Notices by deutrino (deutrino@mstdn.io), page 7

Alternative take on the 10x developer:

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RT @reduct_rs@twitter.com
Wow! This One Programmer Has Caused Ten Of His Coworkers To Quit!

We Call Him The 10 Ex-Engineer.
https://twitter.com/reduct_rs/status/1149905271596052480

check out what was in one of the boxes of floppies :O

Holy crap y'all tonight I actually sat down and repeatedly refactored a chunk of code to make it easier to unit test, wrote said tests, and had said tests reveal a logic bug in the code being tested! I know that's like, THE POINT of unit testing, but I'd never actually had it happen to me before (probably because I never really even tried to write tests until recently). Can't say enough about the #100daysofcode with #python course. Amazing stuff.

Aggression Detectors: The Unproven, Invasive Surveillance Technology Schools Are Using to Monitor Students
https://features.propublica.org/aggression-detector/the-unproven-invasive-surveillance-technology-schools-are-using-to-monitor-students/

#Fedilab will not have the antifeature on #Fdroid. I am happy for that, but it's far from being fulfilled. If one day, I could make people trust me that building a safe place is on their hands with the help of every developers, that would be a great moment for sharing our trust in each other.

https://forum.f-droid.org/t/fedilab-librem-social-supports-the-pushing-out-of-marginalized-groups/6470/99

thanks for coming to my talk, “software sucks because you don’t have a union”

The Risc-V development board from SiFive 'freedom E310' arrived today. It is tiny! I now own a little piece of computer history.

Can’t wait til this capitalism shit is over

@yaodema Since you brought up awoo.space I'm assuming you're familiar with the incident last year where they came under attack and several adjacent instances got harassed off the network for not blocking *them*. If not then ask around about it.

The same thing is playing out here. It's not the admins, it's a cult of unaffiliated abusers seeking to capitalise on mass hysteria.

Remember when mstdn.io took on the bulk of that exodus of tens of thousands of latin american twitter refugees last year?

Imagine the consequences of that instance shutting down on the rest of the network.

Do you think the instances shielding those people currently engaged in a harassment campaign against the admin are going to take any of them on? Or will they show their true face?

Physical (de)centralization of Mastodon servers – after our XMPP scan, we took 1000+ random Mastodon servers and looked at their hosters:

https://gist.github.com/infosec-handbook/0cdb8da86cfe63be657fcf44bde291d1

– about 50% of these servers are hosted by only 5 companies in 4 countries
– 26% of servers are hosted in Japan, followed by the USA (24%) and France (23%)

#mastodon #decentralization #centralization #statistics

In my quest to build an #ActivityPub based simple, no-frills bulletin board / forum system, I've gone ahead and pushed up my work-in-progress #golang ActivityPub single server framework: apcore. It has no README (yet) and still has a lot left TODO.

https://github.com/go-fed/apcore

I hope to use it in the future to launch multiple small ActivityPub applications leveraging common serving, storing, and moderation features. But new #ActivityStreams vocabulary can be readily innovated upon.