Nathan

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Here's an idea for a talk by me at #fosdem Interesting?

Title

"Tightening every bolt"

Abstract

Things to do in order to sleep well while having your C code in twenty billion installations. A talk about what the curl project does to minimize security risks: Security, Safety, Reproducibility, vulnerability handling and the processes and tooling around it.

:colorscheme lunaperche
Conspiracy Theory: Modern Smart TVs don’t have mute buttons any more because advertisers will pay higher money to show ads on TVs where you can’t mute ads easily.
boop 2.🌼
Jukebox: listen to your LastFM recommendations on linux

Odysee
jukebox

Play LastFM recommendations on linux: using mpd, yt-dlp and bash

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nixos is so weird
You know your ISP is terrible, when your: upload speed > download speed

imo: fedi needs to make threads users feel welcome. The *users*; not meta/or it's advertisers.

If people push for a splinter-verse, meta is the only one who wins. They get to exploit their 1B+ userbase — while fedi just complains:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/25450

It's a chance to bridge-networks and siphon people into the fediverse (the one not controlled by meta). Why would someone use the ad-powered threads app over tusky—if there is no lock-in?

https://polarhive.net/blog/fedi-first/

Option to Opt Out of The Fediverse Beyond Mastodon · Issue #25450 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch An option in Preferences to choose whether or not your content will appear on other sites/apps in the Fediverse instead of just appearing on Mastodon. Perhaps each Toot & Reply should have th...

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Even if you completely block meta at your end, how are you going to block every-other instance that decides to federate with #threads

For example: I opt-out of search-engine indexing on my mastodon instance.

But when I receive replies on posts, with users from other instances. The mastodon opt-out rules don't propagate and posts, eventually show up on google & duckduckgo.

I don't mind: If you've made a public-post you shouldn't expect any privacy as such, this is social-edia, not DMs.