Notices by Aires (aires@tiggi.es)

It's a relief running an alternative #Android OS again. I know it's not perfect and smartphones are still privacy black holes, but at least I have a _little_ more control over which data gets hoovered and sent up to the mothership.

Also, protip: if you use an Android flavor like #CalyxOS or #GrapheneOS, block network traffic to your keyboard app. Calyx has a firewall app, and Graphene exposes a "Network" permission that you can deny per app. For stock devices, apparently there's an app called #Netguard that lets you control network access per app. You can just download it from the Play Store. https://netguard.me/

@hannu_ikonen @Infoseepage Just be careful when downloading lots of videos at once. YouTube might flag you as a bot. It happened to me, granted I was downloading like 100 videos 😅

#Nix #NixOS #ArchLinux

@sspopovich @StillIRise1963 I was hoping someone would say this! You cannot become a billionaire and also be a good person, because in order to become a billionaire, you must be a terrible person.

Valve: "We love our fans! We even let them use our IP!"
Microsoft: "We love our customers! Just don't use our IP please."
Sony: "We like you as long as you don't try to reverse engineer anything."

Nintendo: "I swear to fucking Christ if you so much as doodle an M in red crayon I will come to your house, kill your family, and strangle you with your own intestines"

@aral OBS Studio has worked well for me in the past. I mostly use it for webinars now, but it's got good recording capabilities

The state of search in 2024:

Google: "We threw away decades of search knowledge and Internet indexing and just made an answer up :blobfoxgoogly:"

Bing: "Here's 100 tangentially related pages from 2010 that I only included because your query appears in a tag cloud in the website's footer"

DuckDuckGo: "Here are the Bing results, only with ✨privacy✨"

Reddit: (this user has deleted their entire post history using PowerDeleteMyShit. Fuck /u/Spez)

Yahoo: "Oh thank god, someone's actually using our search engine! No, we're not just Bing!" *frantically trying to cover up the giant Bing sticker* "NO DON'T GO TO GOOGLE!!!!"

Yandex: "Here are all of the Russian-owned resources on this topic. Only Russian sources are trustworthy. Everything else is fake ne—I MEAN, misinformation"

Kagi: "We'll give you what Google used to give you for free, for the low low price of $10/month!"

Ask.com: [hoarse screaming and clawing noises can be heard from the ground beneath a headstone that says "Here lies Jeeves: 1996-2006"]

@Ringtheory @bobthomson70 @craignicol @mekkaokereke The mental gymnastics Republicans will pull when trying to give Trump voting rights, without giving other convicted felons voting rights, will be legendary. Olympic history-making.

@kite @futurebird I didn't even know this was a thing, but of course it is. *And* it's from 2022. Lotta people are grossly underestimating just how fucked up and dangerous Republicans are

Congrats #Kubernetes team! Err I mean #Uwubernetes team!

"For the people who built it, for the people who release it, and for the #furries who keep all of our clusters online, we present to you Kubernetes v1.30: Uwubernetes, the cutest release to date."

https://kubernetes.io/blog/2024/04/17/kubernetes-v1-30-release/

@jscholes @seraph @BorrisInABox It's actually the other way around: "netflitwitter" becomes "netflix". It looks like they're just doing a string search for "twitter.com" and swapping it out with "x.com", so if someone makes a post linking to netflitwitter.com, it will look like netflix.com

Follow request #1: "I'm a normal person using Mastodon to discuss current events and topics related to my career"

Me: :blobcatthinkingglare:

Follow request #2: "I'm a trans non-binary platypus with chronic depression and the world's largest antique dryer lint collection"

Me: :ablobcatbongotwitter:

Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use #Windows, #macOS, or any version of #Linux with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.

Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.

Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #ComputerScience @blackmastodon

https://elective.collegeboard.org/clarence-skip-ellis-computer-science-pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Ellis_(computer_scientist)
https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-6/clarence-ellis

@anarchopunk_girl @Jason @mud212 Thank you for the write up, you covered a lot of important points and perspectives. It's just sad how this is all turning out

@Jason @mud212
It's a block list. There's two main sides that I can see:

On one hand, it's being built by someone who's invested tons of time and energy into making Mastodon safe for marginalized communities. We wouldn't have the tools and communities we do without them.

On the other, lots of people found themselves on said block list and can't find a reason for being there. Lots of people are questioning why certain instances are on it and don't think they should be.

It's an ongoing issue with shared block lists. Anyone can block anyone they want, and we're not entitled to a reason. But if a lot of people adopt a block list without looking at who it's blocking and why, a lot of instances could potentially get blacked out.

@doot Why would "pee is stored in the balls" be a meme if it wasn't true? Come on now :NekoSmirk:

@zorinlynx Imagine spending 20+ years trying and failing to build a company based on nothing but a letter :blobcatgooglyholdingitsheadinitshands: