Amikke @Amikke@social.cleverlibre.org

Twitter was a clusterfuck well before Elon

"Twitter didn't monitor employee computers at all, it was not uncommon for employees to install spyware on work devices"

"Twitter does not have separate development, test, staging, and production environments. At least 5,000 employees had privileged access to production systems"

"In 2020, Twitter had security incidents serious enough they had to be reported to the federal government on an almost weekly basis."

https://nitter.1d4.us/AvidHalaby/status/1602127460677844993

A git christmas tree of git com…

I am currently in your mastodon timeline

Your server may block mine, but I'm repeating your post because it was a good post, BITCH.

Someone really needs to build some sort of logarithmic volume filter into linux... a way to keep the normal volume scenes loud enough to hear but reduce the volume on the loud scenes. This way you can listen to a movie in the middle of the night and not annoy your neighbors and not need to keep lowering it everytime an action scene hits.... how is this not a thing already!

Huh, I wonder what [thing] is. *searches online*

*opens article*

*article is actually a video*

WELP, guess I'll never know! *closes tab*

I want to share a fun fact
at $dayjob, we have several routers/firewalls (network is hellish)
among them, there are two really cursed

a huge amount of our sales revenue goes by these two
they aren't real rackable units, just stacked on a racked shelf
one has floppy disk but we don't know if that's really used
the top one is running with an ATX PSU shoved in and soldered here and there (top cover is obviously removed, it doesn't fit)

attached photo are the two devices, please appreciate the stickers

Is still "#GNU/#Linux" if you replaced glibc with #musl, GCC with clang, and a bunch of other tools with non-GNU alternatives like libarchive? Or is it "musl/LLVM/FreeBSD/.../Linux" then?

#Gentoo

#StopVoringMe joining #UFOI, slandering @freemo, getting #UFOI on #Fediblock, leaving #UFOI and then getting mad that his instance is on #Fediblock despite no evidence of any activity worthy of being included on the list is exactly why freemo made #UFOI in the first place.

The #UFOI is certainly not the best system in the world, but the idea is great. Unfortunately, creating a good-faith system to compete with a bad-faith system is gonna be hard when the bad-faith system is incredibly popular and already notorious for ostracizing anything that disagrees with or contradicts it.

SHITPOSTING

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TOP INSIGHTS

@yisraeldov @freemo @louis Rather than being premature optimization, this is late in coming. You might not be aware of this, but in the absence of a central authority, self-moderating instances have joined together to build domain blocklists that are shared widely and based on nothing more than the say-so of one or two people.

While mastodon does have plenty of tools we can use to block content that we don't want to see, many instance admins choose to really aggressively block entire instances without any due process or evidence or opportunity for counter-evidence. I've seen QOTO described as having "no moderation at all," something I know to be factually false. I've seen entire instances blocked because of the actions of one non-admin user, which is the right of any server admin, but doesn't bode well for federation. I've seen entire instances blocked *not* because of something anyone said or did, but because the instances were insufficiently aggressive in promising to seek out and block other bad instances. It's mind-boggling, and scary for anyone thinking about running an instance of their own.

Primarily at this point, the UFoI is about a guarantee of due process, which is currently lacking in the fediverse. It might not cause the super-aggressive blockers to change their approach, but it will at least guarantee that smaller instances won't be completely isolated from everyone on the whim of someone at a big server having a grumpy day.

If mastodon were as safe and friendly as you say it is, the UFoI wouldn't exist, and the hashtag for BlackMastodon wouldn't be filled with people saying that they're seeing worse treatment on Mastodon than the bird site. I'm glad your personal experience has been positive, but that is not the case for everyone.

How much public space we've surrendered to cars (Swedish artist Karl Jilg)

Nevar forget the Quadro Tracker, the device sold to police agencies allegedly able to track anything, which instead of a circuitboard was revealed to just have ants glued to paper with epoxy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadro_Tracker