Notices by Blake Leonard (blake@infosec.town)

@evan I wouldn't equate this with an attempted coup with the stated goal of installing an authoritarian leader despite the evidence that the claims they used to justify said coup were completely unfounded.

@jsit @evan They put at least two "soon"s in there so I assume it's not ready yet.

I wonder how they'll federate their paid profiles feature.

@evan I think I'd have to travel to see the total eclipse in person. Something I'll probably never be able to afford to do.

@evan @evanprodromou So it's like a custom like animation when that hashtag is present? Neat!

@evanprodromou @evan minor curiosity: what's the cherry blossom animation you speak of?

After seeing how the XZ maintainer's burnout and mental health decline was exploited to the potential detriment of the whole world, we're totally going to be supporting our developers more, right guys? We're totally going to fund critical OSS and pay maintainers enough to hire on other maintainers to take the burden off of them and reduce burnout, right? Right?

@evan This has got to be satire. Right?

@byjp @zatnosk @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews @snarfed@hachyderm.io If you want to block just Bridgy's Bluesky bridge, or just their (upcoming) Nostr bridge, or whatever, you can do that. If you want to block specific PDS's, I don't think there's a way to do that.

@snarfed.org@snarfed.org @snarfed @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews I'm a big fan of bridges and this is the big one I've been eagerly waiting for. I'll probably add it to my wizard soon after it's available. Once the moderation issues get sorted out, I firmly believe that in the end, this will be a net positive for both networks, since Bluesky users will be able to follow and engage with the vibrant and growing communities and services here, and we'll be able to follow and engage with shitposters from Bluesky.

The moderation issues should be sorted out promptly, and I'm a little disappointed that you're going to open it up with little consideration about mod tooling, especially considering the lists and lists of known problematic users on Bluesky, from mere crypto-shills and scammers to bigots, transphobes, racists, fascists, and genocide supporters. I don't have any way to find or use Bluesky's mod lists from here so there needs to be some other way.

Plus, I'm sure Bluesky users want a way to mass-mute and mass-block bridged users, maybe even from particular instances, especially considering our ongoing tone police and reply guy problems, which have driven numerous people from here to there. I feel like this part is imminently solvable with automatically-populated moderation list(s), though.

@bou @snarfed@liberdon.com @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews Yep.

@byjp @zatnosk @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews I think the main difference is that, like Nostr, Bluesky is just one big monolith with known problematic users (that have to be "filtered" out), so it's hard to moderate effectively. It's the same as any other large Mastodon instance, like dot Social or Gab.

@CStamp @snarfed@mastodon.social @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews This will allow two way interaction.

@tchambers @buttondown It already uses email and I think RSS, so doesn't it already federate, in some limited capacity?

@evan Evan you're drunk go home /hj

#Kagi picked its side: it's a search engine for the alt-right. It has done so by refusing to listen to subscribers who are endangered (!!!) by their decision, by playing the AI card some time back, and by refusing to do remotely the right thing in other scenarios (i.e. fighting COVID misinformation).

Not to mention, declaring COVID or gay rights "political" is a tell tale sign that you're closeted right wing. Which is what the founder did. He's no different from Eich, he just doesn't want to admit it.

@Seirdy was the shining beacon of ethics and reason in that thread. I love and appreciate that they framed it as a business growth decision, something that they could maybe understand, but unfortunately it seems like they decided queer folk are not their intended audience.

It was a real shame, too, since up to a couple days ago it was supposedly a good quality, somewhat spam-fighting, ad-free, independent-supporting search engine. Now it comes out they're paying bigots and thinking that's not a political statement, and my support for them vanished.

I was almost considering paying for it!

Now they're putting ads into my Mastodon feed.

No thanks. Goodbye.

RE: mastodon.online/users/9to5google/statuses/111540630284327333

I think I'm afraid of going blind in a few years' time and wondering what I could do to... maybe not go blind. I'd think switching to displays that are easier on the eyes, like E-ink, would at least slow the decay, although the color gamut and refresh rate limit me out of most of what I use LED-display devices to do, including gaming (and VR) and videos. I think I could get away with coding on an E-ink monitor, although it wouldn't be comfortable to use in the least. I think it's okay if my watch uses an LED-type display, since I mostly just glance at it. Once they're more readily available (read: cheaper) and maybe better, I might get a color e-ink tablet and do most of my social and chat stuff and news reading on that.

It also hits at a bit of an identity crisis too, since the one thing I do remotely well involves sitting behind a screen for hours and hours at a time. I guess I had ought to find something else and force myself to be interested in it... or something. What I do ends up quite limited in where it can be used and that's closing, since I don't write AI or program robots. So not only is my one passion making me go blind, its usefulness (in keeping me fed) is decaying just as fast -- already beyond my ability to get a job in the field.

@acb@mastodon.social I've always assumed that things that "require" X many batteries of X type are depending on all batteries to complete the circuit, not to mention the specific voltages of certain types of batteries. If that is true there's probably a way around it and that's probably what they did -- it's probably more components though and therefore more costly (although, to be fair, it's probably pennies on the dollar per hundred units or whatever).

@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz @dansup@mastodon.social He's given zero technical details. It looks to me like a centralized platform that you log into with an existing Fedi account. My approach is different, and I'm planning on a different set of features too.

If they work together, well the more the merrier :)