Neil Alexander @neilalexander@mastodon.social

Finally back home after a fun weekend at #fosdem2020!

Doing this seems like it will, over time, do the opposite of what it's supposed to do.

It removes the sense of something being marked as sensitive for a good reason and therefore removes its power.

Instead we all just get incredibly used to clicking through the shroud just to see content that's actually fine and doesn't need to be hidden, and greatly increases the chance that you're going to click through and see something inappropriate or explicit by accident without even thinking.

What exactly is with the absurd trend here of marking non-offensive/non-explicit pictures (e.g. of pets, memes, screenshots) as sensitive content?

I'd like to extend the notion of whether a falling tree in a forest makes a sound if nobody is there to hear it and ask that, in the computing sector, if you write a program in anything but Rust, have you actually really written it at all?

Yggdrasil Network v0.3.7 is released! 🚀

This is mostly a bug-fix release to fix a number of issues that were introduced with v0.3.6. Performance should be significantly better with this release, as well as some improvements with flow label handling and link aggregation.

Please upgrade and pass the message onto your peers!

Builds: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/builds.html
Changelog: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/changelog.html

#yggdrasil #meshnet #meshnetworks #decentralised #e2e #decentralized #network #ipv6 #p2p #encryption

Yggdrasil Network v0.3.6 is released! 👋

This is a massive refactoring release to clean up our codebase and to draft our first API, plus lots of other fixes and minor changes.

Please take the time to upgrade, tell your friends and let us know if there are any issues!

Builds: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/builds.html
Changelog: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/changelog.html
Blog post: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/2019/08/03/release-v0-3-6.html
Matrix channel: https://riot.im/app/#/room/%23yggdrasil:matrix.org

#yggdrasil #meshnet #meshnetworks #decentralised #e2e #decentralized #network #ipv6

おやすみなすい！

Delighted to see the release of the new privacy-friendly keys.openpgp.org keyserver, which finally fixes a number of serious issues in the aged SKS network. The new server finally lets you replace or delete your keys and has separation of key and identity data!

https://keys.openpgp.org/about/news#2019-06-12-launch

#pgp #gpg #sks #keyserver #privacy

I've seen quite a few posts recently about how ActivityPub clients or instance are blacklisting certain domains/pubs.

I can't help but feel like this violates some core principle of the "fediverse", especially when the goal generally seems to be to reduce barriers for user choice/adoption and not to create unexpected complexities and censors?