Notices by not a lot, just forever (nightpool@cybre.space)

hey all, there's a rash of http2 vulnerabilities going around c/o Netflix today.

the default mastodon nginx config has http2 enabled, and nginx is affected (in one form or another) by three of these attacks, so you should upgrade nginx as soon as possible:

https://www.nginx.com/blog/nginx-updates-mitigate-august-2019-http-2-vulnerabilities/

heyyy uh

quick reminder

ESR took a cool counterculture and got his shitty right-wing UNIX ideology all over it—he's not just a bad person, he's a exceptionally bad historian and you shouldn't take his word for anything, the jargon file that he "curates" reflects nothing like an actual 70s/80s programming culture.

here's a pre-ESR jargon file for reference: https://www.dourish.com/goodies/jargon.html

mastodon did not spring fully-formed from the head of a demi-god

mastodon was built. by people like you.

mastodon was built by the people who used it, the people who gave feedback, the people who worked hard to find problems and the people who worked hard to fix them.

mastodon was built by the people who imagined it and the people who did the thankless hard work of fucking up a dream by bringing it into the real world.

think about that.

@gargron add a user count to joinmastodon.org

me, normally: corporate social media has the internet and the only way to break its hold is to meet the users where they are and build compelling replacements that are usable and accessible

me, today: interactivity was a mistake and we should all go back to textfiles

try and tell me there is a better video on youtube then this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1hnBv12-uk

other good screenshots from today

Please stop spreading the rumor that mastodon admins could be held personally liable for images that get automatically federated. In the US, the CDA specifically prohibits this.

"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider".

Propagating this misinformation has caused many admins to make hasty decisions, to the detriment of the entire fediverse. Please don't do this