NerdResa @NerdResa@witches.town

The first thing started out with not so nice framing.It was, I think, inspired by an even earlier thing known as "the killfile" from usenet and so I think shares conceptual space, if not direct kinship, to Mastodon's mute function. It was called the "bozo filter" and would essentially hide to the list's maintainer any post made by any account on the list.

There are some things I've been thinking about from my decades of experience in other online communities ('social media' avant le lettre). Things I think could be implemented for Mastodon.

It's like Puritans exercising seeking their freedom to put people in the stocks for adultery: Not a good look.

I'm increasingly distressed by the tendency towards engineering into Mastodon methods of controlling accounts, fairly transparently as a mechanism of trying to control the people behind the accounts.

The beauty of federation to me is in the ways it *empowers* people to make the choices that are right for them. While those choices can include ways of punishing, shaming, ostracizing and excluding others, it's a shame to prioritize and focus on those.

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I have seen Ads in the side-bars of a thousand media sites, /
They have builded Them an altar in the masthead and the grafs; /
I can watch their righteous vid in the modal overlay. /
Mute that auto-play!

Metrics, metrics, segmentation!
Metrics, metrics, segmentations.
metrics, metrics, segmentations.
Mute that auto-play!

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the great engagement plan. /
It is written so vapid it would offend even the Lord. /
In a most ungodly manner, to create a wild uproar. /
Profit governs all!

Metrics, metrics, segmentation!
Metrics, metrics, segmentations.
metrics, metrics, segmentations.
Profit governs all!

capitalism is what's wrong with software development tbh

I guess Terms of Service on websites a perfect application of Capitalist logic: Theoretically, two parties of equal faculties and totally at liberty to engage with each other choose to do so, but the reality is that most people have no choice but to enter into these "bindinf agreements" with the Capitalists (Google etc) because it is practically impossible to not use the internet/their services

If the use of the Internet in pretty much any form (whether we like or not) requires for practically everyone to enter into an implied contractual exchange of use for personal information, then surely it is unethical to force people into that obligation by making the Internet uniquitous and mandatory?

People should have the right to not use the Internet

This article suggests something that I've been saying for ages: When academics publish in "predatory journals", they might well know what they're doing. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/science/predatory-journals-academics.html?_r=0

"Arguably, once the infrastructure of the Web existed, some variety of pay-to-publish scam was inevitable, since there will always be academics angling for the appearance of success—as long as there are tenure committees." https://www.sunclipse.org/?p=2389

I feel like the only reason people use SMS is because all the other messaging platforms are silos, so SMS is the only thing you can count on having. But also no one consciously understands this.

FTP is a friendly transfer protocol that just happens to also transfer files.

When an FTP client connects to an FTP server, they exchange pleasantries, then sit down with each other have rousing discussions about their lives.

Once they're caught up, the client takes the stack of books it was handed by the user and proceeds to have an hour-long discussion about their contents.

The user is later upset because they've discovered those books were actually ZIP archives that were transferred in ASCII mode.

Okay. I should do an #introductions post.

I'm jackyalciné. I work with software a lot. I run often. I cook. I also track a lot of my life digitally. I have more information at https://jacky.wtf/press/.

I give talks in tech + social justice + Black history (and intersections thereof). I'm from New York, chilling out West now.

I have a habit for breaking things and putting them back together with a test harness. I'm open to banter but only if it's peaceful and for growth.

Hi.

Thanks in part to @staticsafe and the fine folks at Linode, #vulpineclub should now be using IPv6 for outgoing connections to other instances and also various internal traffic

https://asininetech.com/2017/11/03/exploring-ipv6-with-docker/

At some point you have to face your demons, and it's best to do it rather sooner than later.
When you do, go to them, hug then, listen to them, give space and make them feel like they can and may exist. Care for them, because they are just hurt parts of you.

Take care, give care, you deserve it. <3

Wherein Andrew Tanenbaum writes an open letter to Intel about MINIX3 being used in the ME and fails to call them on their shit.

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/