azure_source @azure_source@mastodon.social

What medieval weapons are best suited for tsundoku, the slow growth of stacks of unread books by one's bedside?

Anyone know of a command-line RSS to EPUB converter that will merge all new articles across multiple feeds into a single book, preferably with an option for full-text retrieval?

I am testing P2Play app. A peertube app from @p2play
It sounds great!
#peertube

Looking for more sources of audio/visual material in #publicdomain or #CreativeCommons or licenses giving similar freedom for creative (re)use.
Other than the 'classics' wikimedia, archive.org, ccsearch, openclipart, gutenberg.org, librivox, freemusicarchive, fontlibrary, freesound

Retoot to write a list together!

For the #OpenDesignCourse for refugees, starting on Monday.

PSA for anyone from a defunct instance who still wants to view their archive, and cant because it's all json:

I made a python script that generates a human-readable html page from you're archive that you can open in your browser to view your old posts.

If you've got python installed, just plop it into the archive, run it, and open the new "processed_archive.html" file it makes in your web browser to read your archive!

https://github.com/dizzy-labs/mastodon-archive-to-html/releases/tag/v1.0.0

https://github.com/dizzy-labs/mastodon-archive-to-html

Time to fork the Internet.

Today's #EU #CopyrightDirective vote is a catastrophe for the world's Internet; we can't stop fighting https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/09/today-europe-lost-internet-now-we-fight-back

https://t.co/AGf1lnW7QF

If I move pixelfed from github, it will be to a federated git host. I spent a few hours working on this old project 😉 #activitypub #fediverse

ok. what if instead of using 12 word mnemonics for private key seeds, we made you play a drum solo on your keyboard. no im not kidding. you use like d f j k and an 8 bar random beat is displayed and played, you play it back until you get it reliably

drum solos instead of passwords

this toot is under GPL

"While ‘off the shelf’ machine learning tools, like TensorFlow, are becoming more accessible from the point of view of setting up your own system, the underlying logics of those systems, and the datasets for training them are accessible to and controlled by very few entities."

Always cool to be reminded of Moebius’ work, but can you imagine what Dune may have been like if this film version had come to fruition? “In 1975 the cartoonist Jean Giraud, a.k.a. Moebius, was in Paris collaborating with Alejandro Jodorowsky on the never-completed adaptation of Frank Herbert’s novel Dune, a project that at various times involved H.R. Giger, Mick Jagger, Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles, Udo Kier, Gong, and Pink Floyd.“

https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_long_tomorrow_by_comix_master_moebius_key_source_for_blade_runner

coming soon™️: fediverse.space, a tool to visualize the fediverse 🌐

It's my impression that most mastodon instances are operated under the "benevolent dictator" model, but is that the case? Is there a survey of the instances and how they govern themselves?

Sometimes I love the German language for it's absolute simplicity. Seal in german is Seehund, or Sea-Dog. The large bats called Flying Foxes? Flughund. Flying Dog. The entire language looked at two separate animals and went,
"Well, that's a dog."

"But it has wings"

"Flying Dog"

"And that one lives in the ocean"

"Sea Dog. They're dogs, Hans. Get with the program."

Everybody stand down. The FT has won the 404 wars

https://www.ft.com/asdf

Don’t Call 911 If You See a Coyote, Unless It’s Carrying ACME-Branded Products: The Office of Sheriff, Monroe County, New York

Ha! This is good.
http://bit.ly/2LM3mT7 https://t.co/bh38vArf6f

To be more transparent about server blocks, I have decided to follow the example of others and publish a list: https://github.com/Gargron/mastodon.social-misc/blob/master/README.md

That list is now linked from our about page. It also explains how different block severities work.

You might notice that bofa.lol is on the list. It's at the very least a temporary measure because our mods had to deal with a lot of problematic content coming from that place yesterday.

Best #infosec #podcasts (In no particular order). Running list please add as you see fit: ✌️
- Darknet Diaries (Storytelling and history)
- Cyberwire (Daily news headlines)
- Smashing Security (Hilarious take on the week's news) @gcluley
- Risky Business (Weekly news with more in depth analysis) #straya
- Malicious Life (Storytelling and history)
- Hacking Humans (Social engineering news and discussion)
- Cybercrime Investigations (Wannacry investigative journalism)

Due to popular demand, and the ever-increasing net to explain Mastodon to newbies as every instance is being bombarded with new users...

I've gone ahead and create a video tutorial that should help folks get to grips with all of this platform's particulars:

Intro to Mastodon 101
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W22msAw2zwI

Special Thanks to:
@noelle @Gargron @MillennialDog @Rybark