I'm starting to get calendar invites for events in "November." Lol who's idea was this? That's not a real month, what da heck even is a Novemb?

I've come to the sad conclusion that the amount of hate speech and moderation system on Mastodon and the Fediverse at large is not an accident but a choice.

This is based having been on the Fediverse since 2018, having run two instances, a single-user and a multi-user instance, having gone to a Fediverse conference, given talks with technical proposals on mitigation techniques, and having worked with the primary author of the ActivityPub protocol specification.

These issues have been known about for more than a decade and yet the major platforms don't take them seriously. At some point, when a bug exists for a very long time and has multiple suggestions for addressing, failure to do so is a deliberate choice.

#Fediverse #Mastodon

@spla Es La liga de Florentimo i c&a

lolsob 🫠

#AntiTransNonsense #Fascism

This Google Cloud outage in Europe is huge. Almost every service offline, including Google SecOps (Chronicle), for almost 4 hours now.

@cwebber As soon as I started reading this post, option 3 leapt into my head. That will assuredly be the way things turn out, unfortunately.

If you are interested in all the "fun" about w.social, follow this bridged account
@wdonthavetime.selfhosted.social
(and also follow @_elena @pallenberg and some others for more info about #wned )

bring some 🍿

#Wsocial is just the biggest joke.
I really hope that this threat to open internet will disappear soon!

Thanks for bridging your page @wdonthavetime.selfhosted.social !

Health messages on cigarette packets have worked. We should do the same with betting shops. A third of the frontage should have a big yellow on black sign saying "We're still in business because you keep on losing. You're all losers."

@scy normaler Dienstag

L'interfície avançada de Mastodon v5.0.0-alpha1 ja m'agrada moooolt més que la actual.

@tael In a previous post, I asked if librewolf correctly updated the certificates, but had not received an answer until your post. I appreciated you letting me know

If it’s a signed checksum then maybe. But if the of instance is doing the abusing then it won’t help.

The part I agree with most: the fundamentals do not change. Phishing-resistant MFA everywhere, not just the VPN. EDR on everything. Watch east-west traffic and DNS. Assume one set of creds gets popped and make sure it does not open the whole building.

"Syssk: The Alien Tarot of Ancient Japan" is a highly obscure tarot deck created by Armenian poet Lilit "Baba" Yagian, revolving around an alien (marked only by the stolen head of H. R. Giger's Xenomorph) named Syssk who "finds herself unexpectedly marooned in Medieval Japan" and "attempts to navigate a human society while assuming the role of a samurai."

The cards are created via crude digital collage, most prominently using Ukiyo-e woodblock and anime art with some psychedelic filters. A book containing lengthy explanations of the cards, Armenian-language only, is available on archive.org
https://archive.org/details/the-book_202210/mode/2up

@josephcox I see you chose not to mention the controversy over Stop Cop City, which is, in many ways, an extension of Black Lives Matter, and has been dubbed "terrorist" despite consisting solely of peaceful protesters exercising their First Amendment rights.

https://www.rightsanddissent.org/news/66-organizations-urge-that-domestic-terrorism-charges-against-defend-the-atlanta-forest-protesters-be-dropped/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Cop_City

@jaredwhite Not to be confused with Gwyneth Paltrow's big ass-coffee.

(This is also the different between "but first coffee" and "butt-first coffee".)

@alfajet @AugierLe42e

Macron t'es toufou, ta politique est à la rue.

@Alice