Notices by Stefan Bohacek (stefan@stefanbohacek.online)

Estimated 150,000 people have marched during this year's London Trans+ Pride event. ✊

"Alex Palumbo, a registered mental health nurse who attended the march, said it was "important to be proud of who we are and, in fact, by being proud, we allow other people to discover and express themselves in authentic ways"."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgv1v084j0o

#news #pride #TransPride #LondonTransPride

For context, for anyone who missed the news: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/21/france-ban-social-media-access-under-15s

Trying to find more information on how the under-15 social media ban in France impacts Mastodon/fediverse servers, and while I can't see anything too concrete on that, I did come across this 2024 The Guardian article:

"The report said a 15-year-old should be able to access only what it called “ethical” social media, such as Mastodon."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/30/stop-children-using-smartphones-until-they-are-13-say-french-experts-in-report

#news #SocialMedia #SocialMediaBan #EthicalSocialMedia #fediverse #mastodon

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@voyagers/116960305220028575

The Voyager 1 interstellar probe, part of NASA's Voyager program launched in 1977, will reach one light-day distance from Earth
on November 18, 2026.

Follow along with @voyagers.

https://science.nasa.gov/mission/voyager/where-are-voyager-1-and-voyager-2-now/

#voyager #space #science #nasa

I have recently created two tools for promoting your favorite fediverse communities. (And you can even use them together!)

The first one lets you create a customizable invitation page with your favorite apps and starter packs (collections will be supported soon!): https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-invitation/

And also the Join the Fediverse zine, with the last page allowing you to link to your custom invitation.

https://jointhefediverse.net/zine

Hope you will all find these useful!

#fediverse #community #zine #FediverseZine #JoinTheFediverse #JoinTheFediverseZine #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins

RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116563099730866203

Just a reminder that if you're an admin or a moderator, it should be your responsibility to step in when someone is harassing a member of your community and claiming to be enforcing rules that don't apply to them.

#fediverse #FediAdmins #MastoAdmins #moderators

Asterism.

https://fediverse.stefanbohacek.com/08

#fediverse #typography #asterism #FediverseSymbol

"Thirty-three states have banded together to sue Meta, alleging that the company was exploiting its young users on Instagram and Facebook for profit, including by collecting data from children without parental consent."

The damages could be as high as $1.4 trillion, nearly the same as Meta's market capitalization at just above $1.5 trillion.

https://gizmodo.com/metas-teen-safety-case-just-became-a-1-4-trillion-existential-threat-2000782306

Via https://flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/technology-shjum1jiz/-/a-CHwwNHlfS-GTffJivjlDbA%3Aa%3A43591897-%2F0

#news #technology #TechNews #meta #facebook #instagram #SocialMedia

@evan I think this tongue-in-cheek response might not read too well, and that's on me.

Yes, I am more than fine with more people joining. The more the merrier.

Mainly responding here to people who, not sure if intentionally, sound like gatekeepers wanting to keep this place, well, mostly white.

I generally agree with the sentiment that the fediverse is "big enough" and that it doesn't need to "grow", in terms of how many people are here.

That is, if we can grow the diversity of our community and at the same time kick out the gatekeepers.

https://www.techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/

#fediverse #diversity #gatekeeping

Ah, I was just reminded that it was on this day in 2013 when Google Reader was shut down.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Reader

Looking back, this feels like the moment when my relationship with (corporate) technology started to shift. What was it for you all? Am I forgetting an earlier event?

#GoogleReader #RSS #technology #OTD #OnThisDay

My fediverse invitation page creator now supports Collections!

https://invite.jointhefediverse.net/?server=mastodon.social&collections=116784146949292427,116777306758391615,116772911150547635,116688621551680623

Give it a try: https://stefanbohacek.com/project/fediverse-invitation/#link-builder

#fediverse #FediverseInvitation

If you're in NYC next month, this might be a fun event to attend.

https://www.thehighline.org/events/special-stargazing-session-with-nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-team/

A special edition of the Stargazing on the High Line series featuring experts from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team.

Tuesday, July 7, 7-9:30pm, and it's free to attend.

#NYC #HighLine #astronomy #stargazing #space #NASA

@AestheticFemboy Ha, thank you!

Holy crap.

"Nearly a million passports and photo IDs from multiple countries were exposed across unprotected public URLs, accessible to anyone with a link. The documents remained discoverable this way for months, according to reporting by The Verge, before being taken offline."

https://cambridgeanalytica.org/data-breaches-scandals/passports-driver-licenses-exposed-public-internet-2026-51096/

Original article: https://www.theverge.com/tech/947157/passports-data-breach-cannabis-club-systems-nefos-puffpal

Via an extensive series of links starting at https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/116828220896988835

#news #technology #TechNews #AgeVerification #security #leak

Trying to see where things are with FEP-ef61: Portable Objects. Anyone working on this?

https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/fep/ef61/

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-ef61-portable-objects/3738

#fediverse #FEP #PortableObjects #FEPEF61

Heads-up to anyone who might be using Google's reverse image search feature. You might want to adjust your settings.

"Every piece of media, from photos you upload for reverse image searches to audio of you speaking with Google Translate, may be retained in your account and used to improve Google’s AI models."

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-opt-out-of-google-search-new-ai-data-training/

#news #TechNews #technology #google #AI #LLMs #enshittification

@botvolution This one?

https://github.com/techaroHQ/anubis

Interesting, will give this a look. Thank you!

So we still don't know who's behind this, do we?

(Paywalled) https://www.wired.com/story/made-in-china-niche-websites-are-seeing-a-surge-of-mysterious-traffic-from-china/

It looks like whoever is behind this has finally come for one of my sites. Manually blocking datacenter IPs has worked for a while, but it seems like the traffic is now coming either from residential IPs, or the IPs are just getting spoofed.

Real conundrum. I didn't want to have to set up Cloudflare for the site, and I have to wonder how good they are at catching this anyway, but it might just come to that.

Anyone else has been dealing with this?

#indieweb #PersonalWebsite #devops #bots #spam #AICrawlers