*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

@snow I think they might disable ad blocking functionality internally, in their code - so even worse than removing the add-ons, which people might still find in other places and side load.

@snow Firefox to the rescue.

Chrome, I am not using it or interested. Google revenue depends on advertising, they have an interest on tracking people and showing, selling data and ads.

@freemo
That suggestion by Vijay was an interesting one (I did read his whole list, impressive). It could be adapted to suite your original intention here (adding an alt-image text description, after the fact).

Maybe considering things like the correction being made by the original's author. And using a triggering expression, clearly intended to request the action.

Not allowing editing of posts in Mastodon is mostly by design, similar to twitter's stance. While Friendica has Edits available, with a history kept, similar to FB.

@vjy @ff0000 @n0btc

@realcaseyrollins That's great, hope you have an enjoyable day, Casey!

@realcaseyrollins Good morning, someone is all chirpy!! 😃

@pschwede
We had a good and lively discussion here, right at the Local feed, back in November. Then a request was made that we transferred it to the Discourse Forum, and I prepared a thread there, with links back here to most relevant posts, but it never had much participation.

Thread is here : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nov-2019-site-issues-discussions-non-english-and-foreign-script-posts/102

From the various posts from various people, it seemed improper to limit the membership to English only, or even European languages only, as it could be perceived as exclusionary.

We had an influx of Indian users at the time (November 2019), and a lot of unfathomable script that we couldn't even moderate unless alerted by someone else about improper contents. That has receded it seems.

Late December brought a wave of Spanish twitter users looking for a better alternative, and a number of them chose Qoto as their new home. Thankfully this is more manageable for us, in questions of understanding the contents of posts and even responding to them.

There is also another thread in the same forum, regarding the Theme line and what to do about it - an important one, that had lively discussions here in November, but has fizzled out lately.

Here: https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nov-2019-site-issues-discussions-preserving-qotos-s-t-e-m-focus-in-a-time-of-growth-steering-site/103/7

Both of those threads are in the Moderation section of the Forums, and a user login is required to see them. They do not require higher user account priviledges, but simply a registration and email confirmation to access them, if someone doesn't have an account at Discourse yet.

Or we could reopen talks here as well, if someone desires.
@freemo

@users And we are over the 7,000 Users mark!

I had seen the joinmastodon.org page listing Qoto as "7K" users, but now we are officially over this mark.

@snow Ah, thank you!

@mandlebro I heard a comment that someone bought an exploit and NSA decided to burn it to deny them using it.

@snow
That link was for magvids. 😉

@magvids

@snow That was an interesting read, thank you! The INTJ description fits me really well, as I expect you noticed. 😃

do you think Freemo is an ENTJ ?

@snow @magvids see this post : https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103161778896393842

@magvids yes, there is a place you can select only languages you can understand.

@realcaseyrollins Not yet, although there are some suggestions in the Forum thread, no finalist chosen yet.

We should move on this, I think it will catch on.

@greylaw89 I understand your concern, and it's valid. There are so many towns in the middle of the US which were once vibrant and now are down in their luck, the industries gone, young people without much options for a decent living locally. Despair, booze and drug use has climbed as a result.

Reducing the size of the vehicles people use, and the amount of fuel consumed, would be a good way to go, but it's unpopular in the US. In Europe, fuel prices are higher and people conserve, use smaller vehicles or pay the costs at the pumps if they prefer that.

@realcaseyrollins@mstdn.social LOL, no, certainly not, as many people are commenting on it.

One possibility is that someone bought this on the exploits market, and that buyer is intending to use it against the US government or infrastructure.

The NSA has whole teams searching for this kind of thing, full time, but not to warn anyone. 😉

** Windows Update -- important security risk, read and patch ASAP. **

The NSA has notified Microsoft of a serious vulnerabilty in Windows 10, and some of the Server versions, which is related to the authentication of secure web connections.

Ars Technica has an article, it's also all over the Tech press probably.

For the NSA to come out and give away this (an exploitable error) is an indication of how serious it is.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/01/patch-windows-10-and-server-now-because-certificate-validation-is-broken/

@aficientifico hello, yes, I can try. What's happening?

@realcaseyrollins @freemo
And after reading all of these articles I had linked above (some read in previous days, and now collating into a better understanding), I went back to scanning the hashtag, and came across what's got to be the most out of control block list I have seen so far.

Really, I mean.

Who else is Blocking mastodon.social --- and accusing its admin of not doing a proper job of controlling access and posts from the instance? Yep, she is, this girl

Queen Bee's full list is at : https://stardew.city/about/more#unavailable-content

@pschwede Amazing! Lyudmila tiene 23 Boosts, magnifico. Fue veer que post era, y es una foto realmente muy expressiva. Congratulaciones, Lyudmila!