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- Comment on The 17th Year Anniversary of the Fediverse network is upon us! 1 week ago:
The network never went down.
You say that but, everything I ever posted on identica (and also on Evan’s later OStatus site
Status.Net, which i was a paying customer of) went 404 just a few years later. 😢When StatusNet shut down I was offered a MySQL dump, which is better than nothing for personal archival but not actually useful for setting up a new instance due to the OStatus having DNS-based identity and lacking any concept for migrating to a new domain.
identi.ca/evan/note/6EZ4Jzp5RQaUsx5QzJtL4A notes that Evan’s own first post is “still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.” … but for whatever reason he decided that most accounts (those inactive over a year, iiuc, which I was because I had moved to using StatusNet instead of identica) weren’t worthy of migrating to his new pump.io architecture at all.
Here is some reporting about it from 2013: lwn.net/Articles/544347/
As an added bonus, to the extent that I can find some of my posts on archive.org, links in them were all automatically replaced (it was the style at the time) with redirects via Evan’s URL shortening service
ur1.cawhich is also now long-dead.imo the deletion of most of the content in the proto-fediverse (PubSubHubbubiverse? 😂) this was an enormous loss; I and many other people had years of great discussions on these sites which I wish we could revisit today.
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The fact that ActivityPub now is still a thing where people must (be a sysadmin or) pick someone else’s domain to marry their online identity to is even more sad. ActivityPub desperately needs to become content addressable and decouple identity from other responsibilities. This experiment (which i learned of via this post) from six years ago seemed like a huge step in the right direction, but I don’t know if anyone is really working on solving these problems currently. 😢
- Comment on Report: X's DM feature is getting rebranded as 'XChat' 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on The consequences (of my actions) have been extreme 1 month ago:
imo the pejorative connotation of that word is (like many expressions of homophobia) ultimately rooted in misogyny
“always has been” meme with “wait, it’s all about maintaining the patriarchy?”
- Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AIwww.wheresyoured.at ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 66 comments
- Comment on BRASSICAS 2 months ago:
i am reporting this post for promulgating misinformation. this meme has some truth in it, in that these six vegetables are all brassica oleracea. but, the factoid in the center of the meme is false: brassica oleracea can be many things but (despite brassicaceae being “the mustard and cabbage family”) brassica oleracea is NOT actually ever called “wild mustard plant”.
- "Building a Safer Matrix" - an update from The Matrix.org Foundation about "Trust & Safety", content moderation, and their evolving anti-abuse effortsmatrix.org ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 5 comments
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- Comment on USB-C cable CT scan reveals sinister active electronics — O.MG cable contains a hidden antenna and another die embedded in the microcontroller 5 months ago:
same here; other articles there load fine but this one gives me HTTP 500 with content-length 0.
(the empty body tag in your screenshot is generated by firefox while rendering the zero-length response from the server, btw.)
- Comment on Huge win for Internet freedom: Google must sell its Chrome browser 5 months ago:
there are lots of good articles about this news from other sources.
unfortunately the link in this post is an advertorial for snakeoil: tuta is a non-interoperable encrypted email service with an incoherent threat model.
- Comment on Just a little guy 5 months ago:
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- Comment on 🍃 🐑 6 months ago:
they aren’t the only animal that does it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoplasty#Animals
- Comment on Mayonnaise is not a dressing 7 months ago:
In some places it is:
- Comment on I love children's sense of humour 7 months ago:
would this text land differently if “public school” were replaced with “school”? 🤔
- Comment on This man is a parody of himself 7 months ago:
see it’s conciser?
- Comment on This researcher wants to replace your brain, little by little. The US government just hired a researcher who thinks we can beat aging with fresh cloned bodies and brain updates. 7 months ago:
Like… okay… I know this is me in the new brain, I’ll shut down the other one.
the other one: i’m pretty sure you’ve got it backwards, pal
- Comment on Phonebooks 7 months ago:
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 7 months ago:
I was referring to the “This is actually a good sign for self driving” part of their comment.
The captcha circumvention arms race has been going on for over two decades, and every new type of captcha has and will continue to be broken as soon as it’s widely deployed enough that someone is motivated to spend the time to.
So, the notion that an academic paper about breaking the current generation of traffic sign captchas (something which the solving industry has been doing for years with a pretty high success rate already) is “good news” for autonomous vehicles is… well, hopefully a joke.
- Comment on AI bots now beat 100% of those traffic-image CAPTCHAs 7 months ago:
i hope you’re joking. please, tell me you’re joking?
