Adam Beer (old account)

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(Note: I have since moved to @adambyte.)

Canadian | he/him

Went to college for software development.

Fan of: science, music, video games, libre software, urban planning.

I picked this instance because A) it runs the Glitch fork of Mastodon, B) its main discussion topic is a big interest of mine, and C) its transport security gets a double A+ on https://instances.social/list/advanced.

Avatar description: in a minimalist cartoony style, a young White man faces directly into the camera. He has orange/light-brown hair, and his eyes are obscured by glasses with round lenses and blue frames. His mouth is hidden behind the blue laptop that he is using, on whose back is a large decal reading, "</>". This image was designed by Freepik on flaticon.com (this attribution is required by the image's license).

Adam Beer (old account)Dec 6, 2024
@jerry I see that infosec.space still has those less-secure ciphers enabled. Did you forget?
CryptCheck

Adam Beer (old account)Nov 7, 2024

Will they ever learn? 

Edit: a week later, I'm feeling a lot less confident about this. Eh, I'll leave it up, for posterity at the very least. 🤷

#AOC #bernieSanders #centrism #centrist #democrats #election2024 #leftism #leftist #memes #progressive #USElection #USPol

Adam Beer (old account)Oct 16, 2024
Elia Ayoub (he/him)Oct 15, 2024

#Israel doesn’t believe in a two-state solution. It doesn’t believe in a one-state solution.

It is committing a #genocide in #Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

What do you think their final solution is to the Palestinian Question? Is this rocket science? Do they need to spell it out every day 24/7 for them to be believed?

And why is the Israeli ambassador to the UK not expelled yet?

Adam Beer (old account)Oct 14, 2024
LindaCollins11Oct 12, 2024
Adam Beer (old account)Oct 14, 2024
Motorisms 🚘Oct 11, 2024
“It’s not my duty as mayor to make sure you have a parking spot. For me, it’s the same as if you bought a cow, or a refrigerator, and then asked me where you’re going to put them."
-Miguel Anxo Fernandez Lores, mayor of Pontevedra, Spain
Adam Beer (old account)Oct 11, 2024
 #FediPact Oct 10, 2024

Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control

"On Threads, the topic of “Threads Moderation Failures” is trending. Some users complain their accounts are being deleted or restricted for linking to articles with controversial topics. Meta is currently banning and restricting users on a hair trigger."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/9/24266096/instagram-threads-moderation-account-post-deleted-limited

#FediPact #meta #threads

Instagram and Threads moderation is out of control

Instagram and Threads users are complaining about poor moderation that’s deleting accounts and posts. Instagram head Adam Mosseri says he’s “looking into it.”

The Verge
Adam Beer (old account)Oct 11, 2024
Nowhere GirlOct 9, 2024
Trump being perceived as uniquely dangerous is one of the more irritating aspects of our current political moment, and it has entirely to do with well to do white people who have been enabling fascist politics for decades realizing they themselves might suddenly face consequences because of it.
Adam Beer (old account)Oct 7, 2024
The InterceptOct 7, 2024
"The discourse around 'human shields' — or the failure to use the term — is an example of hypocrisy pushed to the extreme." https://theintercept.com/2024/10/04/israel-human-shields-hypocrisy/
U.S. Media’s Doublespeak: Israelis Live in “Densely Populated Areas,” Palestinians Are “Human Shields”

But Palestinians in densely populated Gaza are all Hamas’s “human shields” — letting Israel deflect the blame for civilian deaths.

The Intercept
Adam Beer (old account)Oct 6, 2024
Show threadjonny (good kind)Oct 5, 2024

Look at the costs and benefits described here: https://github.com/mozilla/explainers/tree/main/ppa-experiment#end-user-benefit

Costs: people lose their privacy
Benefits: data is valuable to advertisers
Therefore the benefits outweigh the costs.

Like if you do cost benefit analysis that way then you get to do anything

Me stealing your lunch
Costs: you dont have a sandwich
Benefits: I have a sandwich and dont have to pay for it

explainers/ppa-experiment at main ¡ mozilla/explainers

Explainers from Mozilla contributors. Contribute to mozilla/explainers development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Adam Beer (old account)Oct 6, 2024
Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)Oct 6, 2024

"A doctor has issued a stark warning that the XEC variant of Covid-19 could bring back the dreaded masks and social distancing"

idk man maybe the thing to dread is the debilitating airborne blood plague, not the act of putting on a fucking mask. maybe this attitude is exactly why things are turbofucked right now

https://archive.is/kW6FZ