Garrett LeSage @garrett@mastodon.xyz

So #GitLab Pages has finally rolled out their automatic #LetsEncrypt integration for hosted web sites. It's quite painless and automatically renews certs. So glad that I don't have to manually do this or maintain some brittle CI-based scripts anymore.

If you've got a GL-hosted site, take the next 90 seconds and go secure it!

#HTTPS #TLS #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

My new bot, @SecretlyPublicDomain, highlights pre-1964 books that entered the public domain because their copyright wasn't renewed.

Until May, it wasn't possible to find these books on a large scale. Now it is: https://www.crummy.com/2019/07/22/0

People talk like blocking fascists automatically turns any space into an "echo chamber". The fediverse we've built up over the years is proof of the contrary. I've learned and grown through this place. I've been able to apply that knowledge in real life. We've got something real here, and I think it's with fighting to preserve.

@andreas The issue author verified that Firefox is not affected by the vulnerability. One more reason to switch.

Oh god...

All Chrome extensions can execute remote code in their own context:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=985759

Included in the bug report is a proof-of-concept web extension by gorhill, author of uBlock Origin.

Alright, just posted a write-up about the paradox of tolerance. This one will be visible on planet.gnome.org, so there will definitely be some discussion about it.

https://blogs.gnome.org/christopherdavis/2019/07/21/the-paradox-of-tolerance/

made this

The same people who think they should be allowed to say anything cause 'freedom' don't get that its 'freedom' to block people and defederate. No one owes you listening. No one owes you their time. They run a server, its their perogative to block you to the other side of the universe. Often its their duty as mods to block people. If the worst thing that's happening to you is that you got blocked, then you must have a very nice life and no real problems. Getting blocked is not getting hurt or having your rights trampled. It's a basic human right to not have to listen to you.

It's clear that "technologically neutral" can lead to abuses: Tusky being "neutral because the tech permits it" could have led to more hate speech like "kill all Jews", Mozilla doing "nothing because certs are technically designed to work this way" lets the digital rights of Kazakhs be eroded.

It is clear that technology serves a human purpose, technology doesn't serve itself, so I believe we shouldn't let our human morals be a slave to technology, we should make technology reflect our humanism

pleas. if youre gonna post images. use image descriptions. please

The Mozilla web dev and designer survey: tells me I have to enable js, so I enable js and refresh, at which point it tells me I've already taken the survey

This is the exact state of web dev in 2019

"Illium" was another name for the city of Troy

"-ad" is a suffix that can be used to mean "the story of"

Therefore "The Illiad" is properly translated as; drumroll please...

Troy Story

I have done a ton of research 🥼, coded a lot of examples 👨‍💻, released a custom element `<dark-mode-toggle>` 🔅🔆, and picked some of the smartest brains 🧠 inside and outside of Google to make my latest article happen…

🌒 Hello Darkness, My Old Friend! https://web.dev/prefers-color-scheme/

We know that our server is sometimes overloaded. Therefore, try this link if the official website doesn't work for you: https://web.archive.org/web/20190717062201/https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

We published a statement on our stance on neutrality of free software (and why we won't stay neutral in this case): https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

Before I go to bed, I want to talk about what I saw earlier. When I was on the bus, a man tried to get on with a wheelchair. He asked the bus driver if he could use the ramp. The bus driver refused, and said “not if the wheelchair isn’t yours” - likely because the man was standing and not sitting in it. The man said “this is my wheelchair”. He asked multiple times and the driver continued to refuse. So the guy starts loading his items one-by-one onto the bus so he can lift the wheelchair in.

As the guy is loading the items, the bus driver tries pulling away and driving off multiple times. Each time the guy has to grab onto the door or gets in front of the bus. Once he’s finally in the bus he asks for securements so his wheelchair doesn’t roll around. The bus driver doesn’t respond for minutes - and I think he called it in to the police. Eventually he gets to securing the wheelchair.

During the ride the dude is rightly upset, so he talks to the bus driver and says “thank you for doing your job” in a kind of perturbed tone. Then one lady starts screaming at him to “shut the fuck up”, saying “nobody cares about what you’re going through”, things like that.

I was appalled. I didn’t really do much except back him up and say that he had to fight to get his wheelchair on the bus. Finally we ride a few stops and he gets off, apparently before the police could get there. I’m still bewildered that the driver called the cops on a dude who just wanted to get his wheelchair on the bus.

Honestly, I don’t think it should have mattered if the wheelchair was his or not. I don’t see why someone can’t get help transporting a wheelchair. I also know that some people that look fully abled do need wheelchairs. It really pissed me off to see this happen.

in your nginx config for mastodon add after the /api/v1/streaming block:

location /api/v2/search {
access_log off;
try_files $uri @proxy;
}

sanitize your logs:

sed -i '/\/api\/v2\/search\?/d' /var/log/nginx/access.log{,.?}`

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the f in git push -f stands for friday, no?