A year on Mastodon, a reflection by Heise Online
German news organisation Heise Online has written up an extensive report (in German) on their first year on Mastodon. Some key takeaways:
“Mastodon alone generated around two thirds as many visits to the sitein the twelve months as X/Twitter overall. At the same time, this should not obscure the fact that the absolute numbers are comparatively low; Twitter was never really relevant as a traffic source for media like Heise Online.”
Their statistics also show that activity in the fediverse has noticeably slowed down: “access via Mastodon reached its peak around the turn of the year. Since then they have been slowly declining.” And: “of the 20 most popular posts on Mastodon, half come from the first three months [of the year]”.
On community interaction: “If there are direct questions or other requests to express yourself, no other social network is as busy online as Mastodon. But here too the numbers are now declining; Mastodon and the Fediverse have apparently no longer been able to really benefit from the recent waves of farewells at X/Twitter.”
But there is more to a network that engagement numbers, as Heise Online points to the both the high quality as well as quantity of comments on the fediverse. They also indicate the low cost (less than 100 EUR/month) and effort of participating in the fediverse. As other news organisations (BBC, the Dutch NPO) are joining the fediverse, they can learn from the experience that Heise Online already has here.
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Der Kurznachrichtendienst Mastodon ist vor einem Jahr stark gewachsen. Auch heise online hat eine Präsenz eingerichtet und eine Twitter-Alternative vorgefunden.heise online
The JSON-LD Playground web app is very useful for validating or exploring #ActivityPub data. However, if you prefer the command line or want to integrate Playground-like functionality into scripts, the ld-cli program could be useful. It’s definitely been useful for me. Features include: expand, compress, flatten, frame and conversion to/from RDF (N-Quads).
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Github has declared that while “GitHub was founded on Git, today it is re-founded on Copilot”.
I don’t write code regularly on the side anymore but I’m curious about whether this is Microsoft corporate hype or if LLM-based coding assistance will be as impactful to software developers as was the seismic shift that was Open Source & hosted git.
Do people using Github Copilot feel this way?
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GitHub is announcing general availability of GitHub Copilot Chat and previews of the new GitHub Copilot Enterprise offering, new AI-powered security features, and the GitHub Copilot Partner Program.Thomas Dohmke (The GitHub Blog)
The bar for claiming your device will replace the smartphone is almost insurmountably high. Smartphones are devices that everyone uses everywhere all the time.
I remember visiting Nigeria years ago and seeing goat herders with smartphones. There are 5.25 billion smartphone users today
You can use them in almost any social situation often while doing other things like eating a meal or watching TV.
Battery life is means you can use them all day.
Can AI pins beat that?
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Humane, a company started by two former Apple employees, says its new artificial intelligence pin can stop all the scrolling. Can it live up to the hype?Erin Griffith (The New York Times)
Plans for Tuesday? If not, how about gazing at the Unix epoch time counter starting at 22:13 UTC at it rolls over to 1700000000 seconds?
Excellent writeup by @prokoudine about redesigning menus of complex programs. I love this solution of using a menu with an integrated search bar, akin to having a command palette while still retaining logical grouping of actions.
Wish @libreoffice could have something like it.
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Glimpse NX didn't have a great solution for missing menu, but this new 3D CAD application hasAlexandre Prokoudine (Libre Arts)
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Los jueces han leído la palabra 'lawfare' y se han puesto de los nervios. Aparece en el acuerdo del PSOE y Junts para la investidura de Pedro Sánchez, pero sin establecer que los dos partidos piensen lo mismo sobre ese concepto, que se podría definir…Iñigo Sáenz de Ugarte (elDiario.es)
No sabía que, hacia el final de la dictadura franquista, añorada por tantos que se dicen católicos, hubo más curas encarcelados en España que en todas las cárceles tras el Telón de Acero. Qué cosas.
#leyendo
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Noviembre es el mes de los difuntos: hace 39 años, la banda terrorista de los GAL (Grupos Antiterroristas de Liberación) asesinó al dirigente de Herri Batasuna Santiago Brouard y hace 23, su contraparte, la banda terrorista ETA, asesinó al exministro…Ignacio Fontes (elDiario.es)
Úvod Invidious představuje inovativní a uživatelsky přívětivou alternativu k YouTube, která klade...wiki.arch-linux.cz
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Ve věku 85 let zemřel Karel Schwarzenberg. Na síti X o tom informoval Miroslav Kalousek. Poslední dny byl Schwarzenberg hospitalizován ve Vídni.ČT24 - Nejdůvěryhodnější zpravodajský web v ČR - Česká televize
The IT news portal Heise Online warns against using the new free Microsoft Outlook. There is a risk of losing access data to e-mail accounts.mailbox.org
Chinese tea discourse in the west, without the food, is like meditation culture in the west: without the faith. I made a scallop chicken congee WITH pipa oolong tea in the broth. Topped it with Teochew (Chaozhou) olive vegetable preserves and, somehow, sour cream and onion dusted chicken chicharrones (that I also made).
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Many people do take the effort to set that all up but don’t wanna change default passwords cause it’s ’too much trouble’ 
cargo-mommy 0.2.1 is here to clean up some messes~ 💞
cargo install --force cargo-mommy
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CHANGES:
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* mommy has LICENSE files for pedants~
* mommy's kinks can be statically compiled out with cargo install --no-default-features (and individual non-chill moods can be turned back on with features of the same name~)
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Mommy's here to support you when running cargo~. Contribute to Gankra/cargo-mommy development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Keine Satire: Das alberne Schauspiel mit dem biometrischen Kinderpass
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Wenn sich jemand fragt, was um Schwarzbuch noch fehlen könnte. Und wie man "rechtzeitig" dafür sorgt, dass sich jeder an die "Normalität" totaler #Überwachung gewöhnt...
Auf dem Biometrie-Passfoto dürfen Kinder nicht lächeln. 2024 wird der biometrische Reisepass für Kinder zur Pflicht – und zwar ab der Geburt. Zappelnde Babys sind am besten im Liegen abzulichten.netzpolitik.org
GCC 14 introduces a new -Walloc-size included in -Wextra which gives: src/tool_operate.c: In function ‘add_per_transfer’: src/tool_operate.c:213:5: warning: allocation of insufficient size ‘1’ for ...GitHub
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Betterbird. Simply better. A soft fork of Mozilla ThunderbirdBetterbird Project
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okrem toho QR kódu na objednávanie naša sieť Medusa Restaurants tak zarába už dávno 🇸🇰
So, I started writing about PV some months ago because I wanted to talk about the history of my former instance.
I stopped writing it because a funny thing happened when I started diving back into that history. As I was recounting the details, I realized I had a lot of unresolved feelings about what happened. It became increasingly difficult to write about that history, so I decided to take a break.
But I'm going to finish the story. It's at the point where I have to talk about a lot of the nastiness PV's team experienced back then, being one of the first Black-led instances on the fedi, but it's important, so I need to finish it.
But there are still a lot of feelings about what PV was. It was beautiful and terrible, and it made an impression I did not intend.
Raft exploited for $3.3 million, then hacker screws up
November 11, 2023
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An attacker exploited the Raft defi project after finding a vulnerability that allowed them to mint 6.7 million of Raft's R stablecoin without any backing.Web3 is Going Just Great
Tak co? Uz jste hlasovali do Ceskyho Slavika? Obcas si rikam, ze by bylo fajn do skokana roku protlacit komunitne nejakej uplnej ulet.
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Hlasujte online pro Českého slavíka 2023. Každý může hlasovat až pro šest oblíbených interpretů pro každou hlavní kategorii.TV Nova
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in reply to Dare Obasanjo • • •From my perspective the only technology product on the horizon that seems like to potentially be what comes after the smartphone are smart glasses.
However even then it remains to be seen as to what they do 10x better than the smartphone to necessitate the same sort of shift as PC -> smartphone or Walkman/Discman -> iPod.