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FedEx has a new RESTful API. Great! We’re migrating to it at work. Finally, we can throw out SOAP and XML, and use JSON. Great! FedEx didn’t release any client libraries for this, not even in popular languages like PHP or Java. Annoying, but okay. Request a response, and you get headers and JSON. Great! Exactly what you’d expect. But what’s this? If your request results in an error, you get… You get… GZIP? Why? FedEx, why are you compressing 200 bytes of error data? WHY????

—@alexhall

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ok, like, you can’t ask people to opt out of features which can cause disorientation and other epileptic symptoms. this is usability 101.

telling me there is some checkbox that you can check to make misskey turn off animations is missing the point.

the checkbox should be to *opt into that feature*.

—@ariadne

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Twitter’s announcement of so-called “end-to-end encrypted” direct messages is complete garbage and an exercise in gobbledygook. Here’s the major caveats:

1. It’s not available to all Twitter users — you must be subscribed to Twitter Blue
2. It must be deliberately opt-in for use
3. You can only send encrypted messages to people who follow you
4. Does not work with groups
5. Only works with text or links — don’t even think of encrypting photos!
6. Where are these messages being stored?

With all those caveats, why use Twitter’s end-to-end encryption at all?

Even Elon Musk doesn’t trust this feature right now. He’s said, “try it, but don’t trust it yet.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2023/05/11/musks-long-promised-encrypted-messages-finally-launch-on-twitterwith-major-caveats/?sh=65495f4070a5

@socialmedianews@venera.social

—@atomicpoet

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It amazes me when people toss around scary percentages around youth identifying themselves as queer as proof of anything other than increased awareness leading to younger people actually finding out there are words they can use to describe themselves.

It’s like left-handedness. Look at that spike! OMG! It’s an epidemic! People are *making* other people left-handed! We need to stop it somehow!

Or, y’know, we stopped demonizing it and people got to be themselves. Could be that.

—@NathanBurgoine

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Want to make a bet about when CNN hosts a White Power Hour with Nick Fuentes and Baked Alaska? They can call it a town hall and have Jake Tapper ask questions.

That fits, right? After all CNN put Kaitlan Collins on a stage with a know sex abuser. Anything to appeal to the worst of humanity in the name of “ratings”. #RSSFeed
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CNN Boss Faces Internal Furor Over Trump Town Hall – Joe.My.God.

https://www.joemygod.com/2023/05/cnn-boss-faces-internal-furor-over-trump-town-hall/

—@jan

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Gotosocial officially stating they’re prioritizing safety features and accessibility over any concept of scalable deployment or parallelization is real nice.

I’m a huge fan of any project that aims to scale down and not up and if there’s anything that would not suffer from the concept of a theoretical max size, it’d be fedi software.

—@trysdyn

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It has been proven repeatedly that platforms prioritizing growth over safety are toxic to everyone else who doesn’t present as white, straight, and a man.

No, I’m not going to debate it anymore. No, I don’t care if people think I’m wrong to center safety in my dev efforts because I can live with it going sideways if that happens.

But in my experience as a dev and a citizen of the web for more than two decades, the missing link to rehumanizing social media spaces is safety for the most marginalized people that have historically been ignored.

And I’m going to create around that ethos.

—@Are0h