deadbeef @deadbeef@qoto.org
infosec, reverse engineering, game dev. stereotypical trans rust programmer.
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Joined Nov 2022
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Dealing with font rasterization and rendering is such a pain... just finished figuring out how to stitch together glyphs efficiently and im thrown right into glyph caching and kerning issues 
Re: joinmastodon.org instance directory
In many ways I am uncomfortable with the concept of a single person having so much unchecked influence over what is supposedly a decentralized network. I suggest we look into alternative methods of listing instances that is not so centralized and dependent on one person, while still providing some guarantees about server policy. Not an easy task by any means, but I believe it might be necessary if the Fediverse is to become truly decentralized.
What do you think? @freemo
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WARNING: If we don’t push back against this recent stylish hype about another proprietary Twitter clone, we may as well just slit our cultural and political throats right now. We’ll just be going right back to the same future hellscape we just came from.
In regard to delisting of QOTO on joinmastodon.org:
I'm not here to make a judgement on who is "in the right" here as I've been here for only around a week, and I can't know or verify the events that lead to this.
However, Eugen's lack of communication and transparency about this is highly concerning - I think the least we deserve is a public statement on the delisting - arguably a responsibility of Eugen's, considering the outsized influence that the joinmastodon.org directory has over the Fediverse, and in particular Mastodon instances.
I urge him to remember that the Fediverse is supposed to be decentralized - his actions right now suggest he is trying to move towards the opposite.
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The Elm Fork John Brown Gun Club (@EFJBGC@twitter.com), a leftist org dedicated to training POC and queer people in safe firearms handling, has been suspended from Twitter for "Hateful Conduct" after a mass-reporting campaign by right-wingers and transphobes associated with Libs Of Tik Tok.
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"Please," said the man, "can you do magic to make me be kind?"
"No," said the witch. "Magic cannot change anyone's nature."
"So there is no hope for me?"
"You ask the wrong question. Kind is not something you are. It is what you do."
"Is it that simple?"
"It is that hard."
#MicroFiction #SmallStories #TootFic
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Boost this fox to teleport him across the Fediverse and brighten someone's day! 
Let's see how many instances the fox can reach on his journey!
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@freemo @trinsec @khird While the suggestion itself looks reasonable in itself, i wonder if this is a good addition or just a reaction to bad behaviour from the outside.
With what happened lately, i suggest to take it slow. Pressure should not be the reason for policy changes, only reason.
Throwing around the word “bannable” could have an adverse effect. I did experience someone saying they were abused for talking about a topic. I do not know if that person acted in good or bad faith, but i think that there are people who have trouble to talk about loaded topics, and the change might affect them.
To not have any chilling effects, would it not be better to not list loaded topics, but concentrate on civility? People respecting each other seems to be our strength, i worry if we lose that if we let others mandate what we have to write.
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Twitter users are all like “I don’t know if I can trust a bunch of career sysadmins and network engineers to run their own Mastodon instances” — meanwhile Elon is just running around the Twitter data center going “what’s this button do?”
Out of curiosity, does anyone know what mastodon.social (as well as maybe other instances') hardware is like?
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literature shitpost
alternate history? back in my day, it was called revisionism
ok i really like how this took the verified emoji to the next step lol
@angelobottone rgb display name!!! :O
does anyone actually use header guards anymore in personal c++ projects lol
happy i chose qoto tbh, pretty friendly and nice here
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Happy Friday, Mastodonians!
What's the happiest part for you?
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Strange women lying in ponds distributing phones is no basis for a system of government…
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infosec, reverse engineering, game dev. stereotypical trans rust programmer.
she/her
Joined Nov 2022
