kbin.social is being overrun with spammers. Can we disable registrations on this instance so they can't keep creating new accounts? Every day I log on, I have to spend the first 20-30 minutes, reporting and blocking a bunch of new accounts....
The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.
Techno-optimism is a dangerous philosophy whose adherents espouse the blind faith that market capitalism and technology will solve the world’s problems. In reality, this kind of optimism simply justifies elite power and promotes indifference to human suffering.
Since the lemmy issue is getting overrun with people talking about other proposals, I'm thinking about submitting this as a #FEP. Is that still a useful process? I don't know how many projects look to FEPs for implementation guidance.
This is the proposed FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol. OpenWebAuth is the “single sign-on” mechanism used by Hubzilla, (streams) and other related projects. It allows a browser-based user to log in to services across the Fediverse using a single identity. Once logged in, they can be recognised by other...
After getting fed up with the general neglect of MacOS accessibility from Apple, and having wanted to work on something meaningful for quite some time, I decided to attempt something that for some reason nobody seems to have tried to do before: write a completely new screen-reader for that platform. This isn't an easy task, not...
Can registrations on kbin.social be disabled to stop spammers
kbin.social is being overrun with spammers. Can we disable registrations on this instance so they can't keep creating new accounts? Every day I log on, I have to spend the first 20-30 minutes, reporting and blocking a bunch of new accounts....
How Threads will integrate with the Fediverse (plasticbag.org)
U.S. Sues Apple, Accusing It of Maintaining an iPhone Monopoly (www.nytimes.com)
The lawsuit caps years of regulatory scrutiny of Apple’s wildly popular suite of devices and services, which have fueled its growth into a nearly $3 trillion public company.
A City on Mars: Reality kills space settlement dreams (arstechnica.com)
Let’s not send a few thousand people to Mars as a big experiment in survival....
gilest.org: Make the indie web easier (gilest.org)
‘Techno-Optimism’ is Not Something You Should Believe In ❧ Current Affairs (www.currentaffairs.org)
Techno-optimism is a dangerous philosophy whose adherents espouse the blind faith that market capitalism and technology will solve the world’s problems. In reality, this kind of optimism simply justifies elite power and promotes indifference to human suffering.
Thank you for making Owncast a success in 2023 (gabekangas.com)
You can define success any way you like. But I'm happy with the direction of the project, and I'm thankful for everyone who has helped make it happen.
reb00ted | Meta/Threads Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue Meeting yesterday (reb00ted.org)
FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol (socialhub.activitypub.rocks)
This is the proposed FEP-61cf: The OpenWebAuth Protocol. OpenWebAuth is the “single sign-on” mechanism used by Hubzilla, (streams) and other related projects. It allows a browser-based user to log in to services across the Fediverse using a single identity. Once logged in, they can be recognised by other...
Automatic bike transmission concept is wild and spiky—and could be a big shift (arstechnica.com)
Solo inventor says he's not out to replace gears, just offer an alternative.
Owner of Tumblr confirms site’s shift from “surging” to “small and focused” (arstechnica.com)
CEO confirms Tumblr has lost "well north of $100M" since acquisition.
Life-Critical Side Projects - Aeracode (aeracode.org)
Disappointing to see another AP project (possibly) coming to a halt. It always seems to be the same issues:...
[Work In Progress]: Vosh - a third-party screen-reader for the Macintosh | AppleVis (www.applevis.com)
After getting fed up with the general neglect of MacOS accessibility from Apple, and having wanted to work on something meaningful for quite some time, I decided to attempt something that for some reason nobody seems to have tried to do before: write a completely new screen-reader for that platform. This isn't an easy task, not...
Automakers’ data privacy practices “are unacceptable,” says US senator (arstechnica.com)
OEMs collect too much personal data and share it too freely, says Senator Markey.
Microsoft keeps pushing toward repairability, now with Xbox controller parts (arstechnica.com)
Let the Xbox team take you inside your worn (or tossed) Xbox controller.
Onyx, a new programming language powered by WebAssembly (wasmer.io)
Learn about Onyx, a new imperative programming language that leverages WebAssembly and Wasmer for seamless cross-platform support
Using Server Sent Events to Simplify Real-time Streaming at Scale (shopify.engineering)
We walk through how we implemented an SSE server that's scalable and load-balanced to simplify and improve a real-time data visualization application.
honk 1.0 (flak.tedunangst.com)
Ancient redwoods recover from fire by sprouting 1000-year-old buds (www.science.org)
After a devastating conflagration, trees regrow using energy stored long ago
Deno in 2023 (deno.com)
2023 marked a significant step towards our vision of radically simplifying web development. Here are the biggest updates and what’s coming up next.