Ethan Black @golemwire@librem.one

I miss the time where no one branded themselves on the internet.

When people were just their goofy selves and didn’t take everything so seriously.

When social media was a public square and not pay-to-play arena.

When it paid to be human rather than some marketed version of human.

But everyone I’ve seen do this gets pushed out.

Because that sort of content doesn’t pay and money runs the world… maybe mastodon can evade this 🤞

Fascinating story: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/07/privacy-loophole-ring-doorbell-00084979

At first the police just wanted two hours of footage from this guy's doorbell Ring cam.

"It was just the beginning.

They asked for more footage, now from the entire day’s worth of records. And a week later, Larkin received a notice from Ring itself: The company had received a warrant, signed by a local judge. The notice informed him it was obligated to send footage from more than 20 cameras — whether or not Larkin was willing to share it himself."

Enjoy your daily cat!

#CatsOfMastodon #caturday #jbotcats

I do not want Slack to provide a probabilistic summary of what I said. I don't want notion to guess what I'm going to say. I want to choose my words with clarity and precision in mind, and if people want me to take the time to read what they've written I would hope that they've taken the time to choose their words too

And I really want to take my words out of training data sets

You don't need separate accounts to interact with different kinds of Fediverse servers.

For example, if you have a Mastodon account you can follow PeerTube accounts such as @theatticdwellers or @alliterative and their videos will appear in your Mastodon timeline as if they were Mastodon posts.

If you reply to a PeerTube video within Mastodon, the reply will also appear as a comment below that video on PeerTube. (And comments made on PeerTube will appear as replies on Mastodon.)

Our in-development COSMIC DE is looking beautiful.

@caseynewton Dang... we don't need Meta competing with the Fediverse. I say *competing*, because it is probably going to be a closed network, if not immediately, then eventually.

Friday Funnies – March 10, 2023 Edition https://chia.owly.net/friday-funnies-march-10-2023-edition/

The people who have been developing OVOS are attempting to establish a nonprofit organization to continue development of their open source voice assistant. OVOS is derived from Mycroft, but with Mycroft AI's recent difficulties has become more of a fork. Other projects such as Neon use OVOS as a base. If you've got a couple spare pennies to rub together they could really use the help in keeping open source voice assistants around.

https://www.gofundme.com/f/openvoiceos

As it's #Mar10 day, here are some #Nintendo related accounts to follow:

➡️ @nindiespotlight - Indie games on Nintendo Switch

➡️ @splatoon - All about Splatoon

➡️ @FrankenGraphics - Creating new NES games

➡️ @pnintendo - French language Nintendo news site

➡️ @nintendojofr - Another French language Nintendo news site

➡️ @NintendoLeSite - ...and another French language Nintendo news site

➡️ @nintendo_online - German language Nintendo news site

➡️ @snescast - German language podcast about the SNES

Do you want to display a Mastodon account's public posts filtered by hashtag?

There's a way to do it using their profile page's web address:

1. Go to the account's original page on the web (more info: https://fedi.tips/what-are-original-pages-in-mastodon/)
2. Copy the original page's web address
3. Add /tagged/(hashtag, but without the #) on the end of that address

So, for example, if you wanted to see posts on my account tagged with #Pixelfed the address would be:

https://mstdn.social/@feditips/tagged/pixelfed

From Spurgeon today:

Quietness seems essential to many spiritual operations; ...

baby donkey zoomies!