mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06'A beautiful new shoot from a great, tortured trunk' resilient survivor, walking encyclopaedia, caster of spells, shapeshifter, wannabe immortal, keeper of dreams, hates endings, needs closure, loves scary things, someone who smiles | plural ace she/her
It would be nice if we cld use #tor as basis for an identity system.
"Login via Onion ID"
AND please provide a notification service, so providers can securely send messages to you about your account.
Technological:
A private/personal self-hosted OAuth server as an onion service over Tor, and providing a secure & authenticated notification service to contact the user using ActivityPub
Suggestions & comments welcome
The pain of loneliness only increases with the number of people around you who can't or refuse to see the real you.
#UnpopularOpinion: The way we currently develop FOSS, especially Linux and GNU is a UX/UI dead-end one-way street and long term unsustainable.
What is a HomeLab and How Do I Get Started?
https://youtu.be/gPGf4Y8nQqM
A #definition….
#infrastructure (noun)
a service/utility/facility which primary value is in what it enables, positive externalities, which diminishes with any attempt to make a profit running the service and often even from any attempt to extract direct payment at point of access and/or use.
Lies of Heroism – Redefining the Anti-War Film
#RightToBeForgotten
#ForgettingInCode
imho this should be an feature of mastodon: Set per post an expiration date (with the option to set a default value in settings)
#UnpopularOpinion: FOSS should not make bug-compatible clones of existing non-FOSS software.
#TheWay is to abstract it, reduce it to its base semantics & structures and make a tool kit/generator/engine & provide a well documented working example implantation of the software.
I miss http://jottit.com (currently an error page)
How it worked:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F__DN9nDehE
( I also don't understand why we can't keep some of Aaron Swartz' online legacy actually online and working...? )
Outdoor cats are a problem.
https://twitter.com/corvidresearch/status/1197600452616966144
