automatisms @automatisms@octodon.social

I'm really happy to announce that the company I work for has just publicly opened a #Mastodon instance for all its 5000 employees.

This is the result of an initiative @moritzheiber and I have started a year ago and have pushed through with the help of many other colleagues.

So if you want to hear my voice as a #thoughtworker, you can follow me here: @judeswae

Or find others to follow at https://toot.thoughtworks.com

To finish up, here's how to uncheck everything in one go, using a desktop browser (Firefox/Chrome).

While on the page with the 322 checkboxes, open up your web console (Chrome: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/console/#open_as_panel, Firefox: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Web_Console/Opening_the_Web_Console)
and copy-paste this : 

document.querySelectorAll('input[type=checkbox]').forEach((input) => input.checked = false)

Then press enter.
All checks should be checked out.

List of names of the "partners" Tumblr shares your data with

1/5

Tumblr tried to sneak in data collection under the radar. After a few taps, you can get a list of who they're sharing data with.

The list takes 19 screenshots to see all the names on my phone.

NINETEEN.

I wrote a thing about why Google AMP is bad and what could be done to fix it. https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/05/23/opinion-google-amp-still-confusing-not-getting-better/

@Gargron @sarahjeong
"""
“There are some companies we’ve talked to, where they say, ‘Are you kidding? If we told them how we were using their data, they’d never give it to us in the first place,’” Straight says. “I’m kind of like, ‘Yeah, that’s sort of the point.’”
"""

@Gargron @sarahjeong
"For companies that have operated under the principle of “extract as much data as possible and figure it out later,” reorganizing under GDPR is a lot like an episode of Hoarders"

lmao

"No one’s ready for GDPR" by @sarahjeong https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/22/17378688/gdpr-general-data-protection-regulation-eu

"standing on the shoulders of giants"

This project would not be possible without the pioneering work of evanp and @cwebber along with @Gargron and @mmn and many others!

I really look forward to the May 31st beta launch of https://pixelfed.org

🤖 https://500px.com/photo/259078213/droids-by-corbin-davenport

There was a young man
From Toulouse who got lim'ricks
And haiku confused

when
the
moon hits your eye
and two grids misalign
that's-a-moiré

#Mastodon v2.4.0 is 🎉 finally out! 🎉

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v2.4.0

The changelog is long, but here are some highlights:

- Better offline support
- DMs column
- New profile options
- Hide who you follow if you want
- 120% better report UI for mods
- Narrower privacy policy!
- High contrast theme
- Web Push API opened up to app developers! Easy push notifications possible in all apps now
- Performance improvements
- Various fixes and improvements 😋

We had a storm come in this afternoon.

Most importantly, stop putting institutional events on Facebook, stop using it at universities, stop making participation in Facebook mandatory through your institutional, organization, and activist roles. You can be online, and social, and connected without supporting Facebook.

Please don't hesitate to come to me with bug reports or questions. I can open github issues on your behalf (if it's not already known) and I can usually point to the right resource.

ugh i really hope crossposters don't slowly choke mastodon like they did to diaspora*

if you're just crossposting everything you tweet on birdsite then what even is the point of making a mastodon account? that's glorified spam at worst, and a recipe for abandonment.

if you bought a gf from an online shopping service would she be your eBae