Notices by Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)
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Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jun-2019 15:57:15 EDT 
Annah
@lnxw48a1 Looks like the gab crowd is settling in. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jun-2019 19:26:58 EDT
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FYI: The new canonical !postactiv repository is at: http://git.postactiv.com/postActiv/postactiv #postactiv -
mangeurdenuage (mangeurdenuage@loadaverage.org)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2019 16:31:13 EDT 
mangeurdenuage
@liangbeijiu
>mainstream browsers start URL filtering to protect users from seeing disharmonious content
That's already happening, in FF the "Block dangerous and deceptive content" added websites that were not about malware but about political/non political websites, there's someone on the fedi that has his website on that list but I can't recall who, is it you @dirb ? -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2019 16:24:33 EDT
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@purplehippo @mangeurdenuage I spin and spin and this is what happens. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2019 14:12:12 EDT
Annah
@mangeurdenuage Gawrsh -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2019 12:47:42 EDT
Annah
@thj A combatative, conflict-oriented mindset cannot allow opposition to go unchallenged, and this often leads them to impulsively engage these people in unhelpful ways. They allow their (at least perceived) enemy to dictate the terms of engagement and it is not the way you defeat them. -
Don Romano 🍹 (thj@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2019 05:11:48 EDT 
Don Romano 🍹
This whole concerted effort to block Gab from Mastodon is interesting, because the people who are doing it like to talk about tolerance.
These are the same people who will defend Palestine. Do they know that Mein Kampf is a popular book in the Middle East?
Suppressing belief systems doesn't work. It has never worked. Pushing them down only make them push back harder. Putting a lid on the pot only makes it boil over quicker. History teaches us this a million times over.
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Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Saturday, 01-Jun-2019 11:11:26 EDT
Annah
@ninjawedding Coming back to this since man I was not in the mindset to be putting these kinds of words together the past couple of days, but:
What I'm saying, essentially, is that while there is always an ethical imperative to reduce harm, the meaningful way to do so in this instance is one of two things: either educate users on the ways in which they can reduce the threat model, since this threat model is basically "the application being used as intended", or modify the way that private messages work such that the thread model is no longer an issue, which would be achieved by E2EE.
This kind of thing is exactly why the GNU social crowd has been so loud about the blatantly public nature of the Fediverse as it stands now: treating it as anything but that, is going to lead to problems. We can certainly change that if desired, but that's the state of things now.
I feel that going after people obstensibly using the program as intended, even if we find their particular use morally-objectionable, is not going to be a good idea for the long-term health of the Fediverse, because it is going to create a source of constant conflict. It's the same reason I find publicly-passed around blocklists questionable too. We should be seeking to avoid conflict insofar as is possible, not cause it.
As one suggestion, I think it's a *bad idea* to have timelines mixing public and private posts, because without clear separation, you're going to have people posting publicly what they think is private (and vice versa). -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2019 21:51:09 EDT
Annah
@mangeurdenuage @switchingsocial
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Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2019 20:23:51 EDT
Annah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjSCohaFe4U
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Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Friday, 31-May-2019 18:59:40 EDT
Annah
1-1-2029 Tonight the stars are shining bright -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2019 21:57:42 EDT
Annah
@bob I think the way that static site generators do this is going in the right direction, but we should basically have the site just be the flat files the sites are generated from, and the web browser be the generator. To allow sites to control their own branding, you can provide your own styles or something, but the user should always be allowed to change them fully and completely, without specialized tools or knowledge. This will never happen in the current situation, because it would empower users to remove intrusive and obnoxious advertising content, however. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2019 20:26:22 EDT
Annah
@lnxw48a1 Gab is basically seeking anyone else but themselves to responsibility for their actions. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2019 08:05:13 EDT
Annah
@purplehippo Additionally, every single fingerprint electronic lock I've seen have had master overrides, and that compromises the security significantly, because its never just law enforcement that finds these things. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2019 08:02:16 EDT
Annah
@purplehippo A fingerprint lock is also fairly trivial for anyone who understands them to fake out, which has been a problem for phones that use them. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2019 00:05:05 EDT
Annah
Ultimately, these things offer a false sense of security, and I suspect people just use them to look like they're securing their guns from unauthorized use without caring about how effective that method is. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2019 00:03:23 EDT
Annah
Everytime I see something on gun trigger locks, I'm always a little nonplussed. I would never lock a medical kit, so why do we lock guns? If you are genuinely in a situation of medical emergency, seconds mean the difference between life and death, and just the same, if I am in a situation where I must use the lethal force of a defensive sidearm to defend myself, seconds are just as important. Even the quickest trigger lock is going to set you back more than enough time for you to be fatally injured. I guess with say, sporting rifles, there may be a bit more need for something like that, but in the case of a firearm used less frequently than a defensive carry, a gun safe or locked gun case is a much better bet, especially since gun cases generally have harder to pick cylinders than a trigger lock (and you cant pry those off a gun whereas you can most trigger locks) -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2019 22:37:07 EDT
Annah
"The presidents of Peru, Colombia, Ecuador and Bolivia have criticized the recent ICANN decision to grant global retailer Amazon the rights to the .amazon"
This is why you don't give a for-profit commercial organization governance powers. If you think normal government is corruptible, for-profit commercial organization government has corruption built in. -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2019 22:04:07 EDT
Annah
At some point in the next few days there will be some downtime as I upgrade various software on the server. Probably on the weekend in case something explodes in a time-demanding way since I have appointments both tomorrow and friday -
Annah (maiyannah@community.highlandarrow.com)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2019 08:17:07 EDT
Annah
Veteran of the Fediverse Wars, to the tune of Veteran of the Psychic Wars by Blue Oyster Cult
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