U.S. gets poor grade for maternal, infant health care outcomes
Marina E. Franco,    -  Axios | March of Dimes

Stephan: Yet another miserable report about the inferiority of America’s illness profit system. While the two parties in Congress whine and rant about each other no one other than Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren seems to give a damn about the grim healthcare social outcome data that failed, yet so expensive, system produces year after year.

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**(#b35uuyq) @bender@bender This ☝️ Especially:

It would be much more constructive to have skilled experts define what a safe social med …**
@bender This ☝️ Especially:

It would be much more constructive to have skilled experts define what a safe social media environment for kids looks like, and implement that environment instead. ⌘ Read more

Gen Z spends record six hours a day online
Matthew Field,  Senior Technology Reporter  -  The Telegraph

_Stephan: This is why the weaponization of lies has become such a powerful factor in the shaping of culture in the developed democracies, particularly in the United States. As local media dies, and major corporate media is taken over by billionaires who also own the major social media platforms the survival of democracy becomes ever more problematic, and the power of the oligarch … ⌘ Read more

A social media ban for under-16s passes the Australian Senate and will soon be a world-first law
ROD MCGUIRK,  Reporter  -  Associated Press

_Stephan: The Australians seem to have learned what American politicians have not, or will not. The weaponization of misinformation has distorted the thinking of every generation, but particularly the young. It distorted our election in the United States, and is a destructive force in a dem … ⌘ Read more

Btw about social: found very interesting thing about twitter:

The legal basis that X asserts in the filing is not terribly interesting. But what is interesting is that X has decided to involve itself at all, and it highlights that you do not own your followers or your account or anything at all on corporate social media, and it also highlights the fact that Elon Musk’s X is primarily a political project he is using to boost, or stifle, specific viewpoints and help his friends. In the filing, X’s lawyers essentially say—like many other software companies, and, increasingly, device manufacturers as well—that the company’s terms of service grant X’s users a “license” to use the platform but that, ultimately, X owns all accounts on the social network and can do anything that it wants with them.

(#b35uuyq) > Given the incredible damage social media has done to democracy and our mental health, I’d like to see it banned for anyone under 20 …

Given the incredible damage social media has done to democracy and our mental health, I’d like to see it banned for anyone under 200 years old.

And this is just funny but effective 🤣 ⌘ Read more

Forcing social media to open their algorithms: hostile to corporations
Forcing young people to not use social media: hostile to young people, helps prevent them from organizing
You think they did this for the benefit of the young people?

Also this ☝️

(#b35uuyq) > Forcing social media to open their algorithms: hostile to corporations
Forcing young people to not use social media: hostile to you …

Forcing social media to open their algorithms: hostile to corporations

Forcing young people to not use social media: hostile to young people, helps prevent them from organizing

You think they did this for the benefit of the young people?

Also this ☝️ ⌘ Read more

(#b35uuyq) > As drinkypoo pointed out above, it’s all about the algorithms. If social media wasn’t driven by advertising and engagement - if it …

As drinkypoo pointed out above, it’s all about the algorithms. If social media wasn’t driven by advertising and engagement - if it was implemented as societal infrastructure for the well-being of all citizens and the financial profit of nobody - then it would be a great good in society. As it exists currently, it’s a Trojan horse whose belly is full of contagious cancer

This ☝️ ⌘ Read more

Australia To Ban Under-16s From Social Media After Passing Landmark Law
Australia will ban children under 16 from using social media after its senate approved what will become a world-first law. From a report: Children will be blocked from using platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook, a move the Australian government argue is necessary to protect their mental health and wellbeing.
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Go ahead, ban kids from social media, but please outlaw these grown-ups too
Curtail under-16s, by all means, but let’s not forget the adult Insta-imbeciles, LinkedIn humble braggarts, Twitter twits and the rest. ⌘ Read more

“A minimalist social network powered by plain text files” - my talk about #twtxt from #Piksel24 Festival is now on YouTube and slides can be found at http://darch.dk/twtxtalk-piksel

Why Mass Deportations Would Cripple California’s Economy
Mark Kreidler,    -  The American Prospect

_Stephan: When you combine Trump’s tariffs and his deportation schemes, what you get is that you and I are, by Robert Reich’s estimate, going to face about $6,000 in additional annual expenses. It is going to particularly impact Trump working and middle-class voters in Red states. And that doesn’t even address the massive social disruption that will arise from ripping im … ⌘ Read more

I’m gonna upload my part of the video to youtube and the slides to my website within a day or two. Then you can add it to yarn.social etc.

Please sign this and share 🙏
Please sign this and share 🙏 https://www.change.org/p/oppose-australia-s-proposed-social-media-ban-for-under-16s ⌘ Read more

You can now reset your Instagram algorithm, but things may get a little boring
Amid rampant debate on social media, the move is a welcome step of giving users more control over their feeds. ⌘ Read more

Clinicians React to Trump’s Appointees; Beyonce in the OR? Diagnosing Shiny Legs
Gillian Booth and Katie Smith,  Social Media Editor | Social Media Assistant  -  MedPage Today

_Stephan: It is clear from reading the social posts of physicians and nurses that they are seriously alarmed by what the Trump administration and the MAGAt Republicans in Congress have in mind for health care. I have selected this story because it offers links you can click … ⌘ Read more

(#tmvyd5a) @bender@bender I’d like a copy too! It’d be great actually if I could upt it up on one of ours community sites like maybe yarn.soc …
@bender I’d like a copy too! It’d be great actually if I could upt it up on one of ours community sites like maybe yarn.social itself? ⌘ Read more

Starting the call: https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social

Come join us!

**Starting the call:

Come join us!**
Starting the call: https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social

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@bender@twtxt.net The tagline of Timeline is “a single user twtxt/yarn pod” not just a yarn pod. Similar to GNU/Linux. When we came up with the concept of Yarn Social it was a way to rebrand twtxt with the extensions that makes conversations like this possible.

[ANN] [CCS] Monero FCMP Video Draft

Please see ours and xenu’s video here about FCMP. We think it’s ready to get shared but looking forward to everyone’s feedback before we officially share it in the Social media channels.

Links:

• https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=1ZYMTbjoDaM
  
• MO report
  

@v​ostoemisio:matrix.org ⌘ Read more

Anti-Musk: The social media site picking up a lot of X refugees in Australia
Bluesky is Australia’s top-ranked social media app in both Apple and Google’s app stores, firming as the social media website of choice for those quitting X. ⌘ Read more

👋 Reminder folks of the upcoming Yarn.social monthly online meetup:

• Event: Yarn.social Online Meetup
  
• When: 23rd November 2024 at 12:00PM UTC (midday)
  
• Where: Mills Meet : Yarn.social
  

#Yarn.social #Meetup

**👋 Reminder folks of the upcoming Yarn.social monthly online meetup:

• Event: Yarn.social Online Meetup
  

• When: 23rd November 2024 at …**
  👋 Reminder folks of the upcoming Yarn.social monthly online meetup:

• Event: Yarn.social Online Meetup

• When: 23rd November 2024 at 12:00PM UTC (midday)

• Where: Mills Meet : Yarn.social

#Yarn.social #Meetup ⌘ Read more

The Australia Labor government, Albanese and the honourable Michelle Rowland federal member for parliament and communications minster are fuckin …
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 a … ⌘ Read more

(#6fvrnqq) @slashdot Uh huh sure 😉 Bluesky, the “decentralized” social media platform that won’t steal and profit from your data huh?! 🤦�� …
@slashdot @feeds.twtxt.net Uh huh sure 😉 Bluesky, the “decentralized” social media platform that won’t steal and profit from your data huh?! 🤦‍♂️ ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net I recommend its Wikipedia entry is edited then, if you are completely certain.

“Bluesky is a decentralized microblogging social media service primarily operated by Bluesky Social, PBC.”

That I know of, you can run the PDS, and pretty much everything else.

[ANN] The MAGIC Monero Fund got an application: ‘Build a plugin for embedding dApps into Wordpress websites’
Link: https://github.com/MAGICGrants/Monero-Fund/issues/38

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@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.

Quando o gov corta na ciência, não é porque não sabe o seu valor.
Quando o gov corta na educação, não é porque não sabe gerir a sociedade.
Quando o gov corta nos programas sociais, não é porque não reconhece o seu papel social.

É agenda: este gov de direita, tal como qualquer outro, tem como base programática o desmantelamento do estado social e da coisa pública. E nisso tem sido extremamente eficaz e competente.

Uma esquerda que denuncia a suposta incompetência ou burrice das pessoas no poder dá-lhes o crédito de estarem empenhados numa sociedade melhor pra todes, e que ao falhar nisso é uma questão de incompetência.

E quando essa denúncia é feita através de comentários sarcásticos e apontamentos de “hipocrisia”, servindo mais para afirmar superioridade intelectual do que realmente denunciar e avançar alternativas, é uma trágica forma de clicktivismo que continua extremamente em voga – e a direita agradece.

tl;dr: tratar as medidas opressivas/autoritárias/securitárias de qualquer direita como fruto de burrice ou incompetência não é só um erro, é alimentar e até legitimar o seu discurso

(#rp2j7xa) @aelaraji For context @wbknl@wbknl reach out to my on #Yarn.social on IRC to ask for an account on my pod 😅 Glad folks pay att …
@aelaraji @aelaraji.com For context @wbknl reach out to my on #Yarn.social on IRC to ask for an account on my pod 😅 Glad folks pay attention to the Join messaging 🥳 ⌘ Read more

Apple to Donate Towards Relief Efforts in Spain Following Flash Floods
In a social media post today, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company will be making a donation of an undisclosed amount towards relief efforts in Valencia, Spain, following deadly flash floods in the region.

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“We’re thinking of all those impacted by the devastating flash floods in the re … ⌘ Read more

(#b6juizq) @cuaxolotl what problem does building a social graph solve?
@cuaxolotl @sunshinegardens.org what problem does building a social graph solve? ⌘ Read more

@codebuzz@www.codebuzz.nl I have some shell scripts that handle some of the log formatting details, but I mostly write my mesages by hand. Lately I’ve been browsing twtxt.net since they aggregate most of the known network. I have a couple of demo aggregators sitting around, but I’m in the middle of some infra rebuilds so a lot of my services are offline rn. They’re both built on a simple social graph analysis that extracts urls for your direct follows the follows listed on each of those feeds (friend-of-a-friend replication). certain formatting operations are awkward with my setup, so I may write an app of some kind in the future. likely gemini-based, but I have a number of projects ahead of that one in the queue.

[ANN] [Bounty] Create a Telegram notification bot for Haveno offers

Create an open-source Telegram bot that notifies users of new Haveno offers that meet user-defined criteria, such as currency, payment method, and price.

Link: https://bounties.monero.social/posts/161/

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@bender@twtxt.net I try to avoid editing. I guess I would write 5/4, 6/4, etc, and hopefully my audience would be sympathetic to my failing.

Anyway, I don’t think my eccentric decision to number my twts in the style of other social media platforms is the only context where someone might write ¼ not meaning a quarter. E.g. January 4, to Americans.

I’m happy to keep overthinking this for as long as you are :-P

[LTH] [0.15 XMR] Convert isometric token image from Wordpress to Monero icon

A new privacy focused hosting platform which only accepts Monero as a currency needs a conversion of this isometric logo of Wordpress, to be exactly the same however, using Monero color scheme and icon: https://file.io/clebBxqHX9UV

Link: https://bounties.monero.social/posts/160/

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**The call is on! Come join us!

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The call is on! Come join us!

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[LFF] [$255] My 3 months of server hosting is open for donations

Server costs for MoneroResearch.info, bchmempool.cash, Rucknium.me, fusionstats.redteam.cash, and Monero public RPC node at http://rucknium.me:18081

Link: https://rucknium.me/donate/

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‘It’s OK to poo at work’: Is this Queensland’s most-loved social media page?
Forget the dry, boring posts you might expect from a government unit. This social media team has taken “light-hearted” to a new level with their eyebrow-raising content. ⌘ Read more

‘It’s OK to poo at work’: Is this Queensland’s most-loved social media page?
Forget the dry, boring posts you might expect from a government unit. This social media team has taken “light-hearted” to a new level with their eyebrow-raising content. ⌘ Read more

Is this Queensland’s most-loved social media page?
Forget the dry, boring posts you might expect from a government unit. This social media team has taken “light-hearted” to a new level with their eyebrow-raising content. ⌘ Read more

Is this Queensland’s most-loved social media page?
Forget the dry, boring posts you might expect from a government unit. This social media team has taken “light-hearted” to a new level with their eyebrow-raising content. ⌘ Read more

GitHub for Nonprofits: Drive social impact one commit at a time
Now, it’s easier than ever for nonprofits to receive GitHub product discounts.

The post GitHub for Nonprofits: Drive social impact one commit at a time appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

GoPro is now a camera for movies and social, not just action
With smart swappable lenses, automated settings, magnetic latches and new modes, the Hero 13 Black is suited for more than extreme sports. ⌘ Read more

One book created panic about social media. But what if it’s bunkum?
Labor will push age-limit legislation for social media through despite the fact scientists and experts have said it won’t work. ⌘ Read more

[ANN] The MAGIC Monero Fund received a new grant application: ‘Monerotopia Buildathon 2024’

Deverick is asking for 4,000 USD to host a hackathon/buildathon to improve Monero integration in the BTCPay self-hosted merchant payment system, especially with BTCPay 2.0 coming up. Community feedback on this idea is appreciated :D

Link: https://github.com/MAGICGrants/Monero-Fund/issues/37

@r​ucknium:monero.social ⌘ Read more

[LFF] Monero meetup group in Barcelona (Spain)

Hello I am running the Monero meetup group in Barcelona (Spain) and looking for support to organize a in-person event before end of the year. The idea is to spread the word in the city about XMR what it is and why privacy is important. I am aiming for a more social networking environment to gather privacy enthusiasts but open to sugestions. I would like to ask here if you guys could help with some funds to rent a space if needed.

Link: [https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/monero-meetup-barcel … ⌘ Read more

Alleged M4 MacBook Pro Unboxing Video Reveals These Four Upgrades
An alleged unboxing video for an unannounced 14-inch MacBook Pro with the M4 chip was uploaded to YouTube today by Russian channel Wylsacom. The video was later linked to on social media platform X by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.

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It is p … ⌘ Read more

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.

Did Apple Just Kill Social Apps?
Apple’s iOS 18 update has introduced changes to contact sharing that could significantly impact social app developers. The new feature allows users to selectively share contacts with apps, rather than granting access to their entire address book. While Apple touts this as a privacy enhancement, developers warn it may hinder the growth of new social platforms. Nikita Bier, a start-up founder, called it “the en … ⌘ Read more

👋 Thanks for joining us on our Sept monthly Yarn.social meetup today y’all 🙇‍♂️ We had @david@collantes.us @sorenpeter@darch.dk @doesnm@doesnm.p.psf.lt @falsifian@www.falsifian.org and @xuu@txt.sour.is 💪 Nice turn out! (not all at once of course, as we normally run this over 4 hours as we span many time zones!)

Things we talked about:

• Decentralised vs. Distributed
  
• Use of SHA256 for Twt Hash(es)
  
• We solved Edits! 🥳
  
• UUID(s) probably won’t work! (susceptible to sppofing)
  
• Helped @sorenpeter@darch.dk write some PHP to process/parse User-Agent and service his feed via a custom PHP script 😅
  
• @falsifian@www.falsifian.org introduced himself 👌
  
• Talked about Merkle Trees 🌳
  

Did I miss anything? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net

See https://dev.twtxt.net

Yes, that is exactly what I meant. I like that collection and “twtxt v2” feels like a departure.

Maybe there’s an advantage to grouping it into one spec, but IMO that shouldn’t be done at the same time as introducing new untested ideas.

See https://yarn.social (especially this section: https://yarn.social/#self-host) – It really doesn’t get much simpler than this 🤣

Again, I like this existing simplicity. (I would even argue you don’t need the metadata.)

That page says “For the best experience your client should also support some of the Twtxt Extensions…” but it is clear you don’t need to. I would like it to stay that way, and publishing a big long spec and calling it “twtxt v2” feels like a departure from that. (I think the content of the document is valuable; I’m just carping about how it’s being presented.)

Official yarn.social tool: git.mills.io/yarnsocial/useragent

Cela ne peut pas être ce que vous pensez que cela pourrait être. Impossible.
Pendant que les Français sont occupés par le petit théâtre gouvernemental et les gesticulations ministérielles grotesques destinées à camoufler l’effondrement économique et social du pays dans la violence et la misère, la situation sanitaire mondiale continue son inquiétante trajectoire. Cette trajectoire n’est pas nouvelle. C’est même une tendance de fond que quelques précédents a … ⌘ Read more

👋 Reminder folks of the upcoming Yarn.social monthly online meetup:

I hope to see @david@collantes.us @movq@www.uninformativ.de @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @xuu@txt.sour.is @sorenpeter@darch.dk and hopefully others too @aelaraji@aelaraji.com @falsifian@www.falsifian.org and anyone else that sees this! 🙏 We’re hopefully going to primarily discuss the future of Twtxt and the last few weeks of discussions 🤣

• Event: Yarn.social Online Meetup
  
• When: 28th September 2024 at 12:00pm UTC (midday)
  
• Where: Mills Meet : Yarn.social
  
• Cadence: 4th Saturday of every Month
  

Agenda:

• Let’s talk about the upcoming changes to the Twtxt spec(s)
  
  • See #xgghhnq
    

#Yarn.social #Meetup

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I cases of these kind of “abuse” of social trust. Then I think people should just delete their replies, unfollow the troll and leave them to shouting in the void. This is a inter-social issue, not a technical issue. Anything can be spoofed. We are not building a banking app, we are just having conversation and if trust are broken then communication breaks down. These edge-cases are all very hypothetical and not something I think we need to solve with technology.

The 10 best tools to green your software
Looking for ways to code in a more sustainable way? We’ve got you covered with our top list of tools to help lower your carbon footprint.

The post The 10 best tools to green your software appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Software as a public good
Open source software underpins all sectors of the economy, public services and even international organizations like the United Nations. How can all its beneficiaries work together to make the open source ecosystem more sustainable?

The post Software as a public good appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

‘Parents already have the tools’: Snapchat boss pushes back on social media ban
Tech billionaire Evan Spiegel is the first global CEO to weigh in and says parents – not tech companies – should carry most of the responsibility for their kids’ screen time. ⌘ Read more

If we’re going to ban kids off social, what on earth will they do outside?
Banning access to social media for young people is an honourable idea, but we need to make sure they have other things to do instead. ⌘ Read more

The PM is sigma, but his social media ban belongs in the skibidi toilet
Of course Albanese was right when he declared “parents are worried sick” about social media, but we cannot return to the golden days when it didn’t exist. ⌘ Read more

As a Gen Z wanting to get off social media, I lived for a week using a ‘dumb phone’
As a 19-year-old, I’m sceptical about the government’s proposed social media ban. But a more effective alternative is gaining traction among Gen Zers. ⌘ Read more

On the Subject of Feed Identities; I propose the following:

1. Generate a Private/Public ED25519 key pair
   
2. Use this key pair to sign your Twtxt feed
   
3. Use it as your feed’s identity in place of # url = as # key = ...
   

For example:

$ ssh-keygen -f prologic@twtxt.net
$ ssh-keygen -Y sign -n prologic@twtxt.net -f prologic@twtxt.net twtxt.txt

And your feed would looke like:

# nick        = prologic
# key         = SHA256:23OiSfuPC4zT0lVh1Y+XKh+KjP59brhZfxFHIYZkbZs
# sig         = twtxt.txt.sig
# prev        = j6bmlgq twtxt.txt/1
# avatar      = https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/avatar#gdoicerjkh3nynyxnxawwwkearr4qllkoevtwb3req4hojx5z43q
# description = "Problems are Solved by Method" 🇦🇺👨‍💻👨‍🦯🏹♔ 🏓⚯ 👨‍👩‍👧‍👧🛥 -- James Mills (operator of twtxt.net / creator of Yarn.social 🧶)

2024-06-14T18:22:17Z	(#nef6byq) @<bender https://twtxt.net/user/bender/twtxt.txt>  Hehe thanks! 😅 Still gotta sort out some other bugs, but that's tomorrows job 🤞
...

Twt Hash extension would change of course to use a feed’s ED25519 public key fingerprint.

@prologic@twtxt.net One of your twts begins with (#st3wsda): https://twtxt.net/twt/bot5z4q

Based on the twtxt.net web UI, it seems to be in reply to a twt by @cuaxolotl@sunshinegardens.org which begins “I’ve been sketching out…”.

But jenny thinks the hash of that twt is 6mdqxrq. At least, there’s a very twt in their feed with that hash that has the same text as appears on yarn.social (except with ‘ instead of ’).

Based on this, it appears jenny and yarnd disagree about the hash of the twt, or perhaps the twt was edited (though I can’t see any difference, assuming ’ vs ’ is just a rendering choice).

@prologic@twtxt.net I guess I thought they were search engines. Anyway, the registry API looks like a decent one for searching for tweets. Could/should yarn.social pods implement the same API?

I just manually followed the steps at https://dev.twtxt.net/doc/twthashextension.html and got 6mdqxrq. I wonder what happened. Did @cuaxolo@sunshinegardens.org edit the twt in some subtle way after twtxt.net downloaded it? I couldn’t spot a diff, other than ‘ appearing as ’ on yarn.social, which I assume is a transformation done by twtxt.net.

@prologic@twtxt.net How does yarn.social’s API fix the problem of centralization? I still need to know whose API to use.

Say I see a twt beginning (#hash) and I want to look up the start of the thread. Is the idea that if that twt is hosted by a a yarn.social pod, it is likely to know the thread start, so I should query that particular pod for the hash? But what if no yarn.social pods are involved?

The community seems small enough that a registry server should be able to keep up, and I can have a couple of others as backups. Or I could crawl the list of feeds followed by whoever emitted the twt that prompted my query.

I have successfully used registry servers a little bit, e.g. to find a feed that mentioned a tag I was interested in. Was even thinking of making my own, if I get bored of my too many other projects :-)

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Thanks, it works!

But when I tried it out on a twt from @prologic@twtxt.net, I discovered jenny and yarn.social seem to disagree about the hash of this twt: https://twtxt.net/twt/st3wsda . jenny assigned it a hash of 6mdqxrq but the URL and prologic’s reply suggest yarn.social thinks the hash is st3wsda. (And as a result, jenny –fetch-context didn’t work on prologic’s twt.)

Beats Teases New Powerbeats Pro 2 Coming Next Year
Beats today teased that new Powerbeats Pro 2 are coming next year, but it did not share a specific release date for the wireless headphones.

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MLB superstar Shohei Ohtani can be seen wearing the Powerbeats Pro 2 in a clip shared on social media platforms like Instagram and X. They look similar to the existin … ⌘ Read more

Can this repairable smartphone deliver a perfect social media detox?
The HMD Skyline has a killer pair of special features, which may or may not be as good as they sound. ⌘ Read more

👋 Hello @nigergibe@anthony.buc.ci, welcome to Buccipod, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod’s Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

@prologic@twtxt.net I think it was some mix of phish and social engineering. She didn’t have the multifactor enabled. But i think she had clicked a message that had a fake login. She talked to someone on a phone and they made her do some things.

I never got the whole story of how it happened.

@prologic@twtxt.net I think it was some mix of phish and social engineering. She didn’t have the multifactor enabled. But i think she had clicked a message that had a fake login. She talked to someone on a phone and they made her do some things.

I never got the whole story of how it happened.

Automating open source: How Ersilia distributes AI models to advance global health equity
Discover how the Ersilia Open Source Initiative accelerates drug discovery by using GitHub Actions to disseminate AI/ML models.

The post [Automating open source: How Ersilia distributes AI models to advance global health equity](https://github.blog/open-source/social-impact/automating-open-source-how-ersilia-distributes-ai-models-to-advance-glo … ⌘ Read more

Threads Gaining Support for Analytics, Scheduling Posts, Multiple Drafts and More
Threads, Meta’s social network that’s meant to rival X, today announced several new features that are available or coming soon. For creators, Threads is launching analytics for performance measurement.

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Users can see view numbers, replies, reposts, an … ⌘ Read more

The billionaire-backed ‘people’s bid’ to buy TikTok is gaining steam
A move to buy TikTok’s US arm could radically reshape the controversial social media app and its mysterious algorithms. ⌘ Read more

Kinda cool tool for bringing together all your timeline based data across socials.

https://github.com/timelinize/timelinize

Kinda cool tool for bringing together all your timeline based data across socials.

https://github.com/timelinize/timelinize

@falsifian@www.falsifian.org by the way, on the last Saturday of every month, we generally hold a online video call/social meet up, where we just get together and talk about stuff if, you’re interested in joining us this month.

Thanks @prologic@twtxt.net! I like the way Yarn.social is making all of twtxt stronger, not just Yarn.social pods.

X Training Grok AI On Tweets Without Notifying Users
Social network X (formerly Twitter) recently activated a setting that gives it permission to train Grok AI on user tweets. All X users are opted in by default, with X failing to notify customers about the change.

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The hidden setting gives X permission to use all posts, interactions, inputs, and results for “training and fine-turning” Elon Musk’s Grok AI model.

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Anyway, I’m gonna have to go to bed… We’ll continue this on the weekend. Still trying to hunt down some kind of suspected mult-GB avatar using @stigatle@yarn.stigatle.no ’s pod’s cache:

$ (echo "URL Bytes"; sort -n -k 2 -r < avatars.txt | head) | column -t
URL                                                                                                       Bytes
https://birkbak.neocities.org/avatar.jpg                                                                  667640
https://darch.neocities.org/avatar.png                                                                    652960
http://darch.dk/avatar.png                                                                                603210
https://social.naln1.ca/media/0c4f65a4be32ff3caf54efb60166a8c965cc6ac7c30a0efd1e51c307b087f47b.png        327947
...

But so far nothing much… Still running the search…

Organising the first KCD Hyderabad – my amazing experience
KCD post originally published on Social Maharaj by Atulpriya Sharma Being a food and travel blogger, I often attend a lot of food meet-ups where I get to experience different dishes and meet new people as well. But did… ⌘ Read more

Apple Teases Severance Season 2
Fans of popular Apple TV+ series Severance have been waiting for news about the second season of the show, and it looks like Apple will soon deliver.

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A teaser for the new season was shared on social media today, featuring a dim hallway with a red blinking light. The blinking li … ⌘ Read more

Last week at The Lunduke Journal (June 23 - June 29, 2024)
Microsoft Write! Computers in 1961! Ridiculous Amounts of RAM! Socialism! ⌘ Read more

Open Source is not Socialism (or Communism)
No. Free Software and Open Source Software are not Socialist or Communist in nature. If anything, Open Source is a distinctly Capitalist concept. More from The Lunduke Journal: https://lunduke.com/ ⌘ Read more

Verizon International Roaming Outage Affecting Customers Worldwide
There appears to be an ongoing outage with Verizon international roaming across multiple countries, with Verizon customers complaining about the issue on social networks and Verizon’s Community Forums.

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Customers abroad have been without service since late Wednesday for hours at a time, with s … ⌘ Read more

Sipeed Lichee Book 4A: Affordable RISC-V Laptop with Upgradeable Computer Module
The Sipeed Lichee Book 4A is a cost-effective laptop utilizing RISC-V architecture, designed primarily for developers interested in exploring this platform. It merges standard laptop features with functionalities tailored to RISC-V, offering a practical tool for both software development and general use. According to recent updates on the company’s social media, the Sipeed Lichee Book … ⌘ Read more

Social media age limits would ‘exacerbate the problem’, says expert
A ban on social media for children under 16 is technically unfeasible and would not work, according to one US technology veteran. ⌘ Read more

Apple Teases June 25 Beats Pill Unveiling
Apple appears to be planning to unveil its new Beats Pill speaker on Tuesday, June 25, according to a teaser shared on social media site X (formerly Twitter) today.

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The Beats by Dre account posted a short video starring LeBron James and featuring the Beats Pill speaker, with the text “6/25,” which seemingly hints at the debut date of the device.

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PineTab2: A Linux Tablet Featuring Rockchip RK3566 SoC and DanctNix Arch Linux
The PineTab2 is a Linux tablet based on the Rockchip RK3566 System-on-Chip clocked at 1.8GHz and comes pre-loaded with DanctNix Arch Linux. Recently announced on Pine64’s social media, this device is now available again for interested customers. Powered by the Rockchip RK3566 processor, the PineTab2 integrates four Cortex-A55 64-bit ARM cores running at 1.8 GHz, […] ⌘ Read more

La justice sociale n’existe pas
Disons les choses franchement : la justice sociale, c’est de la foutaise, et en plus, elle est impossible à réaliser. Et pour comprendre qu’elle n’existe pas, il n’y a pas besoin de rentrer dans un long débat de définition même si, c’est vrai, ces notions sont si fluides et mal définies qu’elles s’adaptent fort commodément aux […] ⌘ Read more

Thirteen is too young to be on social media. We have an idea to fix that
At present, there is no minimum age requirement under Australian law to access social media. That needs to change. ⌘ Read more

Leasing social, véhicules électriques et panne étatique
Janvier 2024 : c’est officiel, les Français vont pouvoir échanger leur vieille automobile thermique qui tache contre un baril de voiture électrique qui lave plus blanc ! Le leasing social vient d’être mis en place et va permettre aux heureux citoyens qui répondent aux critères contraignants de l’opération gouvernementale de disposer d’un petit véhicule électrique, choisi dans […] ⌘ Read more

Some AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon Customers Report Issues With Calls
There appears to be an outage with at least one U.S. cellular carrier, with customers unable to place or receive calls. AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon customers have been complaining about the issue on social networks, and there are also reports of outages on the Down Detector website.

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It is not clear which carrier is experiencing problems, as a … ⌘ Read more

X Confirms Plan to Make ‘Likes’ Private, Remove Likes Tab From Profiles
Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) will soon stop showing public “likes” on users’ profile pages, the company has said. The plan was confirmed on Wedndesday by X engineers, after MacRumors contributor Aaron Perris uncovered a flag in X’s iOS app revealing the coming change.

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Perris found that turning off the flag completely removes the “Likes” t … ⌘ Read more

This was interesting: I didn’t expect so much variation in reported times. If you happen to have #plan9 running on some other VPS, I’d love to hear your results. https://pdx.social/@a/112481970480703254

What Has Social Media Done To Our Empathy? #socialmedia href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23mentalhealth”>#mentalhealth** ⌘ Read more