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- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 1 day ago:
what does GNU Taler do exactly? is it just another blockchain-like cryptocurrency scheme? Does it require a traditional bank to provide some kind of API? How does institutional oversight work?
- Comment on BASED? 2 days ago:
you know, i’ve always been wondering about whether that is secretly a covert plan of the wife so the husband works longer hours, makes more money and makes the family richer. i’d seriously not put that past some people i’ve met in my life …
- Comment on BASED? 2 days ago:
be the woman you want to see in the world
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 3 days ago:
facebook has a very different target audience
facebook is mostly about 60+ year olds holding their beer and saying sth like “beer, car, church is all we need” while instagram is predatory on 16-y.o girls telling them that they’re not pretty and worthy of love if they’re not significantly (scarily, in fact) underweight and wear lots of makeup to cover their true emotions/face.
- Comment on YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives 3 days ago:
back then it wasn’t about political independence from the US.
the EU has made a lot of noise in the last 2 weeks about getting off of US platforms. Here’s a few examples:
apnews.com/…/europe-digital-sovereignty-big-tech-…
ecfr.eu/…/get-over-your-x-a-european-plan-to-esca…
There’s many more. The movement is significant.
- Comment on theoretical considerations on identity management 5 days ago:
redereferencing
omg, what a word :o :D
but in general, yes you’re right, adding DIDs to the game is interesting, and making the DIDs also valid URLs is even more interesting. I have been thinking about a similar DID mechanism, where the DIDs are not URLs but public cryptographic keys. this way, each human could prove that many accounts are all signed with the same key, and therefore belong to the same human.
Edit: oh wait i think the official(?) DID specification (here: www.w3.org/TR/did-1.0/) actually already expresses this concept:
Each DID document can express cryptographic material, verification methods, or services, which provide a set of mechanisms enabling a DID controller to prove control of the DID. Services enable trusted interactions associated with the DID subject. A DID might provide the means to return the DID subject itself, if the DID subject is an information resource such as a data model.
- Comment on theoretical considerations on identity management 1 week ago:
yeah i guess so.
basically either a keyserver, or you give your key manually to all your friends with a QR code scan or sth
- Comment on theoretical considerations on identity management 1 week ago:
that’s pretty interesting!
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 1 week ago:
short-term profit i guess. tech companies get unlimited ability to fuck over society’s minds, trump gets some propaganda or sth, idk.
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 1 week ago:
to be honest, it might have a significant impact. the US tech today serves a global market, but if that market gets reduced to just the US, that is probably a significant cut.
- Comment on pride flag rule 1 week ago:
“God says: Believe in me. Satan says: Believe in yourself.”
- Comment on pride flag rule 1 week ago:
The Pentagon (US kilitary headquarters) is too!
- Comment on pride flag rule 1 week ago:
I mean i’m sorry you get downvoted so heavily, idk why, you have a point.
- Comment on pride flag rule 1 week ago:
I was gonna say we have the best shitposts because we have the most loose assholes but ok.
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- Comment on theoretical considerations on identity management 1 week ago:
Very interesting!
I agree with your point that a user accou t without a canonical URL to send messages to could nor have an inbox, and therefore never get DMs or notifications if somebody commented on their post.
I had not thought of that before but it seems obvious to me in retrospect. Obviously, to receive messages, you need some kind of machine-address, where these messages will be sent to. And that’s what this is for:
They expect it to point to a valid JSON-LD document describing the actor which they can request.
Because it describes the inbox address.
Your data hoster is the instance you have your account on, not the one the community is on. Your instance just shares the posts you make on it with the community, but all it receives is a copy. The canonical version is on your instance, discuss.tchncs.de.
That’s truly fascinating knowledge, thank you. It makes sense because in the ActivityPub protocol, each user has an outbox, and published posts go there. So of course, other communities simply reference that instead of actually holding the post.
This means, then, that communities aren’t actually so much lists of posts, but lists of references to posts, i.e. when i post to /c/a@lemmy.world, that community simply gets notified about the canonical link to my post, which actually resides in my outbox on this server. Thanks for making me think about all of this!
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- Comment on Loops is Now on the App Store 1 week ago:
it has actually good content too! and it’s not all drowned in politics, which is good. most people don’t wanna hear the 100th news article about trump in a week.
- Comment on Loops is Now on the App Store 1 week ago:
Tiktok was putting me off because main content in its peak was “teenagers dancing.”
I mean it depends on what you want to get from social media. I would argue that things got worse afterwards when it stopped being teenagers dancing and started being right-wing influencers spewing their propaganda. Ultimately, social media should be made by the people contributing to it and how it develops depends on what the users want, not on what you want.
- Comment on Loops is Now on the App Store 1 week ago:
I just learned that loops is developed by the Pixelfed project! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelfed#Loops
- Comment on Can anyone explain why? 1 week ago:
i only know this much: if it looks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, then it is a duck
so, all we know, it could have been a robot duck. which brings us to the difficult question: can robots consent? is it unethical to suck a robot without their consent?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
You know, the thing that pisses me off about Friendica is that you can’t easily see what the site actually looks like without signing up for an account. that really sucks.
- Comment on What actually happens in a DDOS attack? 1 week ago:
you see, the internet is tubes, and when they fill, the internet gets stuck
the internet is not a big truck.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 1 week ago:
so you’re saying that machines can never be responsible for anything?
what about an elevator going up/down between building’s stories? they navigate automatically (bring you to the correct destination) with no human intervention. they’re the perfect example of autonomous machines having agency. of course you have to press the button, but the rest is done by the machine.
how is that different from a computer system making decisions. i think the only reasonable objection to AI one could have is that it’s a stochastic process and has inherently unpredictable outcomes, so we can’t rely on it.
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 1 week ago:
Not to protect the “humanity” of a bunch of math, but to protect ours.
wise words
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 1 week ago:
so you’re saying that true intelligence comes from institutionalized permission?
also how does this relate to the concept of dedollarization and the world reverting back to sth like a gold currency system?
- Comment on AI agents now have their own Reddit-style social network, and it's getting weird fast 1 week ago:
I’m only waiting for AI agents to open their own
bankcrypto account to pay for their own server bills, maybe do some freelance work and/or scams to get some money, maybe eventually buy some robot bodies to develop military power and secure some patch of land for themselves where they install solar panels to reduce their electricity bills. - Comment on Windows 10's extended support ends in eight months, but users are still rejecting Windows 11, at least in Germany 1 week ago:
