Notices by maloki 🍵 (maloki@elekk.xyz), page 4

gna now I finally found the link to this thread that I really thought worth reading about "asking people to CW" https://radical.town/@byttyrs/102497906589002186

it was so hard to find bc it wasn't CW'd (because for me, it's easier while I try rapidly scrolling through my faves in order to find one post, if there are 2 or 3 words I can just scan for)

ah, the other thread I thought was worth reading was not posted publicly, alas

I don't think stuff gets read less because of CW's, in fact, because the CW is short and often clearly says what a thread is about, it draws my attention more and I find it much easier to spot in my moving timeline.

especially if it's a thread, because then you see several posts with the same CW and it's really easy to spot. (for me at least)

I totally get why for example marginalized people don't feel good CW'ing talking about their oppression and I don't get to police that!

now the CW discourse spilled over or just happened to come into the other bubble too, and I've read some pretty good threads about it, and most stuff was already said, I just can't keep my mouth shut, so:

for me, CW's are really good for the usability of this platform, because you give your followers control over how and when to read about some stuff.

and especially with topics that stress people out it's great to be a bit more in control of what's coming at you online.

literally all of this debate is pointless when we could clearly solve all of these problems by opening the volcano

Not to sound too much like a hippie on your timeline but it would be a lot harder to use dehumanization as a tool for oppression and genocide if we didn't start off considering humanity as inherently superior/"more evolved" than every other living thing.

Holy what!

"Amazon's home security company Ring has enlisted local police departments around the country to advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free Ring products and a “portal” that allows police to request footage from these cameras, a secret agreement obtained by Motherboard shows."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement

#infosec

sci-hub's logo has no business going as hard as it does. this crow gonna help me gain access to arcane knowledge

Hint: if you're actively enabling Nazis, racists and white supremacists, you're not for free speech.

You may think you are, and be encouraged like you are, but look carefully at who's encouraging you, and who fall silent and walk away when you do.

I gotta say... letting go of being a grammar/spelling purist has certainly made my life a whole lot less stressful.

@starbreaker https://getglimpse.app/

@starbreaker I didn’t make a demand, I made a polite request, providing evidence for why it would be beneficial. Now that it fell through, we have forked it.

@ben Yeah, Firefox, but you'll be forcing them to do their own legwork! Don't do legwork for fascists or let them benefit from your platform--and certainly don't send the message that you'll just roll over for them because what's the point in resisting?

Fuck.

@ben Also, tfw they did it before and it worked, meaning there's literally no excuse.

"If we try to stop the fascists, the fascists will try to stop us from stopping them."

I guess the solution is to just let the fascists continue completely unopposed, then.

If there's any chance of failure, better make sure it's a 100% chance of failure.

Mozilla, just blacklist the goddamn certificate.

You gave Symantec a harder time than you're giving the Kazakhstan government, and Symantec was just incompetent, not outright malicious.

Firefox developers on the fence over whether stopping fascism is worth it because "the fascists can just fork Firefox"

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567114