ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

China braces for wave of workers fleeing iPhone factory in Covid-hit Zhengzhou

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/30/china-braces-for-wave-of-workers-fleeing-iphone-factory-in-covid-hit-zhengzhou

My beloved friend is working in Antarctica for the summer and is keeping an excellent blog about it: https://brr.fyi/

Featuring: accidentally confusing fraud algorithms; wastewater treatment; sea ice safety; getting SMS multifactor to work (with a fun twist); doing laundry.

#antarctica #infrastructure #mfa #cool

Twitodon: Finding Twitter Peers on Mastodon

https://twitodon.com/

Reminder that #Mastodon and most of the #fediverse is a #nonprofit initiative that is dependent on us, the #users for its sustenance and survival. Please consider donating to the project that you use, and/or the #instance (the server) that you've signed up on. Whether it is a #matrix , #pixelfed , #lemmy , or any other microblogging project such as #pleroma. Most admins won't ever sell your data and have made this community for all of us.

This is far funnier than it should have been....

We have been informed of an apparently targeted attack via a Google ad, trying to lure people looking for GIMP to a malicious download.
See https://www.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/ygbr4o/dangerous_google_ad_disguising_itself_as/

The users are taken to a site that has copied the look of https://gimp.org, but the downloads are different.

The GIMP team does not make use of ads on Google or elsewhere.

Looking for #iOS developers to work in tandem with our UX designers on our open-source iOS app on a contract basis. Please reach out to hello@joinmastodon.org if you're interested.

Hello new people! 👋

I run a human-curated directory of interesting accounts to follow on here:

➡️ https://fedi.directory

Do you have an account that posts a lot about a particular topic? Would you like to be listed in the directory?

If so, reply or @ me or send me a DM and let me know!

(The site only went live a few days ago so some topics are less populated than others, but this is why I am working on expanding it!)

Boosts appreciated

#Fediverse #Mastodon

So Musk is laying off people *today* at Twitter to try to get them out before Tuesday when many of them have huge bonuses scheduled.

Except... California requires 60 days notice for such layoffs, and he's going to get destroyed in court. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/technology/twitter-layoffs-musk-jobs.html

There is a Nov. 1st vesting at Twitter. By announcing a start mass layoffs, Musk is trying to avoid employees this portion of their compensation. This is because he’s a scumbag.

Mass layoffs without notice are illegal, btw. He obviously doesn’t gad but this will be a lawsuit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/technology/twitter-layoffs-musk-jobs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

How to migrate from one Mastodon server to another without losing followers:

1. Sign up on new server
2. On NEW server: Go to Account -> Moving FROM another account
3. Enter old account's handle
4. On OLD server: Go to Account -> Moving TO another account
5. Enter new account's handle and submit

#YoMigroaMastodon

#TheorizingTheFediverse

H1: There are distinct pulses of Twitter-to-Mastodon migration driven by events in Twitter’s history.

H2: Later cohorts of users will have lower familiarity + commitment to FOSS values + projects than earlier cohorts.

H3: New users will default to joining a general instance first and then micro-migrate to a more specific instance later.

H4: Greater circulation of folk documentation for using Fediverse affordances will attract and retain more new user activity.

Basically, news orgs will need to break the habit of reporting stuff that happens on Twitter as news.

If enough of them manage to do so, that would actually be a real improvement: they would have to go back to hunting news closer to its source, rather than just waiting to have it spoon-fed by The Algorithm.

Dear #TwitterMigration folks, an important tip on #privacy on the fediverse:

There is none.

This is a public medium; please treat it as such. Just as you have no privacy on Twitter (Elon Musk can read all your DMs), you have no privacy on the instance you’re on (your administrators can read all your posts).

You can set the visibility of a post but that’s a viewing suggestion, not a privacy guarantee.

Think of your posts as postcards, not sealed letters, and you should be fine.

#fediTips

RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/29/kathleen_booth_obit/

Email selfhosting software you can consider:

Boost is very appreciated.

iRedMail
https://www.iredmail.org

Mail in a Box
https://mailinabox.email

Mailcow
https://mailcow.email

Modoboa
https://modoboa.org

Poste.io
https://poste.io

Wildduck
https://wildduck.email

Mailslurper
https://www.mailslurper.com

Docker MailServer
https://github.com/docker-mailserver/docker-mailserver

Lavabit Magma
https://github.com/lavabit/magma

Yunohost GNU/Linux
https://yunohost.org

All of them are #FOSS.

#Email #Server #Selfhosting

Have you packed your bags and relocated here from Twitter? You might be interested in reading this paper about what happens when communities migrate across platforms. :) https://cmci.colorado.edu/~cafi5706/CSCW2020_MovingAcrossLands.pdf #twittermigration