Notices by Alex (avolkov@mastodon.xyz), page 5

The Trolley Problem, American edition*.

* also applies to Australia

The realization: the perfect audience for any advertising company is a person who’s impulsive, angry, frightened and tired. The cyclic relationships between what you see and how you feel and react means that any machine learning effort aimed at improving business outcomes for an advertising company will unavoidably optimize itself towards creating an audience that’s impulsive, angry, frightened and tired. The incentives don’t permit any other outcome, whatever the people working there say.

RT @FondaJLee@twitter.com
Hollywood is like a excruciatingly unimaginative boyfriend that keeps bringing you to the same restaurant over and over again because you once said you liked the bread there. https://twitter.com/newsarama/status/1173948091554324480

who will be the fifth

Great Darkness

#comic #webcomic #warandpeas

If you need to do this yourself:

dpkg-deb -x zoom_amd64.deb zoom_deb
dpkg-deb --control zoom_amd64.deb zoom_deb/DEBIAN
<edit DEBIAN/control to make ibus a "Recommends:">
dpkg -b zoom_deb patched_zoom_amd64.deb

I've collected some of my correspondence with people from FOSStodon to share my answers to some of the questions I see going around.

https://emsenn.net/essays/curated-thoughts-on-fosstodon/

I try and answer:

- What is a "Techbro"?
- Can FOSStodon Be Saved?
- How Can This Be Solved, Beside Discussion?
- What Should FOSStodon's Moderators Learn Right now?
- What's Wrong with Kev's Apology?

Hello there, fediverse! I'm Kat, a US-based artist, and I create maps for #tabletopgames, including #Battletech! #PortfolioDay

🎨http://katwylder.com
🎨https://www.patreon.com/katwylder
🎨https://gumroad.com/KatDraws
✉️KatWylderArt [at] http://gmail.com

I would block fewer pleroma instances if it were easier to figure out who the admins are, and whether or not the problematic individuals are also admins. As things stand now, if there’s no CoC, I have to err on the side of instance blocking because it’s too much work to figure out wtf the instance’s deal is.

Gab actually uses a custom user agent to grab stuff.

Mastodon does the same, but this makes it easy to make sure gab instances can't pull from you!

add
if ($http_user_agent ~* (gabsocial)) {
return 403;
}

To your nginx configuration. That blocks all requests with a user agent that includes "gabsocial" (case insensitive)

You can also add other user agents, at your leisure

It just returns a 403 if they try to pull