Notices by FinchHaven sfba (finchhaven@sfba.social)

@inthehands

Yeah

I'm on the same watch duty for my SS EFT

Looking back on my bank statements I'd say a Wednesday seems to be the clear pattern, maybe somewhere between the 8th and the 11th, going back to Wednesdays of the last two months

Not panicking

Yet...

cc @JoshuaHolland

@OldFartPhil

The comes a point here when the Republican party has to ask itself whether it really wants to be in on Trump's / Musk's suicide mission

There will come a tomorrow

Do they want to be a part of it?

cc @inthehands @JoshuaHolland

@bespacific

"I cannot fathom the leaden silence..."

Too many Americans have witnessed at close quarters Trump's relentless use of stochastic terrorism

Unsubtle threats, not personally focused to leave Trump an obvious out, but clear enough to end up with people being doxxed, being swatted by police, having their children threatened by Trump stooges

Trump knows exactly what he's doing and it has worked to perfection

America is silenced by fear

cc @samlitzinger

@creek

OK Imma gonna mute this convo

My entire point was that the graphic presentation (which is what people scan for maybe three seconds) paints an entirely different story when viewed on the phone "app" everybody uses now, as opposed to the data presentation in a full-screen web browser tab

Clearly a design choice was made to *not* reformat the data to make the same presentation on any viewing device

And with that...

...i'm out

/EOF

cc @GossiTheDog

@GossiTheDog

I have FediDB open in a tab daily

Some time ago I noticed a formatting change (really it was done with the time distribution) whereby in a browser tab, full screen HD 32" monitor, the top page, lead graphs were all virtually flat lines

Just thought to myself 'who would want this data portrayed in such an uninformative way?' but I see now it was reformatted for phones, because as we all know, *everyone* views the web through an "app" on their phones

Docktorow really needs a re-write to discuss the "enappification of the Internet"

That "enshitification" shchtick is so 2000s

@GossiTheDog

So is that how you do it -- make that graph look like it's actually showing something since the recent formatting change?

Looks like you're looking on your phone, and the graph show some uplift at the recent end

Myself, looking full-screen 1920@1080@60p on a 32 inch monitor, full-screen Firefox browser tab, I see only the faintest, softest curves upward

Pretty unimpressive, really

Also interesting to note that the time scale is daily for me with a significant gap between data points, while you've got four-day data points all run together

Interesting to consider *how* the data is presented affects the message delivered, I guess

Bet DanSup and Gargron like the data rendition you see better than the one I see...

@Nonilex

The real point here is that the entire Republican party are confirmed, serial, pathological liars

They can take any position at any time and be 100% inoculated against any suggestion of hypocrisy

In their own minds

@cmdr_nova

"It’s worth mentioning that Maven received 2 million dollars in funding from former Twitter CEO Ev Williams and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman"

Realize that 2 million dollars is chump change to these tech bros

A rounding error

But even so these "investors" certainly expect an ROI - a return on their investment

What part of #Maven's haul is to be monetized to generate shareholder value - to ensure these parasites receive an adequate ROI - and how?

@Mastodon

It should be noted that the designation "non-profit" is nothing other than a #US / #German #TaxShelter play

It has absolutely nothing to do with a double-entry, debits-and-credits-based fiscal analysis or audit of #Gargron's books by a legitimate accounting firm

Short title: The rich get richer, while the poor stay poor

No surprise there: that's what #Mastodon has been all about, all along...

Ref: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

But wait

This is interesting:

"... so we were glad when the tax office originally approved our non-profit status in 2021. But now we have received a notice from the same tax office that our (German) non-profit status has been withdrawn. This came with no advance warning or explanation."

@anildash

So by "sustainable" you must mean that our boy Gargron is at the helm of the Mastodon Deathstar Mothership with the default app on the default web site, and every other instance is begging for bread crusts just to keep their servers spun up

Got it

cc @Raccoon @Mastodon

@privateger@plasmatrap.com

Reading

It is a thing

You might try it some time

https://sfba.social/@FinchHaven/112344106449802709

@Mastodon

@Raccoon

Meanwhile some 11,000 #Mastodon instances get pennies -- if that

$100,000.00 USD is $100,000.00 USD any way you slice it

And that's only one donor

cc @Mastodon

@aral

And this is interesting, from our boy #Gargron:

"We’ve always been worried that developing Free and Open Source Software would not be recognized as a charitable cause by the German tax system, so we were glad when the tax office originally approved our non-profit status in 2021. But now we have received a notice from the same tax office that our non-profit status has been withdrawn. This came with no advance warning or explanation."

Apparently chanting "free and open, free and open, free and open" while raking in sh1t-t0ns of money didn't fool the German tax authorities

So move to the United States, where the tax system and the IRS are deliberately intended to benefit the rich

Got it....

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

@vetehinen

"what on earth makes you say they are raking in shit tons of money?"

Apparently you haven't been paying any attention

"Thank you Sujitech"

"Today we would like to thank Sujitech for kindly donating $100k USD to Mastodon, by far the largest single donation to our non-profit so far."

$100,000.00 USD

For what?

To pay "two full-time developers" $50,000 USD annually?

Dream on...

And this is one "donation" only

What is #Gargron raking in on his line of plushies and other bling?

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/thank-you-sujitech/

Merch: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/new-merchandise/

cc @aral

@tokyo_0

"If a follower abuses it they can be blocked just as they would be for copying and pasting posts manually in an abusive way. "

This is always the excuse

Coderbro comes up with a bright new idea, codes it, releases it, gets feedback

"they can be blocked just as they would be for copying and pasting posts manually"

So we spend *our* time cleaning up after the abuse that your new software now allows?

Maybe we don't want to have to spend --> our time <-- online cleaning up after problems --> you <-- unleashed

Y'all just don't get that, do you?

@tokyo_0

Pretty interesting how quickly you rendered this entire convo as "unlisted"

"If it causes problems I'll take it down. But it doesn't do anything with code that can't be done with "ctrl-A, ctrl-C, click in the box, ctrl-V" and then manually adding the link and credit."

Complete and utter bullshit

It does all that with one click, *after* someone has installed --> your <-- software on --> their <-- computer

What else does your software do on some unsuspecting person's computer?

Your Javascript is some 397 words and 3,346 characters long

Are people at large supposed to open that in a text editor (as I have) and decode what it does?

Y'all coderbros don't seem to pick up on the idea that people are sick of this shit

Go hack your own computer with your bright ideas, and leave ours alone

@tokyo_0

You're evading my direct question, for more and more apparently obvious reasons

How do I or any other third party --> opt-out <-- of this specific software?

Period

Full stop

Failure to answer this question directly and with specificity only proves that you know exactly what you're doing

But you don't give a shit

@tokyo_0

I *do* understand what can be *done* with this

Which you don't seem to care about

Again, how does anyone opt-out of your little toy?

@tokyo_0

"It's not going to show up as their post, it's going to show up as your post. It's not doing anything you can't do manually by copying and pasting what they wrote into your own composing window."

Where does the "consent" you mention as a hashtag come in?

Consent for the original author to have their posts edited and CWs?

There's a reason quote-posts have not been adopted by the Mastodon distro globally

Had you not noticed, or do you not care?

So now you've written a work-around

Again, how do I opt-out?

@tokyo_0

"A new tab should open showing the composer, pre-populated with the text from the toot you want to share. You can make edits and add a content warning, and then publish, within a few seconds — or take as long as you want!"

Utterly astonished that this allows anyone to alter the original content of a post *they* themselves did not author by adding a CW warning overlay and (apparently, on quick reading) even edit the text of the original post

What's to stop *anyone* from completely negating and/or reversing the original author's meaning and intent?

How do I block this completely?

Did you allow for any mechanism for that, or is what people post now entirely under the control of random, unknown third parties?

Just (again) because some coderbro thinks it's a bright idea?

Wow...

#ContentWarnings #Consent #Fediverse #Mastodon #MastodonRetootBookmarklet #OptIn