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@Shamar@qoto.org @enriconardelli@mastodon.uno @_elena@mastodon.social
Questa conversazione, partita da un problema di traduzione, mostra che il multilinguismo aiuta ad approfondire le questioni che altrimenti verrebbero viste unilateralmente [English version below].
Nell'agricoltura biologica c'è:
una parte artificiale: l'intervento umano (anche con il solfato di rameli>
una parte "biologica": la vegetazione delle piante
Nell'"organic web", come nel web conviviale, gli esseri umani, creature viventi, fanno la parte delle piante. Big Tech fa la parte dell'agricoltore interventista. Il "fediverso", riducendo al minimo la centralizzazione e la guida algoritmica, lascia fare alla natura, cioè a noi esseri umani in carne e ossa.
Essere paragonati a piante non deve offenderci: nel linguaggio della filosofia medioevale e protomoderna, "natura" (contrapposta a grazia) indicava ciò che gli esseri umani riescono a fare da sé, solo con la loro ragione. Qui al posto della grazia di Dio c'è la finta gratuità di Big Tech che si propone come Mammona: quindi a fortiori ci conviene tentare di essere "naturali" per conto nostro, nel senso dei giusnaturalisti.
Per riassumere: l'agricoltura biologica è un'agricoltura "meno interventista" che lascia più spazio alla vegetazione (per esempio non rende i contadini dipendenti da semi OGM che devono ricomprare ogni anno). L'"organic web" analogamente forma reti sociali più distribuite e amministrazioni meno "interventiste" lasciando più spazio alla nostra specifica "vegetazione".
This conversation started with a translation problem: but multilingualism added a lot a different perspectives that, perhaps, would never have been posed in a monolingual approach.
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🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.14 👩🚀
“A new way to describe the Fediverse and its opposition to Big Tech”
https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-new-way-to-describe-the-fediverse-and-its-opposition-to-big-tech/
I think I may have finally found a way to explain the Fediverse and make it appealing to people not familiar with it - a very Italian, highly accessible way to frame it, via an analogy that anyone could understand.
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #BigFood #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #NeilPostman #healthylifestyle
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Folks, please do delete your X accounts, by all means, but I’d be very surprised if that meant that your data is deleted or that Elon Musk won’t be using it to train his AI, etc.
I put in a data deletion request after deactivating my account in 2022 and set the Irish DPC on them when they didn’t. After several back and forths, with the Irish DPC being less than worthless, I gave up. Afaict, there is zero enforcement of GDPR Article 17.
CC @noybeu
What is the correct way to configure .htaccess to send all requests to a unix domain socket?
Ivtried variour enchantement with mod_proxy and mod_rewrite without success.
.htaccess only because I want it to work on shared hostings.
Also, what about NON php fcgi?
I couldn't even get it working with mod_proxy_cgi (again, .htaccess only). The receiving server is up and running, listening at the destination UDS.
Am I missing something obvious?
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Che una sede di pubblicazione sia scientifica per l'#ANVUR solo se si organizza in fascicoli, e che dunque Open Research Europe non lo sia può sembrare una bizzarria burocratica, ma non lo è.
La #valutazione di stato, essendo #bibliometrica, ha bisogno che tutta la discussione scientifica sia marchiata e ingabbiata in riviste, e per questo motivo deve scoraggiare i ricercatori dal tentare strade alternative, perfino quando sono promosse dalla commissione europea.
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Negli elenchi aggiornati delle riviste dichiarate scientifiche dall’ANVUR continua a mancare Open Research Europe (ORE), infrastruttura di revisione paritaria aperta offerta dalla Commissione dell’Unione Europea agli autori i cui lavori di ricerca sono esito di finanziamenti europei. Visti i precedenti, questa assenza non sorprende. Ed era anche già chiaro che la recente “Disposizione […]
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I attended the EDPB event on #PayorOkay models and left deeply concerned. The discussion lacked acknowledgment of data protection as a fundamental right and ignored clear GDPR principles making the model unlawful. Instead, it conflated ads with core services, sidelining fairness and rights. Surveillance ads harm individuals and society, yet their ‘value’ is overstated. We must reclaim the debate: data protection is key to human dignity and a rights-respecting digital future.
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Bluesky and the Fedi: It's VC vs. DIY and you can't underestimate that distinction in your comparisons
Bluesky received $35 Million in a year.
"The Fediverse" as a whole, may have managed to acquire a grand total of $500k in investment from individuals and nonprofits over the past eight years.
Mastodon itself has like 3 paid devs. None of them are getting rich.
Things just are not going to move at the same speed or at the same scale--and they literally can't, because the money isn't there.
It's the difference between VC-funded and volunteer-funded and any discussion or comparison to platforms needs to fully internalize that this difference does matter.
It's like wondering why the local bakery can't compete with, I dunno, BreadMax, the franchised international bread consortium with a store on every corner.
This isn't to say there aren't cultural differences, but ultimately it just feels like a much different conversation.
New person joins Bluesky and no one really talks about the infrastructure because you can't just "host your own," not really. Hosting your data isn't the same as hosting the "means of posting and discoverability itself." Moderation isn't outsourced in the same way as it is to every individual server admin here.
Also, a person joining Bluesky can be like, "WTF devs?" and devs who are literally working fulltime, every single day, with no side projects or silly distractions like "needing to support themselves with a job to live" to take away their focus from building the thing, will build the thing.
And "the thing" will materialize, as if by magic. Wow, when you fund a development team and dedicate them to a task and when the millions fall from the fucking skies, it's amazing what you can do!
Isn't it, though? If you put money behind a dev or design team, suddenly stuff starts happening.
The problem comes in trying to look over here at Johnny's little Snac activity pub server and mocking it and going, "Damn, Snac, get it together. Bluesky has quote posts already. And where's your reply control?"
And the Snac dev/devs (I am just picking one project at random) look up and go, "Uhhhh, I don't actually WORK for you. Evidenced by the fact that you aren't paying me a goddamned thing to work on this, so I'll get to your concerns eventually, but watch your fucking tone or make your own or just fuck off, I don't care."
And people will go, "Damn, this place is rude."
Well.... YOU are kinda rude too, you know? I even do this to some degree and it's not okay.
Like when I complain about Mastodon, I'm basically demoralizing a (largely unpaid) team who is drastically underfunded for the scale of projects against which they are competing.
We just don't have millions of dollars to fuel development. Lots of times, it's people building the shit for free. So I get that you're mad that we're not farther along, and that stuff moves slowly, and whatever, but it's hardly a surprise that a team with access to millions of dollars is moving more quickly than a space with development funded largely--although not entirely--by people working for free.
And, I dunno, when you come into the house of people working for free to build a thing and you yell at them about the thing, it hits a lot differently than when you're yelling at a company with millions of dollars in the bank and the resources to do the stuff you want at the speed of the market.
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I'm glad to announce the release of version 2.63 of #snac, the simple, minimalistic #ActivityPub instance server written in C. It includes the following changes:
The server can now act as a proxy for all image, audio or video media coming from other account's posts (both from the Web UI and the Mastodon API). This way, other servers will see media requests coming from the server IP, not the user's, improving privacy. This is controlled by setting the
The
Fixed a crash when posting from the links browser.
Fixed some repeated images from Lemmy posts.
Fixed a crash when posting an image from the tooot mobile app.
Updated FreeBSD rc script: the server process is now managed by the daemon(8) utility (contributed by @stefano@bsd.cafe).
RSS feeds are now in 2.0 version instead of 0.91.
https://comam.es/what-is-snac
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/donate
#snacAnnounces
This release has been inspired by the song New Moon (Dark Phase) by #DuranDuran.
The server can now act as a proxy for all image, audio or video media coming from other account's posts (both from the Web UI and the Mastodon API). This way, other servers will see media requests coming from the server IP, not the user's, improving privacy. This is controlled by setting the
proxy_media boolean field to server.json to true.The
strict_public_timelines option introduced in the previous release now works correctly.Fixed a crash when posting from the links browser.
Fixed some repeated images from Lemmy posts.
Fixed a crash when posting an image from the tooot mobile app.
Updated FreeBSD rc script: the server process is now managed by the daemon(8) utility (contributed by @stefano@bsd.cafe).
RSS feeds are now in 2.0 version instead of 0.91.
https://comam.es/what-is-snac
If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/donate
#snacAnnounces
This release has been inspired by the song New Moon (Dark Phase) by #DuranDuran.
Shamar
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@knowprose @sj Thanks for sharing this, it's good to know there's a sizable community that is unhappy with how OSAID got rolled out.
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@sj @jaredwhite Through LinkedIn, I got invited to this discussion area regarding the topic... So I'm passing it along.
I haven't had enough contiguous time yet to chime in, but I will.
*Dusts off penguins and Gnus*
Let's suppose you have to teach C to 7yo kids.
Where do you start from?
How do you setup their playground?
(please, don't question the goal in this thread... let's focus on solutions)
As I look openssl compiling, I wonder if we should surrender to C, and just find a way to teack kids how to program in C.
If you avoid malloc, it's not even such a terrible language...
Or I'm just too old and corrupted?
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Schneier joins the criticism of "Open Source" AI:
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More people in the Open Source community ought to read this: https://archive.is/paD1W
h/t @Shamar (via LWN)
tl;dr: OSI’s behaviour is even worse than we thought
(And apparently Fakebook was one of the driving forces behind this… and still there are idiots on Fedi who want to connect with them. Bah!)
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