A FIPS-approved default crypto, in a memory-safe programming language, with an OpenSSL compatibility facade on the way!? This is a very exciting development and has huge potential to eliminate certain classes of risk and improve security across the board! I'm going to keep a close eye on this project... https://www.memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-with-aws-crypto-back-end-and-fips/
I need a browser plugin that replaces the words "Israel's War on Gaza" with "Israel's Genocide In Gaza" so I can read my feeds without simply raging at the media's framing of events through terrible headlines.
After listening to the OTM episode below, I've been reflecting on the profusion of LLM-generated garbage on the internet today, how much worse it's going to get, and the resulting effect on search, which has already gotten pretty terrible. And I think the episode, so preoccupied with how LLMs will wreck already-struggling media and the public's grasp on reality, missed something kind of critical... and I'm going to make a hot-take prediction. 1/
We have been on a long and seemingly inevitable slide down a slope of "why would I pay for/look at one source for [thing] when the Internet can give me that for free?" And the [thing] I'm mainly thinking about it is "accurate, up to date information". I'm certainly an infovore and an early adopter of all that the internet affords, greedily gobbling up feeds and constantly refreshing social media in a futile attempt to sate my inescapable need to know. 2/
Because if the Internet is no longer useful, if the free summary of the accumulated content at the end of a search or top of a feed is no longer a source of fresh water, just raw sewage, I think after enough time, we will stop drinking. The Internet as a whole will become the "National Inquirer" of information, something you ridicule other people for consuming. Something they do guiltily, knowing they are licking the bottom of the barrel not caring that they eating something bad for them. 5/
@phanpy Is there a mastodon-driven reason why the "+replies" and "-boosts" buttons on profiles are mutually exclusive? They seem to be like this in all clients.
Reason I'm asking: I often want to evaluate an account by looking at both their top-level and reply posts, without boosts (since I often follow with boosts ignored to reduce dupes in my feed).
@mogul hi @phanpy dev here. They can be mutually inclusive (from the API). The UI is the challenge here as different folks want to see different things on a profile, so some (more powerful) clients (e.g. Mona) simply include filters for every post type.
On Phanpy's case, it defaults to original posts with boosts, as boosts are grouped into their own carousel — unless you disable it in the Settings.
@phanpy I've spent a bunch of time trying to figure out how to get the installed Phanpy PWA to open outbound links in the default web browser (Firefox Focus) rather than within the Phanpy PWA in Android... Is this something that has come up before?
I played the puzzle game Cocoon from start to finish today. What a lovely, intricate, text-free experience! I can't even imagine what the design process must have been like. https://www.metacritic.com/game/cocoon/
Hey #Fediverse what's the most accessible and cheapest way to surface/reference the history of your previous #Mastodon account after you move to another server and grab the archive?
Despite the drawbacks of account migration[*], mastodon.cloud is sunsetting so I think it's time I pick up stakes and look for a new Mastodon instance. Top contenders so far are hachyderm.io (well established, generative) and publicinterest.town (niche and cozy), since they seem to be run by ethical community-minded geeks. Does anyone have another Mastodon instance they'd like to recommend?