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J12t

@J12t@social.coop

Technologist, founder, organizer.

Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Fediverse is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet.

Check out my home page for more info and links.

He/him. tfr

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fediforum, to fediverse
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What are some cool applications that were created recently?

We'd like to reach out to them and see whether they want to demo at the next in March.

You can find previous recorded demos on https://fediforum.org/

J12t, to random
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The alarm bells have grown from the size of an asteroid to the size of a small planet.

“Trump team argues assassination of rivals is covered by presidential immunity”

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4398223-trump-team-argues-assassination-of-rivals-is-covered-by-presidential-immunity/

weilawei,
@weilawei@mastodon.online avatar

@J12t "That's no moon."

georgetakei, to random

Please demonstrate cognitive capacity.

beastoftraal, to random
@beastoftraal@mastodon.social avatar

Who did it better?

MightBeExzedo, to random

If you're using Firefox, your first add-on should be uBlock Origin. At this point, it's not just blocking ads. It's basic Internet hygiene.

However, especially if you handle sensitive sites like bank/payment portals or one to several social accounts, your second add-on should be this little thing called Firefox Multi-Account Containers.

It's extremely useful. You can keep the defaults or wipe them all and make your own. So long as you don't sign in to things outside of containers, things opened in Firefox by default won't have access to your accounts. Sites you sign in to will only be signed in on that specific container. Links followed in Fun will not have access to your already signed-in sites on Bank. Links opened from your social account in Personal don't risk accidental interactions from a different social account under Professional.

Social containers are even more helpful for sites that don't support account switching. Even if they do, all you have to do is use a different account in each container and you can view both accounts side-by-side.

Oh, and it's published by Mozilla themselves within Firefox's add-on repository. You can trust it about as much as you trust Firefox.

knittingknots2, to random
@knittingknots2@mstdn.social avatar

Exclusive: Roger Stone Recorded Telling Associate to ‘Abduct’ and ‘Punish’ Mueller Investigator

https://www.mediaite.com/news/exclusive-roger-stone-recorded-telling-associate-to-abduct-and-punish-mueller-investigator/

lauren, to random
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Niklaus Wirth, creator of PASCAL programming language and much more, dies at 89. Peace.

shoq, to random
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Bingo. Technical diversity and innovation will flourish when multiple models coexist, if not fully interoperate. It shouldn’t matter model what the business (or non business) model is. Not every innovation has to be a major money maker—or make money at all. Many makers are still content to just have a successful product. It doesn’t have to launch a billion dollar enterprise to bring society a value.

Source: @J12t
https://mastodon.social/@J12t@social.coop/111693373762623490

internetarchive, to random
@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org avatar

Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! https://archive.org/details/SteamboatWillie

Steamboat Willie

o_simardcasanova, to fediverse
@o_simardcasanova@mastodon.social avatar

Something that I’m really looking forward to in 2024 is the

Regardless of one feels about Meta and , it’s objectively a seismic shift to see such a large company adopting an open standard

But I think we’ll see a lot more innovation

I’m sure it’ll be a fascinating year!

eff, to random
@eff@mastodon.social avatar

People are pushing back on the overly-centralized social media platforms, and this year it led to an explosion of exciting projects in decentralization. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/12/taking-back-web-decentralization-2023-review

ddrake, to math
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I'm absurdly excited to learn that 2024 = 2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³.

...and it's because:

2025 = 45², and

45=1+2+⋯+9, and

(1+⋯+𝑛)²=1³+⋯+𝑛³ !

Via https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/18tr14a/2024_2³3³4³5³6³7³8³9³/.

shoq, to random
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I hate to point this out, but by my reckonning, most of the Twitter elites who gave Mastodon a shot, have flipped to Threads of Bluesky. With a few exceptions, I rarely see them post here anymore. You can say that doesn’t matter, but that would be naive. It absolutely does. If Mastodon can’t be a destination for punditry and journalism, it has to succeed as a community platform or something else. Same with Bluesky.

shoq,
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As much as I cherish the kinds of discussions i have here, I also need the news dumps and punditry I get on Blue, Threads and X. I am not alone. Can Mastodon just become a wonderful community discussion platform? Sure, but it has to start building and promoting apps for that. I haven’t seen much interest in doing that. Most apps are just alt-clients. That’s not going to be enough to make the fediverse vibrant and special. I’m not throwing in the towel, tho. Just watching more critically.

evan, to fediverse
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I'm interested in hearing from developers who've successfully mapped properties from <meta> tags in Web pages onto the Page type and its properties in AS2.

erictopol, to random
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One of these epidemic curves is unlike all the others
Carl Bergstrom and Bill Hanage in PNAS today explain why
http://carlbergstrom.com/publications/pdfs/2023PNAS.pdf

jay, to random
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Researcher Meredith Whittaker says AI’s biggest risk isn’t ‘consciousness’—it’s the corporations that control them https://www.fastcompany.com/90892235/researcher-meredith-whittaker-says-ais-biggest-risk-isnt-consciousness-its-the-corporations-that-control-them

Teri_Kanefield, to random
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social avatar

I'll confess that I felt disturbed yesterday by the eruption of conspiracy theories immediately after the Supreme Court denied cert before judgement.

(I attached a definition of conspiracy theories)

It happened here (somewhat) but I saw it more on other social media sites.

People leaped from a decision they didn't understand to theories of secret collusion and corruption.

Why not wait for more information?

I continue to believe that the way to save democracy is to hold on to facts.

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Teri_Kanefield,
@Teri_Kanefield@mastodon.social avatar

On other sites, I saw people who obviously didn't even understand what cert before judgment meant, and yet they were sure that it was a terrible thing brought about by nefarious actors.

There are always a few people who are enraged at me for not being more sympathetic to their anxiety.

I AM sympathetic. That's why I wrote a series trying to help people understand that they are being manipulated the same way Fox manipulates its viewers.

https://terikanefield.com/can-democracy-work-in-america-part-1-there-are-no-yankees-here/

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hrefna, to fediverse
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Send help.

benpate,
@benpate@mastodon.social avatar

@hrefna Yup. And this isn’t even the most difficult part of “federating” with ActivityPub. After six months and three failed starts, I punted on the ideal of using perfectly abstract JSON-LD and just hard coded a reasonable vocabulary based on what actual working applications are supporting. No Ragrets.

Where are you in this process? I’m working in Go (probably a different environment than you) but let me know if my notes would help you crack this.

tiamat271, to random
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Despite what we may want to believe, isn’t over, it’s not mild, and there’s no cure for Long COVID or the potentially permanent damage to your brain, vital organs, and immune system.

COVID levels are very high across the US, and hospitals are at risk is being overwhelmed (again).

Please do your part by wearing a mask in ALL public places, and staying home if you have cold symptoms (even if COVID test is neg).

@luckytran https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/111627284916673476

makkhorn, to Florida
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BANNED BOOKS LIST
published by Sentinel

fedidevs, to random
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Welcome @feditest!

mike, to random
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Hello Fediverse! Today we begin to federate Flipboard. Check out my post on Medium to learn more.

https://medium.com/@mmccue/flipboard-begins-to-federate-4a80d6bdc209?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Following The Fediverse
https://flipboard.com/@mike/following-the-fediverse-50uv65adz?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

ricmac, to webdev
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Here's my wrapup of for 2023 -> JavaScript continued to dominate web development this year — even in WebAssembly. But also: generative AI was integrated into web frameworks, CDEs arrived, and Jamstack got a makeover. https://thenewstack.io/web-development-in-2023-javascript-still-rules-ai-emerges/

debcha, to random
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Today is the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. I only learned this year that the Great Bengali Famine of 1770 was a precipitating factor in the protest, and so I collaborated with my historian colleague, Dr. Robert Martello, to share the globe-spanning story of colonialism and corporate power that we think should be much more widely known.

https://tinyletter.com/metafoundry/letters/metafoundry-80-tea-and-famine

ricmac, to random
@ricmac@mastodon.social avatar

It’s ok to hold two opposing opinions in your mind at the same time, if the larger truth is more important. I don’t trust Zuck / Meta, but I also want them to federate with Mastodon. Even if they play power games later on, you can always jump to an instance that blocks them. The power is with you, the “user”, and that is what the web started out as and always should be. Besides, if it all turns to custard just start an indie blog and/or sail the world like the Scuttlebutt guy from NZ.

bobwyman,
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@J12t @ricmac Even if Threads turns out to be a vector for evil, its adoption of open protocols ensures a smoother exit path for those who wish an alternative. It also means that those not using Threads aren't penalized by isolation whatever good folk do.

My primary concern is that Threads' federation will tend to freeze the ActivityPub server-2-server protocol in its current state -- even more so than Mastodon has already done. That would be unfortunate. We need to continue innovating.

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