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smallcircles

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I'm Arnold Schrijver (he/him). Social coder. #FOSS, #HumaneTech and #SocialWeb advocate.

I help foster #Solutions that improve #Wellbeing, #Freedom and #Society

Let's #ReimagineSocial and envision a #Peopleverse where archipelagos, built by the #Commons, unfold the #HumanWeb. Delightful Realms of Creation, where only our dreams may hold us back.

Previously at: https://mastodon.social/@humanetech

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atomicpoet, to fediverse

Evan Prodromou (@evan), the co-author of , does not like Bluesky.

He believes it's a setback to the Fediverse and slowing its growth.

https://cosocial.ca/@evan/110300493306700391

@fediversenews

smallcircles,
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@aswath @reiver @gvlx @atomicpoet @evan @fediversenews

cc @dachary #F3
cc @helge #NomadicIdentity

atomicpoet, to fediversenews

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    smallcircles,
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    @cragsand @atomicpoet @fediversenews

    I think you are looking for this one?

    https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core

    smallcircles,
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    @cragsand @ernest @fediversenews @atomicpoet

    Indeed. I agree. Great project going 🚀

    dansup, to random
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    I dedicate the new v0.11.6 @pixelfed release to my cousin who passed earlier today.

    This doesn't feel real, I'll never forget the good old days all the crazy shit we used to get into.

    May we meet again ❤️

    smallcircles,
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    @dansup

    Terrible and sad news Daniel. I am very sorry for your loss. My condolences to you and your family.

    codinghorror, to random

    Do I think people with green iMessage bubbles have made bad life decisions? No. Do I still respect them as people? Also no. ✅

    smallcircles,
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    @claus it is when theyMessage.

    @codinghorror

    smallcircles, to random
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    Ultra weird. I pasted a toot by @arinbasu1 in Translate. This one: https://social.arinbasu.online/objects/8af7f48d-ac82-47e8-9c3b-7e9cd691c4f9

    And the auto-detect didn't work, and provided a totally BS Dutch translation more indicative of some dodgy 😱

    WTH happened? I might have some malign extension injecting that, but I only installed official and trustworthy ones.

    (Also in English translation for the img caption it capitalized one occurence of "How To Make Your Money" that was lower-case in Dutch)

    smallcircles,
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    @arinbasu1

    I have some feeling it is an issue on Google's side, because pasting snippets from your toot gives different texts in Dutch. I reported via the UI to Google.

    smallcircles,
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    Reproducing by taking a random part of the text..

    Translating this Bengali:

    দেওয়ালে” ঐ পোস্ট পাঠাতে পারবেন, উত্তর দিতে পারবেন, ইত্যাদি।

    Gives this Dutch result:

    Wat is de beste manier om geld te verdienen? Hoe, hoe dan ook

    (In English: What is the best way to make money? How, anyway)

    When I click "English" or "Spanish" it doesn't translate and shows the Bengali original.

    smallcircles,
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    This is reproducable. Google detects the pasted snippet as English. When I use Inspect I can only see calls made to google services. Both privacy badger and uBlock Origin do not detect anything off either.

    smallcircles,
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    @arinbasu1 yes, it does. But that is not the issue.. where is the spammy text coming from, before I click "Translate from Bengali" in the Google UI?

    smallcircles,
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    @arinbasu1 ha, yes. At least I don't get random text injection 😆

    First paragraph translated:

    "Federatives are a lot like emails. If you have a moving email address anyway, you can exchange messages with everyone. So is it. If you have an account on one of the servers. You can see everyone else's posts on your server, react to them, even send those posts to the "wall" of those who follow you, reply, etc."

    smallcircles,
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    This makes me think this somehow a problem on Google's side. Anyway, I reported via the Google feedback option on the page.

    TheSteve0, to fediverse
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    I am not understanding what is.

    1. It seems like it is a rewrite/alternative server to the mastodon server. Looks to be written in Rust. It is a fork of , which seems to be written in typsescript
    2. But since it uses ActvityPub, it's interoperable with Mastodon
    3. Seems like you can't migrate your Mastodon account over.

    So basically an alternative microblogging interface to the fediverse with different server software.

    This is getting really interesting and 🤯

    smallcircles,
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    @vwbusguy @TheSteve0 @andypiper @evan

    / --> https://bonfireproject.org and Akkoma/Pleroma.

    cwebber, to random

    Wow the leaked AI doc where Google says "hey actually, the open source community is gonna completely beat both us and OpenAI at this machine learning model thing and we should stop pretending that's anything but true" is kinda just amazing https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

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    @fahru

    @cwebber yes, saw it on the orange site too. Big discussion with some interesting viewpoints.. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35813322

    tchambers, to random

    I'm just saying: the launch of
    @wikipedia
    @wikidata
    @wikiresearch
    nableDev
    @wikisusdev
    and @mediawiki ...

    All that does feel like some big new steps.

    So does moving to integrate Mastodon identify verification into software itself.

    "The end goal is that I can put e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm as a URL item and Mastodon will be able to verify it."

    I'm going to be watching this VERY closely and supporting it however I can .👀

    smallcircles,
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    @shaisachs Yay, contributions most welcome 🤗

    There's a guide explaining some rules on the top-level repo at https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful/src/branch/main/delight-us.md

    But if you want to start a sublist, easiest is to copy from an existing sub-list.

    (Guide needs some updating, e.g. only a delightful-contributors.md is required next to README.md and license file)

    @yarmo

    strypey, (edited ) to fediverse
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    I wonder if MLS (Messaging Layer Security) would be useful for encrypting Direct Posts in the ?

    smallcircles,
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    @strypey @hubert

    Just as a FYI.. pointing to the for Group federation, status FINAL:

    https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-1b12.md

    Discussion on : https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-1b12-group-federation/2724

    The FEP was written and proposed by @nutomic and implemented in .

    participated in the discussion by means of @ClearlyClaire but I do not know the extent to which Mastodon intends to be compatible, and if they will propose FEP's for their partiular Group implementation.

    dat_ecosystem, to random

    Hey, friends, we have some news 🙂

    https://blog.dat-ecosystem.org/staying-connected/

    smallcircles,
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    @dat_ecosystem congratulations, and welcome to the 🎉

    amberage, to fediverse
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    Ok so I was told that when you delete a post, a "tombstone" is left in place that points to the post before that so that a thread doesn't get broken. But when I try this (just posted three posts, deleted one, looked them up via the API), the deleted post (api/v1/statuses/:id as well as :id/context) only returns "Record not found", and the next post points to the no-longer-existing record, listing no descendants nor ancestors in /context.

    Am I doing something wrong, or have I been told bullshit about ActivityPub and the Mastodon API?

    smallcircles,
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    @amberage @mariusor

    The observations re:tombstones are valuable. If the W3C spec leaves so much open for different impls, creating an might be considered to document the recommend best-practice approach.

    Overall the more Enhancement Proposals there are, and interaction with the process, the greater the likelihood that devs build interoperable code. And less reference to "Mastodon does this, you can look in their codebase" is needed :)

    https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep

    HaruCoryne, to random

    NEW: 🛞 Tires 🛞 illustrate why refuse to, well, deflate.

    To prove it @ProPublica sent a reporter to a rubber plantation in and a small business in southern .

    Many takeaways, but a less obvious one: dependency on is killing us.

    Riding your is coded as an "elite" activity, but imagine paying $500 for new wheels every year and a half 😵‍💫

    https://www.propublica.org/article/inflation-tires-rubber-imports-high-prices?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

    smallcircles,
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    @HaruCoryne @ProPublica

    #Greedflation is a damn devious #Hypercapitalism practice.

    The oil and retail industry have profited the most. Crazy, deeply immoral and unethical.

    The poor folks at the bottom of the supply chain earning mere pennies, and the consumer at the end overpaying significantly. All to the benefit rich shareholders.

    The other day I tooted about laurel leaves going from Turkey to Netherlands, and in that short chain rising from 0.33 to 850 Euro/kg.

    https://social.coop/@smallcircles/109519463630674515

    smallcircles, to random
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    The World Press Freedom Index by Reporters withouth Borders.

    is in a very bad state worldwide.

    https://rsf.org/en/index

    smallcircles,
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    @futureisfoss thank you!

    smallcircles, to opensource
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    In "Proprietary stuff that nonetheless many devs use on a whim" news:

    Will folks at get a cold sweat when thinking of https://replit.com breadth of services and ?

    In "Hey there, is the future" news:

    Will arbitrary devs fall for the argument they better use a patchwork of tools rather than one-stop-shop integrated development experience?

    In "Wow " news:

    Will give proprietary SaaS the boot with integrated ?

    smallcircles,
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    Some additional thoughts on this matter can be found in this post:

    https://lemmy.ml/post/1001183

    jef, to random

    "Folks totally don't understand much about this ridiculously serious AI tech that is literally blowing up our world with its insane ability to think like a person. This shit is incredible—believe it!"

    Example of the [ output from a typical human.]

    smallcircles,
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    @jef there are many of those, yes. I also see a lot of:

    "Oh noos 😱 the tech world is once more stumbling over each other in a crazed hype to move fast and break things, because there's just so much big $$$$ potential. They are blowing up our world with their insane ability to think like hypercapitalists and conveniently forget about externalities!"

    DrPen, to fediverse
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    Im beginning to create the slides for my HCII2023 paper. Its partly about the and as solutions for citizen participation and contribution to civic knowledge repositories, Its the first paper Im writing about this stuff, but it wont be the last :)
    Im gonna use a few AI Art creations. It may spark other related discussion.

    smallcircles,
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    @DrPen oww, very interesting!

    smallcircles, to fediverse
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    In reaction to the "Godfather of AI" resigning from Google to warn about the dangers ahead, some thoughts of how "personal social networking" on the , supporting genuine and intimate human connection between people online, will become increasingly valuable as generated will start flooding the web.

    The that has matured over years of slow growth and which we continue to foster together is very important. Here we have a .

    https://discuss.coding.social/t/personal-social-networking-resistance-to-the-ai-onslaught-adds-value/338/3

    smallcircles, to random
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    "50$ Billion to his name? Wow, how does he do it?"

    (Khalil Bendib for OtherWords, CC-BY)

    smallcircles, to random
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    Ah, ain't #Hypercapitalism wonderful. As so often the case the #USA is 1st to explore the extremes of its glorious extent.

    We all love #Nature and #Wildlife and the US has the most beautiful national parcs to endulge it. But we can't go all at once, right? Need permits so it doesn't get too crowded. And you can enter a lottery so it seems fair.

    A perfect opportunity to exploit! When using a lottery most $$$ go to Booz Allen Hamilton government and #military contractor.

    https://outdoorstatus.com/articles/recreation-gov-lottery-fees

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