Notices by Vincent 🌻🇪🇺 (photovince@mastodon.social)

@selzero We could all use some more Head Cleaner

@Gargron Web app?

@selzero Hmm… hard to see - perhaps if you switched hats?

@WarnerCrocker The scammers don’t want you to be informed

@_elena Never mind the spelling of Mastodon, I’m stunned Forbes knows how to spell ‘ethical’!

@Gargron Happy 2^5!

Lazy day #CatsOfMastodon

@Gargron Definitely some scheming going on behind those eyes

@petrikas Open as in leaking your data, as in accessible to hackers or as in being a surveillance device for your usage?

Trying to make sense of it

@Gargron It’s bad search without the references needed to see how bad it is

@dansup @pixelfed @Mastodon It’s more a sign-up than a sign-in with Mastodon, right? Any benefits /use-cases for existing pixelfed accounts?

@dansup Aviate, navigate, communicate - what goes for aviation goes for software releases I guess!

@dansup @pixelfed Are those posts that are hashtag bombing? Lots of ‘m?

@Gargron @arstechnica A bit odd they’re on the mastodon.social site though - a techsite could do more to put the ‘fedi’ in fediverse

@dansup Not an instance host, but if I were I’d treat them as any other instance - by my instance’s federation rules.

It’d be interesting to know (and part of decision) if they’d support migrating off their instance, whether they push their own client (lock-in?) and if, where and how algo is implemented.

That said, I am hoping (and will advocate) that anyone in journalism, activism or who in general do not need corporate censorship or algorithms to avoid such instance as the plague.

@dansup Take it from this long time (prehistoric) CS graduate - the paper is neither a shield against imposter syndrome, nor is it necessary for teaching (yourself) programming. So many great resources these days!

The proof is in the work, and you’ve made yourself a great platform and community!

@Gargron Well, congratulations to the both of you. Glad to see you’re having a life!

@evan Not just *social* desirability bias, but true desirability vs practicality. I’d love to take the train more often, but it lends itself best for travel to city centers and not for camping or roadtrips (by definition, of course, but also based on the smaller, more rural stops I’d like to make then).

@evan Qualified yes - it basically planted itself, probably a seed in a bird dropping, but in the wrong spot. So I dug it out and replanted a couple of meters further out. Have kept the tree since, about 20 years, the trunk is about 40cms diameter now… ?

@Gargron Congratulations! Both with your birthday, as working on a worthy cause! ?