Listening to podcasts and today and being reminded that we need solution for 'adblocking' in-stream-audio. Here's looking at you Vox and The Verge. I think the method that SponsorBlock is using is probably the right direction. Aware of any interesting projects in this area?
@laurenshof its actually amazing how often I have gotten the response "just move to a cozy instance" when I have complained about something here, and the people who have said that somehow didn't notice that I am on a SINGLE USER INSTANCE
Hey @MDN, with Stack Overflow’s ongoing community implosion, now would be an excellent time to launch MDN Answers so people have a better place to help each other learn.
@julian@thisismissem@Jeremiah@flyboy there is definitely interest, I have seen like 20 people post "is there a fediverse alternative to StackExchange?" this week
Le istanze mastodon e lemmy si parlano e si può pubblicare automaticamente il proprio messaggio nel gruppo dedicato
Su https://feddit.it l'istanza lemmy italiana, basta inserire l'indirizzo del gruppo, ad esempio in questo caso mettiamo l'inidirizzo del gruppo fediverso:
@smallcircles I come from anarchist roots where the word Autonomous is used a lot to mean governed collectively, though I wonder how it might come off to people from different places
@smallcircles the thing I am doing will be at @pankegallery in berlin which will definitely be around folks who are familiar with the social connotations of 'autonomous'
@smallcircles@dansup was also just talking about this. we should start a call for action. the SE situation is really shit rn and it would be a great time to get some interest in this.
For every post I see about people mourning the death of someone named Steve Albini there should be a 100 posts about the brutal murder of Palestinians in Rafah today.
So #Bluesky is implementing an (unspecified) new protocol for direct messages. Because AtProto is really not suitable for anything that isn't 100% public.
I wonder whether they can do this now that Jack is off the board. But maintaining two separate protocols in the same app? Who knows, maybe #ActivityPub is next?
Looking into this Summer of Protocols thing that @evan and @tomcoates got accepted for to work on adding encryption to #ActivityPub, and realized its a grant from the Ethereum Foundation. I am not opposed to crypto slush money flowing into more useful projects like the #fediverse but thought it was interesting that I hadn't seen anyone mention this fact yet.
@tomcoates yeah I looked through a bunch of it. It's a strange mix of things. I know quite a few people who have managed to get some money from the Ethereum Foundation for non Blockchain stuff. I do expect you will both get some pushback at some point about this though so maybe be prepared for that. There's many valid reasons to be suspicious or sceptical of anything touching crypto capital.
I had to get a German bank account and decided to go with the only one with a presence on the #fediverse. I finally got into my new account (after waiting a very long time for them to snail mail me a code) and just attempted a transfer and it worked so I am now officially a @glsbank member...
Another great review from MKBHD of another AI device that has promise but is not so great. His point about how more and more products are shipping in this unfinished state is really an important one. Seems pretty crazy to have to say this but maybe don't ship stuff that doesn't work.
@mike@ac-dc-ai-mike I was actually sort of excited to see Rabbit ship and it's sorta sad to see how far they seemed to fail. I liked some of the concepts around the idea of "agents" interacting with apps to get around the interoperability issue. I hope we see some open source implementation of the LAM ideas
I was thinking what would it look like if a Flohmarkt instance pulled in a @bookwyrm book to list as an item to sell. How would that make the most sense to represent through #ActivityPub?
@dansup you might need to add a warning about the fact that you are using the Bookmark feature as a signal for training anything. There have been lots of articles mentioning how the bookmark and like features "on the fediverse" are private and dont do any training of algorithms. Regardless if thats true it is expected by many
"Hassan Sayed, a fifth year PhD candidate in economics, and Achinthya Sivalingan, a SPIA MPA second year, have been arrested, evicted, and permanently banned from the Princeton campus, thereby preventing them from finishing their degrees."
via https://twitter.com/wawog_now/status/1783480804481401115@palestine
logging into things has become such a nightmare, why oh why did we popularize the notion that you need 2 computers to login to something? this is the extent that the capitalist mind worm has burrowed deep enough into programmers subconscious
@JoeGermuska there is no such thing as a universal activitypub client and I would argue there never will be unless we speak of a future version of AP that comes with many adjustments
@pixelfed thanks for featuring my story @dansup, looks like previews are not working in the DM view, should I file an issue for this or is it already known?
“The accused repeatedly passed on information about negotiations and decisions in the European Parliament to his intelligence service client,” authorities said....
As more and more instances are providing multiple services under the same management, we need a term to talk about this type of arrangement. A Fediverse Galaxy is a collection of federated software that is provided by the same admin or collective.
Mike Macgirvin recounts the depressing history behind Mastodon's rendering of `article` vs `note` ( fediversity.site )
Here's the reason Article became a second class citizen......
Germany arrests EU Parliament staffer over bombshell claims he spied for China ( www.politico.eu )
“The accused repeatedly passed on information about negotiations and decisions in the European Parliament to his intelligence service client,” authorities said....