A site selling videos and photos of real people to bypass selfie checks for online services.

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Inside the Face Fraud Factory

An underground site is selling videos and photos of real people to bypass selfie checks for online services. In essence, these individuals have bee...

Wouldn’t “kleptocratic” be preferable to “fascist”? It describes the intent and doesn’t validate this performative tribalism as an ideology.

Facebook has been inaccessible on at least two networks in Bangladesh over the past days. The block appears to be implemented via TLS interference:

OONI Explorer - Bangladesh blocked Facebook amid student protests

This report shares OONI data on the blocking of Facebook in Bangladesh between 16th July 2024 to 5th August 2024.

… when you belatedly notice a typo and you have to ask all relays to delete the post

“Banning TikTok without regulating the data broker sector does nothing.” Stop treating social media companies as nation state representatives: All major ones “are now transnational entities that are happy to support dictators.” Cory Doctorow 🔥 at Hope XV

just learned the internet archive now has an onion service archive6zg5vrdwm4ljllgxleekeoj43lqayscd4… the usual nice purple button in the tor browser takes you there if you go to the plain site

A subscription bundle is not going to fix either the Post nor CNN. Slowing and reversing decline by replicating Times is a strategy that could have worked briefly years ago, but no more. I would love to see a new generation of leaders define distinct market positioning and value propositions for these groups of extremely talented people, and help them redefine their success and help preserve journalistic craft and spirit.

On AI autocratic bias: Recent studies show cautioning LLMs about illegal demographic discrimination can reduce bias. Great! But this feature could be exploited by autocratic regimes.

Has anyone here tried Openvibe yet?

TechCrunch

Openvibe combines Mastodon, Bluesky and Nostr into one social app | TechCrunch

Ahead of these potential competitors comes Openvibe, a simple aggregator for the open social web.

aggregates Bluesky, mastodon and nostr feeds, threads tk

Anyone here going to Hope next week? I’ll be there Friday and Saturday

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist." - Hannah Arendt, Origins of Totalitarianism Philosophy, 1951

This, of course, is the advantage of decentralised, open source, community-driven technology. Rather than reinventing the wheel and burning energy solving the same problems over and over again, we can work together to create shared infrastructure.

Building ActivityPub

Alright, let's Fedify

Problem: It's the end of a long week and your soul is tired from the endless monotony of slowly but surely conforming your behaviour to accommodate...