Notices by Jeremiah Lee (jeremiah@alpaca.gold)

I want to know the backstory of how long the hacker knew about this security vulnerability and their waiting for a moment of meaningful protest and civil disobedience

https://www.paloaltoonline.com/technology/2025/04/12/silicon-valley-crosswalk-buttons-apparently-hacked-to-imitate-musk-zuckerberg-voices/?ref=activitypub

#security

@evan So nice to see RFC 9457 getting used!

The “Section 31” Star Trek movie was a waste of the Emperor Georgiou storyline. The fans have never asked
for Avengers with Star Wars chase scenes.

#StarTrek #movies

@kaveinthran @spritely @cwebber @tsyesika https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5128-today-s-fediverse-a-good-start-but-there-s-more-to-do/

The Braille Institute created a font designed to make reading easier for people with low vision called Atkinson Hyperlegible in 2019.

It just released an update (Atkinson Hyperlegible Next) and monospace version with enhanced characters, 7 weights, and variable weight.

They’re free for personal and commercial use.

https://www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/?ref=activitypub&utm_source=activitypub&utm_medium=social

#a11y

Here is the recording of my and @benjaminbellamy’s demo at FOSDEM.

We implemented the Web Monetization Activity Streams specification into @Castopod and @Mastodon (branch) to enable people to automatically and passively pay content creators they spend time with.

The Web Monetization browser extension and first regulated financial institutions to support the Interledger Protocol will launch this year.

Video: https://podlibre.video/videos/watch/8b5b96b6-d57a-4b5f-9a26-46e70423c92a

Links: https://pretalx.fosdem.org/fosdem-2025/talk/review/ZMPAF7CHYJZMWQGZWLZBNRLXATUYFJV7

#FOSDEM #WebMonetization

My first FOSDEM was wild. I heard from so many people doing fascinating work in depth and breadth that left me in awe. So inspired & grateful for the experience.

Thank you to all the speakers for the hard work of presenting your work.

Thank you to everyone I met for the first time, first time in meatspace, and first time in a long time.

Thank you to everyone who came to my talk. Your presence meant a lot.

Thank you to the organizers for creating this welcoming space.

💕

#fosdem #fosdem2025

I love this story: @ayo went from not knowing anything about the Vue frontend framework to being a significant contributor to @elk, one of my favorite Mastodon clients. (Posting this from Elk.zone!)

#SocialWebFOSDEM #fosdem2025

I want every technical topic presented by @cwebber and @tsyesika like they did about @spritely at the FOSDEM 2025 Social Web track lighting talk. 💥 🔥 💯 😻

#SocialWebFOSDEM #fosdem2025

Wouldn’t it be awesome if podcast fans could support their favorite shows without managing a bajillion subscriptions?

Wouldn’t it be awesome if federated social networks had a federated, global payment network of regulated financial institutions for micropayments?

Get a preview of what @benjaminbellamy is building into @Castopod and what @Interledger is building for the social web at the FOSDEM Social Web BOF on Sunday.

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6617-social-web-bof/

#fosdem2025 #SocialWebFOSDEM #WebMonetization

🇸🇪 @dfri is the largest non-profit member association fighting for digital human rights issues in Sverige: privacy, freedom of speech, government transparency, open source software advocacy, and balanced intellectual property laws.

I am on the committee trying to find new leaders to join the board.

Reach out to me if you have a few hours a month to volunteer to make a difference with us.

https://www.dfri.se/

@evan I’ve never seen that domain promote the person living in the White House more than the people and country it belongs to before.

I want a “skip presidency” button.

I see https://www.whitehouse.gov/ is making “skip intro” buttons great again.

#USPol #WebDev #Flash

Dr Freud would like to speak with the graphic designer at SAS about something.

@evan That would be a good solution and a potential future implementation, but unfortunately not compatible with the present state of copyright law and music licensing.

The Big 3 Labels consider any programmatic playback control based on a timed event from other media as a use case that requires a sync license. Streaming services must inhibit the ability for a user to do this in order to comply with their licensing agreements with The Big 3 Labels and not risk losing catalog access.

@evan Extremely qualified yes: if it can figure out how to do decentralized music licensing. TikTok is dead without music.

https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah/113645997440506959

@clacke For me, that was my Swedish friends asking for Takis chips.

@w3c Why does the fee jump up so significantly for small businesses after the first 2 years?

Only 7 days left in the European Citizens’ Initiative to tax the ultrarich to finance the climate transition.

Over 340,000 people have signed the petition so far. We need more than double that to send a clear message.

It takes less than 5 minutes.

https://eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/screen/home

#climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #TaxTheRich #EUPol

Am I up at 3 am in Stockholm for the first virtual book-signing party for the first book about ActivityPub by a major publisher? You betcha! Congrats, @evan!

#ActivityPub