How did Weird Al never do a Despacito parody? “Desayuno” was right there! 😂

We looked at what videos Instagram recommends to users who follow preteen gymnast/cheer influencers. These users are often adult men interested in kids and sex. IG caters to those interests, serving ads for major brands amid child sexualizing content. wsj.com/tech/meta-inst…

This is such a bad faith implementation of what the court ordered. Thank you Epic for continuing to fight against this BS for all of us 🙏🏻🙇🏻‍♀️

NEW Consumer Reports study offers a rare look into the scope of Meta’s surveillance. It goes way beyond what most may expect—Meta can know many of the websites you visit and even what you’re doing IRL. mrkup.org/DaFCh

woof, just saw a cybertruck in person for the first time and it is truly awful 😂

Valentine’s day is coming up, but I’ve never been a fan of the view American culture has of love or the way we “celebrate” it. It gives us all such a narrow definition of love. This describes a better one that we can all aspire to, if we have the courage: youtu.be/dHvWiTjbqNY

I wrote up a blog post outlining the steps I took to migrate a custom Mastodon fork from heroku to fly: jesseplusplus.com/blog/migrating…

In case you missed it, I was on the Decentered Podcast last week talking about what I'm building at frequency: wedistribute.org/podcast/freque…

Oh no, twitter is hiding likes now? lol, how will we ever see when politicians like porn accounts now? what a loss for the internet

Been playing around with the Arc browser. It's so beautifully designed and has a great UX to "zap" away elements of a site you don't like! Makes browsing twitter/x so much more pleasant 😊 I had it remove so much from the page it can be kinda jumpy when scrolling the timeline tho

If you're looking for a way to cross-post on all of the new social networks popping up these days, check out fedica.com * Includes all of the major networks, plus the up-and-coming platforms * Customize the message per-platform * Schedule posts * Lots of analytics

reminder that the bcrypt hash function ignores input above a certain length! so if you do bcrypt(username || password) for some reason, a sufficiently long username will make it accept any password. to fix this you can sha256 the input first.