Erik Fichtner ✅ @emf@mastodon.social
I read your logs with math.
Joined Apr 2017
Hm. mastodon is still here. Weird. Anyway.. Hi, everyone. I'm having the fun that is re-enrolling all one's 2FA when migrating to a fresh new device.
(actual fun not guaranteed. results may vary.)
Huh. empty timeline. Guess everyone I followed back when this was a fad has also gone back to twitter. *sigh*
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BREAKING: France easily wins right to make fun of America.
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Whenever I click the TOOT! button I yell "Toot-toot, here's comes the content train!" and everyone looks at me like I'm the asshole
I kinda want to stand up a malware analyst community mastodon instance on "mastodon.top"; but actually using it would fill everyone's log files.
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PSA animated gifs cause issues for some folks, please use static images for avatars and put gifs under a CW
This is perfection.
Today:
One pee-wee soccer game.
Two fallen trees bucked to logs.
40 bags of mulch.
one motherfucking 15x5.00-6 tube in a wagon tire.
one utterly rusted and destroyed chevy tailgate hinge.
one replacement ordered.
a shitload of sticks.
..... beer number 2, steaks marinating.
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@mala @anildash @sarahjeong
"how do I solve Identity on the web?"
"I know, lets use Public Key cryptography"
"Now you have a Directed Acyclic Graph of problems"
i really have to get out of this business.
This content warning shit is a misfeature at times like this.
Filtering by regex with emoji only works sometimes. That's even weirder than it not working at all.
Timeline filtering by regex is such a nice feature.
I'm just going to throw this out there, because I'm not going to do anything with this information.
the "bird.site" domain is $5400 from google domains, but....
"birb.site" is $30.
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I am drawing no conclusions, but after reading some Robert Musil quotes and discussing Aristotelianism here, I went back to check on one of my Twitter haunts, and they're still going on about the Pepsi ad.
https://mastodon.social/media/bVCingeye3tI2inz9IE Where people go, there are cats. So, have another #MastoCats
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Ok guys, very funny.
I'm also @emf for whatever backup purposes there might be.
I tested data export and import, and that seems to work. The only instance migration issue I see is that your followers don't come along for the ride. Also, I'm using the 🚫 symbol in place of ✅ to denote an inactive account. YMMV.
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Mastodon's federation introduces UX challenges.
One that worries me a lot is about message forgery. Anyone can forge a twoot, even cross-server.
Whereas Twitter Inc might be trustworthy enough to not forge transcripts. Anyone can run a Mastodon server and might want to abuse it to influence people (see Russian troll campaigns).
Should Mastodon "home servers" cryptographically sign updates? Should there be end-to-end signatures? Anyone has thoughts on this?
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I am originating a new usage of the ✅. I hope it catches on, because in a sense it's mostly used this way now.
As portability is currently quite limited, the checkmark now indicates that I am actively using that instance, and that my other nonchecked instance identities are hibernating.
I read your logs with math.
Joined Apr 2017
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