Bezos to the newsroom. Who could have predicted that putting billionaires in control of essential sources of information like Twitter and @washingtonpost would result in a tsunami of right-wing enshittification on the verge of the most fraught election in US history?
Hi Fediverse, we are NLnet. We support people and organizations who contribute to a free and open internet. We offer small and medium grants to projects that help fix the internet through open hardware, open software, open standards, open science and open data.
We're the lead of @NGIZero a coalition which runs several funding programmes for people who build free and open source technologies for the Next Generation Internet. (Made possible with financial support from the European Commission).
We've been stealthily present in the Fediverse behind the NGIZero handle but have now finally set up our NLnet instance. With special thanks to @nlnetlabs for their patience :).
Another way we've been involved is we've funded many fantastic ActivityPub related projects. See the image for a visual overview.
Happy to be here and looking forward to meet you in this pleasant space.
New in PN: Unpacking Clarence Thomas's disgraceful joke of a bump stock opinion, which "reads like a newspaper comment section after every mass shooting, where gun nuts engage in hyper-technical explanations of how AR-15s aren’t actually assault weapons." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/clarence-thomas-bump-stock-opinion-explained
Version 0.10.0 of #Fedify, an #ActivityPub server framework, has been released! Starting with this release, Fedify, previously distributed under AGPL 3.0, is now distributed under the MIT License to encourage wider adoption. Here are the major changes:
• In addition to RSA-PKCS#1-v1.5, Fedify now supports Ed25519 for signing and verifying the activities.
• FEP-521a: Multiple key pairs can now be registered for an actor.
• FEP-8b32: Implemented Object Integrity Proofs.
• Added Arrive and Question classes.
As an individual, volunteering time often has a MUCH higher impact than donating to a nonprofit.
Consider that an hour of work costs at least €50 for a nonprofit. For someone doing 5h of average volunteer time per week, that’s the equivalent of donating €13k each year!
Not everyone can afford to volunteer, but it's one of the most efficient ways to move a cause forward.
Meta launches its much-awaited Threads API, letting developer publish posts, fetch content, manage replies, and view analytics, after an API beta in March 2024 (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
@erlend@Techmeme@tchambers was trying to see if there are any client apps that have started playing with this API yet. I wonder if you can see any of the ActivityPub work from the API yet
Well thanks #DuckDuckGo for helping to destroy the planet a little bit quicker by making all searches default to LLM/AI 🤮
It even has a small print disclaimer saying "These results are not checked for accuracy"... well why the F are you putting these results at the top then? Why are you even showing them at all?