Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

I am extremely grateful to people that give me extra chances to be civil after I jump into a thread and shit all over everything before calming down.

Muffins
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/muffins
#smbc #hiveworks #comics

People lie to minorities about Mastodon-compatible servers being heckin' based and epic for their privacy and resisting harassment. This might be spicy for some people, but unless you're on a private instance with a disabled API for unauthenticated users and make serious concessions like instance whitelisting, Twitter is probably better for your privacy. That's how bad it is. Fuck, secure fetch being widespread isn't even that old.

Every instance of people who follows you logs your posts, private or not, potentially forever. It's an open secret that many people do not respect post deletes for performance reasons. So when the lies of slimy fucks falls apart when people start deflecting blame. I've seen people criticise even /screenshotting/ posts, calling it stalking. Bitch, every server is practically archiving all your posts in a database with zero encryption. Those remote instances could have security of Swiss cheese. It's too many points of failure to trust. The absolute hypocrisy and false advertising this place has gotten is fucking ridiculous.

Mastodon-compatible networks are not a private place. It is not decentralised. You have less control over your data than /fucking Twitter./ You are probably more safe on Twitter as well. You do not have control over your identity.

Fuck you to the people who built your communities, Patreons, companies on these false pretenses. Rot in hell.

Free ML project idea: train on famous singers, write parody songs, call it Weird A.I. Yankovic.

Ech #microsoft #wtf? You want my name exact as on my ID. But you don't want my name as it exists. Ł is not special character, it is a fucking letter.

For all the good the FSF has done over the years, if you've ever wondered why no one takes them seriously anymore it's stuff like this. Just link the issue tracker what are you doing https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/googles-decision-to-deprecate-jpeg-xl-emphasizes-the-need-for-browser-choice-and-free-formats

The practical consequence of using LLMs to generate code is that many developers will find they have unwittingly moved themselves into a role they were probably trying to avoid: they have automated the creation of legacy code and have redefined their job role as debugging and fixing such code.

If a public agency wants to create an official Mastodon server it controls (or use one the state has set up) — that's great! They should do that. I'd love to see a dedicated National Weather Service instance, for example.

But this shouldn't happen at the expense of having their web sites actually be **useful**. So start putting all this information on the web again. Get that stuff back into those dormant RSS feeds.

Then pipe that information wherever you want (including Mastodon)!

Scandinavian surnames are mostly patronyms ending in -son or -sen.

there isn't as much of a tradition of having job titles (Smith, Thatcher, Wright) as surnames.

related:

A new version of #madblog is available! 🎉

It now comes #PWA support out of the box - manually creating a `manifest.json` is no longer required. So your own blog or web notebook can easily be installed as a PWA with zero additional configuration - yay!

For those who aren't familiar with it, madblog is a platform I developed to have a simple but good-looking blog with zero JS that is *really* Markdown-based.

When I say Markdown-based, I usually don't mean "it has a WYSIWYG editor that supports Markdown and will store your data on a database behind your back".

No, I really mean "you create your directory with Markdown files, run madblog to use it as a content directory, and nothing else is required".

If your blog pages are stored as Markdown files in a git repo, then running your blog somewhere is as simple as cloning the repo, creating a simple `config.yaml` in it, and running `madblog blog-dir`.

It currently powers both my blogs (https://blog.platypush.tech and https://blog.fabiomanganiello.com).

Ideas and feedback are welcome!

https://git.platypush.tech/blacklight/madblog

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration

@thor well, you have to look at the history of the British isles, they all originally spoke Gaelic, the Romans invaded and taught them Latin, then the Anglo Saxons invaded and they were the ones to speak English, but they were from Germany, the Angles and Saxons, then you have the Vikings that invaded from Norway, and then the Normans, which were originally Danish Vikings that invaded France first.

Very funny, W3C.