 Noticing this "Local First" article in Wired from just a few days ago. Is there something new happening in that space recently? Why does Wired write this article now? https://www.wired.com/story/the-cloud-is-a-prison-can-the-local-first-software-movement-set-us-free/ What’s his actual win rate, of all the lawsuits he’s always in? Anecdotally, i feel it must be very low. Not learning from it, it seems. https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/07/politics/e-jean-carroll-trump-defamation-lawsuit-dismissed/index.html Somebody who is not very technical asked me whether what we do in the Fediverse is "#LocalFirst software". Which is a very catchy name, and sort of related, but of course architecturally different if we go with the Ink & Switch definition: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/ We need a name for the architectural style where there are many servers, many of those instances of the same software, interacting with each other over well-defined protocols (so one can temporarily forget about the many servers if one wants to), while each server is independently maintained / governed by its own community. Ideas? We don't like centralized services. So we develop Federated Apps. FedApps. Because we are FedUps. The FedUps with their FedApps. When your algorithm takes less than half a second with 1,000 elements. And 58 seconds with 10,000 elements. Then, shall we call it, you've got a problem, fair and square(d). What's a #Fediverse app that is as unlike Mastodon as possible? Something that uses #ActivityPub but is as far away from #microblogging as one could think of? Question of language: Is it "... on the fediverse?" Like "I'm on the internet" in English, or "... in the fediverse?" Like "I'm in the internet" in German. E.g. "If you want to share interesting links, you do that on Reddit, or on/in the Fediverse with an app like Lemmy"
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 @J12t it’s “on the fediverse” (not sure about capitalization); same as “on Facebook”, “on Twitter”, “on YouTube”, “on Patreon”, “on Wikipedia”, “on the web”, and so on “in” is used to refer to a part of the content of a specific post, “someone mentioned that in a post/status/tweet/toot/…” (In English, I don’t know German, tho I thought English was a Germanic language so I would have assumed it was the same until your post)  i guess my choice for using @IceCubesApp a few months ago has been the right one ! We should thank all the contributors @transponderings @runevision @anirvan @pacorob @rdp @mcc @briand, you did some very nice and useful work on this spreadsheet!! Centralized social media, take this! “Here’s the Intelligence Assessment of Donald Trump that the Government Can’t Write” https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/05/donald-trump-homeland-security-threat-00109928 So possession of child pornography is illegal in the US even if your goal is to write code that can detect child pornography. How does anybody solve this problem? (Reading through the notes of today's SWICG's call on the subject https://github.com/swicg/meetings/tree/main/2023-08-04)  @J12t I think the short answer is "hashing". See, e.g.: https://www.missingkids.org/ourwork/ncmecdata https://www.thorn.org/reporting-child-sexual-abuse-content-shared-hash/ https://www.thorn.org/blog/hashing-detect-child-sex-abuse-imagery/  @J12t It gets even weirder than that. Child pornography is illegal, but states are moving to make child exploitation legal by lowering the minimum age at which children can work in dangerous jobs. If we called getting burned by a McDonald's deep fat fryer child sexual abuse, maybe states would feel differently about it... Nice article on the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub by @karissabe in Engadget. Found via our Press Coverage #lemmy group. Crowdsourcing yeah! P.S. Karissa: get your Fediverse handle listed on your Engadget page?
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 @J12t @karissabe  @J12t @karissabe Can we please stop giving #Bluesky and #Threads #Meta credit for being #decentalized platforms when all they have done is announce the intention someday to be actually be decentralized. Both are currently entirely #centralized corporate platforms. “any AP Psychology course taught in Florida will violate either Florida law or college requirements”. College Board statement. The insanity. https://newsroom.collegeboard.org/statement-ap-psychology-and-florida  @J12t In Dazzle office hours today, we came up with the term "Commons Development Organization": an organization whose purpose is to create / develop a #Commons (in the #Ostrom sense). I think the entire #tech industry, and perhaps the entire world, needs more Commons Development Organizations developing more functioning Commons. Certainly various fediverse-related groups are making (small) steps in that direction.  that and a *concerted* effort to educate that the "tragedy of the commons" was actually a MYTH" https://aeon.co/essays/the-tragedy-of-the-commons-is-a-false-and-dangerous-myth Gavin Newsom is a brave guy. Whatever else he maybe, but that he is. https://www.politico.com/news/2023/08/02/desantis-debate-gavin-newsom-fox-00109577 One can’t die of parsley poisoning, right? The pasta with broccoli and capers simply called out for a heap of parsley. Home-made spaghetti on a Wednesday (feeling slightly decadent), with home-grown parsley, but the rest was store bought.  @J12t I can tell you the side effects of eating to much ground pepper, but I haven't yet felt anything from eating loads of parsley, so I'd say you'll be fine. 🙂 #AI-assisted #músic creation. I was waiting for that kind of thing. The ancient art of music composition is about to change into something unrecognizable. (Does it know how to compose a six-voiced triple fugue? I don't know, but I don't see a reason why it could not learn that.) https://ai.meta.com/blog/audiocraft-musicgen-audiogen-encodec-generative-ai-audio/ Achievement unlocked: reported LinkedIn's "Head of something" as spamming/scamming me to LinkedIn itself. It was encouragement of some kind of new feature LinkedIn wants me to do. |
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