s/country/world/: FTFY

“Think of the children” is somehow the gotcha for so many of the hard-of-thinking amongst us.

Thanks, and for that Issue link. As you say, I expect it’s just nuking the cookie and everything related to it just disappears.

At least it’s on someone’s radar. :)

Edit: I sent a message to support, as suggested by slazer2au, and got a response pointing out that 30 days seems to be hard-coded into mlmym: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym/blob/a518844b005179623d0d7a31f45966cd8a6b8a96/routes.go#L794

That and those settings all being stored client-side explains everything. Not sure why those choices were made, but now I know why.

Bananas. 30 minutes later it’s “hello fibre and potassium, time to visit the loo!” But seriously, there are so many great fruits.

Some from me: Blackberries are my hands-down favourite (and available everywhere in the wild in the UK autumn), raspberries, apples (so many varieties), navel oranges, mandarins, dragon fruit, watermelon, pears, rockmelon/cantaloupe, soft peaches (rare; most need a hammer and chisel), plums, damsons (in jam), and grapes.

Most level-headed reaction to the issue I’ve seen to date. Thanks for saying it.

If a company has had a decent record to date, I prefer to wait to see if they hang themselves with their own rope rather than rage quitting on insufficient information.

They’ve done some questionable things in the past that can be explained by over-zealous PMs and such, so I’ll wait to see how this plays out.

“This is illegal!”

Bung in the post

“This is legal… for a fee!”

If the punishment is a fine, it is targeted at those who can’t afford the brib—I mean fee.

The whole full circle thing aside, I’m delighted we’re still able to do this 🖕🏻 with the current protocols.

My choices > your shareholders.

Nice. But as a BitWarden user, it’s useless to me. I’ve never put all my eggs in one account basket.

Passwords on one service, MFA on another, email on yet another, etc.

“…I’ll give it time to work and will come back and see you.”

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If the SIM standard didn’t change every few years, presumably for the same reason CPU pin-count changes ($$$), this might be a great phone for international travel, protests/marches and such.

As for Snake: meh, it’s fun, but it’s easy enough to code for yourself… Angela Yu’s “100 Days of Code” taught me that. ;)

First line of the article:

Two of the biggest deepfake pornography websites have now started blocking people trying to access them from the United Kingdom.

This isn’t (yet) the UK blocking access to them as part of a Great Firewall of Britain thing. This is the sites themselves blocking visitors from the UK, the same as porn sites for various US states.

As with porn sites, it’ll be using the gepIP tag of your IP address, which is notoriously unreliable, especially near geopolitical boundaries.

Using a VPN or even a third-party (rather than your ISP’s) DNS server will often get around them. However, doing so will eventually probably get you in trouble.

Our fault for not being born into rich families, I guess? :\

Road Runner, Tom & Jerry, Wacky Races… I’ll still watch them if I stumble upon them.

Meep meep beats Acme Inc every time.

Exactly. This kind of thing is just a tax they have to pay, unless they can convince a court otherwise. Unlike normal tax.

(Not OP). What kind of tips? It’s microblogging but without the algorithm, which many have come to expect. It relies on who you follow and/or hashtags. Likes are only “attaboys” to the poster - they don’t impact visibility, etc.

Being decentralised, it means that @user@instanceA is not the same person as @user@instanceB (it could be, but probably not). If you’re looking to follow specific people, check their profiles on other socials, their websites, or accounts on Mastodon that provide that kind of information (Fedi Tips, Mastodon Migration, etc).

Your home feed only shows the users and hashtags that you follow. The Local feed shows all public posts on your instance. The Federated feed shows all public posts on Mastodon (that your instance doesn’t block).

There are Lists, but only for users you follow (not hashtags, nor users you don’t follow).

The Advanced view in the web interface is functionally identical to Tweetdeck. There are some excellent third-party Mastodon clients. The official one was only intended to be a proof of concept. (I use Megalodon on Android, for example).

In my experience, it’s an “at face value”/“in good faith” platform, which is refreshing. There is no “quote post” feature, which I like (given how it’s used on the birdsite), but you can always paste a post’s URL after your hot take, if you must.

Report, mute and/or block freely. You can block entire instances, if you want. Good instance admins often make this a rarity.

Make posts, use hashtags as a matter of course, reply to Local/Federated posts from strangers, have conversations, and follow people you like. It’ll grow on you.

There are good and bad instances. Choose wisely. 😊

Withholding judgement on someone’s words until you see their actions is an important one to me. As is the flip-side to that - if someone shows you who they are: believe them.

Public figures are good practice for fine-tuning your response to both of these.

Call yourself what you like, declare your position this way or that, fine, but Actions > Words.

Self-hosted communities (here, Reddit, etc), GitHub searches, alternativeto.net, LibriVox and archive.org, Twitch’s “software development” category, and Mastodon hashtags are a few places I find mine.

This is it. Facebook (or Meta, can’t recall which) put a value of something like $40 per user per year on their users’ data. With a population of 450M, I don’t imagine any company to just walk away from $18B per year when they only get these $1-2B fines every few years.

They probably think of it as a tax that they actually have to pay, or a cost of doing business.

I’d love to see DOI automating a copy of each entry to archive.org. This would improve the likelihood of them remaining available.

Sure, it would make grifters like Elsevier mad, but scientific knowledge worth a DOI entry shouldn’t be limited to a for-profit organisation.

Edit: Worded first para badly. I meant anything assigned a DOI ID, regardless of where the work is hosted.

That we* get the government we deserve.

*Global we, not just where you live.

Think of the problem being solved. The Fediverse solves multiple problems, but most notably ensuring that our contributions won’t be paywalled by some corporate grifter. The post and comment data itself is free and open, subject only to TOS and regional legislation.

If you consider your conversations valuable, stick with something like secure messaging application groups. And then hope nobody in that group does what you imagine in your second point.