Notices by Misty (misty@digipres.club)

@dalias @glyph tbh 12-30GB is still pretty significant savings even on desktop! Especially for those poor souls with 256GB machines.

@glyph My understanding is it leaves SIP enabled and installs a management profile to get the OS to remove the model on its own. This appears to be an officially supported configuration from Apple that’s mainly aimed at large organizations with device management.

I’m not anti-passkey, but I got caught really off guard by a site automatically creating a passkey for me with zero user input. Imagine if I’d logged in on a shared device and now the device owner gets passwordless access to my eBay account!

sed is the standard text seditor

Good to see there were some consequences here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/hrt-decision-bc-doctor-9.7337414

Very interesting statement here in a blog post about a developer adopting the EUPL. I don't disagree, but this certainly hasn't been a popular opinion in OSS circles for a bit. The vibe may well be changing. (Emphasis mine.)

https://bergie.iki.fi/blog/eupl/

Feels extremely weird that my wife had to mod our TV so it would stop exfiltrating all our data. At least it's possible...

*quietly, to herself* ed is the standard text editor

Encountered one of the best emails I've ever seen

Big fan of the name of this blend

@gaditb @rinmari @AmyZenunim There is actually! There are a few.

Blacksky, Eurosky and Northsky offer largely Bluesky-ish interfaces but run their own infrastructure. Blacksky in particular is fully independent of Bluesky's services at this point.

Wafrn has a more tumblr-style user interface and has a backend that's completely unique to it; it's not borrowing Bluesky's architecture at all. It also connects to the fediverse. https://wafrn.net

Okay so, in all sincerity - I know a number of organizations have basically depended on stuff like Nitter/XCancel as an excuse to continue posting important information on X. Now that people without accounts are really locked out I hope we can actually put serious pressure on organizations to post information publicly.

me: Uncritical nostalgia is poisonous to society and must be resisted with careful introspection
me also, seeing an image of a Gravis gamepad: The halcyon days of youth, when everything was easy and society was brighter...

Been noticing that a bunch of the most recent spam signups are starting to come from proton.me email domains instead of temp email services. Which kind of surprises me, I would have figured Proton would have had better anti-spam protections in place. Have other admins been seeing this too?

#MastoAdmin

I'm really fascinated by this old culture of sharing game screenshots.

This account posts images from a CD of GIFs that were collected from bulletin board systems (pre-web forums) back in the 80s. People really shared anything that they liked on those places, including game screenshots - kind of like how we'd post them now! But you'd post way, way fewer because even a small GIF took a bunch of time to upload and download.
https://mas.to/@gifs_bot/115478888816368451

@thomasfuchs tbh I also don’t trust Amazon to send me a non-counterfeit SD card.

I was considering slapping a second 128GB SD card in my iPod while I have it open anyway, but… looks like the same card I night two years ago is almost double the price. So maybe I should wait…

Well okay, the cheapest I can find right now is $52… the price I paid in 2014 was $30. Can I justify this level of markup…

Hometown admins! We've released a new version incorporating today's Mastodon security release. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.5.14%2Bhometown-1.2.1

#HometownAdmin

Good. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-premier-david-eby-alcohol-trump-tariffs-9.7277781

#canpoli #bcpoli