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in general i try not to dunk but i can't believe that this is something that a mozilla tech lead actually wrote down about the nearly silent introduction of an aggregated advertising system into a browser that is plastered wall to wall in its promotional materials as being dedicated solely to privacy
Where should I put my game's discussion forum? Steam? TIGSource? Reddit? My own site?
(For more details, here's a Reddit post with the same question that I just posted. reddit.com/r/IndieGaming/comme… I'm too lazy to make it into a thread here on Mastodon, sorry.)
Own Discourse is the way to go. If you can generate some genuine activity it'll be a SEO gold mine in the comming years. I see the big jump in Discourses we use (like diskutuj.digital) from Google clicks starting this april.
My guess is this is a shift from AI generated copy on SEO websites and from centralized social platforms.
Look. Killing (or attempting to kill) political figures we disagree with shouldn’t be applauded.
Rarely in history has it resulted in positive outcomes in the long term.
I despise the man, and his politics. But I won’t become like him.
In case anybody still believed that self-hosting is going to save them from tech companies taking their stuff down with no explanation or recourse: fwoof.space/@johann/1127828619…
From a Fanfic author's Discord server, @everyone
We've got a response from Fanfiction at last. And it's a worrying response. The below paragraph is directly quoted.
http://fanfiction.
This stuff is why we *need* the blockchain, nobody has yet come up with any other system that our tech overlords cannot control.
The fediverse, with its reliance on DNS and TLS, is basically no less immune to any of this than X, Facebook, Instagram or any other centralized social media service.
@modulux Kademlia/IPFS solve one specific problem (namely that of being able to download some data whose hash you already know), blockchains allow you to run any algorithm computable by a Turing machine.
THe problem with Kademlia and IPFS is that you need to know the hash of the data you want to download beforehand, and there's no way for the data's original author to distribute updates. There's also the problem of discoverability, there are no human-friendly names, so you need a centralized index of names to hashes.
@kuba This doesn't provide *unique* name-value mappings and requires users to either manually add the hosts they're interested in or set up delegation. This requires either a lot of effort or centralization.
A blockchain can provide a unique mapping of names to values. It's centralized in the sense that there's only one mapping and every network participant agrees on what a given name is mapped to, but decentralized in the sense that only authorized users (where the smart contract defines what is meant by "authorized") are allowed to change mappings.
THe reason such a system cannot possibly work without a cryptocurrency is that you need some incentive against scalpers taking all the names for themselves on day one. If names are completely free to acqquire, somebody is inevitably going to get all the interesting ones and then they won't be free to acquire any more.
What happens when someone forks a blockchain and people disagree which one is the true one?
Also, how do you read the data from the blockchain? Do you download the entire blockchain to your HDD? Or do you rely on some intermediary who wraps the blockchain in a lightweight API? Who is the intermediary then? How do we trust them?
Also, what's supposed to happen when someone steals your domain through some hacky means? Then there'll be no way to get it back, it will be gone forever.
@kuba Blockchains have built-in mechanisms to decide on how to deal with forks. This is why proof-of-work was originally invented, with PoW, clients always choose the fork with more work applied to it. Proof of stake and other consensus mechanisms provide similar guarantees, but require far less energy.
You can make a hardfork (essentially changing the rules of your blockchain), but then it's up to which client you use, if you use a client that respects and implements the hardfork, you're on the forked version, otherwise your client treats the hardfork as illegitimate and only uses the unforked version.
@kuba re: reading the data, there are some designs for DNS-like chains that allow you to be a lightweight client with no need to trust an intermediary. Essentially, you only need to download the headers of each block (which are much smaller than the blocks themselves), you download the rest on-demand. Having the headers (which contain the block hashes) ensures that nobody can tamper with the block contents without your knowledge.
See Handshake's technical design for the juicy details. They've gotten a lot of things wrong, particularly on the marketing / grift front, as most cryptos do, but the technical foundations and ideas are sound.
@kuba Re: hacking, this is a fundamental dilemma, if your registrar has the ability to forcibly transfer your domain to somebody else, they can help recover it in case of a hack, but they can also disable it when their automated AI systems mistakenly flag it as suspicious.
There are ways to mitigate this problem. Handshake for example has a concept of "domain burning", if somebody steals a copy of your key and tries to transfer your domain to their own, you have some time (two weeks I think) to disable the domain completely, making it unavaiblable to both you and the hacker. This removes any financial incentives for domain hacking, as most people would rather lose their domain than have it go to a hacker.
There are also other designs where you have multiple parties that need to authorize a transfer. You could even design this in a way where you need a both your key and a registrar's key to transfer a domain to somebody else, but the registrar's key isn't allowed to make any changes to the domain without your express consent.
> > There are also other designs where you have multiple parties that need to authorize a transfer. You could even design this in a way where you need a both your key and a registrar's key to transfer a domain to somebody else, but the registrar's key isn't allowed to make any changes to the domain without your express consent.
@kuba No, with DNS, a registrar is allowed to take your stuff down at any time with no recourse. With this design, a registrar is able to prevent you from selling your domain and/or slow that process down. This is bad, but far better than the registrar having total and utter control.
A quick chat with Jake about consoles, including a reskinned #XBox 360 with R2D2 sounds that come out of the unit when you turn it on or off, or eject the disk tray.
I have a collection of boot-up sounds from various items, but always looking for more. If you're able to record directly from a device not listed here, and provide a lossless file to me to add to the collection, I'd be grateful for your digital donations. .wav or .flac is preferred and don't worry if you can't edit yourself, only capture, I can do that. Thank you.
Good luck. No, seriously, good luck because I couldn't stand it. Awful focus jumps, counterintuitive interface, no way of checking new messages… at least it was my experience.
Donald Trump se na politickém mítinku v Pensylvánii stal terčem útoku střelce. Když ho tajná služba zraněného odváděla z pódia, opakovaně zvedl odbojně pěst.
@ozzelot Velky respekt vsem co davaji tag/CW ale obavam se ze u politiky je to prohrane. Nastesti ma mastodon filtry, diky kterym je jednoduche se od (US) politiky odstinit (pokud se neucastnite anglickych konverzaci o karetnich hrach ...).
I have opinions on this, but they are complex and nuanced, which doesn’t fit well on the Internet. Anyway, the discussion here is excellent. Everyone keep engaging on this topic. It is complicated and important. There are easy pat answers for individual, but not for the entire community of users.
I released version 3.3.1 of Newsflash. It brings - MPRIS support for video playback - zoom controls in the article menu - less memory/cpu by caching Gdk Textures instead of the raw encoded data of favicons - a few fixes here and there
Ještě nedávno to byla ruina, dobrovolníci to z darů opravili. Je to zrekonstruovaná vysoká pec. Zpracovávala se v ní železná rudy, které se těžilá nedaleko. @archos@pixelfed.cz
Design has been one of the major focus points of LibreOffice in the last few years, and the Design community has produced new icon sets, new MIME type icons, a hugely improved dark mode, and improvements to the NotebookBar (This is part of The Docume…
From the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library: Intro to Gmail on the Web: Monday, July 15, 7:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/73…
Na Trumpově předvolebním mítinku v Butleru v Pensylvánii se kolem půlnoci našeho času ozvalo několik výstřelů. Exprezident byl zasažen do ucha a z místa byl evakuován. Podle svého mluvčího je „v pořádku“.
@fabia_man Jo to je pravda, no i ta fotka. Postřelí ho a ještě vysekne takovou fotku. No každopádně to mají demokrati se staříkem prohrané. No nebudou to dobré časy.
Ve zdravé politice máme soutěžit v tom, kdo přinese lepší řešení nějakého problému a realizuje ho. Kdo vymyslí rozumný plán toho, jak zlepšit například infrastrukturu. Ale místo toho se tady soutěží jen v nenávisti a lžích. Je to smutné.
Right, I've been sleeping on this, probably because I don't think there's much I can write. Either way, #introduction time
Hi, I'm Regalia and I'm a cute dog delivered to you over JSON-LD. Most of my stuff here is just me posting about how I feel or what I'm doing, came from bark.lgbt before settling at envs.net here.
For the technical side, I do work around the social VR sphere, I do sysadmin as a hobby (bearer of the curse image here) and I dabble in video encoding (even if it can feel like witchcraft sometimes). I'm also the trans Arch Linux user, because of course I am.
Oh, also I'm gay. Really fucking gay. There's so many cute girls, especially if they have floppy ears. Pet them. Pet the dog girls.
I meant to post this on July 1st, but got far too busy. If you've ever tried to change your User account control settings with NVDA on modern Windows, you've probably noticed how broken the slider is. I spent 30 minutes writing a tiny app module to fix this exact problem. See this blog post for more info and the code: quinbox.xyz/blog/posts/nvda-ua…
And there's no reason the slider has to be that broken. It natively implements UIA (apparently it's based on one of the iterations of Microsoft's internal DirectUI toolkit). What you're supposed to do in that case is implement both the UIA range value pattern to provide a numeric value and range, and the UIA value pattern to provide the text value. And yes, AccessKit supports this.
Massachusetts Dept of Mental Health denying gender-diverse patients gender-affirming care! Please Sign this petition!!
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Fedizens! Hello!
In the process of
*working on a petition to get a 🏳️⚧️ woman's death investigated
*being denied GAC as MA DMH patient myself and
* continuing to network with various law and legal groups I've come across a horrible truth:
⚠️MA Dept of Mental Health has no policies in place to ensure gender-diverse patients receive gender-affirming care!⚠️
This is shocking when considering that
👉🏼MA's Dept of Corrections already have policies and procedures in place👈🏿 to ensure inmates receive life-saving gender-affirming care!
We already have law and policy makers and legal advocacy groups expressing interest in fixing this. However, let’s sign this petition to ensure the job gets done! You know what to do!
Seirdy
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