Johannes Ernst
One of the bad things about fediverse handles is that if you put them on a web page, they are not immediately clickable. And even the convention @foo@bar.com -> https://bar.com/@foo is a Mastodon-only convention I believe; really needs a Webfinger lookup to resolve to something a browser can open. What if browsers started handling the acct: scheme by doing the Webfinger lookup?
Johannes Ernst
"We should create a code of conduct for monetizing content. Is there a need for collecting “best practices”?" -- from notes in a session at #FediForum -- in the process of putting them online. 
Johannes Ernst
"Certificate key usage inadequate for attempted operation." What fresh hell is this?
Johannes Ernst
... and the answer is apparently: Firefox shot itself into its certificate cache file. rm -rf ~/.firefox ~/.cache/firefox fixes it.
Johannes Ernst
"Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'"
Johannes Ernst
@kristinHenry @jaz that’s what I guessed. Interpersonal emotionally-charged conflict is a faster discharger of human batteries than any other I know. And not even many of the people who want the fediverse to be a “nice” place are self conscious and empathic enough to avoid helping to discharge others’ batteries. Well, I am looking forward to learn what the fediverse “stable state” will be some time down the road on this issue. In the meantime, my respect to all moderators!
Johannes Ernst
"33% of [Mastodon] mods/admins have experienced burnout". From a survey conducted by @jaz per #Fediforum session notes (which will go on-line shortly. As I'm reviewing, I came across this nugget, and it is shocking!!).
[Scott]$ :idle:
Have the notes gone up? Missed the session. Mainly curious as to how the survey question was contextualized. For example was "experiencing burnout" primarily attributed to moderating or the general, ever present burnout from the last few years, including dealing with things like major layoffs across the tech sector
Johannes Ernst
... annnd here is the first lawsuit against the new California Privacy Protection Agency. https://services.saccourt.ca.gov/PublicCaseAccess/Civil/SearchByCaseNumber case number 2023-80004106
Johannes Ernst
Support: "Help me out with the issue please." Me: "I'm here so you help me with the issue, not the other way around." I don't even know what to say here ...
Johannes Ernst
Which subjects lends themselves to unconferences and which don't? When we conceived of #FediForum (an unconference for the #Fediverse) it wasn't obvious that it was going to work. But it did! We got some marvelous feedback from last week's attendees. Somebody suggested that there should be an #unconference for responsible #AI. Which also sounds intriguing. But ... I wonder whether successful unconferences work when there is a clear "commons". But not when there isn't, like currently in AI.
vagabond
@J12t maybe talk to https://campaign.openworlds.info/@edsaperia@mastodon.social as he is doing the same subjects but as real life, might be overlap, you guys are on the same paths.
Many Core Forth Processor
@J12t My next release should be soon, and much more relevant to the fediverse.
Johannes Ernst
“The very idea that many of humanity's smartest are calling for [a #AI] 'research-pause' - and actually believing (without a single historical example) that it could work - is strong evidence that human intelligence, even at the very top, might need some external augmentation!” David Brin’s take, as always, is excellent. https://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-only-way-out-of-ai-dilemma.html
Johannes Ernst
"The architecture of the Fediverse -- network, apps and people". Sunday afternoon blogging. https://reb00ted.org/tech/20230402-architecture-fediverse-network-apps-people/ Would love your thoughts.
Johannes Ernst
Historical rates of serious crime (homicide). From Freakonomics. 
Aswath Rao
@J12t
Johannes Ernst
Lunch, yesterday. Top of monument peak above Fremont in California, viewing Silicon Valley. 
Johannes Ernst
Also, keep your water off the road when it’s raining. This rut probably came from record California rainfalls this season and is about 4 ft deep.
Johannes Ernst
Silicon Valley, whatever else you may think of it, can be extraordinarily beautiful in the spring when everything is green and blooming.
Kat M. Moss
@J12t The place is beautiful, though I think lots of us have known that for a while now.
Johannes Ernst
California wildflowers, from a hike in the Bay Area hills yesterday.
Johannes Ernst
California wildflowers, from a hike in the Bay Area hills yesterday.
Johannes Ernst
California wildflowers, from a hike in the Bay Area hills yesterday.
Johannes Ernst
@debs Reading in the FediForum notes that you apparently said, in a session I didn't go to: "I'd love to explore what MAJOR investment/support for a public fediverse looks like - civic, govt, city, nonprofit - or is that too scary?" I've pondering the same thing. But I'm having difficulties imagining it resulting in anything much better than the useless public WiFi network the city of Santa Clara, CA, next door to me, created.
Dan Lyke
@J12t @debs yeah, I could imagine a library doing providing interesting services, but municipal NextDoor sounds like something I want to keep my city from doing. A bunch of civically minded folks in Petaluma have had the discussion about a local server, and realized that we don't want to further pollute the local discussion.
Downes 🍁
@J12t @debs Public infrastructure initiatives actually have a very good history, though maybe not in Santa Clara. Roads, water and sewage, electricity and telephony were all public infrastructure initiatives here, and all deeply successful. In the early days of the internet we also had widely popular community access points across our country. Where public investment tends to be less successful is where there are private sector business interests actively lobbying and blocking it.
Johannes Ernst
In case anybody thinks conspiracy theories only thrive on the political right, I can assure you .... no link, have no intent to give this any airtime.
Johannes Ernst
I think so many people have been hurt so many times that they have learned they immediately need to assume the worst in people they don't know well. This would be very understandable, although of course very unfortunate. Unclear what to do about it. |
Gregory's Server
@J12t
Considering #mozilla is going all in on #fediverse, this might start there, or it might only work on their instance.
@J12t my mastodon app made that handle tapable, except for the initial @, and tapping it tried to send an email. This sort of thing makes me think decent handling of handles is far beyond the horizon
Even if a browser (or any app that has occasion to interpret handles) could resolve accounts correctly, linking to the web page on their fediverse host inherits the problem of preventing you from interacting with it through your own account.