Notices by Daphne Preston-Kendal (dpk@chaos.social)

@cwebber I just realized that zemacs rhymes with emacs in en-US

Failed to obey the Mastodon prime directive (mute notifications on anything @cwebber retoots)

Americans will do be living in a country led by a guy who previously tried to get power by force, and yet still believe that next year and in 2028 there will be free and fair elections

@cwebber @dos It was even more brazen than that: they allowed only *online wikis* to relicense within the time window

Americans on the TL, every day

@cwebber Great idea until Stallman dies and the FSF gets taken over by the Crown Prince of Korea, who thinks the Business Source Licence is great and they should approve it

Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death

A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

cc @notjustbikes

https://yle.fi/a/74-20174831

@misprintedtype Where?

I encourage all men to be more alpha (acknowledge that they are a pre-release with flaws and encourage constructive reports of problems)

In terms of features that make people actually want to use the site, Bluesky is beating the shit out of Mastodon

Leftists are eventually going to pay the price again for choosing the capitalist-owned platform over the community-owned one (the difference being there was no community-owned one last time). But given the *significantly* better tools for self-protection, I can’t blame them

Followers-only posts on Mastodon are nice, but ultimately, controlling who gets to reply to your post and getting to choose to hide annoying replies are significantly better.

On Mastodon (see last boost), you can’t even stop someone’s reply appearing under your toot by blocking them! And there’s been a patch for that problem ready to go for three years – which has just been ignored

Okay, here’s a *major* privacy/safety fuckup of Bluesky which I only just found out about today:

Your block list is public. Although there’s no way to see it on the Bluesky website, through ATProto, everyone can see who you’ve blocked and when.

Also, although the Bluesky app also has no way in the UI to see someone else’s liked posts, you can also find that trivially through ATProto.

So things which look private are in fact very public. WTF!

I guarantee that when the fash finally move onto Bluesky, they’ll use leftists’ public block lists to build their networks

This is a massively powerful tool to find other people who also hate the same people you hate or are hated by

Tone deaf. Self-indulgent. If it’d been an on-stage keynote and I’d been in the audience, I’d have booed.

Schemers: Do you think there is a use for weak (ephemeron) hash tables where the comparison function is something other than ‘eq?’ (or ‘eqv?’) ?

There’s also a question around whether ephemerons and ephemeron tables should even allow keys that don’t have their own location (which is where the difference between ‘eq?’ and ‘eqv?’ matters). Those ephemerons/associations would never get broken …

@cwebber We can thank 4chan for killing that one off, I think

@cwebber What is mansplaining? Can someone please tell me