Mastodawn

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Remittancegirl/116311624371729823

We REALLY need to reintroduce the Roman custom of Damnatio Memoriae—"damnation of memory", excision of a name and person from the written record: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae

veroandi 9h ago

Parleur 11h ago

Pinaise, même moi je suis à ça 🤏 d'avoir envie de ne plus avoir de contact du tout avec des outils numériques.

Because enshitification générale de l'informatique (coucou l'IA), récupérations de données personnelles par trop d'acteurs, et finalement fuites constantes de toutes ces données personnelles par tous ces acteurs, sans exception.

Pourtant j'ai la culture de l'informatique et une très bonne hygiène numérique en général. 😬

veroandi 10h ago

LaF0rge 22h ago

I'm currently looking to expand my social network and would love to get in touch with anyone in the "global south" (especially African countries) involved in #hamradio, wireless community networks, #FOSS or #OSHW development or the #maker and #hacker communities. I'd be very happy if anyone from the above target groups would reach out and introduce themselves #followerpower

1/5

Deux pannes, deux réactions très différentes.

Outlook hors service à cause d'un bug Teams → frustration, mais l'outil n'est pas remis en cause.

Souci de config sur un logiciel libre → verdict immédiat : "on aurait dû rester sur Microsoft."

Ce n'est pas une question de qualité technique. C'est une question de biais cognitifs.

veroandi 2d ago

mcc 4d ago

So there's this guy who made a tool where someone punches in their bluesky or mastodon credentials to his website, and it auto-crawls their feeds and produces an LLM summary of everyone it finds posting there. He was asked what people should do if we don't want to be mulched as content for his summary feeds. He said we should block him. I replied, I can do that, but that only stops *you* from running the tool on me, how do I prevent *your other users* from running your tool on me? He blocked me.

veroandi 2d ago

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Thierry Crouzet Jul 5, 2025

@btel J'ai des amis normaux, je cherche en ligne les anormaux

veroandi 2d ago

Delta Chat 5d ago

End-to-End Encryption is good but metadata protection counts as much. Names, group descriptions and memberships, avatars, who talks to whom ...

Both #deltachat and #signal go to great length to protect all the metadata that WhatsApp grants itself gratuitously. #Matrix stores similar scales of metadata on their servers, even if you can choose which server stores it.

Everything is better than #Telegram which additionally stores message contents in all group chats/channels and most 1:1 chats.

veroandi 3d ago

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veroandi 3d ago

Lucas Lasota 5d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116280425360362291

The attitude of these distros is not productive. They are not seeking counselling in the affected jurisdictions. In Brazil there is already substantial analysis demonstrating how the mentioned laws do not affect GNU/Linux in the way these distros are fearing. The panic causing these geo-blocks is clearly an overkill.