Notices by miramarco (miramarco@octodon.social)

PSA: The Eurovision semifinals and the final will take place this week on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday night (Europe time). Many people, including me, will livetoot the event.

If you are NOT interested in it, I suggest you to mute the following hashtags: #Eurovision, #ESC, #ESC2019. Thank you for your patience.

[Poll] Let's do a wisdom-of-the-crowd experiment.

If we were to choose a random answer among four, each of them would get ~25% of the votes.

But are we able to distribute our votes according to the percentages shown below? (If you can't see them, they are 5, 10, 25, and 60%.)

Don't cheat by using your alt accounts :blobamused: Boosts are welcome!

@thorthenorseman Yes, that's true, not just in the quality, but also in the quantity! Having a native guide showing you around would be ideal – especially in those quiet and charming villages in the Centre of Italy.

Bucket list:
☑️ Flushing in Flushing, NYC
☑️ Reading in Reading, UK
☑️ Tooting from Tooting, London
◻️ Fucking in Fucking, Austria

Good morning people, and happy GDPR Day!

“Shadow profiles! Compensation!”

Oh the MEPs saying aloud the topics #Zuckerberg wants to avoid!

#AskMastodon: Does modern text-to-speech software recognize what is written using non-conventional #Unicode alphabetic characters? For example, are they able to read the following words normally?

𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒊𝒗𝒐𝒄𝒂𝒍
ａｅｓｔｈｅｔｉｃｓ
𝖎𝖓𝖙𝖗𝖆𝖓𝖘𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙
𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚍𝚒𝚐𝚖
🅀🅄🄰🄽🄳🄰🅁🅈
𝓰𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓶𝓪𝓷𝓭
𝗂𝗇𝖼𝗈𝗇𝗍𝗋𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗋𝗍𝗂𝖻𝗅𝖾

Gmail's upcoming self-destructing emails will require the recipients to click on a link and log in with their #Google accounts to see the content, if they are accessing via IMAP/SMTP.

Don't be fooled: Google's purpose is not to give us more confidentiality. They want all of their users to access their mailboxes via the Gmail app or their web interface, so they are creating a burden to the recipients and calling it “security” to convince people to adopt it.

While we wait for the new year, please give a thought to all the workers who are on shift tonight. Let's be thankful to all the doctors, nurses, EMTs, police officers, firefighters, cab and subway drivers, hotel clerks, security guards, maintenance technicians, sysadmins, air traffic controllers, and everyone else who is not having a break tonight

China is launching a Social Credit System, which is intended to award “trustworthy citizens”. It will mandatory by 2020.

In the meantime, advertisers can track the faces of the people looking at billboards and have an estimate of their mood.

Now combine the two things and imagine a government that gives you a score based on your mood, and the happier you look, the more privileges they give you.