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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4h

@KrissyKat Even better, GRAND jury nullification.

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KrissyKat @krissykat.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

A federal grand jury refuses to indict a couple charged with carrying legal firearms outside of the Broadview ICE center.

Jury nullification comes to Illinois […]

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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

If you have seen folks talking about "Omarchy" or maybe seen a screenshot that looked neat, please be aware that it is an operating system for nazis, by nazis. DHH made a linux distribution with Hyprland, which is a tiling Wayland compositor for bigots, by bigots.

I am sorry if you'd seen some […]

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Because of recent, er, discussions, let repeat me it once more time for those in the back:

Being an ally to a marginalized group means to LISTEN, first and foremost. Do NOT propose solutions in advance of actual data. People from marginalized groups have almost certainly thought about their […]

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20h

@brembs @Gargron Why is this a horrible antipattern? If you're expelled or fired unjustly, is the institution going to let you keep or transfer your account to communicate with your existing followers why that act was unjust?

Nope. They hold all the power.

Your account should never be held by […]

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 20h

@brembs @Gargron Do we actually want Unis running Mastodon servers? Maybe for official role accounts, but having students/faculty/employees using an institutionally owned identity is just a horrible antipattern I've written about extensively before. Mastodon already has a right way to do this […]

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Rob Ricci @ricci.discuss.systems.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I have an offer to make: do you want to run an instance on the fediverse for a group that's underrepresented here?

I'll pay the bills. Period.

I'll do admin if needed (software updates and the like). But you decide what kind of community you want it to be, so you put together the mod team.

DM me.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 1d

To the extent to which big consulting firms don't feel threatened by AI, it's because they understand that a big part of their job is merely decision-laundering. A big organization wants to do a thing, and they need somebody to blame in case that thing goes wrong? Time to bring on a big consultant!

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Sofia @sofia.bottom.business.ap.brid.gy · 1d

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it's also worth noting that those problems also apply to a very large portion of adults, considering how rare _ever_ getting sane sex ed is, so it's far from a problem with young people in particular, it's a problem with shitty societal structures as a whole

(and that it's […]

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 1d

Side point on #chatcontrol: When I worked on the law in the European Parliament, in the face of questionably legal, and highly problematic behavior by DG HOME, I prepared a whitepaper on why it was such a terrible Idea.

As it is in the public interest, I have decided to make that white paper […]

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@mattblaze The hard thing about this aside from agreeing on a convention is the aspect of exfiltrating of information the user isn't aware is present. Good sharing software strips EXIF by default before exposing the data to any remote service for privacy reasons. Failure to do that is a severe […]

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Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

so, analog tech used to be pretty glitchy. TV "static", modem line noise, degaussing, flickering fluorescent bulbs, etc. I grew up in an era of identifiable, well-understood signifiers of malfunction; and, crucially, *partial* malfunction. things kinda kept working even if they were wonky.

but […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Apparently theres a new wave of people joining mastodon, and with them a new wave of self-appointed cops "welcoming" them with long lists of mostly fictitious "rules" they need to follow.

This is a social media platform, with many of different ways to use it. It's fine. Mostly, just try to be […]

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

FFS, a whole fucking generation later there should NOT still be endless reply-all sorry chains.

If you are making a platform where primary messaging functionality expectation is single person private reply, reply-all should force a giant confirmation warning every time clearly stating the […]

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

To clarify: in many climates, a dehumidifier pulls from the air enough water for several flushes per day. Normally this is just piped or manually poured down a drain. It's not drinkable due to encouraging shit to grow in the tank, but it's perfectly usable in place of municipal water for […]

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Utterly absurd that this doesn't exist: combined dehumidifier+toilet.

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Cursed but fascinating thing about "AI" in the context of fiction: it allows us to envision worlds where technical feats/monstrosities have been created without anyone understanding any theoretical or reproducible process leading to them, only massive amounts of energy and luck having been […]

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 5d

Another small victory today.

A salesperson had almost convinced a client to move their email from 365 to Google because "they hold all the cards now". I stepped in and suggested they keep their email on servers that they control instead. The salesperson almost mocked me, treating me like a […]

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@heidilifeldman Most constitutionally protected rights don't depend on citizenship. This is especially important to remind folks of now.

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@mothninja The complexity here comes in the phrase "$STATENAME's right to exist".

People have a right to exist. Individually and as communities/groups, and have a right to live within power structures that protect & represent their individual & collective interests.

They do not however have […]

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

"Who goes Nazi?" -- everyone should read this classic from the great Dorothy Thompson.

https://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

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Mx. Aria Stewart @aredridel.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Dear Github, please take this seriously. (but you won't because people are expensive and AI is [artificially] cheap.)

Github Actions survey:

How satisfied are you with GitHub Actions? 2/5

> Your documentation has become abyssmal, sprawling and each section incomplete, sometimes wrong, and reports of errors ignored. Permissions are particularly grievous, but also design patterns can only be inferred. Inter-workflow triggers are poorly documented. github.actor is poorly documented.

How could we improve GitHub Actions?

> Get a person with IA and pedagogical skills to spend some time paying close attention to the information architecture, and fix it.

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Cassandrich @dalias.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 6d

This is kinda fascinating in the context of present day willingness to cede control & autonomy to scammers who paint themselves as "high tech".

cw: medical abuse, body horror

https://masto.ai/@vagina_museum/109342806973579423

Vagina Museum (@[email protected])

OLD THREAD CROSSPOST Childbirth fads are frequently associated with influencers and seen as a distinctly 21st century thing. Let us tell you about an early 20th century birth fad: the twilight sleep, which swept New York City between 1914 and 1916.

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Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅 @pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13d

Whenever you see someone recommend Cloudflare or something else that decrypts and re-encrypts TLS for something, esp. for something related to open social media or media storage etc., reply with this picture from the Snowden leaks

The "CloudFlare: SSL Added and Removed Here :-)" picture from https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/cloudflare_ssl_added_and_removed_here

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Micr0byte @micr0.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 7d

i am committed to this. I will be selling my pixel 9 and sony xperia and purchasing a fairphone 5 (which just in march announced actual VoLTE support on Ubuntu Touch!!!)

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