I very much welcome quote posts. Despite the fears that some have about it, I believe it’s needed.

What’s important is that the @Mastodon team was mindful about their decision, spending ages simply considering it.

There’s an opt-out, which means those who want it can use it. And those who don’t, can keep it from happening to their posts.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/…

#Mastodon #QuotePosts #SocialMedia

Some things to do in the face of what's happening. I think you might like this @GottaLaff

thewhitepages.net/p/thirty-lon…

Thirty lonely but beautiful actions you can take right now which probably won't magically catalyze a mass movement against Trump but that are still wildly important

Why? Because others will see you do them, and it will make it easier for them to take their own (slightly less lonely but equally beautiful) action by your side

^{Garrett Bucks (The White Pages)}

I contacted ebooks.com to see how I could shop DRM-free ebooks only. They gave me this link: ebooks.com/en-us/drm-free/

I also noticed that if you choose a category when the search results come up, you can turn on a check box in the Filter column to select DRM-Free.

So this looks like it might be a good resource for buying DRM-free books that aren't tied to any app.

Mueller She Wrote:

⚠️ ATTN FEDERAL WORKERS: I’ll say this again: download all your SF-50s, performance evals, and your eOPF. Now.

Print hard copies.

And make sure you file an informal grievance with your supervisor within 15 days of any adverse action.

Here is a template:
muellershewrote.com/p/informal…

Informal Grievance Template for Adverse Personnel Actions

There is a limited amount of time to oppose personnel actions. Time is short.

^{Allison Gill (The Breakdown)}

Trump Official Destroying USAID Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy
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Now one of the most powerful people in the U.S. government, Peter Marocco’s turbulent tenure during the first Trump administration sheds light on his current efforts to dismantle the American foreign aid system from the inside out.

propublica.org/article/usaid-p…

#News #USAID #Trump #USPolitics #Diplomacy

USAID Dismantler Peter Marocco Secretly Met With Christian Nationalists Abroad in Defiance of U.S. Policy

^ProPublica

More "enshittification". This time from Amazon. Amazon is pulling a Google, killing off popular services. Evidently, I have until 25th February to download my 708 books that I have purchased from them. After the 25th you can no longer download YOUR books for backup or transfer via USB

Good job I did this 2 years ago eh? Buy the books from elsewhere.

goodereader.com/blog/kindle/am…

#enshittification #amazon #books #bookstodon

Amazon Is Not To Be Trusted Anymore With Their Kindle E-reader - Good E-Reader

Amazon has a long and storied history of discontinuing services that people use. Last October, the company announced that in February 2025, they were

^{Michael Kozlowski (Good e-Reader)}

Measles has a 12% mortality rate in unvaccinated young children. Children cannot be vaccinated until they are at least 12 months old. And if infants need to be kept home and out of daycare to avoid potentially fatal measles outbreaks... Guess who that removes from the workforce. (Women.)

RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:flwgf…

I really enjoyed the first 22 or so chapters of this one. I finished the rest. It got a bit too dark for my taste, though, and the things it was trying to say, combined with the way it was saying them, just didn't quite land for me.

Nemesis Quest [Isekai + LitRPG Satire]by Charmpagne: "Nemesis Engine engaged. Nemesis found... Transporting...
And now that I had EVERYTHING going in the right direction, I'm sucked into another world as a scullery maid because some ex-boyfriend from high school still hates me? Seriously? I was pre-med! I had a family! And a cat!
What do you mean I can have my cat? Well, that's a start...but once I get the hang of this, someone is going to pay because if I'm what you wished for, your genie doesn't like you. Did I mention I can cook?
Finished and Complete" www.royalroad.com/fiction/68328/nemesis-quest-isekai-litrpg-satire

Imagine a free, point-to-point file transfer service with no file size or type limitations. Enter Blip – it's like platform-agnostic AirDrop from anywhere.

podfeet.com/blog/2025/02/blip/

w/ @bart

Fast Point-to-Point File Transfer with Blip - Podfeet Podcasts

The Problem to be Solved When Bart and I record an installment of Programming By Stealth or Security Bits, we both record both sides of our conversation. We use Audio Hijack to record the files in stereo, so he’s on one track, and I’m on the other.

^{podfeet (Podfeet Podcasts)}

Federal workers are being rushed back to the office. It's causing chaos. (Aaron Wiener/Washington Post)

washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/20…
memeorandum.com/250215/p44#a25…

#SelfHost #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #HomeLab

[source]

The Gemini protocol is a lightweight alternative to HTTP positioned as a spiritual successor to Gopher. One drawback is that without reuse of TCP connections, every navigation takes several seconds on geostationary satellite Internet.

Read what curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg (@bagder) thinks of Gemini
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2023/05/28…

#GeminiProtocol #satellite #Gemini #curl

The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person

There is again a pull-request submitted to the curl project to bring support for the Gemini protocol. It seems like a worthwhile effort that I support, even if it is also a lot of work involved and it might take some time before it reaches the state …

^{daniel.haxx.se}

interlude

(fishlog: analognowhere.com/techno-mage/… )

#unix_surrealism #technomage #openbsd #puffy #girl #mata

Did you know that you can easily (re-)setup DAVx5 via QR code by simply using this type of URL to automatically pre-fill the DAVx5 Login screen:

davx5://user@server.example.com/path/

You will need an appropriate QR code scan app like Binary Eye. Read more here: manual.davx5.com/integration.h…

Pro tip: save the QR code somewhere and whenever you want to re-setup simply scan it again . Also great to help other not so tech savvy users by simply giving them a QR code!

• I knew that, super practical ;-) (4%, 11 votes)
• Didn't know, that's awesome <3 (95%, 260 votes)

So in case you aren't aware, the reason why the Import from Instagram feature in @PixelFed is so tricky is for two main reasons:

1) You don't actually upload the archive, it's unzipped and parsed client side, so you only upload the photos/videos and captions that you select

2) Instagram changes the json structure every few months, just to fuck with us

But just to take a step back, when you import, your DMs and other private data is never uploaded

The code is auditable github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/b…

pixelfed/resources/assets/components/AccountImport.vue at dev · pixelfed/pixelfed

Photo Sharing. For Everyone. Contribute to pixelfed/pixelfed development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

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