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21/10/23: There's been/are so many prior Masto Instances [1st = 10Nov2022], several alternative Fediverse non-Masto clients, & now, late-night, after doing it again only a month ago, here's yet another fedi-hop. 😲

22/10/23: Kudos to @jerry who kindly provided all my fav #FOSS #emojis licketty-split:
:linux: :archlinux: :kde: :plasma: :floorp: :firefox_nightly: :vivaldi_gray: :vivaldi_browser:​ :thunderbird: :fedora: :opensuse: :debian:

27/1/24: My active-daily account is now @msdropbear42 [Friendica].

20/3/24: Til further notice, my Daily Fedi is once again @MsDropbear425 .

23/5/24: Now using @msdropbear42.

👍: Classic Oz+Eng lit, sci-fi, fantasy, comedy, satire; Linux+FOSS; Kindness; Gaia.

👎: Cruelty; RWNJs; Anti-Gaia.

Stuff:

  • She/Her
  • Straya born, Thailand reborn
  • Linux+FOSS distracts my sadness
  • Posts 🔥@ 3mths
  • For Follow-Requests, you MUST have Profile & Public posts, or i'll Reject!

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. For a complete list of posts, browse on the original instance.

jerry , to random
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May the second be with you. Or something.

MsDropbear425 ,
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@jerry 🤣

jerry , to random
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People are weird.

MsDropbear425 ,
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@jerry Am too!!!

🤪

jglypt , to random
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What does this mean to the average user?

Can they control that much other than some new features (like when they added edit post for example)

Surely it can't all be controlled like Twitter was by Elon, since it's all decentralised into instances?


https://social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/112344519361606488

MsDropbear425 ,
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@FediTips @jerry @EVDHmn @jglypt

The instances could switch to different software, but the alternative software has to exist first, which is why it would be good for the Fediverse to see some good forks and totally different platforms too.

I really wish heaps & heaps of peeps would move to , coz then i could also return to that as my daily default. It has so many advantages over Masto, but alas each time i spend time on my instance there, i sooner or later return to Masto coz...

...historically Masto was my first experience, & so that's where the majority of my interlocutors are. Most of them don't understand alternatives like F, which does many things differently to M, such that from many Mastodonners' PoV my posts thereat can seem weird, due to the different protocols, features & functions. That problem would become far less important if heaps more peeps were also on F.

18+ kinkita , to random
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How to publish sensitive messages?

Sexual, controversal, or political posts for example could be sensitive. Any thing probably offensive to other users

Use CW (content warning). There is a cw button at the down side of the message window. Click it and enter a title, like "sex, not for minors"

Add (not safe for work) in the text so the message can be filtered by whoever wants to

Use CW for sensitive pictures too. See the separate button at the image properties

❤️

MsDropbear425 ,
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@kinkita Just be aware, the is much wider than merely Mastodon. CWs are a Masto thing. Some of the many other sites have no such equivalent. Much has already been written on this.

MsDropbear425 , to random
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This peep really doesn't get it. Far out, what a big silly! 🙄 🤦‍♀️

https://www.makeuseof.com/why-mastodon-wont-replace-twitter/

jerry , to random
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A tree just fell on my car 😕

Fortunately not much damage

MsDropbear425 ,
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@jerry Did anyone hear?

chris , (edited ) to random
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How to quickly check if your system may be affected by the recent XZ utils backdoor.

Update: (thx @scy) I've been advised not to run "xz --version" because the full extend of this backdoor is still being researched. Instead use your package manager to check the version, i.e. for apt that would be:

apt list liblzma5

very bad: versions 5.6.0 or 5.6.1

5.4.6. or earlier - probably ok, no one knows for sure right now, keep an eye out for updates

MsDropbear425 ,
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@chris Hi. Fwiw, whist using the xz --version string will suffice for many distros, it's inadequate for based ones, as here the important detail is revealed by the 4th significant figure, whereas version only reports the first 3.

Eg:

$> xz --version<br></br>xz (XZ Utils) 5.6.1<br></br>liblzma 5.6.1<br></br>

vs

$> pacman -Qi xz<br></br>Name            : xz<br></br>Version         : 5.6.1-2<br></br>Description     : Library and command line tools for XZ and LZMA compressed files<br></br>Architecture    : x86_64<br></br>URL             : https://xz.tukaani.org/xz-utils/<br></br>Licenses        : GPL  LGPL  custom<br></br>Groups          : None<br></br>Provides        : liblzma.so=5-64<br></br>Depends On      : sh<br></br>Optional Deps   : None<br></br>Required By     : base  bind  botan  botan2  clonezilla  ffmpeg  ffmpeg4.4  file  gdb  gimp<br></br>                  graphicsmagick  grub  imagemagick  imlib2  karchive  kmod  libakonadi  libarchive<br></br>                  libelf  libtiff  libunwind  libxml2  libxmlb  libxslt  ostree  raptor  systemd<br></br>                  systemd-libs  ventoy-bin  wxwidgets-common  yelp  zstd<br></br>Optional For    : mkinitcpio  python<br></br>Conflicts With  : None<br></br>Replaces        : None<br></br>Installed Size  : 2.46 MiB<br></br>Packager        : Frederik Schwan <freswa@archlinux.org><br></br>Build Date      : Fri 29 Mar 2024 08:06:56 AEDT<br></br>Install Date    : Sat 30 Mar 2024 08:39:22 AEDT<br></br>Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package<br></br>Install Script  : No<br></br>Validated By    : SHA-256 Sum  Signature<br></br>

Per the latest Arch News, the newly pushed out -2 is the safe one, after updating from -1.

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