kemuri 🦀 @kemuri@qoto.org

Waffles the #cat: a short story
#CatsOfMastodon #ThreeLeggedCat

The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.

The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.

People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.

If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/

#cat

My thoughts go out to the IT/security teams at The Guardian and Okta, and anyone else who was hoping to have a quiet holiday break....

Bayonetta 3 Validates Every Insecurity About My Life, Relationships, and Sexuality

Lucas DeRuyter examines his reaction to the end of #Bayonetta3 and how the end of Bayonetta's arc rejects what so many found inspirational about her

https://www.animefeminist.com/bayonetta-3-validates-every-insecurity-about-my-life-relationships-and-sexuality/

You, naive: computers are deterministic, therefore they are easy to understand
Me, jaded: lol. lmao.

Over the past week we've seen a noticeable uptick in men joining, following dozens of accounts presenting as women, and then messaging them directly.

Some appear to be real people, some are fake accounts with stolen identities.

Either way, this is stalking and harassing behaviour, and we have zero tolerance for it.

For those affected by accounts we fail to catch, please report them. We _will_ take action, and you'll help keep the community safe and welcoming for all.

Diolch.

#MastoMods

In a 'confidential' email notification sent by Okta and seen by BleepingComputer, the company states that attackers gained access to its GitHub repositories this month and stole the company's source code.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/okta-says-its-github-account-hacked-source-code-stolen/

Ryle is now hospitalized after having a heart attack last night. Ryle asked the Awoo! moderation team to write a post on their behalf and to be transparent. The conversation was brief, and we have pieced together most of the details.

Ourselves believe the heart attack was caused by a combination of things, suspect the recent stress involving strong conversations around Fedifence, Fediblock and UFOI. The triggering message was in reply to one of the UFOI threads telling Ryle to kill themselves and with video footage of men brutally stabbing a woman to death. Ryle is unlikely to be around for a while.

Receipts of the post is available on request through direct message to: @Transparency

This material is heinous and will break rules of other instances, so we are only sending this instance administrators/moderators on request. They are free to share at their own risk the receipts.

DO NOT attempt to contact Ryle to harass, upset. The moderation team also now have full access to Ryle’s account, and ourselves will be actively removing any unpleasant direct messages left.

If the heart attack is discussed, ourselves ask that you PLEASE do not tag Ryle in the conversations. Replying to this message is okay. If you are going to discuss anything regarding Ryle otherwise, PLEASE do not tag Ryle on conversations that would cause stress.

じぶんの足にねこの寝息の感触が伝わるの幸せ

最近ほんとにお膝が大好き

#キュウちゃん #kyuchan #cat #mastocats

2020年疫情爆发初期，从大年初三开始，鄙镇的疫情物资生产厂（私企）的销售就被国资控制，售价限定，所有的订单必须通过国资药企安排、发货。如此，该物资在本镇也是极度紧缺，必须高价获得。

在之后的一段时间里，有关部门开始摸查涉疫物资生产企业清单，制定应急物资统销预案，一旦涉疫物资紧张，有关部门就会启动预案，把企业的产能全部控制，统一调配。

所以可以想见，目前你们买不到抗原测试盒、退烧药，都因为这个制度在发挥作用。至于统销之后的效率是更高还是更低，个人感受吧。反正鄙镇，给政府工作人员免费派发抗原测试盒，人人都有，而市面上一盒难求。

#LegendaryTweets
https://twitter.com/mmsword/status/1200147947331043328

Now @mozilla is officially building upon the Fediverse. Their foray will be an instance hosted at mozilla.social.

But I hope they go further than this:

1. Make Thunderbird a Fediverse client
2. Build in-browser Fediverse functionality
3. Support a Fediverse app ecosystem

Mozilla can do so much to further the Fediverse. Let's hope that they think big.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

I've waited a few days to post this about the #mastodonmigration. Here is the evolution of the new accounts in #mastodon after the events in the last week. After each new ban/suspension in the #bluebird we see a spike in new accounts in #mastodon. But recent growth seems to be more steady at around 50k per day. Since the #bluebird purchase by Musk, more than 3 million new accounts were created in #mastodon.

落ちてるなぁ。白いなぁ。
#cocokame #cat

Perhaps it's just my imagination, but it feels like there have been many major features landing in #Rust recently. In 1.65, GATs, let-else, and Backtrace. In 1.66, black_box and cargo remove. Now on nightly, let chains may re-land, TAIT is in FCP, and inline const and pin! are both one checkbox away from FCP.

Many of these features are the results of years of work by many people. Every bit matters, and seeing them all land in just a few releases is huge.

5年前には、自分で見よう見まねでMastodonサーバーを立てたんですが、トラブルシュートやバージョン追従するのが大変になってしまって、途中でやめちゃいました。

今回はホストドンさんにお願いして立てたので、大変楽です（それはそう）。

自分がかけられる労力に合わせて選択肢を選ぶのは大事だなと思った次第です。

もっとも、そのときの経験は無駄にはなっていなくて、今回のマストドンブームの意味をすぐに理解する役に立っていると思います。