Notices by Brian Campbell (unlambda@hachyderm.io)

@mekkaokereke

@dalias @mcc I'm gonna disagree on Princess Mononoke, it get pretty violent in places, while there are some kids under 10 for whom it might be OK, there were a bunch screaming and crying in the theater when I watched it when it was first released.

@dalias Yeah, I get that too in a private window until I search for or watch something. Rather pleasant, actually! But of course once you watch one video you start getting suggestions again, so I don't think it's honoring any do-not-track, just not making tracking assumptions based only on info they can get in a private window and not giving generic recommendations.

@liztai "Neutrality Studies" just makes me think of Zapp Brannigan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8ws_APXilE

@malwaretech I have never talked to a recruiter for a technical position who actually had any idea what the position was actually about, or what the team was actually like.

The recruiter usually doesn't have any more information than what's in the job description either.

@bagder @thejpster Presumably the concern here would be a MITM attack with a protocol downgrade.

@liztai Thankfully happened at 1:30 AM. This would have been much worse if it had happened at rush hour or even mid-day.

@kriswd40 Actually, there's a paper that answers that questions recently: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44785-3

@bcantrill You haven't taught them to count in binary?

@gminks @peterbutler @fivetonsflax @mekkaokereke Oh boy, if you think that Boston is devoid of black people, wait until you visit Vermont. SNL had a pretty good skit on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKcUOUYzDXA

I love Vermont, but I do sometimes find it creepy how white it is.

@evan My chosen role isn't on the list; I've picked worker, choosing my job based on that which would be likely to have one of he biggest impacts on climate change that I could.

@VaughnVernon @shiftleftist @nova and then go check out the local and global feeds on the instance. Search for hashtags you are interested in on them. These are a few methods of discovery on Mastodon. On big, general purpose instances, I've found the local and global feeds too noisy to be useful. On Hachyderm, it's a focused enough community that I find conversations to join on the local feed fairly often, though the global feed is still a bit noisy.

@VaughnVernon @shiftleftist @nova so to choose an instance, take a look at who the admin is, if they have any public info about how they keep the infra running, how they fund it, etc

Look at the moderators and mod policy; do they match with your moderation expectations? Will they allow trolls to make your life miserable? Will they cut you off from someone you want to follow because of some beef with the admin of that instance?

@VaughnVernon @shiftleftist @nova So, there are a couple of things that you choose when you choose an instance:

* Admin team
* Mod team (sometimes same as admin)
* Local and global feeds

The admin team determines whether the infrastructure is reliable and efficient.

The mod team can affect what you can say and who you can talk to.

The local and global feeds are ways of discovering discussions outside your follows, but can be useless if too big/unfocused

@nova I've pretty much completely migrated off of Twitter, I've been logging in every couple of days to re-run Fedifinder, but I haven't gotten anyone new from Fedifinder recently, so it's probably time to change the frequency to weekly or monthly.

I was never on Twitter as heavily as some; I kind of disliked Twitter from the start, but was there because enough folks I wanted to follow were on there.