(webdev Tory) @worldsendless@qoto.org

@freemo is it just, unnecessary upgrades make waste? Or is there a known issue?

I notice that #qoto is a number of versions of mastodon behind instances like mastodon.social, though it also works better in some areas. Any particular reason it is behind or just no reason to upgrade yet?

@lucifargundam Not verification. Just so that it can literally say, "this mastodon user said this on bookwyrm, or on peertube," etc. Verification as already here via, eg, website verification

Regarding the Fediverse, it's great that I can follow a bookwyrm account from mastodon. Does anyone know if there is a way of technically defining that a bookwyrm account is mine?

Read this article in reader mode, as it is itself smothered in ads top and bottom. But the point is, Google sells massive amounts of personal data as kind of a public secret; the worst part is that they lead you to think it is actually for your good and service that they do it. It goes to the point that privacy -- owning your own data -- is increasingly expensive

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-05-16/privacy-google-transmits-our-personal-data-70-billion-times-a-day#xj4y7vzkg

@writh yeah... some folks have it wired to display a warning or an icon to indicate that. I haven't bothered, though

TIL that chrome has a really cool JS/CSS coverage analysis for dev tools, for which FireFox has no equivalent! This is the first time I've seen an actual deficiency in FireFox for webdev.

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/coverage/
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64605981/alternative-for-chromes-coverage-in-firefox

But whatever happened to yesteryears https://developer.mozilla.org.cach3.com/en-US/docs/Tools/CSS_Coverage ??

@Pat I was mistaken -- it's actually a :, not a #

@kravietz file-based? Like gpg? That's what I use for my password file right now

Just learned about disroot, which sounds pretty awesome from a decentralized, tech ethics standpoint https://disroot.org/en/services/email