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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 twitter
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This @theverge_com article points out that many would-be alternatives have gone down, but the ones still standing all connect to the . Hmm, I sense a pattern?

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown

J12t, to ChatGPT
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is useless for me. I've been trying to use it for Web search where I'm not certain how to express what I want to look for in some easy search terms. But it doesn't get what I'm saying either. The words match, but the meaning does not.

J12t, to fediverse
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There were two other sessions on the at Internet Identity Workshop this week. One by me, on Identity in the Fediverse and one by @dmitri on Data Portability.

To my surprise, many attendees were not or only very marginally aware of the Fediverse. We need to communicate what it is and why it matters much more broadly than we have so far, apparently.

J12t, to fediverse
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Talking about FediTest and Fediverse testing @feditest at Internet Identity Workshop today. Thanks @kudrix for the photo!

J12t, to random
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About to run a session on identity and the open social web / fediverse at . Lots of unsolved problems.

J12t, to random
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Internet Identity Workshop number 38 has started.

Thirty-eight!!

And somehow the internet identity problem is still not close to being solved. Still fun though.

J12t, to random
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EU legislation is working. More people use web browsers that aren’t market leaders.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/eus-new-tech-laws-are-working-small-browsers-gain-market-share-2024-04-10/

J12t, to iran
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If you believe the attack by was mostly for show, consider the bar graph here: https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran’s-attempt-hit-israel-russian-style-strike-package-failedfor-now

I think it clearly disproves the thesis.

J12t, to threads
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People don’t understand the fediverse.

Today’s exhibit: people on complain that it’s not good for news, example yesterday. We know that, because Meta has said over and over they de-emphasize news.

But that’s what the is for! Somebody will build the worlds best news feed and you can subscribe right there from Threads (once they are done with their ActivityPub implementation) and any other fediverse application.

J12t, to random
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Interesting pov on the decline of social media traffic to “conservative” sites as a result of meta de-emphasizing news content. No idea whether it’s accurate, but worth pondering.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/conservative-digital-media-traffic/678055/

J12t, (edited ) to random
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I’m genuinely puzzled by Iran’s attack yesterday. In the mind of the Iranians, was this retaliation, with respect to the perceived wrong, supposed to be:

J12t, to random
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“the open source social web (aka the fediverse)”.

Hmm, not sure what to think about that description. I see the appeal but do we want to stretch “open source” all the way to include closed implementations of open protocols?

From a headline in about .

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/11/flipboard-deepens-its-ties-to-the-open-source-social-web-aka-the-fediverse/

J12t, to random
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This is exactly my take on Russian influence operations in the west, facilitated by money. Except that I would expect the numbers to be much higher, as the ROI for Putin is considerable, eg the benefits they got just this year from preventing additional US aid to Ukraine.

https://newrepublic.com/article/180630/russia-corruption-network-europe-buying-politicians-america

J12t, to random
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I almost forgot about this. We played this, an eon ago!

You’s truly in the second violin, about age 17.

I’m still looking for a ginormous bone shattering surround subwoofer for the base in the slow intro.

https://youtu.be/nfbOVwzyh20?si=SIuKrMWDmWGn6m2

J12t, to random
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Turns out it's not my M.2 NVMe drive that's bad, but the NUC's interface to it. I have never heard of such a thing, but of course it's possible. The drive works fine when put into a USB adapter. And the SATA adapter in the NUC works fine, too.

J12t, to random
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It says here that in Paris, less than 5% of trips are now made by car. Most by public transportation, and bike trips beat out car trips by some margin.

Hi America, how are we doing? /s

https://www.spiegel.de/auto/fahrkultur/mobilitaet-in-paris-pariser-bevorzugen-fahrrad-statt-auto-a-9efcfaf6-f8d9-43b4-932f-604fa1c7ff4d (in German)

J12t, to random
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I have no idea how Microsoft gets away with this over the decades. Every time I turn on my Windows box (well, it's just a disk, which I slide into a spare NUC when I need to do something Windows) it takes hours before it is ready to do something useful for me.

It's like the market opportunity has passed before Windows is willing to assist.

J12t, to random
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In today’s episode of random unexpected facts it turns out that A at 440Hz is an ISO standard, and previously an international agreement on setting a standard pitch was part of the treaty of Versailles which ended WW1.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_pitch

J12t, to fediverse
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Silly (or maybe not) question:

So what exactly is social media for?

For some, it is a way to sell ads into an addicted audience. But we are trying to get away from that with the . So if it's not that, what is it for, exactly?

And for you personally: if you didn't have social media, what exactly would you miss in your life? Which needs or wants do you have that would be unmet?

I'd love a broad variety of responses. Reshare?

J12t, to fediverse
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So there's a new Twitter-like mobile app called that promises (Yea, I know) to integrate with the Fediverse real soon.

Assuming it happens, all the innovation happening in the is great to see.

https://lyrak.com/

J12t, to random
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Status: "broadband" connection is smoking.

I put "broadband" in quotes because in the middle of this technology desert called Silicon Valley, I have a choice of exactly two broadband providers, and the one that has the less-horrible privacy policy has date rates that were last acceptable maybe last century.

J12t, to fediverse
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What about an session next week where we remind each other what we wanted the to be ≈15 years ago before the big platforms took over and it all became non-viable since?

Which parts of the vision are again relevant and can we make them happen this time around now that we have a resurgence of the ?

Off the top of my head: @evan @chrismessina @blaine @daveman692 @DickHardt @snarfed @jpanzer @jsmarr Who else is here of the old gang?

J12t, to random
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Somehow I missed all the people who usually say "the scientists, they are all lying, do your own research" predict that there would be no eclipse, or it would be next tuesday. One wonders why./s

J12t, to random
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Playing with @ben's sharing widget by putting it on my home page.

It works. :-)

https://j12t.org/

J12t, to fediverse
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Wild idea:

over .

Single-user instances for sure. Like hosted from your home on your own .

What could one do with that?

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