Kevin Hoerr @kjhoerr@cybr.es

Mozilla calls Medium a friend in their anti-establishment [1], and I’m reminded how Medium’s first party tracking is extremely user hostile [2].

“If you have uBlock or similar, it appears medium logs all analytics pings into HTML5 LocalStorage and will keep retrying to send them (and apparently periodically change domains and subdomains to try and send them). I had tens of thousands of entries in localStorage.”

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/firefox/join-the-anti-establishment

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24310778

#Privacy

have you heard about Lakay Nou, the philadelphia autonomous zone led by Black philadelphians who are houseless?

the name roughly translates to "our home" in creole

for updates and donation needs follow @ lakaynou1 on twitter

"Geek culture isn’t suddenly left wing... it always was. You just grew up to be intolerant. You became the villain in the stories you used to love ..."

Important ASA (Admins Service Announcement) for Mastodon and generally PostgreSQL admins: Due to some changes in glibc some distribution upgrades will cause PostgreSQL text indexes to become corrupted, potentially leading to unique indexes not being correctly enforced and inconsistent application data.

THIS WILL ALSO HAPPEN IF YOU DO NOT UPDATE YOUR POSTGRESQL, A DISTRO UPDATE IS ENOUGH!

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Locale_data_changes#What_Linux_distributions_are_affected

People often ask me why I'm so critical of white America.

The question that needs to be ask is why aren't we all critical of white America.

Their hate, intolerance and refusal to be reasonable has resulted in an incalculable loss of life, talent and keeps a country of virtually unlimited resources in a states of cycling economic crisis.

Public officials do this because they are allowed and encouraged to do this.

But yeah, let's keep pretending we don't know what the problem is.

This week's http://History.Expert posts:

👗 https://history.expert/bizarre-silk-gown/

✒️ guest post by @MoMartin https://history.expert/the-scoundrel-the-reformer-and-the-mystic/

🙀 https://history.expert/we-were-promised-cats-with-jetpacks/

📚 If you like studying/writing about history and would like to guest blog, @ me.

It seems like a lot of people are uncertain about what symptoms coronavirus actually has, so I thought I'd share this info I found from the WHO/CDC. Especially because it's not like all the other illnesses are on vacation, and it's best not to panic if you happen to get sick.

Firstly, if you're sneezing and have a blocked nose, you do not have coronavirus. You have a cold.

Secondly, if you have a headache, fatigue, and muscular aches, it's more likely that you have flu. These are common symptoms of influenza but only sometimes present in coronavirus infections.

The symptom to watch for is shortness of breath. Only coronavirus causes this. It's a respiratory infection which can cause pneumonia. This is what makes it dangerous, so watch out for it.

Advice is to seek medical help if you have difficulty breathing or have an uncontrollably high fever.

Otherwise, stay home, keep hydrated, and get plenty of rest.

a visual aid from the #WHO on how to recognize #coronavirus #COVID19 symptoms versus symptoms from a cold or the flu

One of the 0.21 roadmap items is the ability to federate reports with other #funkwhale pods and ActivityPub projects.

I've got a working prototype in the video below, showing a report federating from Funkwhale to Mastodon, and from Mastodon to Funkwhale. Federation from Funkwhale to Funkwhale is implemented and works too (with support for our reports category, like "Invalid metadata" or "Takedown request").

Hopefully, it will make moderators job easier and help increase the safety of the platform.

If you're interested, the feature itself is rather small : https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/merge_requests/1049/diffs (less than 500 added lines, which I consider small for a feature that involves federation :D)

Block mastodon.social

The entire domain