Notices by Eugen (gargron@mastodon.social)

Probably a good time to mention that the next version of Mastodon will finally make account suspensions reversible (with a separate option to delete data when needed). Been working on that for a few weeks (among other things)

#mastodev

@Ocean @waifu @10grans

Toot go brrr

#Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open

https://robertheaton.com/2020/02/05/wacom-drawing-tablets-track-name-of-every-application-you-open/

Twitter says an attacker used its API to match usernames to phone numbers

https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-says-an-attacker-used-its-api-to-match-usernames-to-phone-numbers/

@amic

@freemo @snow Image will not be resized if it's less than 1280x1280px (it can be wider or taller if the total pixel count stays the same)

I'm sorry but if you use Mastodon posts to train systems for filtering inappropriate content you will lose all eye contact, alcohol, US politics, and Star Wars discussions from your platform...

(This is from the paper "Mastodon Content Warnings: Inappropriate Contents in a Microblogging Platform" published by the University of Milan)

@amic Ami dab, Ami cute

mastodon.social says trans rights