Notices by Larry Garfield (crell@phpc.social), page 2

Tangled Threads: How #Mastodon admins should respond to #Meta and #Threads in a way that protects our users best. Tip: It's not through proactive defederation.

https://peakd.com/mastodon/@crell/tangled-threads

#fediadmin #mastoadmin

#Israel

@grmpyprogrammer "Netenyahu is an imperialist asswipe" and "Hamas targeting and kidnapping civilians is absolutely not acceptable, period" are entirely compatible positions to hold.

@ZachWeinersmith When the Frankish empire broke up shortly after Charlemagne, it was a messy divorce.

PSA: #Patreon just announced they're changing their privacy policy to default all of your account info, who you support, etc. to public. You need to go into the settings and disable that. (Check the two toggles at the bottom of the Settings page to off.)

And then send Patreon a nasty letter, because default-open is just a stupid model to begin with, period.

@feditips Does switching it on apply retroactively to my older posts, or just posts of mine going forward?

@osi @kfogel That's how Qt started, isn't it?

@alter_kaker @noracodes In his defense, almost all of that is tropes in European and Norse lore going back 1500-2000 years at least. Tolkien went the noble route with it, the fascists went a less-noble route with it.

The tropes themselves may not be the best in modern eyes, but they're not intrinsically fascist. Not anymore than Thor's hammer is, despite the fash adopting it. (No, the fash may not have Aragorn. NO!)

I understand #git just fine and like it the best of any VCS I've used. Am I weird?

If people are having trouble learning it, it sounds like the problem is the training materials. What training materials did you use that were inadequate?

@taco Are you actually asking or just trolling?

@taco In it's niche (server side web), PHP has an incredibly robust ecosystem, the strongest type system of any interpreted language, the best or second best package manager (competing with Cargo), and is either the fastest or second fastest interpreted language depending on what you're testing. (JS is the competition there.) It scales horizontally better than any other architecture. And its "it just works" factor is second only to Go. It's also very easy to learn.

The Twitter Berlin Wall just went up.

Im glad to be here in West Mastodon, under the careful leadership of Prime Minister #JohnMastodon, but we still need to help our friends and family stuck behind the wall escape.

(And that includes blocking/banning/defederating the malicious actors coming along with them.)