@oliphant@oliphant.social What’s crazy is it becomes this mindset like ten minutes off the interstate. Anything right by a highway feels very mainstream. Drive a few miles off and stop there and you are officially seen as a foreigner from a warzone.

@oliphant@oliphant.social I was recently at a rural gas station, and when I mentioned I was from the Chicago area he immediately asked me if I was like… scared. Like, I was hesitant to admit I definitely felt less safe in the rural gas station, and I’m not of a marginalized group.

@chxsec@infosec.exchange@Edent@mastodon.social I love my PineTime (am wearing it currently), but there’s no way it’d compare lifetime-wise to an e-ink screen.

@Edent@mastodon.social Is that USB cable from a Blackberry?

@carnage4life@mas.to Google’s entire business model is “do crime, get paid”, and governments and banks can’t wait to do business with them.

@kevin@famichiki.jp That is good to hear!

@dangillmor@mastodon.social It’s likely they are… for self-serving reasons. It will help them comply with the DMA in the EU. This is the beauty of open standards combined with effective regulation.

@kevin@famichiki.jp I mean if you would possibly consider replacing your panels for these vastly more efficient ones (understandable!) than that theoretical lifetime doesn’t really matter, does it?

@damianogerli@mastodon.social If only we could once again be as blissfully naive and stupid as we were in 1999.

@kevin@famichiki.jp Hope they sort out the recycling for all the panels on people’s roofs currently… Far as I know that’s still not a solved problem.

@kangaroo5383@mastodon.social Always impressed when stores market stuff this way. Make me laugh, I am way more likely to give you money.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social I don’t fully disagree, to be sure. I think at minimum our follower list probably should be treated as “our data” and never silently modified, even if a block occurs.

@mathew@universeodon.com You probably need a better web browser. At work we use Firefox, and have never bought a user a computer with more than 8 GB of RAM for standard use. (Some Adobe Creative Suite users get more.)

@oliphant@oliphant.social Unless making it possible is key to Threads complying with the DMA in Europe.

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place@aredridel@kolektiva.social Servers can block individuals from other servers. The decision to block an entire server because it contains one person the admin doesn’t like is definitely *an option* though.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social As someone who is rarely/never targeted by abusers, I definitely would benefit if we leaned the decisionmaking the other way, but I think safety has been a big part of this network’s DNA for a long time. Not sure that will or should change in core.

@tim@union.place@aredridel@kolektiva.social They might announce it on an admin feed, but you’re assuming all of their users both follow that and see the impact it has on their accounts directly.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social@tim@union.place That seems reasonable because it is a manual step though I do worry about the impact if, say, an abusive user carts around a list of people they want to harass from server to server.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social@tim@union.place The .art admin is not ever going to change their behavior, so people should either stay on the server if they prefer that conduct, or leave if they don’t. But right now the impact is silent, so it’s hard for people to make an informed choice.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social@tim@union.place I’ve been heavily advocating for a notification to users when they lose follows/followers because their admin made a defederation, but for anti-abuse reasons it’s really hard to notify people they’re on the server that got defederated.

@aredridel@kolektiva.social@bob@epicyon.libreserver.org@zkat@toot.cat Yeah .art is a super aggressive defederator. Kinda the center of a whole community around it.

@teleclimber@social.tchncs.de s/jsavascript/javascript

@danielton@mas.to@@@@ This isn’t really true. It’s a loud minority thing: Most of the larger instances are taking a wait-and-see approach.

@TylerLoch@mastodon.social Yep, this isn’t my first payment from Google and I got the Facebook one too.

@whitequark@mastodon.social I am still shocked at u/spez’s absolute lack of understanding of the redditor capacity for malicious compliance.

@brianb@fosstodon.org@FinchHaven@hachyderm.io It’s pretty much a religion, there’s no nuance to it.

@skymtf@tech.lgbt What dust has settled? Threads launching? It’s not federated, it’s not ready to federate, and we have no idea what it will look like once it is ready to federate.

@alchemistmuffin@mastodon.social@tom4okstate@masto.ai@leo@twit.social This is fiction. While there’s a radical core of smaller servers who are obsessed with preemptive defederation, most servers, and most users, are not going to be preemptively defederated.

@jsit@social.coop Yeah good to see reason prevailing for the largest portions of the community: Welcoming but always ready to push the button if we need to.

@coffeekomrade@mastodon.social Individually I think they are too small to have tax implications, but maybe sooner or later I’ll have enough settlement payouts per year that in total it does.

@KbinCafe@mastodon.social This is a smart position. We have no way at this point of knowing how much federated content will even be surfaced in Threads, if and when Threads federates.

Just got $95 from Google and $61 for Yahoo within a week. Settlement money from tech companies being bad at privacy and security is practically an income source now.

@unamccormack@mstdn.social Just means you get to enjoy it like it’s new a second time!

@ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us Yeah, *Facebook* just clearly doesn’t have the chops to build a social network without using Twitter trade secrets. Slam dunk case.

@greycat@kitty.social Yeah I am kinda glad my Google+ posts are lost to time, and I won’t mind my tweets following suit shortly.

@drewdevault@fosstodon.org Some. Not much.

@unamccormack@mstdn.social Season 4 episode 1, “USS Callister” belongs on the short list of “Star Trek people at least should watch this one” episodes.

@drewdevault@fosstodon.org Well, like, sort of? I guess it’s good he recognizes his conduct in the email is unconscionable, but he’s still begging you not to criticize an absolutely unapologetic problem individual, instead of recognizing that maybe he cannot see the problem.

@thattridentdude@mastodon.online@feditips@mstdn.social Yeah, I’m just gonna save myself some time and throw a block now. You specifically say “plausible that the purpose of this meeting was to come to a financial agreement”.

@thattridentdude@mastodon.online@feditips@mstdn.social He has TOLD YOU there’s no agreement. The statement was made. The disease is conspiracy theorists spreading misinformation.

@thattridentdude@mastodon.online@feditips@mstdn.social@kev@fosstodon.org We have gotten to truly toxic disinformation levels, and I truly believe we need to start cutting out parts of the fediverse who use “rumors” to create drama and build followings based on fiction, especially when that fiction causes panic and real harm.

@thattridentdude@mastodon.online@feditips@mstdn.social@kev@fosstodon.org And there are two key things here:

@thattridentdude@mastodon.online@feditips@mstdn.social@kev@fosstodon.org@Gargron@mastodon.social Invited to a meeting, absolutely! Meetings happen all the time. It’s absolutely a stretch to start inventing wild conspiracy theories because people from two groups *talked to each other*.

@craigmaloney@octodon.social Every time I tell someone Google knows too much about them, they tell me it’s great that Google knows just what they need to buy next.

@captaincalliope@indieweb.social They can’t follow you here anyways yet, lol.

@zzt@mas.to@bstacey@icosahedron.website This is fair but all of them were posting on Facebook before anyways.

@captaincalliope@indieweb.social Embrace the Algorithm! Love the Algorithm!

@TheAlexHernandez@techhub.social It will be a bit before that’s reachable here from the fediverse though.

@bstacey@icosahedron.website The biggest difference is that people moved to Google Talk because people were stupid and thought Google were good guys.

@captaincalliope@indieweb.social I signed into it with my Evil Inc. account just to check it out with a private profile, and it’s wild how many influencers/brands have been testing it that I’ve heard of. Will be absolutely nuts when they open federation.