🚀 "Dlaczego Pixelfed Glitch?
Pixelfed Glitch jest forkiem oficjalnej platformy #Pixelfed #ActivityPub. Naszym celem jest dostarczenie projektu kierowanego przez społeczność z bardziej płaskim zarządzaniem, aby zaakceptować więcej opinii i zgłoszeń od społeczności oraz zapewnić lepsze funkcje i poprawki, bez naruszania kompatybilności z upstream."
Całość [EN]:
https://pixelfed-glitch.github.io/docs/project/why_pixelfed_glitch.html
Za: @PixelfedGlitch
Powodzenia :)
Pour ou contre l'intégration de l'IA dans la prochaine évolution du protocole ActivityPub ?
Sachant en plus, et c'est ahurissant, que meta fait partie du groupe de travail …
For or against integrating AI into the next evolution of the ActivityPub protocol?
Knowing furthermore, and this is mind-boggling, that meta is part of the working group ...
#IA #AI #ActivityPub #meta
@Gargron@mastodon.social
@Gargron@mastodon-social.activitypub-proxy.cf
"Ciao Fediverso! | Hello Fediverse! 🚀 #ActivityPub"
The full minutes from the Forum and Threaded Discussions Task Force monthly meeting (held on 13 February) can be found at this Google Docs link
Apologies in advance if I misrepresented anybody or missed any crucial bits of information.
February 2025 Minutes
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Destroying Autocracy – 13 February 2025
Welcome to this week’s “Destroying Autocracy”.
It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting democracy. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.
DA comes out on Thursday and is updated through the end of day on Friday. Then we start over. So take your time in perusing it and check back in over the weekend.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.
Featured Item
404 Media writes:
A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which can “result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved.”
“A key irony of automation is that by mechanizing routine tasks and leaving exception-handling to the human user, you deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their judgement and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving them atrophied and unprepared when the exceptions do arise,” the researchers wrote.
Microsoft Study Finds AI Makes Human Cognition “Atrophied and Unprepared”
Surprise, surprise.
We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.
The response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery
The Next Web reports:
Ethical AI and climate tech are turning the Netherlands into a European innovation leader
The Electronic Frontier Foundation looks at:
Closing the Gap in Encryption on Mobile
Fast Company reports:
This scrappy search upstart is getting thousands of people to give up Google
BleepingComputer reports:
US sanctions LockBit ransomware’s bulletproof hosting provider
404 Media reports:
Wikipedia Prepares for ‘Increase in Threats’ to US Editors From Musk and His Allies
The Register reports:
A win at last: Big blow to AI world in training data copyright scrap
Great.
Codeberg declares:
We stay strong against hate and hatred
DarkReading reports:
Japan Goes on Offense With New ‘Active Cyber Defense’ Bill
Neutral
Tech Policy has:
Message to US States: Don’t Forget the Fundamentals of Fighting Online Hate and Antisemitism
An Advocate’s Guide to Automated Content Moderation
The Register reports:
EU plans to ‘mobilize’ €200B to invest in AI to catch up with US and China
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The Atlantic reports:
The Government’s Computing Experts Say They Are Terrified
Popular Information reports:
G Zero Media reports:
Elon Musk’s government takeover is powered by AI
Business Insider reports:
TechCrunch reports:
Spyware maker caught distributing malicious Android apps for years
The Guardian reports:
US immigration is gaming Google to create a mirage of mass deportations
The Intercept reports:
ICE wants to know if you’re posting mean things about it online
Pariah States
BleepingComputer reports:
Russian military hackers deploy malicious Windows activators in Ukraine
BadPilot network hacking campaign fuels Russian SandWorm attacks
DPRK hackers dupe targets into typing PowerShell commands as admin
Chinese espionage tools deployed in RA World ransomware attack
Domain Tools reports:
Chinese Malware Delivery Domains Part II: Data Collection
The Guardian reports:
Revelations of Israeli spyware abuse raise fears over possible use by Trump
The Register reports:
Crimelords and spies for rogue states are working together, says Google
The Committee to Protect Journalists reports:
2024 is deadliest year for journalists in CPJ history; almost 70% killed by Israel
Big Media
The Wikipedian reports:
The Right’s War on Wikipedia is Just a Repackaging of its War on Journalism
Big Tech
The Guardian reports:
We didn’t click ‘consent’ on any gambling website. So how did Facebook know where we’d been?
How Meta abandoned Silicon Valley’s most ambitious diversity goals
404 Media reports:
Senator Pushes Zuckerberg on “Perverse Abuse” of Nudify Ads After 404 Media Report
This Adtech Company is Powering Surveillance of U.S. Military Personnel
PC Gamer reports:
The Verge reports:
Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’
There is nothing worse than cowardice.
OpenAI is rethinking how AI models handle controversial topics
Terror
The Guardian reports:
Bomb-plot trial of neo-Nazi leader pulls back veil on US extremist networks
Cybersecurity/Privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:
The UK’s Demands for Apple to Break Encryption Is an Emergency for Us All
The Washington Post reports:
Your employer might be spying on you. Here’s how workers can check.
BleepingComputer reports:
Apple fixes zero-day exploited in ‘extremely sophisticated’ attacks
CNN reports:
How to keep your private conversations private
The Register reports:
Probe finds US Coast Guard has left maritime cybersecurity adrift
Feds want devs to stop coding ‘unforgivable’ buffer overflow vulnerabilities
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Wreckage shares:
Read this if you love the Fediverse.
SMA looks at:
A Brief History of Alternative Social Media Scholarship
The New Stack reports:
Pixelfed Crowdfunds More Open Source Social Alternatives for the Fediverse
The Internet Review reports on:
Improved Moderation Features Coming Later This Month to Pixelfed
TechCrunch reports:
These apps are building Instagram alternatives on open protocols
Tumblr to join the Fediverse after WordPress migration completes
Mastodon has:
The Counterforce shares:
The Counterforce Guide to Mastodon and The Fediverse (for punks!)
But Nazi Punks, Fuck Off!
Ghost has:
If you didn’t like it then you should have just unfollowed it
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in the ATmosphere – 2025feb.b
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
Keep fighting!
Ringleader, Battalion
Reuben Walker
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#103 #ActivityPub #AI #ATProtocol #Autocracy #BigJournalism #BigTech #Democracy #Fascism #Fediverse #Ghost #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Spyware #StopChina #StopIsrael #StopRedAmerica #StopRussia #Tumblr
https://battalion.mobileatom.net/?p=1387
@elk @gotosocial Haha, yeah …
I also totally forgot about my weird configuration for preventing other #ActivityPub instances to use my #Elk deployment. I was able to turn on notifications now (now = made the volume rw, deleted the instance’s directory, and made the volume ro afterwards) but forgot mobile #Firefox to allow notifications in general AND for my site …
We’ll see 😃
#activitypub is not beer drinking in a pub.
Could someone told me before...
Oh man, why did I ever think that implementing multiple storage backends for my #activitypub service was a good idea?
Having to backport new features across 4 versions is becoming a bit of a pain in the butt I have to say.
Would be really great if #Mastodon / #ActivityPub had better security against #stalking and #harassment!
@panos brought up something interesting recently, which is that Lemmy communities don't boost everything (at least when viewed from Mastodon), but just the original post.
I wasn't sure whether this was intentional (because 1b12 definitely specifies that everything is boosted, replies and all). The only explanation I can think of is that 1b12 boosts activities, and Mastodon doesn't understand that, so it's actually an implementation quirk that causes Mastodon to not actually see the entire conversation.
NodeBB used to Announce(Note)
and Announce(Create(Note))
, and it meant that Mastodon was seeing everything. This was desirable from a synchronization standpoint, but it meant everything was going into Mastodon user feeds, which was @panos' concern.
I think Guppe (which is kind of like 1b12? Not sure) boosts everything, but again, am not 100% sure.
Kinda obsessed with the idea that #ActivityPub & #matrix could link up to easily give everyone a universal ID for both public social media and private groups. And that matrix servers could go beyond encrypted messaging to give everyone the group functionality they find in Facebook and Discord.
The civic primacy of social media won't be well understood and accepted until people have a simple and better way to handle their more closed community needs outside of the corporate platforms. #SocialWeb
Does anybody here can #help me to solve a doubt on #Mastodon and #ActivityPub portability?
Context; I am writing a post about Mastodon and Bluesky and wouldn’t like to be imprecise.
I read in a blog that ActivityPub actually allows moving data of users and content from one server to another and that it is the Mastodon development of ActivityPub which puts the problem of portability.