Kevin Marks @KevinMarks@xoxo.zone

@KevinMarks I've selected my highlights

"There are hundreds of examples of people finding ways to use technology to harm themselves or other people, and the response from so many tech CEOs has been, 'We didn't expect our technology to be used this way,'"
https://www.wired.com/story/abusability-testing-ashkan-soltani/

Security Isn't Enough. Silicon Valley Needs 'Abusability' Testing https://www.wired.com/story/abusability-testing-ashkan-soltani/

we spent years doing all these weird tricks to have drop shadows in web pages only to get them built-in yet now have this decade of flat design. smdh.

oh oh reminder!

if you're in the #SanFrancisco / #BayArea area on Wed, January 9th, 2019; then you'll be able to see me talk about the #Fediverse and the #IndieWeb and aim to pull people in at https://wafflejs.com/!

Pull up if you can and let me know :)

Are we doing personal websites again because I never shut mine down so I'm accidentally way ahead on this trend.

RT @alicegoldfuss@twitter.com

Social groups, and therefore the Internet, go through cycles of localization and centralization.

We were localized (personal sites), we centralized (social media), and we are starting to localize again (slack channels, blogs).

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/alicegoldfuss/status/1075526327690653696

occasionally, clicking through yet another half-arsed GDPR-mandated cookie management screen, i find myself thinking "the GDPR has buggered up the web"

then i catch myself.

no, it hasn't. the way companies have opted to respond to the GDPR is what's buggered up the web. they could have been nice and unobtrusive about it, but no, they decided that *every user in the EU* should suffer their protests at not being able to stow thousands of fragments of random shite on a whim all over their vict- sorry, users' computers.

A very nice Christmas Homebrew Website Club in London this eve.

Blog posts were written, h-feeds were unmunged, replies were sent, ideas were discussed and mince pies were consumed.

Back in the New Year!

#indieweb

POSSE: Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere |IndieWeb

"POSSE is an abbreviation for Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere, a content publishing model that starts with posting content on your own domain first, then syndicating out copies to 3rd party services with permashortlinks back to the original on your site...."

#posse #indieweb #onlinemedia #Plexodus

https://indieweb.org/POSSE

Since we didn't get very many women, enbies, or people of color to submit talks, the folks choosing talks for the Decentralisation & Internet Privacy track at FOSSDEM 19 decided that we'd like to ask of you:

If you submitted a talk, go ask an underrepresented minority friend/acquaintance of yours if they'd like to give the talk with you/in your stead.

CC @fosdem, can we get a little boost 💜?

the second funniest part about the Pagliacci joke is that the doctor is abysmal. Imagine seeing this dude:

YOU: I have depression

DOCTOR: I dunno, go see a fuckin clown or something

Upcoming HWC London on Wednesday 12th December:

https://hwclondon.co.uk/meetups/20181212

This will be the last one before Christmas! 🤶🎅 (… AKA Ho Ho Homebrew Website Club) Mince pies may be on the agenda...

Finish that blog post you’ve been working on. Demo personal websites and technology. Discuss the independent web. Join a community with like-minded interests. Bring friends that want a personal site!

#london #indieweb

> you see i use keypairs to encrypt messages
< the audit revealed critical vulnerabilities
> i will solve it with more keypairs!
< that's not
> you need this keypair to unlock that keypair which you shared with the owner of another five distinct keypair pairs and
< no

honestly though, mastodon instances are run and moderated by real people who care about the network, to the point of often paying their own money out-of-pocket to run their instances.

the *one* time i've had to report a post, my instance admin messaged me directly to let me know the action taken about it.

don't be shy to report. it works here. the rules aren't there just to keep things advertiser-friendly.

welcome to mastodon. don't be a dick. hug your local mods/admins.