Notices by Tim Chambers (tchambers@indieweb.social)

Will be watching the Canadian election closely. Elbows up! Wishing them the best in pushing back against their own pro-Trump authoritarian candidate.
#Canada

https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2025-canada-election-results/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

This take from @manton seems wise:

"Bluesky is not federated like Mastodon, but the open architecture that Bluesky was designed around is valuable. It is distributed sort of like the web is distributed even though Google exists and dominates search....
We need to move beyond a Mastodon vs. Bluesky mindset. As I’ve blogged several times, they are solving slightly different problems. We can draw inspiration from each one to make the web more open. I want both to exist."

https://www.manton.org/2025/04/25/bluesky-downtime.html

I see we're back to eggs being down 87% today (an increase from Easter Sunday when they were down 94%).
Anyway, here's my favorite hedge fund joke:

Q: What do you call a stock that's down 90%?

A: A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half

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Aside, I'm not sure what bothers me most:

1. The laughable lie
2. His misuse of "NICE!"
3. That I have been conditioned to believe that this is a misuse of NICE!

[It's definitely 3. The triumph of the most juvenile humor is heartbreaking]

@james @js Jumped over to @Vivaldi myself, having lost hope in Firefox after being an avid user since their 1.0 version.

ActivityPub 5.8.0 for WordPress is out now! 🎉

This update includes two things I’ve been especially excited about: new email templates and user-specific notification settings.

Emails now have way more information—mentions and direct messages embed the full post, and the refreshed design looks more modern and polished. New follower emails come with a profile card to help you get a sense of who’s engaging with your content.

#WordPress #ActivityPub

👉 Full changelog: https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/#developers

@haubles Indieweb.social would welcome you!

@reflex @Vivaldi So didn't that show them continuing to work around things to keep their ad blocker functional regardless of Chromium?

"I made some architectural choices early on that I believe should keep it functional, regardless of the Manifest V3 changes. Of course, there is always a possibility that the underlying Chromium architecture will change now or in the future, forcing us to do some extra work to keep this working."

@Gargron @cubicgarden seems to be focused solely on the AT-protocol.

Trump on April 2: "The egg prices came down 50% ..., the egg prices, they were going through the sky. Now ... they're much cheaper, down about 59% now, and they're going down further."

Trump on April 19: "Egg prices are down 87%, but nobody talks about that. If anything prices are getting too low"

Trump today: "As you know, the cost of eggs has come down 93, 94% since we took office"

By next week, Albertson's will be paying me $2/dozen to take the eggs off their hands

@reflex @Vivaldi Are you referring to this, or something else? https://vivaldi.com/blog/manifest-v3-webrequest-and-ad-blockers/

@reflex @Vivaldi As I understand it: Although closed source for the wrapper (some other parts are open) Vivaldi specifically blocks all the adtech gook that Google ads to Chrome, while keeping the core Webkit rendering engine. Thus immune to Chrome browsers choices like this.

If I were @Vivaldi I would JUMP on this...and highlight how they are immune from it.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/114383979279587079

It was our honor to host the Fediverse House at SXSW 2025. It didn’t matter whether you were in the ActivityPub or AT Proto camp. We were all Team Fediverse, uniting to “move fast and break kings” in the name of building a better internet.

https://flipboard.video/w/1vjJdhLukXZgm4rks8RwMK

#Fediverse #FediverseHouse #ActivityPub #ATProto #Flipboard #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #SXSW #MoveFastBreakKings #TeamFediverse

The #fediverse would be a far less interesting place without @Flipboard and their work for the open social web. Look at the pie chart at this dashboard….

https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/graphs.html

And it is done 🎉
(although still not that pretty 🙈):

Here is the always up-to-date sheet with more than 1000 official accounts by media organizations that you can follow from #Mastodon & everywhere else in the #Fediverse.

➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

There is a powerful custom search (top left) and a button to download an CSV with the handles of all visible accounts, that you can import. There's also the language, the country of origin and a direct link.

#SocialMedia #News #Threads #BridgyFed

#Google holds illegal monopolies in #ad #tech, US judge finds, allowing US to seek breakup

#Alphabet's Google illegally dominated 2 markets for online #advertising #technology, a judge ruled on Thurs, dealing another blow to the tech giant & paving the way for US #antitrust prosecutors to seek a breakup of its advertising products.

#law #monopoly
https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-judge-finds-google-holds-illegal-online-ad-tech-monopolies-2025-04-17/

#Mastodon has had a nice little uptick in sign-ups and activity from #Taiwan after a facebook post recommending it as an alternative to facebook and Instagram for Taiwanese users went viral on facebook, bringing in about 20K new users over the span of two days to mastodon.social, g0v.social, m.cmx.im and a few more.

@samsethi @chris @dave it is!

NASA has not yet issued a press release on this new paper on planet K2-18b.

However, it issued this statement to science reporter Joel Achenbach of The Washington Post -

"..detection of a single potential biosignature would not constitute discovery of life. We would likely need multiple converging lines of evidence to confirm true biosignatures and rule out false positives, possibly including independent data from multiple mission"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025/04/16/alien-life-exoplanet-webb-telescope/
https://bsky.app/profile/joelachenbach.bsky.social/post/3lmxw7la6v22p
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@thekenyeung @the-ai-economy-thekenyeung I can imagine them doing it just for the training data.