Notices by scy (scy@chaos.social)

Heh, Drew is organizing a sit-in to protest against Jack Dorsey (former CEO of Twitter, billionaire, Bitcoin and blockchain enthusiast) holding a keynote at #fosdem2025.

https://drewdevault.com/2025/01/16/2025-01-16-No-Billionares-at-FOSDEM-please.html

But, I mean, they also have a 50 minute ad slot for Mitchell Baker to talk about Mozilla's "ethical AI" shit that nobody wants. 🤷♂️

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5495-what-floss-means-in-the-ai-world/

repost of https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/113764593952462070 with actually useful alt text

repost from https://fed.mthie.com/@mthie/113747356549736377 with added alt text

"Sorry dass ich gestern so nen Mist gepostet habe. Ich hatte Shittake-Pilze genommen."

"Timelinehygiene" lässt sich übrigens auch auf die Melodie von Guantanamera singen.

*mute*
*hide Boosts*

Die Distanz, ab der man nicht mehr denkt "I can't quite tell ob das jetzt ein Bagger ist oder ein Radlader oder so" heißt Baggertellgrenze.

@Beggarmidas @bagder Other scanners are based on facts. They actually run curl's code and observe its behavior, or statically analyze the code, i.e. read it and report patterns that are known to be potential sources of problems.

With "AI" on the other hand, everything is fuzzy, everything is statistical probability. It can't reason, it can't observe, it can't really analyze things because it doesn't know what it's doing. It can only output stuff that sounds plausible, whether it's right or not.

made a typo and wrote "owjob" instead of blowjob

not quite sure what that's supposed to be, but i assume lots of people here will find it intriguing

Ich arbeite mal am Antrag für die Förderung, damit die Schriftart um Kleinbuchstaben, Umlaute, Interpunktion – alles mögliche eben – erweitert wird.

Beim Brototype Fund, wo sonst.

@slothrop Glaube das Problem ist einfach, Wissing hat so übel performt, dass er nirgends einen Aufsichtsratsposten angeboten bekommen hat.

Ich hab noch im Bett liegend in die Nachrichten geschaut. Liege jetzt hier mit dem Gesicht ins Kissen und klinge wie El Risitas.

Wusstet ihr, dass die Tagesschau aktuell einen Testballon "tagesschau together" auf Twitch fährt? Noch diese und nächste Woche Donnerstag von 20 bis ca. 22 Uhr – also quasi jetzt gleich:

https://www.twitch.tv/ard

Ich schau heute zum ersten Mal rein. Bin gespannt, wie das so ist. Mehr Hintergrundinfos gibt's unter:

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/gesellschaft/tagesschau-together-twitch-100.html

Mitmänner, wenn ihr heute mal ein paar Minuten Zeit habt, setzt euch doch mal hin und scrollt ein bisschen durch den Hashtag #FrauenAlltag. Und lest ein paar von den Geschichten dort.

Lesen funktioniert übrigens ganz prima auch ohne Verwendung des Reply-Buttons. 👍

Und ich poste das hier ganz absichtlich mit der Sichtbarkeitseinstellung "quiet public" (früher "unlisted"), weil dieser Post damit nicht unter diesem Hashtag gelistet wird. Lasst die Frauen reden. Ohne dazwischenzuplappern.

So these four things happened:

1. #Bitwarden, who always advertised being open source, introduced a non-free dependency into their client.

2. People start speculating whether this means that Bitwarden will become proprietary. https://github.com/bitwarden/clients/issues/11611

3. After three days of speculation, founder and CTO Kyle Spearrin posts a comment saying that this is just a measure to isolate a part of the code from the GPL.

4. He then closes & locks the issue.

Looks totally not suspicious, yeah. 😬

"Druckst du etwas _in_ Duplex oder _im_ Duplex aus?" – "Doppelseitig."

I haven't given this a lot of thought, but hear me out for a moment:

When people say "the complexity of modern web technologies make it almost impossible to create a new web browser from scratch", what they really mean is "a new web browser that supports everything Chrome does".

I wonder whether that's even necessary. After all, the web _should_ be built with progressive enhancement in mind.

But who am I kidding, right? Most people only test their sites in Chrome these days.

#web #webdev

That being said, I feel like "the web" as in "open standards, and sites are being built with interoperability and semantic content in mind" is basically almost lost anyway. These days, we're building pixel-perfect web "applications".

Back in the days, when CompuServe's and AOL's non-web services were still a thing, I considered their walled-gardenness inferior to the web. But now, Google is building a new, larger wall. The AOLification of the web is almost complete.

There will be basically one software to access the web (Chrome and its derivatives), one entity to de-facto dictate the content (by choosing which standards to implement and which sites to add to blocklists "for safety reasons").

We've been seeing efforts to remove the URL bar for years and years now. How long until we're back at AOL Keywords?

We'll need a grassroots movement to either re-democratize the web (by building interoperable, semantic sites) or move to a new set of protocols & tools.

So, if you care about the _content_, if you care about the web as a _publishing_ platform (and not something providing a streamlined, feature-rich, pixel-perfect "experience"), you should focus on making your site available for as many browsers and users as possible.

I'm not talking about "Chrome & Firefox". I'm talking about Lynx & Ladybird & BeautifulSoup, and if you haven't heard of them, not only read up on them, but actually start _using_ them.

Let's re-diversify interacting with the web.