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Podcast number 300: "Adversarial Interoperability: Reviving an Elegant Weapon From a More Civilized Age to Slay Today's Monopolies"

https://boingboing.net/2019/06/26/podcast-number-300-adversar.html

the best way i know to explain nonbinary gender to cis people is the binary food comparison:

every food is either a sandwich or a dumpling

pizza? sandwich

steak? dumpling

salad? sandwich

potato? dumpling

just because something *can* be sorted into a binary, doesn't mean that's the best or most accurate way to describe it

Here's a mountain lion in a cardboard box for you.

hey does anybody remember that time when I bought a signed print of the Garfield comic where Jon Arbuckle drinks dog cum and Jim Davis had to hire a PR firm and make a statement to Buzzfeed about how it wasn’t actually dog cum (it was)

Alternatives to Google Products – the Complete List (2019)

https://restoreprivacy.com/google-alternatives/

#privacy #GAFAM #Google #degooglisons

i need this so that the dog filter is on her for the whole show

Russian nesting doll of wolves.

Gab will join the Fediverse next month, and we at @forktogether want to be prepared.
ActivityPub is known to be leaky, so we'd like to take further measures than just suspending Gab's known domains by default.

If you know how exactly Mastodon's ActivityPub implementation leaks information, then we'd highly appreciate your input on this issue: https://github.com/florence-social/mastodon-fork/issues/108

#ActivityPub #Florence

Despite being free software, Mastodon as a project takes a hardline stance against nazis

https://joinmastodon.org/covenant

The covenant has been added approx. one month ago so that for the first time in Mastodon's history, our project could make "no nazis" a part of our branding.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-verizon-and-a-bgp-optimizer-knocked-large-parts-of-the-internet-offline-today/

in which Verizon runs a BGP optimizer and fucks the internet for several hours

Can someone please create pro- and anti-Google propaganda posters that look straight out of WW2?

As most of you already know, Gab is coming to Fedi soon.

We consider the only sensible move is to block them preventively anywhere we can.

As such, we are strongly supporting all fedi admins, members and software developers who are working to do so.

We want it to be loud and clear that we won’t tolerate nazis, fascists or “free speech” advocates in our spaces.

We also won’t accept harassment against our moderators. Ginny is one of them, and we’ve had enough of your constant threats, discourse, subtoots and attacks.

Also: this is a statement, not an invitation to debate any of the points mentioned above.

Was talking about Mastodon with an old-school sysadmin guy. We reached the realization that defederating from instances with no/bad moderation is essentially the same thing as blocking open relays back when you ran your own email server: open relays always end up getting used for spam, you block 'em to protect your users.

Email was and still is the first federated social network, so it already faced a lot of the same problems; we should study its solutions (and its failures).

Surprise, surprise, Raspberry Pi 4 has been launched!

Faster CPU, dual 4k HDMI support, up to 4GB RAM, USB type C, USB3 and (finally!) no more bottlenecking the ethernet port over USB2: full gigabit speeds!

Also: same old price 😍

Kids are callin' it Wet Girlfriend. She set a dumpster on fire behind a Radio Shack and huffed the fumes until she thought she was Dwayne Johnson ridin' a giant llama.

hey does anybody have resources for bein trans in the netherlands? how to get hrt and shit? asking for my gal pal who's looking into it but doesnt really know what to search for

ive been riding public transit in this city for the better part of a decade now. union station downtown used to be a ghost town. now it is packed 24/7. why? because the city has massively developed its transit infrastructure.

this is a perfect illustration of the fact that when it comes to infrastructure, demand follows supply. if something is useful, people will use it more. a lack of people using public transit isnt an argument for not investing in it - its an argument for investing more

Hidden #Alexa