I'm very excited to be presenting at FOSDEM in February! I've been working on messaging interoperability for about 2 years now with much of that focus being on developing an open standard for that exact purpose. We'll be exploring how #Matrix works as an existing decentralized open standard for *interoperable* communications, and how other protocol development work interacts with Matrix.

Join me for a technical look at #MIMI, #DMA, and the Matrix protocol: fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event…

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@smallcircles @didek @clacke @erlend sure :D

We needed a place to put users, so picked "room". Users send events and can set aliases on the room so others can join more easily. Aliases act as doors, to continue the analogy.

Sometimes it can be useful to think of rooms as a routing tag for an event. Each room has an ID and subscribers (members) interested in that topic - sending an event with that room ID routes the object to them equally :)

My #FediPact 2.0 website tool is now available for your anti-fascist viewing pleasure!

Please share this around so I can finallly go to sleep 😫. I know people wanted to see it.

Servers not listed just had no readily-available data for me to grab.

fedipact.veganism.social/?v=2

#Threads #Meta #FediPact #Zuckerberg #Mastodon #Lemmy #Firefish

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Apparently Arthur Mensch, CEO of #Mistral, declared on French national radio that mistral will release an open source model equivalent to #Gpt4 in 2024. I don't speak French, so can't verify, but it would be interesting along with Llama-3 and whatever OpenAI has planned for 2024. #AI #ML #LLM radiofrance.fr/franceinter/pod…

✨ Announcement! ✨ More Magic is in the works! Atthis Arts will be publishing Wishing Well, Wishing Well by Jubilee Cho, a middle-grade fairy tale novel.

Jubilee Cho is a fairy tale writer from Anaheim, California who loves to dream and imagine, enjoys music, sweets, and long walks — and will always be a princess at heart. Follow her at instagram.com/california_jubil…

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Some of my favorite papers are the ones where you can go back and look at other, non-vulnerable constructions and see "oh, that's why they did it that way". Here: SSH doesn't do handshake transcript integrity --- they felt like it was good enough to just authenticate the _parts_ of the handshake that went into key negotiation. Compare with (say) Noise, or TLS.

Result: attackers can inject no-op messages into the handshake. "Who cares”, right, except that SSH keeps implicit sequence numbers and the NOPs bump those sequence numbers, allow attackers to edit the underlying handshake.

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@micah I've considered getting one of the instant printers to pair to my phone for a similar idea, but I feel like that's still not quite the same experience. It's more fun to be able to just hand the camera around and let anyone take photos! I just have to keep it away from the kids with how expensive the film is 🙈

We are so proud to present you #PeerTube's story and our 2024 roadmap rolled into one big read:

framablog.org/2023/12/12/mobil…

...a blogpost we should have called:

"REVELATION😱😱😱 : The whole and naked TRUTH about #PeerTube!!!!! (no clickbait) (storytime)"

Long cool feedback post from @fosdem about their experience in switching from Pentabarf to pretalx this year: github.com/pretalx/pretalx/dis…

Really good to see – lots of use of our plugin interfaces, and only some few changes to pretalx itself, and generally they seem to be happy they made the switch 💖

See this map? It shows just some of the #LibreOffice community members around the world, who do great work to make the suite better and better. Like Dominique Prieur, for instance: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

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#GNOME #Education #LearnToCode #VideoGames

If you're interested in those topics you might also be interested in my upcoming "weekend" project.

[teaser] Gameeky: A new learning tool to develop STEAM skills

blogs.gnome.org/tchx84/2023/12…

I'm writing this blog post and I don't want to. We're in dire straits and need your support. It'll be out before the end of the weekend with complete instance costing.

If you can donate, we have channels:
PayPal: paypal.com/donate/?hosted_butt…
Credit Card: shop.mstdn.ca/products/mstdn-c…

#mstdnca

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Now that Threads is appearing on the horizon of the fediverse:

Don't engage with it.

> This was told Glyn Moody in his book "Rebel Code" and demonstrates that killing open source and decentralised projects are really conscious objectives. It never happens randomly and is never caused by bad luck.

A good breakdown is ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-ki…

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That's definitely an interesting take!

I heard that NT has some advantages over Linux, but I don't have a full overview so idk how many disadvantages counter those. Also, having full control over the kernel and the userland OS components has to be convenient compared to needing to cooperate with a much larger project or maintaining patches in a fork.

I'll be curious to see, and happy for interoperability, if your prediction ends up coming true!

@Tutanota I just read your latest blog post tuta.com/blog/best-free-email-… and I notice that you describe Tuta as a "free" email provider and Protonmail as a "paid" email provider, but what's the difference exactly between the two?

It seems to me that there is no difference between Tuta and Protonmail in this regard because both offer free as well as paid accounts, or am I overlooking something?

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Further, the title of the blog post "10 best free email accounts in 2024" doesn't accurately describe the content of the blog post if half of the list is actually paid providers! (In this case the title should be "10 best free and paid email accounts" or simply "10 best email accounts").

You have a great email service but I think you need more attention to detail here ;)

🇦🇺Australia's eSafetyOffice Commissioner is taking steps to eliminate your online privacy & weaken end-to-end #encryption!

We've teamed up with other #privacy focused companies to fight back!🔒✊

Sign our joint letter opposing this proposal and make your voice heard 👇globalencryption.org/2023/12/t…

Uff. Wenn die Behörden ihre Ordnungsaufgaben aus "Personalmangel" nicht erfüllen und man deswegen (nicht nur) in Frankfurt ungefährdet Falschparken kann, dann ist der Schritt zur Selbstjustiz leider gar nicht mehr weit. adfc-frankfurt.de/2023/12/poli…

Dvere v patre, kterymi se prekvapive nevynasela rakev.

Jsou v byvale zimni zahrade v Liebiegove Palaci a drive pod mini byla lavka. Zastrihavaly se z ni v zime velke kytky.

Dneska se v rekonstruovanem prostoru otevira kavarna, pobocka Jednoho Kafe. V kavarne by nejspis lavka neprosla pres bezpecnost prace, tak zustaly jen ty dvere.

lbc:b:50.7670991:15.0619827

#lbc #photo #kavarna

Turns out that when making coffee with a press pot for the last two years, I added my water in too hot and left it to steep for too long.

@coffeegeek Reading your guide made me realise what I was doing wrong. It's impressive how much flavour there is from the same ground beans!

coffeegeek.com/guides/presspot…

Datengesetz der EU: Das falsche Versprechen vom fairen Datenreichtum
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The notes in the major scale are spaced in a funny way. Look at the white keys on the piano: some have black keys between them, other don't. But you can understand the major scale using the circle of fifths. Start with C. Go up a fifth and you get G. Go up another fifth and you get D. Go up another and you get A. Go up another and you get E. Go up another and you get B. Go up another and you get F. And these are the notes in the C major scale!

That sounds like satisfying explanation. But it's a lie!

I lied only at the end. When you go up a fifth from B, you don't get F. You get F#. So you don't get the notes in the major scale. You get the notes in another scale, called Lydian!

This is why George Russell argued that Lydian is more fundamental than the major scale.

Russell is the theorist who helped Miles Davis switch to a new style of jazz in Kind of Blue - the best-selling jazz album of all time. In his book The Lydian Chromatic Concept of Tonal Organization, Russell tried to redo harmony theory from the ground up. For a great explanation of Russell's ideas, watch the video.

But here's something else. In the modern system of modes, if you start the major scale at different points you get different scales or 'modes' called Ionian (major), Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian (minor) and Locrian.

But in the old system of modes used in Gregorian chants, Ionian and Aeolian were missing!

That's right: the major and minor scales, which we consider the most important, were not on the list! They were only added in 1547 by a theorist named Heinrich Glarean.

So maybe major wasn't considered as important as Lydian???

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youtube.com/watch?v=lAt1Vcuy5L…

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