ML2 @mathlover@qoto.org

This blog article, whose author has also written against Mastodon in the past, has several weaknesses at once:
He mixes past and present by omitting events in the past.
He also uses disinformation in the article with the misleading rendition of the underlying technology in Fediverse, the responsibilities of freely available software, and the misappropriation of the moderation mechanics and actual moderation practices in Fediverse..

"#Mastodon: A Social Media Platform Dominated By #Pedophiles & #Child #Porn"

The #disinformation at #Secjuice is quite well done: The article gives itself an #investigative veneer, there are many links, alleged evidence and screenshots. Everything seems somehow conclusive - if you read too fast....

https://www.secjuice.com/mastodon-child-porn-pedophiles/

Your periodic reminder that just because a URL is saved at archive.org doesn't mean it's going to stay there.

Last year, I wrote a series about proxy services marketed to cybercriminals, and that relied heavily on Archive.org links to document various connections. After my story ran, the person that those links concerned asked Archive to remove those links from their database, which they did. The person in question came back and said hey, what you said in your story is wrong because there's no supporting evidence and you must remove this. Archive.org confirmed they removed all of the pages at the request of the domain holder, and that was that.

If you stumble upon a page that is in archive.org and you want to make sure there is a record that won't be deleted at some point, consider saving the page to archive.today/archive.ph

Fidelity slashes the value of its Twitter stake by over half | TechCrunch

Fidelity, which was among the group of outside investors that helped Elon Musk finance his $44 billion takeover of Twitter, has slashed the value of its stake in Twitter by 56%

#MOG
https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/30/fidelity-slashes-the-value-of-its-twitter-stake-by-over-half/

@erik_kwakkel suggested that I introduce myself.
I've mainly worked in the library and museum world, but have been freelance since 2006.
There's a bio on my page here: http://manuscripts.org.uk/
I blog at https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/ to share observations/discoveries that are not worth the time and effort that traditional academic publishing would require.
I like to think that I am an approachable and friendly introvert, but as one good friend once observed, I have "a low bullshit-tolerance threshold"!

happy new year

Happy New Year. May 2023 be the year of integrity.

Murderball two years ago today: all murder, very little ball

Murderball today: all ball, very little murder

@WalterShaub

Is there a fediverse equivalent of Substack? (I know some might argue that Mastodon or various Mastodon-like forks already is) but it still seems that something more focused on long form is a bit different (even as various forks allow more characters).

My final breakfast of 2022 seems happy.

So, it's day 5 having of COVID.

I still can't smell, still can't taste.

Congestion is not as bad now.

Aches are less intense now.

Lethargy is still bad.

Having a tough time breathing a bit.

I feel out of breath if I push myself to do stuff & drained & have to rest soon after.

Still feeling foggy headed a bit.

So, please don't get covid, it's not like a really bad cold, it's much worse, I feel like I got run over by a train.

Wear masks indoors, stay safe. Please. ❤️

One of the more sobering artifacts I came across in the #Viking exhibit at the National Museum of Ireland

The #Dublin of a 1,000 years past was known for its slave market and this collar is a reminder of that ugly truth

#IrishHistory #IrishSlavery #Slavery

Besides Mastodon, what are the most used Fediverse apps?

Here's some estimates:

1. The Matrix: ~40 million accounts
2. disaspora*: 741,945 accounts
3. Peertube: 390,998 accounts
4. Pixelfed: 143,518 accounts
5. Pleroma: 126,727 accounts
6. BirdsiteLIVE: 70,828 accounts
7. WriteFreely: 68,141 accounts
8. Lemmy: 40,188 accounts
9. WordPress: 31,366 accounts
10. Plume: 23,695 accounts

I haven't been able to find a near-accurate estimate for Misskey. I wonder what it is.

I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.

When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.

I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps. I have no idea what they're saying but the music is fantastic.

The New York Times article trashing #Signal is the worst piece of crap they have published in a while.

.All you need to know is that the attitude towards #privacy advocates and #infosecurity - conscious geeks is as such:

"Small groups of technologists are developing and deploying applications of their technologies for explicitly ideological reasons, with those ideologies baked into the technologies."

I won't link to promote this schlocky opinion piece, which is apparently a reaction to #JackDorsey and his million $ donation to #Signal.

The article is "Jack Dorsey and the Dangers of Privacy At All Costs"

#enufsaid

You mad? Maybe it's time for you to stop paying employees so little they have to apply for Government subsidies.

Wikipedia: Trump told 30,573 false or misleading claims during his presidency.

George Santos: hold my beer.

Wikipedia: this is not even beer.