Subtle #IRC prank: have your hostname claiming you're on Mars and configure your client to return non-system pings with a delay between 3 to 22 minutes depending on current Earth - Mars distance.
Never connect to ProtonMail using Chrome : ProtonMail - https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/9yl94k/never_connect_to_protonmail_using_chrome/
Mastodon privacy PSA: locked posts and locked accounts (173 words plus image descriptions)
I have seen this catch out more than one person, so here's how it works:
- The "follower-only" on 🔒 posts means *everyone who follows you*, not (per "Friends-only" on Livejournal) everyone *you* follow. Any rando who follows you can see all your private posts going forward.
- If you want to restrict who can see your follower-only posts in a vanilla Mastodon instance, right now the only available tool is restricting who can follow you, period:
+ In the "Edit profile" settings screen, there is a "Lock account" checkbox (see image one). If you tick that, whenever someone tries to follow you, instead of immediately following, they will show up in the "👥 Follow requests" column linked from the "Getting started" column. (You can also get email notifications - see image two.)
+ If you block someone, they will not be allowed to follow you and be removed from your list of followers. You can also soft-block someone - block and immediately unblock - to remove them from your followers without permanently blocking them.
Luxembourg politics, public transportation (+, boost with CW)
Via https://mastodon.social/@xuv/101200142144740397
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" #Luxembourg is set to become the first country in the world to make all its public transport free.
Fares on trains, trams and buses will be lifted next summer [...]"
This is great. I hope other large cities will follow. But they also will have to remove the incentive for companies to give a car to their employees instead of a salary.
[ Watching the Rankin/Bass 'Year Without A Santa Claus', as Santa talks about 'by my charts and maps', and they show one of his maps of the Earth.]
Me: Ah, so Santa goes for the Mercator projection, I see. Interesting choice. Going for a projection with exactly two points it can't possibly show, one of which is HIS BASE OF OPERATIONS.
"Welcome to Magic School. Here is your schedule."
"Thanks! But..."
"Yes?"
"This is just 'Ethics' and 'Human rights' and things like that."
"Correct, that's the first year curriculum."
"Do we have to learn all this?"
"Of course! What do you think this is, software engineering?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
There was an ambitious project called Xanadu that was a sort of alternate Internet, which worked more like a database, with this incredibly robust method for interlinking pages, citing them and attaching metadata about their histories of being edited. Feel free to screen cap this fun fact and share it on other social media or Reddit.
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