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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Zuck: we're launching an interoperable ecosystem called #Metaverse

> #Fediverse: oh hey twinsies

> Zuck: we launched a text based app connected to #ActivityPub

> #Mastodon: yay we do that

> Zuck: we believe in openness now

> #IndieWeb: neato! We won!

> Zuck: *face melts to expose a steel exoskeleton* WE COPY THE FLAGSHIP FEATURES OF SMALL APPS SO THAT THOSE APPS DIE THIS HAS BEEN OUR ENTIRE BUSINESS MODEL FOR TEN YEARS

> Guy who invented the at sign: fascinating. A victory for open source

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

We knew #Facebook was spying on competing apps via VPN since at least 2017.

Not only that, FB executives used that data to trick founders into thinking Facebook was interested in an acquisition by inviting them to continuous meetings.

Once Zuck had the info he needed, they cut off communication and copied the app's flagship feature.

But that's definitely not what #Meta is doing with #Mastodon. 🙃

#fediverse #ActivityPub

https://archive.ph/2017.11.27-181620/https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-new-copycats-how-facebook-squashes-competition-from-startups-1502293444

Reblogged by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):

infobeautiful@vis.social ("Information Is Beautiful") wrote:

It’s the 25th birthday of RSS today March 15th. 🎂 Here’s our feed: https://feeds.feedburner.com/InformationIsBeautiful

It's still the best way to consume the web. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS

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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

daniel_bohrer@chaos.social ("Daniel Bohrer") wrote:

"I don't like these old sewing machines, they can only do straight stitches. How are you gonna do button holes?!"

Well, 1950's tech had a solution for that.

(Disassembly in the thread above)

#sewing #antiqueSewingMachines #antiqueTools

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• The buttonholer in action: first a template is inserted, then the device is screwed onto the needle bar of on old sewing machine, so that its movable lever slots over the screw that holds the needle. When sewing, it transports the fabric in a zig-zag motion along the outline of the buttonhole that is defined by the template. Finally, the thread is sewn up by hand, and the slot between the two zig-zag lines is opened up with a razor blade, and – tadaaa – there is a button hole! (remote)

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Natanox@chaos.social ("Natasha Nox 🇺🇦🇵🇸") wrote:

*blushes* Z-Z-Zuckerberg-senpai…~ #meme #Mastodon #Threads #FediPact #Zuckerberg

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• Meme. Never Ask a woman her age, a man his salary or Eugen what was discussed under NDA. There's a picture of Zuckerbergs head on the last of the three panels with a blushing Mastodon logo next to it. (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

brunoc@mastodon.sprawl.club wrote:

Preach. https://crankysec.com/blog/broken/

#InfoSec #cybersecurity

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• Cybersecurity is even more broken when these companies that face zero consequences look at their payroll and think "Wait a fucking minute! Why the hell are we spending six full dollars a year on cybersecurity when we can, I dunno, do nothing at all for free because cybersecurity incidents will not negatively impact our bottomline whatsoever?” That's why you, my cybersecurity and infosec ‘brethren, are getting laid off. That's why you don't have the tools you need. That's why you don’t get the training you should. That's why you' re overworked. That's why you' re stuck as an underpaid individual contributor doing the work of 5 people for $75k/year while your CISO who makes $500k is on LinkedIn all day writing stupid shit about AI. (remote)

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straphanger@urbanists.social ("𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇") wrote:

Here's how to make green #transit even greener. Put the tram tracks on a carpet of grass or sedum. 2 kms of track creates 1.5 football fields' worth of green space, reducing air pollution and urban heat island effect.

A tram-on-the-lawn thread: 🚋🌱🧵

1/ Milan #Milano

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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Shot: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic

Chaser: https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/inapp_browsers/?td=rt-3a

@owa seem to be the only ones putting in the work to end the scourge of choice-destroying in-app browsers. You can get involved, join the discord, and support their work here:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Bellingcat@mstdn.social wrote:

A video with the provocative title: ‘Want to know where Ammon Bundy is?’ provided just enough clues for Michael Lee (a member of our Discord community) to locate the anti-government US militant, who has been in hiding since a warrant was issued for his arrest. https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/03/27/fugitive-us-militant-ammon-bundy-geolocated-to-utah/?utm_source=mstdn

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stilgherrian@eigenmagic.net ("Stilgherrian") wrote:

“Thailand on track to become first South-East Asian country to legalise gay marriage” https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/post/max-opray/2024/03/28/thailand-votes-gay-marriage-rights

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

maxeddy@infosec.exchange ("Max "Max Sweaty" Eddy") wrote:

Good advice.

"If you get an unsolicited or suspicious phone call from someone claiming to be from Apple or Apple Support, just hang up."

https://mastodon.social/@PCMag/112168824701024343

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

croissant@zeroes.ca ("🥐️") wrote:

🌶️ The ADHD traits of needing to eat a lot of information and hating most authority are truly optimized for surviving a plague in a decaying empire.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Anti-gay weasel vibrates so hard he falls right off the fence and into oblivion. Bye bye Joe Lieberman.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/27/joe-lieberman-has-died/

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• Joe Lieberman (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

creeping ever so slowly towards getting co-branded email services running right… things are sooooo much more locked down than they were the last time I installed Unixoid email services, lo those [redacted number in horror] years ago.

some one can *send* email to me

jeffs@arghstudios.com

and it gets there fine

but apparently there is a reverse lookup PTR record at the hosting svc that points to their name for the box

and then there is the problem w the email cert ;^{

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

mwl@io.mwl.io ("Michael W Lucas¹ :flan_mail:") wrote:

New blog post: #Vultr just betrayed us.

https://mwl.io/archives/23498

I've recommended them for years. Will be moving off immediately. #sysadmin

No, not a joke.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

zompetto@mastodon.art ("Gilberto Ficara") wrote:

I ended up not using this for my #zine but I still wanted to share.

Now I understand why there's not many photos of #wildlife at night. You need *very* expensive lenses to get decent reach and light...

Still, I think this feels kinda magical.

Shot on #Canon EOS R at 200mm f/2.8, 1/8s, 25600 ISO and developed in #Darktable

#photography #night #LowLight

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• Night time photo of an heron standing in the shallow waters of the Adriatic sea. (remote)

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rmcretro@oldbytes.space ("RMCretro (Neil)") wrote:

These cool system clocks are now available online at https://rmcretro.store/collections/clocks

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The eclipse will not be a sign of god's finagling with the cosmos, in case you were thinking that way.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/27/synchronicity-convergence-it-must-be-significant/

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• path of the 2024 eclipse (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Wasn't the one time in the Bible that Jesus lost his shit over something EXACTLY like this?

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/27/1241186975/donald-trump-bible-god-bless-usa

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

TheRegister - In-App Browsers: "In many ways, obviously, it is a question of data collection. It's basically a question of control. The beauty of the web is that you can go anywhere and be anywhere on the web and you're not supposed to be locked in."

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/27/inapp_browsers/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

drachenmagier@mastodon.art wrote:

Finished dragon tree thingy. :)

#dragon #drachenmagier #tree #creature #fantasy #fantasyArt #traditionalArt #traditionalMedia #MastoArt #markers

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• Translucent dragon wrapping itself around a autumn-coloured tree (remote)

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dave@puz.fun ("🌮 Dave Millar 🌮") wrote:

https://youtu.be/nWEpW6KOZDs?si=zzz9DM1eEGIQRNeV

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

We'll just save that one for the screaming-into-the-void.org file.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

TFW you start composing a toot in the edit box, finally stop and look up to see what's happened and are a little shocked... "You're gonna need a bigger toot."

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• A screen grab of the bottom of my mastodon toot composition box. You can see the last bit of text, which reads, "Perhaps we're doomed to mediocrity and endless, frustrated rants about how bad things are. Then again, perhaps we can find the Emacs of category of software tool. ;)" The character count is an angry red -1946. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

How Cambridge Analytica Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions | NYT 2018:

> In 2014, you may've taken a quiz online. Something that looks like this. And if you did, you probably shared your personal data and friends' personal data.

#CambridgeAnalytica #SmallWeb #IndieWeb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrnXv-g4yKU

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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Dear @Gargron,

A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.social’s second server rule:

“2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…
Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.”

https://glaad.org/smsi/report-meta-fails-to-moderate-extreme-anti-trans-hate-across-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

Can you please defederate from this server to protect the trans people on mastodon.social?

Thank you.

PS. It’s run by these guys: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

#mastodonSocial #fediblock #threads #meta #mastodon #transphobia

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/:

> Facebook’s engineers solution was to use Onavo, a VPN-like service that Facebook acquired in 2013. In 2019, Facebook shut down Onavo after a TechCrunch investigation revealed that Facebook had been secretly paying teenagers to use Onavo so the company could access all of their web activity.

Welcome to the #Fediverse, #Threads!

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

Rachell ("Rachell Calhoun") wrote:

A close friend, and new mom, recently told me "My baby would not exist if you hadn't introduced me to Django"

Success looks different for everyone. In this case, Django -> transitioned to dev -> financial stability to have children, when before she hadn't thought it was financially possible.

#DjangoGirls #Django

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

If anybody wants to find me on #Nostr, I'm "@nfnitloop.com"

Or: npub1m3p39ertpcuzzpw32s5scsv7vp48xgqye4eqmmceyyqtj9dphxkqz7mn6s

https://njump.me/nfnitloop.com

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

michaelzimmer@aoir.social ("Michael Zimmer") wrote:

Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents reveal
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/