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In-reply-to » Hi! I'll be microblogging from ciberlandia.pt from now on. What does that mean? If you want to follow me via mastodon you can, at @marado , if you want to follow me via twtxt you can keep following me via at https://tilde.pt/~marado/twtxt.txt . See you on the "other side"!

I think twtxt.net’s interface has gone wild at me
 my mastodon account will be (at)marado(at)ciberlandia.pt .

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Exactly 10 years ago Kokori’s first release on vinyl was out - and we celebrated with a release party in one of the afternoons of the Entremuralhas festival.
Ten years later, we’re back attending the festival, and this time we see one of the stands selling our latest release, rootkit, on CD! ♡

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I hate reading translations. Here’s an example why: the same passage of the English and the Portuguese translation of the same (French) book. Not just the length of the passage shows one of the translations wasn’t faithful, the behavior of the character in one version is the opposite than how he behaves on the other version


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The only feature that leads me to use Gmail (and which I use extensively) is ‘Snooze’. For a few days now, it has not been working properly. Lost about what will I use to replace my workflows, but it also seems that Gmail is about to get one less user.

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I bet there is someone who wrote a paper, a book or something about the impact of the death of MySpace on music projects. I’m saying this more or less hoping that someone will one day point me to one, I’d love to read it. What I know is that lately I have been revisiting my record collection and confirming that there is an enormous amount of recording artists and projects that started with the MySpace phenomenon, and ended with MySpace’s death.

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O Presidente da RepĂșblica disse mesmo que termos este evento CatĂłlico a decorrer no nosso paĂ­s laico Ă© o maior acontecimento da democracia Portuguesa? Que vergonha.

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In-reply-to » Renault has a remote locking "feature" on the batteries of their electric cars. They used it in Portugal, and that was considered illegal.

my translation:

«The judge considered that, despite Renault Portugal having claimed the company and brand has no means to block the vehicles, it was proved that “there is a computer platform that was activated, in a way not disclosed, and through which was operated first the blocking and then the unblocking of the batteries”.»

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In-reply-to » Renault has a remote locking "feature" on the batteries of their electric cars. They used it in Portugal, and that was considered illegal.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I don’t really know. Here’s a concerning quote:

«A juĂ­za considerou que, apesar de a Renault Portugal ter garantido que a empresa e a marca nĂŁo tinham meios para bloquear as viaturas, se fez prova de que “hĂĄ uma plataforma informĂĄtica que foi accionada, de forma que as requeridas nĂŁo concretizaram, e atravĂ©s da qual foi operado primeiro o bloqueio e depois o desbloqueio das baterias”.»

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In-reply-to » @jmjl Hmmmmmmm, I’m not sure. đŸ€” Other than what @prologic said, I think this could be one of those features that open the gates for spam. You don’t really have control anymore over which people you follow, so anyone could come along, push twts to that registry and thus spam your timeline. (Hence jenny would also need a mute feature.)

and if so, can we implement migration first?

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In-reply-to » @jmjl Hmmmmmmm, I’m not sure. đŸ€” Other than what @prologic said, I think this could be one of those features that open the gates for spam. You don’t really have control anymore over which people you follow, so anyone could come along, push twts to that registry and thus spam your timeline. (Hence jenny would also need a mute feature.)

@prologic@twtxt.net you’re planning to stop AP support before doing the bridge?

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In-reply-to » The hottest 21 days ever recorded on Earth were the last 21 days.

This. 2025 is the “limit date” (some say by, others before) for emissions peak, in order to keep warming to 1.5C. What are we doing? Globally, it seems that we are not even trying to make it peak, whenever.

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In-reply-to » "Web Environment Integrity" is Google's fancy name for closing the web in a DRM scheme. The internet found out, started questioning in github issues ans pull requests... and now the repository is worth reading with a popcorn bucket on your lap.

@prologic@twtxt.net “websites” that only work on “trusted browsers”, the vilest sort of proposal one can do, breaking the web.

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“Web Environment Integrity” is Google’s fancy name for closing the web in a DRM scheme. The internet found out, started questioning in github issues ans pull requests
 and now the repository is worth reading with a popcorn bucket on your lap.

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It has been a long time coming (ten years since book 11!), but 2023 saw the release of book 12 of “Piracy Is Liberation”. With it, I also ordered CBA’s vol. 58, entitled “Modern Glossalia or The Erosion Of Meaning”, which focuses (or at lease includes) a reflection of the growth of the extreme right, and their uses of language.

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In-reply-to » Google Says It'll Scrape Everything You Post Online for AI

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci To be fair, it was already codified there. What is more interesting (to me) is how they’re using a privacy policy (binding their users) in an attempt to get implicit licensing over materials out of the scope of those services, both from their users and others (or of authors unknown). Not that it matters much, I bet they’d argue such license is unneeded, but the fact that they decided to have that wording there makes me curious about the legal basis of such clause. Yes, I know Goggle had an extensive and capable legal team, but I’d still love seeing a legal analysis of the applicability of that under various jurisdictions.

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Em 31 de Maio, a ampliação da Mina do Barroso obteve por parte da AgĂȘncia Portuguesa do Ambiente, uma Declaração de Impacto Ambiental favorĂĄvel, ainda que condicionada ao cumprimento de um conjunto de condiçÔes. As populaçÔes consideraram isto uma declaração de guerra e reagiram de imediato, prometendo a continuação e o endurecimento da luta.

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Pedro Nuno Santos a dizer que em qualquer empresa do mundo se comunica de diversar formas, incluindo via whatsapp. A AP estå mesmo a precisar daqueles formaçÔes chapa 5 sobre segurança e privacidade de dados. Não, não é normal (ou aceitåvel) o uso de whatsapp (ou qq outra ferramenta não formalmente escolhida para o efeito de comunicação interna) para coisas destas.

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I wrote here a few days ago about kokori’s “rootkit” (now also available on CD) but it all started on this day 13 years ago, with the release of our “init()” EP, seen in this picture:

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JĂĄ anda por aĂ­, enquadrado no festival literĂĄrio “Lamego, Cidade Poema”. É o livro “Era Uma Vez - Lamego 2023”, e tem o seu lançamento oficial no Ășltimo momento do festival, domingo Ă s 16h.

Participo nele com um texto de não-ficção para o leitor curioso geek: não haverão muitos, mas då-me prazer saber que a história geek Lamecense vai estar nas prateleiras de uma qualquer biblioteca.

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In-reply-to » FBI Abused Spy Law 280,000 Times In a Year The FBI misused surveillance powers granted by Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) over 278,000 times between 2020 and early 2021 to conduct warrantless searches on George Floyd protesters, January 6 Capitol rioters, and donors to a congressional campaign, according to a newly unclassified court opinion. The Register reports: On Friday, the US Foreign Intelligenc ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net interesting reading for those who consider CJEU’s stance on metadata retention inconvenient.

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O que se tira da novela do dia, óbvio mas que ninguém estå a apontar: 1) não se usam equipamentos de dados para manter dados privados; 2) usar whatsapp para coisas profissionais, estatais e/ou governamentais é profundamente errado, deve ser criticado e não pode ser normalizado.

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In-reply-to » I'm wondering, has somebody ever tried to use these activity pixel matrices for some kind of art and create an image or text? It might become @thecanine's longest endeavor for a new grayscale dog so far. ;-)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org There was someone doing an ‘art thing’ with their github contributions graphic a couple of years ago
 but I can’t recall who was it to point it out, sorry :-P

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“There is no ternary testing operation in Go”, “the language’s designers had seen the operation used too often to create impenetrably complex expressions”.

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In-reply-to » Started with Media a concept sketch of a full body end-time factory worker on a distant planet, cyberpunk light brown suite, (badass), looking up at the viewer, 2d, line drawing, (pencil sketch:0.3), (caricature:0.2), watercolor city sketch, Negative prompt: EasyNegativ, bad-hands-5, 3d, photo, naked, sexy, disproportionate, ugly Steps: 20, Sampler: Euler a, CFG scale: 7, Seed: 2479087078, Face restoration: GFPGAN, Size: 512x768, Model hash: 2ee2a2bf90, Model: mimic_v10, Denoising strength: 0.7, Hires upscale: 1.5, Hires upscaler: Latent

@carsten@yarn.zn80.net here’s the same prompt on craiyon.com, no retries:

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Tomorrow is “Record Store Day”, a date that I have been feeling as yearly losing its purpose, now focused on the US and UK markets, markets, with a focus on commercialism. Today I read FLUR’s newsletter - a Portuguese record store that this year decided not to celebrate RSD, with an extraordinarily well articulated text on what is wrong with RSD (and the ‘vinyl indistry’) lately. A shame the text isn’t published somewhere.

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In-reply-to » Did you know that "Heartbeat biometric identification is considered to be very accurate and at a similar level to fingerprints or retina recognition"? Food for thought.

@prologic@twtxt.net it is collected, we just don’t know exactly what, how, where, what for or how long. A slightly tangential but good read about fitbit’s data collection here.

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In-reply-to » Did you know that "Heartbeat biometric identification is considered to be very accurate and at a similar level to fingerprints or retina recognition"? Food for thought.

@prologic@twtxt.net yeah, or any fitbit
 measuring the heartrate is easy and cheap, and depending on the accuracy level it can be as cheap as
 well, PPG, and any phone with a camera and flashlight can do it. But only yesterday I connected the dots on my mind regarding the sort (and potential uses) of the data being collected as soon as someone tries out a new band or watch.

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Did you know that “Heartbeat biometric identification is considered to be very accurate and at a similar level to fingerprints or retina recognition”? Food for thought.

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The old kindle story of digital burning of Fahrenheit 451 had already shown the perils of using e-book platforms, but the recent IA lawsuit has highlighted a graver danger: with one click, in an instant and without anyone knowing, a vendor can (and does) “update” a book. It is not that new issues of Agatha Christie’s books will be sold “moderized” it is that suddenly you cannot go to your library and find an old/original version. Chilling.

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In-reply-to » 👋 Q: How do we feel about forking the Twtxt spec into what we love and use today in Yarn.social in yarnd, tt, jenny, twtr and other clients? đŸ€” Thinking about (and talking with @xuu on IRC) about the possibility of rewriting a completely new spec (no extensions). Proposed name yarn.txt or "Yarn". Compatibility would remain with Twtxt in the sense that we wouldn't break anything per se, but we'd divorce ourselves from Twtxt and be free to improve based on the needs of the community and not the ideals of those that don't use, contribute in the first place or fixate on nostalgia (which doesn't really help anyone).

I am against the original idea of forking twtxt.txt into yarn.txt unless I see any technical reason or feature that would justify breaking compatibility - so far I don’t see one. But I agree in principle with @darch@neotxt.dk that maybe we can add something on the metadata of the feeds enumerating the extensions we use or
 I don’t know, something that will allow any twtxt user to know how to deal with any ‘yarnisms’ in the content of our twts (even if the only one that comes to my mind as needing explanation is the thread hashes - how to interpret them).

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In-reply-to » Given the continued hostility of jam6 and buckket over Yarn'a use of Twtxt (even after several years! đŸ˜±) I am continuing to face hard decisions.

@darch@twtxt.net case in point, I used to twtxt images before using yarn or markdown tp do it - and markdown isn’t making twts like this any less readible.

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In-reply-to » Given the continued hostility of jam6 and buckket over Yarn'a use of Twtxt (even after several years! đŸ˜±) I am continuing to face hard decisions.

@prologic@twtxt.net I’d actually not replace it with newlines but with a space or something like that, so there’s nothing breaking (twtxt output parsers or whatever, expecting only one line per twt).

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In-reply-to » Given the continued hostility of jam6 and buckket over Yarn'a use of Twtxt (even after several years! đŸ˜±) I am continuing to face hard decisions.

@prologic@twtxt.net What I take out from this log is that buckets client is truncating twts when seeing one of those characters you use for newline: a PR fixing that should suffice. As for the rest, I see twtxt as meant to be a readable format, and I think yarn is not messing with that. Is someone doesn’t like yarn’s writing style (or anything else on any other feed) they can simply not follow them. I see no reason at all for yarn to change its underlying format away from twtxt.

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In-reply-to » 💡 Quick 'n Dirty prototype Yarn.social protocol/spec:

@prologic@twtxt.net I probably would not use an yarn.social client/app that didn’t deal with twtxt (text) feeds - both “follow” them and “publish” them. But I suppose that it is possible to have a bidirectional converter between that json format and twtxt.

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