(By the way, only the immediately-previous post and later posts in this thread are not entirely true for the sake of the analogy; I don’t know if they have someone using a tally counter to see how interesting the 3D printers are! But the library is cool and is absolutely my favorite place to hang out.)
“You can’t compare the library to the market, people come to the library precisely because they don’t want to be surveilled! By having a volunteer with a tally counter by the 3D printers, you are opening an unclosable door through which pure evil surveillance will march right in. That’s illegal! What about my rights? I don’t want my personal, private data about everything I am doing in the library shared with who knows who! Sure, they SAY the volunteer isn’t evil, but how can I even trust them?”
“There are sensitive things in a library! What if I am researching a sensitive topic and whoever is watching me puts all that together because they are writing down literally everything I am doing inside the library, now? I thought it was a safe space, this is dangerous and ripe for abuse!”
Oh, they would just be counting the number of people who stop by the printers. Nothing else.
“That’s how it STARTS, but next thing you know, they’re selling my profile to their evil donors!!”
Okay, we will make sure this plan is very publicly available, we’ll even share PDFs of the paper the volunteer will be recording their count on so you can see it literally only has a spot for tallies and no other information. And at the end of every day we will post the papers publicly on the bulletin board at the front of the library so everyone can see exactly what we counted, I guess?
“How can we be SURE it’s ACTUALLY the paper they are using?? For all I know they are swapping it out on us!”
“What I demand is that every single person who enters the library actively be stopped and asked whether or not they want to be included in the tally count of people who stop by the 3D printer. Even better, only those who visit the front desk to specifically request they be included in the count should be counted!”
Do you see how that sort of kind of defeats the entire point and makes the data useless?
“You just want as much private, personal information as possible!”
At this point, everyone (including me!) has lost the plot. Because that’s what happens in these outrage arguments with someone who’s either arguing against a premise not based in reality, fundamentally misunderstanding what they’re arguing against, or arguing in bad faith.
I’ll leave it there for now. It’s an imperfect analogy (of course!), but captures how this entire discussion has felt—and why it’s exhausting.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about, carry on w/your blissful ignorance. 😝
@thomasfuchs I… uh… is this sarcasm? I know Nextdoor, Facebook, and Calckey have emoji responses. Granted, it’s not EVERY POSSIBLE emoji with the first two, but it’s definitely a thing.
Does anyone have experience with the Mastodon API and want to answer what I hope is a pretty straightforward question?
I'm using the status context API to grab replies to a status (to display as comments on my website!). However, it appears to be limiting the number of statuses returned. According to the docs, I expected a Link header in the response to fetch more statuses, but I'm not getting that header.
Am I missing something? Is there a different endpoint I should be hitting?
@christianselig serious question: would it be cheaper—or even possible—to basically proxy the Reddit API through your own Apollo servers so you only make any given request from Reddit once? Any way to investigate if that would actually be a feasible solution?
Is the ballooning server storage requirement for Mastodon (e.g. for small single-user or family instances) a side-effect of being a good ActivityPub client itself, or just a Mastodon thing?
E.g. if I wanted a just-as-federated server but running, say, GoToSocial instead, would I need just as much disk space?
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@forteller Audacity has a thing for this. I forget what it’s called, but you select a chunk of time that has the background noise isolated, then it cancels that out from the whole track.
Work Profile is one of the best features on #Android.
All my work apps. On during working hours, off—like entirely disabled—outside of that. I have this week off? I can just turn them off and keep them off. I want to check in briefly at some point? I turn the apps on, do what I need, then turn them off.
When they’re on, they’re sandboxed from my personal photos, apps, etc. When they’re off, it’s like physically powering off a work phone. No potential for tracking notifications, anything.
@mattl yes, I use and love Web! I keep Firefox around for WebRTC and Widevine stuff, but otherwise use Web. It’s gotten continuously leaps and bounds better each release over the past several years.
Years ago elementary was approached by Canonical to become an official Ubuntu flavor. “All” we had to do was offer Snap out of the box. We debated it—being able to offload some additional infrastructure concerns was attractive—but we realized it helped Canonical more than it helped us, and we had chosen Flatpak for all of its benefits as covered here:
Building useful, usable, delightful products that respect privacy.:eos: Partner success at @EndlessOS Foundation:gnome: @gnome Foundation member:flathub: @flathub contributorPreviously: co-founder and CXO at elementary OS, UX architect at System76.Frequently posting about #OpenSource, specifically in #GNOME and #Flatpak realms. I also enjoy #StarWars, #LEGO, #3DPrinting, and #SmartHome.I have a background in UX architecture, open source, product design, & communication.