Notices by Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop), page 11

@yosh Wordpress has a plugin done, not sure if installed by default on their new installs. Medium was definitely also experimenting.

@HeatherLeson I had a comparative chart in the OSI wiki at some point but not sure if the wiki is still even up - @ed ?

@ed @HeatherLeson Ah-ha, found it, had been moved: https://wiki.opensource.org/bin/Working%20Groups%20%26%20Incubator%20Projects/FLOSS%20Foundations%20Board%20Selection/

@KevinMarks @simon @evan Ugh, signing is exactly the wrinkle I feared would crop up.

@evan I don’t mean blame in a “who is at fault in a proper root cause analysis” sense (though that is also important) but in a “who will the press, government, and broader zeitgeist blame” sense.

@simon @evan The lack of post migration is… honestly bizarre. Evan, do you know if that’s a protocol problem or “just” a Mastodon problem?

@evan The other interesting question about how it maps to fediverse is who gets blamed for privacy problems more generally. We all know email is a privacy mess but no one blames “the email company”; when Fedi inevitably has problems, will people blame ActivityPub, Eugen, Zuck, …?

@evan Yeah. I’m sure the “we and only we can monetize” played a role too (especially at the exec level), but many rank and file genuinely believe a story that goes something like: 3rd-party extensions require data access; data access to FB-like data (more sensitive than Twitter!) at FB-like scale means some 3rd-party will inevitably abuse; FB will inevitably get blamed for that abuse no matter what safeguards were in place; so the risk is too high. And that is hard to argue with!

@evan Talk to FBers and their internal story is that it was essentially impossible to do this in a way that complied with their own sense of impending EU privacy rules. I’m not sure that was their primary motivation, but Cambridge Analytica really was an abuse of this vector so it isn’t completely implausible.

What’s the best history of the rise and fall of XMPP? Wikipedia’s article is sadly deficient.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP#History_and_development

Interesting question. We’ve long had awards and such, but nothing super-high-profile like (say) the McArthur awards. https://mastodon.social/@fgregg/111591947344557104

@wwahammy @simon @dalias @matt @danilo @maria dunno, man, it's generating working python and shell that Does Shit for me. Maybe my scripts count as bullshit to you, or maybe the time I saved is bullshit to you, or maybe it's bullshit that I didn't hire somebody on fiverr to write them for me, but they're pretty useful bullshit to me.

@simon @dalias @matt @danilo @maria

me: AI regulation is a fiendish problem; we'll be lucky if we get out of our immediate local minima in my lifetime; we need to be patient and thoughtful
also me: implement this proposal tomorrow https://crookedtimber.org/2023/05/22/ban-llms-using-first-person-pronouns/

@dalias @simon @matt @danilo @maria “which the user has a mental model for potentially being a party they do or don't trust” lol/sob, they absolutely don’t have that mental model, that’s why so much disinfo was quite effective pre-llm.

There’s a fair critique that the use of first person pronouns and conversational style make it even harder for people to do that analysis. But it was pretty hard for most people already.

Scholars, led by @jtlg@lawprofs.org https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@jtlg/111540833092000746

Wikimedia's: @wikimediafoundation https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2023/12/07/wikimedia-foundation-calls-on-us-supreme-court-to-strike-laws-that-threaten-wikipedia/

Knight Foundation's First Amendment team https://mastodon.online/@knightcolumbia/111541302824953606

Techdirt/Bluesky/ @mmasnick / @mchris "in his capacity as a Mastodon server operator": https://www.techdirt.com/2023/12/07/we-teamed-up-with-bluesky-to-tell-the-supreme-court-how-state-social-media-laws-dont-take-into-account-user-empowerment/

🧵of briefs in the important #NetChoice Supreme Court case. @internetsociety:
https://techpolicy.social/@joebeone/111541376333204893

The annual Wiki Loves Earth photo competition winners are out, and they are stunning. Take a deep breath and enjoy them: https://wikilovesearth.org/ #wikilovesearth #wikipedia #naturephotography #animalphotography