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FediFollows 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

#Audio picks of the day:

➡️ @tenacity - Free open source audio editing software, forked from Audacity

➡️ @vwestlife - Videos about retro electronics, especially audio equipment and classic audio formats

➡️ @bojan - Records ambient environmental sounds we may not always notice

➡️ @funkwhale - Fediverse platform for sharing audio files

➡️ @museumofportablesound - Museum exhibiting non-musical sounds

➡️ @internetarchive - Massive non-profit online archive of audio, video, text and other media

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Chris Trottier 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Charles Henderson of IBM makes a good point.

Security should be baked into social media by default.

With Twitter and Meta now charging extra for security, this is becoming an exercise of, "We wouldn't want something terrible to happen to your account, would we?"

Twitter Blue and Meta Verified are protection rackets.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/21/paid-security-features-twitter-meta-spark-cybersecurity-concerns/

“The thing that strikes me is that security should be baked into everything we do, not a paid-for service,” Charles Henderson, global head of IBM’s X-Force threat management division, told me. “It should be on by default.”

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Fedi.Tips 4 months ago (Received 3 months ago) • mastodon (AP)

Every account on here has a unique Fediverse account address, it's written on profile pages underneath the username.

If you want someone to follow you on here, give them your account address.

To follow someone else's address, paste it into the search box and click search. This will make their profile appear.

Click here for more info and examples:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/whats-my-accounts-address-how-do-i-follow-other-peoples-addresses-how-can-people-follow-my-address

You can also follow non-Mastodon Fediverse addresses, for example you can paste PeerTube and Pixelfed addresses too.

What’s my account’s address? How do I follow other people’s addresses? How can people follow my address? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

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Trude 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

what does my account address say about me? I just picked one that sounded fun and went with. Is there more I should be considering?

Kyle 🎙 🎶 3 months ago friendica

@Trude @Fedi.Tips Your account address can say as much or as little about you as you want it to say. For complete control, you could run your own server on the domain of your choice. Otherwise, just pick what sounds good to you, as you have done. The difference here in the #fediverse is that you have two parts to your account address rather than only one part. So really, choosing your full account address is just like choosing an email address for yourself. The important thing is that you like it.

Kyle 🎙 🎶 3 months ago friendica

Well, I must say that I'm happy with all of this. COVID vaccines were and still are a scam and have injured many people. Meanwhile, murder and mutilation should in fact be illegal.

Parker Molloy

2023-02-19 14:45:21

It's an entire party built on the idea that if they don't like something then it should be illegal. All while branding themselves the "party of freedom." They're fascists. The entire Republican Party is a fascist party.

Planet earth

Katy Chalmers 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Why is cardboard flavor such a ubiquitous experience that I can say something tastes like it and almost everyone will know what I mean? When have we all been eating cardboard?

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Mastodon Migration 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Something real and different seems to be going on in new user metrics.

In the past we've had sharp surges whenever something ridiculous happens over on Twitter. Brief spikes above 2000 new users per hour, even some topping 5000, but this last week is different.

The rate had fallen below 500, but for the last week has been climbing in a sustained fashion, and is now rolling along around 1000.

Plenty of new Twitter crazy to point to, but this feels more like a solid trend.

#twittermigration

The Exodus picks up steam. New user count chart showing stead increase in new users with the average now around 1000 new users per hour. 142,555 in the last week.

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Monique 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

wow, that is sure interesting. I also find myself using Twitter less and less.

Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

Most of the accounts I follow on Twitter are things like brand I use and want to keep up with as well as things like local transit services and my city's information and alerts. Sadly I don't see these migrating anywhere, although it is trivial to set up single-user federating servers or join something that already exists and post there. I want off both Twitter and Facebook, but despite all their flaws, most of my friends, family, products I use and local offices don't seem to want to leave with me, even though they actually could register on my own server if they really want to do so.

Fedi.Tips 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

A lot of blind people don't use profile pictures. If you see a profile without a picture, that doesn't mean it's a spammer.

If you want to check whether an account is genuine, the best method is to read their profile text and pinned posts.

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🏳️‍⚧️ 💙 Bwee 💙 🏳️‍⚧️ 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Oh this is a great tip, thank you!

Roseanna Cunningham 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖖 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I don’t mind the accounts with no pic - it’s the ones with neither profile nor posts that annoy me. They follow you, but with zero info I ain’t following them back. Seriously considering blocking them though. I mean, why are they hiding?

Klaus Vink Slott 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Can you elaborate a little on "pinned post" What are the purpose of pinning my own post?

Adam Korengold 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

This is so valuable to know - thanks for pointing it out!

Nice Dave 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@Happy727 Maybe I should put a blindness emoji on my display name? I had this over in Birdville.

Don Melton 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

This. 💯

Jesse 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Here here.

Ashley Porciuncula 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Ashamed to say I never even thought about this. Than you for sharing it!

InsufficientC8H11NO2 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

90% of the world's problems could be solved if people would read.

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Jemma Brown 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

this can be true but also some of us do use profile pics like we have photos we like saved with tags like ‘head shot of me with purple glasses wearing a pink jumper’ that way we can know that that is the photo we use for socials. #Blind like over on twitter vast majority of blind people have a pic.

soletan 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Based on what we observe on our open instances, spammers always use a profile picture. That's one of the (minor) facts we use to distinguish them from decent users so that we can delete their accounts short term.

Jemma Brown 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Can you do a post about #AltText and #CamelCase

I tried to earlier the mastordon iOS App defaults to all lower case for # tags so trying to spread the message to take the time to use camel case.

FYI camel case more #Accessible for #ScreenReaders

Alt Text - I haven’t worked out how to do it on the app yet!

m3t00🌎 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

give them one with shades. done a lot of alt texts

Dani 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

this is such a great point and something I've never thought of

benteh 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

*sticking my foot in it* yes, i do consider this, and have thought about it for years. i still don't understand why blind people don't use profile pictures.

it is less newbie, it makes it much easier for sighted to recognise them (instead of a default image in an ocean of default images), and of course you don't have to use a portrait of yourself.

just a coloured block would do for recognition

Devin Prater 4 months ago (Received 3 months ago) • hometown (AP)

@benteh I mean I could, but would you want to see a pic of someone’s hairy chin? Or their chest? Or their belly covering the horizon? Or even better, a dark room? The ceiling? The wall? Whatever is in front of the person because they forgot to switch to the front camera, or the back camera if they were trying to take a really nice pic? Would you then feel awkward letting them know that their pic looks… Unique? Or subjectively artistic? Or would you then just deal with it because everyone should have a profile pic? What if bad actors decided then to just take a pic of a dark room and stick it on their bots, alt accounts, or shitposting farm?

Now, I know iPhones can help someone take an okay picture. But not everyone has an iPhone, or a Pixel. Not everyone can see light in order to tell if their bedroom light is on or not. And others feel that if they cannot see the picture, they shouldn’t have to bother what is ultimately a thing for sighted people only. I think these are enough good arguments.

Cadence 4 months ago (Received 3 months ago) • hometown (AP)

Content warning: unnecessarily lude to prove a point

Devin Prater 4 months ago (Received 3 months ago) • hometown (AP)

Content warning: unnecessarily lude to prove a point

Cadence 4 months ago (Received 3 months ago) • hometown (AP)

Content warning: unnecessarily lude to prove a point

Kyle 🎙 🎶 3 months ago friendica

@Cadence @Devin Prater @benteh @Fedi.Tips Personally I have no problem posting a profile picture, I just haven't done so here. The thing is that it's not even about whether someone is blind or not. Many bots have profile pictures to make themselves look real enough. This is the problem. If you read my posts, you can see from the text that I am in fact human and not a bot, although Microsoft and Google think they have created some pretty convincing bots these days. Still, your choice to follow me or not should be whether you want to see my content rather than my face on your timeline. Isn't this why we follow someone? Isn't it because we're interested in what they have to say? Well, this is what I thought, unless I'm just clueless as to what social media is and should be.

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 3 months ago friendica

@Devin Prater @benteh @Fedi.Tips OMG you don't have to have an overpriced shitphone to take a decent profile picture. I have an open source app on my deGoogled LineageOS phone that I got from F-Droid called Open Camera that will let me know when my face is in the picture. I used this app to not only take a decent selfie, but to take one holding my ID card for verification with one of those stupid KYC processes. Open Camera told me through Talkback I had a face in the center and another face on the bottom right corner, so I shot the picture. My identification was verified within the hour. I saved this picture in an encrypted file along with some other personal secret information that is never stored in anyone's cloud, not even mine, so that I can use it again if I ever need it. Still, my point is that we don't need to bow to the likes of Apple and Google to take pictures, even if we can't see anything at all. There is a completely free and open source app that will help with that on even the cheapest Android phone. I do have a profile pic in other places, but I guess I just haven't uploaded it to the Fediverse yet, even though I'm running my own Friendica server. I guess I'm just lazy or something. It has nothing to do with being blind or anything.

On the other hand, I generally will not follow someone who has a profile pic and posts nothing but photos. Nothing describes anything well enough for me to see you're not a bot or something that is just scraping the internet or hacking people's iClouds to get their porno shots.

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benteh 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@kyle @devinprater I have clearly offended a lot of people.

Never mind bots, not relevant to the discussion.

My sole point is that a profile image, anything else but the default placeholder picture, is _helpful_ for sighted people, and you'll get better interactions. Take a photo of the sky, your toes, your chair or whatever.

In an ocean of placeholder images I have to remember names. As a sighted person, I remember colours and shapes better. Sorry for suggesting this.

Devin Prater 3 months ago • hometown (AP)

@benteh @kyle So I remember people by their voice. Should I then require profile voice clips?

benteh 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@devinprater @kyle not a bad idea, actually. we could have a voice clip recording me saying my name / nick. Or create a "screenreader" reading my posts in my voice.

Kyle 🎙 🎶 3 months ago friendica

@Devin Prater @benteh @Fedi.Tips Actually I rather like the idea of voice clips. Most social media software has no way to include a voice clip in my profile however, and I unfortunately don't see this happening in the near future.

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benteh 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@kyle @devinprater

I imagine that if we all read our toots in our own voice (even if it was automated), would be a cacophony for those using screenreaders. But the idea of a voice clip sounds like an interesting problem a good deal of developers would be interested in.

Asbjørn Ulsberg 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@benteh @kyle @devinprater With alt text, I suppose a non-default profile picture would be beneficial to non-sighted people as well? I find it very helpful, at least.

Nice Dave 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

@benteh For a while, after moving instances, I ran without an avatar but decided to put it back up. There, I'm not a bot. LOL! #blind #blindness

Matthew Varpness 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Is there a way we can find blind people to follow to learn about their perspectives?

Cy the Cyborg 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I would have never considered this, thank you!

T Y Beaulieu 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I don't have any personal pictures. I think I have some PTS from the being a target during the trump/NRA/russian influencers years
I miss the somewhat innocent years of social media when it was mostly social
I am hoping for a turn around

https://masto.nu/users/bagerhatportal 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

❤️ wow

Joe 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

That said, I would still recommend that blind people use some kind of profile picture, anything other than the default.

Deesaroo68 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

unsure about this. I choose to withhold photos for a valid reason.

Peter Lichota 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

How do they use this site then? There are many things I don’t know but I’m open to learning!

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 3 months ago friendica

@Peter Lichota @Fedi.Tips Those of us who are blind or visually impaired have software we call a screen reader. It reads to us via speech and/or braille, depending on our specific needs, what is on the screen. These days, most everything has a screen reader built right into the device, rather than the clunky and grossly overpriced addon software we once had to purchase that usually cost more than the device we needed to load it on. Some of us also use large fonts, high contrast and magnification or a combination of these, which are also built into most devices and operating systems now.

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Bri34123 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

are ppl really spammers already on mastodon tho?

CelesteSenters 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

this isn’t twitter folks. Just chillax

SarahSorlien 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

There is another issue. I use mastodon iOS apps on iPad and iPhone running beta iOS. If I try to edit my profile the app crashes. Have to get to a website to upload me and my cute dog, I guess.

IAmPaws 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

I'd just like to go on record as saying my picture is indeed me. My hair is usually standing up in a mess and I'm usually screaming at my hooman, so I chose a picture to give the best representation of my usual self. I just let the hooman use my account to post things because I honestly don't want to hear it. If she doesn't talk to y'all, she'll talk to me and no one wants that.

Kyle 🎙 🎶 3 months ago friendica

@Holger @Fedi.Tips It's in the comments on this thread, but I boosted it here also. My lack of a pic is just laziness I guess. I can probably get the one I'm using off other places that I don't really want to use again and upload it to my profile. Otherwise, I don't mind putting something here.

Hope 3 months ago • mastodon (AP)

It's true, I'm not using one. Although I might eventually. I do have one.

Lydia Schoch 4 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

@BlippyTheWonderSlug Good to know!

Free Software Foundation 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Are Apple devices really privacy-respecting? The truth is that user privacy is *impossible* without free software. Read more at https://u.fsf.org/3fy #freesoftware #privacy

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Stuart Longland (VK4MSL) 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

To be honest, it's practically impossible to make a truly "open" mobile phone.

With patents and legislation basically ruling out construction of a cellular baseband (even if it were technically feasible), we're stuck with what comes off the shelf and bolting-on whatever we can.

None of the widely available commercial "self-contained" options respect privacy, and as for niche options: if you're not in the EU or US, you don't exist!

Free Software Foundation 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Is your school forcing you to use Zoom, Skype, or other proprietary videoconferencing software to learn or teach? Freedom is important to education. Read about freedom-respecting choices at https://u.fsf.org/311

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Dave Mark 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Carnegie Mellon University rolls out free, Python-based, online computer science curriculum:

"24/7 online support, autograding, and tracking of student progress "

"built by students, for students"

Did I mention it's free?

https://academy.cs.cmu.edu

#CMU #CS

CMU CS Academy

CMU CS Academy is an online, graphics-based computer science curriculum taught in Python provided by Carnegie Mellon University.

^{academy.cs.cmu.edu}

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

No room for differing points of view, no room for diverse opinions. Say something I don't like and you're dead to me, blocked, unfollowed, unfriended, cancelled. This is what I love about what passes for social media. We all get to live in our own personal echo chambers.

Planet earth

Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

This just goes to show that even in the #Fediverse, one man or a few can gain too much control. Many especially new #Fedizens who are immigrants from walled gardens are being marketed this idea that #Mastodon is the #Fediverse, and so they join a Mastodon server they find on joinmastodon.org. But the problem with this is that joinmastodon.org is itself somewhat of a walled garden, albeit with doors and gates into various sections. A few people control who gets listed there and who doesn't, they have terms and conditions that state that your server can be delisted if you don't moderate heavily enough and something their admins disagree with gets by your moderation, and then there's this that I share below. These combined aggravations come together to drive people right back into the walled gardens once more. For example, one major reason why people said they were leaving Twitter recently was because of their new pay structure where anyone can pay for a blue checkmark (verified account). Just one month later, there was a flood of new blue checkmarks, many of whom had been on Mastodon. I attribute this to the combined aggravations of using joinmastodon.org and server shutdowns, fear of being delisted, and various other little things that add up to a less than stellar experience for new Fedizens as well as server operators.

Fediverse Report

2023-02-16 09:19:19

The Mastodon.au server (6.5k users) is shutting down in three months. The admin wanted to reclassify the server to a general server, even though it was originally intended for Australians.

After the Mastodon organisation did not respond to an email about this for a week, the admin decided to shut down the entire server.

Tomorrow's newsletter will talk about what this says about fragility and resilience of the network, as well as the power of joinmastodon.org

Planet earth

Tech News Worldwide 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Fedora Planning Ahead For The Next 5 Years

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-5-Year-Plan-2023

Fedora Planning Ahead For The Next 5 Years

The Fedora Project has been working on drafting its strategic plan to help shape the Linux distribution over the next five years

^{www.phoronix.com}

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Trenton Matthews 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process! Ready to go with only 1.6GB GPU memory and gives you 7.73 times faster training! https://www.hpc-ai.tech/blog/colossal-ai-chatgpt

Open source solution replicates ChatGPT training process! Ready to go with only 1.6GB GPU memory and gives you 7.73 times faster training!

Colossal-AI, as one of the hottest open-source solutions for large AI models, presents an open-source low-cost ChatGPT equivalent implementation process first.

^{Team (HPC-AI Technology Inc.)}

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

As Twitter continues to threaten stopping the functioning of the API that allows me to cross post with my federated account, and because I don't believe in one man controlling a whole social media platform, I am leaving Twitter for the #Fediverse. Follow me @Kyle 🎙 🎶

Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

PSA for all new and perspective #Fedizens: #Mastodon is not the #Fediverse, and the Fediverse is not Mastodon. Mastodon is only a subset of the Fediverse, and there are other similar web applications, many of which are easier to install if you want to host your own from home or a #VPS, and many even implement the #ActivityPub protocol that actually handles the federation more fully than Mastodon. Many of these are even compatible with Mastodon API's, so the well-known Mastodon applications work with them as well. There are also media-based applications like #PeerTube and #PixelFed that you can interact with through the Fediverse, which will happily replace your #Youtube and #Instagram accounts with federating services.

Planet earth

Free Software Foundation 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Did you know the Free Software Directory at https://directory.fsf.org has over 16,000 free software packages. Join us for meetings every Friday for information and to help us do this crucial work: https://u.fsf.org/3ft

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Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

The Swedish government advises against using Zoom in a recent report.

Sensitive information is at risk, and more secure solutions are available, like Nextcloud Talk.

Read about this development in our blog.

#privacy

https://nextcloud.com/blog/swedish-government-advises-against-zoom/

Swedish government advises against Zoom: "Sensitive information is at risk" - Nextcloud

From relentless Zoom bombers to $86 million dollar lawsuits, the world has repeatedly been exposed to the implications of Zoom’s security vulnerabilities and privacy issues.

^{Mikaela Schneider (Nextcloud)}

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Oriol Piera :python: 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

broken link?

Dr. Panos Asproulis 4 months ago • unkn (via ActivityPub)

I never liked Zoom, particularly the client application on Linux.

Free Software Foundation 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Don't let proprietary software marketing dollars give you a false sense of security -- your devices are vulnerable. Understand the risks, and promote free software. Start the conversation in your community today! #FreeSoftware https://www.fsf.org

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David Sugar 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

"every eye move you make, every link you take..." Yes, this is the theme song of proprietary tech today.

Free Software Foundation 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Are Apple devices really privacy-respecting? The truth is that user privacy is *impossible* without free software. Read more at https://u.fsf.org/3fy #freesoftware #privacy

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Hyolobrika 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

Not true, I have heard. It's possible to do black-box testing of proprietary software. https://seirdy.one/posts/2022/02/02/floss-security/

The right thing for the wrong reasons: FLOSS doesn't imply security

While source code is critical for user autonomy, it isn't required to evaluate software security or understand run-time behavior.

^{Seirdy's Home}

Fedi.Tips 4 months ago • mastodon (AP)

If you own an independently hosted WordPress blog, you can turn it into a Fediverse blog that people can follow from Mastodon:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server

Also, this method means the blog will effectively be its own Fediverse server. You won't need to rely on anyone else's server.

As the blog's owner, you will be the one deciding how long your content stays published, and there will be no character limits either.

(Note that this won't work on wordpress.com accounts, you need an indie hoster.)

WordPress: Turning your blog into a Fediverse server | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

I must admit I had to abandon WordPress on my server probably right before its #ActivityPub support got good. No choice really, as something got corrupted so that importing my database into WordPress after a system update caused critical errors. Fortunately I had a near complete backup somewhere, so I got everything reimported into new software. Still, it would be nice if this new software could federate. Fortunately for me, Friendica does this pretty well, and all with no character limits, so it could actually work as a blog, although it can follow #Mastodon and other #Fediverse accounts as well. It can even follow and interact with forums, which I have already found useful.

Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

T-Mobile is advertising something they call "price lock." But this is how cell companies have pretty much always done things. You sign up for a rate plan and the price stays the same as long as you don't change it. Worse though is what Verizon does now, locking in your price for only three years.

I swear I lost what little brand loyalty I had when it unfortunately became too hard on the wallet to keep our service with Figgers Wireless.

Planet earth

Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

Even better, if you don't happen to like Mastodon, how difficult it may be to set up, Rails ... just sayin, the interface, the heavy-handed approach many admins take to moderation because they fear being delisted from the main public list, any reason at all, there are many other federated server applications and thousands more servers they run on, including Friendica, Pleroma, GoToSocial, Honk, many many more that I have either forgotten to mention or are still up and coming, and there will be even more as the #ActivityPub protocol matures. The good thing is that they all see each other and they all talk to each other, and in most cases, we the people who run this true social network of social media sites, not one man or a board, control what we see of the decentralized network. This is true social networking, as it really is a network of many sites running different but compatible software, not a comparatively small walled garden platform controlled by one or a few.

GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

2023-02-12 15:57:45

People on Twitter are using the shutting down of the mastodon.lol instance, to mean that Mastodon “is not a viable model”. Hard disagree.

A strength of Mastodon is that if one instance is shutting, you can easily move to another. It’s quite literally a strength of decentralised systems in action.

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

The article cites "financial experts," but this is one person, likely a shill for a too-big-to-fail bank or credit card issuer. Actually, you want your purchases to come directly from your checking account immediately, as this allows you to know always how much money you have. And if you see an unauthorized transaction on your bank account, you will see it immediately, whereas on a credit card, it can take longer before you even see that a purchase you didn't authorize was made. Yes, excessive preauthorizations are a thing, but credit cards will usually allow the purchase despite the excessive hold, but will charge a fee when the preauthorization puts you over your credit limit. Debit cards simply decline if you can't cover the transaction; no fee is charged. Also, never forget that the credit card issuers want their 30% or higher interest rate, so they will do all they can to get it. Debit cards on the other hand are tied directly to your account, so it's all based on money you have, not money that the bank is allowing you to borrow. My advice if you are that worried about excessive holds, identity theft, etc, is to get an alternative debit card, i.e. with CashApp, PayPal/Venmo, or even a secondary bank account e.g. with Chime or similar and load money onto that card or account. This is also money you have, rather than money you borrow, and you will never get hit with fees for going over your credit limit due to excessive holds or preauthorizations, as your debit card is always declined when you don't have enough money; it is never charged despite holds and extra over-limit fees tacked on.

Trenton Matthews

2023-02-12 06:16:15

Never Use Your Debit Card for These 6 Purchases, According to Financial Experts https://bestlifeonline.com/never-use-debit-card-purchases-news/

Never Use Your Debit Card for These 6 Purchases, According to Financial Experts
Before you make your next swipe, check out the purchases where you should never use your debit card, according to financial experts.
^{Zachary Mack (Best Life)}

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

Microsoft can keep it all. I don't want to learn anything from them, even if they tell me it's free. IoT, AI, all that stuff, all runs on Linux anyway, so there are much better qualified people I can learn from. Thanks, but no thanks.

Akshay 🚀

2023-02-11 12:30:04

Microsoft is offering FREE courses in following areas:

- AI
- IOT
- Data Science
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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

"You have exceeded the number of allowed requests without creating an account. Sign-up for free to use all of our tools."

Create an account? FOr what? So you can track me or sell whatever data I put in? If I can use your tools 5 to 10 times without an account to track me, then I should be able to use them as much as I want. #bubbye

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

And this is what too many people, even open source developers support. Time for self-hosted #Gitea or #Forgejo, or even self-hosted #GitLab at this point. It really doesn't cost a ton to run a git server, a Matrix server and a #Fediverse server all at once. Throw in mail to round out the perfect setup and you really get your money's worth.

IT News

2023-02-10 22:15:19

GitHub lays off 10% of workforce, plans to go fully remote to cut costs - The Microsoft-owned software development and version control service provider said the la... - https://www.computerworld.com/article/3687809/github-lays-off-10-of-workforce-plans-to-go-fully-remote-to-cut-costs.html#tk.rss_all #itjobs

GitHub lays off 10% of workforce, plans to go fully remote to cut costs
The Microsoft-owned software development and version control service provider said the layoffs and the shift to remote work are designed to protect the short-term health of its business.
^{Computerworld}

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

Saitama

2023-02-09 21:24:58

#SaitaTalks 📢 will premiere in a few minutes at 4:00 PM CST.

Hopefully you’re already subscribed to our Official YT channel. If not, click the link below and watch out for a notification. Stay tuned!
youtube.com/watch?v=qbVC9X…

#SaitaSquad #Saitama #SaitaRealtyDao #LetsTalkDefi

Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

I just used Debirdify to find people following me who are on federated social networks. If you are on the list, I just followed you. Feel free to follow me back (kyle@talkabout.cf).

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

"Amendment XIII
Section 1.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."

Someone tell me where the murder of the most vulnerable, voiceless and choiceless of us is in that? Certainly we need the punishment clause repealed in order to end slavery within the criminal "justice" system, but nothing here could even be misconstrued as giving Americans the right to take out a hit on a human life simply because it is as yet unborn.

Occupy Democrats

2023-02-06 20:34:30

BREAKING: A federal judge suggests that there might be a constitutional right to abortion baked into the 13th Amendment despite the Republican-controlled Supreme Court repealing Roe v. Wade. RT IF YOU THINK THAT THE JUDGE IS RIGHT!

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

Dear @Amazon, to keep your prices low, how about instead of making me spend tons more money for grocery items to get free Prime delivery, instead stop giving away extended free trials and all that jazz. Just so you're aware, your competitor in the grocery department has no order minimum these days, while yours has increased almost beyond belief.

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

This is because the Chinese balloon and the Chinese virus were actually joint ventures. I am fully aware that development of the "Chinese" virus took place in medical labs across the US, including UNC's medical lab right in my back yard.

Rob Schneider

2023-02-04 04:32:36

The same Government that says it doesn’t want to poke a hole in the Experimental Chinese Spy Balloon because it might injure people,
Is the same Government that had no problems poking holes in people’s arm with an experimental gene therapy for a Chinese Virus.

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

The Israel of God

2023-02-05 07:17:31

IOG - "Black History Told By The Prophets - Part 1 - COLOR" 2023 youtu.be/4hL2mW6SMSc via @YouTube

Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

Overreacting? Actually, overreacting would have been shooting the balloon down over Canada long before it got here. We grossly underreacted, letting the balloon collect all the information it possibly could before finally popping it over the Atlantic Ocean.

ABC11 EyewitnessNews

2023-02-05 04:45:09

China has expressed its "strong dissatisfaction and protest" against Washington's decision to shoot down its balloon, accusing it of "overreacting" and "seriously violating international practice." abc11.com/china-reaction…

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

Only if it can run Linux. Still, Apple's crap is so overpriced that it's not worth buying to find out if I could put a better OS on it.

Digital Trends

2023-02-04 16:15:02

The #M2 Pro makes the updated #Mac mini the best compact computer ever made. And it's a fantastic value too. digitaltrends.com/computing/appl…

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

Um, neither! Both are overpriced pieces of junk, Samsung actually makes Apple products, I couldn't even find my way around an Apple device when I thought my work life depended on it and Samsung's own devices try to reinvent too many wheels to be useful. When looking at Android devices, I must first be sure that the device can run LineageOS with MicroG. Otherwise, it's KaiOS for me. Don't judge. I love my sub-$100 flip phone that actually works!

Digital Trends

2023-02-04 18:33:32

#Samsung has unveiled the top of the line Galaxy S23 Ultra. How does it stack up against #Apple's flagship iPhone 14 Pro Max? digitaltrends.com/mobile/samsung…

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

But of course they do. They work for the government. Their very salaries are paid by tax dollars. In any case, universal health care is better than paying politicians to do our thinking for us, and Christ-centered socialism has no equal. "All who believed were together, and had all things in common. They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need." (Acts 2:44-45 WEB). This is mentioned at least two other times in the Bible. This is in fact socialism, and it is indeed something we must continually work to achieve.

Public Citizen

2023-02-04 18:09:01

Just a reminder that Members of Congress who think that Medicare for All is “socialism” enjoy all of their benefits on the taxpayers' dime.

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

I still feel that using a password manager defeats the entire purpose of strong passwords, as it wouldn't be hard to crack a master password, and that obviously gives the attacker access to not only your passwords, but also links them to every website you use. Believe it or not, it's actually better to reuse the same password, as you can remember it, and if one site is compromised, only that site is compromised, and an attacker would have to guess what other websites and services you use with the password, whereas a password manager stores everything under one password, and if it gets compromised, everything you have and everything it belongs with becomes known. Still, if I did want a password manager, there are far better open source options available than either of these, and they are all local, or at my option, I can pay for a server, use one I already pay for to do other things or get a free tier server through a provider like Oracle Cloud or Google Cloud, or better yet, just copy my vault to my computer and then onto the other device that can store my passwords and other sensitive info using a machine I control, not some business out to make a buck off my passwords and other credentials. Think about this: how do these companies get your money? Using your personal financial information of course, which you do not need to give to open source password managers that you run on your own hardware.

Digital Trends

2023-02-04 19:21:03

In light of #LastPass breaches, it's hard to recommend it as a #passwordmanager. But is 1Password a worthy alternative? digitaltrends.com/computing/last…

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

tl;dw, it was fun watching one man with entirely too much power try to take on another man with entirely too much power on the second man's turf ... had I watched it at all. I especially love the part where I run my own social web application that can talk to thousands of other social web applications, forming a true social network of many people of all walks of life around the world. Hurray for Activitypub and the Fediverse!

Michael Morgan

2023-02-04 18:40:27

It was great to see @cbouzy addressing the misinformation being spread about #Spoutible in today’s Twitter Space.

It really was an open and honest conversation that took the narrative from the detractors.

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Kyle 🎙 🎶 4 months ago friendica

Despicable is an understatement! It's quite clear to me now that this "abortion" thing is nothing short of human sacrifice. It must stop, and Fauci must be held accountable for his part in this as well.

LifeNews.com

2023-02-04 14:16:02

Anthony Fauci is Funding 80% of All Research Using Body Parts From Aborted Babies lifenews.com/2022/02/04/ant…

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