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echo_pbreyer , 10 days ago

#ChatControl is on the agenda again: Hungary schedules debate in October and adoption in December.

We need to start preparing now. First step: Find allies!

https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-11222-2024-INIT/en/pdf#page=30

Cartoon AI-generated

eric , 10 days ago

I wrote about my feelings of frustration and powerlessness in the face of mass-LLM scraping of the open web, and trying to do something about it. https://ericwbailey.website/published/consent-llm-scrapers-and-poisoning-the-well/

dumpsterqueer , 11 days ago EN

Are there any #jsonld knowers who can tell me if i'm doing anything absolutely nuts in this file here?

https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/activity/pull/23/files#diff-1cf62dbcdb9dcca7b43f78d534c742201cee49d93f55f10358e38e9a13c9a129

The goal is to support interaction policies that look like this:

{
  "@context": [
    "https://gotosocial.org/ns",
    "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams"
  ],
  "content": "hey @f0x and @dumpsterqueer",
  "contentMap": {
    "en": "hey @f0x and @dumpsterqueer",
    "fr": "bonjour @f0x et @dumpsterqueer"
  },
  "interactionPolicy": {
    "canLike": {
      "always": [
        "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
      ],
      "approvalRequired": []
    },
    "canReply": {
      "always": [
        "https://example.org/users/the_mighty_zork",
        "https://example.org/users/the_mighty_zork/followers",
        "https://another.example.org/users/dumpsterqueer",
        "https://another.example.org/users/f0x"
      ],
      "approvalRequired": [
        "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
      ]
    },
    "canAnnounce": {
      "always": [
        "https://example.org/users/the_mighty_zork"
      ],
      "approvalRequired": [
        "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#Public"
      ]
    }
  },
  "tag": [
    {
      "href": "https://another.example.org/users/dumpsterqueer",
      "name": "@dumpsterqueer@another.example.org",
      "type": "Mention"
    },
    {
      "href": "https://another.example.org/users/f0x",
      "name": "@f0x@another.example.org",
      "type": "Mention"
    }
  ],
  "type": "Note"
}

However I'm wrestling a bit with the activity library we're using in order to get it to generate usable Go types. It's quite possible that the .jsonld document is completely barmy.

simon , 11 days ago

Worth grepping your source code for "polyfill.io" and taking urgent measures to remove that code if you're linking it into your site - the domain name apparently now intermittently serves malicious JavaScript

My notes here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/25/polyfill-supply-chain-attack/ - or read this article https://sansec.io/research/polyfill-supply-chain-attack

threads , 11 days ago

New on Threads: We’re expanding sharing with the fediverse 🧵👇

In March, we announced a beta experience in a few locations. Now, we’re expanding that beta to Threads users in 100+ countries and adding additional fediverse functionality.

wearenew_public , 11 days ago

If you have ever been in an online group, you are well aware that its convenience comes with many limitations, including admins who have definitive control over everybody else.

These aren’t just annoyances — @ntnsndr 's newest piece discusses the “implicit feudalism” of digital groups and why we need more democratic communities online.

https://theconversation.com/why-the-future-of-democracy-could-depend-on-your-group-chats-229597

Techaltar , 11 days ago

Growing up is realizing that in US TV shows the only people taking a bus are kids running away from home or people coming out of jail.

quillmatiq , 11 days ago

"Threads will now let people like and see replies to their Threads posts that appear on other federated social media platforms, the company announced on Monday."

Another big milestone for Fediverse Threads! Hoping that the next phase will allow cross-platform follows 👀🤞🏼

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185226/meta-threads-fediverse-likes-replies

gwynnion , 11 days ago

If social media existed when I was a teenager, of course I would have used it -- and not because it's "addictive" but because I was desperately lonely and fending off family abuse, societal hatred, indifferent peers, and being broke. You mean I could talk to people who might give a shit about me? Sold!

I used IRC and ICQ for the same reasons in college and you know what? It made me feel better having people who weren't threatening to kill me on a regular basis.

lolgop , 11 days ago

It's his "But her emails!" which people seemed embarrassed about afterward, but it's obvious in real-time, and no one is really embarrassed, or not enough.

JamesGleick , 11 days ago

Jack Smith’s frustrated prosecutors in the espionage case against Trump must be thinking every day about how they can get Eileen Cannon off the case. Do they have any hope? What is their plan? https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112677540120424053

michael , 11 days ago

I’ve just released v7.1.0 of FediFetcher. This is an important release that will significantly improve resource usage and running time of FediFetcher, as well as help our users be good citizens of the fediverse.

I encourage you all to update to the latest version asap.

For full details including update instructions visit the release page:

https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/releases/tag/v7.1.1

(Edited to point link to 7.1.1 - this is a bug fix, and you should update to 7.1.1 rather than 7.1.0 if you can.)

#MastoAdmin #MastoAdmins #FediAdmin #SingleUserInstance #FediFetcher

baldur , 12 days ago Icelandic

“Choose how you want to navigate the web with Firefox”

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/products/firefox/firefox-news/ai-services-on-firefox/

> Our initial offering will include ChatGPT, Google Gemini, HuggingChat, and Le Chat Mistral

Even if this stays opt in once it ambles out of Nightly, all of this AI garbage means regular Firefox product dev looks dead in the water

jellyfin , 12 days ago

🚀 New Jellyfin Server/Web release: 10.9.7🚀

See the release post on our forums for more details: https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-new-jellyfin-server-web-release-10-9-7

Or go right to the server and web release notes:
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin/releases/tag/v10.9.7
https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-web/releases/tag/v10.9.7

zicklag , 12 days ago

If anybody wants to #contribute to a small #opensource utility using #ratatui and #iroh we've got an open issue for making a Terminal UI for a graph database explorer on the Weird project:

https://github.com/commune-os/weird/issues/51

Ping me if you want more details or need guidance!