Tremelune @Tremelune@toot.cafe

"Won't you be my ally?"

https://kottke.org/18/06/mister-rogers-fixed-old-shows-if-he-felt-they-were-wrong

RT @MrBoak@twitter.com
Seriously any other kids attending this fancy dress competition have no idea how badly they’re about to get owned👌🏻🤖

“A fucking rant about fucking const vs fucking let”
https://jamie.build/const

Pretty good points.

The other day I found out that my local library has no limit on how many items a person can check out at once.

I asked the librarian, "What's to stop someone from driving up with a UHaul and filling it up?"

And she replied, with a grin, "Ambition"

In the 90s, MIT's Athena system devised a system to handle online harrassment. One feature of the system was that the notice of reported abusive behaviour sent to the accused user began with the phrase "Someone using your account…". Users were advised to re-password their accounts, as they may have been hacked. Password resets by UYA recipients were taken in good faith by staff, but the most astonishing thing was that the offending behaviour nearly always stopped there.

https://www.metafilter.com/173881/UYA-notices-and-face-saving-in-moderation-systems#inline-7389802

I need to remember this technique in the event of anyone doing stuff that merits a warning.

There's an AskReddit thread for "What is the TLDR of your country's history"

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/8axci8/what_is_the_tldr_of_your_countrys_history/

I'm not sure how I should feel about such a large number of the responses including the phrase "...then the brits turned up"

What you should not forget is that: public posts are public, private posts may still be public if sent to dishonest servers, DMs are not protected by encryption and rely on both involved instance's honesty.
If you allow everyone to follow you your data may get mined just as on the commercial platforms.
If you have a commercial bot (in disguise) in your followers, it will see and mine those toots.
Just being a federation is no silver bullet to the privacy issue. But ou aren't the product anymore.

“You Think You Want Media Literacy… Do You?”
https://points.datasociety.net/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you-7cad6af18ec2?source=rss----2488f66d2e39---4

Long, but an absolute must-read

loading message card = omfg
https://petapixel.com/2014/12/11/clever-card-loads-pulled-sleeve/

It seems the publishing industry has reached a point where they're so cash-strapped and so beleaguered by ad fraud, that they feel they have to run a ton of code to:

- fingerprint you
- detect ad-stacking and other scams
- detect how long or if the user has looked at the ad

… all of which leads to the familiar "I just loaded a news article, why is my fan spinning?"

If you're already chewing up the user's CPU to try to make money, cryptocurrency miners sorta feel like the logical conclusion.

Web designers need to know of this exchange between my parents:

Father: Ah - they've updated their web site!

Mother: Oh no.

Father: It looks good ...

Mother: Can you find the things we need?

... (long pause) ...

Father: No ...

"immutability is the real strength of email" https://blog.fastmail.com/2018/02/14/email-is-your-electronic-memory/

via our friend, @willrad

PERIODIC REMINDER THAT THE RED HAT LOGO IS ACTUALLY A T-REX PUNCHING A TRICERATOPS

https://mobile.twitter.com/willrad/status/607737190735618049 https://witches.town/media/dMSLMS4B-4J9LVzZsiA

time for western civilization to curl up and die.

Open-source software can be a huge mental burden on those who write it, but it also adds some incredible beauty and value to the world. It's a rare kind of software that tends to be an expression of someone's passion rather than the goals of some corporation or organization. Let's make sure there's more of it in the world.