Shamar @Shamar@qoto.org

Dear Fedi friends,

I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance...) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.

I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).

The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause

I am also incredibly thankful for the work of @samaaberg and @patel.riyen who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.

And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly

Lastly, I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum - thank you @j12t and @anca

The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you @yunohost) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.

I hope you'll enjoy it! It's been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)... I see it as my love letter to the fediverse

#TheFutureIsFederated

Domani andrò a votare per i #referendum.

Voterò perché lo considero ancora un dovere civico: la nostra #Costituzione, sin dal primo articolo, attribuisce la sovranità al popolo "che la esercita..."

Voterò perché lo considero un dovere morale, nei confronti di tutti i giovani che godranno di diritti che finora gli sono stati preclusi.

Voterò per dare un messaggio chiaro al #Governo.

Voterò nell'interesse mio e delle mie figlie, che fra qualche anno entreranno nel mondo del lavoro.

Voterò perché è mio diritto, e chi non esercita un diritto accetta sempre la possibilità che in futuro gli sia definitivamente sottratto.

Spero davvero, cari amici del #fediverse, che andrete a #votare anche voi.

¡Acreditad siempre a los autores! #UnaTiraCadaDia

@LegalizeBrain
Mon meme préféré :

The Swedish Administrative Court of Appeals has upheld a €5 million fine against Spotify.

The decision is the result of a noyb complaint from 2019.

IMY's update here: https://www.imy.se/tillsyner/spotify-ratten-till-tillgang/

noyb press release for the original decision: https://noyb.eu/en/spotify-fined-eu-5-million-gdpr-violation

Taking a selfie.

I'm still tinkering with the website for my PL experiment. I want the styling to express "labour of love hobby project".

Choosing what program to show on the home page is really hard too. All the keywords are links like Racket.

What do you think? https://www.garden-lang.org/

Ho reso disponibile il preprint di un mio articolo su Governi privati e intelligenza artificiale:
@brideshead
@giacomo
@pirati

https://zenodo.org/records/15522002

@raccoonforfriendicaapp version 0.4.1 has been finally released! I was waiting to fix a couple of old issues but I realized I was keeping people waiting too much since almost 2 months had passed since the previous stable version.

If you were on the latest beta, the only new feature is the possibility to see in every timeline the "source platform" each post is coming from (Friendica, Mastodon, Lemmy, Misskey/Sharkey, Pleroma/Akkoma, Kbin/Mbin, WordPress, GNU Social, Pixelfed, Peertube, GoToSocial, Diaspora, generic ActivityPub and more are coming).

If you were using 0.4.0 there are a ton of improvements, the most important of which are:

feat: add per-user rate limits;
feat: suggest hashtags while typing;
feat: swipe navigation between posts;
feat: exclude stop words from timelines;
feat: add shortcuts to other instances ("guest mode");
feat: open post detail as thread;
feat: post translation;
feat: followed hashtag indication;
feat: show source protocol for posts;
enhancement: support for embedded images.

This version is also available in the production track on Google Play, so you don't have to participate in the beta program any more to get it.

Let me know what you think about it, enjoy your weekend and as always #livefasteattrash

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #raccoonforfriendica #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #foss #procyonproject

Good morning Fedi friends!

Today I'm feeling excitement over the fediverse intro video we're making... and fear about the feedback it will generate. SO. MUCH. PRESSURE!

The #Fediverse has become my happy online place. With this video project I'm putting myself out there so much (with my face, my voice) advocating for it. I'm stepping out of my comfort zone daily... but I know it's for a great cause.

Please be kind once the video is out... it'll be the result of tens of hours of work

Hi @quinta@mastodon.uno, @informapirata@mastodon.uno and @DataKnightmare@mastodon.xyz and did you read the great news from @johnnyryan@eupolicy.social?

Belgian Court of Appeal ruled that the TCF is illegal.

Targetted Ads based on personal data is illegal in Europe since yesterday.

Now the question is: how can we rapidly spread the news where most European newspapers rely on these illegal revenues?

Do we need #MonitoraPA again?

https://eupolicy.social/users/johnnyryan/statuses/114507699970159707

Ok, I looked through the list, most of them are brief comments or reposts of the Bricklin one, which looks interesting and insightful, but I have only skimmed it yet.

They are not the one I'm looking for. Neither is codefol.io/posts/the-hundred-y… , but it's a good read. It's a comment on Paul Graham's 100-year-language post, which I find less interesting than this comment on it.

In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess.

So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world.

I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfying to say "told you so". I moved away from GitHub long ago and I moved all my stuff to Codeberg instead. And so happy I did!

Next step: radicle.xyz maybe?

https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/159123

#github #microsoft #openai #codeberg #ai #ml #llm #enshittification #foss #floss #opensource #radicle

I now own a Kobo Clara BW. Here's the first thing you need to know: pick a language, connect to wifi, it will update itself. After that it will ask you to 'connect the device' which requires a Kobo account.

Instead of doing that, plug it into a computer, and when it pops up a little window, click 'Connect.'

On the computer go to the .kobo/Kobo directory on the device, and edit the file Kobo eReader.conf. In the [ApplicationPreferences] section, add a line like

SideLoadedMode=true

and save and exit the editor. Unmount the device from your computer, and hold the Clara BW's power button until the white LED flashes. Then press the power button again.

When it boots back up, you don't need to register or connect shit. Dump books on it and rock on.

I'm posting this because every single internet thing which talks about this leaves out two important facts:

1) If you edit that file before updating, or before you get to the QR code screen, it won't take.

2) Most of the online people access this mode by signing out of an existing account rather than activating it during first-run setup.

Cloudflare asks browser devs to sign insane NDAs before fixing browser blocking

Link: https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=32127
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43376064

I was trying to find the source of the “Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s top executive, was paid $2.4m in 2018” in
https://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html
and finally found it in the Form 990 declaration.

In the 2023, according to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2024/
it’s… $6.2m
#mozilla #firefox

(edit: it was $6.9m in 2022, better I guess?)

#Mozilla Has Likely Been Sharing Aggregated #Firefox Data With Advertisers Since 2017, When it Enabled Telemetry by Default

https://www.quippd.com/writing/2025/03/12/mozilla-has-been-sharing-aggregated-firefox-data-with-advertisers-since-2017-when-it-enabled-telemetry-by-default.html

#privacy #FOSS

#Mozilla crying on behalf of its boss (#Google) is ridiculous. And sad.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/internet-policy/proposed-remedies-browsers/

What a #shame!