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alex, 9 months ago to random

I have never felt so vindicated. I battled to call them "reposts" instead of "respins", "boosts", or whatever other dumb thing. Simplicity has won. The RETWEET IS DEAD! ☠️ ☠️ ☠️ 🐦

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alex, 8 months ago to random

Mom can we get trees
We have trees at home

alex, 9 months ago to random

Waffle cones with chocolate lining are an example of great design. The added chocolate is structural, ie it prevents liquid ice cream from leaking out of the cone. At the same time, it also enhances the experience, and creates a tasty and satisfying conclusion to your cone. We should learn from this.

alex, 3 months ago to random

Something exciting today. It's now possible to zap on the Fediverse! ⚡ ⚡ ⚡ You can zap users on Nostr! You can zap users on Mastodon/Pleroma/ActivityPub! Let the sats flow!!!

https://soapbox.pub/blog/mostr-zaps/

Check it out and get set up to send and receive MONEY across the Fediverse for your shitposts.

This works thanks to the Mostr Bridge + Zapple Pay, an amazing result of Apple banning zaps on Damus. Who would have thought?

Enjoy!

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alex, 7 months ago to random

Discord users be like:

alex, 10 months ago to random

Now that's security.

alex, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

The AI wars have begun.

Proof: https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1712479655956279712

EDIT: See update: https://gleasonator.com/@alex/posts/AajHxvX0XrXHZrxhdA

alex, 8 months ago to random

They were not too far off tbh.

alex, 11 months ago to random

Woke up to racists bullying Linus Torvalds, lol wtf

alex, 10 months ago to random

Elon Musk is retarded.

alex, 3 months ago to random

How computer storage works. Love videos like this.

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alex, 8 months ago to random

On this evening of September 11, I am pleased to announce that I have tagged a Ditto alpha1 release and deployed it to https://gleasonator.dev

Ditto LIVES. Here's what you need to know:

• It's Soapbox on Nostr.
• Ditto pretends to be a Mastodon server while using the Nostr protocol.
• You can use Mastodon apps other than Soapbox (but you need to obtain a Nostr private key first).
• ActivityPub is not supported yet, but it will be. It's part of what makes Ditto, Ditto.
• Ditto is about building communities on Nostr, similar to ActivityPub.
• Nostr uses private keys. There is still a lot of work to do in Soapbox to improve this experience.
• This is not optimized. Please excuse any slowness or glitches. If something isn't working, try refreshing the page. I will improve this.
• It's still a demo. This is just for poking around, so don't get too attached.

This is just the beginning. alpha1 is just BARELY usable. But I want to get the ball rolling. Things are going to change a lot in both Soapbox and Ditto. These things take time, but we will win. Thank you all for your patience, enthusiasm, and support!

Follow along with #ditto here: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/ditto/-/issues

Enjoy!

alex, 1 month ago to random

Probably the most insane thing I've ever seen.

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alex, 9 months ago to random

Pleroma is full of security vulnerabilities because OnlyFans paid people on Upwork to implement a bunch of features nobody wants.

Have you ever tried downloading an emoji pack from a server? No? Well that's the vulnerable code.

Anyway, hopefully everyone is using s3 for uploads by now and has the dedupe filter enabled.

Patch is being merged into Rebased now: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/rebased/-/merge_requests/263

A patch was ready yesterday but I figured I'd wait til after it landed upstream first.

RT: https://pleroma.soykaf.com/objects/c655af15-7632-41e6-86f3-d06ab5bbb84a

alex, 9 months ago to random

New Pleroma vuln dropped: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/rebased/-/merge_requests/264/diffs

Yes, this is a new one that isn't the same as the one from yesterday.

I don't completely understand the impact of this one, but you need to upgrade your server again. It seems bad but I'm not sure exactly how to exploit it.

alex, 4 months ago to random

It's almost New Year, and in just a few hours Steamboat Willie will enter the public domain: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/disney-to-lose-copyright-of-early-version-of-mickey-mouse/ar-AA1mfxRH

Steamboat Willie was originally going to enter PD in 2004, but Disney got passed the "Mickey Mouse Protection Act" in 1998 to stop that from happening. They extended the length by 20 years, and it is now 20 years later, so Disney is finally forced to swallow what it chewed.

To celebrate this momentous occasion, I present to you "Copying is Not Theft" by @nina :

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alex, 4 months ago to random

Gamefreak: can't make a functional game

Indie devs: open world Pokemon with guns https://store.steampowered.com/app/1623730/Palworld/

alex, 4 months ago to random

Honey I have something to break to you.

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alex, 7 months ago to random

Oui oui.

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alex, 10 months ago to random

If your server is not on at least one fedi blocklist, it's basically not even real.

alex, 5 months ago to random

What the hell? I just learned that Free Speech in this country is a lie. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws