thuggery.

@Elizafox

YEAH!!!! THAT'S EXACTLY THE NONFLEXIBLE MODERATION POLICIES WE NEED!!!!