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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.

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J12t, to random
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Tried to send a message to the IETF's mailing list with some feedback from @feditest. Tried three different sender e-mail addresses. None of them went through. Not sure what else to try.

J12t, to random
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Making glazed citron from this recipe and the lemons in the front yard. I’m on the last day, trying to get it to 235deg F. Somehow (heh!) the temperature doesn’t want to rise above 212. I think I made some kind of scientific discovery /s

https://www.davidlebovitz.com/making-glazed-candied-fruit-citron-recipe/

J12t, to random
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We need a better framework for how to think about online relationships between people, and between people and organizations/websites. Logged on/off from a authentication perspective and follow/block from a social media perspective are really not quite right and not at all complete.

We did a bit of work on this when I was on the board of what was still called the Me2B Alliance, and of course there is seminal work by Doc Searls in ProjectVRM, but much remains to be done. The social web needs it!

J12t, to climate
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Compliments to The Guardian for polling scientists recently and publishing their predictions that are so much scarier than the official ones.

But in spite of their coverage, the Guardian has a hard time accepting it themselves. At +2.7°C, they say, 2 billion people will be pushed out of the conditions that allow humanity to live. And at above +3°C, they say we will have “millions of refugees”. Ahem.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/11/brutal-heatwaves-submerged-cities-what-3c-world-would-look-like

J12t, to meta
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Finally I'm getting around to listen to @mike 's Dot.Social episode with @rklambo and @pcottle from #meta, talking about #threads.

Mike asks the most important question first: "why are you [Meta] doing this [Fediverse integration]?"

[cont]

J12t, to bluesky
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Jack Dorsey interview post-. Whatever you think of him, his views on why he helped getting Bluesky started in the first place are interesting. I wonder which of those might apply to the Fediverse (which he doesn't mention at all).

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

J12t, to privacy
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"Navigating User Privacy in the Decentralized Social Web".

Online webinar, sponsored by Meta.

Just fluttered into my inbox.

https://www.privacylaws.com/events-gateway/events/fediverse2024/

J12t, to random
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“Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT”

Yet another amazing the-not-exploitative-alternative business opportunity.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

J12t, to random
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Protocol-invention-itis:

A widespread disease among software developers.

Like for other diseases, a simple vaccination -- ahem, a bit of research on what exists already -- can eliminate 90% of the outbreaks.

Just sayin'.

J12t, to bluesky
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So is implementing an (unspecified) new protocol for direct messages. Because AtProto is really not suitable for anything that isn't 100% public.

I wonder whether they can do this now that Jack is off the board. But maintaining two separate protocols in the same app? Who knows, maybe is next?

https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-07-2024-product-roadmap

J12t, to CSS
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Today I learned:

display: flow-root

which solves a real problem for me. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78439601/shrink-border-of-a-html-element-which-shares-space-with-a-floating-element

J12t, to random
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“Swiss public broadcasters withdraw from X/Twitter”
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/workplace-switzerland/swiss-public-broadcasters-withdraw-from-x-twitter/76901650

J12t, to fediverse
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I have a 3D avatar that's connected to the !

HTC's Viviverse virtual world turned on their Fediverse connection yesterday I think.

This is actually major news. HTC is a major company!!

Say Hi to @j12t !

J12t, to random
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So I got a whole bunch of 10-month old @chrismessina.me@bsky.brid.gy posts from Bluesky in my Mastodon feed today. Bridgy Fed must be working! But is that date mapping working as designed @snarfed ?

J12t, to random
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In case you are thinking humanity is getting CO2 #emissions under control, I have this graph for you.

This is not the absolute CO2 level in the atmosphere, but its growth rate. Think for a second what this growth rate would have to be so we can stay below 1.5 or 2deg warning.

Right, this growth rate would have to be negative: fewer emissions this year than last year.

Of course, it's not. It's worse, much worse. The growth is still growing!! It's not even constant.

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gr.html

J12t, to random
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A thousand is a crowd!

The last few times I was there, it was more like a couple dozen.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/05/03/photos-sea-lions-swarm-the-docks-at-san-franciscos-pier-39/

J12t, to fediverse
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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 , 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!

If you care, you can participate, it's open for all (constructive participants). https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/

J12t, to random
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If you plant two plants of egg plant, as I did, did you just plant two egg plant plants, or merely two egg plants?

J12t, to random
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Seeing 14 participants today in the task force on making ActivityPub work for threaded discussions / forums.

Excellent!

J12t, to ai
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Concerned about ? Overblown imho. Be concerned about people who might even consider doing something like this!

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-official-urges-china-russia-declare-only-humans-not-ai-control-nuclear-2024-05-02/

J12t, to fediverse
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Great dinner today talking 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!!

J12t, to random
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Brave woman, fought back and got killed. And no surprise, some guy thought what a great opportunity. Disgusted.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68840881

J12t, to random
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<P>In the beginning, html was <B>all</B> <BLINK>uppercase.</BLINK>.

I don't remember when or why it turned lowercase. Anybody remember?

https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Also, apparently it didn't have an <HTML> tag.

J12t, to random
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“I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S. Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as ‘an official act.’ I am in despair that several Justices seemed to think this answer made perfect sense.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/181032/supreme-court-trump-immunity-sealed-fate

J12t, to fediverse
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11 people on the data portability task force meeting for the today.

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