Imagine wondering “When’s the next time that Christmas will be a Tuesday/Wednesday, for those sweet optimal public holidays (Jan 1st being exactly a week later)?”

Now imagine asking, idk, google or Siri or god forbid an actual calendar, instead of turning to the best tool for the job: systemd.

#systemd #linuxadmin #linux #systemd

ownCloud vulnerability with a maximum 10 severity rating comes under “mass exploitation”

Easy-to-exploit flaw can give hackers passwords and cryptographic keys to vulnerable servers.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/11/owncloud-vulnerability-with-a-maximum-10-severity-rating-comes-under-mass-exploitation/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Reading the latest thread by Mastodon‘s CTO @renchap made me realize once more how small the team behind all this is and how they really try to listen to feedback and get it right.

It’s incredible what they‘ve achieved. It’s literally David vs Goliath compared to other social media platforms.

We should always keep that in mind when some things are not 100% smooth.

We get an ad-free, algo-free, tracker-free, lunatic-billionaire-free space in return 💛

Seeing talk of chrome orbs that will give you crypto in exchange for your biometrics? That's Worldcoin, and and these are some of the risks we would need to consider if it became widespread.

#WorldCoin #cryptocurrency

https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/worldcoin-a-solution-in-search-of

The Fediverse has a Mental Health problem:

https://medium.com/@thisismissem/the-fediverse-has-a-mental-health-problem-4cb4845dfee1

(Please do not reply directly to this post, use the hashtag #FediverseMentalHealth instead, thanks!)

#Fediverse #MentalHealth #FediAdmin #FediverseMentalHealth

In case you missed it, all links on Mastodon count as 23 characters towards your limit, no matter how many characters the link really is.

So, you don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon as they won't actually affect the link's length.

Mastodon does this because it's better for everyone's privacy to avoid link shortener services, it means people can see what they're clicking on, and the link won't stop working if the shortener service shuts down.

More info at:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/you-dont-need-link-shorteners-on-mastodon/