Notices by Daniel Appelquist (torgo@mastodon.social)

Of Mastodon, Threads and Bluesky, Mastodon/Fediverse is still the best for me. It's where I get better engagement, more thoughtful posts and replies, more authenticity, fewer trolls, more global reach, and better overall UX. I'm intending to be somewhat active on all three platforms, but I'm going to favor the Fediverse for the time being.

Another reason I love the #Fediverse: some of the instance maintainers are actually cuddly sharks. 🦈 https://blahaj.social/@maartje/113502944242929095

If you're reading this, and you have the means, please donate to a cause or organization that supports marginalized communities. I've donated to Trevor Project and Malala Fund in the past week.

For the avoidance of doubt: nothing changes. MAGA is still a hate cult. Climate change is still real. Earth is still round. Vaccines are still effective. Trans and non-binary people are valid. Women are people. Black lives matter. Love is love. No person is illegal. Hold your ground. Double down.

Seems like an apt time for a (re)intro message. I'm Dan. I'm a US/UK dual national living in London. I work for Samsung on open source stuff. I co-chair @tag am a member of @openssf Technical Advisory Council, and a co-founder of @openwebdocs. I care about how technology impacts society. 👋

On my way to Vienna for @openssf SOSS community day! 🪿

At the portrait gallery today, I read about the "anti vaccination movement" that rallied against the smallpox vaccine https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-50713991 and the Warming Pan Plot (the unsubstantiated yet widely believed rumour that James II's son was substituted at birth) https://royalcentral.co.uk/features/history-blogs/royal-history-mystery-the-warming-pan-scandal-140948/. It made me think about how some of the challenges we face with misinformation these days are not so new and not necessarily "caused" by the Internet.

The revolution may not be televised but it will be #Federated.

My talk from Open Source Summit on Wide Review (of standards / specifications) is now live! https://youtu.be/jmRrj48CRE0 This talk goes into some detail on why #WideReview is important, how it works in W3C (and in @tag), and how it contributes to a better future, particularly when including #Ethical and #HumanrRights considerations. #OSSummit #OpenSourceSummit

I really appreciated this talk from @kelseyhightower (who it seems is not posting here anymore, unfortunately, but I hope he returns) at Open Source Summit about the importance of community in open source. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIvSgk0oV7Y

Now hearing a talk from UN office on Human Rights on the relationship between technical standards and human rights - quoting some text from the @tag ethical web principles: "we need to put internationally recognised human rights at the core of the web platform." ❤️ cf https://digitallibrary.un.org/record/4031373

There is now so much AI generated goop on the web that I think the only answer is to wipe it and do a clean install.

@aral I agree with you. However we only have the power to set policy inside the @w3c itself. So this document is about moderating behaviour on mailing lists, in physical meetings and events, in GutHub threads, etc... We can't stop people pursuing unethical business models, but the thinking behind this, and documents like the Ethical Web Principles https://www.w3.org/TR/ethical-web-principles/, is to ensure these business models don't get baked into the fabric of the web itself.

Very pleased that @w3c has published its updated #CodeOfConduct (which is now appropriately named a "code of conduct"). I'm proud to be one of the individuals named as having contributed into this document. https://www.w3.org/policies/code-of-conduct/

I'll be presenting at @w3c "Breakouts Day" later today https://www.w3.org/2024/03/breakouts-day-2024/#b-9330e02e-2f20-4cb0-9fe3-22fd9dcdb629 on the work we've been doing in the @tag on #PrivacyPrinciples for the web: https://www.w3.org/TR/privacy-principles/

@aral the guy with the antenna on his head is my hero.

Something I worked on in @tag (the Ethical Web Principles) was quoted in a UN report on human rights in technical standards: https://undocs.org/en/A/HRC/53/42. It's nice to see our work picked up here, and it's also nice to see that there is a rising awareness across the board that ethics and human rights need to be taken into account in the technical standards process.

@dansup so much 💗 for this.

Goallll!!! USA USA USA!!!

That's how we do this, right?

#worldcup

@evan BTW threads being non-functional for me looks like it has to do with their buggy IP geofencing to block access in the EU (which itself is part of the problem). See above.