privacy activists should start telling people that storing data in unencrypted form in the cloud lets AI read it and train on it, maybe that will finally get people to care same with non-E2EE messages

A feeling I've had about every online tech space during the genocide, articulated very well by @jordan.orel.li

I think I prefer this conceptually as a long term solution. It makes sense that even if data storage decentralisation is solved, efficient compute or auth becomes a (re-)centralisation driver. I like the idea that you can ‘install’ compute capacities on your PDS like apps

“Ethical licensing is hard, but far from impossible. While we cannot easily encode anti-fascism into our licenses, what we can easily do is discriminate against big capital, the underlying engine of fascism and authoritarianism.” So proud to be working with this legend

Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing. I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink. But I'm tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

yeah I think ppl can see and feel what Marx calls ‘deskilling’ being imposed on a mass scale and the suddenness and one-sidedness of this imposition feels alienating and disempowering people work hard for and identify with their skills, it makes so much sense to be like wdym that’s unvalued now

a little odd onion purée butter béchamel penne rigate ! tastes good !

I dont disagree with all these points, but tbh the marginal theory of value can only be ‘obviously correct’ and the labour theory of value wrong, if you don’t have to work to survive (or imagine that you don’t)

the long arc of history tends toward distributed systems

graze.leaflet.pub/3m4yjmbnyec2... it's nuts how much better we're going to be able to make things knowledge, context, detail will *always* live at edges. An architecture that ignores this, and assumes a singular organization (or "agent" lmao) can "figure it out" is gonna get its ass kicked

Deeply need to go here next time I’m in Barcelona

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Rateless Bloom Filters: Set Reconciliation for Divergent Replicas with Variable-Sized Elements. Preview of preprint waiting for ArXiv link.

Our platform is ready. Our collectively-owned Bandcamp successor opens November 4. Rolling out to co-op members first.

Practical code examples showing how YOU can identify corporate macOS and Windows devices via MDM enrollment status lgug2z.com/articles/nor...

first pass at making a vertically tiled subthreads list icon for @roomy.space also first time making an icon at all ☺️

Also the people who make such statements publicly don't actually know what anyone cares about. They only know what they care about and are projecting onto others.

coop bluesky now

The latest experimental release of Roomy has pages! Pages are markdown under-the-hood, and have a simple WYSIWYG. They also track the edit history like a wiki!

INHERITANCE MUST BE ABOLISHED

The block button exists and you can use it. People are making shared block lists. How do we explain that calling the manager is the core part of what’s wrong with old systems? No Kings means No Kings. Have agency, build it with others.

got laid off due to restructuring :( i’m now available for mid+ frontend developer/software engineering positions in the meantime, we’re back to building the future and fun on the web on atproto :)

I like this essay. Global namespaces are attractive to software engineers and businesspeople, but not because they are good for users. We need instead to work for the opposite goal: to increase the user’s illegibility. newsletter.squishy.computer/p/soulbindin...

m.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ48... ❤️🕯️

It's really weird to see the Palestinian prisoners being kept by Israel not also being referred to as hostages!

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Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.

It's true we are now on @tangled.org, please like and subscribe! By which we mean: *star* and *follow*! FYI very soon we'll be cleaning up the README, adding better documentation for contributors, and tagging some issues as `good-first-issue` for Tangled's October open source challenge :)

sounding off about ‘AI art’

Prisons Must Fall by @prisonculture.bsky.social and Jane Ball

The web can be made personal again. blog.muni.town/personal-dat...

would anything stop you posting an entire HTML file as an ATProto record on your PDS? Size limits? Assuming some proxy/resolver service to expose it to the web

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“This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence,” one student said. "These ties cannot survive transparency."

RIP Assata Shakur

okay and as promised, the bluesky PDS is officially open for returning users to migrate their accounts back! hoping this lowers the stakes & gives folks the confidence to explore some other PDSs in the network! docs.bsky.app/blog/incomin...

BDS works

tldr on why this is confusing: did:web stores the pds data (including handle) on the did document stored with the domain, but the domain can’t be changed did:plc (what 99% of us use) stores the pds data + handle on the bsky-run plc directory, so handles can include domain names, but can be changed

"A pluriverse of local worlds: a review of Computing within Limits related terminology and practices" by Marloes de Valk (2021) computingwithinlimits.org/2021/papers/...

And a big shout out to @meri.garden who's help and collaboration on the new design have been invaluable!

We've been hard at work for the last month on a new @roomy.chat architecture that we hope will get us into production: A Brief History of Roomy's Architectures blog.muni.town/brief-histor... I'm very excited about the new design and the performance that we're showing on our initial tests!

Exclusive | A subsidiary of Elbit Systems, an Israeli company bathed in the blood of Palestinians, has once again won a contract with the department of defence, writes Bernard Keane.

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The act of writing— Maurice Blanchot. The Gaze of Orpheus. Tr. Lydia Davis.

Ooh that's cool; took me a moment to realise it was a desktop app instead of a webapp.

entered the spirit realm btw

The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage. When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig. Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?

Dorky selfie + me in Jogja music shop. I bought two cassette tapes, one of Senyawa remixes and another one the guy recommended blending experimental techno and traditional Javanese gamelan