pgs @pgs@mastodon.technology

Swimming lessons!

blocks on fedi aren't necessarily safe, private, or might not even work as you expect.

if you block a remote user, this spawns a federating message which can be abused. let me explain. 🧵👇 (1/5)

What is your avg home internet speed? Boost I'm curious to see what folks are getting around the country/world. If you don't mind posting pricing that would be awesome!

I almost inhaled my fork

Okay, it's time to tell new users a secret about Mastodon.

Mastodon is (whispers) part of a much bigger network 😮

Mastodon servers use an open standard called ActivityPub to talk to each other. That's how you interact with people on other Mastodon servers.

But, dozens of other federated networks also use ActivityPub, so (this is the good bit!) you can follow people on these other networks from your Mastodon account!

For example:

PixelFed (https://pixelfed.org) is a photo sharing network, here's a random example account @Iancylkowski

PeerTube (https://joinpeertube.org) is a video sharing network, with a p2p system that allows videos to go viral even on small servers, here's a random account @craftykat

BookWyrm (https://joinbookwyrm.com) is a social reading site, an open alternative to Amazon's Goodreads, here's a random account @mouse

Together, Mastodon and these other services form... The Fediverse

(whispers) Click on the link...

https://framatube.org/w/4294a720-f263-4ea4-9392-cf9cea4d5277

Someone with more energy than me is quoting the book on generalship by Emperor Leo VI (died 912) to show some of the elementary errors the Russians are making in #ukraine https://nitter.net/chrysoboullon @greyor

In 2019, an Australian pig stole beer cans, became drunk, then started a fight with a cow
https://www.mynation.com/lifestyle/pig-steals-beer-cans-gets-drunk-fights-with-cow-video--psd8au

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/tilbots/status/1436502876893982722

Amazon deletes job listings for analysts to track ‘labor organizing threats’
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/01/amazon-seeks-intelligence-analyst-to-track-labor-organizing-threats.html

(submitted by SirLJ)

somehow there's a false notion on the internet (and maybe in life in general) that winning a debate makes you right

no... it just means you won a debate

$ cat /bin/cat

Ugh, theres still a few folks I talk to on there...

You know, someone just mentioned and corrected me - even with kids going to school, people won’t care about the death of children. Kids dying wasn’t enough for gun control, how will it curb control around virus spreading? (https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/a382e5b1-6159-42e2-8f96-d7e37f3fc6ec)

Twitter bans 7k QAnon accounts, limits 150k others as part of broad crackdown
https://news.yahoo.com/twitter-bans-7-000-qanon-000000686.html

(submitted by MBCook)

N. K. Jemisin’s Dream Worlds
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/27/nk-jemisins-dream-worlds

(submitted by apollinaire)

Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
https://fossi-foundation.org/2020/06/30/skywater-pdk

(submitted by tomcam)

Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process

https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/23/facebook_gdpr_workaround/

The Awkward Yeti
http://theawkwardyeti.com

Cyanide & Happiness
http://explosm.net/comics/

Nine biological aging measurements were compared with actual deaths over a 20 year period, telomere length, DNAmAge, Horvath, Hannum, PhenoAge, GrimAge, physiological age, cognitive function, functional aging index, and frailty index. Go ahead and try to guess which of those 9 tests actually predicted who would die. https://news.ki.se/new-measure-of-biological-age-can-predict-health-risks