Notices by James Smith 💾 (floppy@mastodon.me.uk)

@silverpill ooh, yes, I remember seeing this! It’s for @manyfold, so yeah.

While we’re in the area, do you know of any fedi system that does secure sharing between actors on different servers? Say someone bought a model from one Manyfold server, could access be granted to their federated identity somehow? Does anyone do that?

Is there an open standard out there for payment provider integration? Like OAuth for stripe/paypal/etc

Makes me so happy that publishing my 3D models now pops up automatically in my timeline (and reassures me that it's all still working): https://mastodon.me.uk/@floppy@manyfold.floppy.org.uk/114553900058375911

Thought about trying to convince someone on the Internet that they're wrong, then remembered I don't need to and just moved on with my life. How pleasant.

@evan you've made me want to count them all now...

Becoming fairly convinced that the continual development of new AV codecs is a planned obsolescence racket.

This is a very very good point. Coding in most languages is free (hardware notwithstanding), and with open source we truly own the means of production. The push for AI and vibe coding is straight up enclosure.

https://aus.social/@jimbob/114406766000950223

@dansup very nice! Does the software metadata still come from https://github.com/fedidb/communityDB? I was going to update the @manyfold entry...

Decided to dump my AI-generated avatar picture (from the early days before AI slop was obviously ruining *everything*) and gone back to the cartoon, drawn by a human hand in some sketchnotes for a talk I did years ago. I wish I could remember who drew it :(

@dajb add a move to PR for Westminster elections onto that, and that's a future I can get behind :)

@scribe came across a thing called TubeSync yesterday which looks like it might do the job

@scribe interesting idea... I should look into whether something can manage that and automatically into Plex for me.

I quite like this adblocker popup on YouTube, it might help get me off YouTube finally.

Seriously, YouTube, thank you so much for this, it's saving me from loads of distractions.

Just managed to fight back against my worst instincts and NOT push a @manyfold release on a Friday afternoon. Friday morning I might have done, but the kids will be home in 10 minutes, so it feels like a bad idea 😄

>We will not be discouraged in our fight against far-right ideologies. They are currently on the rise in many parts of the world, and we believe it is important to protect all kinds of marginalized groups. However, if you believe this does not affect your project, you are wrong. Far-right forces pose a threat to all of us.

Damn right @Codeberg ✊

https://blog.codeberg.org/we-stay-strong-against-hate-and-hatred.html

So so lovely to meet lots of the #SocialWeb/#ActivityPub dev community in person at #FOSDEM. As @andypiper said, building the #Fediverse is a team effort and if we work together, we absolutely can do this. And we *must*. ❤️

I'm off to #FOSDEM2025 at the end of this week to join the #SocialWeb devroom, and talk about @manyfold on Saturday afternoon!

Looking forward to talking to folks about #ActivityPub federation, #3dPrinting, #WebGL... pretty much anything TBH! And looking forward to a trip on the Eurostar, too 🚅

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4181-manyfold-federating-3d-models/

AI grift stocks collapsing simply because someone did the thing more cheaply just goes to show how much of a house of cards it was. Nothing but a hype balloon, and as soon as someone punctures it, the entire industry is flying round the room making farting noises.

@malcircuit I hate when people make that argument. OK, fine, maybe humanity has been through worse before, but it *was not a nice process* for those involved. Because we've survived before doesn't make it a good idea.