Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.
We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.
Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.
This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!
I'm more of a reader than a writer in 'Mastodon Space' but today I bring you something that those people I follow may not have heard of: what's likely to be the first attempt at a space suit, designed as early as 1936 in Spain. It was to be tested with a hot air balloon but unfortunately the whole thing had to be scrapped due to the Civil War. One piece of the original suit has now been found. In Spanish but Google Translate does the trick.
Found another google books scan that's just missing four pages in the middle.. Maybe I'm looking back on 2004 era google with shit colored glasses but I'm starting to think that whole exercise was about building a model training corpus and none of these was ever intended to be read by actual people
We are going to start the processs of sorting out and digitilizing a big archive of historical anarchist documents in the region. Im looking at what software to use once we can publish all of it online. Maybe documentcloud? It needs to be searchable. Any recommendation? Bonus for any tip or resouces for this process.
So my 12 year old kid loves #modeltrains to death: machines, tracks, landscapes, everything. Unfortunately, this is a hobby dominated by grumpy old men, some of whom don't react too cool towards a rainbow family. Are there any familys out there with #trainkids? #Berlin, Germany, wherever? I am thinking exchange of photos or small films, maybe sending stuff to and fro, meetings in Germany at some point. German, English works. Neurodivergent kids/parents welcome. #modellbahn#Modellbau
The implementation of this is unclear at the moment, but it’s laughable that a country that can’t pass basic privacy legislation is taking action to hide data from transponders of billionaires’ private jets #priorities
I'm confused about a particular aspect of Inbox Forwarding as detailed in the ActivityPub spec:
... the server needs to forward these to recipients that the origin was unable to deliver them to. To do this, the server MUST target and deliver to the values of to, cc, and/or audience...
... The server MUST only target the values of to, cc, and/or audienceon the original object being forwarded, and not pick up any new addressees whilst recursing through the linked objects (in case these addressees were purposefully amended by or via the client).
Emphasis mine.
My reading suggests that only the values of to, cc, and audience on the referenced object should be used, and not those values on the activity itself.
But doing so would preclude the use of Inbox Forwarding in scenarios where the Activity wrapper contains additional addressees that the underlying object does not have.
e.g. A Note by A contains a single addressee: as:Public. It is then Announced by B and C. Later, A updates the Note, and their server sends out Update(Note) with the following addressees: as:Public, B, B/followers, C, C/followers, but the object referenced still contains a single addressee: as:Public.
In that case, when received by B and C, should they forward the activity to their followers?
The rational was that I disclosed the issue publicly. Which I did after reporting it in the beta releases, and after they said “we're unable to identify an issue in your report”, AND AFTER THEY RELEASED THE FUCKING VULNERABILITY.
My pals in BBC World Service have been doing some awesome work on "lite" versions of their news articles (other page types to follow).
They essentially skip the Server-Side React hydration which means you end up with a simpler HTML+CSS page, no JS.
Page sizes drop significantly:
The state in Brazil where I grew up is now under water. Everything I knew, the friends I had, the houses I lived, the animals I loved, the bridges I crossed, even the waterfall I used to hike by... all gone.
Everything you know, love, and work hard for can all crumble down in a matter of seconds.
Planting trees is something we’re told we need to do more of…particularly in cities. As our urban areas get increasingly hot with every passing year, we need trees to provide shade as well as absorb emissions. But will our native trees be able to survive in these increasingly arid conditions?
We need to start planting the trees that will tolerate our changing climate.
Sooo apparently Dutch primary schools are using algorithms to decide which children are at risk of failing and need extra learning material, and ChatGPT to detect fraud. Yes, in primary school.
A few years ago we had a major scandal about people's lives being ruined after algorithms had incorrectly marked them for social benefits fraud. Guess we didn't learn this shit is just shit.
"I don't say this lightly - but the floods in #PortoAlegre, #Brazil, are looking comparable to what Katrina did to New Orleans in 2005 -- massive evacuations, water & power outages, key infrastructure damaged, parts of city, possible long-term consequences."—Brian Winter
