Erik Moeller

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Engineering, https://freedom.press

Personal:
https://lib.reviews and other free/open projects.

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2024-10-03 16:05:38

That some US media think there's an interesting story to tell about "civility" when one of the campaigns runs on a "mass deportations now" platform is mind-boggling.

2024-09-26 00:20:21

If you want to know why open source governance matters, WordPress is providing us with a case study playing out in real time.

2024-09-18 19:31:01

Very restrained Guardian op-ed but still making the important point:
> Such disproportionate attacks, which seem illegal, are not only unprecedented but may also become normalised. If that is the case, the door is opened for other states to lethally test the laws of war.
The world as a whole is, once again, less safe.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/sep/18/the-guardian-view-on-israels-booby-trap-war-and-unacceptable

2024-09-12 22:12:12

Early impression of #OpenAI's O1 model: I'm very much still chatting with an LLM, with all that this implies, but it's better at self-guiding towards the kind of quality output that would ordinarily take retries/coaxing, at the cost of taking longer to respond (and of course using more energy). Compared with #Claude, it actually did worse at a couple of programming challenges I threw at it, but I suspect on average it'll benchmark a step above it.
#AI

2024-09-12 00:03:53

This might be a good time to share this evergreen video:
Dear young people - don't vote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0e9guhV35o

2024-08-25 19:40:18

#Telegram hosts a lot of awful shit, but arguments against Durov _will_ be used against Signal and Tor.
Details matter -- if they get dinged for not moderating illegal stuff they clearly can moderate, that's one thing; if France tries to force them to hand over encryption keys or install other kinds of law enforcement backchannels, that's another. A case that will be important to monitor for privacy & online rights.

2024-08-23 22:44:30

It's really okay to stop sharing screenshots from X dot com. That website is weird

2024-08-18 00:17:24

Harris: <introduces economic plan>
Corporate media:
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/112/980/137/326/030/711/original/72eb559aed76de17.jpg

2024-08-09 01:56:15

The solution to Twitter/X being weaponized into a hate platform by a right-wing billionaire is not to censor the site, as Venezuela's authoritarian government is doing.
It's for civil society to stop legitimizing it with its presence.
Nice to see a UK hospital that's part of the NHS doing so (even if they don't yet appear to embrace the fediverse); would be great to see a wave of similar UK departures as we've seen in Germany in response to Musk's hate-mongering.
https://www.rnoh.nhs.uk/news/rnoh-leaving-xtwitter

2024-07-21 19:52:06

If Donald Trump is still mentally fit enough to run for President, then he is mentally fit enough to go to prison.

2024-07-19 12:20:48

Currently stranded at an airport thanks to Crowdstrike, like so many others.
What I find most infuriating about the whole thing is how many governments continue to throw billions of dollars at Microsoft, instead of jointly funding secure open source infrastructure for all.
Imagine all schools, libraries and roads were run by SchoolCorp, LibraryBiz and RoadWare. For some reason we accept that for 21st century digital infrastructure.

2024-06-18 06:18:08

Holy shit, looks like I've got some updates to the eXit spreadsheet to make (https://bit.ly/eXit → GDoc).
47 German NGOs have just simultaneously announced their eXit from Elon Musk's hate platform, "X":
https://byebyeelon.de/

2024-05-24 20:07:49

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@npub1l0s…pgrv
Note that technically this is a snippet result, an older feature.

2024-05-23 20:51:58

The rot continues: GOP-stacked Supreme Court blesses racial gerrymandering.
(This is how I mostly think about a second Trump admin these days -- rot, rot, rot at all levels of government, towards corporate feudalism infused with theocracy & white supremacy at locally varying degrees of intensity.)
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-redistricting-south-carolina-black-voters-864d1609b74ad74980604c26e9bfac52

2024-05-16 00:21:12

One nice thing I have to sometimes remind myself on the fediverse --
If I see more posts by someone, it's not because an algorithm is trying to optimize my engagement, it's because they happen to be around and active while I am.
Which honestly makes me feel more connected. :)

2024-05-09 17:17:22

Now Elon Musk is spreading FUD about Signal. If you needed another vote of confidence that Signal (end-to-end encrypted messenger maintained by a nonprofit) is the real deal, there you have it:
https://signal.org/download/

2024-05-05 17:44:43

Two days after World Press Freedom Day, Israel's government votes to shut down Al Jazeera. I'm sure the US State Department will be very "concerned" or even "disturbed" while weapons shipments continue.
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/05/1249205453/netanyahus-cabinet-votes-to-close-al-jazeera-offices-in-israel

2024-01-26 00:38:21

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@npub1u27…3qfq @npub1nd8…2zkd
Congrats Ben!
FPF (my org) has worked with ProPublica a bunch, if we can help with DigiSec, SecureDrop, or just kicking around ideas (stronger fedi presence for nonprofit media?), don't hesitate to reach out.

2024-01-22 23:25:31

Are you a front-end dev who's looking for a time-bound gig doing mission-driven work?
At @npub1l8d…rlx0 we're hiring for a 6 month web dev contract at $75/hour @ 30 hours/week. Remote-friendly as long as you're able to join meetings during afternoon US eastern time working hours.
You'll be working with our web team on the full site redesign of our main site, https://freedom.press/ .
More info here:
https://freedom.press/jobs/?gh_jid=4360167005

2023-12-22 23:34:42

After the Trevor Project, another major LGBTQ+ group in the US, GLSEN, has suspended all activity on Twitter/X, where they have >100K followers.
(Neither group is here yet, unfortunately.)
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/12/a-major-lgbtq-org-just-left-x-over-the-sites-cyberbullying-of-queer-youth/

2023-12-22 07:45:06

Im deutschsprachigen Raum bröckelt die journalistische "Firewall", die X am Leben erhält.
@npub1w9d…0hzv verließ Twitter im November; sie hatten dort an die 120K Follower.
Das österreichische @npub1n68…vuml ging gestern.
@npub1dlh…ktf7 wäre ein logischer nächster Kandidat, aber sie zögern wohl noch. :)

2023-12-21 06:28:49

Hi #twitter / #x folks checking your trusty Mastodon account while the deadbird site is down because Elon chewed on the wrong wires:
If you leave by December 31, you can still say that you left the nazi bar behind in 2023. ;-) Join all the folks who've done so already.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p5crRGK0Y9MuFsfkyOBEC--3wXxFTd71fPCUcIFPXK0/edit#gid=0

2023-12-21 03:50:26

Many universities are still happily posting on Twitter/X. That's not great, given what that place has become.
More and more _are_ leaving (you'll find them in the https://bit.ly/eXit GDoc I maintain). How can we pick up the pace?
If you have an alma mater, have you written them yet? I just did - took only a few minutes. I doubt they'll do anything, but if many of us write such emails, sooner or later, it might make a difference.

2023-12-20 05:36:03

Congrats to the Association for Computers and the Humanities for leaving Twitter/X! :)
Established in 1978, it's an international society for the digital humanities.
According to ACH, this encompasses: computer-assisted research, pedagogy, and software; resource creation, curation, and engagement; physical computing; the use of digital technologies to write, publish, and review scholarship; and humanistic research into and about digital objects and culture.
Follow them here: @npub1z2n…d7ak

2023-12-19 08:13:34

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@npub1ckm…gutz
Very cool! Looking forward to it becoming a two-way thing :)

2023-12-19 08:00:24

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To that end, I'm going to try to get into the habit of sharing cool, perhaps lesser known websites and projects under the hashtag #WebMadeThis. Perhaps others will do so as well. <3
Here's a first one, for fans of #retro computing:
https://deepsid.chordian.net/
This is wicked cool web-based player for C64 music (8-bit #chiptune stuff). It takes a while to explore its features but I'm just blown away by the love & attention to detail behind it.

2023-12-19 07:56:19

A common refrain is that the web is _turning into_ garbage because of LLMs.
But that's not really true. It's just that the garbage is _drowning out_ everything else, especially in search engines that themselves have decided to go into the garbage generation business.
What can we do? We can promote the #IndieWeb right here. Highlight the good, perhaps obscure websites and blogs you come across, especially the ones that aren't loaded with ads & trackers.
The web is still full of awesomeness.

2023-12-19 07:40:03

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@npub1ckm…gutz
One thing that's unclear from me reading the Medium post -- who will see replies, once all federation features are implemented? Will publishers/authors themselves engage with fedi?
(I'm trying to better understand what sets apart Flipboard's approach from a passive ingestion model like https://press.coop/, which just creates fedi accounts for RSS feeds.)

2023-12-19 06:07:39

The #Firefox translation feature is easily one of the coolest things they've added recently.
Instead of sending data to a third party, it runs on-device.
I included the request log sidebar in the video so you can see that the only external requests while translation is running are from an unrelated ad tracking script that uBlock is blocking. :)
It's still very limited (both in quality and # of languages), but every incremental improvement is dedicated to public benefit and not private gain.
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/111/605/527/118/344/329/original/d7b4a8a6e63884d8.mp4

2023-12-16 08:23:39

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@npub1cxc…akj4
Ah, interesting. I wasn't actually sure if it was a bug or not :)

2023-12-16 08:19:42

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@npub1cxc…akj4
Is the "preview issue" (by which I mean no tracking parameters on cards) a recent thing?

2023-12-16 01:34:34

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@npub1u27…3qfq
Aww, thanks for the shout-out!
Always appreciate pings about new notable exits -- especially for accounts that primarily post in languages other than English or German.

2023-12-15 21:22:12

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@npub100t…6cuy
I recommend "Humanizing the Economy" by John Restakis as a good introduction to co-operative economics, citing many case studies of co-operative businesses at various scales, from sex workers to manufacturers.
To scale, this model needs regulatory support, just like capitalism has benefited from massive sponsorship and support.
https://firestorm.coop/products/2201-humanizing-the-economy.html

2023-12-15 21:02:15

Sometimes I tell people I'm in favor of peacefully abolishing #capitalism, and they react with shock. That's such an extreme position, they say.
That strikes me as bizarre. It's very obvious by now that capitalism is a death cult. Climate change is irrefutable evidence. Or patents for vaccines against deadly pandemics.
To hold on to the belief that this system can somehow be salvaged or regulated to behave reasonably against all evidence to the contrary -- that's the extreme position.

2023-12-15 20:26:44

Remember, the first part of "divide & conquer" is "divide".
Every instance will find its way to deal with #Threads. It'll be okay. Keep calm and fedi on.

2023-12-14 22:56:25

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@npub12ty…vnqc
That's just for pixelfed.social, right? So any other server would still be able to have a different policy

2023-12-11 16:59:31

Press freedom continues to be under threat in the United States every day.
Two dramatic events this year have included the Marion County Raid in Kansas, and the FBI raid of Tim Burke's home in Florida.
In just under 3 hours, @npub1l8d…rlx0 will be hosting a live event with journalists Eric Meyer of the Marion County Record and with Tim Burke.
Register here:
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_U6Aj0wToTEaeQx5XAghXNQ#/registration

2023-12-10 22:29:12

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Of course there are also plenty of #opensource projects that have never had a Twitter/X account in the first place.
That includes the really cool @npub15kt…x7ed project (a plain text editor designed for writing novels), @npub12lm…4uap (a document disarm & reconstruction tool), and I'm sure many others.

2023-12-10 22:23:26

Found some more #opensource projects you can follow on here that appear to have left Twitter/X for good:
@npub1ef9…9dr4 - makes many GUI apps possible
@npub1agj…6vdc - personal finance manager (web app)
@npub16x9…lsc8 - Python toolbox for seismology
@npub1ktz…9cq5 - fitness tracker (web app)
@npub1gkl…zg9t - Android sync tool
@npub1s8q…vezc - Raspberry Pi audio player
@npub174u…c9ux - Python code coverage analysis
@npub1smk…5p90 - privacy-focused YouTube frontend
@npub1tsy…n0r9 - CLI music organizer
@npub13vz…0608 - backup tool

2023-12-10 21:38:33

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@npub10fl…2xc7 That's amazing - thanks for sharing that experience <3

2023-12-08 20:30:39

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@npub1u27…3qfq "Log in to see more from J12t".

2023-12-06 08:52:20

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In addition to being my preferred desktop client for #Mastodon, #Phanpy has, for now, replaced #Tusky as well on my Android phone. I installed it as a web app via Firefox Android and it behaves just like a native app. Not sure if it's possible to get rid of the white bar at the top, but otherwise it works very smoothly, including notifications.
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/111/532/620/970/666/650/original/6fb9bd801c1fe636.jpg

2023-12-02 02:39:41

I tend to get much more frustrated with hardware than with software.
Just spent an hour researching M2 SSD card types (to recover a dying laptop's drive), of which there is a bewildering number -- only to discover that Lenovo used its own completely nonstandard card type in that particular laptop.
I swear, left to its own devices (no pun intended), this industry makes every thing incompatible with every other thing.

2023-11-22 05:16:28

X has taken its stance. Nazis on the platform are allowed. Pro-Hitler posts are allowed. Holocaust denial is allowed.
If you stay on a platform like that, you can't escape this creeping normalization. Even if you think you can.
"Oh, there goes another Holocaust denier. Just part of being online, I guess."
"Oh, another transphobe calling people dehumanizing slurs. Well that's the Internet for you."
Creeping normalization is like advertising. Even if you think it won't influence you, it will.

2023-11-21 06:05:37

Not a full eXit yet, but it's still nice to see a major university prioritize the fediverse instead: the University of Innsbruck in Austria with tens of thousands of students and an annual budget of >300M €. They have 14K followers on X.
Follow them at @npub1s4t…c0p6
X is no longer featured in their site footer and they run their own instance:
https://social.uibk.ac.at/
(My mother is from Austria, so I've visited Innsbruck a few times -- it's a gorgeous city!)

2023-11-21 04:29:30

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What on Earth is that style parameter?

2023-11-20 00:03:06

How ads make everything worse, exhibit #534908923234:
Google Play Store featuring the Trump-owned fascist propaganda app "Truth Social" above the #Mastodon app in a search for "Mastodon".
(Screenshot taken 2023-11-19 in US PNW, regional results may vary.)
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/111/439/927/795/848/056/original/142c97421ca0dc26.jpg

2023-11-18 20:37:49

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This might be a secondary system failure compared to #ClimateChange, but it still seems important to me to recognize that system failure is occurring on all levels.
Most of mainstream politics is still concerned with _regulating_ an economic model that is inherently maladaptive.
I hope we can continue to shift the discourse and the Overton window to _replacing_ that failing economic model instead (cf. #SolidarityEconomy, co-operatives, open source collaboration).

2023-11-18 20:28:18

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The "hidden layers" problem seems to go beyond the traditional analysis of externalities. The more complex and interconnected technology gets, the more difficult it becomes for market actors to make decisions based on what's happening in those layers.
In other words, the traditional "supply and demand" analysis falls apart completely, because people don't even know anymore -- cannot know, due to escalating complexity -- what is being done to them.

2023-11-18 20:24:36

#Capitalism seems _particularly_ ill-suited for high-tech society, because technology begets hidden layers of monetization:
- Out of control adtech surveillance: https://www.iccl.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Europes-hidden-security-crisis.pdf
- Cars spying on everything about their drivers, including sexual behavior: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/articles/its-official-cars-are-the-worst-product-category-we-have-ever-reviewed-for-privacy/
- Phone carriers auto-installing adtech-riddled apps without user action: https://www.androidpolice.com/what-is-verizon-app-manager-why-does-it-keep-installing-apps/
Corporations will do anything they can get away with to maximize profits. Non-captive regulators cannot keep up.

2023-11-18 19:03:25

Every weekend the fediverse explodes in creativity and joie de vivre. It's wonderful, but it also reminds me of the importance of reclaiming more of our lives from work.

2023-11-14 07:15:19

Here are just a few #OpenSource projects you can follow here that have discontinued their use of the hate platform known as X:
- @npub1c3l…epx0: a popular Linux distribution with a focus on immediate usability
- @npub12nq…a3hq: an operating system for smartphones
- @npub1fps…j893: a turn-based strategy game (very addictive - you've been warned!)
- @npub1e53…fa4q: a tiny game engine that's been used for some magnificent games and art
- @npub1jr5…wpvj: Minecraft-style open source sandbox game & game creation system

2023-11-12 08:20:44

Raspberry Pi (@npub15nn…sdr0) shut down their >600K follower account on X back in September, with a final Homer Simpsons "fading into the bushes" GIF. Navigation links to Twitter/X have been removed from https://www.raspberrypi.com/.
They maintain a very active presence here on the fediverse.
If you've never hurt of Raspberry Pi, it's a pretty big deal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raspberry_Pi

2023-11-11 19:28:18

"We have so many crises because of Big Tech. If you think we don't have a Google Classroom crisis, I promise you it's coming." As that crisis escalates, push for interoperability.
@npub1hyk…3p33 about windows of opportunity due to enshittification. (We're in one such window right now, which is why I'm pushing so hard for people and organizations to leave X.)
Streaming live at #aaronswartzday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1-VoCguHKU

2023-11-11 19:24:39

"As hackers we want to build a better service and have everyone switch to it". But laws that prevent interoperability act as an impediment because people can't easily switch platforms without it. That means they effectively feel held captive on platforms like Facebook because people they love are there.
@npub1hyk…3p33 about the need for policy to accelerate system-level changes.
Watch #aaronswartzday live here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1-VoCguHKU

2023-11-11 03:56:51

If you're free tomorrow, check out the talks for #AaronSwartzDay, an annual celebration of the life and work of Internet activist and trailblazer Aaron Swartz.
Starting online at around 11 AM pacific time (7 PM UTC). I'll post a bit more under the hashtag tomorrow as it gets underway :)
https://www.aaronswartzday.org/

2023-11-08 08:45:02

Shout-out to @npub1f5d…mw9x (Linux for Apple Silicon) for shuttering their 32.4K follower account on the hate platform known as X back in April. Many many more #opensource projects that still post to X should be ready to make the jump anytime. JFDI.

2023-11-07 18:52:22

#infosec community, what general security news RSS feeds do y'all monitor beyond, e.g.,
Ars Technica
Threatpost
Krebs on Security?

2023-11-01 02:05:12

Today's additions to the eXit spreadsheet (https://bit.ly/eXit) -- notable accounts that appear to have left X for good:
- @npub15cd…3mv2: artist, known for "Pepper & Carrot" comic and for his amazing learning resources; deleted his X account earlier this year 😻
- @npub13nz…9l73: art and visual culture blog; had 144K followers on X; left October 5 🎨
- @npub15qw…3p2z: law blogger; left Twitter last year (more active on BlueSky now) ⚖️
- @npub1xl5…wsca: has been blogging about coffee since the 1990s! ☕

2023-10-29 04:55:05

"Elon is garbage, and this place is now a white supremacist Nazi haven." So said, correctly, @npub1nt7…z00k when he completed his exit from X, where he had 600K followers.
Phil is an amazing science explainer and nonsense debunker. Do consider giving him a follow here :-)

2023-10-28 20:30:42

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One interesting thing I didn't expect - many celebrities are truly gone and have been for a long time.
Jim Carrey (18.9M followers - account nuked!), Toni Braxton (1.7M followers), Whoopi Goldberg (1.6M followers - account nuked!), Trent Reznor (1.6M followers - account nuked!), the list goes on.
Mostly it's back to the old platforms (FB/Insta) for these folks, with Threads picking up a few.

2023-10-21 18:56:41

Quite a few podcasts do bonus episodes for financial supporters.
It works: sooner or later, you're going to spot a bonus episode you really want to listen to.
But it also makes me a bit sad, because it's like a paywall: I get access, but nobody else does.
One way around that is timed release. Even if it's only after a year, making bonus #podcast episodes free eventually makes me feel a lot better about getting "exclusive" access.
Just a suggestion from a loyal listener to many podcasts :)

2023-10-20 20:55:09

@npub1vuk…q8yv has 15K followers around here, but they deserve many more.
The Markup is a nonprofit journalism site that publishes investigations and and tools to hold technology firms to account.
E.g., you can use their tool https://themarkup.org/blacklight to investigate exactly how a site is tracking you.
Or you can read investigations like this one into the police-industrial surveillance complex:
https://themarkup.org/neighborhood-watch/2023/10/11/accidental-spies-amazon-ring-owners-may-be-unknowingly-emailing-police
Beyond following, consider donating if you value their work!
#FollowFriday

2023-10-19 04:47:40

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@npub1a24…etnp Fair enough! :) LLM writing has a very distinct style that stands out a fair bit now that I've seen so much of it.

2023-10-19 04:01:46

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@npub1a24…etnp
Ah, ChatGPT is trying its best ..

2023-10-17 06:15:11

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@npub1lm4…npla
Yeah. I think it's part of their strategy to build buzz through invites, but some users might be surprised to learn that their posts are already 100% public.

2023-10-17 06:12:21

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@npub1lm4…npla
The point was about BlueSky putting a login wall in front of posts (when attempting to read them) while simultaneously making those posts available through an API.
You can see all BlueSky posts live on third party websites like FireSky or the one Mario built.
But you _cannot_ see any BlueSky posts directly through their web app -- not even read them. That's different from Mastodon, and potentially misleads users about post visibility.

2023-10-17 06:00:50

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@npub1lm4…npla You lost me. Do you have a point that you're trying to make?

2023-10-17 05:56:19

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@npub1lm4…npla
How exactly does it fence them off though if all those posts can be freely mirrored and crawled anyway?

2023-10-16 22:54:49

Just a reminder that post.news, the platform many journalists got all excited about before they got all excited about BlueSky, is funded by Andreessen Horowitz. That's Andreessen of recent manifesto fame. In case you still have an account there.
Not that it matters much since it's quietly dying entirely on its own.

2023-10-16 21:35:34

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@npub10r2…w6yx
https://firesky.tv/ has been running a searchable live stream for a few months. It's bizarre to me that they're not making it clearer that the login wall is purely cosmetic.

2023-10-11 16:42:59

Germany's federal anti-discrimination agency has pinned a departure notice on their X account.
"As a state institution, the anti-discrimination agency has a role model function. Therefore, staying on X is no longer justifiable for us. All ministries and other public bodies should ask themselves whether it is still acceptable to remain on a platform that has become a disinformation network and whose owner spreads anti-Semitic, racist and populist content."
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/germanys-anti-discrimination-agency-quits-x-over-anti-minority-posts-2023-10-11/

2023-10-09 18:12:16

> The situation is so bad on X right now that even seasoned OSINT researchers are being duped by fake accounts, including one that shared a false claim about Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu being hospitalized over the weekend.
> “Any sort of ground truth, which was always hard to get on Twitter, is now entirely out of reach,” Brooking says.
https://www.wired.com/story/x-israel-hamas-war-disinformation/
This is just a preview of what's to come with Musk riding X into the 2024 election like Major Kong straddling an H-Bomb.

2023-10-03 06:39:22

Reminder that #FollowGraph for #Mastodon is an excellent tool to make your feed more interesting. If you follow at least 10-20 people, you can use it to see who _those_ folks follow (but you don't).
It's useful to run repeatedly over time. I just used it to follow some 20-ish more folks.
Type in your username in email format ("foo@bar.com") to get started:
https://followgraph.vercel.app/

2023-09-29 18:53:49

Unless Trump keels over, hard to think about something less consequential than these GOP debates. And even then his fascist flock would probably just heil to Jr.

2023-09-27 05:08:44

This is a really nice touch recently added to Mastodon: when you search for profiles, it now shows you if they've completed link verification for a domain.
All the more reason for folks who want to verify their identity on Mastodon to do so. See https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/profile/#verification for docs.
https://social-coop-media.ams3.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/media_attachments/files/111/135/368/067/031/017/original/2c697e179b039bec.png

2023-09-08 22:38:09

One way #DuckDuckGo could set itself apart is to clearly label content that's behind paywalls, login walls or "Disable your adblocker" walls. Public vs. gated web.

2023-09-07 23:46:04

I know #Linux can be frustrating to learn and use. But it's kind of like Mastodon/the fediverse more broadly - community-built and a _relatively_ safe harbor from surveillance capitalism and the inevitable bad actions from Apple or Microsoft.
I switched over in the early 2000s and haven't had to look back since then. I highly recommend considering the switch as an investment in your own future well-being. There's an upfront migration cost, but it'll pay off for many years.

2023-09-07 22:31:09

Nasty exploit targeting all Apple devices. If you use Apple devices, apply available updates _immediately_.
https://citizenlab.ca/2023/09/blastpass-nso-group-iphone-zero-click-zero-day-exploit-captured-in-the-wild/

2023-09-07 07:14:23

All technological development has led up to this moment.
It is now safe to turn off your computer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuCUdQ3xrEk

2023-08-17 16:33:04

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@npub1pdv…gqz2 It is for me .. messages not going through.

2023-08-16 05:41:37

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@npub1e7p…nvup
Credit goes to
@npub1a85…uwr0 (sadly not active here yet)

2023-07-17 20:52:29

Despite declining user base & attention, news media continue to rely on Twitter as if its place in the world hadn't fundamentally changed, now that it's a right-wing billionaire's broken toy.
It's time for journalists to make the shift.
Very interesting data in this thread by @npub1efv…4jx2:
https://mastodon.social/@mimsical/110717873218442823

2023-07-17 19:38:39

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@npub12ty…vnqc Very cool. Does "Read-Only" account scope imply access to "DM"s?

2023-07-14 17:33:46

I'm at #FOSSY in Portland, in case anyone would like to connect. Currently at the "Contributor Growth Strategies for OSS Projects" presentation :)

2023-07-12 18:30:09

Very positive development from @npub1n70…qpfe to bring several nonprofits together to advocate for #OpenSource policy:
https://blog.opensource.org/convening-public-benefit-and-charitable-foundations-working-in-open-domains/
Would be great to see Wikimedia, @npub100c…gkwp , @npub1xrj…9q43 involved

2023-07-12 05:26:40

I've been here since 2017 and I can tell you that my feed here is more interesting than Twitter ever was. Curation takes time, on any platform. Stick with it.

2023-07-12 04:48:18

If LLMs have taught me anything so far, it's that a competent starship captain should absolutely be able to talk a malevolent AI into seppuku.
I would go so far as to make that an entrance exam at the academy.

2023-07-05 21:51:33

Take it as a lesson from Wikipedia and other community-based projects: effort you put into making the fediverse better goes towards a community that will carry it forward for years to come.
Effort to "create a presence" on the latest Twitter alternative boosted by venture capital (or by competitors smelling blood in the water) is free labor for rich people.

2023-06-29 23:47:40

Have folks come across a social media mgmt tool besides Buffer that supports the fediverse -- and ideally also supports CSV bulk upload of posts for post management (which Buffer doesn't)?

2023-06-16 19:32:27

RIP Daniel Ellsberg, an incredibly smart & courageous man. I can't think of anyone who has shown through word and action more clearly how the machinery of war works -- and how to challenge it.
If you only have a passing familiarity with the Pentagon Papers, I highly recommend his memoir "Secrets".
My employer published this tribute:
https://freedom.press/news/daniel-ellsberg-an-american-hero-for-the-ages-1931-2023/

2023-06-16 15:09:39

So far quite liking #KBin (using https://kbin.social/ instance) as a Reddit alternative - simple & clean, and nice to have a built-in microblogging feature.
Not quite sure how exactly it federates yet. (You can follow my account there at @npub1zcw…5p8g.)

2023-04-18 02:51:32

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#[0] Don't have any good "in" with NPR, but I do know a certain former head of CBC.ca, so I've poked her to see if she can help :)

2023-04-18 02:33:17

Public broadcasting is a perfect fit for community-owned social media. Would love to see an expansive presence of #[0], #[1] and others on the fediverse, down to every local station.

2023-04-07 20:27:04

Nonprofit newsroom #[0], which broke the Clarence Thomas story (https://www.propublica.org/article/clarence-thomas-scotus-undisclosed-luxury-travel-gifts-crow), has maintained a thoughtful presence here on the fediverse since November.
If you're not following them already, I highly recommend doing so now.