COVID in California, the gift that keeps on giving. I suspect it’s similar elsewhere.

Any nary a mask in sight.

How's the #Tor project doing?

Running Tor for the first time in a while, I notice the most current release of the Tor browser is more than 18 months old.

UPDATE: I was wrong. See comments.

An incredibly long article to basically say “we didn’t test it”. Hmmm… #crowdstrike

https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-remediation-and-guidance-hub/

@docpop says "The Fediverse is an alliance of websites". Oh, I like that a lot.

From the first episode of "The Fediverse Files" he produced for WordPress/Automattic.

Go watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzYozbNneVc

Somebody updated the Limits To Growth “World3” model and curve-fit it to the actual data over the past 50 years. The original predictions were not pretty. The updated ones aren’t any prettier and are becoming imminent.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jiec.13442

Corrected: Over $1200 per capita in advertising spending in the US per year. That is .... substantial! And nobody is happy about it except for the ad brokers.

https://www.statista.com/outlook/amo/advertising/united-states and https://blog.zgp.org/privacy-id-buy-that/ thanks @dmarti

Some people have made up their minds. Disengaging. One of the great features of the Fediverse.

Back from a very nice hike in the not-so-hot hills today.

The Fediverse is missing that "Away" status that we used to have in instant messaging. Or more likely these days "out of coverage" or "taking a mental break"...

So ... catching up.

What academic papers or masters or other theses have been published in recent times in computer science on decentralized social media, the fediverse, or the social web?

Would appreciate pointers because I’m not coming up with much. Who has active research going on? #compsci #fediverse

For those of you who think there is no money on the fediverse, think again.

From: @heidilifeldman
https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/112848922502057063

Is there a way to add people to a Mastodon list in the Web UI that does not take 6+ steps, including a search field that somehow uses a different algorithm than the main search field?

Remember the Flock social web browser? @chrismessina brought it up the other day, and fortunately, there are still a bunch of demo videos on YouTube.

I wonder which of its features from back then are still good ideas that we don't have today.

Anybody building a social browser today?

This bench does not have very friendly business hours.

Chatgpt is losing the plot today. I ask it for some code, and gives me step 1 and stops. I ask "Is there a step 2", it apologizes continues and stops code generation right in a nonsensical middle: (This is supposed to be python)

from datetime import datetime, timedelta
from cryptography import x509
from Modified have received Questions regarding ofthe

Hmmm ....

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/)

As we start to get ready for the debates and energy of the #FediForum, I'd love to collect all of your thoughts on:

What are the most pressing issues for the #Fediverse right now and in the next 6 months? What challenges are different from those a year ago? What did we solve in the past 6 months and what didn't we? What help do we need to move the Fediverse forward?

P.s. Registration is open: https://fediforum.org/ Join us!