So… Yes all this is sorta/kinda true, remember I used to work there once (great place to work, awful company). It isn’t by design or on-purpose I don’t think, at least not from the perspective I had back then.

What really needs to happen here in general, and I’ve said it before; is this:

Profiting off of user-generated data and metadata should be made illegal.

Social Media (systems) don’t need to be regulated beyond not allowing minors to access social media. But if you enact the changes to laws (see above) such that profiting off of userdata is made illegal, then you minors can be potentially “safe” from predators. Let’s be honest, predators are the “big tech” companies that make this shit™ highly addictive to the point where it “rots your brain”.

What if webfinger endpoint goes down?

@prologic@twtxt.net currently? it wouldnt :D.

we would need to come up with a way of registering with multiple brokers that can i guess forward to a reader broker. something that will retry if needed. need to read into how simplex handles multi brokers

@bender@twtxt.net Cool ! Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙏 I agree, on the surface this looks bad for privacy and community well being.

@xuu@txt.sour.is How would that work?

@xuu@txt.sour.is Got it 👌

What’s so terrible about Vivaldi? 🤔

@bender@twtxt.net 🤣

Yes a redirect to my profile uri. because its crazy long and ugly

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt Agree. salty.im should allow the user to post multiple brokers on their webfinger so the client can find a working path.

In nostr/simplex you did not bounded account to server because its just a relay. In matrix, xmpp and salty.im you store account data on broker and when broker is down you will no longer to communicate

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#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyRecord Week 41

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After many many years on Firefox, I am making the move to Vivaldi.

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt What do you think of when you say “decentralized”?

How? have many aliases (doesnm@doesnm.cc,doesnm@mills.io,doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt) and array of inboxes?

When did we take a wrong way and abandon Windows95? :(

@doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt salty.im needs a lot more work 🤞it is however designed to be 1000% decentralized 👌

I think salty.im is simplest than simplex. But attempt to implement this i have problems than salty cli cant decrypt messages from another saltpack realization (and reverse) . Also simplex is more decentralized (like nostr?)

Lol, what a disgrace. And not surprised sadly.

@bender@twtxt.net What don’t you like about all this? 🤔 i’m not entirely sure I know all of the folks behind this to be honest.

What’s that address you set up @xuu@txt.sour.is a redirect!

Seems to work okay for me so far 👌

@thecanine@twtxt.net Very nice! 👍

Insecure Robot Vacuums From Chinese Company Deebot Collect Photos and Audio to Train Their AI
Long-time Slashdot reader schwit1 shared this report from Australia’s public broadcaster ABC:

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I am reminded of this when I look at entire forks of vscode just to add a LLM code completion assistant.

Yeah.. it is very similar to salty.im a smp is a relay queue for messages. You can self host one if you choose. They also have something called xftp for data storage and device state transfer. You can also self host one.

Is anyone here on simplex? https://sour.is/simplex

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One thing that we keep saying about #ChatControl is that you can create backdoor, but you can’t control how and by whom will they be used.

It is not just theoretical: “U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China” -
https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b

Solution found for viewing TLS 1.3 sites in Win95, more details gopher://shibboleths.org/1/browsers98

Depois de ir acompanhando a novela WordPress, sinto-me numa minoria por concordar com os motivos e métodos do Matt Mullenweg para lidar com o wp engine, mas não tenho gás para me meter em flame wars sobre o assunto

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A #PCGuia deste mês já estâ nas bancas.
Este mês, as páginas da @ansol@ansol contam com um artigo da @paulasimoes sobre o @zettlr@zettlr, e um texto meu sobre o financiamento do @EC_NGI@ec.social-network.europa.eu .

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TWO HOURS wasted today trying to figure out why an image wasn’t loading on some web page and what I was doing wrong… when the issue is the friggin’ DSL router is injecting headers into http (non-https) pages. GAH! I’m ready to throw the thing. I’ve never been so mad at CPE. 🤬

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Nemám vztah k akademické instituci v Česku, ale toto podporuji http://www.criticalacademy.cz/prohlaseni-iniciativy-za-kritickou-akademii/

Reading about browser security measures and getting sad we don’t live in a world where cross-site scripting is a feature instead of a bug.

Same! Great joke!

i like this one

feeling nice today, sup gophersupe?

testing 123…

What gossip gopherspace?

So there is nothing one can do for scanned pages in a pdf file as a image?
Bother, seems like typing it out is my only option….thanks for your help.

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@bender@twtxt.net Yes. I think as a fancy autocomplete “tool” it’s not too shabby. Beyond that I’m not convinced it saves you time at all.

Wow! 😮 He seems to be digging himself into a hole there right? 🤣

Over the past few days I’ve been playing around with the latest Chat-GPT, I think the model is called o1-preview. I’ve used it for various tasks from writing documentation, specs, shell scripts, to code (in Go).

The result? Well I can certainly say the model(s) are much better than they used to be, but maybe that isn’t so much the models per se, but the sheer processing power at OpenAI’s data centers? 🤔

But here’s the kicker though… If anyone ever for a moment ever think that these “AI” things are intelligent, or that the marketing and hype is ever remotely close to trying to convince of us this “AGI” (Artificial General Intelligence) or ASI (Artificial Super Intelligence), you are sorely mistaken.

Chat-GPT and basically and any other technology based on Generative-AI (Gen-AI), these pre-trained transformers that use adversarial neural networks and insanely multi-dimensional vector databases to model all sorts of things from human language, programming languages all the way to visual and audible art are (wait for it):

Incredibly stupid! 🤦‍♂️

They are effectively quite useless for anything but:

• Reproducing patterns (albieit badly)
  
• Search and Retrieval (in a way that “seems” to be natural)
  

And that’s about it.

Used as a tool, they’re kind of okay, but I wouldn’t use Chat-GPT or CoPilot. I’d stick with something more like Codeium if you want a bit of a fancier “auto complete”. Otherwise, just forget about the whole thing honestly. It doesn’t even really save you time.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de i’m sorry if I sound too contrarian. I’m not a fan of using an obscure hash as well. The problem is that of future and backward compatibility. If we change to sha256 or another we don’t just need to support sha256. But need to now support both sha256 AND blake2b. Or we devide the community. Users of some clients will still use the old algorithm and get left behind.

Really we should all think hard about how changes will break things and if those breakages are acceptable.

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Hmm that is worth trying. It is the same base Firefox I guess 🤔

@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club Wouldn’t it be possible to use it with your older FF profile? smt like this ?

Maybe i should sleep more? Noticed about mistake in my follow entry for prologic. Already fixed

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Ooof 😢

It’s all about the r gage meant ya see 😅

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Yep seems alright! Really fast too. I’m still using my main Firefox in general cos.. well it’s set up so much and it’s hardened, profile running in RAM, all that crazy stuff that got it working the way I want 😂

But keeping a good eye on Zen Browser’s progress.

#frasesbacanas é o tema desta #musiquinta… e eu podia escolher (quase?) qualquer música de Marilyn Manson - o homem é perito em jogos de palavras e múltiplos significados, e letras com humor ou profundidade. Mas visto que foi só na semana passada que saiu o seu último single, “Sacrilegious”, é essa a música que escolho, destacando a frase:

“You can’t kill it until it’s born”

https://youtu.be/2q_pSTNX5ro

I share I did write up an algorithm for it at some point I think it is lost in a git comment someplace. I’ll put together a pseudo/go code this week.

Super simple:

Making a reply:

1. If yarn has one use that. (Maybe do collision check?)
   
2. Make hash of twt raw no truncation.
   
3. Check local cache for shortest without collision
   
   • in SQL: select len(subject) where head_full_hash like subject || '%'
     

Threading:

1. Get full hash of head twt
   
2. Search for twts
   
   • in SQL: head_full_hash like subject || '%' and created_on > head_timestamp
     

The assumption being replies will be for the most recent head. If replying to an older one it will use a longer hash.

(Updated) Quartz64 Zero: A Low-Cost SBC Featuring Rockchip RK3566T with 64-bit Arm and 32-bit RISC-V CPUs
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(Updated) Pine64 Unveils Oz64: An Upcoming SBC Featuring Sophgo SG2000 SoC and Wi-Fi 6
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PINE64 Unveils StarPro64 RISC-V SBC with EIC7700X SoC
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This Zen-Browser is actually not bad! 🤯

• Based on Firefox instead of Chromium.
  
• Got tiling pans when you need them… (just like a tiling window manager).
  
• I can hide the Tabs and Nav-Bar with a single short-cut!! AKA Compact Mode …

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Pretend I’m Leonardo.

/ME slow claps…

Lol, this is actually a good thing by Apple. Doesn’t kill social apps at all, just prevents some harvesting of your entire address book by abusive apps like WhatsApp.

@bender@twtxt.net Nope not at all. base64 just encodes more bits

Build what makes you happy. Let miserable people build the rest

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org I think the proposal should be as simple as this:

• Update the Twt Hash extension.
  
• Increase its truncation from 7 to 12
  

@xuu@txt.sour.is is right about quite a few things, and I’d love it if he wrote up the dynamic hash size proposal, but I’m inclined to just increase the length in the first place mostly because my own client yarnd doesn’t even store the full hashes in the first place 🤦‍♂️ (I thinnk)