starshine

starshine, 3 months ago to random

every new user being shocked that DMs aren’t actually private is kinda scary because it means that everybody just assumes DMs on other platforms are private

because they aren’t. the only difference between fedi and other social media is that fedi admins don’t have a vested interest in making you think DMs are private

starshine, 6 months ago to random

passwords when you don’t enforce changing them every 2 months: Viy$Ehi8sy3&2WQ
passwords when you enforce changing them regularly: password01!? password02!? password03!? password04!? password05!?

starshine, 6 months ago to random

the eu is fucking wild man
“hey, we just passed landmark privacy regulations!”
“oh by the way we’re trying to mandate backdoors into every encryption scheme”
“we are forcing google, apple, and microsoft to stop locking down their ecosystems!”
“oh yeah we’re also trying to mandate backdoors in all browsers’ certificate stacks”
“anti-adblock is spyware ^_^ we’re suing youtube”

starshine, 10 months ago to random

ok cool but that’s not the status code i wanted to know about

starshine, 7 months ago to random

oh don’t worry, discord won’t shut down. it will just gradually enshittify more and more as it keeps trying to make more money as the vc funds dry up, eventually being bought by a large corporation looking to sell the user data for a nice profit.

then once it gets bad enough, another centralized, proprietary platform will pop up that promises to be slightly better than discord (at least, better than discord after its gradual decline), people will move to it in droves, and the cycle will start all over again

discord will continue to stick around for a couple more years after that, until the company that bought it decides it’s not worth running anymore and unceremoniously shuts it down, destroying over a decade worth of people’s memories in the process

:woem:

starshine, 1 year ago to random

STOP DOING THREADS

• POSTS WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SPLIT INTO 25 PARTS
• YEARS of POSTING yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for a low character limit
• Wanted a low character limit anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called “SMS”
• “My post got so long that I had to split it into 10 parts. Stay tuned for the 20 part sequel” - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what Mastodon Users have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the Fediverse and protocols WE built for them:
(This is REAL Posting, done by REAL Mastodon Users)

• Why communism will win, a 🧵 (1/255)
• Why I should be allowed to index all your posts for profit, a thread (1/X)
• The rise and fall of Twitter (283/185,781)

“Hello, I would like a 500 character limit please”
They have played us for absolute fools

starshine, 5 months ago to random

>new browser
>ask the developer "is it a new browser or google chrome"
>they don't get it
>pull out a chart explaining the difference between a new browser and google chrome
>they laugh and say "it's a good browser ma'am"
>download the browser, look inside
>it's google chrome

starshine, 10 months ago to random

the saying “avoiding like the plague” really loses its effectiveness when the past 3+ years have proven people do not, in fact, avoid the plague at all

starshine, 10 months ago to random

boost this post with considerable delay

starshine, 9 months ago to random

installing a 40 year old program:
on macos: no, the newest version only supports software made in the last 3 minutes
on windows: of course it works, the entire operating system is built around backwards compatibility
on unix: it’s already installed

starshine, 9 months ago to random

if you get too annoyed at my posts, just remember

starshine, 2 months ago to random

remember: no programming language is inherently bad, don’t shit on people for using them

there is no bait and switch here, just don’t fucking do it

starshine, 2 months ago to random

due to inflation :3 is now :4

starshine, 8 months ago to random

just like a yubikey, i too generate a long string of letters when i get touched

starshine, 8 months ago to random

ok i don’t really like doing this but i’ve gotten two dms now in two days so:
we’ve gotten a couple dms now, all saying “hi” or “hello”, from new accounts that have links to a fundraiser for lgbtq people in the kakuma refugee camp. this camp is real, and i have no doubt that there are people there who need help, but we have serious doubts that these specific fundraisers will ever result in aid for the people there.

this cropped up on reddit last year, and mods from a couple large queer subreddits spoke up about it likely being a scam:

• https://old.reddit.com/r/MtF/comments/101nf0p/some_thoughts_on_the_folks_in_the_kakuma_refugee/
• https://old.reddit.com/r/lgbt/comments/wacwlw/regarding_kakuma_camp/

the account that DMed us a couple days is gone now (whether it was suspended or deleted, we don’t know), but the profile is still cached on our instance, and it links to the same fundraiser, organised by someone in… rome? which is all pretty suspicious and lines up with the behaviour of these accounts on reddit as well

to be clear: yes, mutual aid in general is a good thing! but this specific situation reeks of being a scam, from the fresh accounts to history on other websites.

please, be careful with fundraisers that are posted by people who aren’t established, real users

starshine, 5 months ago to random

why not join the :sparkls: fediverse :sparkls: we’ve got great software such as:

• twitter 2.0 wannyabe that refuses to add any of the features people want
• bloated javascript hell
• fork of bloated javascript hell that gave up on the rust rewrite 3 functions in
• another fork of bloated javascript hell made out of pure spite
• functionyal spaghetti code that is barely maintained
• fork of said spaghetti code that is also barely maintained
• alpha software that is somehow more stable than everything else (but it’s not like that’s a high bar)

starshine, 1 year ago to random

the five stages of grief, illustrated by PROGRAMMING:

denial: “maybe if i keep changing the code slightly, it will magically fix itself!”

anger: “WORK YOU STUPID DUMBASS FUCKING CODE IT WORKED FIVE MINUTES AGO WHY DOESN’T IT ANYMORE”

bargaining: “how many infants do i need to sacrifice to delete this library from existence?”

depression: “you know what, maybe this is just a metaphor for life… everything will go wrong and there is nothing i can do to ever fix it”

acceptance: rm -rf ~/src

starshine, 3 months ago to random

why not host a fedi instance? we’ve got:

• slow ruby server with dozens of undiscovered severe security advisories
• the world’s flashiest and heaviest frontend, now with actual built in video games
• unmaintained spaghetti code
• unmaintained spaghetti code TWO
• go (derogatory) (actually it’s pretty stable) (but has even fewer features than mastodon)

starshine, 8 months ago to random

starshine, 6 months ago to random

pokemon is an autistic world, this is clearly visible in the fact that eye contact is considered a declaration of war,

starshine, 1 month ago to random

STOP DOING BIG ACCOUNTS

• INSTANCES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO CRASH FROM A SINGLE BOOST
• YEARS OF FEDI yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for going higher than ONE HUNDRED FOLLOWERS
• Wanted to go higher anyway for a laugh? We had a tool for that: It was called “OFFICIAL PROJECT ACCOUNTS”
• “Yes please give me 200 interactions on every post. Please give me 80 boosts on my vent posts” - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged

LOOK at what “INFLUENCERS” have been demanding your respect for all this time, with all the activitypub and frontends we built for them:
(This is REAL fedi, done by REAL fedizens)

• 4300 followers, 2000 following
• 2000 followers, 1200 following
• 650 followers, 400 following

“Hello I would like a million votes on this poll please”

They have played us for absolute FOOLS

starshine, 3 months ago to random

the all new and improved NS 1312

starshine, 3 months ago to random

periodic reminder that you don’t need to be tech illiterate or stupid to fall for a scam

scams prey on people who aren’t paying attention to the small details, and there’s plenty of reasons someone might do that. yes, tech illiteracy plays a part, but so does stress, coincidences lining up, and weariness

anyone can get scammed. don’t assume you’re “too smart” to fall for it

starshine, 3 months ago to random

wait…. i have the power

RE: https://woem.space/objects/4ebafd14-2646-40fa-ba5d-3df1bbd782f2

neofox pat, but it's got evil eyes

starshine, 2 months ago to random

guys i think he’s addicted to fedi, what do i do?