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nocksock@hachyderm.io ("Nils Riedemann") wrote:

It seems to me that many people in the Web-Component discussion approach them with a mental model that's too heavily influenced by conventional approaches of Vue/Svelte/React and so forth. I highly recommend the course on FrontendMaster's by @davatron5000 which takes a very different route to explain them than most resources out there. I was rather opposed to WC, but just needed to shift the mental model a bit; and now I use them regularly!

https://frontendmasters.com/courses/web-components/

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

Today in History: NASA officially begins operations, 1958 (transitioned from National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, or NACA)

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

Today in History: Austria issues the world's first postcards, 1869

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

Today in History: Jimmy Carter, 39th President of United States, born in Plains, GA 1924

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

andy@bell.bz ("Andy Bell") wrote:

the thing that pisses me off about the "web components debate" is yet again it's all about "what is everyone else doing" rather than "how can we build the best user experience" and yeh, it's hard to give a toss about this inward lookin' industry a lot of the time

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

qrper@mastodon.radio ("Thomas (K4SWL)") wrote:

Helene Aftermath: Long Update, Monday September, 30 2024

https://qrper.com/2024/09/helene-aftermath-long-update-monday-september-30-2024/

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

we are nearing the end of the tomato 🍅 season

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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Freethoughtblogs is alive again!

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

BRB, adding "writes so much, understands so little" to my bio

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

The best part is: he almost *certainly* did this because I disabled comments on the post.

So he probably saw this and still just couldn't even help himself.

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• From the comments section on my blog post, a message from me: "I'm choosing to disable comments ont his post because honestly, fighting with me here seems like the kind of thing Matt would do, and I don't think anybody needs that." (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Welp looks like Mullenweg read my post. 🙄😂

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• A Ko-fi donation from Matt Mullenweg, with the comment "You write so much but understand so little. But thank you for following along. Check out my Theo interview, and watch what happens this week." (remote)

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

yes!

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Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The 4.3 blog post is ready, so now we just wait till next week when it all goes live.

andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

That moment when you're working on some slides that are supposed to showcase the thing you've been implementing in Chromium for a while... and you find out you have a bug because some of this stuff you're trying to showcase ain't working.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

I’m going to start replying to everything like I’m on Hacker News. Unhappy with Congress? Why don’t you just start a new country and write a constitution and secede? It’s not that hard once you know how. Actually, I wrote a microstate in a weekend using Rust.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

Judeet99@mastodon.world ("Aloniaxx") wrote:

It's so annoying when climate protestors block roads isn't it? Author of photo unknown.

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• Photo of a road through trees, left side bank drops down steeply, right side shows a stream slightly lower than the road. A huge section of the road is washed away showing layers of reddish soil with stones below. (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

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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fromjason ("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.

#Fediverse #OpenSocialWeb

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• What's his name from Always Sunny looking "crazy" with a cig in his hand and wide eyes. Behind him a pinboard of paper and yarn.

fromjason ("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/

fromjason ("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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• One reason people insist that you use the proper channels to change things is because they have control of the proper channels and they're confident it won't work
• A scorpion on a frog's back with the caption, I have decided to enter into good faith negotiations with the scorpion

fromjason ("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.

#SocialWeb #Nostr #Twitter

fromjason ("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:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mark-zuckerberg-the-internet-needs-new-rules-lets-start-in-these-four-areas/2019/03/29/9e6f0504-521a-11e9-a3f7-78b7525a8d5f_story.html

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.

fromjason ("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.

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Threads

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/20/science/facebook-knows-you-better-than-anyone-else.html

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.

Reblogged 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.

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

Reblogged 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

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)