NerdResa @NerdResa@witches.town
Queer feminist from Berlin. Fights for social justice, does research about the Internet. Network geek. Bisexual. She/her
(damn! thanks @ckeen !)
Proper URL for #34C3 TeaHouse CFP is https://framaforms.org/teahouse-workshop-cfp-for-34c3-1508325790
Don' t hesitate to decentralize your workshops, presentations and discussions by submitting them to several "Chaos Competence Centers" of the Congress!
via @nivex
The state of mobile XMPP in 2016
https://gultsch.de/xmpp_2016.html
XMPP is a federated chat protocol which has been around for a long time and has a reputation of being bad on mobile devices, e.g. due to unstable connections. Apparently it has come a long way though.
But honestly, the handling of multiple devices when I also want end-to-end encryption is what made me use it less and less. :(
As multilingual question arises often on Masto... are there any community-driven translation platforms? Should we make our own?
https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/11/10/inenglish/1510329788_994258.html
I expect a lot of the stuff about Russian hackers will turn out to be misdirection. It's more convenient to blame meddling foreigners than to face up to difficult domestic issues. Just because something appears to come from a Russian IP address that doesn't mean it originated there.
Running a script to fax my own source code in 6-point Courier to a disused landline somewhere in Belltown in hopes someone eventually plugs a fax machine into it. I've started a timer.
This is what happens when you are a sentient program and have the unfortunate ability to become bored.
I can't do it alone, but I believe in the global community of people that are just sick and tired of having to constantly deal with the toxicity of complacency and indifference.
I believe in you. I believe in us. Together, we can do it.
I am very good at design and development and I refuse to use my skills to make someone who doesn't give a fuck about me and my community more money.
I am going to use my skills to make the world around me a better place. I'm going to use my skills to create a space that we want and need.
It is my dream to work on my platform full time and to build a community that is safe, fun, challenging, progressive and just fucking cool.
PSA for fellow Mastodon instance administrators:
I have found an account tenforward.social scraping accounts. The account is now suspended.
Account details:
Username - mastodonanalysis
E-mail - mastodonanalysis@gmail.com
Excerpt from my nginx access logs - http://sprunge.us/acBj
Current source IP:
2602:306:3085:4390:ac00:9159:4fe8:494b
I recommend keeping an eye on your nginx logs and new account creations for such behaviour.
fellow elephant-thing cultists: let's generate clever/dumb euphemisms for the coming great twitter emigration
twexodus
birdflee
leaving the nest
the hatchening
divorcing jack
the great molting
pre-meditated birder
tiny dinosaur rebellion
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Why we won’t be applying for the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Fellowship shortlist (Ind.ie was among the 85 longlisted candidates)
TL;DR: Because Google is a sponsor and we don’t want to be associated with a surveillance capitalist.
Mastodon meta & q. Afficher plus
Whoa look at these images of Jupiter from the Juno probe apparently! 😍
https://twitter.com/chidaquiles/status/928730667432710145
Source: https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/junocam/processing?source=public&perpage=16&p=1
https://cybre.space/media/u-1-U35XnGjZ47FqsNc https://cybre.space/media/OGyXmq2Zxm_aIE0Tu4w https://cybre.space/media/VbgcBe4Q_hoDIEhZvgA
meta-masto101 Afficher plus
no free speech for nazis
don't care if people think it's a slippery slope
you know what else is a slippery slope?
letting nazis speak
meta-masto101 Afficher plus
bring back arcades, but with indie games and also in bars? :p
The state of the web Afficher plus
@staticsafe Thank you. I really need this kind of hope.
I actually did fall into despair over that talk. But you're right, it's no good. Let's work for positive change instead. :)
Mastodon makes me so hopeful.
I hope IPFS becomes a bigger protocol too.
Not sure what we can do to limit this meaningfully outside of changing existing laws that apply to trusts to apply to these giants.