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I'm Arnold Schrijver (he/him). Social coder. #FOSS, #HumaneTech and #SocialWeb advocate.

I help foster #Solutions that improve #Wellbeing, #Freedom and #Society

Let's #ReimagineSocial and envision a #Peopleverse where archipelagos, built by the #Commons, unfold the #HumanWeb. Delightful Realms of Creation, where only our dreams may hold us back.

Previously at: @humanetech

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Curia , to Random
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We’re back! We’re pleased to be back on Mastodon, thanks to some help from our friends at @fediversity, a project sponsored by the @EUCommission Horizon programme.

We’ll continue to toot here with news about the work of the Court of Justice of the EU.

Si vous preferez vos toots en francais, veuillez suivre notre compte @Curia_fr

ansuz , to Random
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It was nearly two years ago that I wrote this article1 about the EU surveillance directive on behalf of the @cryptpad team.

Very little has changed since then. Experts in technology, law, and policy all agree that the proposal undermines basic European rights, that it will be abused by authoritarian member states, and that the proposed tech solutions cannot possibly do the job the supporting legislators have claimed.

Nevertheless, they have persisted, claiming the support of "expert testimony" that overwhelmingly consists of unsupported claims by lobbyists associated with law enforcement and defense contractors who stand to benefit financially from its implementation.

A vote is expected to take place on June 19th. These have been scheduled and delayed multiple times already, but this it feels like they might get away with it. There is a lot going on in the EU at the moment, and people are both distracted and tired from fighting this for so long.

I'll try to make resistance easier by collecting some suggested actions below, with links.

alcinnz , to Random
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One technology which I think deserves more hype (it is getting a little) are Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (CRDTs)!

I made sure to include it in my exploration of a minimal yet inclusive OS (upcoming page), quote:

"In just the past decade Computer Science brought us the concept of CRDTs! Which represents your document as a series of edits, which combine such that no matter in which order these edits you recieved we get the same result!

1/2

cyrus , to Random
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You need to take action against NOW.

If things go as "expert groups" in the EU have planned, ChatControl might pass on the 19th of June.

Contact your representatives and tell them to vote a clear NO; to count abstentions as formal disagreements.

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/council-to-greenlight-chat-control-take-action-now

ChrisMayLA6 , to Random
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Across the world the right to repair is gaining traction... in the UK Jay Blades & his colleagues on The Repair Shop have pushed repairing into the mainstream.

This has been going on for some time, including cycle repair Co-ops, repair clinics etc. Every now & then it pops up in the mainstream media... and here is this week's iteration.

Repairing is the future, but the Tech firms don't want us to embrace it - resist!

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/jun/16/the-great-diy-revival-meet-the-people-wholl-try-to-fix-anything

youronlyone , to Random
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re: fediverse:creator “OpenGraph” tag.

What is the prefix='' namespace for fediverse:?

I checked the official website of (see: https://ogp.me) and I don't see the fediverse: namespace anywhere. Which means this fediverse: namespace is not an OpenGraph tag and will more likely not work without a proper prefix namespace, correct?

So, what am I missing here? People are already adding it. O_O

Update: Relevant thread/discussion about this fediverse: namespace.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/30398

(Hat tip to @cadusilva )

mikedev ,
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As I mentioned elsewhere, there is a case for providing json-ld metadata - which is already in use and has been blessed by Google (not that I care) and dumping both OpenGraph and X/Cards in favour of open standards over proprietary and non-extensible solutions. The Alphabet currently only blesses @context values using schema.org, but this is where the fediverse can assert a standard context that works for us and just start using it. And it's already defined!.

weekinfediverse , to Random
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Week in Fediverse 2024-06-14

Servers

Clients

Tools and Plugins

Protocol

Articles

Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/018ff3bc-19c2-9b77-48c0-55d79c15552c

liaizon , to Random
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Discovered this morning that Maven https://heymaven.com (a social media startup who's CEO is ex OpenAI "Ken Stanley: leading the Open-Endedness Team at OpenAI") is mass importing public posts from the with no links back to the original and no way to delete them. It seems there is no Opt-out or Opt-in mechanism at all. It also has posts from pulled in via @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy that are also not linked back to the original.

Here's an example: https://app.heymaven.com/profile/66927

Screenshot of a social network Maven with my account from Bluesky copied into it.

nlnet , to Random
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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.

kde , to KDE
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You heard . Deep down you knew this was coming. Now all your art are belong to them. Time to move on to better things...

Kreative Suite

  • Krita is your new design/painting app
  • Kdenlive will give you video-editing powers
  • glaxnimate adds 2D vector animations to you videos
  • digiKam organises your collection images

https://kde.org/for/creators/
Also:

  • Inkscape - create sophisticated vector-graphic designs
  • Scribus - layout like a pro
  • GIMP - need we say more
  • Blender - ditto

@kde

Kdenlive, KDE's video-editing app.
Glaxnimate, an app for 2D vector animation that integrates with Kdenlive.
digiKam, an app that helps you classify and tag large collections of images.

smallcircles ,
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@kde @kde

See also this great curated list of creative tools collected by @ADHDefy

https://delightful.club/delightful-creative-tools

If you have more such fine projects, then create an issue or PR. The link to the repository is at the top of the delightful page.

Wolven , to Random
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Windows Recall doesn't just screenshot things, it OCR's the shots, and then stores the OCR as plaintext in a local SQLlite database.

I mean what the FUCK??!

I've said it before and I'll say, again, & again, & again, that jamming "AI" into everything without considering the privacy and security implications is a) going to cause a major breach of at least two US laws, and b) just a really silly and terrible idea which is going to put a lot of people in danger, and this "recall" shit is among the worst of it i've seen.

Windows 11 has just become a complete capture system disguised as an OS. Every keystroke, work session, video call, and downtime window, logged, correlated, and extrapolated. And they're trying to sell it to you as being a SERVICE.

So let me be as clear as possible about this: Fuck That, Forever.

Roll it BACK, microsoft

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170305/microsoft-windows-recall-ai-screenshots-security-privacy-issues

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