Previously, the secretariat of IETF admitted that it is not possible to run SMTP over IPv6 anymore: mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/…
Now Digicert follows up shutting down IPv6 support for CRL and OCSP because it is apparently not possible to run HTTP over IPv6 anymore. 🤬 docs.digicert.com/en/whats-new…
I know everyone is desensitized to this now, after so many years of this bullshit, but can I just say how fucking insane it is that Americans voted in an actual felon for President and before he’s even sworn in is literally threatening invasion of NA…
@FreakyFwoof @VE3RWJ Chris, which client are you using? Quoting seems to work fine with Mona. By design quoting should include the original post after my text. Curious...
@VE3RWJ Again, quoting is *not* an officially supported Mastodon thing, so you shouldn't have to be using any specific client at all. If any client supports quote-posting then it is 100% unofficial and not endorsed by Mastodon as a whole. Yes, it works (for some people) but again, not official. Plus, quote-posting leads to shit-posting and the original poster may not even be able to see that their post has been mentioned, because it's not a direct @ mention in the first place. I despise it.
@VE3RWJ Quote-posting definitely does not need to exist at all, under any circumstances.
If you do so, you can equally be shit-posted about by others. That's what quote posting basically is. Even if you potentially say something nice, the original poster will never ever know you did so. No threading, so it might as well be a statement made behind your back that nobody knows about. If you wouldn't like people potentially saying bad things about you, don't potentially say bad things about them. That's all there is to it. Not even a question here. Just simple fact. Quoting is beyond bad, especially given current implementation.
@VE3RWJ It's one of those fake quote posts. Not all clients support those, so I never use them. Plus, there is no attribution, threads get broken, etc.
@BorrisInABox If I follow a link an dcan't see whatever I"m supposed to see without logging in, and probably following the link a second time, I can't be bothered. I guess I'm lazy.
@VE3RWJ It’s not just the lack of support for it, it’s also the lack of proper attribution and threading that really, really bothers me about the way quoting (doesn’t) work. I wish there was a way to block posts from being quoted at all, or I would do it for mine. So many times, I have been quoted, new threads have been started, and I had no clue whatsoever.
@BorrisInABox @VE3RWJ Yeah, I totally get it. I just think of quoting the way I use it in chat rooms. I want to clarify or augment someone else's post. Frequently, it's also about providing more context or boosting a certain comment from a longer discussion. It works quite well in a work environment where things can quickly spin out of control. I personally like the ability to quote, but perhaps the implementation should be better. (1/2)
There is an argument to be made where you may not want to be attributed if a follow-up discussion went beyond the original post, etc. Anyway... Thanks for the context. (2/2)
@drew @FreakyFwoof @VE3RWJ Wow, weird! O well... Would be cool if it was properly supported. Quoting does help sometimes. Hopefully, Mona will remove it at some point so as not to temp people like myself! :)
« #Italian gov’s possible adoption of #Starlink satellite comms system would b politicl & economic error, domestic & #EU legislators have warned, as gov doubled down on decision & #Musk revelled in the debate
If deal→signed, #Italy→1st EU country 2 formally engage w/ Musk’s #SpaceX. But would raise ?? abt its alignment w/ #European strategic priorities, including setup of EU’s #IRIS2 constellation, while potentially costing Italy jobs, sovereignty, & strategic autonomy»
It is clearly a commutative agreement in which something is given in exchange to something else. The real question is what the Italian government is expecting to receive in return (lower tariffs one exports, maybe?).
If the deal were signed it would be a brave political move, anticipating any other EU country (including other non-aligned ones like Hungary and Slovakia), and a risky one too (hope they know what they are doing and trust the people they're negotiating with).
One may object about the use of public expenditure (especially because Italy is bound to participate in IRIS too so paying twice for similar services) but every government takes such decisions on how to allocate funds.
The Verge - Meta’s policy changes allow calling gay and trans people ‘mentally ill’ while removing a ban on referring to women as ‘household objects.’ theverge.com/2025/1/7/24338471…
Meta’s policy changes around hate speech have sharply changed the content that’s banned or allowed when it’s based on gender, sexual orientation, and the coronavirus.
I wonder if anyone hearing this can help me identify what sort of guitar is playing this solo (at least, I think it's a guitar): youtu.be/7zjU28f6sE4?si=oZCHQt… Thanks a lot! If the Youtube timestamp does not come through, the solo I am talking about starts somewhere around minute 4.
Provided to YouTube by Warner RecordsYou and Your Friend · Dire StraitsOn Every Street℗ 1996 Mercury Records Ltd. (London)Conductor, Keyboards, Producer: Ala...
Mark's main electric is a Fender stratocaster. But he sometimes played a 1958 Les Paul too. Either way, a lot of his sound is in his touch. He does not use a pick. That's flesh on strings. Those simulated pedal steel notes where the volume swells up after the attack of the note are done with some quick manipulations of the volume knob.
Discover the inspiring journey of a woman with multiple disabilities as she navigates her passion for accessibility and technology, fueled by faith and resilience.
At Slack, customer love is our first priority and accessibility is a core tenet of customer trust. We have our own Slack Accessibility Standards that product teams follow to guarantee their features are compliant with Web Content Accessibility Guidel…
Did you catch Part One of my “Best of 2024” series? Well, buckle up, because today I’m serving up another round of ten wildly popular AskBob articles! These gems were carefully curated with assistance from a network of quantum robots, secret nodes on…
If you're an Apple user and I spoof your phone number in a call to the legitimate Apple Customer Support line (800-275-2273), I can force Apple to send you a system level "Apple Account Confirmation" prompt to all of your signed-in devices.
This approach is commonly used by a prolific voice phishing group to convince targets they really are in a support call with an Apple representative.
Today's deep dive into this weird world was made possible in part by a series of live phishing videos, tutorials and other secrets shared by an insider that show in unprecedented detail how these voice phishing scams can be so convincing.
Please share this story widely, because I learned a ton reporting this and frankly the various methods used by these groups to dox and target people are really slick.
From the story: "Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations of a prolific voice phishing gang show the group routinely abuses legitimate services at Apple and Google to force a variety of outbound communications to their users, including emails, automated phone calls and system-level messages sent to all signed-in devices."
I've done some research around fedi scraping and the answer is (probably) a bit more complicated.
I think it's very likely that it's not indexing your server specifically, but that you have a follower on a server somewhere that didn't opt out of indexing, and that's where the data is coming from.
If you agree to federate with random servers, without doing thorough background checks on them first, it's exactly what you should expect.
Search is different than scraping, data from search is "injected" into your current conversation only, and only when you enquire about a specific subject. It doesn't go into Chat GPT's training corpus.
I just asked the raw GPT-4o model (with no search), and it can't answer the question correctly, so this seems to be the case.
I wanted to give back to the #FreeSoftware community, and the Conservancy staff and contractors who supported me. So I made an embroidery of Conservancy's logo for our fundraiser.
The top donor to Conservancy's fundraiser (from Monday, Jan 6 until AOE Wednesday, Jan 8) will receive my embroidery.
If you can only afford to give a little, we appreciate any support you can give!
If the top donor doesn't want the embroidery, a random donor to Conservancy's fundraiser will receive the embroidery. The random donor will be picked from anyone who donated from the start of Conservancy's fundraiser in November until AOE Wednesday, January 8.
If my journey inspires you, please donate to Conservancy's fundraiser:
I spent most of 2024 recovering from a spine injury after a car accident. I’d love to share my new insight into free software accessibility, and how both free software and embroidery helped me build resiliency.
I love this article by @sphakos about their thoughts about software freedom and recovering from injury. I find it really moving:
"Why do we decide an object is beyond repair, and must be replaced by something expensive and new? Why do companies put out products that easily break physically, or will become obsolete or insecure due to a lack of software updates?"
I spent most of 2024 recovering from a spine injury after a car accident. I’d love to share my new insight into free software accessibility, and how both free software and embroidery helped me build resiliency.
Hiring: We are looking for a Linux Support Specialist to join our growing team support team. This position will focus on Linux support efforts across all relevant social surfaces where Framework has a presence. jobs.lever.co/framework/1e7b01…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, medical pioneer who received the world's first experimental rat penis transplant, announced today that the social media juggernaut would stop fact checking.
A thoughtful piece about Ursula K. Le Guin's activism and complicated feelings, written by Julie Phillips and published on Literary Hub. I do enjoy the little glimpses into the history of my area, too.
In the past two months, I’ve found myself thinking back to an essay Ursula K. Le Guin posted on her blog in November 2016. It was one of her last long essays, and she wrote it at a time when she—li…
We're hoping to organize a hopeful virtual event to get us to think our possible technological futures, and have a creative workshop. Maybe in the spring. Stay tuned. In the mean time, read our Possible Futures Series. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see from the event, comment below.
I think it's wonderful; how the story morphs and grows as the serial progresses, how it ends its era dropping so many threads that would be picked up in #DoctorWho future by keeping things vague enough to be developed, rather than be dead ends.
Remarkably for a 10-parter it in no way drags, even the run about eps have a [sort of] point and develops that widening story.
The ending ep kills me and I love and despair at Jamie and Zoe's ending. Especially Zoe's; she grew a lot in her time and it's all gone and she knows, some part of her at the end KNOWS she's forgotten something and I hate it and love it. #DoctorWhoRewatch
@DavidGoldfield I've heard the first one and got the next couple but admit I haven't listened yet (I'm quite behind on Big Finish). Does Zoe come back too then? That is exciting to me! :) Two, Jamie and Zoe are my absolute [classic] dream team.
Zoe does return in the post War Games stories but I don't have that particular set. Jamie and Zoe also return with the sixth Doctor in (I think) Last of the Cybermen and there's a limited series where Jamie teams up with the Sixth Doctor.
In conflict, we find clarity. We all hold contradictory views: We love our families, but they drive us crazy. We want more housing in our cities, but we don’t want our property values to decrease w…
In conflict, we find clarity. We all hold contradictory views: We love our families, but they drive us crazy. We want more housing in our cities, but we don’t want our property values to decrease w…
The msh3 backed for QUIC and HTTP/3 was introduced in April 2022 but has never been made to work properly. It has seen no visible traction or developer activity from the msh3 main author (or anyone...
@kurtseifried hah, nice! That's indeed a curios and positive side-effect of the ephemeral version.
In the free slacks I hang out, there are rarely any files shared so its mostly just old chat history that goes away. And it's typically not something I miss.
unfortunately they added some trackers with their latest release (see today's AndroidAppRain toot). I've already reported it to them, so hopefully they roll that back: github.com/suvam0451/dhaaga/is…
Description v0.12.0 adds the Play Install Referrer Library, and the Android Market library. As the former is considered not only proprietary (non-foss, non-libre) and tracking, and in addition reac...
@IzzyOnDroid has been doing an amazing job getting our repo to over 30% of apps being reproducible. Maintaining a rebuilder takes a lot of constant work. Thank you!
As I've written before:
[...] the ecosystem is constantly moving: old toolchain and dependency bugs get fixed, but new ones keep popping up. [...] Reproducible Builds are not just an item on a checklist [...] It's an ongoing process involving not just upstream app developers, but also maintainers of repositories, clients, and rebuilders; those involved in outreach and writing documentation; developers and maintainers of tooling, toolchains, and dependencies. And often requires a lot of collaborative debugging :)
See also our "Review of 2024 and Outlook for 2025: Reproducible Builds, Security Measures and more":
2024 winkt zum Abschied, 2025 klopft an die Tür: Was haben wir 2024 erreicht, und was sind unsere Pläne und Hoffnungen für 2025? Werft mit uns einen Blick zurück auf die eingeführten Sicherheitsmaßnahmen, auf die Fortschritte bei Reproducible Builds …
Nowadays musicians can reach hundreds, thousands, sometimes millions of listeners with a few, usually free, online services and a minimal grasp of technology.
Meta sta terminando il suo programma di fact checking di terze parti, passando al modello Community Notes, utilizzato da siti come X.com
Ha anche aggiunto che avrebbe rimosso le restrizioni su "argomenti che fanno parte del discorso comune". Invece, avrebbe concentrato l'applicazione delle leggi su "violazioni illegali e di elevata gravità".
Infine, gli utenti saranno incoraggiati ad adottare un approccio "personalizzato" ai contenuti politici, lasciando spazio a molte più opinioni e tendenze nei feed delle persone, che si adattano a ciò che desiderano vedere.
Mi sembra una autentica figata: su FB si potrà scrivere qualunque cosa che sia in linea con il governo americano, vera o falsa che sia, e null'altro. E così oggi mi sono iscritto a Mastodon.
A #EUTravelApp proposal by the European Commission would let you upload your biometric data to a database for pre-travel controls. Many of you have told us you share the concerns we raised about the proposed regulation such as data protection risks. 📣 You can participate in a public consultation to voice your opinion until tomorrow (January 8) and share this blog to inform more people about the proposal. edri.org/our-work/pre-travel-c…
We are responding to a public consultation on the European Commissions’ digitalising travel documents proposal. This proposal promises convenience in travel but could pave the way for biometric mass surveillance and automated discrimination.
"Once the digital travel credential is created/derived from an existing travel document, it would be stored on the holder’s mobile device. Data subjects therefore remain in control of their own data and choose if and when to use it. If the person chooses to use it for an advance check and facilitated travel, they can submit it, via the application developed and operated by eu-LISA, to the responsible authorities."
No mobile Google/Apple device w/ Play/Apple account? Sorry, you're out… 1/2
2/2 so not only does this discriminate against those not having a mobile device, or used their choice of running it "tracking free" with a custom ROM and no "store account" – it REQUIRES those using the app to have an account with a US company tracking them via their services.
Objections? Oh, you have something to hide? => stigmatized. Suspect because of valuing your privacy.
And enforcing us to give our data to an US company, outside GDPR directive. Again, violating their own laws.¹
¹ because we can bet it won't be a FOSS app available freely, not being bound to either the Apple Store or the Google Play Store (not that that would solve the problem entirely).
it is important to move to a mastodon instance that does not federate with Facebook's threads.net service. it's about to get real, real ugly over there
Peter Kovář
in reply to Ondřej Caletka • • •Wiskey Tango Foxtrot.?!
2025???
Is the future already?