D-side (Pavel Peganov) @dside@mastodon.online

@LemmyDev @drq it's... not? The protocol doesn't care that much what kind of entity produces activities. It's an "actor", whatever has an inbox and outbox.
Even ActivityStreams defines Group as an actor type, but even if it doesn't fit your case, per ActivityPub spec: "actors are generally one of the ActivityStreams Actor Types, but they don't have to be." Meaning you can use your own type if you absolutely positively need to.

So humanity still refuses to learn to handle conflicts constructively. Instead choosing to talk behind peoples' backs and distancing themselves from the matter if/when the jig is discovered.

And I'm not trying to make just this board or the parents look guilty here, this a very widespread problem. There is a cultural trend of suppressing conflicts instead of solving them, which only serves to secretly annoy and heat up all sides. Until something goes slightly sideways.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-56156795

Ok, Google, how's this lack of customer support service treating you? :)

Terraria lead dev's Google account is suspended without notice or explanation, with access to Google Play, GMail, GDrive and everything, he retaliates by cancelling Stadia release of the game.
https://stadiasource.com/article/1449/Could-Terraria-Be-Cancelled-For-Stadia-UPDATED

Here we go again, another app suspended for unmoderated content that users can choose to receive over the network.
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@matrix/105642019067772382

@Hyolobrika when reading, being on the lookout for manipulation attempts, typically through logical fallacies. Learning to spot these will take some time.

Here's one "pocket reference" that I really liked, although it's in a form of an Android app only:
https://github.com/LukeStonehm/LogicalDefence
...it wouldn't take much to make it into a website, but there are countless other lists/cheatsheets of logical fallacies online.
Say, the "Informal fallacies" here looks decent too:
https://cheatography.com/jorgejuan007/cheat-sheets/logical-fallacies-long-lost-art-of-rhetoric-i/

Now I also exist in Russian over at @dside@mastodon.ml! Nothing to see there yet, but that might not be for very long.
I've wanted to post in Russian every once in a while, but seeing that one cannot subscribe to posts in only one language, its isn't fair to bombard everyone with both languages. So I kept posting here in English only.

@Vacya_Porolon@mastodon.ml @rf если не нулевые, это может помочь освежить основы: https://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/ru-ru/python-ru/

Hm-m... There are reviews of hardware and software, but are there reviews of service #EULA's anywhere? Looks like an open niche for content 🤔

These could showcase most gruesome examples these "agreements" allow for themselves, what clauses have no actual effect in certain larger jurisdictions, etc.

With these, users could maybe stop ignoring EULAs with extreme #privacy assumptions like "can't be too bad" or "they'll make full use of everything they can".

https://mastodon.social/@eff/105556948068675148

@zloygik а Хабр их там не убедит?
Типа: https://habr.com/ru/post/482942/

@umnik@lor.sh @rf а чем принципиально отличается от реблога просто пост с просто ссылкой? Не знаю как в вебе, а в Tusky для ссылки даже подтягивается превьюшка.
Или об этом и речь про "реализацию на клиенте", чтоб одна кнопка кидала в черновик с готовой ссылкой на пост?

I often hear questions like "if you could change something about X, what would it be?"

It's never as simple as that! A lot of the time we're dealing things in stable states that, when disturbed with changes, just spring back.
Like a ball that's too heavy to roll uphill, so you have to dig around it in order for gravity to do the rolling for you.

If I knew where to dig I probably would've already started? If I didn't, I probably don't know. I might have a new location on my mind, but that's it.

@PonyPanda here's a decent explanation of the USB conundrum: https://youtu.be/xGh0QX7YvaM

@L29Ah @drq @rf The notion of cancel culture is a variant on the term call-out culture and constitutes **a form of boycott** involving an individual (usually a celebrity) who is deemed to have acted or spoken in a questionable or controversial manner.