The captain on a Star Trek show is what the show sees itself as and wants to be.
The main cast's engineer is what the show actually is.
Kirk: "I manned my way into this mess and I'll man my way out of it."
Scott: < drunk technobabble >
Picard: BEHOLD MY GRAVITAS
La Forge: "This extra suitcase is for my competence porn and also my regular porn."
Sisko: "You still have a spinal column because I want you to still have a spinal column, also I'm space Jesus, have I made myself clear?"
O'Brien: < suffers in disaster bi >
Janeway: "I came out here to make a good impression on distant aliens and do war crimes and I'm all out of good impressions."
Torres: "Goddamnit" < breaks something >
Archer: "Revenge means never having to say your[sic] sorry."
Tucker: "Aw, shucks" < removes shirt >
@dee@toot.cat @noracodes Yep, and since it's tuned by instance and to needs, it becomes expensive to impossible for attackers to game at scale other than along least common denominators (default settings, plugin boilerplate, known misconfigurations, etc). Which ensures the load stays manageable and makes it robust to common attacks on larger websites (ie, mass reporting, exploiting gaps in automod tooling)
Which is all to say if fedi adopts a similar strategy, it should work except for targeted attacks.
@dee@toot.cat @noracodes (In which I have just learned that my mobile client doesn't play well with editing and page breaks, so pardon the broken formatting and extra notification. @..@ )
@dee@toot.cat @noracodes Nice, and apologies for misunderstanding. So IOW, its usage as a data feed that can be pulled in as a reference, searched, and used to establish evidence when making admin decisions, calibrating tools, etc. Which looks more like modern trust and safety orgs.
And yeah, using a similar structure to assist fedi admin, instead of having everyone reason this from first principles again with the next iteration of discussion software, is very compelling.
@dee@toot.cat @noracodes Just adding that this idea goes back further (with associated lessons learned, tradeoffs, etc) into RBLs and DNSBLs in the late 90s, in case y'all haven't explored those and so folks don't rediscover/relitigate the similar pros and cons of setting this up.
Wikipedia has a decent article up (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System-based_blocklist), but https://www.dnsbl.info and other pages offer a decent entry point into further research.
I loved these silly IKEA sheets people got for their characters a few years ago - if you'd like your own, @moon is still making them!
Pokémon SV mild spoilers, glitch mentions
The fact you can abuse glitches in SV now to explore everything has given me a newfound appreciation for how Nintendo accepted this when they built Breath of the Wild, and how their solution to players accessing content early was essentially "go for it". GameFreak tried to meet this half way with gating, and players have immediately overridden their decision.
This helps me appreciate why BotW just gives you the tools from the start. Maybe SV should, too.
@PurpleRose Which still isn't ideal and hopefully this prompts more attempts to keep sociopaths away from money and power, btw.
But trying to offer a kernel of hope here and proof from my own experience working around these kind of people at the small and large scale that the work done at Twitter (etc) will be replicated elsewhere while Elon continues to tweet his way through Dunning-Kruger.
@PurpleRose Found this on federated. Without being too forthcoming, ime folks stick together and keep building after sociopaths try to run them out of specific orgs/companies. Fuckwits like Elon can destroy singular companies and fire staff, but it pushes whole teams elsewhere, as it did me earlier in my career. I keep in touch with some a decade+ later.
Shorter version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNuaGQ6-KnY
Elon can destroy Twitter, Zuck can build a shitty Second Life, etc, but folks will work around them.
From over on birdsite (while it remains): a pretty good, informed take on how to acclimate to Masto from a user with ~60k followers: https://twitter.com/garius/status/1588827775628369920
Sets some good ground expectations while offering good tips on setting things up and easing the migration process.
.@ifixcoinops Amusingly enough, I still have the tools for this lying around. I used to use Calibre to generate my feed in the mornings, sync it to my Kindle 2 (at the time) via email to Whispernet, then feed that into my car audio via text-to-speech while driving to work. (This being 2010-2011 or so.)
I called mine The Daily Nibble. Also kind of a shameless plug that Calibre is really great.
#feditip: go to https://{your mastodon server}/users/{any username}.rss to get an RSS feed for your RSS reader.
Level 2: go about your day without internet, then in the evening settle down at your Computer Desk with a nice cup of tea to RSS-digest the day's shitposts.
Level 3: Aggregates your RSS feeds into epub format. Load the output onto your 2000's e-ink e-reader via USB cable. Sit in an overstuffed armchair with a nearby lamp, say aloud "Ah, yes, today's internet" and sip your port.
@qdot First, this is cool as hell. Second, I love that this means some component of the commercial and/or industrial sector will have a power glove meets Alien tech aesthetic.
vr selfies
This avatar is extremely good and validating. I'm gonna keep repeating that, because aaaaa
Mastodon's image upload is *really* slow, so for some extra variants have this Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Tayruu/status/1579345674428362753
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
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