Month: 10 Iyyar 5783 (May 2023)

It’s OK that our conversations are intense here. It means we care a lot.

These conversations are how things get made and how things change.

—@evan

shared by Max

—@thepracticaldev

I see many people still don’t understand this. When legislation calls for children to get permission from parents for social media use and/or be under restricted hours, this requires that *ALL* users of social media, children, parents, people with no children, etc. be identified by government IDs (in the case of young children, via their parents’ IDs). Again, even if you don’t have kids, YOU WILL BE REQUIRED to use government ID for access, otherwise you cannot prove you are NOT a child. Think about it.

—@lauren

When the MTA announced discontinuing their live subway alerts due to Twitter’s new excessive pricing policy, I took it as an opportunity to set up @mtaupdates.

And here’s how I made it.

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/turn-an-email-subscription-into-a-mastodon-bot-with-pipedream-com/

#tutorial #bots #MastodonAPI #python #pipedream

—@stefan

@Bruce G_NS Okay, let me explain it to you with a fictional dialogue between me and a Fediverse News subscriber who’s convinced that all of the Fediverse is Mastodon.

Them: >implying that Mastodon is the Fediverse

Me: #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse.

Them: What do you mean?

Me: You’re literally using something that isn’t Mastodon, but in the Fediverse. Fediverse News is on Friendica.

Them: But Friendica is a Mastodon server.

Me: No, it isn’t.

Them: But it has to be. How else can I possibly use it if it isn’t on Mastodon?

Me: Because Mastodon and Friendica speak a common language, ActivityPub. Still, Friendica is an absolutely unrelated project. Face it, there’s more in the Fediverse than just Mastodon.

Them: WTF? Then Friendica is a group add-on for Mastodon?

Me: No, Friendica has got literally nothing to do with Mastodon. It’s wholly independent. Actually, it can do everything that Mastodon can do.

Them: So it’s some shoddy Mastodon knock-off that can do forums?

Me: No. Friendica can do all that Mastodon can do without Mastodon, it can do it better than Mastodon, and it can do even more on top that Mastodon can’t do.

Them: Lies. Why are you fucking lying to me?

Me: Oh, and Friendica is older than Mastodon. Mastodon is from 2016, Friendica is from 2010. When Mastodon was launched, Friendica had been around for a whopping six years already.

Them: Like. What. The. Ever-loving. FUCK?!?!?! Stop bullshitting me! Friendica is nothing but a fucking Mastodon clone, and all that’s good about it is the forums, and I don’t want anything else than that!

Me: I’m not bullshitting you. If I am, then so is Wikipedia. Release date: July 1st, 2010. That’s a fact. Deal with it.

Them: So… there’s… like two Mastodons, and they’re both in the Fediverse? WTF?

Me: There are many projects in the Fediverse that are like Mastodon but with more features. Pleroma, Akkoma, MissKey, CalcKey, FoundKey… There are many other projects that aren’t like Mastodon. Friendica is more like Facebook. I’m on Hubzilla which is even more powerful than Friendica and still older than Mastodon. And they can all communicate with Mastodon.

Them: What… WTF… NOOOOO I DON’T WANT ANY OF THAT I WANT MY FEDIVERSE TO BE ONLY MASTODON AND NICE AND COZY AND CUDDLY AND I DON’T WANT NOTHING ELSE IN MY BELOVED FEDIVERSE MAKE IT GO AWAY I WANT MY MASTODON-ONLY FEDIVERSE BACK NOOOOOOOO THIS IS TOO MUCH SOMEONE PLEASE FEDIBLOCK EVERYTHING THAT ISN’T MASTODON

End of demonstration.

I’m not even kidding, I’ve read a story about someone from the “Fediverse = Mastodon” crowd who actually blocked a Friendica user for telling them that the Fediverse is not just Mastodon and for allegedly “intruding” into their timeline with some black hacking magic or something.

Some people don’t want there to be anything else in the Fediverse than Mastodon.

—@jupiter_rowland

I see people telling us that we shouldn’t be negative about Bluesky, that we should give it a chance and see what happens. But how else are we supposed to judge the trustworthiness of a new system than by our past experiences with the people involved? And frankly, the Twitter experience was absolutely miserable. I simply don’t trust Jack Dorsey or anyone who works with him, with good reason.

—@Green_Footballs

Lots of speculation here, but:

Probably one reason it’s taken so long to implement quote posts isn’t because it’s all that hard to pull a preview and display it when embedding a link to another post, it has to do with notifications.

And likely also things like filters.

For instance, if I block/filter out the original post, are all quote posts of that post also filtered?

I mean, I’d certainly hope so.

And then there are the people who don’t want quote posts at all. Will there be a profile setting to disable the ability to quote post anything? Will it only be enabled for Public posts? Will it work across servers (ie., if you reply to a post on some other server, will your quote post settings work there, too? Will this be honored by other fediverse software?)

Lots of potential factors to get right here, depending on how much work they put into the implementation.

—@oliphant

Had two friends release audiobooks over the past week (@monteiro & @pluralistic) and I absolutely *devoured* them over the past three days.

Really proud to know both these folks and put their words in my ears. ♥️

Mike’s book, “Design is a Job”: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9798368939636

Cory’s book, “Red Team Blues”: https://libro.fm/audiobooks/5184389278339

—@boogah

People find it so cute when dogs perform tricks but then turn around and hate on sluts. Pick a lane.

—@Stoned_Deva_

if it’s cheap and fast it ain’t good

if it’s cheap and good it ain’t fast

if it’s good and fast it ain’t cheap

#ThoughtForTheDay #SecretsOfSuccess

—@secretsofsuccess

Hi folks, a reminder that @deoan and I wrote up a blog post I’m really proud of about neurodiversity in cybersecurity – both our experiences, and practical tips for ND and neurotypical folks.

https://www.domaintools.com/resources/blog/removing-the-mask-how-neurodiversity-strengthens-cybersecurity/

If you prefer to listen rather than read, we also combined with the awesome @NotTheLinux for a podcast around the same topics.

https://www.domaintools.com/resources/podcasts/154-not-your-neurotypical-episode/

This is a topic important to us, and I think important to infosec as well, so boosts, other shares, and feedback are all appreciated.

—@neurovagrant

@BlackAzizAnansi

Landlord has given us until May 1st to catch up on late rent and we have just raised half of one month since relaunching this GFM.

We’re at $7,781 out of $10,000 most of which was raised and spent over a year+ ago before a paid fellowship. Started sharing again to help with rent while between gigs.

Please share this where ever you can to help keep us housed.

https://gofund.me/dd92aa8a

—@NaomiAye

I want to send a special shout-out to my very VERY patient, chill livestock guardian dog Jack: every single baby goat we’ve had on this farm has to check and see if maybe, just maybe, there’s an udder with milk hiding somewhere on the dog.

And Jack just patiently lets them all learn he does not have an udder. He’s a very good boy.

—@sundogplanets