molly0xfff

molly0xfff, 15 hours ago to fediverse

"In 2024, for the first time, it finally feels like we have a critical mass of people and platforms who are interested in rewilding the internet to bring back what we lost, and create something new. ... There's a palpable feeling that this just might be the year of the open web."

is this feeling... hope? https://activitypub.ghost.org/day-0/

#ActivityPub #Ghost #fediverse #OpenWeb

molly0xfff, 1 day ago to random

the team behind Critical Role just launched its own subscription membership service called "Beacon"

pretty cool to see a creative team trying out a new model to give them so much control over their own content/platform

#CriticalRole

molly0xfff, 2 days ago to random

"[The moderator crackdown is] just a reminder that anything you post on any of these platforms can and will be used for profit. It's just a matter of time until all your messages on Discord, Twitter etc. are scraped, fed into a model and sold back to you." – @ben

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

h/t @dangillmor

molly0xfff, 4 days ago (edited 4 days ago) to random

“Crypto researcher Molly White skewered [Chris Dixon’s Read Write Own] with the delight of Pete Wells after downing an Almond Joy cocktail at Guy Fieri’s Flavortown.”

😂

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-06/silicon-valley-crypto-investor-chris-dixon-wants-to-overhaul-the-industry (paywall)
https://archive.ph/BDP2I (archive)

#ChrisDixon #web3 #crypto

molly0xfff, 4 days ago to random

finally made an "AI" category (https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?collection=ai) for @web3isgreat to capture all the disasters pertaining to AI-powered cryptocurrencies and cryptocurrency-powered AI

molly0xfff, 6 days ago to random

Here's a gift link for my recent Bloomberg Businessweek piece: "The State of Crypto Is Anything But Strong"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-02/crypto-is-anything-but-strong-right-now?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNDc3MDkzMCwiZXhwIjoxNzE1Mzc1NzMwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTQ1VQMFREV1JHRzAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBQjc4QTNBMDc1N0U0OTI0ODFCRUU5RDRCRjBDNERDNSJ9.q7mx4CRLXnaPaRk03IohbYerjFc5httVYyrugxZ5TE4

molly0xfff, 6 days ago to Dogs

gardening supervisor on duty

#dogs #DogsOfMastodon

molly0xfff, 7 days ago (edited 7 days ago) to random

fascinating review of studies on Internet use and cognition — including potentially negative effects on concentration and memory — found by way of an excellent article in Nautilus titled "Viva la library"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6502424

molly0xfff, 7 days ago to random

having a pretty great time with https://mmm.page/

https://molly0xfff.mmm.page/

molly0xfff, 8 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to random

all i want for christmas is CSS support for underlines to extend below SVG pseudoelements 😔 (as in the first image)

molly0xfff, 9 days ago to web

Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

#web #newsletter #CitationNeeded

molly0xfff, 10 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random

<s>Two</s> Three more questions. Please answer both!

1. When were the "good old days" of the net?

molly0xfff, 10 days ago to web

If you've ever found yourself missing the "good old days" of the #web, what is it that you miss? (Interpret "it" broadly: specific websites? types of activities? feelings? etc.) And approximately when were those good old days?

No wrong answers — I'm working on an article and wanted to get some outside thoughts.

molly0xfff, 10 days ago to random

Former #Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has been sentenced to four months in prison.

molly0xfff, 13 days ago to boston

silver lining: it was awfully thoughtful of all these boston college administrations to draw the attention of a group of young, energetic, politically active students to last year's "tent ordinance" that cruelly targets the unhoused and is now being used to crack down on speech

#boston #bospoli

molly0xfff, 15 days ago to random

took me a few attempts to say "bitcoin memecoins" in my newsletter voiceover without saying "beancoins", but I think I may be on to something here

molly0xfff, 16 days ago to random

"Infra stack: from AWS to on-prem. AWS was becoming too costly, so #Bluesky moved over to dedicated data centers and bare-metal machines."

That's not something you read every day.

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky

molly0xfff, 16 days ago to random

oof to whoever paid the 10¢ PACER fee for this

molly0xfff, 17 days ago to random

So excited to hear that the Ghost blogging software is going to support federation via ActivityPub! https://activitypub.ghost.org/

If you sign up for updates, they have a survey where they're asking for feedback. Now's your chance to get your suggestions in!

molly0xfff, 17 days ago to web

"While more of the #web is becoming accessible to people with low-end connections, more of the web is becoming inaccessible to people with low-end devices even if they have high-end connections."

@danluu on web bloat: https://danluu.com/slow-device/

https://www.mollywhite.net/micro/entry/202404231317

molly0xfff, 17 days ago to random

it is such a delight to have my own microblogging space again, for random braindumps that don't belong in the newsletter

i missed it

molly0xfff, 19 days ago to random

been using vim keybindings for years and i still do this at least once a day

molly0xfff, 20 days ago to Bitcoin

finally, the runes project has brought memecoins to the #bitcoin blockchain. at long last, we can finally buy PEPE•WIT•HONKERS

molly0xfff, 21 days ago to Bitcoin

happy halving to all who celebrate
#bitcoin

molly0xfff, 22 days ago to random

A campaign against #NPR's new CEO, ex-#Wikimedia Foundation Katherine Maher, is trying to portray her as "anti-truth" and "anti-First Amendment" by taking quotes out of context from her past talks about Wikimedia. As a longtime Wikipedian, I think I can give a little more context about these statements — but I recognize that the people behind this campaign are, ironically, not looking for the facts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFkL4ME-8dQ

#KatherineMaher