  if you imagine a website as a venue, and your personal website as your home, and let's say a forum is your local community center. federated data in this sense is like corresponding with people at the community center, in the comfort of your own home, via sending them a letter in the mail. not federating that data would be like instead inviting people from the community center to come visit you at your house. once the letter leaves your house, that copy of information is no longer "yours". Mastodon says: % RAILS_ENV=production bin/tootctl accounts prune Bridgy Fed fediverse => Bluesky bridging is currently paused. The Bluesky team has been working on their relay to handle all their new growth, and they’ve temporarily stopped ingesting data from federated PDSes like Bridgy Fed while they finish that firefighting. Sorry for the inconvenience, all! Please send their team lots of #hugops! (Bluesky => fediverse bridging has struggled a bit too, but it should generally still be working.)  Video of Evan's disruption of anti trans fascist Nancy Mace here! Now without TikTok link  @darius egg fascists. Milkshake fascists. Embarrassing fascists breaks their manipulative spell  look at all those hateful old white assholes just sitting there being disgusting hateful white assholes. @j12t almost certainly this is again not an attack on Signal itself, but instead an attack on the underlying system. It's magnitudes more likely that there is a flaw in for example Android that allows for exploitation on the underlying system. And once the base system is fully or partially compromised, you get access to things on it. Such point has been raised before, and every time it was either a compromise of the base system or just FUD, never a compromise of Signal itself. Social Web DevRoom at FOSDEM. Have something cool to share? Submission is open until the end of November. https://socialwebfoundation.org/2024/11/01/fosdem-2025-social-web-devroom-call-for-participation/ Ah, Texas Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham has offered President-elect Donald Trump the use of a 1,402-acre ranch in Starr County, on the U.S.-Mexico border, for the construction of deportation facilities. https://www.newsweek.com/texas-offers-donald-trump-huge-ranch-mass-deportation-plan-1988766  @dangillmor ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️ Essential reading. Nicely curated. #GOP #tRUMP #Congress #Journalism #RFK #Gaetz Story in the New York times advocating for the #fediverse. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/opinion/trump-musk-social-media.html "We used to answer the questions ourselves and we felt like we had control over it. We felt like we had agency. But one day, it was taken away from us. Instead, they bought this AI-powered program without notifying the unions, nurses, or representatives." Santa Clara county is again requiring masks in healthcare settings for the cold season. Probably a smart idea, although the current COVID levels in the wastewater are about as low as I have seen them. @ben thinks "the #Fediverse could serve as a decentralized, cross-platform connector among diverse networks" -- I've come to the same conclusion. Imagine what innovation could happen if today's many social platforms were actually connected! Like diverse networks started getting connected into the internet in the 1990's! It enabled so much!! Lots of other good thoughts in his piece: https://werd.io/2024/bluesky-the-fediverse-and-the-future-of-social-media  @j12t @ben if I understand you correctly, I've thought this too for a while. All social web should be able to interoperably federate, and each independent instance can select which other platforms to federate with (similar to now?). The freeverse apps and instances remain unshackled to extractive data practices and continue to own their data. An #OpenID Connect use case in open-source supply chains! https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2024-11-14-pypi-now-supports-digital-attestations/ Another fine for #Meta from the #EU. This time, on antitrust grounds. https://www.ft.com/content/8dc18484-ee7d-4008-95dc-cc76320441ab In response to a challenge by @cwebber: ActivityPub is the key component of a protocol stack that enables a website to publish, to other websites, what its users are doing on the site. Its current primary use is as an interoperability protocol between social media platforms. How is that?  Kudos to @gargron@mastodon.social for an effective positioning of Mastodon against the competition. When does a word clearly mean its opposite? For me, every time somebody describes their website as "secure" or their "secure login process". For me, this communicates as loudly and clearly as possible that they don't know the first thing about security. No system is ever secure. The best we can do is: a probability of security against a specific enumerated set of attacks. It's never 100%, and we have no idea about potential attacks we haven't thought of. Apparently #VMware desktop #virtualization products are free now. Which is great. But: they are reaaaaallllly hard to find to download. Here is a link that works: https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?articleNumber=368667 |
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