Notices by Scott Murray :neurodiversity: (scott@sfba.social)

@inthehands 💯! In addition to the edit notification, I would like to see a “recall notice” or “correction” notification go out to anyone affected “downstream” of the original post — such as people who reply or quote or link back to the original. 😅

Tip your moderators, folks (and make a recurring monthly donation to your instance to cover costs)
https://mas.to/@markwyner/114889756392983048

@britt @christi3k Lovely, thanks for the recommendation!

In case you have ideas: I also need super basic web hosting (which I currently get through Gandi). Nothing fancy, just the ability to serve several small personal sites and need to be able to SFTP into them.

@britt @christi3k oops two seconds of research reveals that Porkbun does hosting, too. Disregard! 🤦♂️

@maxleibman oh also I just remembered pineapples were a thing? I never understood that, but I appreciate the silliness. My feed is now way too gloomy and decidedly not silly. 🍍

@kevinrns @maxleibman “the silly community” 😂

Thanks for the tips!

@maxleibman People no longer “awoooo” and that was basically all that was happening here when I first joined. (I think that’s negative?) #awoo

If you have a #Brother #printer, take a quick #security break, so your printer doesn’t get commandeered into a botnet! 🖨️💪

1. Check if your printer model is on this list and has updated firmware available:

https://support.brother.com/g/s/id/security/CVE-2017-9765.pdf

2. If new firmware is available, download the appropriate updater here:

https://support.brother.com/g/b/midlink_os.aspx?c=us&lang=en&prod=group2&site=pc&type2=4&orgc=us&orglang=en&orgprod=group2&targetpage=18

3. Story for context:

https://www.securityweek.com/new-vulnerabilities-expose-millions-of-brother-printers-to-hacking/

@binarydigit @britt hi, random internet user here. :) I’d also love to hear your experience! I’m not sure I could ever go back to android after some, er, traumatic experiences with Pixel phones that auto-bricked themselves, but I’m always looking at alternatives. Light Phone III, for example, looks awesome — but definitely requires a lifestyle change. (Like no mastodon client.) 😁

@seanbala @agnes @fastmail Good questions! Long time paid Fastmail customer here.

I use FM desktop and mobile apps for email. (They are actually wrapped progressive web apps.) They are great for email IF you agree with FM’s approach to email, which of course shapes the design:

https://www.fastmail.com/how-to/inbox-zero/

For calendaring, I prefer Apple’s client (iOS and Mac). I don’t use widgets.

FM as a CalDAV host is excellent. The only annoyance (as Sean pointed out) is you can’t share read/write access to a calendar with a non-FM user. I think this restriction is intended to encourage paying for more accounts, like for a family plan or business/team. So for shared calendars I use iCloud CalDAV. All the calendars appear everywhere (my Calendar.app and even in the FM UI) — it’s just a matter of what service “owns” the account.

Anyway I hope that helps. Mostly I love FM. They did some not so friendly anti-union stuff a few months ago (?) which is the only reason I hesitate to recommend them 1000%.

Hey #Mastodon #Fediverse nerds: has anyone mapped federation topology yet?
https://mastodon.social/@floatybirb/114711176066850583

#Bluesky “welcomes” JD Vance the same day that @Mastodon retracts their TOS updates in response to thoughtful community feedback.

⚖️🤷♂️

Hey @alfredapp fans, you’ve got to try the Bad Workflows, a collection of tools that make your Mac harder to use.

“Escape the cult of productivity“ 😂

https://olifro.st/blog/bad-workflows/

@skinnylatte i will check it out! I bought my first Syn NAS a few years ago after lots of research and hadn’t come across Asustor. Thanks!

“Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something” by @fromjason

Every once in a while, someone writes a clear-headed, forceful, just-angry-enough and just-foulmouthed-enough (but not too much so) rant about the state of the #Internet that is a joy to read. This is that rant.

(Apparently this was published in March, but I missed it then. Still very applicable now.)

https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

Given this headline…

“Record #measles outbreak in #Oregon blamed on #vaccine exemptions”

It’s a great time to re-share this superlative interactive simulation from @TheGuardian on “how the measles outbreak spreads when kids get vaccinated – and when they don’t”

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/record-measles-outbreak-in-oregon-blamed-on-vaccine-exemptions/

https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2015/feb/05/-sp-watch-how-measles-outbreak-spreads-when-kids-get-vaccinated

CA voters: Take 2 seconds to VERIFY your voter registration now! Double check your name, party affiliation, and address(es):

#vote

https://voterstatus.sos.ca.gov/

US voters: Take 2 seconds to verify your voter registration. Start by choosing your state here, on the official federal government site:

#vote

https://vote.gov/register

“Are they afraid of the Trump campaign banning them from opportunities to have Donald Trump lie to them in the future?”

OK, I don’t watch MSNBC and had never heard of Lawrence O’Donnell before but since approx. 1M people shared this in my timeline, I watched it, and yeah, I think his point is a good point: rambling word salad ≠ answers to legitimate questions. So anyone who claims Trump answered any question ever is themselves lying. 🤷♂️

Surprised this point of view was aired on MSM, as it’s so… reasonable. 🤦♂️

https://www.msnbc.com/the-last-word/watch/lawrence-stupidest-candidate-trump-did-not-answer-reporters-questions-216787525948

Possibly the first campaign press release to ever employ the CSS style {
text-decoration: line-through;
} for comedic/disparaging effect?
https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/112928526301056189