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Post your fails.

Pwn your imposter.

@marijn The one I like most is "we value your privacy". It kinda sounds honest 😅

“we respect your privacy” roughly translates as “we wanna track you but they are making us ask for permission”

I'm definitely not surprised at all by Deno's move to support npm packages https://deno.com/blog/changes. With the rise of new JavaScript runtimes using rust / zig / {insert-language-here}, they have to stay competitive.

@cwebber That's basically because system language is a property that's effectively a standalone boolean, effectively saying whether it's the relevant tool for the job.

Would anyone sane write a kernel in python or perl? I don't think so, but it can still be useful when writing other parts of the system or even in helping build such kernel (see linux's kernel).

If you're screening your follow requests, it's probably not a good idea to reject or block someone just because their profile picture is empty.

There are many blind people on the Fediverse who don't use profile pictures. For example, the writer Robert Kingett at @blindscribe doesn't use one.

The most reliable way to screen accounts on here is just to read what they have posted, as this better reflects what kind of account they are.

#Fediverse #FollowRequest #FollowRequests

theres too much software clashing on my system rn i have awesomewm, dde, gnome, xfce (submissive (and breedable i suppose)), and plasma all insalled at the same time and theyre all trying to run at the same time when really i just want to fix my broken gui looks and then go back to awesome....

"So what kind of music did you listen to as a teenager?"

*kicks gigabytes of video game remixes and SID chiptunes out of view*
"Haha I'd say I listened to '90s alternative', like a normal teenager from that era"

@feoh I have plenty more thoughts on this but I guess the summary is that I don't believe such malcontents are best handled by completely walling them off. That's a terrible way to deal with cancer, too.

As far as what this looks like in practice, I'm not sure for all cases - while I exist happily on a low-block instance, I have taken full advantage of the domain blocking feature of Mastodon to remove the worst of the troll instances (which have plenty of nazi shit) from my bubble.

@feoh it's useful to think about, there are instances that are low-moderation and/or more tolerant of views that some find unacceptable, and then there are instances that are just full of trolls who start shit everywhere. I find there's a fair overlap between troll instances and unironic nazi lovers, although it's not a perfect circle.

I suppose one approach would be to de-list troll instances from the chooser altogether, which inevitably involves the subjective opinion of the chooser operator.

@feoh yeah, I've been wanting to build this for like 5 years actually (holy fuck I've been #onhere that long) but life has had other plans .. and yet nobody has built what I'm thinking of, it's still a niche.

as far as the problem children, they're already here, on balance I think it's likey more useful to list those instances as "PvP" for example so people can avoid them ... you know?

my thought is that admins could submit a pull request or similar to self-describe their moderation philosophy

Funny what you find in a random kitchen drawer in our house.

Spinning Geometry animation. #mastoart #blender #3danimation