Kin Lane @[email protected]

Over on the other site @chancerydaily is pushing a fantastic idea for convincing Twitter holdouts to get more use to the fediverse: Fedi-Fridays. Just one day a week TRY posting to the fediverse over Twitter, and see how it goes....

Tell your friends who still are over there...

Oh, this seems pretty cool. Now that Elon has cracked down on the API and made tools like debirdify not work, @scafaria has created Whosum, a browser extension to help make your social graph more portable. It currently "records" your Twitter connections and then highlights those on Mastodon all in your browser (not on some server somewhere). https://whosum.com/

Reminder, on Mastodon, you can save notes on people you interact with... so the next time you interact with them you can be reminded of what you thought of them last time.

TIL About the OpenAPI tooling registry.

https://www.openapis.org/blog/2023/03/08/tools-that-support-openapi-specification

👀 This is actually very cool! (My mom sent me the link)

“This Wall of Lava Lamps Helps Encrypt the Internet” http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/encryption-lava-lamps
#encryption #infosec

more brilliant @robhorning: "what #TikTok or any of the other media platforms is for seems self-evident only after their popularity can no longer be challenged, and it becomes unthinkable, for instance, that they can simply be banned by government fiat" https://robhorning.substack.com/p/our-threshold-of-repugnance?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1073994&post_id=110442478&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email #socialmedia

My article comparing platform researcher API requirements is in Tech Policy Press! https://techpolicy.press/comparing-platform-research-api-requirements/

Rapper #Afroman had his Ohio home raided by the Adams County Sheriff's Office in 2022. He has created a song, called "Will You Help Me Repair My Door," about the incident. In the video for the song, he uses clips from his own security cameras along with shots of official documents like the search warrant. The PoPo also stole $400 which is also shown in the video...before the cops cut the feed.

https://youtu.be/oponIfu5L3Y

My analysis from the TikTok hearing: The United States has failed to bequeath Americans the online privacy rights it now accuses TikTok of threatening. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/24/tiktok-online-privacy-laws/

Laser engraving on an ATEZR P5 entry level system. Surprisingly easy to get started as a hobby.

cc @kin