Marc Madness @marcmadness@librem.one

Hi there! This is ACM, the world's largest computing society. As you might have noticed, we have opened not only our official #Mastodon account but also our own #instance!

Please consider joining @mastodon.acm.org, a community for #computing researchers & practitioners to connect & exchange ideas with each other, whether you are an ACM member or not.

You can use this link to join: https://mastodon.acm.org/invite/FbXaxAHg

Spread the word with your friends and colleagues! Happy tooting!

Libadwaita keeps getting better! With Libadwaita, it easier to build great-looking apps, this has also meant that most new apps are adaptive from the start. Here is a list of some great apps

https://puri.sm/posts/libadwaita-in-the-wild/?mtm_campaign=promo&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-libadwaita-in-the-wild

It is very weird that there is a widespread, confident and wholly incorrect belief that the "unlisted" setting on Mastodon can be used to hide the posts in a thread.

This is completely untrue.

Unlisted toots are hidden from people on your own instance who DON'T follow you.

If you follow someone, you will see their posts, even if they're unlisted.

Arguably, unlisting *should* work the way it is said to, but it absolutely does not.

Jingle Bells
Shopping’s hell
Must avoid the malls
Buy some merch from Effin’ Birds
Or get kicked in the balls
Check out our entire holiday collection for some great gift ideas! https://www.effinbirds.com/collections/holiday-collection

... And it's still not as old as yo'mama.

#YoMamaSaturdays

In case you're wondering why #RaspberryPi is making the rounds:

The makers of the computer that can be made into a near-infinite# of unassuming devices, has hired a man whose expertise is hiding #Surveillance gear inside unassuming devices.

That in itself is understandable (he's a maker), but so is user concern.

Instead of addressing that concern, RasPi started blocking & mocking anybody who questioned the new hire.

...

IOW: RasPi is now Mastodon's first-ever real "Person of the Week"

Shared by my Daughter
"I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are"

In response to "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear"

@c0debabe

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead'; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/07/luck-of-the-irish/

#Pluralistic

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Especially our peeps from Trek Twitter seem to be having trouble finding others from other servers, so how about we make this a #StarTrek roll call post, where everybody reply with a 🖖🏻 or something similar, so others can see and find you. And please make sure to boost the heck out of this.

Does anybody else think that a private corporation managing the communications infrastructure (and holding the cryptological keys) for systems that will be transmitting above-top-secret data is a terrible, TERRIBLE idea? 🤔

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/05/spacex-unveils-starshield-a-military-variation-of-starlink-satellites.html

I'm hosting a webinar about trust and safety on the fediverse this Thursday, Dec 8th at 12pm Eastern. It's an introduction to the state of content moderation and community safety here.

I hope it will be useful to people at civil society organizations who have perhaps heard about Mastodon and the fediverse and would like to know more about where there are gaps in funding and services, and places where orgs could potentially help augment what's already happening.

RSVP: https://meedan.com/event/webinar-trust-and-safety-on-the-fediverse

ꜱᴇʟᴇᴄᴛ * ɪɴᴛᴇʀᴇᴛ

Me: No serial killer would ever lure me into their murder van. I'm too smart for that.

Murderer:

2022 Microsoft Teams Unwrapped

You spent 4,182 minutes talking on mute.
You attended 15,011 meetings that could have been an email
You visibly nodded thoughtfully at totally implausible ideas 623 times

People have no problem singing "Jingle All the Way" as a way to express their merriment.

... but I sing THE MORE GRAMATICALLY CORRECT "Jingle to completion" and everybody stares at me like I just stole Christmas.

** English is a weird language

🎄

Folks, this is bad news. Very, very bad. Hackers and/or malicious insiders have leaked the platform certificates of several vendors. These are used to sign system apps on Android builds, including the "android" app itself. These certs are being used to sign malicious Android apps!

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/apvi/issues/detail?id=100

Some of the same people who rabidly protested vaccines because they believed it would implant a microchip in their heads

... Are now fanatically cheering that Elon Mush is ready to put a microchip in their heads.

Fuck sexism. Support women in tech.

When people travel to the past, they worry about radically changing the present by doing something small.

Few people think that they can radically change the future by doing something small in the present.

This is the only real time travel paradox.