During the latest episode of #YourUndividedAttention, a connection between #birdsite and #cults is drawn by #TristanHarris, from the Center for #HumaneTechnology.

I realize it’s not @humanetech@lemmy.ml @humanetech@mastodon.social or @humanetech@tilvids.com. Still interesting to understand group behaviours from diverse perspectives.

humanetech.com/podcast/51-how-…

How To Free Our Minds with Cult Deprogramming Expert Dr. Steven Hassan

In an era of likes, followers, and echo chambers, how can we become aware of undue influence and gain sovereignty over our minds? Our guest this week is Dr. Steven Hassan, an expert on undue influence, brainwashing, and unethical hypnosis.

^{www.humanetech.com}

Really liked this podcast episode with Culture as Code. a16z.simplecast.com/episodes/c… really liked how Ben Horowitz talked about Haiti's revolution & Toussaint Louverture's leadership. I first read about it in C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins. More recently in the Revolutions podcast. It is not often that you hear business leaders talking about his leadership though.

#CLRJames #HaitiRevolution #History #Business #Podcast #RevolutionsPodcast

open wide little anglerfish

#papercraft #papertoys #folduptoys #illustration #art #3d #craft #fish #art #artist

How to Fix the Government Websites

public.digital/2022/11/14/how-…

How to Fix the Government Websites — Public Digital

^{public.digital}

Do you follow too many people?

Do you want to organise your Mastodon home timeline into several themed mini-timelines that are easier to navigate?

You can do this on Mastodon using the "Lists" feature, and here's a guide all about it:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-…

You can use Lists on third party apps like Tusky for Android or Metatext for iPhone/iPad, or on your server's website.

#Mastodon #Lists

How To Use Mastodon and the Fediverse: Advanced Tips | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

Had trouble choosing a mastodon instance? I got GPT-3 to generate some new possibilities.

flounder.club
Members discuss all different forms of flounder, from deep-sea to land-based.

dinosaur.pocket
All messages must consist of the two letters 'D', for fear that the dinosaurs will eat people's pocketbooks.

frozen.forest
Users must provide a source of warmth in order to post.

aiweirdness.com/ai-designed-ma…

AI-designed Mastodon communities

I've been using Mastodon as a social media platform for a few years, and one thing I like is how you can join themed communities. For example, you can join mastodon.gamedev.place if you want to hang out with people who build games, or oslo.

^{Janelle Shane (AI Weirdness)}

Ein 19 Jähriger liegt verletzt in einem Auto und Rettungskräfte müssen zu ihm laufen, weil die anderen Autofahrer keine Rettungsgasse bilden.

Das überraschende:
Es wurden keine #Klimaaktivisten in der Nähe gesehen. #CDU,#CSU und #FDP sind verzweifelt.
/PM
spiegel.de/panorama/a9-bei-lei…

Unfall bei Leipzig: Keine Rettungsgasse – Einsatzkräfte müssen über A9 laufen

Weil Autofahrer keine Rettungsgasse bildeten, mussten Feuerwehrleute mehrere Kilometer über die Autobahn laufen, um einen 19-Jährigen aus einem Unfallwagen zu befreien.

^{DER SPIEGEL}

I scored 58%. This is hard. "Who Said It: Elon Musk or Mr. Burns?"

newrepublic.com/article/168572…

Who Said It: Elon Musk or Mr. Burns?

The Simpsons character and the guy ruining Twitter often sound a lot alike.

^{The New Republic}

@ordnung habt ihr irgendeinen Releasezyklus bei euch? Also Testzeiträume etc bis neue Mastodon Versionen umgesetzt werden?

Wegen Mastodon 4.0 -> mastodon.social/@Mastodon/1093…

Mastodon

2022-11-14 20:21:58

🎉 #Mastodon 4.0 is out now! This server software update includes a ton of improvements, like following hashtags, translating posts, editing, an improved filtering system, customizable user roles for administration, but also some important security fixes.

Check out the full changelog:

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

Release v4.0.0 · mastodon/mastodon

Upgrade overview This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm: ℹ️ Requires two-step database migration process for zero-downtime deployment ℹ️ Some migrations may take a long time...

^GitHub

🎉 #Mastodon 4.0 is out now! This server software update includes a ton of improvements, like following hashtags, translating posts, editing, an improved filtering system, customizable user roles for administration, but also some important security fixes.

Check out the full changelog:

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

Release v4.0.0 · mastodon/mastodon

Upgrade overview This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm: ℹ️ Requires two-step database migration process for zero-downtime deployment ℹ️ Some migrations may take a long time...

^GitHub

Just getting the word out that I'm looking for a new gig.

Ideally, I'm looking for product manager roles, with a particular interest in tech manager because of my background, but I'm open to doing some part-time web design and/or development work as well.

For a bit more detailed breakdown, check this out: roiskinda.cool/profile.html

profile

Because it should be easy.

^{roiskinda.cool}

A lot of people are moving to @Mastodon, but I also get a lot of misconceptions and questions about how it works, and about this cool giant social network that is the #Fediverse, including @pixelfed or @peertube. So, to answer all these questions, and myabe introduce you to some other parts of the Fediverse, I think it's time for a quickstart guide!

#mastodon #pixelfed #peertube

youtu.be/5npl2KCt2ok

Watching instance owners needing to react to the sudden influx of users has me reminiscing about Switter early days.

In March 2018, we (Assembly Four) deployed Mastodon to a VPS with 1.5GB of RAM and launched switter.at/ in response to FOSTA/SESTA that was pushing sex workers off platforms.

Word spread like wildfire, and I had to double resources 2 hours after the announcement. And had to double it 2 hours after that. We had to scale out in the first week.

#devops #mastodon

1/x

Hello 👋 this is my #introduction.

I work on maps/geospatial for a living as a graphics programmer, currently based in Ithaca NY.

I mainly post about the articles/tutorials I write, which are generally about #graphics but also more broadly about web & game-adjacent tech.

One of my favorite articles I worked on was this interactive piece about how JPEG compression works:

parametric.press/issue-01/unra…

Release v4.0.0 · mastodon/mastodon · GitHub - github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

Get it while it's hot 🔥😂

Release v4.0.0 · mastodon/mastodon

Upgrade overview This release contains upgrade notes that deviate from the norm: ℹ️ Requires two-step database migration process for zero-downtime deployment ℹ️ Some migrations may take a long time...

^GitHub

"Mastodon instances should be limited from growing beyond a certain size. Instances that are already too large should have ways of encouraging people to migrate to smaller ones." -- or why you should not toot about your birthday on #Mastodon.

Excellent arguments here by @aral

ar.al/2022/11/09/is-the-fedive…

#decentralisation #SmallWeb

#KDE Frameworks 5.100 Released with Many Improvements for Plasma Desktop and KDE Apps 9to5linux.com/kde-frameworks-5…

@kde #Linux #OpenSource #FreeSoftware

YouTube: Datenschutzfreundlich & ohne Werbung? Ja, das geht! Bspw. mit #Piped oder #Invidious. Und mit den Apps #LibreTube und #NewPipe auch direkt auf #Android möglich. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke…

Empfehlungsecke

Die Empfehlungsecke beinhaltet aktuelle Empfehlungen zu Messengern, Browser-Add-ons und weiteren Themen • IT-Sicherheit aus Karlsruhe

^{Kuketz IT-Security Blog}

It's become a common trend to see tech as terrible. So to counter, I want to innaugurate the #techoptimist hashtag to surface tech things that are good. (ie. #TechTheGoodParts )

So here's one example of tech doing good: espresso.economist.com/be4643f…

Smartphones can assess bridge safety

People like to imagine that bridges are unshakably solid.

^{Oliver Jones (The Economist)}

Here is a wonderful offer for you and your friends, just in time for the holiday season ahead🎁

Use the coupon L14SALE22 when you check out to avail $200 off on your order Librem 14 laptop.

Usual fulfilment time is 10 business days, but if you can also request for Priority Orders for standard orders.

puri.sm/posts/year-end-savings…

So many people are having a bad first experience with Mastodon because they're using the official app which is lacking features, doesn't allow image uploads randomly, has random slowness, and doesn't give you easy access to the two most active feeds where you can find people (Local and Federated).

Please switch to Metatext, Tusky, or Tooot for a better mobile experience (or even use a browser).

Out of the >15k users that joined this week, over 11k are on the official apps.

You gotta keep’em respirated! #TheOffspring

sfgate.com/bayarea/article/off…

Former Offspring drummer turned OB/GYN saves juror during his own Bay Area malpractice trial

A Bay Area obstetrician-gynecologist and former member of a legendary 1980s punk band...

^{Michelle Robertson (San Francisco Chronicle)}

Speaking of #repod:
If you are a #python programmer and are also a bit into #packaging, have a look and help create the future of #archlinux package repository management:
repod.archlinux.page
gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux…

We are currently hard at work to build a straight forward user experience on the command-line with 0.3.0: gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux…

Arch Linux / repod · GitLab

GitLab Enterprise Edition

^GitLab