Notices by Jeremiah Lee (jeremiah@alpaca.gold)

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

Some people are freaking out about Firefox enabling Privacy Preserving Attribution by default.

Privacy Preserving Attribution is a sensible, well-designed feature and a giant step in the right direction for balancing privacy and the primary economic model of the Web, ads.

All it does is tell a site you have already visited that someone got to the site via an ad without revealing PII. The attribution is delayed, aggregated, anonymous, and includes noise for differential privacy.

/1

#privacy

/2 It’s reasonable for a business to know if their ad worked. Privacy Preserving Attribution allows them to know which ads worked without knowing *who* they worked for specifically.

Contrast this to today, where a huge number of ad and marketing middlemen companies set a bunch of cookies and report way more information about you specifically and your conversions to their networks and the company who placed the ad.

PPA cuts out all the shady middlemen.

#privacy

Another excellent @fediforum. Great demos, productive conversations, and hopeful outcomes that are sure to be demoed in 6 months at the next one.

#FediForum #FediForumAttendee

If e-bikes must have speed limiters set to slower than I am capable of pedaling, cars should have speed limiters set to slower than their drivers are capable of pedaling too.

birdsite link summary: California bill (SB 961) to require new cars alert drivers when going >10 MPH above speed limit passed its legislature and awaits signing by governor to become law.

https://twitter.com/scott_wiener/status/1830307402434085028

Have a WordPress site? Here’s the official 5 minute guide for making it your profile on the social web.

WordPress runs 40% of the Web, so let’s get those server, user growth, and MAU numbers up on @fedidb.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4pmWufYRr0

#WordPress #fediforum

I joined over 4,000 Mastodon users in donating to Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon-for-harris

#Mastodon4Harris

I signed an open letter to the @EUCommission requesting continued funding of open source software innovation and maintenance via the @EC_NGI program.

Free and open source software is not free. Supporting it is vital to the EU economy and innovation competitiveness.

@nlnet@nlnet.net and @NGIZero funded the development of many social web apps years before they were needed and likely much underlying software in the devices you depend on every day.

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/2024-eu-ngi-funding/

#FOSS #OpenSource

The US might finally get the best known sunscreen ingredients by 2025, decades after other countries approved them.

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/us-sunscreen-fda-ingredients-uv-protection-rcna150307

My mom-in-law is the best.

#PrideMonth

😡 The @EU_Commission is giving up on @Mastodon and @peertube because @EDPS couldn’t find an agency within the commission to continue operating it.

https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/edps-decentralised-social-media-pilot-end-successful-story_en

Why can EU companies not use US-based cloud infrastructure and SaaS products?

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the US government to force US companies to share foreign customer data without a warrant or disclosure.

There is no way to reconcile US govt surveillance with the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights on privacy.

More on 702:
• https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/20/24135339/fisa-720-reauthorization-senate-lapse-durbin-wyden
• https://www.eff.org/pages/upstream-prism

More on EU rulings: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU%E2%80%93US_Privacy_Shield

#privacy #USPol #EUPol #MastoAdmin

Ready for #TechArena2024!

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson was a no-show.

I was curious to hear his thoughts on immigration, given the tech industry relies on them and his party is doing everything possible to make immigration to Sverige more difficult.

#TechArena2024