Notices by Osma A (osma@mas.to)

A year later, search as a service for fedi servers of all sizes is forming up. This is very welcome.
https://www.fediscovery.org/

@mho @feditips @tchambers

@mho
This is exactly why I've been arguing that there should be a (number of) search index and API-only services which provide this capability to individual servers. Well, that, and the related point that requiring each server to redundantly index the fedi to provide a search for their users is rather wasteful and expensive.
@feditips @tchambers

There are many striking statistics in @ragnarbjartur's dashboards about the russian war in #Ukraine, but I think this is the most striking one in light of the "can Ukraine hold on" storyline. The kremlin is bleeding - quite literally. The question is, how long can they bleed before there's no russia left?
#SlavaUkraini

Well argued, Anders. Yes, putin has a plan of response. It may be a bad plan, one that Ukraine was able to predict even, but a plan nonetheless. And lots of young, badly trained russian barely-men will die as a result. Ukraine's hope is that it will cause a revolt - though if there are no men capable and experienced enough to prosecute that revolution left, it will fall to the russian women to do so.
RT @anderspuck
https://krigskunst.social/@anderspuck/112987538917639093

My plan of self-hosting my fedi presence using Takahé didn't work out - that project is utterly dead. I don't want to stay here forever, this server has made defederation decisions I've never agreed with. I don't want to run Mastodon, but something else might work.

What should I be looking at?
#Fediverse

@inthehands
1. For the S&P 500 to be overpriced not *everything* indexed to it has to be, just the overweight, over-AI'd tech stocks. A strong enough correction (one is due) will average the entire index down. Investment strategy: underweigh tech portfolio.

2. Post-1950 annual returns may be unattainable because of a second phenomenon Goldman Sachs completely ignores: climate crisis.

This chart, in its various iterations, will never cease to amaze me. Energy analysts have failed to correctly forecast solar installation scale and acceleration for many decades and never seem to learn that a linear projection doesn't work for an accelerating development.
@gwagner

@dansup
I get the same version - not through the release pipeline yet.

@dansup
I'm getting this trying to post on pixelfed.social. Android Early Access, Play tells me 1.0.0, last updated yesterday.

@jeffehobbs
A candle is approximately 80W of mostly heat with a little bit of light as a byproduct. So several orders of magnitude more power than the 10Mbit/s needed to stream 4K video and in the same.ballpark as displaying that video on a 60" television.

The qualitative difference of a good book and a Netflix stream notwithstanding...
@karppinen

@snarfed.org
Thank you for your work! Federated social media needs to bridge protocol borders.

@dave
Same database for all local domains.

Timelines are obviously made for each user, but the toots _not_ on that timeline (which still impact hashtag and search, plus coverage of replies) will be locally available if any other users' graph had them pushed in, regardless of their domain.
@ricmac @takahe @evan @evanprodromou @gotosocial

It's been over a month since Rep McGovern started his discharge petition to bypass Mike Johnson in the US Congress and get the support package for Ukraine rolling again. In the meantime, the House has mostly just vacationed, while russia bombards Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure. The petiton is up to 195 of the 218 names needed for majority.

It's not just Johnson. Most of the representatives don't care.

#Ukraine #SlavaUkraini #congress #USHouse
https://clerk.house.gov/DischargePetition/2024031209?CongressNum=118

@evan
Typefully.com did a whole lot to make threads easy to write on Twitter, and now supports Mastodon, too.

(Still X first and foremost, plus LinkedIn and GPT, and $$, but their writing UI _is_ good)

Between all the ways Amazon has already been shit for years, this new one is my absolute favorite, because it's shit up front, not after you already were mislead to make a purchase of a shitty product.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/lazy-use-of-ai-leads-to-amazon-products-called-i-cannot-fulfill-that-request/

@hrefna
Moreover, if a protocol as all-encompassing as ActivityPub/ActivityStreams would need to first standardize a feature to the protocol foundations before anyone could implement that feature for their service, absolutely nothing could ever be done. It's hard enough today with so much of what has been defined in the protocol being so vague.

Standards-track RFCs require several implementations for a reason.
@oranadoz @mariusor @helge @risottobias

@evan
Thanks! Left a comment there.

A Place is not described as, nor does irs naming imply, a Coordinate. A Place could be as large as a football field, shopping malli, university campus, or a city. That has implications to what radius could mean - it's not necessary an error estimate.

What does it mean if an #ActivityPub message contains a type: Place with lat/lon coordinates and an accuracy attribute of 94.5 as per the spec example? There's a 5.5% probability that the location is wrong? Just a bit off, or completely, wrong-planet off? Perhaps the object is not a Place at all?
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-accuracy

@stevelaskevitch
WordPress is open source, Substack is not. Assuming for the moment you're asking in good faith, the question is: are there nazis with monetized blogs/newsletters hosted by Automattic on wordpress.com?
@mastodonmigration

There's a FEP for a policy setting to say who should be able to reply to a post.

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-5624-per-object-reply-control-policies/2723

Associated Mastodon issue is at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8565

There's also one for letting the original poster retroactively remove a reply from their post's replies collection, but I misplaced the link.

@mike @evan @kissane