Notices by socketwench (socketwench@hackers.town)

[hangs head]

We shouldn't need cookie popups.

Ever.

GDPR does not specify you need cookie popups.

It specifies you need *consent* to collect private data.

"What private data?" you ask. All the crap which goes to Google Analytics.

You don't need a cookie popup if you don't use intrusive analytics.

"For Mastodon to succeed..."

I'm going to stop you right there. When I look around Fediverse, I see people chatting with friends, making new ones, connecting with old ones, people sharing their fun, their fears, their anger, their sadness. I see people asking for help, offering to help, wondering if they need help. I see a microcosm of humanity.

I don't need to wait for Fedi to succeed, because, in my view. It. Already. Has.

While it's nearly a tired cliche at this point that fedi runs on trans people and furries, under it all is something unsaid.

A lot of marginalized people keep this place going, not to make money, but to create a space for people like themselves.

Social media hits different when those running the network are in the community, rather than extracting *from* that community for their own ends.

Time for a little party with all of my fans. 😨

@MiaWinter Was that a programmer meow, a sysadmin meow, or a devops meow?

Thanks brain, I really needed to imagine a Transmetropolitan-esque "Armchair gun" which has the settings: "armchair," "loveseat", "sofa", and of course, "sitting room".

@thegibson Wait for the hug.

@Polychrome That happens to me a lot. Usually I only take the factory temperature as a starting point and use temperature towers to dial it in per printer. It can even vary between colors of the same material.

As enshittification marches on through ever social media site, the folly of ever thinking "personal branding" was important.

Brands were never meant to be people.

"I need likes to keep my ratio up."
"Please give a thumbs up to The Algorithm."
--statements by the utterly deranged.

They, the capitalists, have played us for absolute fools.

@Polychrome :blobshrug:

I really wish we could just take countries out of the domain name system.

UK: .co.uk
NZ: .co.nz
AU: .com.au
Me: :blobglare:

Okay. Which one of you can I blame this on?

(Wrong answers only.)

Already this film has more rock climbing than Lost Continent.

@Nezchan The mountain is a metaphor for his ego.

I am free. (Or am I?)

#catsofmastodon

I am currently trapped by a raging, wild beast.

No. I am yet in her claws. Freedom is illusion.

#catsofmastodon

@thegibson @maddiefuzz @cmdr_nova @drwho It is said Medusa froze her victims with her UV stare (after dousing them in resin).

@maddiefuzz @cmdr_nova @drwho Maddie is right. Add a curing chamber, a washing machine, filter funnel, air filter, rubber gloves, face shield, and rubber apron...it's about $350. Do *not* skimp on PPE with resin.

@Polychrome @ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs @asterism Captialism is a hell of thing; everything becomes a value statement.