Mikanniko @mikan5@fedibird.com

A series of stunning #databreaches in 2022 has prompted lawmakers to begin making changes to the 1988 Australian #Privacy Act in the form of the new Privacy Legislation Amendment (Enforcement and Other Measures) Bill 2022 #itsecurity #dataprivacy #cybersecurity
https://www.varonis.com/blog/australian-privacy-act-2022-updates

「お気に入りドメイン」機能、専門特化されたインスタンスを追うのには最高の機能ですね。 #fedibird 万歳！

「ドメインの購読」 は複数ドメインをまとめてリストからフォローすることでも可能で、お気に入りとして固定表示できるので、スマホからはこちらを優先させて使っています。

Self promote. Show everyone your cool stuff. This isn’t Reddit. Don’t tell people not to show their cool shit.

Happy holidays 😂

I received an email pitching "managed Mastodon hosting." So, apparently someone's realizing there's a market there...

@beautfc 🤔 Not like we don't know who you are … but reminder: add a Patreon link to your Bio! (and a YouTube link)

Well howdy there fediverse people.

Still slowly migrating over from Twitter, but here’s my #intro post 👋🏽

I work in tech and I’m cofounder of The Riz Test, researching how Muslims are portrayed in Film & TV, and also the Seen on Screen Institute.

I’m conducting research for my part time PhD on how poor representation of Muslims in the Arts has downstream effects on biased algorithms and AI. I speak regularly on the topic at universities, tech & media conferences and sit on the BFI Muslims on Screen Advisory Board. Come say hi!

For all that Fedi feels a lot like the 90s Internet, all the scattered personal and community sites, connected by hand-curated web rings (now boosts & the Federated feed), there’s one really big difference:

In the 90s, when I went looking for mentorship, I found a lot of beautiful memorials. It was scary as fuck. All the men I wanted to be were already dead of AIDS.

Today? There’s a fuck-tonne of alive gay men on Fedi. I’m thankful for every last queer-ass one of you.

If you were a part of #blacktwitter then let’s support each other here with #blackmastodon If we follow each other, we can build a community within this huge community. Many of us have lost all our POC support because they are afraid to come over or are still on the bird. Thanks @BlackAzizAnansi my first follower! We each can have thousands of followers in our own community if we support each other. #blackbusinesses #supportblackbusinesses #blacklivesmatter #blackauthors #blackgreatness

Mastodon server admins right now #twittermigration

I Speak Fluent ‘New Social Media CEO Who’s In Over Their Head’; Let Me Translate The Last Few Days Of Twitter Policy

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/19/i-speak-fluent-new-social-media-ceo-whos-in-over-their-head-let-me-translate-the-last-few-days-of-twitter-policy/

New Mandiant report today assesses with moderate confidence that the GRU directed the pro-Russian "hacktivist" DDoS attack on Mississippi's Secretary of State, keeping it offline most of election day. I expect this to be a huge concern come 2024.
https://www.mandiant.com/resources/blog/information-operations-2022-midterm-elections

That story of evidence tampering on devices of human rights activists in India just got a bit worse, with fake evidence planted on the device of another activist, who later died while in prison. Good reporting by @agreenberg https://www.wired.com/story/modified-elephant-stan-swamy-hacked-evidence-frame-bhima-koregaon-16/

You can follow @PleaseCaption to be alerted if you ever post an image without alt text.

You can tag the @imagecaptionspls group and #alt4me to ask kind strangers to write alt text for you.

Please don't attack people who don't write alt text! Some are disabled themselves.

To view alt text as a sighted user, hover your mouse or click through. Some instances add an unobtrusive border to images which don't have it.

11/n #FediTips #accessibility #TwitterMigration #Mastodon #Fediverse

Epic Games, creator of the popular video game Fortnite fined $520 million by FTC in relief over allegations the company violated COPPA and deployed design tricks, known as dark patterns, to dupe millions of players into making unintentional purchases

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/12/fortnite-video-game-maker-epic-games-pay-more-half-billion-dollars-over-ftc-allegations

サーバーとインスタンスの違いについて

#fedibird #マストドン初心者

Some of you may have seen Elon Musk's endorsement of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s crazy antivax conspiracy theories today.

Over at post.news, I just posted a long-form piece about this, and about how science education needs to adapt to online disinformation.

Please a look. If you like it, boost it there or here or — if you dare — over on the birdsite.

https://post.news/article/2J7VEapSIpNWsrC0EawD8CopYqo

As things start to slog a bit under an influx of new users, it seems like a good time to remember that many instances (including Wandering Shop) are run, hosted and paid for by volunteers. Tossing them a little scratch if you're able is never a bad idea :)
Wandering Shop donation link:
http://www.dorianera.com/2022/08/testdemo-post-for-new-social-media.html

へー、Twitter界隈では、ITメディアのTwitterのポリシーについての記事が英語の誤読や誤訳なんて言っている人がいるんだー。

マストドン界隈の人たちは、最初に発表された、Twitterのこのポリシーをみんな的確に見ているから、あの記事がおかしいなんて思わないよね。

やっぱりTwitter界隈は情報がおそいしピント外れが多い。

もともとのポリシーはこれだよね。

http://web.archive.org/web/20221218210921/https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy