Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

Twitter learned, and Reddit is fast learning, that people are not addicted to the platform, they’re addicted to the community they found there. Ruin the community, and people will leave the platform. It really is that simple.

My dad is talking about buying tickets for his church fundraiser, a raffle where the prize is a basket of lottery tickets of uncertain face value, and now I’m having flashbacks to first-year micro

It's normal to have a favorite index entry, right? #index

24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock.
Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h #nature #wonder #earth

I wrote about how Reddit’s years of making users responsible for content creation, moderation, and product development came back to haunt it today. https://www.platformer.news/p/reddit-goes-dark

Shhhrrrr-Shrrr-Shrrrr

#reddit #krita #MastoArt #humanart

✨ Import from Instagram

Now available! 🥳

PR: https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/pull/4466

Docs: https://pixelfed.social/site/kb/import

Thanks again to @NGIZero for funding this amazing feature! #instagramImport

I'm not sure what a good life in software is, but I'd start with:

- Make things that are good for everyone
- Build for the least among us
- Maintain more than you displace
- Your impact is never the sum of your personal efforts, so make others better

TIL: there is someone who has made it their mission for years to eradicate the phrase “comprised of” from Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Giraffedata/comprised_of

https://www.npr.org/2015/03/12/392568604/dont-you-dare-use-comprised-of-on-wikipedia-one-editor-will-take-it-out

State Dept official: Western exports of microchips/electronics to Russia are back to pre-invasion levels

European companies sell to companies in Turkey, Kazakhstan, Georgia, the UAE and Armenia, which then turn around and sell the items to Russia
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-better-evading-western-sanctions-electronics-war-ukraine/

Elon Musk Says Twitter Is Going To Get Rid Of The Block Feature, Enabling Greater Harassment (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/06/09/elon-musk-says-twitter-is-going-to-get-rid-of-the-block-feature-enabling-greater-harassment/
http://www.memeorandum.com/230610/p60#a230610p60

So yeah, thanks @scott, this is very cool...

Electric bicycles (and trikes) are displacing more barrels of oil than all other electric vehicles... combined. >>> https://carfree.city/@scott/110515609281961933

Check out @ClimateMigration for more #climate and #ClimateScience

I'm riding 130km to raise money for MS Queensland tomorrow. I'm only just short of $3000 raised. Please put in a little more and help me get over the line https://www.brissietothebay.com.au/fundraisers/johnquiggin/brissie-to-the-bay

Scotsman walks into a bar in Canada, and there’s a huge stuffed head on the wall.

‘What’s that?' He asks.

‘It’s a moose', comes the reply.

"Christ! How big are the cats around here?"

@marcoarment @siracusa

I learned so many neat things about #GNOME, #FlatHub and #endless in this interview with @BrodieOnLinux and @ramcq

I'd love to see more OSS developers linking up with content creators and telling their stories, there's so much to learn from in this interview!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkVXCZY_wTI

A while back, I stumbled upon a file I consider the largest piece of evidence revealing how hundreds of data brokers trade personal data on everyone, including super-sensitive data, globally.

Massive investigation by US-based @themarkup and German @netzpolitik_feed, I think this is a must-read for everyone interested in the future of digital technology:
https://themarkup.org/privacy/2023/06/08/from-heavy-purchasers-of-pregnancy-tests-to-the-depression-prone-we-found-650000-ways-advertisers-label-you

PSA, if someone asks you for contact info (e.g. a phone number) of someone you know, the correct response is "I can't give that to you, but I can give them yours".

It's efficient and adds no round-trips, it's privacy friendly, it's non-awkward and it's social engineering resistant. It's a universally good rule.

And the corollary, of course: Don't ask someone for another person's contact info - ask them to pass on yours.