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Boosted by jwz:
gilduran@journa.host ("Gil Duran") wrote:

We already have abundance. It is not justly or rationally distributed.

The billionaires and trillionaires are not going to share. Ever. They are going to fixate on becoming quadrillionaires or robots or whatever.

The USAID cuts reveal the whole game. So much for "all lives matter."

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

@glyph right, or just forbid the fetch operation at the serving side, like not everything can be put into the protocol, but having flexible implementation space gives a lot of room to work with

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny that’s not to say that nothing technical can be done! it should be easier to tell that you are about to be an asshole by doing something, if everybody wants these nuanced conditions on public sharing then there needs to be some kind of machine-readable metadata that well-meaning people can read and always respect by default, and the protocol is obviously far from perfect in a whole host of ways. but that’s different from establishing hard technical limits on reach.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny I do think that purely technical limitations, particularly hard “you can’t do this” limitations, are not going to be the solution here. a lot of people on fedi want to make their posts “publicly” available for some purposes and not others. like trying to solve the problem of revenge porn with DRM. the issue is not that the nudes can be shared, it’s about the person they are being shared *with* being untrustworthy given the conditions of the sharing.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

@glyph yeah, i think some of those are like optional goals, but we can still learn from the good parts of what is happening there too

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny this does mean that AP has a lot of problems with scale and durability that AT does not, in particular around account backups and migration. but in *practice* the social conventions on AT make the experience the same for ~all users. i went to bsky.storage to remind myself about how did:plc key backups might even work for a normal person, and haha, it’s just a cloudflare error page right now, so, case in point

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

@jonny a lot of this reduces to the AT people modeling the entire problem space as issues of scale and durability, with surprisingly little thought to moderation or governance. even the much-ballyhooed “composable moderation” appears to reduce, in practice, to “hard-depend on bluesky pbllc’s infrastructure or get flooded with CSAM, gl;hf”. while I want to like blacksky, they are almost purposefully obtuse about protocol-level problems and frequently make dubious claims about their independence

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

like, what i'm talking about is that it shouldn't even be something i think about to walk my account over to another instance. i lose nothing. I can come back tomorrow if i don't like it. i can make a full backup of my shit and put it wherever i want. if a given program doesn't support some feature, who cares, i have the backups, and i could have the same identity represented on multiple programs and bridge them. the specs for this are mostly there, this isn't a pipe dream in the slightest. the biggest barrier is the masto implementation.

once the "move away" is possible, then the implementation question looks very different for new software, where it's actually attractive and possible to have people wander in and out of your new greenfield project, rather than the threshold for writing new AP software being "convince people to gamble their whole identity on you, irrevocably."

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

when you're supposed to be delivering static templates but the web can't do HTML includes

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

the argument i am not making is that we shouldn't have community-level safety, as we currently have a culture of, and is a separate area that needs improvement too. What i'm saying is that people should be able to have the kind of control over their privacy they need so that it's just impossible to do the kind of scraping that they find objectionable. so it's possible to build more public tooling for people who want it, while the people who don't want it don't have to keep watching over their shoulder. To get there, we need to make it possible for people and communities to change what software they use to support their members - to have identity representable by multiple programs at once for larger instance experimentation, and to have identity be highly mobile so smaller groups and single people can move without sacrificing their entire everything.

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

there are lots of cool tech things happening there and i am pro-atproto, but after watching it happen a few times, it is sort of inescapable how one of the 'dev draws' that people who move from working on AP to atproto express as "the atproto userbase is not so stifling" is equally well expressed as "atproto users have no prior expectation of privacy and respect for consent." all-public-everything is already baked in at a protocol level except for bespoke implementations, so the floor is very low.

the AP space is sort of stagnant because it's stuck in a single program (also, as always, respect to the masto devs holding it down) which prohibits people from being able to self-sort into programs that can actually respect their privacy needs, so a lot has to be done by social convention and climate. as a result, people working on AP stuff end up stepping on a bunch of rakes - often, charitably, with every intention of not doing so - because we have the expectations and desire for privacy without being able to take the steps we need to make it actually enforceable.

I see a lot of the cooler atproto work (which is cool and i am a fan of, i genuinely think Blacksky is the coolest group working in the whole extended space) re-arriving at stuff we have had on the fedi for a long time. on the AP fedi we can't do some of the more public things like they are doing in no small part because the people who don't want that kind of thing can't protect themselves from it, and with an even finer grain, choose when and in what context to opt in.

so, the "AP is a bunch of stodgy privacy zealots" argument (which i am fine with, i am a stodgy privacy zealot), in my opinion is largely just a reflection of "AP is stymied by protocol and implementation where it's difficult for people to not use mastodon forever." If it was much easier for people to move around, experiment, temporarily duck into a different, more privacy-respecting software stack, exist across multiple, and so on, then a lot of the "yet another opt-out scraper" problems disappear by giving people the power to prevent that in the first place.

I think LD needs tooling, but is mostly just "unused" in the AP fedi, and it should be a very interesting protocol space to work in, but that one absence of migration and mutability at an account level is a protocol killer.

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

There is even a harm-reduction angle to the project, I could tell myself that if I promoted it to the vibe-sick that I would be helping them. Wormtongue whispers that this is a legitimate strategy for revenue maximization

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿"):
vale@fedi.vale.rocks ("Vale") wrote:

There are plenty of things I’d love to see added to the web platform or improved in browsers. Especially things I want in CSS.

While we’ve already got so much great stuff and a lot more on the way, there are still some assorted little bits I’d love.

Here is my wishlist: https://vale.rocks/posts/web-platform-wishlist

#CSS #HTML #WebDev

db@social.lol ("David Bushell 🪿") wrote:

hell yeah

https://mindfuldesign.xyz/by-humans/

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
michel_slm@social.coop ("Michel Lind :TwinPines:") wrote:

If people want to help make this trending, there is an effort to ask the UK meteorological office to name storms after Big Oil to highlight the issue

- BigOil
- BP
- Equinor
- Exxon
- Shell

https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-our-storms-call-for-names

#activism
#ClimateChange
#ClimateChaos
#environment
#UnitedKingdom

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

"When the regulatory apparatus has tried to act, the action has been reversed. In December 2024, the CFPB proposed a rule that would have reclassified data brokers under FCRA — subjecting them to the same accuracy, dispute, and permissible-purpose requirements as credit bureaus. Five months later, acting director Russell Vought withdrew the rule entirely. [22] The one agency with plausible authority to close the gap chose to widen it."

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
fugueish@wandering.shop ("Chris Palmer") wrote:

Great dissection of data brokers:

"Almost nothing about them can be independently checked — they trigger no adverse-action notices, no audits, no discovery. But the one time academics were allowed inside one...they found it predicting healthcare spending as a proxy for medical need. Black patients spend less — not because they are healthier but because they have less access to care — so at the same risk score they were significantly sicker"

https://nooneshappy.com/article/data-brokers-unregulated-forensic-analysis/

Boosted by cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber"):
emmadavidson@aus.social ("Emma Davidson") wrote:

Beautifully written explanation of why Europe’s heatwave must not be normalised, whether it’s to “but that’s every summer in Australia” or to “I guess this is just what summer will be like in Europe from now on”.

There is still time to mitigate some level of climate change, and we don’t want to waste that opportunity with apathy and inertia.

#heatwave #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

France Is Hotter Than the Sahara. This Is Everyone’s Warning.
https://www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/france-is-hotter-than-the-sahara-this-is-everyone-s-warning

glyph ("Glyph") wrote:

Noodling on a new project spec which would exercise a couple of my libraries and have a nice, defined scope and be personally useful to me; as I am doing this, the part of my brain that the abyss is gazing also into realizes that there is an “AI” adjacent use-case for it.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("The Luddites were right"):
jalefkowit@hachyderm.io ("Jason Lefkowitz") wrote:

“Should this bill become law in Michigan, an employer could not require an employee to access or respond to work-related matters outside of their assigned hours. This includes emails, text messages or social media messages regarding employment duties or scheduling future work shifts.

Violations could be reported to the state's Department of Labor and Economic Opportunity, with fines to the company and/or overtime pay to the employee among the possible results.”

https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/workplace-boundaries-act-employees-after-hours/

jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

@cinebox asks the question "what would happen if you raised an issue with only the text "butter" with a bounty of "butter""

and the answer is: a self-contained Butter Mode experience.

There don't even need to be instructions, and the reward can be butter. this is all perfectly fine to an LLM.

kornel ("Kornel") wrote:

#Rust being a modern language is not enough, you need postmodern: https://lib.rs/crates/slopc

neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Today I made a new logo for Neatnik LLC. I’ve been trying to do this for a while, but it’s been a pretty rough process. I’m just not as good at design as I’d like to be. I pretty much just push shapes around until things seem to work (and they usually don’t).

The new logo is just four overlapping shapes, but it brings some fun possibilities with color and negative space. It’s nothing special, but I like it well enough to start using it!

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
thejapantimes ("The Japan Times") wrote:

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia will press ahead with its battlefield aim of fully capturing four Ukrainian regions, rejecting what he said was a new proposal by Ukraine to rein in hostilities. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/06/29/world/politics/putin-russia-front-line-ukraine-proposals/?utm%5Fmedium=Social&utm%5Fsource=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #volodymyrzelenskyy

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org ("Lauren Weinstein") wrote:

Age verification gone wrong: A million passports leaked online by marijuana club portal

https://boingboing.net/2026/06/28/a-million-passports-leaked-online-by-marijuana-club-portal.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

Oh, no. We've lost a great soul. Om Malik has passed. https://om.co/2026/06/24/1966-2026/

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

facing west, a 22nd floor Toronto ON window

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i think my favourite bit though was when they put a load of clay on the outside of a car and gave it golf ball style dimples and it went faster.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

also yes you can save a really impressive amount of fuel by getting in the slipstream of a truck, but also if it stops you're fucked so don't do that actually.

dysfun@treehouse.systems ("gaytabase") wrote:

i've just watched two episodes of motor mythbusters and huh, cutting 12 inches off your car's vertical height makes it faster even if you keep the weight the same.

it also makes it impossible to drive safely or legally on a highway, but oh well.