Jeffrey Hulten @jhulten@mastodon.technology

anyway dipshit reply guys notwithstanding, periodic reminder and psa that

1 - fedi is just a bunch of postgres databases with a friendly clown interface on them and anything you post is copied to hundreds of them! this is cool and fine and "federation" but it is not private at ALL! there is zero encryption!

2 - as such yes any DM can be found in said database if an instance admin on one of the instances involved in the DM goes pawing through their database. DMs can also be reported by a participant. this is true of any service, incl twitter, facebook, etc because for those messages to be sent they need to... exist, in a database.

There's a narrative about conventional corporations being driven by a legal mandate to maximize shareholder returns. In general this narrative is true.

However, in the specific case of "Big Tech" it appears not to be. The founders of the respective megacorps all appear to have majority voting rights in accordance with their stock ownership.

The upshot of all this is that the decisions of "Big Tech" aren't really coming from some unknown hazily-defined share holders in "The Market" [does obligatory hand-wave]. They're coming primarily from the personal preferences of the founders. So they can't claim that the share holders made them do things against their better judgement. It's on them, personally.

#lazyweb anyone know of a list of projects that support the #ActivityPub #C2S (Client to Server) part of the spec?

if you're like 17 on this site and considering going to a US college where you pay full tuition please look into what europe has to offer . the us system is so deeply fucked

Hello fediverse,

We just want to remind you that we have no official or flagship instance, and we don't plan on endorsing any in the future.

If you are looking for a pixelfed instance to join, checkout https://fediverse.network/pixelfed or https://the-federation.info/pixelfed

notice how capitalism is demanding you turn yourself into a brand then alter that brand to appeal to more people so that you can more effectively sell yourself

yeah don't do that

Sam and Frodo stay together until the very end. 😢

People who have had actual jury duty will know how this works. People who have read the wikipedia article on jury nullification will be starry-eyed idealists.

Did you know the judge can keep you in deliberations for weeks until you come to a unanimous verdict?

You're gonna break before they do.

Think of the parents who are losing paycheques and need to feed their kids.

Welcome to the trolley problem, legal system edition.

Autism causes vaccines.

@djsundog a salesperson once told me a nice mental trick in how to convey information.

We often start with the "how". Especially us hacker types.

Then we expand to the "what" and sometimes we get to the "why".

She taught me to start with the why, then the what and finish with the how.

All good documentation starts with the why IMO.

Here you go I guess

#mastoart #creativetoots #peterbparker #spiderversememes #spiderversefanart

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World: Google, you are so smart, impartial, and benevolent, please write all our protocols and standards.

Google: Oh yeah, btw, we don’t think you should be able to protect yourself from being tracked on our browser.

Google to break uBlock Origin on Chromium.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23

#SurveillanceCapitalism #Google

Discord is valued at 1.65 _billion_ dollars.

What kind of person can look at that and go "ah, yes, this free chat service is totally not gonna screw us out of private data for profit"?

1. Encouraging people to spread out from mastodon.social to encourage further decentralization is a good idea.

2. Mastodon.social probably shouldn't be as big as it is, since it's also the beta-testing instance.

3. Wholesale blocking mastodon.social is short-sighted at best, and will counter-productive to decentralization, because it shows all those people you're blocking that federation doesn't actually live up to its promise.

@sblaydes I started life with no butt. As I get older, I have less than no butt. Pants become... challenging.

While pants *are* a tool of the oppressor, they're useful when running the snowblower.

Much of programming is wondering why your code is doing exactly what you asked it to.

It's a shame that Mastodon, Pleroma, PixelFed, etc only adopted half of #ActivityPub.

Bring out the C2S support!