Life is Tetris @tetrislife@qoto.org

#Tusky 20 is now on F-Droid!
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.keylesspalace.tusky/

@jon @Vivaldi Started at work. At least colleages in my office room and half the people on my floor use it. Feature ranking:
a) allow pop-ups to be opened as a tab (crm system opens popup windows for every click you do)
b) stacks with duo-lines
c) tab tiling
d) vertical tabs
e) tab scrolling

one of my colleages got angry last week "when it is so easy to build a browser like that, why do all the others not have all these features"

thanks a lot for all this! and for making it look so easy

If you’re working 12 hours per day then you’re not doing 12 hours of particularly high-quality technical work.

Spreading awareness about the impact of digital technologies while harnessing their power to ensure a livable future: that's what #sustainability means to us.

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Everything gets pentested. If you're lucky, the people who do so will tell you about it

I have to run more cabling around my house so server fun is on the backburner for now.
So... I decided to play around with #haikuos on a VM.
Holy shit has it advanced. I could even see myself using it as a bare-metal desktop OS!
The last time I used it was during the release of beta1, and it was OK although audio didn't work at all so I blasted it. But even just trying beta3 (a year old already!) the difference is astounding.
I can't wait for beta4 (which is supposed to come in like... a day or so) to see even more progress.

@jonn it is in fact precisely because its an apache killer. Loic even uses that phrasing describing his early involvement here: https://ninenines.eu/articles/the-story-so-far/

When people travel to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small.

Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present.

This is the only real time travel paradox.

You and I and everyone here are part of the first 10 million people on the fediverse.

We are setting the cultural and technical norms for the next few decades.

So if there's something you wish Mastodon did, or ActivityPub did, just start acting like it already exists.

If enough people want it or need it, it will get added by the software and protocols later.

@andrewstroehlein You should have respect for your ancestors including their culture and most importantly your friends and family, that’s true nationalism.

The LIbervia project has been working on making ActivityPub and XMPP work nicely together: https://www.goffi.org/b/libervia-progress-note-2022-w45-MTdL

ATTENTION EVERYONE WRINGING THEIR HANDS OVER “#MASTODON ADMINS CAN READ MY DIRECT MESSAGES”: #SysAdmins have *always* been able to read your #email and DMs unless encrypted, including at the big #SocialNetworks and Internet providers. We used to have t-shirts that said, “I READ YOUR EMAIL.”

It’s just hitting now because you got used to places where the admins were kept away in their cubicles and data centers instead of greeting you at the front door.

#privacy #security #InfoSec #cybersecurity

@lukobe @dantheclamman @thomasfuchs Another option is setting up #Yunohost and letting it do most of the heavily lifting for you.

"It's a privacy nightmare!"

Ummm, but other services aren't? If Mastodon is a "privacy nightmare" but you aren't worried about Facebook, I have some questions for you.

To those putting your amateur radio callsigns in your username or bio: The station address you registered with the FCC is public information. It's in the ULS database, like any other radio license.

This is how I was originally dox'd and it's why I haven't renewed my license. #opsec

@malwaretech
What bugged me the most was how people would take a tweet and twist the meaning of the words to suit their agendas.

To be fair though, there are plenty of people on the left who also enjoy doing that. Anger addiction is everywhere.

I wish people would ask for clarification or more information if they have an issue. Keeping our views brief can lead to unintended misunderstandings that can be cleared up with patience and a bit of conversation.

@malwaretech very cynical take but I don't think of it so much as "we got here" as much as "we were always here" and twitter just gave the layman an easy way to participate.

I recall the early days of IRC also being filled with trolls and vitriol, polarized views and arguments, all perfectly hidden behind a veil of anonymity to allow people to continue to behave badly without real world consequences.

Mastodon however, is an anti-thesis to all that.

@mattblaze just @mentioned me and asked a question, which I answered in good faith, and with what I thought was a respectful tone. He told me to "fuck off":

https://federate.social/@mattblaze/109406061345030634

I'm not the first person he said that to in this thread. This is neither the professional behaviour of a serious computer security expert, nor the playful banter of an underground hacker. If anyone is wondering why a lot of people here don't really take him seriously, this whole thread is a good example of why.

I'm getting to think that hashtags are underappreciated and underused. On Twitter they were largely bypassed by algorithms, which is probably part of the reason.

But I'm seeing a lot of moderation reports asking that genres of posts be eliminated for "cluttering up local", and I think things would go a lot more smoothly if people were consistently hashtagging their posts so they could be followed or muted by hashtag.

I could do with a lot fewer demands to police local.

#hashtag #moderation