IndieWeb post types

This content type is full of IndieWeb post types, which are all content types which allow me to take greater ownership of my own data. These are likely unrelated to my blog posts. You can find a better breakdown by actual post kind below:

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Reposted Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor@mastodon.social)
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I've been using the Chromium browser for certain websites, and that's about to end. Google's greed-fueled moves -- this time to disable vital extensions that provide better privacy and security -- are unacceptable to me. The stakes here are quite high. If Google succeeds what it's attempting to do -- forcing us to use only Google-approved privacy and security choices -- we're in trouble. Firefox looks like the best way forward at this point.

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Reposted abadidea (@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)
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Attached: 1 image This is a graph of Discord’s algorithmically inferred gender (extracted from “request your data” json; axes are probability and days) for a user whose display name is “Tiffany”, whose bio is “she/her”, whose pfp is a drawing of a girl and whose profile theme color is pink. Algorithmically inferred gender is worse than useless. Presumably the issue is that she talks about programming, and all the deliberate “I am explicitly telling you I am a girl” signaling in the world can’t convince a computer. I sometimes watch a livecoding streamer whose youtube stats claim his audience is 99% male even though you can see fem-coded chat participants regularly. Algorithms like this are deleting the women

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Reposted james (@james@strangeobject.space)
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Basically if you’re losing sleep over the fact you don’t like a Q* or you think there are too many groups represented on a flag then I’d like to congratulate you on your comfortable life and suggest you put the energy you have for arguing against representation into something more useful. If it doesn’t hurt anyone beyond making you personally uncomfortable that is decidedly a YOU problem. *I am aware of the “queer was used as a slur against me and thus it’s painful for me to see” but your discomfort can be healed through reclamation of language and community support, rather than force others to be uncomfortable and disincluded because you don’t like the way they refer to themself. I am not aware of any valid arguments on why we should not add black, brown, trans, intersex and whatever future styleguide updates come to the progress flag.

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Liked Ricki Is Not A Wizard Tarr (@RickiTarr@beige.party)
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Sometimes, I think we need to stop blaming just Capitalism, and get more personal. Lots of countries use a Capitalistic system, but still manage to pay workers fair wages, provide free/inexpensive Healthcare, have paid maternity/paternity leave, longer paid vacation, shorter work weeks, ect. We use the word Capitalism like Christians use The Devil, but it's not some dark mysterious force, it is people who are choosing to treat other people like actual garbage, it is people who are making laws, people who are denying rights. The derision with which we speak the name of Elon Musk or Donald Trump, should be universal for rich fuckers who choose profits over people. They shouldn't get to hide behind, Oh, that's just late stage Capitalism. It's a choice for them, and it's a choice for the lobbyists who promote them, and it's a choice for the politicians who put those laws into action.

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Reposted Joscelyn Transpiring (@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw)
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I still think corporations have Pride Month backwards: this isn't a month to make money off me, this is a month to give me discounts for doing the public service of being this gay! I should be able to walk into any Target and get 30% off by kissing another girl or showing the cute bandaid from where I did my HRT shot! I should get free coffee at starbucks for walking in with carabiners and a fanny pack! I should be able to demand any random driver pull over and become a free uber by waving a rainbow flag so I can go spread my gayness across the city! Strangers should just hand me a twenty because I'm slouching bisexually in public!?! #RainbowCapitalism #Queer #PrideMonth #Pride

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Liked Joscelyn Transpiring (@JoscelynTransient@chaosfem.tw)
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I still think corporations have Pride Month backwards: this isn't a month to make money off me, this is a month to give me discounts for doing the public service of being this gay! I should be able to walk into any Target and get 30% off by kissing another girl or showing the cute bandaid from where I did my HRT shot! I should get free coffee at starbucks for walking in with carabiners and a fanny pack! I should be able to demand any random driver pull over and become a free uber by waving a rainbow flag so I can go spread my gayness across the city! Strangers should just hand me a twenty because I'm slouching bisexually in public!?! #RainbowCapitalism #Queer #PrideMonth #Pride

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Reposted Hannah, sometimes đŸłïžâ€âš§ïž (@Hannah@chaosfem.tw)
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The other day at work, in an online meeting, a fuckhead said the phrase “Well, it’s probably because she’s a woman and she doesn’t know what the hell she’s talking about”, referring to an external contractor. I’m not out, but I stopped the meeting and said “You don’t get to talk like that in front of me. Now, I have to call HR.” There was laughter. To which I replied sternly, “It is not funny. Do better.” There was no laughter then. I don’t put up with that shit. Misogyny, any kind of trans- or queer- based phobia, racism. None. That’s how you ally - you speak up. You challenge the notion that these fuckers are in a safe place. You DO have power to create change. Be the voice for the voiceless. Afterwards, two of the other attendees reached out to me to thank for my courage to stand up to one of the “cool kids”. I don’t need thanks, I need people to be better. BE BETTER.

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Liked Anders Eknert (@anderseknert@hachyderm.io)
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If all the "you really don't need X" blogs (where X is commonly some technology like microservices, cloud, kubernetes...) changed their perspective to first person "*I* really don't need X", and wrote about their choices based on their own requirements, I'd enjoy reading that. But all too often, the "you really don't need X" posts just comes out as "you don't need a wheelchair, I've managed just fine without one"... and like yeah, me too, but perhaps people have different needs and requirements?

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Liked Dear Athena
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It was 2022, and I knew that I had to make a change. I’d been unhappy for months, avoiding difficult conversations and going with what society was telling to do. Why? Because it was easy and 


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Liked Pelle Wessman (@voxpelli@mastodon.social)
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Anyone knows what, if anything, that’s holding back the Web Share Target API from Safari and Firefox? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest/share_target I would love to be able to install a bookmark manager as a PWA and easily share to it. Right now I would need to do quite some juggling with Apple Shortcuts to get a similar functionality Maybe one of @jensimmons@front-end.social, @tomayac@toot.cafe, @paul@status.kinlan.me knows?