laurens

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[–] laurens@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

I've tried multiple channels, and I never managed from other software, even though I could find the underlying individual videos that are part of the channels. Can you link an example?

[–] laurens@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hello from my Kbin account!

I agree that this part of the article is not well developed, and I should have probably rewritten it. What I was trying to get at is that Flipboard has a hierarchy that is unique: The Actor owns a Group, with the Actor being the highest level, and the Magazine below it.

While you could probably map a Flipboard Magazine onto a ActivityPub Group similarly like a Kbin Magazine is a Group, the intended usecase is still quite different, even though they are both link-aggregators. I dont think this is an insurmountable problem per se, but I dont agree that Kbins Magazines are super similar to Flipboards Magazines. If you wanted an fediverse comparison, I think Flipboards Magazines are actually way closer to the Postmarks.

[–] laurens@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if anything, its gotten worse tbh. the upside is that the move account feature to mastodon works, was a bit concerned about that.

it doesnt block your old account after a move like mastodon does, so i still have a functional firefish account, just not my followers anymore

chris stating that hes hesitant to open his new (4 person) firefish server to other people until theyve tested more for stability makes me quite hesitant to recommend the platform for now, if stability issues are this deeply ingrained

[–] laurens@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

wishing you all the best Ernest!

 

Reddit may have won by shutting down the protest against its API changes, but not without lasting damage to its relationship with its users.

[–] laurens@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

So my understanding with this new info is that LK99 is quite likely to be 'something', right? That something certainly does not have to be a superconductor, or anything even remotely impactful.

But am I understanding it correctly that the explanations of pure fraud or 'cat walked on keyboard during original measurements' can be mostly ruled out?

[–] laurens@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah invite list sped up quite a lot last few weeks, often 5k a day

 

An account of hackers and hacktivism during the Kosovo war. Absolutely fascinating piece of tech history that I knew nothing about. Via @realhackhistory https://chaos.social/@realhackhistory/110723217013753518

[–] laurens@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Nordic Council of Ministers set up a Think Tank for digital strategy stuff last year, and they published their recommendations two months ago. They specifically advised all the Nordic governments to go all in on ActivityPub.

https://social.cloudless.world/@ruben_int/statuses/01GYC9A95YPKQZZJXH8VT27JRA
https://pub.norden.org/nord2023-004/3-access-to-diverse-and-credible-digital-platforms-and-communities.html

 

The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.

[–] laurens@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

hell yeah interop is awesome!

[–] laurens@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

soms wel fijn om toch af en toe een klein beetje trots te kunnen zijn op onze overheid

 

The server is now live and in use at social.overheid.nl

The official announcement post by the State Secretary of Digitalisation: https://social.overheid.nl/@avhuffelen/110700825255524685

In the post she mentions that the government supports 'value-driven' alternatives to social media. In a letter to the house of representatives she describes Mastodon as a Digital Common Good, and that it fits in the larger strategy of the government of using 'open source, unless' (meaning theyll always use open source unless there is a clear explicit reason not to).

[–] laurens@kbin.social 175 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Germany (social.bund.de) and the EU (social.network.europa.eu) already have it. I think it's very likely that other governments, especially european ones, will start to do this.

With the internet being so dominated by american voices, I dont think a lot of people have fully appreciated the sentiment change in the higher levels of european governments. Sovereign control over their digital spaces is something that is actually mattering on the level of nation states. Its a way of thinking that is kind of new to most people, as we rarely think about the sovereign powers of nation states, and even less so in the context of the internet. But now were starting to do that again, and it actually matters.

[–] laurens@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think what we learned with the Silicon Valley Bank disaster is that VCs are absolute lemmings that blindly follow each other in a wild panic. Slashing your valuations by almost 50% surely will lead to the other investors also following. Which most likely will lead to further enshittification for Discord and Reddit as well. Very curious when thats going to start for Discord.

[–] laurens@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Pretty awesome, the overlap between BG3 and Starfield was kinda bad.

 

How many humans does it take to make tech seem human? Millions.

 

Another sign that the social media landscape is rapidly changing. WhatsApp is coming here for both Telegram, but also to steal more users away from Twitter. I'd expect this to be a popular feature for organisations and governments to broadcast, over time.

 

Fox lawyers notified the former host that his new Twitter show violates his old Fox contract.

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