yaboyeric @yaboyeric@ericmerlock.social
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Still trying to figure out federated social media. Lost in the blogosphere.
Joined Aug 2020
Whoops, killed my mastodon server by trying to upgrade. Had to rollback by 3 days. (Right after adding more storage to my VM and fixing it being down for months). Hopefully I don't make the same mistake twice.
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PixelFed is the Fediverse's alternative to Instagram. You can follow the project at:
➡️ @pixelfed
PixelFed accounts can be followed from Mastodon, and vice versa.
You can find instances to join at https://pixelfed.org/join
The project's website is at https://pixelfed.org
You can also self-host, or you can get managed hosting from SpaceBear at https://app.spacebear.ee
#PixelFed #Instagram #Alternatives #Fediverse #ActivityPub #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre #Photos #Photography #Art #SelfHosting
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Signal created targeted ads for Instagram that show the personal data that Facebook collects about you and sells access to.
They were blocked.
https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/
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Ah, the OpenSSL 1.1.1 advisory for CVE-2021-3450 and CVE-2021-3449 is now out officially:
How does one focus on an idea to actually bring to market?
What's up with to-do apps
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what kind of idiot uses a reserved key word as an attribute
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No one should be imprisoned or executed based on secret evidence that cannot be fairly evaluated for its reliability, and the ruling in this case will help prevent that injustice.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/no-secret-evidence-our-courts
Vanilla JS reference site continues to be one of my favorites.
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lol remember when Voatz tried to win brownie points with the infosec community by presenting at Defcon
RT @tarah@twitter.com
When it comes to attempts by @Voatz@twitter.com to disrupt democracy with blockchain voting, “Elections are not a market, they are a public good” I tell @Chitra_Ragavan@twitter.com in @swaaymedia@twitter.com. https://swaay.com/is-secure-online-voting-too-good-to-be-true
Data caps are a scam.
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I'm just thinking about this blog post I wrote in 2018. Because even when Twitter makes a good decision, the first sentence comes to mind: Why does the entire world have to wait on the CEO of one US company to make a decision?
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/03/twitter-is-not-a-public-utility/
I'm finally seeing toots that have been posted more recently. I think the biggest issue around doing a root cause analysis is that I do not know where to look to see why the problem happened in the first place. My best guess is that I let my SSL cert expire and it took a while for everything to get set right after I got certbot to refresh my cert. Oh well. Glad it's working again.
Haven't seen a toot since middle of November. Hosting your own instance is not a piece of cake, is it?
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Last week, Google announced its own VPN service. Trusting Google's VPN would be like trusting a VPN from the NSA. Here's why giving Google direct access to all your online activity is a terrible idea: https://protonvpn.com/blog/google-vpn/
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For EFF's 30th anniversary, we've opened our vault of classic member t-shirts: https://supporters.eff.org/shop/apparel https://t.co/PXID6zxIjq
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you fucking assclowns ... you absolute donkeys
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, GOOGLE?!?!?!?
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@ItsMorgan I dutifully accept every free game on he Epic Games store and never play any of them
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epic games is great, they give me so many free games. i have no respect for them
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Still trying to figure out federated social media. Lost in the blogosphere.
Joined Aug 2020
