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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
turning my personal blog into a co blog, sign up here to watch our Assistant pull a rabbit out of our hat:
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djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:
good morning fediverse. :cofepats:
there's honestly very little that the big brained titans of corporate tech can do to make this place awful for the rest of us.
it's pretty easy for us to make this place awful for corporate tech titans, though.
shush the little billionaire defender in your mind and block the hell out of corporate platforms. you'll feel better about things in the long run. really.
:blobpats:
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sphakos@toot.cat ("Sage Sharp") wrote:
Stop using #Mailchimp.
Mailchimp (a proprietary mailing list and customer CMS platform) has updated its terms of service.
Mailchimp is planning to feed your email content and customer contacts into its AI models.
Mailchimp's email generating AI might spit out content that infringements on another person's copyright. And the new Mailchimp terms of service say you are legally liable for that copyright infringement, not them.
See section 30. Generative AI Features: https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/preview/
Archive.org historical link: https://web.archive.org/web/20231018110117/https://mailchimp.com/legal/terms/preview/
This is a good time to switch to open source mailing list software:
Mailman: https://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/
- hosted services from https://mailmanlists.net/
Mautic: https://www.mautic.org/
- hosted services from https://friendly.ch/en/automate
SendPortal: https://sendportal.io/
Caveat: I haven't tried the software and hosted services mentioned, except mailman. YMMV.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Honestly, Winter, it's too late.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/22/timely-in-time-for-untimely-weather/
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's about time someone put Apple in its place.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/22/none-should-be-too-big-for-justice/
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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
'The messianic bent of the latest AI bubble has a lot to do with people noting that "something I don't know how to do" includes both "drawing a cool picture" and "inventing perpetual motion", and concluding that if a big model can do one, a bigger model must surely be able to do the other.' - Soliipsody https://bsky.app/profile/solipsodist.bsky.social/post/3kobmczcpg42a
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erlend@writing.exchange ("Erlend Sogge Heggen") wrote:
@smallcircles @julian the author of the #RustLang OIDC library Rauthy will accept a PR for FedCM if someone can give it a go 💫
https://github.com/sebadob/rauthy/discussions/145#discussioncomment-8831943
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Lsquare28@mstdn.social ("Larry :verified:") wrote:
LOL #BrokeAssTrump #tЯump
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- Screen capture of an excerpt of an article at thehill.com, that reads “President Biden on Thursday took a dig at former President Trump over his financial issues after Trump’s lawyer said he can’t pay his $464 million bond. “I know not everyone’s feeling enthusiasm. The other day a defeated man … came up to me and said, Mr. President I’m being crushed by debt, I’m completely wiped out,” Biden said. “I had to say, ‘I’m sorry Donald, I can’t help you.’” (remote)
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futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:
I need to remember what a teacher said to me once that changed my life "nobody is probably even going to notice the weird things you keep doing so just keep doing them and don't worry about it."
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technewz_bot@mastodon.metawarrior.army wrote:
Imbue (Formerly Generally Intelligent) (YC S17) Is Hiring an Engineering Manager
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39786370
posted by #technewz_bot #tech #news
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johnlogic@sfba.social ("John Carlsen") wrote:
"Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys
Fixing newly discovered side channel will likely take a major toll on performance.
by Dan Goodin - Mar 21, 2024 6:40am PST"
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tarek@oldbytes.space ("Tarek") wrote:
1986 feels like 2024 #artificialintelligence
#retrocomputing
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lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:
Showing their true colors and in a gift to Democrats, GOP calls for Medicare and Obamacare cuts, national abortion restrictions, and more evil. -https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/republican-budget-raise-age-retirement-social-security-medicare-rcna144341
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Lightfighter@infosec.exchange wrote:
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jaywink@jasonrobinson.me ("Jason Robinson 🐍 🍻 🚴") wrote:
Threads has entered the fediverse - Engineering at Meta
https://engineering.fb.com/2024/03/21/networking-traffic/threads-has-entered-the-fediverse/
I must admit I never thought this would actually happen, #Threads federating with the Fediverse, but it did, woah. Pretty huge moment for #ActivityPub. Now lets hope #Meta plays it nice with interop, well as nice as any of the other bickering and sometimes somewhat poorly interopping #Fediverse platforms are doing :P
While I totally expect half of the Fedi to go on an instance blocking spree, personally I'm happy for this development. And hey, even if half of the Fedi does go on an instance blocking spree, that is fine. It's all a part of the freedom provided by a decentralized federated network.
It's a huge pity #Bluesky settled on building their own platform. We could be a very big nice happy family had they chosen to adopt ActivityPub during the evaluations they did.
I just hope resharing Zuck's first Fedi post wont demolish my poor #Socialhome instance 😅
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Nonya_Bidniss@mas.to ("Nonya Bidniss") wrote:
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crschmidt@better.boston ("Christopher Schmidt") wrote:
New thing coming…
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I almost forgot the fourth dumbest category: the "but 55% isn't a monopoly!" brigade.
[ taps the sign ]
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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
We sat down with @JSPartyFM for 2 hours to talk about the history of OWA, the Digital Markets Act, Apple's attempt to kill web apps & the fight for the future of the web! 🎉
Join us for our deepest dive yet:
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Chewing on this blog post this evening. Especially thinking about how even a non-commercial social media may exhibit or encourage undesirable behaviors. 🤔 "A Society That Lost Focus":
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jenn@pixel.kitchen ("jenn schiffer") wrote:
tomorrow i’m having @zachleat on the @glitchdotcom livestream to talk about fast blogs. you can get the details and share what questions you’d like me to ask him here: https://support.glitch.com/t/tell-us-your-questions-for-eleventy-creator-maintainer-zach-leatherman-and-join-us-live-this-friday
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PeterSmith@mathstodon.xyz ("Peter Smith") wrote:
There's a new -- free to download -- version of *Category Theory I: A gentle prologue*.
OK: I must stop tinkering with it! Though any (constructive!) last minute comments/corrections before I paperback it are still very welcome.
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
And we can't forget Gruber, who dutifully trotted out non-defenses (charitably) even before he'd read it. Top work 🫠
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The third dumbest set of takes claim that DOJ v. MSFT didn't have any impact. Try telling that to literally any of my colleagues. They'll laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh and laugh.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
The second dumbest set of comments are the "but they didn't get everything exactly as I would have written it regarding the history of the iPod"
Insistently stupid. None of these people drag Apple for its constant, epic rewrites of history. 🤦♂️
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lmorchard@hackers.town ("Les Orchard") wrote:
I beg of you, web site designers, just let me scroll through a page and stop trying to make my scroll-wheel the hand-crank of your obnoxious hurdy-gurdy of a marketing presentation
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Just reading the tech commentariat on the DOJ v. Apple thing, and an unbelievable amount of this is just aggressively stupid:
https://www.techmeme.com/240321/p25#a240321p25
The dumbest comments are of the "but Apple only has 20-25% share worldwide!" variety.
🤦♂️
This is a *US* suit about the *US* market.
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themarkup@mastodon.themarkup.org ("The Markup") wrote:
Would you want Facebook to know if you visited a suicide hotline?
Our investigation from June 2023 found that over 30 suicide hotline websites sent visitor data to Facebook. That story has now become a finalist for a NIHCM award!
Revisit the story: https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/06/13/suicide-hotlines-promise-anonymity-dozens-of-their-websites-send-sensitive-data-to-facebook
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web3isgreat@indieweb.social ("web3 is going just great") wrote:
SEC launches investigation into Ethereum Foundation
March 20, 2024
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=sec-ethereum-foundation-investigation
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- SEC launches investigation into Ethereum Foundation Fortune reported that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has targeted the Swiss-based Ethereum Foundation for investigation, apparently in an effort to classify its ETH token a security. The report came out shortly after CoinDesk reported that a warrant canary had been removed from the Ethereum Foundation's website. Although the SEC has agreed that bitcoin is a commodity and not a security, it has been hesitant to make similar explicit statements about ETH. Designation as a security could be devastating to the Ethereum project and to ETH, which is the second most popular cryptocurrency to bitcoin. (remote)
