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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Back!

What's relevant about the Cambridge Analytica scandal here is the type of data Facebook provided— posts, likes, shares, and friends.

These are the basic digital footprints of the average social media user.

CA was able to take that data, along with a simple quiz, and build a psychological profile for millions of Americans using something called the OCEAN model (based on a study Facebook helped author and publish years earlier).

#Fediverse #CambridgeAnalytica

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1218772110

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

this looks interesting: https://www.docetl.org/

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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

@fromjason Also from back in the day ...

https://www.wired.com/2007/11/opensocial-is-doomed-marc-cuban-s-facebook-yahoo-mashup-fantasies/

Current score: Mark Cuban 1, Andreessen and OpenSocial 0.

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thenexusofprivacy@infosec.exchange ("The Nexus of Privacy") wrote:

@fromjason great find! And this is classic:

What's the dumbest thing anyone has said today about Open Social?
Obviously:

"I think [Open Social is] pie in the sky," said Ray Valdes, an analyst at Gartner.

Current score: Gartner 1, Andreessen and Open Social 0.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Ahhhh why do I start these long-ass threads so close to bed time.

Let me get ready for bed, and I'll be back after a brief word from our Vice President Selina Meyer:

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• So I'm supposed to let a bunch of dead-eyed white guys shit all over absolutely everything that I stand for?

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Anyway, all this to say that for years, the social web sat as a relatively fringe ideology with a mixed bag of wins and losses. The people associated with the movement seemed genuinely interested in the cause.

Then in 2018, news reports of a massive "data breach" at Facebook started pouring in.

#OpenSocialWeb #CambridgeAnalytica

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

every time someone calls me "anti-crypto" i think this

anyway these are in the store now lol

https://store.mollywhite.net/

#crypto #cryptid #cryptocurrency

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• Three separate stickers: An illustration of Bigfoot, wavy serif text reading "Anti Crypto Cryptid Club" in the style of "Anti Social Social Club", and an illustration of Mothman (remote)
• Two stickers, one each combining Bigfoot and Mothman with the "Anti Crypto Cryptid Club" design (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Also worth noting, if for nothing else, to point out historical parallels, OpenSocial was supposed to be a "revolution."

Why is it _always_ a revolution?

https://www.wired.com/2008/11/where-is-the-opensocial-revolution-/

#IndieWeb #OpenWeb

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Worth noting here that at the end of 2014, OpenSocial moved under the W3C Social Web Activity to continue its specifications work.

https://www.w3.org/blog/2014/opensocial-foundation-moves-standards-work-to-w3c-social-web-activity/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The next day, Google launched OpenSocial to devs, and things quickly went down hill from there.

> "While we were initially very excited, we have learned the hard way just how limited the release truly is... From our experience its not even a beta platform. The concept of “write once, distribute broadly” is not accurate and core functionality components are missing."

A year later, OpenSocial was shuttered and the dream of the open social web seeming closed with it.

https://techcrunch.com/2007/12/06/opensocial-still-not-open-for-business/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Let's back up.

The open social web's first big break came in the late aughts when Google teamed up with OpenSocial— a set of open source standards for social media. Together, they would tear down Facebook's walled gardens.

On launch night, 2007, things were looking up. OpenSocial was a tech media darling. Even MySpace decided to get in on the action in the eleventh hour.

Openness wins again!" they declared. It was a social web- er, I mean, OpenSocial revolution!

https://web.archive.org/web/20080229063659/http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/11/report-from-the.html

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

I keep thinking about this thread, and have a theory:

The general lack of privacy controls across decentralized systems are not an oversight, but a calculated omission.

When the tech gods descended from Mt. Allbirds to anoint the #OpenSocialWeb movement, they sold it as their atonement for the sins of Web 2.0.

But there's a type of pretexting happening here where we're being conditioned to view our privacy as public domain🧵

From: @jenniferplusplus
https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/113213902118447172

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

To borrow framing from @jcgregorio, it sure seems like a lot of the JS community has confused their hospice for abstractionitis sufferers for a utopia.

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briankrebs@infosec.exchange ("BrianKrebs") wrote:

This is by far and away the craziest story I have ever reported. The lede probably doesn't do it justice, but I promise this will be a fascinating (if not also entertaining) read. I'd frankly be amazed if some version of this story isn't made into a documentary or drama series:

A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, a new indictment charges. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that many of the man’s alleged targets were members of UGNazi, a hacker group behind multiple high-profile breaches and cyberattacks back in 2012.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/crooked-cops-stolen-laptops-the-ghost-of-ugnazi/

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• The government's indictment includes a photo allegedly of the accused (Adam Iza) surrounded by high-end sports cars and deputies on his payroll from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department. Iza is standing in the middle with his arms crossed, flanked by two uniformed deputies. The caption reads: "The pawns. The one doing the warrant has federal authority." This was allegedly a message that Iza sent to a co-conspirator. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

You freaks like listicles??

I'm unintentionally alternating a note and a listicle post. The listicles are doing way better.

Am I surprised by that? I don't know. I like a good list of links so I guess it makes sense.

Anyway, this blog is experimental, potentially temporary, and its creation almost certainly the result of an ADHd-ridden brain.

https://web3.0sleptwithmywife.com/

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hausfath@fediscience.org ("Zeke Hausfather") wrote:

Happy end of coal in the UK day, to all who celebrate! https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/coal-phaseout-UK/

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• 9525fd6c6957594c.png (remote)

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ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

cohost users: if you want to be listed on https://cohost-highway.neocities.org/ you have a few more hours to submit the form and reply to the post to prove it's you

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aardrian@toot.cafe ("Adrian Roselli") wrote:

I am glad `` saw some fixes in Safari, as spotted by @adactio https://adactio.com/journal/21445

However, other bugs (such as the ones I link from JAWS and Firefox) are still open as well as voice control challenges and text size issues:
https://adrianroselli.com/2023/06/under-engineered-comboboxen.html#Update01 (anchor link)

So nothing likely changes in your support landscape. Yes, this still makes me sad.

#accessibility #a11y

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

A small curated list of some weird and interesting PDFs I've bookmarked over the years.

https://web3.0sleptwithmywife.com/weird-pdfs/

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akkartik@merveilles.town ("Kartik Agaram") wrote:

This is amazing: overlapping webrings arranged in a Subway map.

https://gusbus.space/smallweb-subway

via the #32bitcafe newsletter https://listmonk.32bit.cafe/archive/august-31-2024-2

cc @xandra of https://32bit.cafe

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• A subway map where the different colors of train routes correspond to distinct webrings, stops are websites, and transfer points are websites that belong to multiple webrings. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I don't want to spend time wondering "Maybe I shouldn't do that because I'm not a [job title] ", or limit myself because "A [job title] wouldn't do that."

I just want to spend time thinking, "Can I do that thing? Hmmm... I think I can, and I'd like to try."

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Instead of thinking about "am I" something, maybe we should all think in terms of "can I do" something?

Am I an artist? I dunno, but I do make art sometimes.

Am I an engineer? Not for certain legal purposes, but I often do engineering work.

I mean, credentials and titles have their very specific places, but in most situations they are useless for accomplishing goals or only used to gatekeep.

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molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:

just noticed that tiktok muted the audio on a video of mine because of a copyright strike based on... silence

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• Sound removed The sound has been removed because it infringes on someone else's copyright. Sound details "3 Minutes of Silence" Posted on 04-19 at 11:01 1:00 Check for copyright Sound copyright check Run a check automatically every time you post something new. You can turn this off in TikTok Studio > Publish settings. Violation reasons Copyright claim We take copyright complaints very seriously and may take additional action if necessary. Change sound (remote)

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astro_jcm@mastodon.online ("Juan Carlos Muñoz") wrote:

And a closeup shot of the comet over the Llullaillaco volcano:

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• A long, vertical, white smudge of light on a starry sky. The sky's colour transitions from dark blue at the top to golden at the bottom, along the horizon. Right at the center of the horizon there's the dark silhouette of a triangular shaped mountain. (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

It's interesting the lengths #Meta goes to explain the risks of the #Fediverse, but does not mention that #Threads posts are indexed by Google, thus part of a web with a greater reach than the collection of #ActivityPub instances.

#IndieWeb

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• Google search result: Threads https://www.threads.net › post When will Threads accounts/posts show up in Google search? Feb 14, 2024 - I'm guessing Threads needs to finish up their public API, then Google needs to do some work if they want to make that happen. Missing: meta | Show results with: meta
• Disclaimer before turning on fediverse sharing on threads. Turn on fediverse sharing? Your information will be shared globally with servers not owned or controlled by Meta Other servers can use your information at their discretion. You may not be able to access, edit or delete your data on them in the same way you can on Threads. Learn more Beta • Some features may be limited. You'll see a banner like this in places that are still evolving. You may lose control of your information People on other servers can share your content with anyone. If you delete or archive your content or profile, we can't guarantee it will be removed on other servers. Learn more You can turn off sharing at any time We'll also turn off fediverse sharing if you change your profile to private. Learn more Beta • Some features may be limited. You'll see a banner like this in places that are still evolving.

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lizzard wrote:

this is incredibly cool https://walzr.com/bop-spotter

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Anyone on Are.na? Or have good example of accounts and channels?

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tink@front-end.social ("Léonie Watson") wrote:

On Tuesday 1 October 2024, the UK will become the first major economy to stop using coal to produce electricity, when the last of its coal-fired power stations closes:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5y35qz73n8o

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

and for an initial podcast about us: https://arghstudios.com/podcasts/00_Welcome.wav

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jcgregorio@mastodon.cc ("Joe Gregorio") wrote:

@slightlyoff

https://bitworking.org/news/2024/09/abstractionitis/