Notices by DNA schedule (ryanprior@mastodon.social)

@aral it wasn't shipping Wayland at all when you published the piece about accessibility, though. Of those on your list, elementary held back from shipping the busted experience. That seemed to be worth noting!

@aral I followed that whole saga, it was dismal. Glad the Mac is working better for you.

You should fix the note in your post that elementary is broken, because it still uses accessible X11 by default (Wayland will be an option in the upcoming release, but will not be the only option until accessibility features are mature there.)

@aral nice! I've thought about building a PC in that case but don't think I really have the space for it. Hope you find a good buyer, and condolences on the Mac!

@dansup how come I can't join with an existing fediverse identity? Is that on the roadmap?

I have a Mastodon account and a Pixelfed account, but I have to create a new one to try this? Feeling like we lost the sauce from the OpenID days, lack of federated identity doesn't feel good.

@mattly so fuck anybody who'd ask you to take basic table-stakes measures to secure your account? 🙄

Delete your account

@aral you wouldn't normally use a server side framework for something like this react kawaii app, right? I guess that put me in the frame of mind to be surprised. Could be an interesting area to improve on the state of the art.

@aral it seems shocking that one could easily write a bug that shares state outside your machine. Sounds like a footgun. Can there be some kind of more explicit mechanism where you mark consent for content to be shared over the network, and unmarked content warns or errors out?

@aral where does the 9MB live? What's the payload size delivered to the client?

@aral I saw posts from the Mastodon team saying unequivocally their operations are remaining in the EU and that the US entity exists only to raise funds for development of the Fediverse and Mastodon in particular. Did you read the same posts & doubt them? I'm interested in whether you have info/perspective I don't when you claim it's becoming a US entity.

@kranzkrone @w7voa @Gargron @roblen bitching in somebody's general direction and calling that an opinion? Weak sauce.

@aral yes they look so freaking sweet. My inclination is to find 3-10 like-minded people to form a co-op, pool funds to buy hardware, and launch the service. If I started an every-3-months interest meeting, would you want an invite?

@aral want to go in on an Oxide Computer rig and build this? They start at around 100k I think? (Not suggesting this as a "you should simply…" - I've been genuinely interested in running a VPS co-op on free hardware & software for a while, in case you're also tempted in that direction)

@aral have you evaluated DigitalOcean?

@aral I was briefly concerned you were a CCC stan, jeez what a thread. Sounds like a whole headache

@Gargron how does this interact with memes? Would posting a reaction image without crediting the photographer be a violation?

@thomasfuchs not a fan of OpenAI at all, but neither do I buy this classic copyright maximalist argument. A stolen car is unavailable to the owner; stolen texts or images used to train models are no less available, they're "non-rivalrous."

Many business models are impossible under copyright maximalism, including much of art, if you believe the argument Kirby Ferguson makes in "Everything is a Remix."

@evan providing a federated identity (a la OpenID…is that still a thing? Haven't logged in anywhere using my OpenID in ages, is OIDC the only remnant now?) could be acceptable, but why would an ISP want to accept the moderation burden of providing a social content platform, and why would people want their ISP to be in charge of their digital space like that?

People spent months raising the alarm that Trans Rescue's "Eden House" was vulnerable to attack and was likely to get raided by police, in hopes of reaching people before they moved into a known unsafe location. They blocked, deflected, took accounts private… and kept their "safe house" open in a country where it's illegal, and now just got raided. A totally preventable disaster, but Trans Rescue is run by negligent self-important doofuses with white savior complexes. https://mastodon.social/@trans_rescue/110583022928552076

FYI @aral ^^ since I noticed this via your boost
Happy to provide sources on this. Folks spent nervous months warning of this exact danger and trying to get any constructive response from TR, who only denied, hid, gaslit, and continued in their harmful path.