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"Startet die neue Regierung ohne Klärung der Geldfrage, wird sie scheitern, und mit ihr #Europa. Drittens muss #Deutschland mit den anderen in der #EU sofort mehr Mittel mobilisieren, um den US-Verrat an der #Ukraine zumindest abzufedern. Das ist nicht nur überlebenswichtig für die Ukraine. Es […]

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Quoted today in the Washington Post's Tech in your Life newsletter on how nuts it is we need to use a different app to talk to people on a different network, with a shout-out to the Fediverse. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/28/beeper-combine-messaging-apps/

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Ok, crowd and your wisdom. Apparently we all need a new browser as Firefox does, well, whatever the hell it is they are doing. What are you all doing, and why?

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Teaser :-) In my talk tonight on "Identity on the Open Social Web", I'll address the key requirements. We need: * Identity that I can share, * Identity that I can recognize, * and Identity that I can prove. The Open Social Web today is close, but not quite there yet. I have some ideas what […]

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"These nonprofits say there’s no way for them to do their work and comply with Trump’s executive orders." So they may face a catastrophic funding loss. #Democracy https://werd.io/2025/groups-helping-lgbtq-victims-of-violence-could-face-loss-of

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A Department of Homeland Security unit eliminated policies prohibiting personnel from conducting intelligence activities based solely on a person’s gender identity or sexual orientation. https://news.bgov.com/bloomberg-government-news/trumps-dhs-loosens-sexual-orientation-based-surveillance-policy

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When clicking on a handle like @fediforum, the Fediverse generally sends the browser to a generated profile page on my current instance (eg https://j12t.social/@[email protected]), not the "primary" profile page on the site that hosts the account (here https://mastodon.social/@fediforum […]

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BREAKING: Two sources tell @theprospect.bsky.social that the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration has asked for a plan for cuts to 50% of the workforce, including at the 1,200 field offices that serve millions of beneficiaries. prospect.org/health/socia...

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“In 1782, [Benjamin Franklin] created a fake newspaper that he hoped would undermine the British public’s faith in their government’s tactics.” And you and me thought it was the Russians created fake news on the internet! From Annalee Newitz’ book “Stories are Weapons”.

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Has anybody ever done a reasonably systematic user study with a reasonable sample size that identifies why so many new users come away from the Fediverse with the impression of "too complicated"? Where exactly does this point occur, and is it a single bottleneck or are there several? Do all […]

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Crowdsourcing ... for my talk about UX in the Fediverse and the social web, what do you think the biggest challenges are for user experience today?

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Keystone cops. Unfortunately with real batons. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/upshot/doge-spending-cuts-changed.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zk4.b82f.Kh1AnGbHOfOG&smid=url-share

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What's a mere 97%. "Meta Policy Changes Threaten 97% of its Hate Speech Enforcement " https://counterhate.com/blog/meta-policy-changes-press-release/

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Now we have entered Storm Trooper, or maybe Blackadder territory. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/doge/hhs-warns-responses-elon-musks-email-may-read-malign-foreign-actors-rcna193553

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What could possibly not go wrong? https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-meta-abandons-fact-checking-boosts-viral-content

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I'm speaking to DWeb Seattle this Friday on "Identity on the Open Social Web". It's an in-person event, but yours' truly is going to present remotely, so perhaps people can also attend remotely. Thanks @nigini for inviting me! https://lu.ma/op4fc8ac #dweb #seattle #opensocialweb

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Fedex postcards print turnaround 3.5 hours today, including a phone call. Nice! (We are making updated FediForum + Community Events flyers after people liked what we handed out at FOSDEM)

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I think it's significant that even conservative leaders in the EU are coming out against Trump and Putin (with the exception of the autocrats who Putin backs, notably Orban in Hungary, Lukashenko in Belarus, etc). https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/114060564600725826

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And here you have it. Russian interests now run US foreign policy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/24/united-nations-ukraine-russia-trump/

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Planted carrots, radishes, tomatoes, one cucumber and zucchini. Gotta get started somewhere. Those went into the soil. Next: start germinating for the hydroponics system. And get it fixed before the plants are too big.

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I am trying to find a food safe sealant, and I'm having a real hard time. There are tons of products listed on Amazon as food safe, but the manufacturers' data sheets I have looked at do not actually claim this. Only the sellers. There are tons of articles all over the web saying this and […]

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#AI at its best /s The gray line is what Visual Studio Code's / Microsoft's #copilot wants me to add to this code. Come again?

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Surveillance fascism. https://maxmurphy.xyz/p/goodbye-surveillance-capitalism-hello

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Here's another bad consequence of using #AI, even if it works: You don't learn. Let's say I have some coding assistant generating some code that speaks to some kind of API. Let's assume the generated code actually works, which sometimes does happen. The code works, but I've learned absolutely […]

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The IRS sent me a letter in the postal mail thanking me for using their online services. That's it. Nothing else.

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A family member has a Mac that appears compromised. It behaves strangely, runs with higher load than it should and macOS produced some error messages that imply it quarantined some code. I think the machine should be wiped completely and rebuilt. #Security people: how would you go about this […]

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Whatever happened to Netiquette? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiquette_in_technology#Netiquette

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CARTOON OF THE DAY

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https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/google-wrong-side-history

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Have a failing company? Attach it to the state so there are political repercussions if customers dont buy from you. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/20/tech/elon-musk-x-valuation/index.html

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A W3C meeting to investigate how to combat misinfo on the web. https://www.w3.org/events/workshops/2025/authentic-web-workshop/

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Doing some serious Python coding with Copilot active in Visual Studio Code for the first time. It's good enough to be intriguing. It's bad enough to be really annoying. Not sure which of those will win out.

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It really is this simple.

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CALIFORNIA — ex NFL punter Chris Kluwe arrested for civil disobedience protesting at the city council in Huntington Beach, where the council planned a “MAGA” display on a plaque at the library. Context: www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

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Somehow it all sounds like they are working on a Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact 2.0, just with Ukraine instead of Poland, and the Nazis are in a different country now.

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Scary times. https://prospect.org/world/2025-02-19-musk-trump-causing-dumbest-imperial-collapse-in-history/

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The same virtual machine runs perfectly in qemu, but Gnome does not come up when running in VirtualBox or VMware. I hate computers.

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I love that I've been on Mastodon more than 2 years now as my one and only social media platform (apart from LinkedIn, sorta), and I can say with some confidence that most of the accounts I'm interacting with are not bots, but instead are real live human beings with fascinating lives and […]

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How in the world did they get 70,000 signatures in 7 hours??? https://weact.campact.de/petitions/save-social-soziale-netzwerke-als-demokratische-kraft-retten

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