Notices by Ted Gould (ted@social.gould.cx), page 28

@mhall119 I wonder if it is a belief that other papers can hold them accountable now. But, I'm not sure that's really the case.

I imagine it just came down to expense.

Talking with a friend I defined a "real" news source as one having an ombudsman. Looking around now I'm realizing that almost no one does anymore.

@danrabbit honestly, I don't think Apple and Google are doing that much better. Don't be as hard on yourself.

Reality of the application development market today is that you're either developing for someone who wants an app as a gateway to another profitable service (e.g. a bank, video company, etc.) or you're doing it as a hobby. I'm not sure how to fix that, people are addicted to free (as in beer).

@Qwxlea so I've e-mailed their customer support and they've said that their servers are in the UK so they believe they're compliant with GDPR. They were wondering if you could send them a screenshot with the error.

@tinker I was less concerned with cloning and more being able to support challenge-response based designs. I think some of the high-end readers actually do that.

http://www.rfidjournal.com/blogs/experts/entry?10800

Those shouldn't expose their keys, but if you sent them the challenge would issue a response which you could ferry back to the reader at the doorway.

Took way too long to read and respond to a GPG'd email thread. Some of that was my fault as I forgot to migrate keys to a new machine, but just uhg.

I understand all the issues, I just want something magic.

@tinker I always thought it would be fun to build a setup that was connected by a network. So you could be in a coffee shop reading badges while I'm at a doorway using them.

@verityvirtue Ha! That wasn't exactly what I was thinking, but those are interesting.

Are there any instances on the Fediverse that are aggressively single topic? e.g. "This is a BBQ themed instance and any posts that aren't talking about making or eating BBQ will be deleted and users suspended."

@sil hard to tell for sure, but I think the waffling on banning of Infowars has probably had a greater effect.

@platypus not that it solves 90% of your problems there but I ran across and interesting text indexing project yesterday: https://github.com/tantivy-search/tantivy/

@Qwxlea it is. I think the problem in the US is that it wasn't reported on until it was about to be enforced. Even then, mostly in the tech press. A lot of smaller sites didn't have time to adapt or figure out what is going on. Not that they shouldn't, but it will take some time.

@lufthans geez

@Qwxlea huh, wouldn't have expected that. They're a regional paper and may just not want to verify compliance. I'll ask about it.

@Qwxlea huh, wouldn't have expected that. They're a regional paper and may just not want to verify compliance. I'll ask about it.

Now I kinda want to walk across the street and go to the bathroom in Sulphur Springs, Texas. — https://www.dallasnews.com/life/life/2018/08/15/monty-python-sign-middle-sulphur-springs-texas

The only 'F' grades belonged to charter operators. The schools get shut down but none of the executives are liable and the state will have to try and recover those kids education. — https://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2018/08/15/new-grades-texas-schools-released-today-district

@hober yeah, doing many of the same migrations. Web page is now statically generated and hosted by Gitlab. Mail through Gandi as part of domain registration.

The only things I can SSH into are RaspberryPi's anymore 😉

@hober you can do that if you want. But I go the simple route and pay @mastohost to do it for me.