You need quant computer to host these key services. Nobody will do that. ActivityPub/Twtxt instance can be hosted on calculator

The Australia Labor government, Albanese and the honourable Michelle Rowland federal member for parliament and communications minster are fucking clowns. It’s stupid shit like this that’s the real problem with “big tech” social media platforms. These morons just simply don’t understand basic economics and basic business.

Why would a company like Meta, X and TikTok give up a large multi-billion dollar segment of the market. That is, young children from the ages of ~3 to 16 (yes kids these days can use a computer or device from a pretty young age!)

The whole masquerade of “online saftey” and the new Australia legislation of the Online Safety Act 2021 is complete and utter bullshit.

You wanna fix this whole cybercrime and cyber bullying that goes on (which btw if you understood how these fucking platforms worked in the first place, you’d realise drives up engagement on the platforms by abusing human emotional and psychological weakness), then ban and make illegal with multi-Billion dollar fines the following:

• Profiting off data collected by users on your platform(s)
  
• Categorizing users on your platform and performing A/B tests
  
• Targeting users (of any age) for advertising
  

In fact just ban targeted advertising period.

Disgusting 🤦‍♂️

@bender@twtxt.net He sure did! 👏 Thanks @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 🙏

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Uh huh sure 😉 Bluesky, the “decentralized” social media platform that won’t steal and profit from your data huh?! 🤦‍♂️

@bender@twtxt.net Yes and Will do! 👌

After several hard hours, I think I’ve recovered the last missing 1 Twt from @bender@twtxt.net 🥳 Turns out just before I accidentally nuked my pod, I took a dump of it’s cached just seconds before 🤣 – So I was also able to rebuild anything that was missing from the backup from the recent cache dump!

Bluesky Says It Won’t Train AI On Your Posts
Bluesky, the social network surging in popularity, says it has “no intention” of training AI tools on users content. “The social network made the announcement on the same day that X (formerly Twitter) is implementing its new terms of service that allow the platform to use public posts to train AI,” notes TechCrunch. From the report: “A number of artists and creators have made their home … ⌘ Read more

Thanks to @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org’s own archived feeds we’ve managed to restore quite a bit and probably only lost a couple of hours. 🙇‍♂️

@wbknl@twtxt.net You of all are the most affected as our newest member of my pod and most recently joined. I’m so sorry 😢

🔥 ATTENTION: I have really bad news folks 😢

Today, (just this morning in AEST) I accidentally nuke my pod (twtxt.net). I keep backups, but unfortunately the recovery point objective (RTP) is at worst a month! 🤦‍♂️ 😱 (the recovery time objective is around ~30m or so, restoring can take a while due to the size of the archive and index) – For those that are unfamiliar with these terms, they essentially relate to “how much data loss can occur” (RPO) and “how quickly you can restore the system” (RTO).

This pod (twtxt.net) is back up and online. However we’ve last the last ~5 days worth of posts y’all may have made on your feeds (for those that use this pod).

I’m so sorry 😞

One more #fridayreads this #nonficnov - and one more about #recordlabels, this time “This Is supposed to be a record label” from ex-Staalplaater Frans de Waard.

#bookstodon

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yesterday, probably

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@bender@twtxt.net Ahh I see 👌

Not really sure how this is similar at all teally as Yarn like every other twtxt client just fetches feeds you tell it to? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net I hear ya 👌 I feel very much the same 😅

@bender@twtxt.net LIL 🤣 Starting to wonder whether maybe I’m the one that’s wrong here? 🤔 And have a warped sense of the terms distributed and decentralized? 😅

@bender@twtxt.net Just because you can run it doesn’t make it decentralised. As @doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt rightfully points out, where are the points of controls? It’s a distributed network with a protocol that forms a “network”. With key services operated by BlueSky this isn’t decentralised in the true sense now is it? 🤔

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club I’m feeling slightly better (though my sinuses are still giving my grief 🤦‍♂️) so I’ll try to answer this and properly state my position on the proposed minimum age restrictions being proposed by the Labor government.

Firstly I think it’s completely ineffective and unenforceable. The only way you’re going to get this enforced is to somehow makes all the “big tech” companies oblighes, which some already are. But then you can just work-around it anyway. Okay if you start requiring things like state-enforced age verification like a driver’s license or something, then things start getting even more weird.

Frankly I don’t think it’s the right approach. I think it will ultimately achieve nothing. It’ll be just like the many numerous attempts at banning alcohol and drugs. Once you’re addicted, there’s no way you can stop people from indulging in stupid crap that may possibly kill them.

The only way out of this mess IMO is to educate people, educate the parents and to make it practices of targeting, categorization and the manipulation of content based on metadata either you or a 3rd-party questionable obtained illegal.

In other words. The very foundation of what “bit tech” social media companies thrive on. Make that illegal. Problem solve. But oh wait?! 🤦‍♂️

Giving paper notebooks another try. I love paper notebooks. The problem is that I’m very chaotic writing my ideas.

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt This is such a good response! 🙌 You are absolutely right in that Bkuesky is not decentralized 👏

Oh shit maybe not 🙀

I think it’s fixed now eight?

@xuu@txt.sour.is wut?! 🙀

So helpful 😮‍💨

Error: Error deleting last twt

Nope. 😐

Can I edit this twt?

@xuu@txt.sour.is I think my backend stalled and I somehow managed to post in the past 🤣 For some reason I’m noticing more performance problems with yarnd of late. Need to look into them…

Why is the rooted post after the replied post?? time shenanigans?

Is no evidence that it is 2024. In fact, no one knows what year it is.

On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Season 5, TNG https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/11/14/ng-season-5.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

Can’t resist writing something here. Heading to 2025. Time flies!

Back from the future! Or the past..

So, I had a talk with the CFO last night about this. Nothing to be gained yet, but baby steps. I think we might be able to get one for Christmas. That is, if there is any left. These little things are flying off the shelves like hot apple pies!

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It’s terrible that the best people on the planet are leaving us (

I think it’s centralized shit with lying about decentralization. All network is worked by two centralized things: plc.directory (did storage?) and network relay (bsky.network). You can host your relay but this require TOO MUCH resources (2TB storage and 32GB RAM read more ). Also i try running PDS and: 1. I can’t register account via app,only via cli 2. It leaked on 2GB virtual machine then killed by oom after trying to register account via cli

@bender@twtxt.net Hah looks like you get more interactions here 🤣

Oh, now it seems that the website of the gophernews person isn’t reachable, too.

@bender@twtxt.net Ok 🙏

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@bender@twtxt.net Can you suggest a better default font size that works well on desktop and mobile? 🤔

How’s that?

@bender@twtxt.net II’ll try it 👌

Sad if gophernews is lost.

@ec8ad I sent an email to the person who is running gophernews.net 3 day ago. Currently no answer.

É #MusiQuinta de música que #TeInspira …
… e a mim inspira-me isto:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGpD1IPCOEw

Where GopherNEWS ((((

@prologic@twtxt.net yes.

The web is such garbage these days 😔 Or is it the garbage search engines? 🤔

I’m alive 👋 Juat ill 🤧

Oh. so i can see it now that i trust your pod.

I am headed to Amsterdam.

Oh the joy of working half the day in remote desktop environments with intermittent Internet connection issues… Good thing there is still some LTE left.

@prologic@twtxt.net just rebuild my image.. though git says i am already at latest

Ouiii, j’ai de nouveau internet! En fait, #sfr a changé l’armoire, a débranché tout le monde sans prévenir personne, et maintenant les autres fournisseurs doivent venir rebrancher leurs clients. C’est malhonnête… Bref, si3t.ch et puffy.cafe sont de retour

Where all? What happened with GopherNews server? Who know?

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Educação em Portugal:

Há uma greve de todos os Profissionais de Educação agendada para 15 de novembro de 2024, porque se reenvidicam coisas como a necessidade de mais profissionais da educação.

O que faz o Governo? Anuncia a Inteligência Artificial Portuguesa, um LLM que vai ser usada para “dar a cada aluno um tutor educativo de inteligência artificial”.

https://stop-sindicato.pt/pre-aviso-de-greve-de-todos-os-profissionais-de-educacao-15-de-novembro-de-2024/
https://www.noticiasaominuto.com/tech/2668241/montenegro-anuncia-lancamento-de-modelo-de-linguagem-de-ia-em-portugues

@prologic@twtxt.net All good mate.

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club sorry I meant to get to this today, please remind me to elaborate on this position a bit more later but I think it’s otherwise pretty rubbish

LOL what does “lightly encrypted” mean?! 🤣

Oof, is it any wonder some of us don’t want to just give out our info online willy-nilly.

Also that credit card ‘encryption’ will likely land that company in very hot water, no doubt far away from PCI DSS requirements.

@prologic@twtxt.net what do we make of Labor’s proposed social media minimum age ban, I.e ID verification, and the likes of Yarn? I haven’t been able to find out exactly how far the legislation goes, but some have said it’s broad enough to include any site that even has a comment section 🤔 but that could be FUD.

Lol. “Lighty Encrypted” https://www.pcmag.com/news/hot-topic-breach-confirmed-millions-of-credit-cards-email-addresses-exposed

photons from fall | https://nilfm.cc/photojournal_2024.html

brief thoughts on the state of things | https://nilfm.cc/retrograde_motion.html

@prologic@twtxt.net He is a Norwegian singer who has solo work and has collaborated with Anywhen and the Exit North project.

@wbknl@twtxt.net Tell us more! Who is Thomas Feiner? 🤔

Thinking about how underrated is Thomas Feiner!

@xuu@txt.sour.is direwolf is not hard. It takes just a bit of manual reading :)

You need to figure out what it means to have “free thought”, “to reason”, “have deep understanding” and be able to apply knowledge in unfamiliar environments or scenarios. You have to figure out what it means to “dream”. You have to figure out what it means to hold “ethics”, “morals” and even “beleifs”.

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net When are we going to resign ourselves to a position of not achieving AGI and so-called AI in the first place? Hmmm 🧐 Fundamentally I don’t think we understand how the human brain works or what it means to be a “conscious free thinking being” – I’m not convinced we’ll figure this out to be honest.