Paul Crowley @ciphergoth@schelling.pt

All Your Face.

TSA going hogwild with facial recognition is going about as well as you'd expect, "but you can opt out". YK Hong: Since folks asked what happens whenever I opt out of facial recognition, I documented it for you while going through US...
https://jwz.org/b/yj8C

Keeping my tradition of painting octopuses on the bottoms of tables in hotel rooms alive 😀

I know, it’s just a “Someone Is Wrong On The Internet” piece, but that NYTimes piece about Why Signal Is Bad And Privacy Is Bad needs to be refuted in a compact explainer, so here’s mine: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2022/12/29/Privacy-is-OK

Without plain text #search #Mastodon will be a place I visit now and then.

Without that level of #indexing it requires too much work on an individual level to add #hashtags to get #content to #surface.

I guess that would require a centralised #service that connects to an ever increasing web of #server nodes? Unless there's another #decentralised way to do it?

Anyways, if you see this, please #boost it if you agree, so we can see if the feeling is mutual across the

https://youtu.be/o5zMYj4H34A food heavy video about UK USA festive differences (made by my @CrafterofManyKinds featuring me, @ciphergoth and my sibling Bee plus her husband Nick and dog Buttercup). I do a good rant about the East coast/West coast new year discrepancy 😅🎉
#nye #immigrant #uk #usa

Every year at Christmas now I think about Christmas 8 years ago when I nearly died with my wife, child and in-laws.

I share this every year over on the Bird Site and will share it here now.

It was Christmas Eve. 9 year old was just 1. We were staying at my in-laws who had an acreage just outside Red Deer at the time. We went to bed a bit late but the night was good. 1 year old wasn’t up too much.

My least favourite sharp edge of Mastodon is the fact that when you view someone else's post you only see replies to it that are known to your server - so there's actually a good chance there will be replies that are completely invisible to you, especially if you run your own instance

I'd love it if tapping a post kicked off a request back to the original server that fetched the current reply count and provided a "view all replies" button if there were replies not yet visible to me

So far in #artadventcalendar I've done rocks but for the last few days I'll be sharing makeup and costuming looks from 2023. This is day 22

LED gems for #torturegarden #lasvegas

https://www.instagram.com/LordOfMxrule/

#genderqueerdrag #makeup #costume