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paulhmason ("Paul Mason") wrote:
Wow, I didn't realise that my 27 years of professional development experience at multi billion dollar companies is just "hobbiest dabbling". 😃
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
DO THEY CALL IT THE "OPEN SOCIAL" WEB NOW IN ORDER TO PUSH DOWN THE HISTORY OF OPEN SOCIAL IN SEARCH RESULTS??
okay. Bed. For real. I'm delirious.
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Wait a minute wait a minute wait a minute.
So in 2007, Marc Andreessen is evangelizing OpenSocial and basically calling Facebook the boogie man.
And by 2008, as OpenSocial was crashing and burning, Marc Andreessen finds himself on the board of Facebook?!
And these are the people you're trusting with the fediverse??
WHAT IS THE TECH INDUSTRY? lol
Okay, bed for real. Leave me alone you guys. ❤️
#OpenSocialWeb #SocialWeb #IndieWeb #Fediverse #Threads
https://about.fb.com/news/2008/06/marc-andreessen-joins-facebook-board-of-directors/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Okay, I hate to keep you hanging but I don't think I'm gonna make it. I'm sleepy.
If I wake up in the middle of the night I may finish this thread but, if not, let's meet back here in the morning yeah?
Anyway, this is for that shitty W3C thread the other day demanding people be nice while not addressing a single actual issue people have:
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Oh yeah, and then there's Jack Dorsey who, in 2019, was also like, "yeah I'm decentralized now baaaaby!"
I cant immediately find the article and I'm getting sleepy so for now, source: trust me bro. I'll edit this post tomorrow.
Anyway, you think Zuck has been through the wringer on how he handles user data? Poor Jack has been through some shit. Someone should really make a website dedicated to all the times that man has been sued for being an absolute Jack-ass. Heh.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
So now it's 2019, a year after Cambridge Analytica broke, and suddenly the tech elite have a lot to say about the future of the web.
Zuckerberg's published his four point plan for the internet which included some decentralized ideology:
And then we got Mike Masnick's Protocols, Not Platforms a few months later:
https://knightcolumbia.org/content/protocols-not-platforms-a-technological-approach-to-free-speech
It was like overnight, Technocrats were all about that decentralized life. Something about 2019, I don't know what.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
With just ten likes, Facebook can predict your personality traits better than your coworkers. Given 300 likes, Facebook knows you better than your own spouse.
Combined that with the OCEAN model, and you have a pretty sophisticated method of manipulation.
So it's safe to say that perhaps our social media digital footprints should not be open for anyone to harvest; that the platform should, under law, protect that data from bad actors.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/science/facebook-knows-you-better-than-anyone-else.html
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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).
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
this looks interesting: https://www.docetl.org/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
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.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
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.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
molly0xfff@hachyderm.io ("Molly White") wrote:
every time someone calls me "anti-crypto" i think this
anyway these are in the store now lol
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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-/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@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.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
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)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("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.
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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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Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
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
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
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.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
A small curated list of some weird and interesting PDFs I've bookmarked over the years.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
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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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@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."
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@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.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
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)
