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smallcircles

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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: https://mastodon.social/@humanetech

Boosts and favourites do not imply endorsement.
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smallcircles, to random
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Ultra weird. I pasted a toot by @arinbasu1 in #Google Translate. This one: https://social.arinbasu.online/objects/8af7f48d-ac82-47e8-9c3b-7e9cd691c4f9

And the auto-detect didn't work, and provided a totally BS Dutch translation more indicative of some dodgy #spam 😱

WTH happened? I might have some malign #Firefox extension injecting that, but I only installed official and trustworthy ones.
#AskFedi #Security

(Also in English translation for the img caption it capitalized one occurence of "How To Make Your Money" that was lower-case in Dutch)

smallcircles, to random
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Ah, ain't #Hypercapitalism wonderful. As so often the case the #USA is 1st to explore the extremes of its glorious extent.

We all love #Nature and #Wildlife and the US has the most beautiful national parcs to endulge it. But we can't go all at once, right? Need permits so it doesn't get too crowded. And you can enter a lottery so it seems fair.

A perfect opportunity to exploit! When using a lottery most $$$ go to Booz Allen Hamilton government and #military contractor.

https://outdoorstatus.com/articles/recreation-gov-lottery-fees

smallcircles, to opensource
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In "Proprietary stuff that nonetheless many devs use on a whim" news:

Will folks at get a cold sweat when thinking of https://replit.com breadth of services and ?

In "Hey there, is the future" news:

Will arbitrary devs fall for the argument they better use a patchwork of tools rather than one-stop-shop integrated development experience?

In "Wow " news:

Will give proprietary SaaS the boot with integrated ?

smallcircles,
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Some additional thoughts on this matter can be found in this #Lemmy post:

https://lemmy.ml/post/1001183

TheSteve0, to fediverse
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I am not understanding what is.

  1. It seems like it is a rewrite/alternative server to the mastodon server. Looks to be written in Rust. It is a fork of , which seems to be written in typsescript
  2. But since it uses ActvityPub, it's interoperable with Mastodon
  3. Seems like you can't migrate your Mastodon account over.

So basically an alternative microblogging interface to the fediverse with different server software.

This is getting really interesting and 🤯

smallcircles,
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@vwbusguy @TheSteve0 @andypiper @evan

/ --> https://bonfireproject.org and Akkoma/Pleroma.

HaruCoryne, to random

NEW: 🛞 Tires 🛞 illustrate why #inflation refuse to, well, deflate.

To prove it @ProPublica sent a reporter to a rubber plantation in #Vietnam and a small business in southern #Louisiana.

Many takeaways, but a less obvious one: dependency on #cars is killing us.

Riding your #bike is coded as an "elite" activity, but imagine paying $500 for new wheels every year and a half 😵‍💫

https://www.propublica.org/article/inflation-tires-rubber-imports-high-prices?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

smallcircles,
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@HaruCoryne @ProPublica

#Greedflation is a damn devious #Hypercapitalism practice.

The oil and retail industry have profited the most. Crazy, deeply immoral and unethical.

The poor folks at the bottom of the supply chain earning mere pennies, and the consumer at the end overpaying significantly. All to the benefit rich shareholders.

The other day I tooted about laurel leaves going from Turkey to Netherlands, and in that short chain rising from 0.33 to 850 Euro/kg.

https://social.coop/@smallcircles/109519463630674515

jef, to random

"Folks totally don't understand much about this ridiculously serious AI tech that is literally blowing up our world with its insane ability to think like a person. This shit is incredible—believe it!"

Example of the [ output from a typical human.]

smallcircles,
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@jef there are many of those, yes. I also see a lot of:

"Oh noos 😱 the tech world is once more stumbling over each other in a crazed hype to move fast and break things, because there's just so much big $$$$ potential. They are blowing up our world with their insane ability to think like hypercapitalists and conveniently forget about externalities!"

amberage, to fediverse
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Ok so I was told that when you delete a post, a "tombstone" is left in place that points to the post before that so that a thread doesn't get broken. But when I try this (just posted three posts, deleted one, looked them up via the API), the deleted post (api/v1/statuses/:id as well as :id/context) only returns "Record not found", and the next post points to the no-longer-existing record, listing no descendants nor ancestors in /context.

Am I doing something wrong, or have I been told bullshit about ActivityPub and the Mastodon API?

smallcircles,
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@amberage @mariusor

The observations re:tombstones are valuable. If the W3C spec leaves so much open for different impls, creating an #ActivityPub #FEP might be considered to document the recommend best-practice approach.

Overall the more #Fediverse Enhancement Proposals there are, and interaction with the process, the greater the likelihood that devs build interoperable code. And less reference to "Mastodon does this, you can look in their codebase" is needed :)

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep

smallcircles, to random
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The World Press Freedom Index by Reporters withouth Borders.

is in a very bad state worldwide.

https://rsf.org/en/index

smallcircles,
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@futureisfoss thank you!

smallcircles, to random
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#Billionaire

"$50 Billion to his name? Wow, how does he do it?"

(Khalil Bendib for OtherWords, CC-BY)

smallcircles, to random
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#Billionaire

"50$ Billion to his name? Wow, how does he do it?"

(Khalil Bendib for OtherWords, CC-BY)

dansup, to random
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I dedicate the new v0.11.6 @pixelfed release to my cousin who passed earlier today.

This doesn't feel real, I'll never forget the good old days all the crazy shit we used to get into.

May we meet again ❤️

smallcircles,
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@dansup

Terrible and sad news Daniel. I am very sorry for your loss. My condolences to you and your family.

atomicpoet, to fediverse

Evan Prodromou (@evan), the co-author of , does not like Bluesky.

He believes it's a setback to the Fediverse and slowing its growth.

https://cosocial.ca/@evan/110300493306700391

@fediversenews

smallcircles,
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@aswath @reiver @gvlx @atomicpoet @evan @fediversenews

cc @dachary #F3
cc @helge #NomadicIdentity

smallcircles, to fediverse
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Yay, another new submitted 🎉

FEP-fffd: Proxy Objects

"A proxy object is an [ActivityPub] object that is semantically identical to an entity on another, non-ActivityPub protocol. For example, an ActivityPub-to-Nostr bridge creates Actors and Notes that are proxies for Nostr users and notes."

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-fffd.md

DrPen, to fediverse
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Im beginning to create the slides for my HCII2023 paper. Its partly about the #fediverse and #activitypub as solutions for citizen participation and contribution to civic knowledge repositories, Its the first paper Im writing about this stuff, but it wont be the last :)
Im gonna use a few AI Art creations. It may spark other related discussion.
#urbanism #hcii2023

smallcircles,
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@DrPen oww, very interesting!

smallcircles, to fediverse
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In reaction to the "Godfather of AI" resigning from Google to warn about the dangers ahead, some thoughts of how "personal social networking" on the , supporting genuine and intimate human connection between people online, will become increasingly valuable as generated will start flooding the web.

The that has matured over years of slow growth and which we continue to foster together is very important. Here we have a .

https://discuss.coding.social/t/personal-social-networking-resistance-to-the-ai-onslaught-adds-value/338/3

atomicpoet, to fediversenews

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    smallcircles,
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    @cragsand @atomicpoet @fediversenews

    I think you are looking for this one?

    https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core

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    @cragsand @ernest @fediversenews @atomicpoet

    Indeed. I agree. Great project going 🚀

    Natureshadow, to fediverse

    I am creating some ontologies that I will use for both my https://codeberg.org/Denkar.io/denkario knowledge graph and for my https://codeberg.org/Vocata/vocata server.

    (In general, I will define ontologies for general purposes, but I will make them compatible with AP as well.)

    Where should I root these namespaces?

    • Under one of my own domains?
    • Under some umbrella others in the are using?
    • Under my own domain, with a PURL redirect?

    https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/where-to-root-my-own-vocabularies/3163

    smallcircles,
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    @Natureshadow

    OT to the question, but regarding the project I'd like to point to a idea I wrote down that may be inspiring.. I called it , social knowledge fabrics, which are combining and technology to allow universal / community / personal 'knowledge gardening'.

    https://discuss.coding.social/t/semmy-social-knowledge-fabrics/76

    atomicpoet, to random

    Bluesky vs. Mastodon is not as black and white as many seem to think.

    Let me explain why. 🧵

    1. A Twitter founder funds and advises Bluesky.

    Okay, a Twitter founder (@ev) runs a for-profit instance, and another (@biz) has offered to advise Mastodon.

    1. Bluesky accepted VC money.

    A VC firm owns 3 of the top 5 largest Mastodon servers

    1. An evil corporation (Twitter) helped develop Bluesky.

    An evil corporation (Google) helped develop the Fediverse

    I have further thoughts here...

    smallcircles,
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    @paul @atomicpoet

    Yes, loosely it does. The process is simple-as-possible for now. The first FEP defines it, and various improvements to it are discussed on the community forum.

    strypey, to fediverse
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    For those who didn't know (or have forgotten), there's a PeerTube channel here with videos of the talks and Q&A sessions from the #ActivityPub conference we had in late 2020:
    https://conf.tube/c/apconf_channel/videos

    Picking through these videos is a great way to get a sense of where some of us wanted fediverse development to go, both technically and politically.

    #videos #PeerTube #ConferenceTalks

    smallcircles,
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    @strypey

    Ping @fedidevs @activitypub

    See the call above by Danyl.. anyone in for attending / co-organizing an online ?

    strypey, (edited ) to fediverse
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    I wonder if MLS (Messaging Layer Security) would be useful for encrypting Direct Posts in the ?

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    @strypey @hubert

    Just as a FYI.. pointing to the for Group federation, status FINAL:

    https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-1b12.md

    Discussion on : https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-1b12-group-federation/2724

    The FEP was written and proposed by @nutomic and implemented in .

    participated in the discussion by means of @ClearlyClaire but I do not know the extent to which Mastodon intends to be compatible, and if they will propose FEP's for their partiular Group implementation.

    tchambers, to random

    I'm just saying: the launch of
    @wikipedia
    @wikidata
    @wikiresearch
    nableDev
    @wikisusdev
    and @mediawiki ...

    All that does feel like some big new steps.

    So does moving to integrate Mastodon identify verification into software itself.

    "The end goal is that I can put e.g. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Legoktm as a URL item and Mastodon will be able to verify it."

    I'm going to be watching this VERY closely and supporting it however I can .👀

    smallcircles,
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    @shaisachs thank you! The site itself was created by @yarmo and the contents reflect the aggregate work of sublist maintainers and people contributing entries to these lists. Whichever of these topics interests you enough to maintain a sublist for.. the top-level project can include it as well.

    smallcircles,
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    @shaisachs Yay, contributions most welcome 🤗

    There's a guide explaining some rules on the top-level repo at https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful/src/branch/main/delight-us.md

    But if you want to start a sublist, easiest is to copy from an existing sub-list.

    (Guide needs some updating, e.g. only a delightful-contributors.md is required next to README.md and license file)

    @yarmo

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