Notices by DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)

was doubleclick the trojan horse that brought evil to the googleplex or was the virus already inside the house by 2008?

hot take: the FCCs rules around the power and density of licensed FM transmitters are generations behind the technological advances and if they'd license low-power digital fm for community stations without it being a massive investment organizationally and financially our airwaves could flourish.

but there's no money behind a lush radio garden powered by regular people.

@foone what if the real Pandora's Box was the shit foone made along the way?

One year ago, right about now, the good @DoctorDeathray introduced her Implements of Destruction to the world at large during the very first episode of Analog Revolution Put On A Show, and thanks to the hijinks of those madcap media producers we can relive the event by watching it on New Ellijay TV!

The intervening time has only made the band better. I've never been prouder of a group in which I participated and I cannot wait to get y'all access to the soon-to-be-released album, but until then, there's always this look back at where we entered the scene. Y'know, the scene that we're speaking into existence. That scene.

https://vod.newellijay.tv/w/2TX72dDMVSBHLr48NoJA4i

good morning.

before signing up for a service like mastometrics please ensure your instance admins are cool with you using a tool that asks your instance for your last 2,000 toots every hour forever.

free tools aren't necessarily free for everyone.

a little light reading has arrived!

YOUR REACT APP SUCKS AND COULD BE A FRACTION OF THE SIZE WITH DOUBLE THE PERFORMANCE IF YOU JUST WROTE ACTUAL VANILLA JAVASCRIPT

rust’s borrow checker, but it looks at code and says things like "you appear to be building an open proxy server" or "this looks like a novel encryption scheme" and follows it with "are you sure this is safe?" and then forces you to re-run the build with —I-am-responsible-for-the-things-I-create flag enabled.

look, we get it - it’s possible to scrape, index, proxy, and otherwise manipulate a huge amount of public-facing data in the fediverse.

that doesn’t mean you should. it’s bad. it violates the authors’ consent in many cases, and frankly it’s rude.

this isn’t your dev sandbox.

note I called it public-facing. that doesn’t mean public-owning. posts in the fediverse do not suddenly fall into the public domain by any legal mechanism I’ve been made aware of to date.

I post on my server. I choose to federate a subset of my posts to other servers at my discretion. if you abuse my open and trusting format for posting my thoughts publicly by repurposing my posts without my prior authorization I will absolutely do whatever I can to make you stop, also at my discretion.

please stop and think before you build software. full stop. any software at all. stop and think "am I even potentially putting others in harm’s way by building this? could this be used maliciously? would this be secure for people to have access to?" and unless you have strong answers, just don’t. don’t build the thing.

it’s extremely difficult to moderate a social networking experience at scale.

it’s prohibitively expensive to operate a social networking server at scale.

it’s very time consuming to generate meaningful consensus across a social network at scale.

always approaching these problems from the social network side of the equation seems to be not super effective based on the last twenty years of experiments.

maybe consider making 2023 the year you question the requirement to do any of these things "at scale".

my good friend @ajroach42 goes into more detail in "The small things Manifesto" here: https://ajroach42.com/the-small-things-manifesto/

sure are a lot of tech bros who insist on spending money doing things no one wants and then insisting it’s for the greater good and that others should foot the bill.

wonder where they keep getting this idea?

this is my mech, WE WERE PROMISED MECHS