Johannes Grenzfurthner‘s documentary movie “Hacking at Leaves” is about US history and the racism that built it, the Navajo Nation, hackerspaces and hacker culture, COVID-19, and much more. It’s now free to watch, share, and talk about! On the #InternetArchive! www.monochrom.at/hacking-at-l...

I have blogged about how in preparation for #Wikimania I had a nerdy, data-centric look at the Swahili language. blog.johl.io/mimi-sisema-kisw... #wikidata #wikifunctions

I blogged about what connects today’s Internet to historical land enclosures—once open and communal, now fenced off by corporate interests.There's something about a karaoke API, RSS feeds, and how what was once shared is now siloed. johl.io/blog/enclosu... #OpenWeb #API #RSS #Enclosures #Commons

Did Bluesky have to censor Turkish political commenters? Of course they did. Any centralized social network works this way and has this vulnerability. They will have to do it with your political posts too, when the US starts asking them to do it.

Let's see what happens if I spoof the article metadata from the backend... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This Friday: "Hacking at Leaves" documents the United States‘ colonial past, Navajo tribal history, and the hacker movement. Austria, 2024, 108 min, Languages: English, Navajo c-base, Berlin, Friday, February 14th, 20h, Free Entry – Donations welcome logbuch.c-base.org/archives/5296

Which Large Language Model do you prefer? The one that thinks trans people don’t exist or the one that doesn’t want to talk about Tianmen Square in 1989?

“It’s inevitable. Some will go sooner, others later, but we will all migrate towards these new and improved places.” allr.cat/why-youll-le...

If you want to see more of my content, you can follow my Mastodon account at @johl.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy (thanks to bridgy).

I’m not a big fan of Bluesky. I don’t see the point and all I want is already there on the Fediverse/Mastodon. But many people enjoy Bluesky. Some of those are really good and smart people. I agree with a lot of the points that Cory Doctorow makes in this piece. pluralistic.net/2025/01/14/c...

Dơċh ʝеtʐt tυt′s nïƈht mėhr wẹh Néé, ʝеtʐt tυt′s nïƈht mėhr wẹh ùñd állès bleibt ştµmm und keïñ Stµrm kømmt àuf Wënn ïƈh dïƈh şẹh Es ist vorbei Bye bye, Unicode

Die Verteidigung der Neutralität – Wie eine wehrhafte Community die Wikipedia vor Manipulation schützt blog.wikimedia.de/2025/01/09/w...

"In light of recent happenings toward the end of 2024, and the beginning of 2025 in regard to Meta (…), I decided to make a page containing additional tips for new, or new-ish users on the Fediverse"

The Public Domain Image Archive: 10,046 out-of-copyright works, free for all to browse, download, and reuse pdimagearchive.org

“This document is dedicated to all citizens of planet Earth. You deserve freedom of communication; we hope we have contributed in some part, however small, towards that goal and right.” —The ActivityPub Specification (2018)

The complete history of Mapo Tofu

I want computing to be a little less broken and a little more magical .

We have not inherited the Internet. We have borrowed it from our cats.

Es gab ja mal eine Zeit, in der Twitter Schlagzeilen gemacht und Themen gesetzt hat. Das mit der ttt-Moderation war wahrscheinlich die erste Bluesky-Schlagzeile.

Hodiaŭ mi eksciis pri lastatempe lanĉita novaĵejo retejo, kiu ilustras ĉion per teruraj bildoj kreitaj per artefarita intelekto, petas donacojn en kripta monero kaj puŝas Kremlan propagandon. Verkita tute en Esperanto.

Umstrittener Text in der „Welt am Sonntag“: Wurde Elon Musks Pro-AfD-Artikel von einer KI geschrieben? www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/umst...

Elon Musk and the right's war on Wikipedia

Bluesky, der Mastodon-Ersatz für Menschen, die "was mit Kultur oder Medien" machen.

"Bluesky promises to rethink social media by focusing on openness and user control. But what does this actually mean for the millions of people joining the site?"

Bashar al-Assad ✔️ Yoon Suk Yeol ✔️ I like this trend of authoritarians losing power and have a few other additions to that list.

When asked if Bluesky would always be free of advertisers like it is today, Graber said: “I don’t think that’s necessarily true.” “I think the ways we would explore advertising, if we did, would be much more user intent-driven,” said Graber (…) techcrunch.com/2024/12/05/b...

Ich tu mi bissi schwer mit Bluesky weil MASTODON ist eigentlich viel schlauer

Wow, #Bluesky sure has a lot of spam bot fake accounts. Such a good Twitter replacement.

In 2007, I wrote a piece of #InteractiveFiction in the form of a classic text adventure. The story is about the Chaos Communication Camp 2007, an international, five-day open-air event for hackers and associated life-forms that took place from August 8th to 12th 2007 in Finowfurt near Berlin.

Together with Thiemo Kreuz I wrote a little #roguelike game with items generated from #Wikidata that lets you crawl through the Dungeon of Knowledge in a classic ASCII interface. The game is more than seven years old, but it’s still working and still fun! Play it here: www.johl.io/dungeonofkno...

The debate over whether Bluesky is truely decentralized or just the latest walled garden with better PR continues. Here's a more detailed technical analysis of Bluesky AT Protocol by Christine Lemmer-Webber, a co-creator of ActivityPub.

OH: „Die Signal-App hat ja so ne ganz furchtbare FDJ-Blusen-Farbe gekriegt!“

Der einzige für den Bundestag relevante Lindner sollte Butter Lindner (Wilhelmstraße 68A, geöffnet werktags zwischen 7:30 und 18:00 Uhr) sein.

Eine Variante von Little Bobby Tables wäre eine Namensänderung zu "Mimikatz", um den Menschen bei der Forensik eines Sicherheitsvorfalls viele schöne Findings zu bescheren.

Jetzt also langsam mal entscheiden, ob die parallele Bespielung von Mastodon und Bluesky machbar ist und mir Spaß macht. Immerhin gibt es das hier: https://croissantapp.com/

We will begin developing a subscription model for features like higher quality video or profile customizations like colors and avatar frames. Bluesky will always be free to use — we believe that information and conversation should be easily accessible. (We won’t uprank paid accounts.)

Getting money from scammy blockchain investors and putting them on the board ain't great. At least they read the room and distanced themselves from crypto/tokens (for now).

Bluesky has raised a $15 million Series A financing led by “Blockchain Capital”. bsky.social/about/blog/1...

Hello from Croissant.

Huch, das hier läuft ja immer noch!

Witzig finde ich ja immer die Posts mit lauter Hashtags, als ob dieses Feature hier existieren würde.

Ich hätte noch Invite-Codes übrig.

According to folklore, butterflies steal the cream off milk pots, hence the name. Their German name "Schmetterling" has the same roots, but that’s obscure to most speakers nowadays, as "Schmetten" is an archaic or regional word for butter with a Slavic origin.

Bluesky Backup Tool observablehq.com/@aendra/blue...

Ganz schön deutsch hier.

Does GPT-4 Pass the Turing Test? Spoiler: No, it doesn't. arxiv.org/abs/2310.20216

Mastodon Is Bigger Than A Twitter Replacement

Sam Altman being hired by Microsoft for AI research will probably make the P(doom) scrollers speak of “Clippy’s basilisk” soon.

One year anniversary of me leaving Twitter today.

Jetzt sind schon wieder ein paar Monate vergangen. Dass bei dieser von einem Unternehmen betriebenen Plattform immer noch grundlegende Funktionen fehlen, ist irgendwie suboptimal, oder?