Stefano Costa @steko@octodon.social

Una realizzazione.
Il tracking, la pubblicità orientata, i post suggeriti, le ricerche personalizzate… mi danno fastidio perché riflettono tutto quello faccio. Ti riportano in riga sui tuoi interessi, oramai super-amplificati fino ad assordarti con le tue stesse idee.

Basta.

Non tollero più siti di contenuti che VOGLIONO un account a tutti i costi.
Oppure siti dove fai fatica a fare diversi account perché lo rendono difficoltoso.
Siti da buttare.

here are two very useless choropleths I made in a d3 workshop today: NYC neighborhoods by length of name and NYC neighborhoods according to their position in a list of neighborhood names sorted alphabetically

I haven't reinstalled the Twitter app on my new phone. Haven't really noticed it's gone, but this isn't because mastodon it's sooooo good.
It's because distraction only has power as long as you give it space.

RT @yoz@twitter.com: I'm fascinated by bizarre bug stories.
This one, retold by @ferlatte@twitter.com, happened in the mid-2000s.
The chain of decisions that made this possible could make a book-sized history of computing.
But if you only take one lesson: please, validate your inputs.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/yoz/status/1006636464350695424

Last year, a neighbour's enormous bull literally burst through a stone wall to get to my cows. This little chap is the unexpected result!

https://social.yyy.scot/media/1kN3T4FlXJvdcdGmH6c

Fun fact: we're not 100% sure where the story of Aladdin came from.

It wasn't in the original "1,001 Nights"/"Arabian Nights"; it appeared in the 1709 French translation, written by Antoine Galland, but while he claimed he'd heard it from a Syrian monk, there's no other record of the story before Galland's version of the Nights.

Better Blocker’s HTTP Archive (HAR) collection now available over DAT

Our evolving collection of HAR files from our web crawls in search of trackers is now available over DAT for researchers and anyone else who’s interested under Creative Commons ShareAlike license:

https://archive.better.fyi

DAT link:

dat://2f063e531e6352f0326b8e0f076d74fc6fd694d77d4d5dafeb77659847214247

Please do let me know how you get on if you have a play with it. https://mastodon.ar.al/media/6fJB_6ySkSXbffot2J4

Hey all, I need some help rethinking community calls for #opensource projects.

At Moodle, as we did at Mozilla, I've been using a public Etherpad for people to:
- Sign in
- Introduce themselves
- Contribute ideas to the project

We're also using Zoom to:
- Discuss things via video and audio
- Record the call for later viewing

After a conversation with our data privacy lead today, I've got to delete the existing data we've captured in this way, and come up with a new approach.

Any ideas? 🙃

The whole "let me just pay for it, remove ads" argument against online tracking is problematic: Not everyone has the spare cash to pay for a bunch of online services.

"I saw you walk, why do you use a wheelchair?"
"You know math, why do you use Excel?"
"If I didn't, it would take all day. Oh. Okay. Sorry."
#MicroFiction #tootfic #smallstories

Did you know: until the early 80s, the religious position was that life began at birth, and specifically with the newborn's first (unaided) breath.

It wasn't until the Right realized that the sexual revolution wasn't just a phase and needed a new way to limit the sexual agency and freedom of people who weren't cis men that the current "life begins at conception" rhetoric settled in.

an olive garden commercial written by a bot that watched 1000 hours of olive garden commercials