ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Google introduces end-to-end encryption for Gmail on the web https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-introduces-end-to-end-encryption-for-gmail-on-the-web/ Baby steps, but in the right directions for sure.

It’s never not going to be funny that after years of hype about crypto-metaverse-subscriptions disrupting web2 incumbents, the backstop to Twitter’s sudden implosion was volunteers recreating Usenet with RSS.

Whilst Mastodon has been suspended from #Twitter, it had been trending all day.
That only ever works out for #Mastodon. 🖖
Welcome new Mastodonian’s. 🖖🖖🖖
#twitterexodus
#twittermigration

Want to work on Mastodon full time? I’d like to pay a Rails dev for the next 3+ months to implement some auth improvements that matter to me but also just burn down bugs, make perf improvements, whatever is needed as this place grows. Remote 100% ok but ideally need 1+ hrs of Pacific time zone overlap, 3+hrs of GMT overlap, fair pay, meaningful work. [edit: email info@moth.social to discuss more] #fedihire #ruby #rails #job

Houston, we have a problem. (!!!)

Heavy Metals Found in Dark Chocolate Including Hershey's and Trader Joe's

"...Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate 72% Cacao holding (lead) 192% more [than what California allows (0.5 micrograms for lead and 4.1 micrograms for cadmium)]..."

#DarkChocolate #Chocolate #TraderJoes #HeavyMetals #LeadPoisoning

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dark-chocolate-metals-lead-consumer-reports-hersheys-trader-joes/#app

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse

🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse

🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

freedom of speech as long as the speech is flattering to me

If you’re going to leave Twitter, please don’t
a) delete your account, because someone bad will steal your handle
b) delete your Tweets, because their existence doesn’t help Elon and it’s like burning the Library of Alexandria.

Twitter captures a real-time historical record of a couple of decades and the billions of individuals’ snapshots are irreplaceable.

The thought of all those tweets being erased makes me feel physically sick.

[please pass on if you agree.]

5/🧵 Mastodon and the broader Fediverse work using a protocol called ActivityPub.

If you're interested in how that works from a technical perspective, a good place to start is https://tinysubversions.com/notes/reading-activitypub/ by @darius

If you're curious about where that tech goes next, follow @cwebber who is CTO at @spritelyinst working on awesome stuff like https://github.com/ocapn/ocapn

#welcome #welcometomastodon

I put @tomgauld's brilliant new comic for @newscientist alongside Ibn Al-Rabin's masterpiece “Le Verbe Prophétique” as demonstrating the ways you can do things in comics seemingly simple yet bewilderingly complex that can only be done in comics.
#comics

I will continue to run an ADS-B receiver in my window to track planes in my community using public, open source broadcasts, as I have been doing for almost a decade. Plane tracking is protected by the First Amendment and has facilitated many news stories.

If I get my account back, will I stay on Twitter? Unless Elon Musk makes a dramatic course change, I don't know why anyone—journalist or otherwise—would feel comfortable investing a single tweet into the hands of this volatile totalitarian. I won't delete my Twitter account, but Mastodon is home going forward.

Stages of getting into a new research thing

1. No one has thought of this
2. Oh, some people have, but it’s not exactly the same
3. Oh, it’s exactly the same
4. OMG, everyone already knows about this, but they all call it something different