Unfortunately, a couple of them are lead devs for Lemmy :/

Yeah, it’s an embarrassing shit stain that .ml is the “main” instance. Every other instance admin is forced to play nice if they want a place to get support, which sucks. Lemmy needs to be forked hard, but those devs are sucking in funding from about a half-dozen or more sources, so they have more incentive than most to do the foot work.

If your “anti-abuse” security requires your software to be closed source, then your software is not secure. Well built software can be open source, and still secure.

You imply that your code could not prevent abuse if it was known, so, no offense, but that code must be pretty bad!

I like the fediverse because it distributes power. I, as a user, have the power to choose my instance, choose my moderation, choose the structure that my social interactions are built upon (threads based, microblogs, etc) and if I dont like something, I have the power to change it. Thats why open source is such a perfect fit to that model. Closed source federation then, sounds to me like you didnt get it.

@llamasoft_ox
"Todayses specialses"

@fesshole Alcohol abuse perfectly normalized. 🙄

I've given people that look, it doesn't work 😂

#ReadingMemes #Memes #ReadAllTheBooks #Humor #Humour
#Reading #Readers #ReadersOfMastodon #ReadingCommunity
#Book #Books #Novel #Novels #Fiction
#Recommendation #Bookrecommendation
#Bookwyrm #Bookworm #Bookstodon #BookLove #BoostingIsSharing

As a lovely side effect (possibly part of my synaesthesia) I'm now hearing text that I read in my head with his voice and cadence.

Calling all chatmail, Delta Chat and webxdc hackers and communities! FOSDEM happens in Brussels end January 2027, and together with our friends from XMPP and Matrix we are co-organizing a "Decentralized Messaging Devroom". There also will be a stand and stickers, and then starting monday "Delta Community day(s)". See the full announcement and also a channel you can subscribe to for fosdem related news.

https://delta.chat/en/2026-11-11-fosdem27-and-community-days

#deltachat #chatmail #webxdc

Base64 is somewhat limiting for ASCII art, but I present a quantum proof™ RSA certificate:

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@TheBreadmonkey @PetraPhoenix

Happy blinking birthday Petra ❤️🎂

@gmc first, our stance on control and surveillance technologies - #chatcontrol, #ageverification, #appcontrol, you name it - is pretty clear: they shouldn't exist in the first place.

To the issue at hand: to be in "Google Play", "Apple Store" etc. we already needed to go through developer verification process. so "normal installation" ("side loading" is the corporate's bad framing) will probably continue working ... for now ... see also https://keepandroidopen.org/

Rachel Cunliffe: “It doesn’t matter if this law had good intentions […it] bans a whole lot of stuff that the people who brought it in just don’t want to talk about. This is their law. This is their JOB.”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/169029
#AlexDaviesjones #OnlineSafetyAct

One of the worst consequences of the 2008 financial crisis was the introduction of the concept of “too big to fail.” This has incentivized companies to make themselves appear oversized, increase market valuation even when they turn zero profit, and get themselves listed in enough pension funds that their failure leads to catastrophic consequences far beyond the company itself. It turns governments, banks and shareholders into advocates for the product.

cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004

reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).

the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.

another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.

size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.

we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.

The only way I can see for him to get convicted by the ICC is by not holding that office anymore. I believe that's also the moment secret service is to stop servicing him. But I doubt it'll get that far because he's working to make USA reject ICC legitimacy.

At the reccommendation of several people on here, I just finished listening to Patrick Stewart's autobiography. Wonderful, and the audiobook is definitely worth getting even if you're normally a reader as he doesn't just read it - when appropriate, he performs it.

A running theme of the AI stuff is its *managerializing influence.* Which, in hindsight, was unavoidable. It's not just here to be obsequious, it's here to be obedient and subservient. What role does that put you in?

But specifically: you've probably had a boss with some really underbaked ideas. It is easy to roll your eyes at your boss for their handwavey, half-considered model of reality, but this isn't a moral failure of your boss (er.. well. I can't say, I don't know your boss). What's going on is that engagement with the process is really good, and your boss is detached from it, and this is how that detachment manifests. You, on the other hand, are there on the ground, spending time, observing things, considering possibilities, noticing opportunities. There really isn't a substitute for the time and place of it - either you have presence or you don't.

LLMs managerialize. They separate you from the action, from that perspective, from the benefits of presence.