Found a site that tracks #censorship / #ageVerification / #digitalID laws by jurisdiction.

https://censorshiptracker.com

Unfortunately it does not track whether a given jurisdiction's law applies to not-for-profit/non-algorithmic sites like most of Fedi.

Still, this is a useful tool for figuring out where to look for your next Fedi account.

The guy who sprayed #IlhanOmar with vinegar at a town hall just got sentenced to 14 months in prison.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/man-who-sprayed-rep-ilhan-omar-with-vinegar-sentenced-to-14-months-in-prison

As I recall, she was about ready to deck him herself, but the security guards got him first. Not your average politician, that one.

I'm slowly developing a mental model of different Fedi platforms:

Mastodon: corporate (non-profit)
Misskey: greetings from Japan
Sharkey: blåhaj and blåhaj accessories
Pixelfed, Loops, WordPress, Bluesky: corporate (for-profit)
Lemmy: Karl Marx's #1 fans
Threads: we are the Facebook resistance is futile
Friendica, NodeBB: old school
Wafrn: a challenger appears
LittleFedi: will survive the apocalypse
Forgejo: glorious git revolution

#shitpost

The grocery store chain Safeway was so named because it operated exclusively on a cash-and-carry basis, and did not offer credit to customers. It was a “safe way” to buy food, in that you wouldn't go into debt in the process.

Grocery debt was common at other stores, which contributed to the Great Depression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safeway#History

Went ahead and signed up at https://fedi.absturztau.be⁠.

Hopefully they'll accept me! 🤞

In every decade I've been alive, there's been a moral panic that was obviously manufactured in bad faith to take away our innocuous amusements, our privacy, our freedom of movement, even our ability to hold candid conversations.

1980s: D&D, going outside (“stranger danger!”)
1990s: video games, online chat
2000s: video games, online chat, airplanes
2010s: online chat, websites (“stop online piracy!”)
2020s: video games, online chat

When are people going to stop falling for this dirty trick?

In my search for a new #Sharkey server to join, one of my criteria has been that it not be located in a place where the government has or is working on a broad social media ban, for fear that these servers will be shut down.

Problem: most Fedi servers are hosted in one of those places.

Chat, am I being dumb? Should I just pick a server now and migrate later if the local government really is crazy enough to start shutting down Fedi sites?

#Fediverse

“This song feels like an anthem for humanity. Like it's rooting us on.” —jesse8068

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GF5CLpeoX0

#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG

Worf makes a reasonable suggestion. Picard agrees and gives the order. Plot resolved, episode over, roll credits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh56mTdFn8M

#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG

I took a look at how exactly #AppImage works, and uh I don't think these people are taking #security seriously. Apparently the daemon:

* automatically sets +x on any AppImage file it sees (without asking the user whether they actually trust this random executable that may or may not be a drive-by download),

* announces itself over Zeroconf, and

* is going to do some kind of blockchain thing in the future…?

WTF??? 😬 https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/blob/master/src/appimaged/README.md

People! Attack surface! Minimize it!

#cybersecurity

Just looked up my email on haveibeenpwned and…nothing.

Considering how many data breaches there've been, that's downright shocking.

What is the deal with that new shirt style where the neck hole is really wide and off-center so the shirt goes down one of your shoulders?

Did the kids all get tired of boobs and start clamoring for bare shoulders, or what?