#AdventOfCode off to a good start! I don't stay up late to do them (because central time US, work and !young) but still plan to get through them this year. When work doesn't slow me down too much I do.
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Just came across a thread on reddit's r/selfhosted of a newly minted admin confused and worried they could access their users' mailboxes.
Money quote:
"What is troubling me is that as a user I always assumed the content of my email messages was encrypted and hidden even to the system admin"
No wonder that people are worried about the fact that "admins can in theory read your DMs on Mastodon" when THIS is their general misunderstanding of how hosted stuff works.
I find THAT worrying.
The guts of these things are a neat look at how to manufacturer something useful by mostly bending metal creatively.
@trinsec yup. The faceplate screw was the only thing holding the plastic on, but the internal conductors weren't making proper contact anymore.
I thought I'd replaced all of these outlets that are falling apart in our old house. Nope - missed one.
@DiverDoc @worldhistoryfacts @histodons this is a great poster, I'm gonna consider getting a print for the wall. https://www.loc.gov/item/98518433/
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A 1937 poster demonizing jaywalking. In the early 20th century, it became clear that the proliferation of cars was dangerous for pedestrians. In order to make city streets easier for drivers to navigate, auto companies invented the crime of "jaywalking" ("jay was slang for "fool") in order to get pedestrians out of the streets. It was successful. Soon, after streets went from being places of commerce and communication to the domain of automobiles.
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@finity @RabBrucesSpider1 there's this one, but it's opt in https://botsin.space/@PleaseCaption
@lazzarello nice! Yeah I've been wondering how they can afford to do any support, but they seem to be able to. And the instance isn't totally anemic either...
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@acjay @finity I hope so, I've submitted a change to the codebase to add exactly that :) https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/21679
@dynaml @kmkurn @RabBrucesSpider1 yeah, maybe just, "corrective suggestion"
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@lazzarello if you're just looking for a virtual private server that runs all the time you might do better with something like they discuss here: https://lowendtalk.com/
I found TNA Hosting through there, and now have a $5/month VPS that's just fine for many use cases. I find Google/AWS cloud VPS's better for short term, or quick scaling.
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@finity @RabBrucesSpider1 it would also be cool if pictures could be edited to add it, or if people could propose Alt text
@acjay @RabBrucesSpider1 I was just thinking that... Probably an even better solution - and the feature could default to "on". Right after I posted above I remembered I posted a picture yesterday without alt text... Definitely accidentally.
Pecan Pie
I should've included an image description... This is a picture of a perfect pecan pie on a counter with a coffee mug in the background that says "accio coffee".
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I do like it here on Mastodon, but the huge influx of people from Twitter means there are far fewer image descriptions than from even a couple of weeks ago. I’d love to tell every one of them about this, but quite frankly there are so many I don’t have the patience. I’d dearly love it if apps could block posts unless an image description was added to every photo, but I suppose that’s too much to hope for. I’m feeling really excluded from so many conversations. It’s getting as bad as Twitter.
@cyberlibrarian on my instance (qoto) I don't have that button, but I can add hashtag follows through settings and they do work.
@RabBrucesSpider1 maybe we need a Culture Bot. Something that automatically responds to posts that don't have alt text, or that seem to include non-CW politics text, etc.
