On #WorldPressFreedomDay 2024, the 🇺🇸 has dropped to 55th on RSF’a index. https://rsf.org/en/country/united-states 📰📉”After a sharp increase in 2020, #PressFreedom violations have fallen significantly in the United States, but major structural barriers to press freedom persist in this country, once considered a model for freedom of expression.”
There are 14 people on the W3C's Social Web Incubator Community Group today. The group is finalizing new documents that describe how to use WebFinger and HTTP Signatures in the #Fediverse, and a bunch of other work going on as well.
So glad to see what there is ongoing work making the technical plumbing that makes the Fediverse work even better!
It's always amazed me that ID.me, which you have to use in order to interact w/ the IRS online these days, has a top level domain from the country of Montenegro. Ublock Origin says they're injecting tracking links from Italy's TLD when you login at the irs.gov website.
What's next? Cookies from Colombia? AI from Anguilla?
@briankrebs I propose a law that bars third party data brokers from any site or interaction which directly or indirectly requires government ID per law. KYC and tax are two examples. Any related data should be tainted as "fruit of the ID Tree" and restricted from outside the authority collecting it.
Are there any software #testing frameworks that support testing outcomes other than PASS and FAIL? E.g. “message successfully received but content needed to be lossily reformatted”? Wondering how APIs would look like. #programming
@J12t Realize this isn’t exactly what you’re asking, but the way I would achieve that in a “traditional” testing framework would be: One test confirms response != null, that test is passing, second test confirms that data format is as expected, that test fails.
@J12t Minitest, one of the standard Ruby libs, has pass/fail/exception/skip as the possible states, plus some additional info about them.
You can also assert some things about the exception if you want by catching-and-checking it. Or assert other things from outside the test framework -- a Minitest skip, failure or exception is a Ruby exception, for instance, and can be handled as such.
Great dinner today talking #fediverse with a bunch interesting and smart folks. We are still in the phase where everybody describes a different part of the elephant, but these were interesting descriptions! I learned stuff! And those are the best conversations!!
This is the first time I’ve been to San Francisco by public transport since the pandemic started. There’s now a subway, wow, so that’s great! But Chinatown is basically shutdown, maybe a third of places are open and basically no customers.
May 1st, in fourth grade a long time ago, I didn’t have a good time. My belly hurt so much … and later, after surgery, they told me that my appendix had ruptured and (much later) that without antibiotics, I’d probably have died.
Yay antibiotics. Yay for going to the doctor earlier.
#PersonalAI isn't as straightforward as people sometimes make it out to be.
Example: today's Meta-AI-inside-Messenger experiment. Prompt: A campfire while backpacking in the Sierra at dusk, with me roasting marshmallows.
The scenery is very nice, and looks like the Sierras, even the right type of trees. So that's great. Given Meta has social media photos of me, so one would think ... the guy there is completely unlike me, never had the kind of hat, hair, beard or shirt like this.
Whittled down the list of people I’m following. With no algorithm in the fediverse that shows me what it thinks I should be interested in, I better pick myself how I fill my feed.
It correctly showed me that I needed to use quotes to configure pytest inside pyproject.toml. Error message and documentation (that I found) were not useful.
Reading about #gps#jamming . I get the “louder than the satellite” part, but shouldn’t there be some kind of cryptographic signature or something that lets you distinguish which is which, and some kind of token to guard against replay attacks? Is there? Maybe only in the encrypted US military version? (Guessing wildly…)
@J12t My guess that we don't share the keying for the P-code (the military precision GPS) with the Ukranians, so they have to use the commercial version, which has a short key.
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