nullifidian @nullifidian@qoto.org

Me when I first learnt about type hints and type checkers:
Wow, so powerful for writing better, cleaner, safer code! Never again will I write
```
def f(x, y, z): ...
```
Instead, I shall write:
```
def f(x: Any, y: Any, z: Any) -> Any: ...
```
mypy reports no errors... we're good to go!

This is really worrying. Arresting journalists just for doing their job is something we would expect in Putin's Russia or Xi's China.

We should really not be seeing this in a western democracy.

https://pressgazette.co.uk/three-journalists-locked-up-for-covering-m25-protests-police-force-says-the-arrests-were-justified/

In my opinion, criticisms of mastodon being unusable by the general public are over blown.

It’s interesting that the biggest communication challenge facing Mastodon communities is explaining that it’s basically a protocol and a network of independent, interconnected servers, which is what the Web, e-mail, even DNS and most of the fundamental services we use on the internet are, and always were.
It just illustrates just how much ‘Big Tech’ proprietary social media platforms swallowed up and walled off, if it’s now difficult to explain what the internet actually is!