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TruthSocial, Fediblock, pol adjacent 

As you may have seen in the news today, Trump's media team has set up their own social network "Truth Social".

What they aren't admitting is it's actually just a Mastodon instance with all the Mastodon branding removed, including all of the messages acknowledging that it is FOSS, as required by the software's free open source licence. This is breaking the terms of the licence, and is essentially stealing the software from the volunteer community which made it.

This kind of behaviour cannot be accepted by anyone who believes in FOSS. Keeping to the requirements of a FOSS licence is fundamental to building software together. If powerful people get away with stealing FOSS, people may be reluctant to build FOSS in the first place.

Hopefully someone will take legal action, but in the meantime we can block these instances in case they try to federate:

truthsocial.com
tmediatech.io

#Fediverse #Fediblock #TruthSocial #Trump #MastoAdmin #Mastodon

@zleap

It’s kinda intended as a competitor to services like Google Translate.

And - to roughly paraphrase one German user on Reddit - “At least when it comes to translations between German and English their results can be used for more than just posting screenshots of them as meme pics on Reddit.”

But be careful: The free version adds something amongst the lines of “Translated with DeepL.com” below your (longer?) texts.

Make sure to always delete that beforehand.

According to the daily mail the new trump social media site was hacked and fake profiles created

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1

if this is based on Mastodon, is this an older version or are there some genuine security concerns here that can affect other instances.

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We're proud that we got 🥇 place again!

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Duniter team is back on ActivityPub thanks to mamot.fr Mastodon instance.
We are switching to english langage for reasons that will be explained later on. Stay tuned!!

@wattdefalk @wattdefalk @zleap @stux there have been trillions of dollars invested in graphene oxide and medical and security and all manner of 'future think' applications, but a great number of people dont want to live in a robocop world and are quietly hoping it all goes away..

yes everyone has strengths and weaknesses. :)

I will get a great amount of pleasure if I see the mastodon project sue trump, make a bunch of money, get him to shut down his server, and then use that money to improve the network/project.
QT: freeradical.zone/@kamenrunner/

KamenRunner  
I have to say, it's pretty great how: A) The Fediverse is quick to block Trump's fork and instance of Mastodon that violates the AGPL3 licensing B)...

IOP Publishing (IOPP) has joined the Initiative for Open Abstracts
<i4oa.org> (I4OA), a collaboration between publishers, infrastructure
organisations, librarians, and researchers to promote the open availability of
abstracts.

IOPP will deposit abstracts of their scholarly communications with Crossref
<crossref.org>, the not-for-profit Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
registration agency bringing together abstracts in a common format in one
searchable cross-disciplinary database.

By joining the initiative, IOPP will make all of its abstracts part of the
fundamental metadata of the article so that they will be openly available and
accessible to the scientific community for unrestricted machine reading. This
expanded availability of article abstracts will boost the discoverability of
scholarly research and increase their impact.

Daniel Keirs, IOPP’s Head of Journal Strategy and Performance, says: “We are
excited to be joining the I4OA initiative as it supports our goal of increasing
access to research in the disciplines we represent. We believe that I4OA will
help to enhance the impact, recognition and value of our researchers’ scholarly
publications through the unlimited, centralised discoverability the initiative
enables.”

Ludo Waltman, Coordinator of I4OA, says: “We are pleased to have IOPP join our
initiative. Having IOPP join a growing number of academic publishers shows their
continued commitment to open science to expand the world of physics. As one of
the largest publishers supporting I4OA, it’s great to have IOPP on board and we
hope that many other publishers will follow their lead”

Find out more on the I4OA website <i4oa.org/>.

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@freemo My other project is a Potentiometer board

I made this as pushing potentiometers in to breadboards can make the holes too big, however with the headers I can attach leads from a multi meter (you can get some that can clip on to headers) which is handy, this one has 1k 10k and soon 5k,

Orange Light Emitting Diodes have now arrived. I can now complete my module that helps to determine Planck's Constant. However before i fire up my soldering iron for this, I am waiting for some 5k potentiometers which I need to complete my little potentiometer board. So may as well solder everything up at the same time.

Hubble Snapshot of 'Molten Ring' Galaxy Prompts New Research via #NASA
#PotD #APOD #Space

Also just let them know my feelings on Twitter.
@eff @info_activism may want to get in touch with them to educate them on privacy. Before they brainwash more people in to using facecrap, google and others.

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