✨ geoff, but witchy ✨ @cooler_ranch@witches.town

Visitor tracking companies using Javascripts and uninformed website managers to collect user credentials by abusing browser's autofill function so they can link online identities of people and sell that to data brokers.

AND YOU'RE STILL BEGGING ME TO DISABLE MY ADBLOCKER, ARE YOU INSANE

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bouncing down my new years eve mix/'dj set' for the party later, it's a single fruity loops project which is three and a half hours long and includes 6,700 bars of the same kickdrum loop

I smoked weed once and them I died, I'm actually a ghost typing this.

https://mastodon.sergal.org/media/8Xv_j6w4BqhrAHQeiI0

What the hell happened to Mozilla? Weren't they supposed to be the good guys? Maybe I was just deluding myself, but I used to believe in them. I still believe in what they claim to stand for, but it really doesn't seem like they do. Did they ever?

Also, how much unnecessary data gets sent just so companies know what unnecessary ads to serve you. Adblockers and antitracking software as environmentalism.

There's a free speech maximalist position on Mastodon that goes something like this: the promise of federation is that a user on any instance can communicate with a user on any other instance. Instance blocks break this promise, and should therefore only be used in extreme cases such as illegal content or spam.

I want to point out that this position views federated social networks as *only a performance optimization* of a centralized social network. 1/?

@cooler_ranch Staying in. Thanks for asking.

@noelle #gnugnus!!!

since it is /almost/ topical, I afford myself yet another trip down memory way.

the signal level around the topic of searchability of content on mastodon has gone up by a significant factor since the last time it looped through the consensus.

you know what other federated protocol had a search problem?

yep, the fediversian comeback kid, gopher. (well, okay, and ftp and http and wais and and and)

what if we don't need search added to anything, what if we need a veronica

...for decentralizing search for the fediverse and maybe do a good enough job with the free implementation that commercial silo versions don't make any economic sense and then mastodon et al. can implement the necessary endpoints to allow for search queries and so on and so forth.

the toot-lab counts the number of instances with which it federates and displays it proudly. I would like the search-lab to announce the number of queryable sources with which it federates.

if somebody could have a flash of inspiration right about here and make this happen that'd be really heckin cool.

thanks for reading that overly long toot.

recruiting people to mastodon via facebook

Homeless people in California: we are in desperate need of housing. Please undo the anti-social housing regulations that favour the rich and business and replace them with something more sustainable and just

a white man earning 500k< in the bay area: ah but how about this - tiny little houses (we call them pods) that have wifi connected windows and lightning chargers in the walls, and you have to share an outdoor toilet with the other poor people, but you can use your phone to make the bed fold

what contributions to public life has elon musk made that gives him so much say in public planning and transport

none of tesla's technology have created consumer technology to vastly improve the lives of most people

they haven't offered any developments in the way of public policy

what has elon musk done

The Internet of Friends 💚

My most favorite comic of all time.

@jk Zombies are the auto-tune of the supernatural realm.