Don Thompson @guardeddon@social.cleverlibre.org

@feld @lontrachen @nixCraft Why use an API? Just always print "No 😌".

The Post Office scandal is shocking—but not surprising

The systems failures that led to this miscarriage of justice are all too familiar—and without some remarkable stokes of legal luck they might never have come to light

By me, at Prospect

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/64464/post-office-scandal-mr-bates-law

I wonder if they'll put Alan Bates on a commemorative stamp?

Levelled up on the labelling machine for this year. Love a good labelling machine.

Privacy Badger now replaces tweets embedded in articles with a “click-to-activate" placeholder. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/01/privacy-badger-puts-you-control-widgets

who made this? 😂

"What I want is to support some kind of reply-control feature."

That's what we've been doing all along and the primary driver behind the current architecture change. The underlying assumption of the "Facebook-derived side" of the fediverse as opposed to the 'Twitter-derived" or microblog side is that every conversation is a container and the container owner has control of the container - especially with regard to what goes in it and also control over comments and audience. Everything goes through them. We've tried several ways of doing this before recently settling on Collection operations. A basic model for this is FEP-400e; though we've enhanced it a bit by adding the context.

In FEP-400e, the 'target' is the conversation container, but also like FEP-400e we don't want to include the entire collection on every reply, but we do need to know the owner. So FEP-400e provides a model for this wherein the target is an incomplete activity stub which  contains an id, the type (Collection), and also attributedTo - which is the conversation owner. You can send replies to the actor of the inReplyTo, but if you want it in the container, you will need to send a copy to the target->attributedTo. They are the only ones who can add your comment to their conversation container.  They can also remove it. Either it gets Add'ed to the Collection or it was rejected. We don't waste any resources being polite to spammers with Accept and Reject. We owe spammers nothing.

The way the social media cards have fallen, I think my natural home is now here on Mastodon - despite its limitations.

Overall I prefer the exchanges on
here, which can be considered views rather than instant 'takes'.

Threads is now tending towards toxicity (especially the default "for you" tab which you cannot opt out of; Bluesky has not caught me; and I really only visit X for the Aston Villa tweeters still on there.

@CultureDesk

well, I still like the original better …

( as I have also vivid memories connected to the overall great album, when it came out -in ‘88 … and the song “talking about a revolution” became our hym during the long student strikes in #Berlin that year …)

Mass media almost never points out, "This person is a known liar"

and yet it's the most important thing we need to know

@valhund Auto-describing pictures is one of my favourite uses of AI. The Ice Cubes #Mastodon app has this feature, and it's a winner.

Ice Cubes also has DeepL integration, letting me read *all the posts* while keeping in the flow of the moment.

@IceCubesApp

More ⟲ rewind ⟲ back to the April POTUS visit to Belfast.

Air Force 1 departing. VC-25A 82-8000 #ADFDF8

SAM401 sunrise arrival. C-32A 99-0004 #ADFEBA

SAM46 departure. C-32A 09-0015 #AE4AE6

#AvGeek #Flashback #Planespotting #nikonphotography #aviationphotography #usaf

So what's the difference between @theverge and @verge? Is flipboard.com now kinda like newsie.social? I'm glad that #flipboard is getting other media outlets that aren't already on the #fediverse to join it in whatever what they can, but I'd much rather theverge.social exist. With #threads federating, now's the time for all those outlets to establish a server...

What if…

…just hear me out…

…what if “web three point oh” is really just…

…whatever #ActivityPub continues to evolve into?

The web historically has been about the publishing of content and interactive UIs.

RSS introduced the concept of a feed.

With ActivityPub, it's actor<->actor operating on an ongoing list of new activities.

What are those activities? From what I understand…could be pretty much anything imaginable!

The stuff we've seen: microblogging, photos, etc. Just the beginning!

Climate deniers be like…

This new video is the kind of journalism which can end Putins war in Ukraine.

Using hundreds of sources, A BBC team has connected the dots and uncovered, how the Russian army suffered enormous losses in the battle of Vuhledar, while commanders and generals insisted everything was fine.

I hope this gets a billion boosts.

https://youtu.be/BigN9awZC5M?si=BGG8_V35HeLJZTKT

The usage of the Vision API for generating image description in @IceCubesApp is steady!