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  • Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub

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  • That makes total sense. Still, it removes the pressure of choosing a server, since migration and use of several servers becomes seamless. As it is right now, there’s the resilience and future lifespan of an instance to consider, plus fragmentation of your identify as defined not by your username but by your actual “online persona” constructed from your posts, etc. (unless you’re really going for alts, of course). You can create other identities on other instances but they are separate, you “lose” your posts, etc. if something happens. if I understood correctly, that becomes less of an issue with nomadic identity?

  • Oh, Zot! Nomadic Identity is Coming to ActivityPub

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  • IMO, this seems exactly what the fediverse needs to thrive. The whole “choose a server” thing is a big disincentive to adoption by most people.

  • Esperanto: The artificial language that aimed to unite humanity

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  • Eĉ se vi ne estas. Kvankam la lingvo estis desegnita base de aliaj eŭropaj lingvoj, ĝi estas universale facile lernebla. Fakte, estas granda komunumo de esperantistoj en Ĉinio, Koreio, ktp. Nu, la fekan akuzativon ni vere ne bezonis...

  • Bitwarden adds a new auto-fill option right inside form fields

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  • Quite the contrary. If you have autofill on and accidentally visit amaz0n.com or whatever, it won’t autofill, and thus signal you are not where you thought you were.

  • @fediverse Fediverse user growth jumped to 50'000'000 users. What happened ?

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  • While I’m not entirely sure wat it actually means, the message you get on that site right now might be the reason (some kind of experiment gone wrong artificially inflating the numbers):

    I was creating an implementation for the activity pub instance service transfer, but it seems to have spread far. We are very sorry to those who have experienced inconvenience.

    All temporarily used data has been removed and all data has been removed. The figures in the data will soon converge to zero.

    I trawled unintentionally.

  • Lemmy Developer AMA and Dev Update, 2024-01-26, 1500 CEDT

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  • Is federated authentication being considered for the future? The federated model of the fediverse is great, but it runs into problems when instances “die”, you want to access different servers as they federate with different things, etc. leading to the need of having multiple accounts. If there were a decentralized network of auth servers, could use the same credentials everywhere.

  • What are your top three favourite podcasts?

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  • 99% Invisible - An excellent design/architecture podcast

    20k Hz (“twenty thousand hertz”) - great show about the audio that pervades our daily lives, from notification sounds to movie special effects, passing through game sounds, sound history,etc.

    Imaginary Worlds - in their own words, “ a podcast about science fiction, fantasy and other genres of speculative fiction”.

    All three are done by professionals in their respective fields, exceedingly well researched, and with superb production values.

  • The fediverse model is non-sustainable.

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  • The problem is that the concept of “user of a site” is still a thing. There should just be “fediverse users”. Everything gets federated, why not user credentials? Then it would not matter if you register on site X or Y. It would be the same. What we need is a federated identity service. It would still be completely decentralized, dependent on no single server, and much more resilient to server shutdown, defederation, etc.

    Edit: typos

  • Tried introducing my nephews to Pokemon TCG this Christmas, it was a disaster

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  • Went through this some years ago with my daughter. She was around 8 and came home from school all excited about Pokémon cards, as some colleagues started showing up with them. After getting her some, I realized that they liked to look at them, compare powers, do the odd trade and that was it…

    Still, I feel it all got sorted out in the end. That fleeting interest planted the seed of interest in TCGs and now she’s 11 and we regularly play MTG against one another 🙂

  • Neniam pagu per karto

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  • Estas certe bonaj kialoj por ne pagi per karto (ĉefe, privateco). Tamen, ĉi tiu artikolo estas iom fuŝa, ĉar (laŭ mi,la du plej gravaj fuŝaĵoj...):

    • ne ĉiuj kartoj estas kreditkartoj. Fakte, en pluraj landoj, preskaŭ ĉiuj uzas debetkartoj. Do, oni ne devas pagi pli ol la veran koston de la varoj...

    • ĉu ĝi vere diras ke oni devus ne pagi niajn Impostojn?! Ne nur pro baza justeco oni devas pagi (nepagantoj estas parazitoj de la pagantoj kaj la socio), sed ankaŭ ĉar, aparte de militoj, ĝi ankaŭ pagas niajn vojojn, malsanulejojn, lernejojn, ktp...

  • See How Hot 2023 Was in Two Charts. Hint: Record Hot.

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  • Still, El Niño happens cyclically every few years, and this dataset spans decades. There are no other years in there similar to 2023….

  • ‘Ramen noodles budget’: EU moves to end exploitation of unpaid internships

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  • This takes many forms. A recurrent one is for the take place right out of college (or while still in it!), taking advantage of the naïveté of those just entering the job market, and often as a precondition to access any kind of paid job some months later. The employer gets free qualified labor, the intern eat lots of ramen… families put up with it as a natural extension of paying for college, for a few more months… it’s exploitation pure and simple.

    A “joke” I’ve heard several times over the years (not recently, though) summarizes the level of assholery that’s going on (warning: some may find this offensive)

    “it is better to have an intern than a slave, because you don’t need to feed, house our clothe the intern”…

  • TIL that a bunch of medieval manuscripts featured illustrations of knights fighting giant snails, and no one knows why

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  • The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be

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  • Yah, I can’t imagine finger being widely deployed nowadays, the huge security and privacy hole it would be!

    As for nntp and email… I also remember using email relay proxies for FTP way back when! FTP access to some places was spotty at best, so I sent a GET request to an email server that would get the file, UUENCODE it, and send it multipart by email. Not that files were big back then, but not was it possible to attach more than a few hundred KBs at once, if that.

    In fact, I just remembered a funny story from when I was using the Usenet. I used a client that ran on our VAX/VMS mainframe. While browsing the newsgroups, I would get a figure for the transfer rate at the bottom of the screen. It was usually in tens of bytes per second, sometimes a few hundred. Often it stalled, etc. One day, out of the corner of my eye, I see it is showing “1”. My immediate thought as the most plausible interpretation: “damn, one byte per second. this is especially slow today!” And then I noticed the units: one KILOBYTE per second. it was the first time I had ever seen such a fast transfer rate!

    A few years later, mid 90s I was trying to download a video that accompanied a conference paper. It was 6MB in size if memory serves. It took me from Friday afternoon to Sunday to manage it. Not only was it slow, but it kept interrupting and I had to start over numerous times. But I did manage in the end, and walked away with it split into a few floppy disks 🙂.

    We’ve certainly come a long way since!

  • The rise and fall of Usenet: How the original social media platform came to be

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  • So much this! I am old, I guess, but I was on Usenet for years before the web was even invented. When I became aware of the fediverse, I got serious Usenet vibes. A decentralized model, several servers, you access one and get what it sends you, but it syncs with all other servers. You‘re getting everything in the entire Usenet and what you post gets everywhere too… we’ve come full circle, I think, even if we now use ActivePub instead of NNTP… a shame people nowadays know of it as “that piracy thing” instead of what it once was (and was designed to be).

  • Any FOSS Framework currently maintained to develop interactive fictions?

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  • This. Inform was the language/platform developed back in the day to author/interpret Z-code, the basis for Infocom’s text adventures. It went beyond just that in more recent versions, but it is designed from the ground up for text adventure creation.

  • Will ChatGPT write ransomware? Yes.

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  • This is like saying “you can write ransomeware in C++” and implying it is the language’s fault, somehow. ChatGPT is a tool, it does what the user asks it too (or it should, anyway). It has no agency nor morals. The argument that it makes it easier to write ransomware is silly as well. From high level languages to libraries and IDEs, we’ve always been developing tools to make programming easier! This is just the latest iteration.

  • If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text.

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  • Yup. Got it last week. Found this shit so disingemuous it almost pissed me off more than the privacy violation itself. I dont use any of Meta’s stuff except for WhatsApp out of necessity (some groups from the kids’ school), but i keep getting dumped into FB by busineses that dont have a proper webpage…

  • Do you prefer digital or physical books?

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  • I reluctantly started reading ebooks years ago for a very practical reason: owning some few thousand physical books, I pretty much ran out of room in the shelves in my small apartment. So nowadays I only buy physical art books and the like. Having said this, I actually easily grew to like ebooks, for their ubiquitous availability and, of course, not taking up precious shelf space.

    Have to read them in an ereader for a proper experience, though. Tablet/smartphone displays tire my eyes a lot if I read for any meaningful period of time.