shadowsonawall @shadowsonawall@qoto.org

This made me laugh harder than it should have...

#Loki
#Variant
#Marvel

Since I'm trying to phase out tagging everyone individually, as it feels a bit scammy, but everyone asked to be kept in the loop... so here are some alternate "official" ways the conversation should continue:

1) On the official Gitlab repository, which is where all voting and formal discussions will take place

https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution

2) The group found here for mastodon discussions (just tag them instead of everyone): @ufoi

3) On matrix chat. #UFoI:matrix.org

And of sourse you are all welcome to contact me directly. I am very excited how there is so much talk about it and it hasnt even been released for 24 hours yet!

@timezoneless @floppy @ufoi @skanman @john @stevenclyman @robryk @ejg @dashrandom @Romaq @ichoran @AlanOutback @tsomof @aebrockwell @Ryle @tatzelbrumm @Gaythia @realcaseyrollins @stux@mstdn.social @stux@masto.ai @trinsec @khird @darnell #mastoadmin @jq

The paradox of Mastodon is no one (not even mastodon.social) likes mastodon.social dominating the network, or Eugen G being the sole arbiter of extensions to the common protocol,

but on the other hand, ultimately, the reason we all use Mastodon (IE, the part of the Fediverse people think of as "Mastodon", modeled on the Mastodon extensions to ActivityPub) instead of Secure Scuttlebutt or identi.ca or whatever is because Mastodon was the AP implementation that had one person's singular vision.

@shadowsonawall @Tinu muting and blocking means I don’t want to listen to you. Saying someone has to live inside a CW means no one wants to listen to you, and puts the labor for managing that on the person concerned. When most people in the space don’t seem to be following the same rules, that message is even louder. And it shouldn’t be necessary to push for changes just to feel like you can exist somewhere. Folks are tired.

As a wider range of folks come here - especially including execs and sales, I would humbly suggest that folks be careful how they try to sell stuff here and to whom if speaking on behalf of a cybersecurity product company. Read your server’s rules and understand what is allowed. Don’t brute force the lack of algorithm. Understand your audience, since it’s typically way more specific and community-focused than commercial social media, and they may or may not welcome it. I just blocked someone who was pitching their product in a really unsolicited and tone deaf way through comments.

Please don't use #Fedified!

This is what it says about itself:

"(Fedified) is *the* way to make sure that you're following the account managed by the same person you used to follow on Twitter."

It wants to be a central authority. This is dangerous, and opposite to what the Fediverse stands for.

People become dependent on a central authority, then it gets bought out by billionaires.

You can already verify your account on here without using any centralised lists:

https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-advanced-tips/#HowDoIVerifyMyAccount

@siina turn your hobby into work and you will burn out in no time

Small #FediTip: if you encounter a message or thread that is in any way useful to you, bookmark it straight away.

Since the fediverse doesn't have full text searches, it will be very difficult to find that particular thing again a few days later. Especially if you cannot remember who posted it or it has no hashtags.

Periodically review your bookmarks to do something with them and you should be set.

Did you know that if you capitalize each word in a multi-word hashtag, #ScreenReaders can read them as words, but if you leave them lowercase, they can't? Well, now you know! So, for #accessibility, please capitalize words when there's more than one in a hashtag.

I enjoyed this paper, "The Problem with Metrics is a Fundamental Problem for AI". In ML, often we glamorize algorithmic or model improvements and ignore the importance of what is around that such as the data used, metrics for success, or a good UI for the humans trying to get something done with our models. It is important that ML systems optimize for the right thing, and they often do not because metrics for success are picked too sloppily and hastily.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08512

This is a response to @nymag
For the poorly researched piece this past week. The tone of the author on social medial has been very dismissive of the people who suffer from these incurable diseases.

#pwME #LongCovid #MECFS #MyalgicE
https://www.meaction.net/2022/11/10/elementor-59066/

Microwaves have some of the worst user interfaces. #xp

honestly Jupiter same

The lesson to take from the big layoffs at Twitter and Facebook is this: "The job will never love you back." No matter how much effort you put in, no matter how clever you are, no matter how long you've committed yourself to $COMPANY, when push comes to shove, you're just a replaceable part in the machine.

Keep your weekends and your evenings. Leave your bugs at work. Your time is for you, and your boss won't send you flowers.

A cryptobro DMed me to ask if I wanted to join his mailing list.

I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.