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 If some people say the #fediverse is a left-progressive project, it only shows how successful we collectively are to block the Nazis. Loads of far-right instances and users exist in the fediverse. Gab, anyone? But defederation and blocking makes that part invisible to most of us. They still exist and federate amongst themselves. ActivityPub, the protocol, is neutral. We decide what we want and not want. The fediverse is a herd of Venn diagrams, not a closed circle. Renewed my free #RedHat Developer subscription for individual developers by simply logging in at https://developers.redhat.com after a year. Another year of up to 16 machines running Red Hat Enterprise Linux for free, yes, even with production workloads. @jwildeboer oh I though developer licences were not to be used for production? In case you want to have a better web on your machine: https://consentomatic.au.dk #Consentomatic is a browser plugin/extension that does all the clicks on these annoying consent popups for you. Not by simply clicking "accept" โ by doing the opposite. Automated opt-out :)
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 @jwildeboer started using it a few days ago and I'm already up to 310 clicks saved! @jwildeboer oh cool, wondered how that's different from adblock until I got to the last line lol
 @jwildeboer I've started to notice a number of sites showing a message "opting out of cookies due to your browser preference" and dismissing the banner lately after checking that box in #Firefox, both on desktop and mobile. We call stuff we donโt understand but that entertains us โmagicโ. The best magicians are really good at misleading us, so they can surprise us and we are awed and want more. Most of their tricks are quite mundane, so we prefer to not know how they work. Thatโs current โAIโ/LLM explained, IMHO. Like a good magician it plays with our expectations. Unlike a magician in purely mechanical ways. We are awed. We think it must be more than it actually is. Thatโs my current position. And knowing that it IS a trick is why we love good magicians. Plot twist: Thatโs why I would say that prompt engineering is like trying to find out how the trick works without really wanting to know the trick. Because that would take the magic away. Tech bros love to whine about "The EU cookie policy" that simply doesn't exist the way they imagine it. All these popups are the most radical way to interpret the explicit consent demanded by regulations when sending data to a 3rd party. An ongoing provocation by the ad/tracker industry to blame their ruthless data hoarding on the EU. Every time you see such a cookie consent pop-up, you know you are on a website that has accepted to share your data with some data collecting entity. That they are willing to hand over parts of the page content to be filled by a 3rd party. And allow that 3rd party to aggregate and sell their visitors data to the highest bidder. So stop blaming "the EU" and ask yourself if this is the internet we want. Dear @Gargron and other #Mastodon devs, can I point your attention to PR #22149 and #22150, referenced in https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/9567 which would solve a growing problem on a lot of instances where header/avatar images are effectively immutable and eating up too much storage with currently no way to do something to reduce it? PLEASE :) If you, any of my dear followers, have a connection the #Mastodon devs - can you please boost? This would really help a lot of instances running on (virtual) servers with limited storage. I am now at 44 GB used just for header/avatar media on my single user instance with a 50 GB storage limit and there is no way to reduce that amount :( I'm just curious. In which timeline do you spend most of your #Mastodon time? Anonymous poll
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@jwildeboer It used to be local, but then my instance shut down and I had to move, and it's not the same anymore. I spend it in #Pleroma and elsewhere because there's so much more to the #fediverse than #mastodon, why would I want to limit myself? ๐
 #unpopularopinion. I am fine with Multiplatform for software being an afterthought. I develop since many years Linux only. The exponential burden of multiplatform support limits my creativity and enthusiasm. Linux is for free, so deal with it. #SorryNotSorry Funny thing: my Toot got crossposted to Twitter, so it seems to be a specific block for mastodon.social (and maybe other instances too?) #Python creator Guido van Rossum puts it plain and simple. Asked about what role python could play in the #web3 world, he says โLet web3 die in a flaming ball of fire.โ https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1508959260905918465?s=21&t=tyMjVkrRWAjh_Rpe_R5fdA Yes, it seems that when youโre vaccinated and boosted, your experience with Omicron can range from asymptomatic to mild to quite tough - but almost never to life threatening levels. Still - itโs not a cold or flu. #WearAMask๐ท #GetVaccinatedNow #LifeHack Be decent. Ignore Hot Takes that only serve some fringe wish for recognition driven by fear and anger. Your like of that doesn't make things better. The opposite, actually. OK. This is quite technical. But TL;DR - the neural hash system #Apple uses for their CSAM detection has been confronted with its first possible collision by some good hackers. This dog might be marked by the system as suspicious. Ouch. Issue 1 at https://github.com/AsuharietYgvar/AppleNeuralHash2ONNX To all those that still think #Covid19 might not be that big a thing. Hereโs the death toll of Covid19 compared to SARS and H1N1. Sorted by days since outbreak. #StayAtHome๐ก #WashYourHands๐งผ #WearAMask๐ท Source: https://cv19info.live/ 12
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That we are capable of such coordinated action on the network is only a start. There is still lots of racism and bigotry. We should lean into our willingness to cooperate to further develop mechanisms to do so. To make coordinated action easier and more seamless
@jwildeboer In my book, "the fediverse" is defined by what's actually federated, not by what speaks a protocol that would allow it to be federated if not for being blocked by everyone. So no, Gab is absolutely not part of "the fediverse".
@jwildeboer @mekkaokereke Having tried out several of the โTwitter alternativesโ over the past few months, I think that Mastodon is much less of an โecho chamberโ than the others. So I think your point is well taken.