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by_caballero

@by_caballero@mastodon.social

long-in-the-tooth gadfly, man of the people, and, improbably enough, paid opinion haver

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verge, to random
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A new bill would try to make tools like Zoom and Teams work together securely https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/8/24119268/wyden-secure-interoperable-goverment-collaboration-technology-act-encryption

by_caballero,
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@verge ron wyden is the best

anildash, to random
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Who are the early-career people in tech that inspire you or give you hope with their work or their ideas?

by_caballero,
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@anildash do people early in their second or third careers count

misc, to random
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I'm pissed off that the confident predictions of X's inevitable bankruptcy never came to fruition.

by_caballero,
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@_L1vY_ @misc my pet theory is the saudis (who put in more money than his western neonazish friends) actually gave him the money specifically TO run it into the ground and render it unusable as an information channel and newswire. driving down the cost of disinformation and hastening the impoverishment of journalism qua industry are strategic goals of many political currents that thrive on ever-cheaper astroturf campaigns and fake news...

18+ erincandescent, to random
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Gleason walked into the SocialHub to drop his latest innovation and I’m sitting here trying to work out whether he just proudly announced that he introduced a security bug into his own software or not

by_caballero,
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@trwnh @evan @erincandescent do we want to pour even more cement around the instance model? if we at least enable per-user keys (even if only potentially/annoying/complexly) some instances have the option of decentralizing themselves, or at least giving individual users the choice to self-manage at their own risk...

by_caballero,
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@trwnh @evan @erincandescent i know i'm a broken record and everyone thinks it's because i have a dayjob in the "at your own risk" factory but self-managed keys would definitely make feature-parity (and interoperability) with nostr and bluesky a lot easier, which seem more popular goals than "authenticate me with my crypto wallet/Hooli wallet/microsoft authenticator" per se

lzg, to random
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    by_caballero,
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    @lzg hard to imagine a more urban view than that

    sovtechfund, to fediverse
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    We’re excited to announce that we’re supporting #ActivityPub Test Suite and investing in the establishment of developer tools to ensure compatibility among ActivityPub implementations. This #interoperability also benefits users and will lead to individuals having more control over their data.

    https://sovereigntechfund.de/tech/activitypub-test-suite/

    by_caballero,
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    @devnull @J12t hehe J12t is working on a related project with NLNet backing! they're coordinating (see my other comment). Helge has also been a great help as well, although i think his project already wrapped up.

    by_caballero, to activitypubtestsuite
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    @activitypubtestsuite
    Anyone interested in a sync call/office hours/Q&A from testing projects? seeking volunteers for both the Q and the A side of things :D
    https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2024Jan/0031.html

    by_caballero,
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    @activitypubtestsuite 30Jan 8am Pacific Time is in 10.5 hours! see some of you there i hope?

    liaizon, to random
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    Is there anyone working on generalizing the Mastodon API, or documentation to follow for apps that are using it for things other then Mastodon?

    by_caballero,
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    @trwnh @liaizon yeah, I would tend to agree that hardening something halfway between AP API and Masto API in the SocialCG might be a good thing to do and kinda what OP was asking. like, has anyone documented the delta/venndiagram of masto API and AP API so that people can strategically find out how much of each they need when.

    by_caballero,
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    @liaizon @trwnh i can see, for most projects new to federation, how maybe making 1 or more actors "followable from mastodon" is an MVP feature, while full cross-commenting is a v1 feature or even a v2 feature if you want cross-commenting that also includes fora, lemmy, etc...as for API documentation commentary to facilitate that kind of subsetting/profiling of the two APIs, maybe
    @J12t or @smallcircles knows of something along these lines?

    by_caballero,
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    @liaizon @trwnh @J12t @smallcircles not at all, links please! very curious where/how that's playing out

    by_caballero,
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    @smallcircles @liaizon @trwnh @J12t This is the direction I've been nudging folks in with regards to testing-- any test harness or "trunk" needs to be extremely composable/flexible (and, ideally, decentralized enough that it 100 forks can blooms and contribute back to one another) since each profile will have slightly different needs in its runner and environment. The way I see it, most software will focus its conformance/CI efforts on one profile, and mostly just "meta"-software like

    gsuberland, to random
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    lmao, no wonder Cities Skylines 2 chugs, apparently they render EVERY SINGLE TOOTH IN EVERY PERSON'S HEAD in the entire city, full polycount, no LoD. glorious.

    by_caballero,
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    @gsuberland seems a safe bet, and i love that for them

    hrefna, to random
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    The gist of what I am going for with :

    What is a minimal subset that would allow us to treat the @'context object as a set of extensions rather than a set of processing directives while still remaining useful?

    Basically, you could have a "mastodon postprocessor" with all of the logic there.

    I have a bunch of thoughts and have validated some, but I'm interested in the experience of those who have banged their head against this problem. Any ideas? Does that make sense as a goal?

    by_caballero,
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    @hrefna @smallcircles @gugurumbe @KevinMarks @jenniferplusplus @fedidevs here's another git repo you could bash your head against if you're keeping a scoresheet of who uses LD how and where. it's also extremely interesting for 100 other reasons.
    https://blog.mauve.moe/posts/distributed-press-social-inbox

    renchap, to fediverse
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    Next month (15-16 nov), I will be representing @Mastodon at the Next Generation Internet Forum (@EC_NGI).

    I will be part of the panel on the second day to talk about the Fediverse, and how we can work together to make it thrive.

    I hope this will help more people and European institutions to join the #Fediverse and make it the media of choice for their microblogging presence!

    If you are there, I should have stickers 😇

    You can also attend remotely: https://ngiforum2023.eu

    by_caballero,
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    @renchap @EC_NGI who else is on the panel? you seem to be the only confirmed panelist!

    mastodonmigration, to wordpress
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    @wordpress @pfefferle @pfefferle

    WordPress FediBlog Accounts - Fedi Posting Bug

    Further testing today confirms unpredictable behavior with new posts and updates.

    • New WP posts not appearing. Unfollowing and re-Following seems to clear it up for a bit. Refreshing sometimes works.

    • WP updates do not always get reflected. Refreshing sometimes works.

    If anyone is experiencing same, please reply!

    Please elevate to WordPress if anyone knows someone there.

    by_caballero,
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    @pfefferle @RyunoKi @mastodonmigration @pfefferle @dansup Any chance you'll come to the "show and tell" with two test suite projects later today? I can never tell how many people are actually subscribed to this moribund list: https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2023Oct/0045.html

    by_caballero,
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    @pfefferle @RyunoKi @mastodonmigration @pfefferle @dansup Das tut mir sehr Leid :(

    thisismissem, to random
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    Wow, a chunk of my day was just wiped out by my heart randomly deciding to accelerate to 200bpm which gives me headaches & dizziness

    by_caballero,
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    @thisismissem that sounds... suboptimal? When that kind of stuff happens to me I try scheduling in a 30min "long walk break" into my post-lunch workbloc

    mmasnick, (edited ) to random
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    Good morning folks... today we're launching our new (free, browser-based) game Trust & Safety Tycoon. Please go check it out. Everyone thinks they know how trust & safety should work, but very few have actually done the job. Now's your chance! https://trustandsafety.fun/

    by_caballero,
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    @danyork @mmasnick A16z will soon release an EVM-based blockchain game called "Futurist Tycoon", a thinly-veiled pro-fascist retread of Axie Infinity, one of the projects they were hyping full-throatedly in 2021 before, well, you know, the free market happened to it:
    https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-axie-infinity/

    kissane, to random
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    If you want to destroy your brain with frothy SV technocapitalist rhetoric as well as the news this week, this would be a fantastic starting point. I’ve been staring at it for awhile and I’m just going to have to come back to it later.

    https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

    by_caballero,
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    @kissane

    kissane, to random
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    OK fedi, I want to make sure I'm not missing things—please point me to the best arguments on how decentralizing/federating content moderation + other safety work improves outcomes for humans in a world where fedi scales up fast over the next year, compared to centralized networks.

    (For adversarial stuff incl spam, CSAM, coordinated inauthentic account networks/influence campaigns, hate speech, semi-pro trolling, professional and non-professional disinfo, covert adversarial instances, etc.)

    by_caballero,
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    @kissane TBH, I think it's really a matter of perspective. Moderation-aaS and other middleware is a booming business, and people from those companies are eager to figure out whether this is their next multi-million-user sales base. "Artesanal moderation" as I like to call it has a pretty steep technical debt needed before they can efficiently scale up info-sharing, but it's possible. Case law matters more than regulation here, in the form of chilling effects and "received" compliance norms.

    evan, to fediverse
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    Tomorrow I'll be doing a presentation about the API at the O'Reilly Media event "APIs: Possibilities and Pitfalls". I'm excited!

    https://www.oreilly.com/live-events/apis-possibilities-and-pitfalls/0636920097623/

    by_caballero,
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    @evan 💪💪

    bengo, to random
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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deleveraging

    by_caballero,
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    @bengo gm

    mcc, to random
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    For the last year I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening To Today" links in this thread:

    https://mastodon.social/@mcc/108199886340178151

    The thread is now so long it is increasingly breaking Mastodon, so I am making a new thread, starting here.

    To recap, here's the entirety of the year-one thread in the most impractical possible format: A YouTube playlist containing 246 songs and running for just over 47 hours:

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DP_GwDs3XuTbiFmHYTwJWa7

    by_caballero,
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    @mcc I think many would call morphine "postrock" back then? of the moodier/darker variety, not the bubbly sea & cake thrill jockey stuff

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