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Yo WTF?? Don't attack mods! That's not how you make Fedi better.

I've heard folx are targeting my friend @markwyner. Don't fucking do that. He's a nice guy, and he's doing thankless work modding for a large server.

If you chase the mods off those servers, then they're going to be wide open to the same fucking Nazis that you're harassing him about. That's like shooting Fedi in the damned foot.

I *really* hope none of my followers are responsible for this. If y'all follow me, then you should know better. For real. I'm embarrassed.

Note: if you want to do something good today, shower Mark with some love for being so quick to ban this Naziβ€”twice. He even closed mas.to's registrations after I asked. That's an example of a good mod, and I'm glad he's here πŸ’ž

@Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

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Siv Jones

thank you both for leading by example what distributed, collaborative moderation looks like. There's a lot of newer fedinerds, myself included, who set up servers for their communities not fully knowing what they'd got themselves into. I think high-visibility, active folks like you are crucial to the health of the fediverse just by existing and being your good selves. I'm grateful for you.
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So I found a tactic that's working in my YouTube comments- thought I'd share.

If someone complains that a software I recommended is "woke", I ask them "what does that mean? Can you say more about that?"

They never say more. They delete their comment instead.

My tactic is to make them say what they mean. They won't.

Because they're cowards.

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So for some reason two of my apps are suddenly switched to French. It wasn't a big deal as I can read it, but it was annoying.

I had my system languages set as follows:

  1. English (Canada)
  2. English (United States)
  3. French (Canada)

I assume it was because these apps didn't have localisations for my first choice, but I don't know why they instead jumped to the third option, skipping the second.

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#MUTUALAID REQUEST

5 months after escaping my abuser, I'm finally getting started w a lawyer who can help protect me & my toddler. The sliding scale fee is $200/hr, which will add up to thousands each month. We also need a car & housing support.

Goal is $6k in the next month πŸ’•

2560/6000

chuffed.org/project/replace-ou…
paypal.me/natoleander
venmo/cashapp natsmith89

Mutual Aid: Help a DV Survivor Get Financially Stable

Leaving is hardβ€”and it's dangerous.
Chuffed
#mutualaid
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Nat

URGENT #MUTUALAID

Bad news: restraining order denied again, meaning it won't be safe to return to our apartment. $1800 needed for lawyer by Tues 11/11, and we'll need several thousand more to safely relocate.

20/1800 11/11 goal
0/6000 Housing goal

chuffed.org/project/replace-ou…
paypal.me/natoleander
venmo/cashapp natsmith89

#MutualAidRequest #helpfolkslive2025 #disabledmutualaid #queermutualaid #queercrowdfund #transmutualaid #transcrowdfund #disabilitymutualaid #disabilitycrowdfund

Mutual Aid: Help a DV Survivor Get Financially Stable

Leaving is hardβ€”and it's dangerous.
Chuffed
#mutualaid #transcrowdfund #MutualAidRequest #transmutualaid #disabilitycrowdfund #queercrowdfund #disabilitymutualaid #queermutualaid #disabledmutualaid #helpfolkslive2025
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The spoonie assistant I had lined up fell through. So looking again to hire someone with executive function and a driver's license to help me:

β€’ Move - pack, organize and decide set up new place.
β€’ Grocery shop, food prep, life management at home.
β€’ Accompanying on appts so I don't get lost and confused when mentally spent.
β€’ Life admin - filling out forms, phone calls (visual/auditory processing issues)

$20/hr 5-10hr/wk #Guelph
Boosts appreciated.
Need help asap.
#fediHire

#FediHire #guelph
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Amazon has invented a new kind of labor travesty: the chickenized reverse centaur. That's a worker who has to foot the bill to outfit a work environment where they nevertheless have no autonomy (chickenization) and whose body is conscripted to act as a peripheral for a digital system (reverse centaur):

pluralistic.net/2023/04/12/alg…

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Pluralistic: Gig apps trap reverse centaurs in wage-stealing Skinner boxes (12 Apr 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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So Katy got a scam text claiming to be Canada Post with an underliverable package. I'm in the process of gathering information to send a report to their registrar's abuse department, but they're doing something clever to cover their tracks that I haven't fully been able to unravel.

For context, here is the link (with spaces added to prevent it from turning into an actual link and being accidentally clicked):

https:// canadapost-postecanadadeliverylivraison .com/canadapost/index.php

When opened from Safari on her phone, it loads a realistic looking phishing site, but when opened from any other browser, it returns an empty (0 bytes) page. I assume this is to hamper attempts to investigate abuse claims (though the domain name is already pretty incriminating).

Since there doesn't appear to be any kind of unique identifier, I assumed this to be some kind of spear phishing attack that was based on her browser's User-Agent string, but when I tell curl to mimic it, I still don't get a result.

Any ideas about how they're doing this?

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Isaac Ji Kuo

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Sensitive content

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In a world where an algorithm is working on programming **you**, right now, to accept complacency, it feels real good to assert control over something minor like "dumping your own ROM" or "ripping your own media".

If someone's pumped about that, don't harsh their buzz by telling them they can get it from a piracy website.

Your snark might make you feel good but if it's diminishing someone else's light, knock that shit off.

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oooh, sound nice. I might look into that. I bought an usb blu-ray reader to dump my collection of media, I wish it was easier. I managed to do it for DVD but not yet for bluray. I have most of a process to dump and encode audio CD, I should look into making it easy to use so I have no excuse to not rip all my collection and re-rip the old ones I have in low quality mp3
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King Naga Calyo Lucere-Delphi

Also learning how to dump your own ROMs or rip your own media is a useful skill to acquire in the event that you have a physical copy of something that can't be found on the places you'd go to yar har.

You might just become the source of preservation of a piece of media, or maybe having that physical copy is now more convenient than trying to yar har online.

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I keep saying it, but I think there needs to be a much more robust cultural conversation about tech and consent where it concerns custodianship over other peoples' data.

If I know details about you such as your contact information, or hold work of yours in trust, how does my own relationship with tech affect and respect that trust?

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Cassandra is only carbon now

Without going fully down the "snitches get stiches" route, what duty do we have to protect the data entrusted to us? How do we exercise that duty when there is such immense difficulty in doing so, primarily because malicious actors have worked very hard to *make* it difficult to uphold that duty? Do we really have a duty to fight the whole world in order to protect our loved ones and peers? If not, what duties *do* we have?
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Cassandra is only carbon now

I don't know of or have any answers here. More I intend this as a kind of consciousness-raising? If you're writing a privacy guide, please consider broadening past the individual reader; if you're in a peer group, try to find ways to model raising these questions.

The default will always, *always* be what malicious actors make sure is the easiest choice β€” full submission and full subversion of community trust.

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It has come to my attention that my favourite jacket is falling apart. I would like to repair it for two reasons:

  1. I love this jacket.
  2. I can't afford a new one right now.


I have no opposition to #VisibleMending.

Suggestions?

Close up of the sleeve of an olive green jacket. The material is frayed and torn just below the seam in the cuff.

#AskFedi #ClothingRepair

#askfedi #visiblemending #ClothingRepair
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Maybe the fact that people are forming emotional connections on genAI chatbots means we have an unmet need for social workers and therapists and in fact should invest more heavily into these fields as a society

Because given the scale of investments on genAI it’s pretty fucking clear we have the money

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Enema Cowboy

My question would be how much someone would pay for me to eat one of these, because I certainly wouldn't do it for free.

theonion.com/hellmann-s-introd…

Hellmann’s Introduces New Meat-On-The-Bottom Mayo Cups

EAGLEWOOD CLIFFS, NJβ€”Describing it as a convenient all-in-one option for consumers in a hurry, Hellmann’s on Thursday unveiled a new meat-on-the-bottom mayo cup.
The Onion Staff (The Onion)

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Huh. I appealed the speed camera ticket online. They sent an email saying that it was being reviewed but nothing else since. Suddenly this morning when I try to check the status of the ticket, it doesn't seem to exist any more.

I don't want to just assume they've waived it, but I don't know what else to make of this. It'd be nice to have some sort of confirmaion.

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Please remember that "Red Tape" is why there's no sawdust in your bread and the nearest river has not actually caught on fire lately.

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We were driving home and suddenly heard a clunk and the battery light on the dash suddenly came on.

Fantastic. We've been driving Instacart to make ends meet. We can't afford a huge repair bill right now. Hopefully it's just the alternator belt that snapped.

This car is 20 years old. It's not like it owes us any favours, but it's still a problem. The one positive thing I can say about this car is that of the two major issues it's had, it's always had the courtesy to break down a couple blocks from home so that we can limp back there and figure out what to do next.

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@πŸ…°πŸ…»πŸ…ΈπŸ…²πŸ…΄ (πŸŒˆπŸ¦„) A question about security pins:

My understanding is that the said pins are the key pins, not the driver pins, so if I'm gentle enough to not over set them, the shape of the pin should be completely irrelevant, right? I mean, they'd only pose a problem if they were pushed beyond the shear line, wouldn't they?

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