Finished “Children of Time” by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Actual science fiction, not just a story in some off-world setting. Interesting book, recommended.

Somebody who is not very technical asked me whether what we do in the Fediverse is "#LocalFirst software". Which is a very catchy name, and sort of related, but of course architecturally different if we go with the Ink & Switch definition: https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first/

We don't like centralized services. So we develop Federated Apps. FedApps. Because we are FedUps. The FedUps with their FedApps.

When your algorithm takes less than half a second with 1,000 elements. And 58 seconds with 10,000 elements. Then, shall we call it, you've got a problem, fair and square(d).

What's a #Fediverse app that is as unlike Mastodon as possible? Something that uses #ActivityPub but is as far away from #microblogging as one could think of?

#pixelfed is my kind of app. The only Linux distro they have specific installation instructions for is #archlinux :-) https://docs.pixelfed.org/install-guides/arch/

Question of language: Is it "... on the fediverse?" Like "I'm on the internet" in English, or "... in the fediverse?" Like "I'm in the internet" in German. E.g. "If you want to share interesting links, you do that on Reddit, or on/in the Fediverse with an app like Lemmy"

This spreadsheet is extremely strong evidence for the amazing amount of innovation that is happening in the #fediverse. The variety and choice of apps that we have here is unheard of (and impossible!) in today's centralized social media products. And this is just Mastodon! Next time you talk about the fediverse, in addition to no ads, no tracking, no crazy billionaires, and all the other points we tend to make, also say: and there's a lot more innovation.

Google Docs

Mastodon apps feature comparison

“Here’s the Intelligence Assessment of Donald Trump that the Government Can’t Write” https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/08/05/donald-trump-homeland-security-threat-00109928

@npub1w7ag...tpn3 asked the best question: "Does implementing [the CSAM] tools actually reduce occurrences?" Answer from @npub1jwpp...dfde: "people are still trading CSAM, but their ability is greatly reduced.... perceptual hashing is absolutely an effective solution" That's good to know. https://github.com/swicg/meetings/tree/main/2023-08-04

So possession of child pornography is illegal in the US even if your goal is to write code that can detect child pornography. How does anybody solve this problem? (Reading through the notes of today's SWICG's call on the subject https://github.com/swicg/meetings/tree/main/2023-08-04)

Nice article on the #Fediverse and #ActivityPub by @npub16y5v...f369 in Engadget. Found via our Press Coverage #lemmy group. Crowdsourcing yeah! P.S. Karissa: get your Fediverse handle listed on your Engadget page? https://lemmy.world/post/2630560

“Russia has transferred 4.8 million Ukrainians, including over 700,000 children, to the Russian Federation since the beginning of the war” Let that sink in. Four point eight million. And this came from the mouth of a Russian official. Ukraine only had 36 point something million people before the war.

Institute for the Study of War

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, July 31, 2023

The Wagner Group may be supplanting the Russian military as the Belarusian military’s key training partner. The Belarusian Ministry of Defense (M...

There’s another #fedi around, and it has money.

Fedi, Inc. Announces Raising $17 Million in Series A Round - May 3, 2023

Fedi is a wallet with chat and mini apps that protects your privacy.

Today it was cool enough in the closet that the #3D #print actually worked and didn't come off the plate, as it had done three times before. Now I have a better webcam cover.

The interop requirements set by the #EU in recent years definitely are being heeded. This one is about what Google will do re messaging interop.

Google Online Security Blog

An important step towards secure and interoperable messaging

Posted by Giles Hogben, Privacy Engineering Director Most modern consumer messaging platforms (including Google Messages) support end-to-...

Humans are not very reliable at doing math correctly. Look at the resulting picture.

Inigo Quilez

Human Shader, computing a shader image by hand

Agreeing with @npub1lslw...9c2x that #copyright is not the tool to rely on to avoid that #ai companies slurp up and use all available data. I made a similar point in an interview with the Mercury News a couple of weeks ago: first, let's figure out what the *right* thing is here -- because we don't know -- , and then what rules we need to get there. Because machines reading all textbooks, movies etc is a genuinely new thing, likely requiring new approaches to regulation.

Techdirt

Stop Rushing To Copyright As A Tool To ‘Solve’ The Problems Of AI

A few months back, I got added to a group chat of Hollywood writers/actors/directors, all seeking to understand what the fuck was going on with AI....

After all these years with the #web, we sometimes forget just how amazing of a medium it is. Came across this. It could never happen "in an app" or perhaps any other medium.

Queering The Map

Queering The Map

Queering the Map is a community generated counter-mapping platform for digitally archiving LGBTQ2IA+ experience in relation to physical space.