Wow! “… purchasing power … would already be 37% higher than it is now without global heating seen over the past 50 years”
The best is still to come /s
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report
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Wow! “… purchasing power … would already be 37% higher than it is now without global heating seen over the past 50 years”The best is still to come /shttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report -
In light of recent discussions how to make it easier to interact with content on #fediverse servers other than your home instance:In light of recent discussions how to make it easier to interact with content on #fediverse servers other than your home instance:
What MSN does here is interesting. You can “follow” before you sign in (not sure what that means? They implicitly create an “account” just from a session cookie?)
Also, assuming MSN has the money and expertise to really research this, the actual sign-in experience can take a lot of screens and they seem to be okay with that.
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I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users.@pre so how do we arrive at this state of affairs?
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I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users.@reillypascal I'm aware of the protocol. Even beyond the specific protocol, I have never understood why anybody thinks an (all-public, never-can-delete) data store is the right place for social media data. I don't get the all-public about #Bluesky either. (and I'm not understanding what they may or may not support in terms of delete)
But re McCourt, he's not a geek, so he can only act on what geeks tell him, and they told him blockchain
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Apple fail.@Bryan I know, been doing this for a long time. Just today Time Machine went haywire to the tune of 135G and I'm sure it would have kept going. After restarting it, now it happily backs up to the external disk and my local disk continues to have 135G free space.
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I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users.@lunaticatlarge How would you pull it off?
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I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users.I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users.
Anybody else see what he apparently sees?
Billionaire Real Estate Mogul Hopes to Turn TikTok Into His Utopian Internet Dream
Frank McCourt says he wants to buy TikTok to make a "new and better version of the internet."
Gizmodo (gizmodo.com)
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Apple fail.Apple fail.
Today, my Mac's available disk space keeps dropping. I keep deleting stuff and disk space keeps dropping to where applications stop working and I apparently have less than 100M left. I'm panicking a bit because I keep deleting things and it gets worse not better.
Finally, I kill time machine. I haven't deleted any more files and have not done anything since, but now I have 135G free on disk.
What the?
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Anybody know what triggers a profile re-fetch in #mastodon ?@renchap That sounds like a good practice.
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Anybody know what triggers a profile re-fetch in #mastodon ?@mikedev I meant to ask you about your nomadic identity work in the ActivityPub part of universe ... any particular place that I should be following? There is some SSO talk re-emerging in certain quarters and it would be nice to not re-invent the wheel... to me at least
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Anybody know what triggers a profile re-fetch in #mastodon ?@mikedev How to DDOS the Fediverse in two easy steps: create account. delete account.
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Anybody know what triggers a profile re-fetch in #mastodon ?@mikedev Well, the fediverse is largely not acquainted with the idea of (eventual) consistency. A problem IMHO but hard to fix at this point.
Would you know this? When you observe DELETEs on Actors, in your experience, were they all sent from the instance that hosted the actor, or are there cases where other instances send it? Like some instance from where the post was reshared and reached an audience the original server didn't know about.
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Anybody know what triggers a profile re-fetch in #mastodon ?@robb You mean when it receives an UPDATE activity on the Actor object? But the other instance would only do that if there were an actual follower on the local instance, what about if it only got there because somebody was mentioned etc?
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Anybody know what triggers a profile re-fetch in #mastodon ?Anybody know what triggers a profile re-fetch in #mastodon ?
After an instance accessed a remote account for the first time, it fetches name, avatar, number of followers etc. When will it fetch it next to potentially update?
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YouTube just showed me a Google Gemini ad.YouTube just showed me a Google Gemini ad.
I have no idea what they just said. Something something bewildering new era.
What?
Immediate reaction: I’m tempted to short them.
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Ghost has a (pretty funny) update on their #ActivityPub development.@julian It's mostly append-only, easy to cache ...
For FediTest, we have come to the conclusion that simple pass/fail isn't going to cut it. We need a more gradual rating, and the current state is 1) fail -- against the spec and likely go cause interop problems 2) soft fail -- against the spec but probably harmless from an interop perspective 3) degrade -- e.g. everything turns into a Note and 4) pass. Not sure this is an exhaustive list ... your empty outbox would get a pass, I think.
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Ghost has a (pretty funny) update on their #ActivityPub development.@julian I've always thought that what you get via push delivery and what you see in the outbox should be 100% consistent, because then if you don't get a pushed update -- e.g. because of a temporary failure -- you can go back and fetch what you missed. But certainly AP doesn't require or even suggest that behavior.
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Ghost has a (pretty funny) update on their #ActivityPub development.@julian what’s your reasoning there?
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Ghost has a (pretty funny) update on their #ActivityPub development.Ghost has a (pretty funny) update on their #ActivityPub development.
Building ActivityPub: Day 1
Hello and welcome back to a weekly existential crisis about desperately trying to live up to promised potential. Just kidding! This is a newsletter about ActivityPub. Firstly, thanks for all your comments on last week's newsletter — we did not expect to get so many, and it's amazing to hear your
Building ActivityPub (activitypub.ghost.org)
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Fascinating how quickly COVID variants still change. The currently dominant strain basically didn’t even show up on the chart in March.Fascinating how quickly COVID variants still change. The currently dominant strain basically didn’t even show up on the chart in March.
COVID Data Tracker
CDC’s home for COVID-19 data. Visualizations, graphs, and data in one easy-to-use website.
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