Hey friends! Your reminder that I've moved to @phildini. I'll be updating things here to make it clearer I've done that; follow me there and I'll follow back!
Friends! I haven't been here in a while because this server is having a little trouble. Please follow me at phildini@wandering.shop, and I will follow you back!
nobody expects the ferengi acquisition
Interesting article about someone who ran a Mastodon instance only to shut it down when there was abuse: https://cherubini.casa/why-i-shut-down-wizards-town-and-left-mastodon-6d4e631346b3
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Friends, there's a massive Google Docs phishing attack going on, where someone might be pretending to be a person you know sending you a Google Doc.
Don't click the link! Verify the from address if you feel inclined, or delete the email and ask the sender in a different email.
Hey everyone! So the first call of the Social Web Incubator Community Group is at 4PM GMT this Friday, May 5th. I hope you can make it!
https://www.w3.org/community/swicg/2017/05/01/social-web-incubator-community-group-kick-off-call/
This will be a somewhat loose call, going over topics of the group and the state of things.
Call details posted on the blogpost. Quick link to find call time in your timezone: https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/?qm=1&lid=6,0,5037649&h=6&date=2017-5-5&sln=11-12
That worthless tool Comey is trying to outlaw encryption again.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/fbi-director-comey-law-against-encryption-trump
With every day the passes, I gain more empathy for those who laid the foundation of the fediverse before I got here.
High on the list of things I just can't deal with today: People complaining about open source software.
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For any privacy related features I would pause and not rush into doing anything. If you get this sort of thing wrong then there can be a lot of bad fallout and you'll probably lose whatever popularity you might have had. A suggestion would be either to leave privacy alone and keep the fediverse as a purely public space, or to work with W3C on the ActivityPub spec to add encryption features.
A point about privacy is that if you add private keys to the servers and there are enough users then the Lavabit scenario is going to happen. Goons with firearms will show up and demand the keys, and they may be from the gubbermint or not from the gubbermint. It's better to keep the responsibilities and risks on the admins as minimal as possible.
Trying to go it alone and invent a lot of incompatible stuff isn't going to work well. What you end up with is a fractured fediverse, and lack of network effect means that users eventually return to the silos.
Well, that was fucking unexpected.
If you use the new privacy control UI to stop propagation of your private toots to a domain, it unfollows everyone from that domain. If you re-follow them, their domain does not get added back to the authorized list.
Private toots will propagate to the instance again but you can't re-remove the domain after.
When I see the fediverse has crossed 500k users, mostly on servers that have only started in the past couple weeks, many of whom have been blocked for content reasons, I empathize with the GNUSocial and postActiv users more than I already did.
And I wonder what this place looks like 6 months from now.
I've decided I'm going to attempt to order every #boba at my local shop. We'll see how long this takes.
https://xoxo.zone/media/7mPZzN4I1bG_s725ViE
Tips:
1) Own your own modem (also saves $)
2) Write down the modem's MAC/make/model
3) When you cancel, tell them you're moving overseas to skip any hassle
4) Remove any auto-pay info and wait for disconnect
5) Once you're offline (which can take a few days: bonus free service!) call them and reactivate a new account with the promo rate you want
This should work if you have Cable TV too but you'll have to worry about TV tuner/DVRs/CableCards you might rent...
Canceled my cable internet account and signed up for a new one. I do this every year to keep the promotional rate. Saves me $300/year.
It a minor pain because you have to talk on the phone but I'll take an hour of that for $300 not going to Comcast.
(Wish I could get municipal fiber so this wasn't needed.)
tired: "this machine kills fascists" sticker on your laptop
wired: "this machine kills fascists" sticker on your vibrator
I would follow more bots if they posted once or twice a day instead of, like, hourly.
