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2024-07-30 16:54:58 UTC

For those people who consider #AI a major helper when #programming, I don't know ...
Today's experience, caused by me being too lazy to look up the APIs myself:
Me: How do I do X?
Chatgpt: yadda yadda max_redirect(0).
Me: It doesn't have a max_redirect().
Chatgpt: Sorry, yes, it doesn't have it, use requests_redirectable() instead.
Me: It doesn't have a requests_redirectable() either.
Chatgpt: Sorry, you are right, it doesn't have that either.
Should I go on?

2024-07-29 02:57:55 UTC

$420 per capita in advertising spending in the US. A bit more than $1 per day per person. And nobody is happy about it, except for the ad brokers.
Hmmm…
https://www.statista.com/outlook/amo/advertising/united-states

2024-07-28 00:32:44 UTC

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So ... is the Fediverse better or worse than commercial social media platforms? Well, clearly, it is better in some ways and worse in some others.
Our friends in the math department will tell us: you are trying to compare two things that cannot be compared, neither is better than the other, just like you can't compare vectors or complex numbers directly, you cannot compare systems that have more than one feature directly!
(cont'd)

2024-07-28 00:31:28 UTC

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More good things:
* The freedom to innovate! Anybody can write some code and connect it to the Fediverse, and we have already seen an incredible explosion of creativity that all the billions invested in the commercial social media are not matching.
* Many users also report that they have felt more accepted, less harassed, and more at home in the fediverse than they ever have anywhere else online. I have no reason to doubt them.
(cont'd)

2024-07-28 00:30:50 UTC

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However, the Fediverse also has some really major positive features, again picking some from a long list, randomly:
* No ads! No surveillance! That's a major plus in my book compared to the commercial platforms.
(cont'd)

2024-07-28 00:30:03 UTC

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Continued bad things:
* Not even the comment trees or Likes are consistent across instances. You might think nobody commented on a post, but there might be 100 comments on that post on some other instance that simply haven't been forwarded. Not good in my view.
(cont'd)

2024-07-28 00:29:25 UTC

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Continued bad things:
* On the Fediverse, moderation is uneven in a very major way. Each instance is different, most moderators have little training or experience, many instances are understaffed, and some instances are intentionally racist etc. etc. Not true for commercial systems.
(cont'd)

2024-07-24 17:51:30 UTC

I'm thinking we are missing a term, or a concept when talking about the #Fediverse and #decentralized social networking vs. #centralized platforms.
The concept of "middleman" is good. We don't want a #middlemn. But then, most of us don't run our own Mastodon instances, so we have middlemen in the fediverse, too. And our e-mail providers are, and our hosting companies for our personal websites.
But those are a kind of different middleman, not as dangerous. We need a new term. (cont'd/)

2024-07-23 02:25:15 UTC

Sorry for the link to the hell site, but …
I have never seen a video about a serious presidential candidate that was even remotely like this.
https://x.com/ryanlong03/status/1808510079382982870

2024-07-20 17:18:57 UTC

I wonder whether the cyber warriors in armed forced around the world sit on a bunch of Crowdstrike-like “opportunities” and in case of war, waltz into Crowdstrike-like companies and order them to deploy the bad file. For them, that’s sort of the ideal scenario, no?

2024-07-19 02:47:16 UTC

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@npub137w…7g9r That may be good enough for us, but not for the rest of the world. Such as the people with the money :-)

2024-07-18 17:58:55 UTC

Threads is having a moment today. My current feed:
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/808/789/095/184/325/original/8fa350828ebbbcea.png

2024-07-18 17:27:20 UTC

We say that the #Fediverse is better than centralized social media platforms. I obviously believe that as well.
But:
Can we prove it? In ways that are not just anecdotal personal experience or beliefs, but with objective data? I'm looking for pointers.
There are obviously many dimensions, from, say, higher "engagement" to reduced harassment and a thousand things in between. Who has good numbers on any of those? Would it be worthwhile to collect them somewhere?

2024-07-18 04:34:54 UTC

“The political and economic systems of governance that were created in the mid-18th century are poorly suited for the 21st century. They don’t align incentives well. And they are being hacked too effectively.”
Excellent piece by Bruce Schneier.
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/06/rethinking-democracy-for-the-age-of-ai.html

2024-07-18 02:11:45 UTC

In all the hoopla about #AI you’d sort of think people would be debating strong vs weak AI vs the limits of “thinking” by any kind of machine as it has been debated for centuries. Like the Chinese Room thought experiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room
But I see nothing of that. Why is that? Do we simply now assume these issues have been resolved in favor of unlimited machine intelligence and all the doubters have been convinced?

2024-07-16 17:50:22 UTC

Getting a laptop with 32G RAM was a really good idea. No memory pressure ever, in spite of running VMs, sometimes more than one.
Been a long time since my first computer that had 64kB, and where I recall I had to implement a custom swap-the-middle-portion-of-the-program-from-disk for something I wrote. In BASIC.

2024-07-16 03:26:17 UTC

So Adobe put me on some kind of annual plan that requires me to pay a cancellation fee. I don't recall signing up for an annual plan, and I sure do not remember anything about a cancellation fee.
Fortunately, loud yelling caused them to take it off. I'll not be back.
#adobe #enshittification
Stay away is my recommendation.

2024-07-15 20:12:00 UTC

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@npub137w…7g9r these are the kinds of questions we need to explore and figure out what the pros and cons are. Not sure anybody has systematically explored them yet.

2024-07-15 17:34:25 UTC

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@npub137w…7g9r This is good, I appreciate it. Have you thought how this should work if the page you are sharing is an ActivityPub object itself? Then "share" becomes "boost" or "reply" I would think?

2024-07-05 23:30:05 UTC

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I asked the same question over on Threads:
https://www.threads.net/@johannes.ernst/post/C9DmLzSyVo6
... where I learned that the term "permissionless" is "... used a lot in economics and public policy."
If so, the tech crowd -- fediverse or not -- might actually be in the minority wrt to having an opinion on what it does and does not mean... Now where do I learn more about their use?

2024-07-05 23:26:37 UTC

Have there been any protocol-level #attacks against the #Fediverse so far? Malformed ActivityPub messages, subtly crafted HTTP signatures, that kind of thing? (If not, there sure will be!!)
And more interestingly: if you were on team red, what would you do? 🙂 (On second thought, maybe we should have that conversation outside of the public eye, so DM.)
Is there something we ought to do with feditest.org to test implementations for resistance against attacks? #testing

2024-07-05 21:31:46 UTC

Somebody recently used the term "permissionless" to describe the innovation that is possible in the open social network called the #Fediverse. (I forgot who, sadly.)
That term might be borrowed from the crypto crowd, but it appears applicable.
Any thoughts on adopting this term for the Fediverse, too? I'd like to, I think it's apt.

2024-07-04 04:00:48 UTC

One of the most powerful things intelligent people say is: I don’t know.
One of the most glaring things today’s “artificial intelligences” never say is …

2024-07-01 21:47:11 UTC

Pondering the today's "AI" and this famous saying:
"If after ten minutes at the poker table you do not know who the patsy is—you are the patsy."
Given the amounts of money involved, #AI looks like the biggest poker game of all times.

2024-06-27 23:43:15 UTC

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@npub1mel…5c24 So why aren't more people talking about it? Baffles me ...

2024-06-27 23:30:26 UTC

I participated in a geek meetup earlier this week where people jointly try to learn about a new technical subject every couple of weeks.
This week: ActivityPub.
It's always fascinating what kind of information about this topic people came across, what kinds of questions that produces, and misconceptions. I think I was able to address some of those.
And every time the refrain: this could be big! Why aren't more people talking about this??
I don't actually have an answer for that one.

2024-06-27 19:49:23 UTC

There is bullshit.
Then there is really bad bullshit.
And then there is #AI bullshit.
Apropos nothing in particular.

2024-06-15 21:42:07 UTC

#AI as a topic is a marketer’s dream. Great promise! Great peril! Ban it! No, invest more in it! Everybody will be fired! No, we will all be gods! No, the new gods will exterminate us! The Americans / Chinese / … / but not us will use this to take over the world!
Everybody can have an opinion. Headline topic in every governmental meeting and board room and the pub at the corner. Even the pope gets quoted. With almost nobody having any idea what they are actually talking about.

2024-06-13 18:10:17 UTC

If I type "Tell me the history of the Roman empire" into an #AI chat bot like #ChatGPT and hit return, it HTTP POSTs that to one of their web servers, and then ... what?
How many computers are involved in producing my response? What are their responsibilities? How is the response assembled from those parts?
It's a bit like the old interview question: if I type "cnn.com into a browser, what exactly happens?" I can answer that one, but I'm unclear on the AI chat version. Anybody know?

2024-06-04 01:47:07 UTC

Enshittified Instagram is now forcing you to spend at least one ad worth of time in shit. No stepping around it allowed!
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170682/instagram-unskippable-ads-test

2024-05-31 21:17:42 UTC

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@npub1mel…5c24
I understand the architectural differences :-)
I also believe that using the same account with multiple servers, and changing identifiers and "home base" for when interacting with the fediverse are very solvable problems. With the caveat that it hasn't really been broadly implemented.

2024-05-31 21:04:01 UTC

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@npub1mel…5c24 The video is a bit aspirational in that respect, but people are working on it. No reason it can't be made to work.

2024-05-31 19:51:27 UTC

Nice video explanation of the fediverse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmSWPj0T9IQ

2024-05-24 17:41:19 UTC

Nothing is as practical as a good theory.
I don't know who said it first, but they were right.

2024-05-24 16:58:09 UTC

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Over on #bluesky, somebody pointed me to this very fascinating thread on this topic: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3kp7lfkssxl2q

2024-05-24 16:29:37 UTC

Imagine two identical #3social #networks with mainstream users. Same number of users, same connectedness of the social graph, same demographics etc.
Social network A only has an algorithmic feed. Social network B only has a chronological people-I-follow feed.
What would the usage numbers look like in comparison? Numbers of posts, numbers of likes/replies/boosts, growth trajectory, etc?
I would expect somebody has done some research on this. Anybody know of any public results?

2024-05-24 06:24:15 UTC

What an amazing opportunity to do the opposite of the shiny new thing called “AI”.
Let’s go.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html

2024-05-21 22:28:34 UTC

Exciting things are progressing around the #Fediverse. I can't wait!!!

2024-05-17 16:34:53 UTC

Ghost has a (pretty funny) update on their #ActivityPub development.
https://activitypub.ghost.org/building-activitypub-day-1/

2024-05-16 21:07:50 UTC

The #Fediverse is like a startup in many ways.
Some days you are totally elated about all the amazing things that are becoming possible and within reach. We are changing the world!
Some other days you are in the depth of despair that this is never going to work and how could you possibly ever have thought otherwise.
This week definitely is the former. A movement is forming, good people are coming out of hiding and are getting excited and involved. So glad to be part of it!!

2024-04-09 18:43:16 UTC

Silly (or maybe not) question:
So what exactly is social media for?
For some, it is a way to sell ads into an addicted audience. But we are trying to get away from that with the #Fediverse. So if it's not that, what is it for, exactly?
And for you personally: if you didn't have social media, what exactly would you miss in your life? Which needs do you have that would be unmet?
I'd love a broad variety of responses. Reshare?

2024-03-31 00:45:30 UTC

The best #tech #support of any company I've ever interacted with comes from Prusa, the Czech #3D #printer maker. Consistently, they listen to what you have to say, and right away have a good answer. No how-are-you-doing-you-are-so-important-to-us bs that only aggravates everybody, but straight answers to each question, always backed up with links, sometimes with more background info than you had any reason to supposed might exist.

2024-03-29 22:32:51 UTC

The second failed disk in one week. Entirely different type of SDD on an entirely different computer. But stopped showing up in the BIOS entirely.
What is going on here? Is the SDD chaos monkey hopping around my home office?

2024-03-26 05:00:24 UTC

On the question of “What’s the plan to make money?”, #bluesky CEO Jay Graeber says:
“We’ve been building marketplaces within the app, essentially. So, we’ve got information marketplaces, moderation marketplaces..”
How can that produce enough revenue to make the VCs happy? Just what kind of information marketplaces might she be thinking of that can produce those results?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/3/25/24108872/bluesky-ceo-graber-federation-social-media-decoder-interview

2024-03-24 19:06:17 UTC

How to talk about the #fediverse so people can understand why it might have value to them.
(Skip the term "marketing" if you don't like it. The conversation is still very interesting)
From a session at #FediForum hosted by @npub1jh5…jak4
https://fediforum.org/2024-03/session/6-d/

2024-03-24 17:24:14 UTC

"Currently, Threads accounts do not see individual likes on their federated posts, instead getting a notification that says ‘4 fediverse users from 3 servers liked this post’. According to Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput, Threads cannot use profile info from fediverse accounts on Threads yet because they are not allowed to do so yet by their Legal department."
h/t @npub1qu2…uj0d

2024-03-23 19:56:50 UTC

From the #FediForum notes of a session:
"Note taker: Beneficial Anarchy"
Could be the name of a rock band.

2024-03-22 15:55:30 UTC

Reviewing #FediForum session notes. One says "Making PR to Mastodon seems futile".
I don't know who made the comment or based on what experience, but Ouch!
/cc @npub1xzm…eykm @npub17ge…hgsu

2024-03-13 18:49:56 UTC

What is and isn't acceptable for businesses to do in the #Fediverse?
Lots of opinions, many strongly held. The fact of the matter, of course, is that businesses *are* connecting to the Fediverse, from news organizations to Meta and everything in between.
Would be useful to come up with a set of acceptable things to do for businesses and unacceptable ones. Or maybe a scale.
I want to run a #FediForum session on this next week, and brainstorm with you all.
Join me? https://fediforum.org

2024-03-12 19:28:12 UTC

Time zones are the worst.
Other than time zones with daylight saving time changing on different dates.

2024-02-19 23:48:48 UTC

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@npub1kna…9qpm Yes they are!
My backyard hydroponics system: https://project-springtime.org

2024-02-19 23:45:51 UTC

Some can’t wait for spring.
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/111/960/807/448/674/097/original/b6b02023b1d53d17.jpeg

2024-02-06 22:00:40 UTC

What would you say the #Bluesky people are trying to build? Why does it matter to them?
What about the #Mastodon people? What are they trying to build, and why does it matter to them?
And what about the broader #fediverse? What are we all trying to build, and why does it matter to us?
Curious what everybody thinks.

2024-02-05 01:13:03 UTC

The PG&E outage map had just a few sprinkles on it last night. It’s been growing lots of colored dots ever since and right now it seems maybe 40% of silicon valley is out of power. Hard to tell because I’m not sure everybody gets their power from them. This will take forever to restore and the storm is still going strong, too. So if you don’t hear from me for a while, you know why.

2024-01-23 00:49:59 UTC

Has #Medium done any Fediverse integration so far other than standing up their own Mastodon instance? And, I think, integrated their user database somehow?
(I might be terribly underinformed.)

2024-01-13 05:12:04 UTC

Looking for a simple Python Http/2 server, for #feditest. Not an entire framework, that would be overkill and confusing. Does such a thing exist? Or does everyone expect that #python apps serve the web via WSGI?

2024-01-12 04:52:23 UTC

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@npub1ecs…rsgt Nope. I'm an electrical engineer by training, I don't do wireless anything if I can avoid it.

2024-01-12 03:13:57 UTC

Tired: reboot your PC.
Wired. reboot your mouse.

2024-01-11 03:58:03 UTC

Who do wish were part of the #Fediverse who currently is not?
People, professions, fields of expertise, ...

2024-01-08 03:23:49 UTC

We need to reduce energy consumption, they said, to mitigate the #climate.
“By 2050, India will be among the first places where temperatures will cross survivability limits … And … the demand for air conditioners (AC) in the country is expected to rise nine-fold.”
9x
https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/06/india/extreme-heat-india-climate-ac-intl-hnk/index.html

2024-01-06 03:28:57 UTC

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@npub1rh0…sjsf @npub1xzm…eykm @npub1ckm…gutz “larger base” by people, organizations, or money that can be spent to advance the cause? Xmpp always struck me as having far more orgs involved that had money instead of half the shoestrings that the fediverse has been living on.

2024-01-05 23:19:14 UTC

Discussing Embrace-Extend-and-Extinguish, @npub1xzm…eykm on @npub1ckm…gutz's podcast uses #XMPP as a historical analogy of how things can go wrong. He points out that XMPP had some self-inflicted problems, eg that the standard did not support new, desirable features quickly enough, like stickers in chat.
I hope we won't get the same problem in the #fediverse. #ActivityPub was created in 2018 and there is currently no W3C standards activity.
Maybe Mastodon could come back to W3C and help re-energize?

2024-01-04 21:04:33 UTC

"Exit to Community Stories & Strategies"
https://e2c.how/

2023-12-27 19:54:44 UTC

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@npub1rh0…sjsf in this distinction, is the functionality of the "social web" the same as the functionality of the "fediverse", even if there are additional protocols, or is there also additional functionality?

2023-12-27 19:07:02 UTC

Some people prefer to talk about the "social web" instead of the "fediverse".
If you do, do you just prefer one term over another, or do you think "social web" could emcompass more functionality than what today's fediverse can do?
Curious.
#socialweb #fediverse

2023-12-15 22:40:00 UTC

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@npub1jf9…936x @npub1alm…t4v4 rel=me

2023-12-15 21:43:10 UTC

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@npub1alm…t4v4 says the ability to verify accounts on social media -- without pay or other third-party rules -- is critical for an organization such as the BBC.
Trust is essential.

2023-12-15 21:37:05 UTC

Starting to listen to @npub1ckm…gutz's podcast with @npub1alm…t4v4 on the #Fediverse and BBC's Mastodon project ....
So Ian has been "starting fires" (his job title) for 20 years at the BBC. (I relate, I often feel like a fire starter myself.)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dot-social/id1717622022

2023-12-14 08:26:12 UTC

Hey @npub1jnc…h8xx, re your piece on #activitypub and #threads, my notes from last week’s meeting at #meta answer some of the questions in your article.
https://reb00ted.org/tech/20231208-meta-threads-data-dialogue/

2023-12-03 03:39:32 UTC

Have you watched the cool #fediverse software demos from #Fediforum?
Online at https://fediforum.org/2023-09/

2023-12-02 19:30:30 UTC

Learned a new word: pawl.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawl

2023-11-29 02:20:27 UTC

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Gotta wholeheartedly agree with @npub1ckm…gutz’s point in his dot social podcast: this is an amazing time. So much opportunity! It’s like the early days of the web all over again!!
@npub1lsl…9c2x thinks it’s certainly bigger than mobile, when the smartphone with apps became a thing, and I would agree with that, too.

2023-11-29 02:14:35 UTC

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@npub1lsl…9c2x and @npub1ckm…gutz, in their podcast episode, ponder what the new, compelling thing is that can be done with decentralized social media that couldn’t be done with centralized systems. They agree with each other that nobody knows yet, and that if history is any guide, the centralized systems first have to be rebuilt in a decentralized fashion before that likely becomes apparent.

2023-11-29 02:03:00 UTC

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@npub1lsl…9c2x seems to say, in @npub1ckm…gutz ‘s Dot Social Podcast, that he thinks significant innovation is more likely to happen on top of the future decentralized #bluesky network than on the #activitypub network. Not sure I heard this right, but if so, I would love to hear his reasoning because I sure don’t see it.

2023-11-29 01:25:00 UTC

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I have a comment here, though: there is nothing in #activitypub or any other relevant standards that says that #fediverse software needs to allow you to take your followers from one instance to another. In other words, the #fediverse does not actually promise anybody that they can take their followers!
(Maybe it should. I sure would like that. Some apps allow you to do that. But whether eg #threads ever implements it is entirely up to them)
@npub1ckm…gutz @npub1lsl…9c2x

2023-11-29 01:20:29 UTC

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Now in the dot-social podcast episode, @npub1ckm…gutz and @npub1lsl…9c2x discuss how much #fediverse and #threads users understand the proposition of “own your followers”. They come to the conclusion: probably not much. (I would agree.)

2023-11-29 01:09:02 UTC

Listening to the first episode of @npub1ckm…gutz ‘s new podcast “Dot Social” on decentralized social networking with guest @npub1lsl…9c2x. They start off with discussion of his 2019 paper “Protocols, Not Platforms” and how, all of a sudden, the stagnant big social platforms are now being bypassed with rapid innovation by developers all over the fediverse.

2023-11-29 00:31:11 UTC

This is really weird: #Safari on #iPad. Anybody any ideas?
I run an air quality sensor on my LAN at a hostname served from the local DNS (which runs on my gateway).
If I access this host from Safari in regular mode, it comes up just as expected.
If I access this host in a "private tab", I now get this (screenshot). The content is what you get if you access the gateway (not my sensor!) without a valid virtual hostname. Why would it access the gateway? And what "privacy protections"?
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/111/491/013/347/141/071/original/c55d33e15518dc4c.jpeg

2023-11-17 04:25:15 UTC

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@npub1nxy…avr7 What is the total cost on a per MAU or DAU basis? (Would love to have a number like this for the Fediverse, too... can compare with Twitter's cost pre-acquisition)

2023-11-16 22:38:27 UTC

Signal costs $50m / year to run!
https://www.wired.com/story/signal-operating-costs/

2023-11-11 22:41:06 UTC

Great piece by @npub1psd…9sr7 on the relationship between #scifi and creating a worthwhile future, apparently delivered as a keynote yesterday.
“We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus”
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2023/11/dont-create-the-torment-nexus.html

2023-10-28 01:07:01 UTC

So I just shared an article to the #Lemmy group on Fediverse press coverage, and as I hit refresh, the number of Likes goes back and forth between 1 and 2. Given that both are from me, and I'm not changing them, what is going on here?
https://lemmy.world/c/fediverse_press

2023-10-24 18:47:58 UTC

No more T2/Pebble.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/24/pebble-the-twitter-alternative-previously-known-as-t2-is-closing-down/
#t2 #pebble #fediverse

2023-10-23 23:14:27 UTC

Anybody can explain how this #Matter #iot connectivity standard actually works?
The specs requires registration, and I don't feel like registering.
Also, can I connect my open-source code without having to go through their certification? How?
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23925489/matter-1-2-smart-home-support-new-devices

2023-10-23 18:15:05 UTC

It’s practically impossible to use #https for devices on home networks, such as #iot devices — the #certificate system simply isn’t made for servers behind firewalls.
Why?
E.g. why can’t I easily get an intermediate (and official) CA cert for my home gateway, which then could issue certs for my devices, maybe in the same breath as assigning local dns names?
Is it that simply nobody cares about this use case, and everybody is happy enough with going through vendor clouds? Or why is that?

2023-10-10 18:41:19 UTC

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@npub1lh0…upks Good piece! And just about every power in the region is using the Palestinian cause as a pawn on their own chessboard without meaning a word of it.
Case in point, the current situation. I can see that Hanas' attack is useful for Iran. For Palestinians themselves, there is no upside whatsoever that I can see.

2023-10-10 15:10:06 UTC

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@npub1lh0…upks by now that may very well be true. Haven’t been there in a while.

2023-10-10 05:41:22 UTC

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@npub1lh0…upks a two state solution would not have that aspect to it, so I’m not convinced this argument works.

2023-10-10 03:43:47 UTC

It’s seems to me the better strategy for #israel would be attempt to create a division between “peaceful Gaza residents” and “militants” and attempt to get some of the first ones to help rout out the second ones. If they treat everybody as enemy, everybody will fight back as enemy, for the next several generations as it happened for far. And nit getting shot in the Gaza barrel is surely an incentive.
But there’s no indication that is what they are doing. Why not?

2023-09-28 15:22:42 UTC

OH: "Minimum viable demo".
Good idea.

2023-09-23 03:50:00 UTC

The Free Software Foundation Europe set up a website to help move governments from proprietary social media to the #fediverse.
Excellent idea!
https://fedigov.eu

2023-09-23 00:44:33 UTC

About half of the Fediverse addresses typed by FediForum attendees into the session notes are missing the leading "@".
People typed in their very own Fediverse handles. And because they came to FediForum, it's very likely they are very well acquainted with the right syntax.
Pretty strong circumstantial evidence that most people won't be able to distinguish Fediverse handles from e-mail addresses.
I have long believed that they should be the same.
#fediverse #email #address #fediforum

2023-09-15 21:19:09 UTC

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@npub1esn…9306 You don't think they know that already? Bad actors work at volume, and so I'd expect they have done their analytics.

2023-09-15 19:40:25 UTC

Reddit is now making their internal user #reputation score available. This is interesting.
We could do something rather similar for each #fedverse #instance.
https://reddit.com/r/modnews/s/ACLV3X6aUR

2023-09-15 19:36:09 UTC

Apparently 6 schools have been burnt down already in Belgium over a 4 hour sex ed class in schools.
https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/brennende-schulen-in-belgien-protest-gegen-sexualkunde-programm-a-f291b222-cf2c-48e3-8c9c-6c88f2c93813 (in German)

2023-09-15 17:10:11 UTC

My testing with a sample size of one (me) concluded that years ago. https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/the-spectacular-downfall-of-a-common-useless-cold-medicine/

2023-09-15 16:46:25 UTC

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@npub1hx9…lyhl Congratulations, and thanks on behalf of “everybody”. You have been doing the world a great service fighting, and winning, that fight.

2023-09-14 07:19:59 UTC

Libya after the flood. It’s like a piece has been cut out with a very large scalpel.
https://cdn.prod.www.spiegel.de/images/4e4ddf66-e614-498b-ab85-fb1109b777f0_w948_r1.778_fpx28.13_fpy50.webp

2023-09-14 06:10:57 UTC

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@npub1zgf…d2j4 idk, not using too many google products…

2023-09-14 02:22:11 UTC

An #ai that answers the phone for me, sounds like me, and strings along the telemarketers, for as long as possible. Maybe negotiating the best deal, too, if there is one to be had.
That’s quite within the realm of possibilities today, right? Where can I order one?