Speaking of electronics:

LER - Light Emitting Resistor

I didn't manage to find an mstdn instance that flipped all the switches.

I think I'll go with social.tchncs.de

@andreasdotorg when integrating Jira and Confluence into our own product landscape I had a deeper look at the tech stack of each. One should've thought that they are somewhat similar but they aren't...

It's like Dr. Frankenstein made two creatures from Hulk AND from Mr. Hyde.

Extrapolating to all their products feels like

Zuck: yea so we’re joining the fediverse and I even got some instance admins to sign ndas and federate

Friend: what!? how’d you manage that one?

Zuck: they came to us

Zuck: i don’t know why

Zuck: they “trust me”

Zuck: dumb fucks

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With apologies to Mark’s original IMs (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook). Threads (lack of) App Privacy screenshot via https://shakedown.social/@clifff/110653848263872804

#threads #p92 #meta #facebook #instagram #BigTech #SiliconValley #SurveillanceCapitalism #PeopleFarming #eee #fediverse

This is your yearly reminder to not implement, or use, the so-called X-XSS-Protection header https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/X-XSS-Protection since it causes more harm than good

Follower-power: I am looking for a Mastodon instance focussing on electronics / DIY

The official Mastodon instance search isn't of much help. Any ideas, or am I out of luck?

Time to move away from mastodon.social. I am not having any of this Meta Threads.

1. Meta embraces ActivityPub, federates with mastodon.social, uses Fediverse servers as a "look at all the people you can talk to on day one!"

2. People on Fediverse start following/mingling with Threads accounts, thereby tightly integrating the network effect between the two

3. People decide that if they can get access to the Fediverse through Threads instead of Mastodon, which is for "dumb nerds", they'll go with Threads

4. "Threads will be ending support for ActivityPub on September 1st, 2026 - click here to import your Mastodon account"

5. Fediverse users leave en masse so they can keep talking to their friends on Threads

6. Blog post Eugen: "I didn't want to believe they would go this far"

#Threads #Meta #Mastodon

https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/110664109379249958

@gsuberland @ChrisJohnRiley oh lol, the fold is so perfectly cut on my phone that I didn't see there's so much more

@gsuberland @ChrisJohnRiley oh wait. I thought it's just a track! 😍

at some point I'm going to have to write a blog post talking about the significance of bit depth in linear PWM LED drivers when applying a gamma curve, and the challenges involved when designing the driver electronics that attempt to solve non-linear brightness performance.

(edit: I guess I essentially just wrote the blog post in the thread below lol)

@gsuberland @ChrisJohnRiley oh that's a nice track!

In case you missed it. Meredith at @signalapp was excellent at setting out the problems with UK Gov’s plans to back door end-to-end encryption. If you haven’t done already please support @openrightsgroup campaign on this https://action.openrightsgroup.org/dont-scan-me #encryption #privacy #onlinesafetybill

@zip you sir... are the devil *proceeds to go to the medical cabinet*

if you want fireworks, don't go outside and scare people's pets. just get some tantalum caps from before the age of tant-poly and hook them up to the mains.

@socketwench some people measure success in capitalistic terms of how the Soul Crushing Machine™ can be applied best.

Others measure success in how life is made better.

@schnatterer we just did another test and... What do you know? Mrs Pixel is now positive as well 🙈😭🤬

Let's see how $Kid1 is affected

@idesofmerch ah that was autocowrecked, I meant "polite" not "polite" 😅

Uh, you get the idea, I see myself out

@lynnesbian that was lovely. Can we haz more?! 😻