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pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Kill the bird.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ianwelsh@mstdn.social ("Ian Welsh") wrote:
"The last time a government seriously slashed government workers, under Clinton, all that happened is that contractors were hired to do the work: and contractors cost more. Nor has there been any real increase in federal employees in decades."
https://www.ianwelsh.net/doge-will-wind-up-costing-the-government-more-money/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's a bird!
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh yeah
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the power of the President to adjourn the Houses of Congress has never been exercised:
“Article II, Section 3:
… may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper”
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S3-1/ALDE_00013550/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yup:
“By tapping Gaetz to be the highest law enforcement official in the land, Trump has done us the favor of stripping away whatever plausible deniability remained about his intentions. It’s a show of dominance directed more at Republicans than Democrats, meant to make them abase themselves by acquiescing to a nomination they know is indefensible.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a powerful voice:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
My respect for Mike Tyson just shot upwards.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/15/thats-beautiful-man/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
A while ago, I announced that I was going to build #E2EE for the Fediverse, so that we might have private direct messaging.
Then I stumbled over the lack of available tooling for Key Transparency in a federated environment. So I started working on a specification for a Public Key Directory server.
I'm happy to announce that I finally have all my ideas on paper.
https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specification/tree/main
This specification is not complete. It still needs:
- Additional rounds of copy-editing, to ensure terms are consistent and easily understood.2. Peer review, especially from cryptography experts.3. A reference implementation.4. Machine-verifiable security proofs of the security of the protocols described.5. More peer review.6. Third-party testing of the reference implementation.7. Other people's ideas.
That last one is optional, but if anyone identifies an opportunity to make this project more successful, I'd love to hear it.
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
I'm not exactly convinced (yet!) that Bluesky will end up meaningfully replacing X, but I could be wrong, and it's not a bad platform! So, consider following me there in case you use it. I'll try to use it more. https://bsky.app/profile/nadim.computer
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
rhertzog@hachyderm.io ("Raphaël Hertzog") wrote:
Saying hi to the fediverse (with my brand new account) from the #minidebconf #toulouse where we had a pleasant first day of mini-debcamp. Picture is from early in the morning when it was not yet crowded and with a majority of persons involved in @freexian (and a #debian project leader on the right).
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
#perfnow slides will be up at some point, but the TL;DR is toot-sized: the web is losing, in part because the frontend discourse has been captured by charlatans and fabulists. It's hurting users, and drawing attention away from urgent problems that are keeping the web from competing.
The #webperf community is a rare island of sanity where still evidence beats bluster. We owe it to our future selves to help clients reject the lemons the JS-industrial-complex keeps trying to pass off as gems.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
heatherhorns_lite@plush.city ("spiders") wrote:
PSA: You're not allowed to mock people for asking a question instead of using Google now. Maybe they want a quick and correct answer, you know?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:
the derplomat https://journa.host/@w7voa/113483735579256708
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:
I keep coming back to this, but *hug your content creator today*.
The internet has a bystander problem. We discover insightful content on the web, we assume the author already received the spoils - and we move on.
To offer a personal anecdote, I'm the author of afl-fuzz. It's been used by tens of thousands of folks - for hobby, for work, to elevate academic careers. I fielded hundreds of bug reports and feature requests - and perhaps two or three personal "thank you" notes.
Today, I'm running lcamtuf.substack.com. Some articles get 50k+ views. It works the same: there are far more folks keen to point out errors or post contrarian takes on HN.
I'm not fishing for compliments for myself. It's just that, the next time you come across a useful OSS project or an interesting blog, drop the author a note. No one else does.
Mastodon Feedinternetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:
New update from @brewsterkahle on how the Internet Archive is learning from recent cyberattacks.
🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2024/11/14/learning-from-cyberattacks/
Mastodon FeedSo far I've only made it halfway through "A", but I can confirm my suspicion that this book is the 1863 edition of the Monster Manual.
"Burned alive for building a clockwork robot" is a surprisingly recurrent theme.
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Mastodon Feedpixplz ("Schools are superspreaders") wrote:
"I'm leaving Twitter and joining Bluesky"
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Mastodon Feeddavidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
Ed Zitron yelling abuse at CEOs for twenty-three minutes
Mastodon Feedluckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:
So... now would be a really bad time to risk having another pandemic start *stares in bird flu*
Mastodon FeedI'm totally going to rename the devices in my home network. ugod, raekwon, method, dirty, rza, gza, ghostface, etc. Wu-Tang LAN.
Mastodon FeedDecentralised social media site Bluesky has gone down under the load of new users.
Not to worry, I'll just use one of the other decentralised instances. One of the many wonders of decentralisation.
... What do you mean, there aren't any?
... If a central server goes down, I can't get onto this oh-so-decentralised network?
I guess this must just be how decentralisation works!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary-Designate of Health and Human Services:
“There is no vaccine that is safe and effective.”
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
oliphant@oliphant.social ("Oliphantom Menace") wrote:
I don't know. People want to be in "the place" and they want to be where the other people are and AOC isn't joining Mastodon and Barack Obama isn't joining Mastodon and my ex-wife just found out that Mastodon exists at all like...yesterday? Because I told her?
You are comparing a place that is basically a single user experience, where the tech and the user experience itself, the entirety of "The Bluesky experience" is created by a small, tight, and apparently very well-paid team of technical experts. They have literally millions of dollars at their disposal.
Meanwhile, over here we have the dinky little DIY nerd internet, where people write code for free and host the infrastructure for fun and have ZERO millions of dollars and most of us are getting paid almost nothing, and there's no single shared software, much less anything you could truly call a single contiguous place even as we refer to this as "the fediverse" or "this place" or "on here" it's really not, it's truly decentralized, and my slice of the fedi looks different than yours because we follow different people.
There's no well-paid onboarding team or user experience team or fuck, there's not even a "design team" because that would imply a centralized staff (ie., bluesky or X or Meta developers).
There's people making software so people can host their own social media. Many are almost doing this work for free. They have no large investment capital, and often are doing this in addition to their real day job, for the love of it, because they believe in a mission of social media anyone can use and host, and a space that truly isn't owned by anyone, which no one can shut down.
And this little DIY nerd vehicle, "this place" it still gains more users, every month, little by little. Sometimes an ebb, sometimes a flow, but this is without a marketing department, without an MBA, without VC funding, honestly, largely without capitalism.
It's a miracle, and I think we should be realistic about what we should expect.
Not seeing "the big numbers" doesn't really mean anything to me. We were never going to compete with the "new place" and the "one experience" and if you've ever used an iPhone you'll understand the advantages of centralization, and controlling an entire technical ecosystem, and how onboarding and UX is utilized to make adoption easier.
Also, how easily you can use millions of dollars of investment to look like a 'serious bet' to the rest of the world, or get your name in the media, and to drive recognition and adoption.
What the fedi can do better than just about anything else is be affordable self-hosted ownerless ad-free social media in perpetuity. That will always have an appeal and it will still be here, waiting, when the other platforms (from which we can steal all their good ideas while jettisoning all the predatory bad ones) have enshittified or changed ownership to baby Hitler.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
codewiz@mstdn.io ("Bernie") wrote:
While visiting the Smithsonian Space Museum in DC, I spotted something I had never seen before: the console of the mythical Apollo Mission Simulator.
It's the first "multiplayer game", running on mainframes, flight computers and other ground equipment networked across multiple buildings.
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
digiphile ("Alex Howard") wrote:
After discovering it was targeted by a disinformation campaign, REPORTERS SANS FRONTIÈRES flagged accounts responsible. X did not remove posts. Now, RSF is suing X in France “for its complicity in disseminating false information, misrepresentation and identity theft.” https://rsf.org/en/rsf-presses-criminal-charges-against-x-formerly-twitter-its-participation-identity-theft-and
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
willoremus@threads.net ("Will Oremus") wrote:
Not as dramatic as Threads or Bluesky, but Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko told me Mastodon is also growing, with signups up 27% so far in November. From my chat with him yesterday:
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- Text of chat message from Mastodon creator Eugen Rochko to Washington Post reporter Will Oremus on Nov. 13, 2024: Our sign-ups are about 27% higher within the last 30 days compared to the preceding 30 days. I am counting about 90k new user accounts in that period. The total number of registered accounts on all Mastodon servers is 9M today, and the most recent MAU number is 886K. These are numbers for Mastodon servers only -- the fediverse which Mastodon is part of may be bigger. While Mastodon may not be the biggest by numbers today, it's proven itself to be an effective and reliable communications platform over the course of the last 8 years, and does not depend on venture capital to survive. Our small team is working continuously on making this social media app easier and more delightful to use. (remote)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
EuromaidanPress ("Euromaidan Press") wrote:
The EU Parliament passed a resolution urging the EU to impose sanctions on Russia's ''shadow fleet'', which enables the country to sell oil while circumventing sanctions.
The resolution calls for restrictions on anyone involved with this shadow fleet.
📷 European Parliament
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
there seems to be another out-migration from theBirdSite alla-sudden. a bunch of my old group from there have suddenly shown up on BlueSky, & The Guardian has finally abandoned Musk’s no longer shiny new toy.