kemuri 🦀 @kemuri@social.cleverlibre.org
Joined Nov 2022
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Going to try to post some stuff that is not about tech policy, not about the other site, etc. You know, just fun stuff.
So here: if you like card magic (hell, even if you don't think you like card magic), you should watch Dani DaOrtiz's performance on Penn & Teller's Fool Us this weekend, which shows why he is the greatest card magician in the world right now. It's not on YouTube yet, but I think it will be soon.
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cats
@davidallengreen 
You're welcome.
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People on here being disdainful towards birdsite folk
Hey folk - making fun of people who find Mastodon difficult and claiming that it "weeds out anyone too stupid to use Mastodon" or "they're too attached to Twitter so their opinion of Mastodon is suspicious" is really not the move.
Firstly, this was the kind of rhetoric that got me infamously racially harassed my first few hours on Mastodon back when it was super new.
Mainly though - it's unneeded superiority, it's ignoring very valid accessibility concerns, and it's just straight up exclusionary.
@AriCohn You're welcome, enjoy your time here
@AriCohn Yes, hashtag searches are across all instances. I guess if your server bans another server though that server would not appear in the search result.
Try a common hashtag like cat or dog and you should see posts from other instances.
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@davidallengreen
The first one is a bot mirroring a twitter feed.
@AriCohn Searching in Mastodon only covers posts which you have interacted with, and posts with hashtags. The hashtag match seems to be exact. The search is across all the federated servers, not sure how server banlist affects it yet.
Otherwise search also covers user profiles. For that there is also https://search.noc.social . With that I found 7 accounts with your name across the fediverse mirroring your Twitter feed.
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I didn’t realise how important the server you’re on is so I’ve just moved to mastodon.scot. I think that means my posts have disappeared so by way of re-introduction here’s my #dog, Taco, and my #cat, Bopper, who between them are likely to account for a good half of everything I contribute to this site.
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# Critiques on theories of cyber.
Any theory or framework of cyber conflict that is unable to incorporate the full range of offensive cyber actions is inherently flawed. Here are examples of cyber operations that meet any reasonable criteria for offensive cyber attacks.
- kpop vs ACAB
- Teens vs Trump (Tulsa, 2020)
- Lazarus vs Sony
- Belarusian cyber partisans vs. rail network
Many theories work poorly when forced to model these offensive cyber events. Like “cyber is an intelligence contest.” So explain the k-pop stans disabling police snitch apps for reporting BLM protestors by flooding them with loads of pictures of k-pop artists.
* a non state actor (just a community ot people)
* Attacking state security forces
* To support non state actors
* With the intent of causing political change
This breaks so many theories of cyber. They typically just ignore it instead, but you can’t. If for no other reason than this type of activity is will become more and more relevant as cyber infrastructure becomes increasingly embedded into society.
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I wrote an entire book about the commercial content moderation of online spaces. It’s called Behind the Screen: Content Moderation in the Shadows of Social Media. The paperback edition came out on Yale University Press last year and has a new preface.
This could be a good time to read it. Just saying.
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Greetings to all. Looking forward, eventually, to following news and debate in DC/Warsaw/Kyiv/London/Berlin on this site as I have done on other social media in the past....
@herid In Account settings > Profile > Appearance, any user can put their existing profile or website in Profile metadata, and link back to the #mastodon profile according to the instruction to verify the link. Public figures usually have some existing profile they can edit somewhere. A kind of outsourcing the verification.
That said, this is not as convenient as the Twitter checkmark since I have to click into a profile, then click through to an external website to actually check the verification.
@Sheril Agree except "algorithms" cannot "dictate". Algorithms do not have agency, they are tools through which advertisers influenced the narratives. Absurd attention-seeking reporting is as old as the advertisement funded business model.
To that end, I do not believe #Mastodon represents a competitive alternative business model yet.
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cap-std is now at 1.0!
The main change in this release is the update to io-lifetimes 1.0, which marks the update to use the I/O safety features in the standard library when available.
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As of Python 3.10, all the binary search helpers in the bisect module now accept a key argument.
Read the full article: What's great about Python 3.10?
▸ https://trey.io/ci2i5f
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I spoke about this a few days ago, but since there are so many new folks here: Mastodon has lists. And they're useful. You need to already be following people but you can put them into lists and then just call up that list. So, I have a list for journalists, and for tech law people. And it's super useful for me.
Unfortunately, lists are not currently public or shareable, though.
But test out the list feature to make Mastodon more useful.
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Joined Nov 2022
