@ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

ocdtrekkie

@ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social

Privacy advocate, sysadmin, geek. Born and raised on the mean streets of the Chicago suburbs. Contributor to the Sandstorm self-hosting project.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

virtualbri, to movies
@virtualbri@mastodon.online avatar

Regular reminder that there should be an Oscar for stunts and the John Wick should have one several of them

#Movies #JohnWick4 #Oscars

ocdtrekkie,
@ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

@virtualbri I still haven't seen 4 yet but I need to. I am not really surprised at all Reeves and the productions he's in are not remotely kidding about safety.

Migueldeicaza, to random
@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social avatar

Where are the Palestinian supporting accounts on this server?

ocdtrekkie,
@ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

@Migueldeicaza Well @QasimRashid for one!

QasimRashid, to random
@QasimRashid@mastodon.social avatar

It costs ~$70 to produce a year’s supply of insulin. Yet, the average annual cost of insulin went from $2,864 in 2012 to $5,705 in 2016 to $18,000 in 2024. That’s a 25,714% markup.😳

That isn’t inflation. It isn’t supply chain issues. It is 100% corporate greed.

ocdtrekkie,
@ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

@QasimRashid There's nothing better for business than when customers literally have to buy your product no matter the price in order to not die!

josh, to random
@josh@josh.tel avatar

deleted_by_author

    •
    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @josh If the OSI was focused on making open source sustainable and not playing defense for Amazon, we wouldn't be where we are with what is rapidly becoming the entirety of open source infrastructure.

    Do not blame the open source companies the OSI failed, blame the company that forced them all here, while being the OSI's second biggest sponsor.

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @josh Amazon is also a profitable company. Which companies were open sourcing their products though? Redis, Mongo, Elastic? Or Amazon?

    How is an organization that has chosen to firmly plant its feet in protecting Amazon's business good for spreading open source? How many open source products have to die at the altar of the OSI's unwillingness to seriously talk about a license Amazon can't exploit?

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @josh And to be very clear, Amazon can only win with these products because it can bundle them with completely proprietary solutions while also contributing absolutely nothing back to the commons.

    How is the OSI protecting the commons when the literal only victim of strong copyleft like SSPL is the company that refuses to contribute to that commons and massively exploits to spread proprietary lock-in?

    Viss, to random
    @Viss@mastodon.social avatar

    maybe, and hear me out here because i know this is a tall order, maybe ... dont run facebooks code on your phone.

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @Viss I swear this entire story got played out back five years ago. Didn't Apple revoke both Facebook and Google enterprise certs over these spyware apps for a bit?

    https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/googles-also-peddling-a-data-collector-through-apples-back-door/

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @Viss Ah... and now I see this is about... five years ago. Ha.

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @Viss Yeah I see that now. I'm just saying it was well-known they did it back in 2019, it's just that now we know one of the ways they used it.

    cliffwade, (edited ) to mastodon
    @cliffwade@allthingstech.social avatar

    I want to share this publicly, as I feel there are other admins out there that might want to see it and possibly chime in here as well.

    https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/112163544709115656

    @FediTips which is the same person(s) who own/run @FediGarden has confirmed to the DM's they have sent.

    I've provided some feedback for them, and would love to see other admins do the same possibly.

    @britt @Whiskeyomega @beardedtechguy

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @cliffwade @britt Yep, the correct answer to this nonsense is "go pound sand". FediTips goal here is to pressure people to do what they would do.

    You aren't suddenly "not a kind server" because you have friends or family you want to talk to on Threads... but don't want to have to use Threads to talk to them.

    shibacomputer, to random
    @shibacomputer@post.lurk.org avatar

    lol

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @DavidDarnes @shibacomputer @timotheegoguely Oh no. 😥

    mcc, to random
    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar

    THE "ELEMENT" ANDROID APP: Oh hey, you had a notification.

    ME: Oh cool, what was it?

    THE "ELEMENT" ANDROID APP: What?

    ME: What?

    THE "ELEMENT" ANDROID APP: What?

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @mcc It'd be nice if "Mark as read" worked on mobile. Or if anything involving threads in Matrix rooms actually worked even slightly intuitively.

    taylorlorenz, to random
    @taylorlorenz@mastodon.social avatar

    Most people panic about political deepfakes, but 98% of deepfakes are porn, and 99% of those targeted are women/girls.

    Companies profit by facilitating this abuse toward women, Google directs traffic to these sites, and the female victims of these attacks have no recourse https://nyti.ms/3PwNOGs

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @taylorlorenz The article points exactly at the problem: Section 230. As long as tech companies can't be held liable, they're not going to fix it. It makes them too much money.

    GoodAaron, to StarTrek
    @GoodAaron@mastodon.social avatar

    I like #startrek.

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @GoodAaron Wasn't sure about that, glad you clarified! I too, like Star Trek!

    charlesrandall, to random
    @charlesrandall@grumble.social avatar

    hello federation admins, is there an updated list of known servers that meta will use to federate?

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @shanie @charlesrandall The notion that the fedi has all this "juicy" data when the fedi was designed to be relatively privacy-protecting from the get-go and Meta has literally hundreds of millions of users running their invasive software directly is... sort of silly.

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @charlesrandall @shanie I look at it as providing an escape hatch. I feel like a lot of people would leave Facebook platforms but feel like they can't because someone they need to follow is there.

    If people can get their must-haves from proprietary social on ethical social, they have a path to move here.

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @charlesrandall @shanie I mean, IMHO if you want to block anything, you should block it, but I find the idea Zuck is salivating at the idea of getting access to your toots is patently silly. Federating for them is almost certainly about antitrust and DMA compliance, with a tint of "if we're the first big company here we have an advantage" probably.

    chris, to random

    Remote interactions from fediverse servers are called out separately in Activity, and you can see how many other servers your content traveled to.

    This is even better than on Mastodon!

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @jenniferplusplus @chris At this stage, yeah. I think the "x stars from y servers" thing is neat, but software like Mastodon deliberately doesn't want to hype engagement numbers so I think it's reasonable or unsurprising that Mastodon wouldn't do this and Threads absolutely would.

    tubetime, to random
    @tubetime@mastodon.social avatar

    fun fact! the numbers in coin cell part numbers are dimensions. a CR2025 is 20mm diameter and 2.5mm thick!

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @tubetime 🤯

    sakurajima, to random
    @sakurajima@sakurajima.moe avatar

    We recommend suspending theblab.org. It basically describes itself as “a place for gab refugees, s***posters, and friends” and “ place for refugees of places that claim to be free speech..”

    The admin’s profile is filled with hate speech and the such as the admin boosts pretty hateful content.

    #fediblock

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @moira @waitworry @sakurajima Getting punted from Gab has to be... impressive. Not in a good way, but impressive anyways.

    gruber, to random
    @gruber@mastodon.social avatar

    Merrick Garland has bungled the January 6 insurrection case against Trump so badly that Trump’s likely not to face trial before the election, which, if he wins, will render everything moot and put the very idea of American democracy at the gravest risk it's ever faced.

    But he's got the green bubbles thing covered.

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @gruber You are really this sour about your pet monopoly getting sued? Like, I'm an iPhone user because there's literally no actual other options, but anyone who doesn't understand they are breaking the law either doesn't understand the law or is getting paid not to.

    mcc, to random
    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar

    Here is a product called "Veggie Love" from an establishment named "Leaf Doner". Tell me if there is anything that stands out as unusual to you about it

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @mcc This is liking leaves too much.

    QasimRashid, to random
    @QasimRashid@mastodon.social avatar

    Last night, the result didn’t go our way. We are disappointed, but not regretful. It has truly been a privilege to run in the district in which I grew up. Each of you trusted in me, and I will be forever grateful. Because you have made all the difference.

    I don't have the words to express my gratitude to each of you, but let me try by sharing some thoughts...

    1/7

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @QasimRashid Just promise us it won't be the last time you run for office.

    mcc, to random
    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar

    I'm going to ask a very naive question:

    Say I have two devices manufactured in the last four years (by Lenovo and BeagleBoard, if it matters). Each has a physical Ethernet port.

    At one time, say 2001, my understanding was there are two types of Ethernet cable: Regular, and "Crossover". "Crossover" cables go device-to-device; regular cables require an intermediary like a hub.

    Is my 2001 understanding accurate in 2024? Should I expect I can connect 2 modern devices with a regular cable?

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @mcc @whitequark It's one of the rare cases I think we can legitimately say technology actually got inherently better without a downside.

    mcc, (edited ) to random
    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar

    Give me the name of a shapeshifting spaceship from a sci fi. Any sci fi

    EDIT: Okay you can stop, I now have an adequate sample size. Thanks

    ocdtrekkie,
    @ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social avatar

    @aeva @mcc The Prometheus also has two different canonical registry numbers because :production errors:.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • JUstTest
  • cisconetworking
  • DreamBathrooms
  • khanakhh
  • magazineikmin
  • mdbf
  • Youngstown
  • everett
  • slotface
  • ngwrru68w68
  • rosin
  • thenastyranch
  • kavyap
  • Durango
  • megavids
  • tester
  • InstantRegret
  • osvaldo12
  • GTA5RPClips
  • cubers
  • tacticalgear
  • ethstaker
  • normalnudes
  • anitta
  • modclub
  • Leos
  • provamag3
  • lostlight
  • All magazines
    •