Notices by soaproot (soaproot@sfba.social)

@julesh @christianp The threat model is that the stalker puts an Airtag in your pocket (car/bag/etc), not theirs.

This one is at least a little bit of a trick question. The Fianna Fáil manifesto says "Decriminalise drug possession for personal use" (and has some additional language) but there have been several rounds of clarification since that came out to the effect that they are referring to cannabis here not decriminalizing all drugs.

@coachtony As tempted as i am to pull-quote out the part about Mastodon, I'll be content with just saying there is a part about Mastodon and perhaps that will give people an incentive to read the whole piece.

@tillshadeisgone The more I try to think of what (if anything) to say, the more I come back to "no, I don't get it either".

@tillshadeisgone Didn't make it to Monday, eh?

@LaurensHof Not being on Bluesky I'm reluctant to draw too many conclusions about the labeling services shuttering, but this does strike me as a big story. Content moderation (including related topics) is pretty much the key part of making a social network function, and unless the pieces get picked up somehow (or already are) this could have knock-on effects down the road.

@williampietri I mostly knew him from Square (when I worked there, before he caught his case of the bitcoins). Although it is hard to say for sure I wasn't missing something even then, it seemed better. For one thing I had a lot of respect for most of the executives he hired and he seemed to stay out of the way and let them do their jobs (as far as I could tell anyway).

@clacke I'm taking all those as synonymous (or close enough for our purposes), yes.

@clacke Is this from the era/culture of the Unix Hater's Handbook? Seems like it based on the attribution to Hal Abelson.

@tillshadeisgone I don't have anything to add about what the procedures for maintaining that list are, or should be. What I find eye opening about this post is that there's a widespread assumption that people drop off at that list because there are too many choices. You point to another issue: people dropping off at that list because none of the choices appear to fit well enough.

@williampietri And the modern equivalent is "please consider the environment before filing this email in a data center" I suppose?

@moo @tillshadeisgone I don't really know a lot of the details but I was looking at a guppe-like (but not guppe itself) service at https://fedigroups.social/@hello/112056551685065619 and they say "And unlike other group services, we work across the fediverse AND have controls to help you limit content/abuse."

@tillshadeisgone I feel sorry for the kid. Was a lot easier to just chalk this up to people being ridiculous except for that detail.

@tchambers @jwcph @fediversenews @hachyderm Looks like a good approach to me. One very nit-picky point: "Spammers and toxic accounts inside the P92 network we or our social graph don’t follow" should read something like "interact with" instead of "follow" because DM spam, or toxic replies, can happen even if you don't follow the bad account (as you seem to be aware of based on the rest of the document).

@jwcph @tchambers @fediversenews @hachyderm I'm a little worried about meta hosting bad content (brigading, hate speech, etc) and it harming us via federation. I'm even more worried about us becoming meta, in the sense of figuring that kind of bad content is just too hard to stop and we don't really need to stop it and so on. Whether federating makes that more or less likely, I'm not too sure, but I do think vigilance will be needed either way.

@ammdias @MartinVeart @wikipedia Yes we are obligated to say of course we do not condone Wikipedia vandalism. And when, er I mean if, I do snicker at these things it is a bit of a guilty pleasure for exactly this reason. But I am far too circumspect to admit whether I snickered at this one or not.

@dansup That's a perfectly logical and well written interview for a serious outlet like The Verge. But just between us here on the elephant site, they completely missed the part about #JohnMastodon 's contributions. (Shh, don't tell them, they'll never see it coming).