I'm not sure if this is my birthday or Christmas gift to myself, but I decided to splurge on a large canvas print of my own work which landed on my doorstep today.

Prints here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/colorful-embrace-souls-connected-mark-tisdale.html

And FYI, the folks who handle my prints are doing a 25% off on all wall art ordered today.

#DigitalArt #GayArt #Gay #Queer #CreativeToots #MastoArt #FediArt #MarkOnArt

Starting May 15, Imgur is instituting a ban on any images containing nudity, pornographic, or otherwise "mature" content. They'll also purge any images not uploaded by a registered account.

So all those images of guides, how-tos, and examples? Those will disappear. I suspect this is going to have an effect on websites like GitHub and GitLab where folks have used Imgur to host the images in their projects' README files.

Even worse, there will be a massive loss of images of protests, government corruption, and citizen journalism. Many of those photos were uploaded anonymously to protect the creator.

https://imgurinc.com/rules

Pay-for-a-☑ is a terrible business. It makes what you're paying for embarrassing. An awful move if you're trying to make money.

But if's a genius move if you bought Twitter to destroy journalists' ability to share credible information & empower fascists to spread misinformation.

ICYMI in my feed yesterday Mozilla Firefox has browser anti-fingerprinting built in, it's just not enabled by default.

Browser fingerprinting is when 3rd parties use your computer's characteristics such as which fonts you have installed, your type and number of CPUs, etc. to uniquely identify you to advertisers or other even less friendly sorts.

In Firefox type in About:config, click the warning then type in the search window:
resist

Set
privacy.resistFingerprinting
to True.

#privacy