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What's cool about Mastodon supporting RSS is that I'm now thinking about embedding a feed of my toots on my website, something people used to do but I would not be caught doing with the Twitter API

RE: mastodon.online/@thunderbird/1

finance elon crypto tesla 

I am probably totally wrong about this, but I have a theory that the "crypto winter" was sparked by Elon's offer to buy Twitter on October 3, 2021.

As of Sept 30, just a few days earlier, Tesla owned USD 1.83bn worth of BTC. We don't know how much crypto Musk himself owned, but he has repeatedly said he personally held BTC, ETH and dogecoins.

@mmasnick No, this still does not work. It will read out as "mathematical bold small <x>" and stuff. Unicode and screenreaders are not site specific, they will read the same regardless of location.

Markdown support would help this significantly, though, and I hope that comes soon.

For now, I would still avoid using unicode tricks for text flourishes.

mastodon growing pains - tech side 

> Talking to our ISP like... well you see the actual speed is fine... its just... the "amount" of internet... well... we need a lot more of it.

As grows it will have to solve much of the same problems Twitter had to deal with, such as bandwidth expansion and storage expansion. Curious where the limits of volunteer efforts end up and what novel schemes of business models are born and which ones are sustainable enough to survive.

Is there a mastodon instance manager circle discussing these difficulties? A conference of some sort?

Over 2000 FPS on kmscube, over 120FPS on simple scenes in OBS, and Xonotic is now pretty close to a solid 60 FPS! The new allocator works!! 🚀🚀

And we found and fixed some Mesa bugs while we were at it~ ✨

Next up, compressed depth buffers!! 💫

vt.social/@lina/10935770029516

Writing instructions for users is so hard... even when you think you've explained what you need clearly, you always miss some ways it can be confusing!

We're slowly improving the VT Social about page and info request warning templates. If you have any suggestions or you found the process confusing, please let us know how we can improve! ✨ #noxp

🚀 Xonotic on Ultra settings works!!! 🚀

It turns out the reason it was running out of RAM was just... texture compression! @alyssa just enabled BCn/DXTn texture compression, and now it doesn't even use 4GB of RAM with the highest texture quality! ✨✨

Hot take, the various Mastodon clients are in sore need of some Ux and Ui love. How I wish my iOS skills were up to the task. 😭

I didn’t like irc due to toxicity & harassment so I left, despite having & making tons of friends there.
I didn’t like Facebook, especially the racism, so I stopped posting there.
I have posted a couple hundred posts on Instagram, thirst traps & cat pics & food mostly.
I never liked Twitter either, but reporters would use it to find me & it served to help get my expertise out in the news.
I tried posting a family holiday meal toot here hashtagged with Thanksgiving & was immediately informed by someone who doesn’t even follow me & isn’t on the same mastodon instance that I should have put a CW on it in case my food pics upset a vegetarian. I deleted it.
Honestly I don’t know if I’ll ever post that much anywhere ever again. I don’t have time.
It seems immediately tone-policey here. And block-splainey. At least that’s been my experience so far. Honeys, I know how to block & mute. I’m likely much older than you & have deep lived experience in being harassed online from the very first places one could be harassed online. Please don’t give me unsolicited advice. Ever.
It’s just as well. I’m very tired & I don’t see the point of posting in a brand new place for misogyny to find me, harass me, then pile more well-meaning or ill-meaning explainers-of-how-the-Internet-works Reply Guys into my mentions.
I’ll post whatever the fuck I want, where I want, & I’m not obligated to respond to anything.
If you need to reach me for my work, email info@Lutasecurity.com & if you’re a member of the press, press@Lutasecurity.com is where I will always direct you, even if you have my Signal number.
Why?
Because I’m a CEO & a mom & I do not have time to route & schedule your requests. Boundaries are healthy & I’m happy to remind anyone of mine.
Happy Sunday & may your boundaries be respected by all.

@tschak Check out #rust Rust Before Main youtube.com/watch?v=q8irLfXwaF

As part of trying to simplify down to a very small app to focus on what is happening before main, @ryan_levick (I think that is the right Ryan) actually shows how to super optimize the binary size and why certain things "bloat" it.

For everyone who has recently joined Mastodon

How to Mastodon - The New Social Media
A guide to how to use Mastodon's web interface

youtube.com/watch?v=mrsiej2dpB

10 Quick Mastodon Tips
To get you going quicker

axbom.com/mastodon-tips/

A futuristic guide to Mastodon for 2021
An informal guide to Mastodon

wordsmith.social/elilla/a-futu

An Increasingly Less Brief Guide to Mastodon
The big one

github.com/joyeusenoelle/Guide

You can also find some other good guides on YouTube.

This, from the Secretary of Defense, is excellent:

"The outcome of the war in Ukraine will help determine the course of global security in this young century. And those of us in North America don’t have the option of sitting this one out"

defense.gov/News/Speeches/Spee

My second favorite type of reply on Twitter in response to any criticism of the bird site is "You are angry. Therefor I, a random person from the internet, have won a great victory!"

My dear sir, you may not be aware of this, but my track record in destroying things that have made me angry is pretty solid. I have done fifteen years of privacy and security activism powered almost entirely by rage and I win a lot.

birdsite 

I think everyone who's worked in DevOps at one point or another has speculated "what would happen if the entire SRE team quit?" and at twitter we're going to get to find out apparently.

Sharing IOCs on Mastodon 

A few things all the new infosec peeps should know.

Boost this for visibility please.

Text search does not work here

So if you're going to post an IOC in any way, it's best to at least add the hashtag "#IOC" to the post.

All punctuation breaks hashtags, except for underscore.

I don't currently know of any efforts to track that hashtag and index the IOCs being shared. However, once a project takes off to do that, having them historically in the hashtag would be good.

If you know of a project to start doing that, please reply to this and share.

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