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This is the funniest Steam Deck accessory I’ve ever seen!
Don’t get me wrong. I understand why this keyboard/stand exists. It has a practical function.
But imagine sitting down at Starbucks. The room is full of normal laptops. Clean lines. Thin aluminum. Civilized.
You unzip a case that looks like it contains military hardware. Out comes a handheld gaming console.
Then a keyboard.
Then a clamp.
You assemble it in stages like you’re preparing to launch a small satellite.
Click. Lock. Adjust angle. Tighten mount.
The joysticks loom over your Word document like twin anti-aircraft turrets. The ABXY buttons shimmer with the promise of violence.
You begin typing your gentle coming-of-age novel.
Every paragraph is written beneath a D-pad.
Someone glances over, expecting Elden Ring. Instead they see you carefully crafting a metaphor about autumn leaves.
You nod solemnly and continue Chapter 3.
When the barista calls your name, you detach the entire contraption in reverse order like a NASA rollback procedure.
You pack away the clamp. You holster the console. You slide the keyboard into its sheath.
You leave behind only confusion.
No one knows if you were coding, gaming, or coordinating a drone strike.
You were writing poetry.
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It has come to my attention that mastodon.art blocks a wide variety of the more popular LGBT instances, and so if you happen to be a queer artist there, you may not realize that your queer art gets very limited reach.
Having looked at mastodon.art's block list- which seems to be hundreds of instances long- I can confirm that this is the case.
Remember that server blocks like this are controlled by the staff of your instance and apply to everyone living there. And these blocks cannot be worked around by the user's preferences at all; it's been decided for you entirely. And unless your instance staff is very explicit about why they make these changes on your behalf, it's completely invisible to you as an end user.
You must trust in good faith that these blocks are necessary to protect the instance you live on, and that no other moderation tactic would be sufficient.
You can check the blocks yourself here: mastodon.art/about
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Mastodon.ART — Your friendly home on the fediverse for all things creative, all on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free. NO AI OR NFTs ALLOWED.Mastodon hosted on mastodon.art
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I feel like I rest my case with this. After literally having not followed this post since making it, they managed to prove me right by suspending me over this very post and severing the many follows I had to artists there.
I do NOT recommend mastodon.art if you're an artist (or otherwise).
I do NOT recommend mastodon.art if you're an artist (or otherwise).
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Yep. Since a year or so, I've seen a few artists I know finally realize this and migrate 👍
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My first account was on .art, and i had to move because of drama that arose from the inclusion of queer and furry instances on their blocklist.
I believe .art is run by well-meaning allies who have a more authoritarian view of progress and are not open to debate.
I say this based on recollection from two years ago that i haven't updated since
I believe .art is run by well-meaning allies who have a more authoritarian view of progress and are not open to debate.
I say this based on recollection from two years ago that i haven't updated since
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@boloid Authoritarian. Enough said 😅
@boloid I'm at least 96% sure that welshpixie is not wellmeaning🗿
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The people at .art aren't "well-meaning allies", they're bigots pretending to be well-meaning.
They block lgbtqia and furry instanses over made bs made by the .art admins and start "call out" (harassment) campaigns agaings furry/lgbtiqia server admins/mods abd project devs until they're out of the fediverse.
Great lgbtqia and/or furry lead instances and projects have died because their main admin and/ir dev has been harassed out of fedi by the .art people.
That's not the behaviour of well-meant allies.
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wp is pretty openly transphobic and has harassed many queers off fedi.
They consider themselves allies but it’s contingent on enabling her bullying.
The reason it’s malicious is because wp talks over and refuses to listen to folks actively attempting to explain how her behavior hurts some of the most marginalized women.
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lol, my instance was called out 
I was gonna say, we know of several folks who left mastodon.art because they said that the majority of their commission work came from folks on furry instances and on tech.lgbt who have been blocked by mastodon.art.
But to some folks, we'll always be associated incorrectly with "virulent anti-Black racism" 🤷
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@david The same thing happened to furry.engineer & pawb.fun. The truth is that a single user said something like "I don't like how aer0 put a bunch of LGBT servers on his blocklist" & he went apeshit.
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Yes, mastodon.art is infamous for blocking other instance based on evidently bad faith accusations of racism and other bigotries.
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
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@maddy have a look at the reasons for all those blocks.
every one of them is because an instance harbors (or exists explicitly to service) racists, fascists, transphobes, actual nazis, or the people who do their work for them.
the problem is not with dotArt. the problem is that so much of the fediverse is so hurriedly intent to sweep these things under the rug that they start to see meaningful moderation as their enemy.
consider the kind of fediverse we could have if more instances kept on top of their moderation.
alas, the fedi we have is this mess.
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@maddy also, I know at least two of the dotArt mods, and they play a pretty active role in reaching out to the moderation teams responsible for the users they receive reports about. your portrayal of them as having an "authoritarian view of progress and are not open to debate" is laughable to anyone who's actually interacted with them (providing they care about stewarding meaningful spaces on this network, of course).
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@tully @FlitsFlash@floofy.tech @maddy also .art is a safe space first and foremost as per the about page
Don't know why people act like they have a duty for visibility when that's not what they're advertising they are.
Isn't the very idea of the fediverse that we can diversify approaches? Thus .art is a safe space for minorities with an art focus. Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
We have been on fedi for 8 years now and this is the best instance we've been on wrt moderation
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mastodon.fart has very very obnoxious trigger-happy mods. it’s to the point of guilt by federation - if some instance forgets to fediblock a bad actor fast enough they block it. +1 on that being there limits your reach massively just because of strangers’ whims and opinions on largely irrelevant years-old dramas
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I used to follow its Curator account and they spent more time talking about politics and drama than curating art.
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Skimming through the block list, they seem a bit hard on NSFW instances, blocking things just for unCWed NSFW, but ehh, the mastodon.art rules say no NSFW anyway, so I don't really see much of an issue. Just about everything else they've blocked seems reasonable, at least at first glance. Like, it's really easy to spin up a mastodon server, which has upsides, but also downsides
mastodon.art is known for blocking a lot of trans run servers on false racism allegations and a bunch of other bullshit
Mastodon.ART
Mastodon.ART — Your friendly home on the fediverse for all things creative, all on a platform that is community-owned and ad-free. NO AI OR NFTs ALLOWED.Mastodon hosted on mastodon.art
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mastodon.art admins are insane
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Yeah... I looked at the blocks. They definitely seem a bit trigger happy in general with their defederations. I looked and they blocked an instance for being "anti-furry" but in the same breath blocked furry.engineer?
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Just skimming through the blocklist... What does alt-fedi even mean?
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oh yeah i remember this coming up when ppl were making the jump from cohost cause i had already had an account on a pretty innocuous small instance set up then that i rarely used and a few artists i followed on coho jumped to .art and i was like why cant i follow them ?? and that was my intro to federation drama lol
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Capaz que que ya lo sabías, @ElenaMusk, pero mastodon.art es el Paquita de la anglósfera.
a quick look at their blocklist.
>furry.enginer reason: racism, conspiracy, harassment
>blob.cat reason: freespeechextremist.com association, federating with Kiwifarms
>labyrinth.zone reason: Engaging in racist dogpiling, extreme MH ableism from the admin
>lea.pet reason: participating in harassment of BIPoC
>mitra.social reason: Crypto, conspiracies, ableism
>mk.absturztau.be reason: Reason: interacting with known scum, freeze peach/anti-moderation, cryptocurrency
>outerheaven.club reason: alt-fedi
>tech.lgbt reason: Platforming and excusing racism and racist harassment
>unix.dog reason: alt-fedi
honestly the fact that they are banning so harshly makes me feel like their admins are trying to keep their users from communicating with air.
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@FlitsFlash And that's not counting the *thousands* of accounts they suspend with little to no reason.
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If I ever get to wear a full latex body suit I am going to take a picture of myself sat at a laptop typing out some LaTeX
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Pericles said the same thing several THOUSAND years ago! Nobody seems to have paid attention to him.
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Just so disabled people in the UK know, if Reform UK get in, they would repeal the Equality Act, describing it as divisive and a political fashion statement. If you aren't interested in politics, it's worth bearing in mind that politics is interested in you - the immigrant carers that help you, your benefits, your access to work, your right to live free from discrimination, companies' obligations for accessibility, Uber's obligation to take guide dogs.
Also, don't imagine that them getting in would never happen because other people will vote the right way, because no-one would ever be mad enough to vote for them. Don't imagine this is a problem for other people to fix. It is not! Look at America. Ask the people of Minnesota how a largely apathetic electorate worked out for them. You know what's coming. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure!
If they come for you and your benefits, you don't want to be thinking "perhaps it would have been different if I'd done something!" If you're not sure what to do, askk. We're all in this together. We'll help each other, but we must do something!
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Pericles said the same thing several THOUSAND years ago! Nobody seems to have paid attention to him.
@BackFromTheDud Some things bear repeating. And people do take notice, they do resist. We just need to massively upscale!
Things are close to the situation here in Germany. Fascist parties and movements worlwide are like that.
@miggi At least the left won your last general election. That was a profound relief!
lets see, lowering minimum wage, removing the equalities act, insurance based healthcare and butchers aprons for all!
solid policies there, for psychopaths and idiots.
It worries me that the people who voted for Brexit will probably vote for Reform...
@NicelyManifest If only more people would realise this and Reform would be tossed back to the margins where it belongs.
They also want to dismantle the NHS and replace it with US-style healthcare for the rich, debt and death for the poor. And lower the minimum wage.
@woe2you Didn't know about the NHS! That needs publicising widely!
It's something everyone should be concerned about. Even if you don't belong to one of the protected categories, one day you will be older.
Do you want it to be like the bad old days where someone in their 40s or 50s could be told "yes you've got great experience but older people don't fit with our image, I'm sorry but you just wouldn't fit in".
a reminder to old (and not old) people in the uk, you can become disabled at any time. As you get old you will eventualy become disabled. Even with only the most self centered mindset you should protect your future by protecting the rights of disabled peopl3
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felt really pretty, wanted to show off~ ✨
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selfies, eye contact, full body nudity, chastity, teasing and boosts totally okay :3
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so soft and delicate, you naughty thing! 🥰
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@RinaVolpina mreow~ thank you so much 
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I've been using KeePassXC for years and my default password length is 32 characters comprising A-Z, a-z, 0-9, and special characters...
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Let's remind everyone what a safe internet actually means. 🌐🌍
Share this & Spread the word!
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🔗 Protecting your safety online starts here: tuta.com/blog/minimum-password…
NIST rules on minimum password length: Aim for 16 characters or more! | Tuta
With the rise of quantum computers, passwords need to be longer - and more complex. These tips help you secure your online accounts.Tuta
For average user, a password manager will be necessary if every pwsd is so long.
Passkey is a good alternative, but how many service providers allow it is an issue.
I’ve been using unique 20-char random passwords for at least five years. Occasionally, I’ve run into a site where the limit is lower, and then I’ve thought a bit about whether I really need an account at such a poorly coded site. Nope!
we will ditch smart phones and services. Time to use dump keypad phones just for calls and msgs.. Lest flick these stupid companies together..
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That second column isn't designed to make anything safer for the end user.
Just a note. Age verification is not mutually exclusive to everything that is on the safer column. If the real world has age requirements in some operations, it's acceptable that the digital world also has the same. Making the Internet lawless is what drives attacks on other liberties.
It's not about a safer internet it`s about collecting more data from us.
Hear, hear!
how about "content moderation by humans"? Seems important to me when it comes to any platform/software, where harassment could happen.
true! And maybe also: Properly trained human community managers, moderation teams, dispute resolution perssonel, ... ?
this way of thinking should become mainstream, but unfortunately we are far behind that in public debates.
You missed the most important one.
A safe internet require distributed and transparent ownership, not tight control by secretive for-profit companies.
Without that, none of the rest matters.
You need to update your graphic with giving ai agents your passwords.
Without tracking and data collection recommendation algorithms would not work. And that's safer. Yes.
The graphic is correct for email. The Internet is more than just email.
and moderation for public communities, 4chan isnt exactly safe
short slogans are nice for marketing.
The Internet is not safer for victims of harassment, when the attackers enjoy anonymity and no accountability because of it.
Platforms can't abide by laws, if they can't figure out if their users are legally (of age) visiting.
Brevity isn't winning any arguments.
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this laws you are referencing are the problem of unsafe acting on that harassment and victims you are referencing to. This laws will get it worse on victims because of stigmata on that topic. You have to reform that law before you could get victims safer. You have to get safer NSFW stuff before you kick out the really bad stuff. To ban everything that does not suit you is double standard.
this laws you are referencing are the problem of unsafe acting on that harassment and victims you are referencing to. This laws will get it worse on victims because of stigmata on that topic. You have to reform that law before you could get victims safer. You have to get safer NSFW stuff before you kick out the really bad stuff. To ban everything that does not suit you is double standard.
Safe internet or surveillance internet?
The choice is ours, unless governments take it away.
The choice is ours, unless governments take it away.
Does your solution support open standards like POP/IMAP, allowing the end users to encrypt/decrypt/verify their messages EXTERNALLY? If it does not, please stop using the word "safe" and the name of your product in the same sentence.
Thats why i switch from Twitter to this
You keep using the word safer. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Please get some more context if you want to discus that topic because such comments are not helping if your sentences are to vage.
Please get some more context if you want to discus that topic because such comments are not helping if your sentences are to vage.
A safer internet IS MADE BY
Encryption
Privacy
Open source
A safer internet is NOT MADE BY
Age verification
Scanning communication
Tracking & data collection
why age verification is not safe? Internet should be 35+ only. Because it destroys brain tissues with cat pictures.
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because it is not make it clear what behave is good or bad. It is really not a all making safer thing than you will think of. It would be force to get more victims because of tabu that topic that has to be discus. Tabu this topics what will be unsafe for minors will get more victims and yes i mean also NSFW Content because that Content will get to people no matter what you will do. The other way around you have to guard minors actively not inactively like that verify stuff.
because it is not make it clear what behave is good or bad. It is really not a all making safer thing than you will think of. It would be force to get more victims because of tabu that topic that has to be discus. Tabu this topics what will be unsafe for minors will get more victims and yes i mean also NSFW Content because that Content will get to people no matter what you will do. The other way around you have to guard minors actively not inactively like that verify stuff.
the left column does not protect minors from AI Fake content, porn and violence. This is just the wrong sharepic for the conext
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That is Stigmata what you are saying. You are correct on the 3rd but nut on the first 2. The First two has to be regulated and not to be banned. And i mean it also in context of minors. Because you are make it as a Tabu and this is violence the minors indirectly. This is Double Standard if you argument that censoring everything is a good way to protect minors because that will make more victims if that Topics are stigmatized by everyone. That will get more violence not less.
That is Stigmata what you are saying. You are correct on the 3rd but nut on the first 2. The First two has to be regulated and not to be banned. And i mean it also in context of minors. Because you are make it as a Tabu and this is violence the minors indirectly. This is Double Standard if you argument that censoring everything is a good way to protect minors because that will make more victims if that Topics are stigmatized by everyone. That will get more violence not less.
Besides.. Police already have the rights to go after pedos WHEN THEY HAVE WARRANT.
The essence here is that we remove probable cause, and we make everyone a suspect.
We used to be innocent until proven guilty. Now we have to prove our innocense.
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Discord is not documentation.
ID laws disproportionately harm minorities.
Leaking current ID details constitutes harm.
Data is radioactive.
Complying proactively with fascism is perpetration of harm.
"Legal" and "right" are two very different qualities.
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I think with the latest epstein files release revealing that the entire right wing movement (and 4chan/pol/) in the US and europe are a psyop by the international pedophile cabal is probably the funniest shit all year and it's january.
it means that we one the left have always had the mandate of heaven.
everything the right has is stolen, everything they say is lies.
eat the rich
do you have a source at hand? I only found this
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From 4chan to Elon Musk, what’s in the latest Epstein file dump?
Disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein was a gamer who liked to share 4chan links and once chatted with Elon Musk about coming to a “wild” party on his notorious island, per documents released Friday.web.archive.org
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god, i’d have to trawl through quite a bit of the justice.gov website again, but you can find the 4chan founder meeting with epstein basically the day pol was opened, steve bannon telling epstein he has advisor control over major right wing parties in europe, JK Rowling making private appointments with Epstein and emails exchanging ideas on controlling transwomen as sex slaves. The peter thiel exchanges also light up some of this spiderweb of disconnected and censored documents, it helps reading duplicates because they’ve often been differently censored.
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My latest video is now available on Nebula and Patreon.
I don't use Google Maps when cycling in Amsterdam, because some of the routes it gives are absolutely terrible.
But what's more interesting is WHY Google Maps provides such poor cycling directions, because it reveals some really interesting differences between the way cities are designed in the Netherlands vs. America.
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Google Maps is an application that is used by over two billion people every month. But as an application that is primarily designed by and for car drivers, it often fails in a human-sized city like Amsterdam.Nebula
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I've been making an effort to transition to OpenStreetMaps - do you find that it's any better for Amsterdam bike route planning? It probably depends a lot on the city, I surmise.
Important thing to note: OSM doesn't do any route planning itself, it just provides the map data to separate services. So give each a try and find which works best for your needs
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Great as always! Not much of a cyclist but I'm often equally shocked by how awful it is with pedestrian routes, exactly for the same reasons as what's in the video. So often it's "no don't cross the park, take a 3km detour around it" !
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GitHub - mszell/sciencememes: Science-inspired visual memes
Science-inspired visual memes. Contribute to mszell/sciencememes development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
same in Bangalore, India - terrible routes even for driving
I want to make a shoutout to GeoVelo (geovelo.app/) as an OpenStreetMap based bike router that I find in Boston (and I use it occasionally when I am elsewhere) gives better directions than Google.
And when it gives me something weird, I can usually fix OSM because something is wrong there and next time it gives me better directions
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brouter.m11n.de is pretty good for OSM based bike routing everywhere. Otherwise I do find even OSM's default layer is pretty car-biased. Also you didn't get into how terrible Google map's transit layer is.
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Excellent take, as usual! While this is tangential to the subject of the video, I'd also like to kvetch about the way Google Maps handles surface transit. It only shows bus stops when zoomed in so far as to make it unusable for a route overview. It tends to miss better routes when used for route planning, and it's not great at handling multiple modes or multiple agencies in a trip.
I moved to Amsterdam a few months ago and I'm really enjoying both trying to recognise places I know in your videos and suddenly seeing places I know from your videos in the city!
I'm still trying to find the best route to work. My current route is already a lot better than google's suggestion.
I checked the Amsterdam infrastructure map and I'm already completely on the plusnet, but olympiaweg and centuurbaan don't really feel like they deserve to be in there :/
@freundTech use the Fietsersbond route planner with "autoluwe".
Thanks. The autoluwe route looks interesting. I'll try that tomorrow. With the default settings it only got rid of one of the sections I don't like in exchange for adding another not-great section (still better than google's route though).
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I rage quit Google Maps last summer when I was visiting Prague. I just wanted to cross the river from my hotel to the city center and couldn't see the green hairline on blue river 🤦♂️ The bridge just happens to be the oldest and most beautiful bridges in the city, and basically invisible on Maps as it is pedestrianized. What use is a map that cannot be used for navigation? Now I'm a happy #OSM user and occasional contributor.
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good points. I find apps based on OpenStreetMaps work much better for walking and cycling. Personally, I've been using @CoMaps
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I am watching this video now and I am like "what you are talking about, google maps are great for cycling!"
This is how it routes me for bike (left) and this is how it routes me for cars (right). The route for cycles is brilliant, it used dedicated cycle lane along the train tracks and then leads me through the Central Park... I will cross the first street on the same level 7.2 km into 9.1 km long route...
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Since the introduction of Google Maps I have never understood why people use them (besides navigation for cars). I'm really not an urbanism or FOSS zealot or something, but their design is simply unusable. Besides the streets or roads grid it doesn't give you any understanding of the area. Everything is just plain gray or green with no buildings or structures until you zoom in very closely. It's really bad in Europe, but it seems to me to be just as bad in the US. Like for example take this place in Dallas. And the same spot on Openstreetmap. (Pic. 1 and 2) I can imagine a stadium is a visible landmark even for someone sitting in a car on a highway. But if it weren't for a POI you couldn't tell there is a stadium and other structures looking at Google Maps. It looks rather like an empty park.
It's even worse in smaller towns in Germany. E.g. take the town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld in the Harz mountains. In Google Maps it is simply a green plane with a street grid on it. (Pic. Nr. 3) Only when you zoom in very closely, the actual buildings and structures get displayed. Openstreetmap is by far not perfect (above all because it is often outdated), but it gives you a proper understanding of the area, including industrial and recreational areas. Like a map should. At least you see a town! (I am not asking for much.😄)
Google Maps is a navigation tool (for cars), not a map app. It is only good if you need to be told where to turn right or left until you arrive at your destination. But if you want to get an idea of the geography of a place or an area, it's of no help.
And then it turns out Google Maps basically masks all the pedestrianised areas a.k.a. most of the areas to go in a city? How is it even usable outside of a car?
(Sorry for the long post.)
#googlemaps #openstreetmap #osm
It's even worse in smaller towns in Germany. E.g. take the town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld in the Harz mountains. In Google Maps it is simply a green plane with a street grid on it. (Pic. Nr. 3) Only when you zoom in very closely, the actual buildings and structures get displayed. Openstreetmap is by far not perfect (above all because it is often outdated), but it gives you a proper understanding of the area, including industrial and recreational areas. Like a map should. At least you see a town! (I am not asking for much.😄)
Google Maps is a navigation tool (for cars), not a map app. It is only good if you need to be told where to turn right or left until you arrive at your destination. But if you want to get an idea of the geography of a place or an area, it's of no help.
And then it turns out Google Maps basically masks all the pedestrianised areas a.k.a. most of the areas to go in a city? How is it even usable outside of a car?
(Sorry for the long post.)
#googlemaps #openstreetmap #osm
Part of the Google Maps team is based in the Zürich office. (At least, it used to be.)
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Horrible idea:
Disclose vulns in the speech bubbles of furry porn commissions
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i think disclosing vulns on e621 would be really funny actually
@Rairii what's the mapping between fetishes and vulnerability classes? is RCE a form of hypnokink
@astraleureka @Rairii might be for proots and synths?
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@Rairii riding on that CVE till it zero-days
@Rairii I always wonder why some sites go with MD5 for unique resource paths and how long it is going to be before someone abuses it.
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@Rairii ok, so, asking for a friend, if this happened what tags should be used to denote cve-id?
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please do it
Is this what chaotic good looks like?
this is literally how you make sure the disclosures are reaching the people who will be responsible for mitigating the vulnerabilities.
Laser-targetting, even.
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@jacel is this like short-circuiting some of the OSI layers when you know the destination is local?
@natty Horrible. Whoreable. They're homonyms.
it's a better idea than copilot so it's got that going for it
@wronglang Many things are better ideas than copilot.
@kawa what's impressive is that some things are worse
@wronglang whether you like it or not FPDs are the future get on board or get left behind (furry porn disclosures)
“Please enter your FA account and fursona name in the form below to access this CVE notice.”
As long as they’re read out loud by Internet Comment Etiquette’s Erik.
Horrible, but hilarious!
Less effort, probably not as funny: using JerkCity/Bonequest methods for something similar?
Admittedly, long ago I used Microsoft Comic Chat with BitlBee as an experiment. The BitlBee side of things was A OK, Micro$oft's Comic Chat was a pain to get running as that code had been abandoned. If I recall correctly, I probably did that nearly two decades ago; it's probably more annoying now.
@teajaygrey "Microsoft Comic Chat with BitlBee" makes me think of @Ninji
strange way to spell "based" but u do u
"I'm sorry, did I say something wrong?"
"No, no, I just have a lot of cisco gear in a cage I need to deal with now."
"No, no, I just have a lot of cisco gear in a cage I need to deal with now."
"You can read about this D-Link vuln, but only on my Resonite Hypno Server"
i love this as an escalation strategy when the recipient inevitably fails to respond to the initial private disclosure.
Like, alright NXP, we'll have these characters discuss your bootloader while enthusiastically ...
I mean, while we're at it, AO3 counts as public disclosure right
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Sherlock walked into his office, carefully closing the door so as to not raise suspicion.
"Well, Mr. Watson? What was so important that you had to meet with me in private?"
Watson, who had recently sent a GET request to /SetupWizard.aspx with a subdirectory of any name or length to Screenconnect, pulled Sherlock closer. They were so close that Sherlock could smell the brandy on his breath.
"I need you to bypass authentication, Sherlock."
@cliffle This idea brought to you by the same people who named STMicro's Master Direct Memory Access (MDMA) peripheral.
(I wonder how many engineers have been called into HR for enthusiastically discussing how much they love MDMA on company email/chat systems. It's definitely nonzero... The MDMA is great and enthusiasm is quite justified lol)
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you say horrible idea, but i think that's an absolutely amazing idea
@patterfloof a.s.r once did come up with the idea of pornographic documentation, after someone complained that they wished lusers would read status messages as often as they read porn...
Tired, initial thoughts were 'why are the speech bubbles independently hackable?!'
great idea you mean
“indecent disclosure”
that's how ya know the right engineers are gonna see 'em
now we're cooking with gas
That’s a great idea actually
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banger, do this immediately
perfect proot hacking sex opportunities
perfect proot hacking sex opportunities
still a better disclosure policy than what folks are doing with all the LPE stuff the last weeks 🙃
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This was one of the challenges at NSEC this year.
This was one of the challenges at NSEC this year.
@hlieberman @haicen I'm guessing this is the watersports comic which makes for some really funny interpretation of your reply
@haicen can neither confirm nor deny
@hlieberman @haicen challenge pissing? :3
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That is correct, it was a comic illustration done by sicklyhypnos that appeared in the Oh Joy Sex Toy webcomic about watersports.
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@hlieberman @haicen Either watersports, or rolling around in a vat of nachos and cheese.
... NTTAWWT.
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@haicen well, props to the artist for clearly communicating what this WAS about before the text was replaced, I have no doubts 😂
@haicen oh, yes. This last year we needed to fix that kind of vulnerability on a codebase that evolved over 25 years.
I think I'm gonna start putting them in penetration test writeups XD
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that implies the existence of a type of lesbian called yurilock,,,
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Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP
In response to the GPG.Fail attacks, a Hacker News user made this claim about the 64-bit "Long Key IDs" used by OpenPGP and GnuPG, while responding to an answer I gave to someone else's question: OK, to be clear, I am specifically contending that a key fingerprint does not include collisions. My proof is empirical, that no one has come up with an attack on 64 bit PGP key fingerprints.
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Practical Collision Attack Against Long Key IDs in PGP - Dhole Moments
In response to the GPG.Fail attacks, a Hacker News user made this claim about the 64-bit “Long Key IDs” used by OpenPGP and GnuPG, while responding to an answer I gave to someone else…Dhole Moments
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GPG...
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I remember reading that comment and thinking 'yikes'.
@growse I have upofadown blocked on most forums because of their immensely stupid takes.
But I cannot block Hacker News users, so, I do this instead.
also wait you are aware that this has been done before? we actually used one of those for testing one of the potential bugs lmao
@49016 lmao no I didn't even bother to look because it's so fucking trivial
> The full attack took about 3 days on a laptop, running in the background while I was doing other work.
@soatok Only tangentially related: this reminds me so much of a Matt Parker video, where computing unique Wordle-esque sequences using unoptimized Python on a spare laptop took 30 days. youtube.com/watch?v=_-AfhLQfb6…
IMO, unless speed of an algorithm is paramount, correct-but-slower code will get the job done just fine. In Matt Parker's case, someone did hilariously get it down to milliseconds lol
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I remember going to a key signing party and rattling off, 1, 2, 3, 4 *crowd gets nervous*, 5, 6 *small giggles*, 7, 8 "no way"....
And there was back in like 2002
not that I really use gpg at all but one of my key ids is 71ff71ff (yiff yiff)
64 bit collision? I forgot how to count that low.
Like seriously, that's "find a multi collision" territory.
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@sophieschmieg Full fingerprints (since it's SHA1) might be more fun!
we've already done SHA1 fingerprint collisions, but I guess that was for ASN.1 certs and not PGP keys.
Here's one with an example using PGP keys: sha-mbles.github.io/
Bonus: The Private Keys
Ahhh! Thank you, I needed one but didn't know how to generate that by myself ^^
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Oh god, I remember hearing that on a TV show and I can't remember where it's from
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Is it Jimmy Carr?
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I guess not the nicest ones of the trend, but they're something
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Mastodon character limit is such a weird concept and useless and pointless I can't believe is still there. People who want to say more than a paragraph need to split it into "threads"...insane!
Look:
How the fuck you get to read and interact with a post divided into tens of comments.....
This is silly as fuck people.
If you have no character limit, guess what, you can still make short posts. But not vice-versa.
It is beyond me why this is still a thing in 2025. Artificial limitations.
Man I LOVE Friendica! A proper way to make posts and interact with people. And yet not many are aware of Friendica and how awesome it is.
@Meredith Whittaker you should either move to a Mastodon instance without character limitation or try Friendca. You can even use our node social.trom.tf - and that's for anyone else who is bothered by this artificial limitation of Mastodon.
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maybe because limits have some benefits: it is interesting finding ways to express ideas in concise way. Also makes messages clearer for readers when things are short.
But my mastodon instance in particular have very high limit set, basically unlimited ☺️ So I believe its a choice to limit or not by instance admin.
But my mastodon instance in particular have very high limit set, basically unlimited ☺️ So I believe its a choice to limit or not by instance admin.
I've heard this argument that it may force people to be more concise...idk if true, I've seen many silly short posts, maybe it incentivizes to post a lot more just because you need to make short posts only. In any case users should have control over this when they want to make big posts. Else they end up posting a massive thread of posts basically, which is super hard to follow and engage with. Terrible.
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the Mastodon instance can configure the character limit to be longer. It is so annoying to tell people who have never tried Mastodon before that you should check the character limits on the instance you choose to join because that could make your life easier or harder if you like writing long posts. Yet another inconsistency that people have to be aware about which complicates use of the software.
The Mastodon software should have a million character limit and instead offer a separate window in which to view long posts, and otherwise only show the first paragraph by default.
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Yeah I don't like the fact that my Mastodon instance has a character limit. But I also have an account on Friendica to post long stuff when I want to, so that's how I manage.....
Yeah I don't like the fact that my Mastodon instance has a character limit. But I also have an account on Friendica to post long stuff when I want to, so that's how I manage.....
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@Tio @Meredith Whittaker Yeah, as a neurodiverse person I really struggle to read long "threaded" posts. Something about the UI visual divisions causes my working memory to stack dump as I move between each chunk, making it take 4X as long for me to read it and to lose context badly. My brain over here trying to hold each post in working memory like the "why cant i hold all these limes" guy meme. 😆 It's miserable.
One thing I use Mastodon for is #WatchParty joinfediverse.wiki/Watch_party
e.g. following & posting "live" to hashtags like #Monsterdon while watching a film
I asked #Mastodon if #Fediverse platforms like #Friendica, #Sharkey were suitable for that but didn't get an answer
I created a Sharkey account & found out no, no good for watch parties (you can put hashtags in "antennas" but that only gives you a tiny, random-seeming selection of posts with the tags)
What about Friendica?
It totally depends how connected with the rest of the Friendica that node is....that's all it matters. You can try our instance social.trom.tf and see how it goes.
Bah! Humbug! If someone wants to prattle on ad nauseam, may I introduce them to a "blog."
Keep short form short and sweet. 
Provide options for people to choose: short or long format. Easy.
"if an admin can extend the post size limit in Mastodon then that's a cool feature"
I learned it is not a feature to extend post size limit in Mastodon, but a hardcoded value in code, which is very difficult to change depending on deployment method, but possible. They should make this a feature.
And talking about friendica, it looks outdated (the original theme), which does not provide overall confidence, if comparing to new highly extensible, innovative and beautiful bonfire (for example, a flavor of it for scientists: openscience.network/)
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Meanwhile in Ireland, a cultural Basic Income (focussed on artists) has moved from pilot to sustained policy, with the confirmation of an ongoing programme of awarding 2,000 artists €18k per annum.
Interestingly the cost of the programme was less than the benefits to the Irish economy, and the artists in receipt of funds were able to switch earnings from non-art activities to work related to their art practice.
A more general lesson here for UBI?
#UBI #workers
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Ireland Is Making Basic Income for Artists Program Permanent
Several years after launching a trial, Ireland is set to make its basic income for artists program permanent starting in 2026.Harrison Jacobs (ARTnews.com)
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I was going to use the phrase 'avoid it like the plague' but, given recent years, I suspect the literal meaning of that is 'make a small token effort to avoid it, unless doing so would impact the economy or cause inconvenience'.
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Now livestreaming at joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics and for Patreon donors on our Discord server which you can join at toplesstopics.org/chat ! Today's project is to draw some "erotic fanart" from whatever fictional media franchise I'm currently obsessed with--maybe some Genshin Impact Gooner Pin-ups, maybe some giantess fetish Lady D art from Resident Evil! Come hang out and see!
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RE: dragonscave.space/@talon/11529…Can I quote myself? How's this work?
Quotes made it over here now. Neat I guess.
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There are people who hate art precisely because its value isn’t tied to utility or productivity.
We call them Philistines.
Philistines only crave comfort—technology, convenience, consumption. The idea that art might make you a better person offends them. Even worse if the art doesn’t flatter them.
What defines a Philistine is their demand that art serve an immediate function. If it doesn’t, they dismiss it as worthless.
I only knew Philistines as meaning from bible studies (raised Christian, i'm non-practicing). It's very narrow-minded to be that today!
It's a very fitting label for the people who also dislike literature and music too (as apparently creative writing and some forms of music, according to them, serve no use other than "entertainment")
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@Crissy There’s a book that goes into this in far more detail called Revolt of the Masses by José Ortega y Gasset, written just before the Spanish Civil War. He called Philistines by another name: mass-men.
The idea behind this book is that mass-men and authoritarianism go hand-in-hand. And I would agree. Elon Musk, for example, is the consummate mass-man. He has no appreciation for aesthetics beyond utility, spectacle, or status.
This, by the way, is why the Cybertruck is so awful.
thanks for sharing about the book & concept of mass men.
What's wonderful (and antithesis to the Cybertruck's shock value and hideous looks) is the Porsche 911, which balances performance with aesthetic coherence developed over decades of refinement!
My takeaway from learning about this is genuine excellence, thoughtful design, and authentic human connection is possible when we are being respectful and kind to all.
Which also raisesCritical Questions for #FediCollective and #PeerTube co-op like
1. How do we build businesses that serve mass markets without adopting mass man values?
2. Can technology be designed to elevate rather than reduce human experience?
3. What's the entrepreneur's responsibility to resist the race to the bottom in taste and standards?
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Entire neighborhoods are being wiped off the map — home by home, street by street.
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There are no hospitals left. No aid. No safe zones.
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What’s happening in North Gaza is not just a humanitarian crisis.
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Now livestreaming at joystick.tv/u/toplesstopics while I show the hypocrisy of gender-based censorship by drawing areolas on sexy female game and anime characters that ALMOST already show their breasts!
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Hello Fediverse I want to make a short announcement about the social.trom.tf Friendica instance run by my friend @tio
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Unknown parent • • •@gatesvp Have a look for yourself.
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Is it a lunch box? Is it a portable typewriter? Is it a ballistic missile control console?
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in reply to Chris Trottier • • •I don't want to imagine it. That sounds terrible. That's not civilized at all.
I'd rather imagine sitting down at a hackerspace. The room is full of crusty old Thinkpads and other weird and obscure hardware. Retro-futurism. Cyberpunk RGB LEDs everywhere.
This fits right in.
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