A little bit of neuroscience and a little bit of computing
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A little bit of neuroscience and a little bit of computing
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The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. (www.theatlantic.com)
Twitter/x.com is now forcing you to disable Firefox's Enhance Tracking Protection. (lemmy.world)
Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection (Strict Mode) is known to cause issues on x.com...
Google now offers ‘web’ search — and an AI opt-out button (www.theverge.com)
‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)
*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...
You can now bridge Fediverse and Bluesky Accounts! (wedistribute.org)
Bridgy Fed's Bluesky integration is now in beta, and makes it possible to connect your account from the Fediverse to Bluesky, and vice versa....
iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air (9to5mac.com)
On raw performance might, the M4 really does live up to Apple’s promises, should deliver. Single core is up about 20% compared to all M3 chips and more than 40% compared to M2. The generational computational leap from the previous M2 iPad Pro is at least a 42% jump on single-core and multi-core.
Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative (ioc.exchange)
Codeberg was asking about this. The linked toot by a commenter points to :...
The Trouble with Forking Mastodon (wedistribute.org)
A lot of people have talked about the possibility of forking Mastodon to get the many improvements their communities need. Making such an effort successful is another discussion entirely.
Rubén Baler, neuroscientist: ‘We are guinea pigs. Our attention has become a profitable commodity’ (english.elpais.com)
Jack Dorsey departs Bluesky board | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
A community for posting Cool Guides
!coolguides
New piefed feature , anyone can subscribe to any post or comment (piefed is a reddit and lemmy alternative) (codeberg.org)
This is a feature that as far as i know lemmy does not have, so it might be worth it to checkout and support piefed, it will probably be useful if there are certain topics that are really relevant to you and you want to develop in depth knowledge of.
Some ideals for fediverse platform design (hachyderm.io)
A little thread I wrote on masto after watching this talk by Bret Victor and reflecting on their stated ideals for how computing ought to be designed.
Mike Macgirvin recounts the depressing history behind Mastodon's rendering of `article` vs `note` (fediversity.site)
Here's the reason Article became a second class citizen......
Fediverse Article Interop Working Group
cross-posted from: https://mediaformat.org/wordress-activitypub/article-working-group/...
ActivityPods: Federated Solid Pods (wedistribute.org)
ActivityPods is a wild project that's bringing the architecture and data capabilities of Tim Berners-Lee's Solid Protocol to the Fediverse. We dig in to what it is, how it works, and what's currently possible with the framework.
Newsletter platform Ghost adopts ActivityPub to ‘bring back the open web’ (www.theverge.com)
They’re not done yet. Just announcing (and the verge reporting on it)....
Twitter alternative Post News is shutting down (www.theverge.com)
Post News, a Twitter alternative that emerged in the wake of Elon Musk’s takeover, is shutting down. Noam Bardin, the platform’s founder and former CEO of Waze, writes that Post News “is not growing fast enough to become a real business or a significant platform.”...
Composite Groups with Azorius
cross-posted from: https://azorius.net/g/azorius/p/G44w3jl9Rv76x4Q3bk-meta-groups...
Bots dominate internet activity, account for nearly half of all traffic (www.helpnetsecurity.com)
cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/11194362...
Emissary is Whatever You Want It To Be (wedistribute.org)
Emissary is a revolutionary next-gen Web platform that lets you tinker with every little bit of it. It works with the Fediverse, is built on IndieWeb principles, and looks incredible.
Open source Substack rival Ghost may join the fediverse | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
Note-taking app that looks too good to be true? - Siyuan
Recently stumbled upon this note-taking app called SiYuan, but it honestly looks a bit too good to be true(?). Has anyone here used it or got any experience with it? Trying to replace Obsidian is a difficult task, and I've been through almost all note-taking apps there are out there, however this one looks fairly similar....
Which Fediverse software would you recommend for long-form blog posts or photo hosting?
I am wondering about the different fediverse software options and what would be best for various usecases....