@n4@freeradical.zone A big thing for me has been cloning git repos. I can’t store and maintain everything, but especially anything niche or maintained by an individual on a personal server or anything I think is at risk of DMCA, I try to take a local clone of.

@eARCwelder@mastodon.social@grumpasaurus@fosstodon.org I also kinda want a rain barrel mostly to water plants with for free, but I haven’t gotten there yet.

@eARCwelder@mastodon.social Yeah I don’t store anything in cardboard, at least not low to the ground. And I found the plastic bins I stored on shelving were secure enough that none of them tipped. So the goal now is plastic bins on shelves, lowest shelf at least six inches up, and I have two brand new sump pumps and a new alarming mechanism.

@eARCwelder@mastodon.social I had six inches of water and it was enough to float and tip over even stacks of bins that weren’t heavy enough to remain grounded.

@eARCwelder@mastodon.social Pro tip: You might think that your stuff is safe in plastic bins. In some cases, you are correct. However, I discovered an awful edge case: If the contents of your bin isn’t heavy enough, and you get more than an inch of water, your bins will actually *float*. And if they aren’t balanced, they will tip… and water gets in under the lid, and then they sink…

@eARCwelder@mastodon.social Chicago area too, my sump pumps died and I dealt with this a few months ago. Still sorta cleaning up too.

@Arkhamrefugee@mastodon.social People post explicit pornography here. The only requirement on mastodon.social is that it be marked as sensitive content so it is blurred until a user clicks on it.

@JXilon@wandering.shop I definitely think Firefly’s episodes were more solid than Killjoys’, but I enjoyed both shows. Firefly’s problem was airing on a primetime network, where scifi shows die quickly, Syfy gave Killjoys a really nice run.

@rootbrian@mastodon.social You can also enable advanced view so you can see your notifications, a public timeline, and your home feed all at once. Note that on m.s the federated timeline is way too fast to be really browseable.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social To be clear, I have family experience with the predator on the Internet problem. The other scenarios aren’t evaluated nearly as much as they should, but it’s not something to discount entirely. (I also had healthy interactions with strangers on the Internet my parents were concerned about when I was growing up.)

@techygeek@infosec.exchange Your local timeline on that server will definitely be a good place to start. Also note that you can both search for and follow hashtags, so you can see when people post about tags that interest you.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social I guess the question there is, how can you provide individual privacy while still providing basic protection from predators (parents’ job) and cheating or bullying (teachers’ job). I don’t believe automated systems will ever truly be up to the task, because human miscreants can outsmart them.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social Agreed. I hope as kids born into the Internet age get older we’ll see new models of consent around this stuff. The first generation of kids whose lives have been chronicled online by their parents without permission are just now old enough to care.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social He’s a toddler, I should clarify. The older daughter is arguably old enough to decide (she shares stuff online herself), but arguably not old enough to understand the privacy risks of doing so.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social One of the big agency fights I have made a stand on, is there’s no pictures of my son on the Internet, and my parents aren’t allowed to take any at all. Informed consent for kids is a hard problem, and it’s hard to decide when they’re old enough to make that call.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social@captaincalliope@indieweb.social The challenge is that family dynamics can vary so widely, and you have to be careful not to make assumptions. One could imagine if either kids or parents have certain disabilities, the entire access graph could be completely different than statistically typical.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social@captaincalliope@indieweb.social Yeah, I would hesitate to implement “notify the kids that parents are watching” but maybe make the log of it visible if they chose to look at it.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social@captaincalliope@indieweb.social It’s a challenge because you both want kids to have some privacy and autonomy (my parents had little respect for mine and it is traumatic) but there’s legit safety concerns (having experience with kids finding predators online adds some perspective). I think you’d want the default be to hide the kids content, but not prevent you from going in if you needed to.

@captaincalliope@indieweb.social@aredridel@kolektiva.social Probably sharing to groups in a bit more intelligent of a way by default. You might want a default to share to family, but the ability to have private content, but parents able to load private content if they need to for safety.

@Jobko@mastodon.social Not on mastodon.social. Some of the Japanese servers don’t mind it. It’s bannable here though.

@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange I think they’re all real and you’re playing games with us.

@StacktraceSymphony@mastodon.social So there’s actually already some work being done to build federated code forges! @forgefed@floss.social

@hybridhavoc@darkfriend.social@admin@hear-me.social@hear-me.social@hear-me.social So this means you received a report from a user on Fosstodon, that’s it. Remote servers do not reveal who created the report, so when you receive reports from other servers they show as coming from the instance actor for that server.

@rarurirerurore@mstdn.social@<_ohcoco_ https://mastodon.social/@_ohcoco_> The federated feed. However, a server’s federated feed doesn’t include all of the posts on the fediverse, just ones where there’s a follow relationship.

@Platyhelminthes@mastodon.social We’re all talking about Twitter today because… it’s kinda the big news of the day. Activity here went from the usual pace to off the charts because of it, so we’re all impacted by it, and hence… it comes up.

@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social Elon Elon’d some things. Huge new wave coming over from Twitter today.

@<_ohcoco_ https://mastodon.social/@_ohcoco_> The posts and boosts of people you follow, and posts using hashtags you follow.

@griern@mastodon.social No problem. Happy to answer any questions you have at any time.

@griern@mastodon.social Your posts generally will disappear with the server, yes, but generally you should have enough time to migrate your relationships before a shutdown happens. (Also this server will likely never shut down, since it is the flagship.) And you can of course export a copy of your data at any time.

@griern@mastodon.social One of the best things about the fediverse is you shouldn’t ever have to start over again: If a server you are on shuts down or does something you don’t like, you can migrate your follows and followers to another server and still talk to people, regardless of which server they are on!

@tapandrollgames@mastodon.social It helps new people find people who have been in the loop a while, and will help bring them more solidly into the network. Easy hashtag to mute if it’s irritating you.

@onelson@mastodon.social I love the convenience of my Vudu library, but I only consider something content I own if I have the disc.

@griern@mastodon.social Between Twitter and Reddit burning to the ground, it wouldn’t surprise me if they make it here! There are quite a lot of artists here, including on #mastoart

@griern@mastodon.social It isn’t, but there’s no algorithm to help you find people. Search only works on hashtags as well. I would recommend following some hashtags you are interested in and branching out from there!

@caracarebear@mastodon.social You can migrate your follows and followers, but not your posts. I would generally recommend focusing on finding people you want to follow first, then maybe moving to a server where a bunch of them are.

@virtualbri@mastodon.online What a beautiful dream.

@RealGene@mastodon.online@jerry@infosec.exchange Which is great if you don’t mind Amazon having all your sensor data. I aim for my house to be an Amazon Sidewalk dead zone.

@RealGene@mastodon.online@jerry@infosec.exchange I wrote my own control software. Which means it’s awful. But I prefer it over Home Assistant for my own use.

@sandynagy@mastodon.social Yep! Scream away!

@geoffbowden@mastodon.social Depends what you’re interested in! Throw out a post with # introductions on it (without the space) to tell people about yourself!

@ElizabethLeeCo@vmst.io So much this. Being that random welcome wagon to just one person can make this place feel warmer and friendlier!

@ronja@eldritch.cafe How long does it take to put it on? Do you have to fully unzip it or can you keep some of it “assembled”?

@jerry@infosec.exchange I mean soundproofing a room or basement is plenty doable, just not with paint. You need mass in the wall.

@tracketpacer@infosec.exchange Yeah it’s absolutely a cultural problem, not just the usual suspects you would block.

@ Or, read more charitably, Eugen is ensuring the rest of the network doesn’t all come crashing down at the same time, and directing the flood towards the best funded setup to handle the scale.

@DefectiveWings@infosec.exchange It is the loose term given to the culture here of tone policing and heavily criticizing newcomers, especially people of color, for not immediately fitting into our longstanding culture.

@dgoldsmith@mastodon.social There’s a huge anti-corporate crowd here. But like… a ton of people would welcome actually interesting corporate content here. The difference is nobody wants stuff boosted into their feed six times an hour and impossible to block.

@eshtir@masto.ai Former CPM here. Hi!

@developerjustin@mastodon.social The experience of browsing Lemmy and Kbin from Mastodon isn’t great, but it’s really fun to pop in and cross-comment on occasion too. The fact it is all one network is amazing.

@tracketpacer@infosec.exchange We are working on our HOA problem. Sorry! I do think some of the most extreme will sooner or later start to isolate themselves from the bigger servers as it is.