Notices by Jay 🆘 (jsit@social.coop)

@Gargron @bsky.app But aren’t I breaking Mississippi law if I host a Mastodon instance with no age verification that people in MS can access?

If you want an ebook of some public domain work, either:

1. Check standardebooks.org before Gutenberg. They clean up books from Gutenberg with sane typography and print design.

2. Consider buying a "Dover Thrift Editions" version of the ebook. Many fly-by-night ebook "publishers" are turning a quick buck on selling you a Gutenberg edition. Dover is a real publisher, even in print, and their well-formatted ebooks of public domain works are usually under $4, or even less.

Join them, devote yourselves to them and they will spare you #monsterdon

This must have been fun as hell to shoot #monsterdon

Think of all the similar parallel dramas that must be unfolding all over the world at this moment #monsterdon

The fun-to-quality ratio on this movie is high #monsterdon

I am utterly delighted that the machines are talking to them with Morse code #monsterdon

@anildash For what it's worth, this did not happen

Wow, #50501movement is using "Mobilizon," an #ActivityPub-federated events platform. I didn't know this existed but it's so cool that it does! https://mobilizon.org

“I had very strong doubts that this text group was real, because I could not believe that the national-security leadership of the United States would communicate on Signal about imminent war plans.

“I also could not believe that the national security adviser to the president would be so reckless as to include the editor in chief of The Atlantic in such discussions with senior U.S. officials, up to and including the vice president.”

(Gift link)

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/?gift=M8TNkpFVI-W2f9Y_RC8uGaMMhe1moT_voekyz6HItfM&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

@BeAware Do non-tech people use Mastodon?

ActivityPub just doesn't seem right for blogs, doesn't anybody feel the same way? It's just weird. We can have #ActivityPub *and* #RSS.

When quote-posts become baked into #Mastodon and available via the API, I hope clients stop fetching quoted posts on their own.

Part of Mastodon's implementation will be the ability for people to prevent quote-posting of their content, and to "withdraw" their posts from anywhere they were quoted.

"Faking" quote-posts by merely fetching the post object from within the client will not respect these preferences and intentions of the quoted user.

@Ctrl_R Yes, of course anybody *can* fetch something that isn't followers-only. Just like you *can* log out of Twitter and see tweets from someone who has blocked you.

But adding that extra hurdle makes it inconvenient and therefore less likely.

@Ctrl_R Anybody adequately motivated could easily steal my car, but I still lock the doors.

@Ctrl_R This analogy could get messy if we explore it any longer, but my point is that impediments to doing bad things, even imperfect impediments, are good.

Responsible developers will make Mastodon clients that obey user’s wishes, and the extra effort required to find the quoted post will likely deter enough people to make the feature worthwhile.

@Ctrl_R Oh, I mean, when Mastodon *does* have native quote posts available via their API, where the native user preferences are respected, then the third-party fetching should stop. It's deliberately circumventing a safety feature at that point.

@BeAware I definitely paid more than I needed to. I didn’t even check Amazon before checking eBay, as I reflexively avoid Amazon whenever possible. eBay has other listings at similar prices, though, and the seller had a good rating. What a weird racket.

@BeAware

I bought a CD on eBay. It just arrived in an Amazon box, with a gift receipt, along with six metal rings -- evidently for horse bridles -- also with gift receipts.

The only possible explanation is that the eBay seller didn't even possess the CD. They sent it as a gift to me from Amazon, and added the 75¢ rings to hit the free shipping minimum.

And I paid way more on eBay than I would have on Amazon.