Notices by D. Joe (deejoe@mstdn.io), page 3

Maybe this is the real spark that ignites in people. It's not so much that they care about being tidy, it's that they are sick of performative passion, but instead seek permission to pursue joy.

@zenix I hear that *checks notes* emacs is going to have a web browser soon.

oh wait, that video is from 2013... this actually exists now. 😭 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eww_(web_browser)

Failure pattern i'm seeing a lot lately:

User creates a ticket on software bug/issue tracking tool. Treats issue tracking system as a discussion pulpit. Told to discuss on another forum.

User & onlookers interprets benign response as rude, or worse as admission of guilt. Decry the sins against them.

Framed as social slight, report surface affront on social media/journalism. Many take affront with perceived injustice

Developers tarred & feathered by a mob. Locks thread to collaborators only.

so, this happened

https://blog.archive.org/2018/12/05/join-us-for-a-grand-re-opening-of-the-public-domain-january-25-2019/

@colomar
Self hosted alternatives for Meetup : Agorakit and Get Together look interesting. https://gettogether.community

Wikipedia and Google delude many into thinking all human knowledge has been made available to our immediate access.
This is a dangerous lie.
Any scholar will tell you of the vast amount of documents and artifacts completely unavailble online, or indeed impossible to easily scan or study online.
And this silent wealth pales before the oral and analog culture which, in a McLuhanian dimension, can not be simply digitized and maintain integrity.

@Gorio @philippemargery @diggity @Purism @maxeddy

One last observation, as it occurred to me that some vendors may seek to exploit consumers very legitimate concerns about mass surveillance: if you are dealing with a loss of trust between people and government
an appropriate response cannot be primarily technological. It must necessarily be social and political.

@philippemargery @61 @Purism OWS has had a contentious relationship w/ FOSS devs who want alt. clients/forks of Signal that interop w/ OWS network

From the OWS perspective, it's important to keep the UI/UX consistent; alternative clients degrade the user experience for everyone on the network, and use expensive resources. Security and QC are impossible to verify for apps out of OWS control

The FOSS-y arguments are familiar, and include the fact that centralization is dangerous for freedom. 2/2

@philippemargery @61 @Purism Signal isn't "bad". In a nutshell:

OpenWhisperSystems / the devs behind Signal made the choice to centralize the service and build identity around the phone number system, instead of doing the federated / decentralized approach.

They did this consciously to encourage widespread adoption without the traditional difficulties associated with a decentralized, multiple-client approach.

That makes it different from approaches by Matrix.org, XMPP, and so on. 1/2

@nextcloud When will y'all post FIRST from Mastodon then share out to silos / non-open platforms like Twitter instead of providing the sporadic broken links?

I accidentally a Font Degooglifier:
https://git.occrp.org/libre/fonts-degooglifier

I was sick and tired of having to manually degooglify fonts, so I made this. Seems to work. Handles both local files and URLs.

Perhaps somebody finds it useful.

#WebDev #SysAdmin #Google

"When is the last time you saw an anonymous comment thread or collaborative doc end in general happiness?" https://idlewords.com/talks/fan_is_a_tool_using_animal.htm

New band name: "Volatile Esters" ?

Getting into InfoSec is like looking under the hood of a car for the first time and expecting to see an engine but finding chickens on treadmills and a guy making "vroom" noises whilst posting disparaging remarks about women on Twitter.

[CW all posts from this user]

all those twitter bots posting sensitive shit. all those users who don't respect CWs that involve your triggers. Viewed at your discretion when you're mentally prepared. It'd be neat.

I love this chart. It shows me which services were people using and how many times they've attempted to compromise my privacy in the last month.

#pihole really helps me deal with this boring dystopia we're living in.

@virus

Berne just about guarantees you *always* need a license.

It's just that FOSS licenses are so easy to deal with in comparison, especially for users all the way downstream who need only freedom 0 & so don't even need to worry about copyleft incompatibility.

@quad

I fucking love O'Neill Cylinders