joinfirefish.org is a bit messy and compliacted
I thought I would try out firefish/calckey but found a few issues....
Mozilla Standards Positions Opposes Web Integrity API, [aka googles drm the web stuff from last week] (github.com)
Mozilla opposes this proposal because it contradicts our principles and vision for the Web....
Most Americans favor restrictions on false information, violent content online (www.pewresearch.org)
65% of Americans support tech companies moderating false information online and 55% support the U.S. government taking these steps. These shares have increased since 2018. Americans are even more supportive of tech companies (71%) and the U.S. government (60%) restricting extremely violent content online.
What are you self-hosting? (beehaw.org)
Thinking of self-hosting some basic tools; SearxNG, Bitwarden, Lemmy....
Paying YouTube for views on your channel (www.youtube.com)
The Low Code Wall (www.spiffworkflow.org)
Twitter adding daily limits to DMs for users without Blue (beehaw.org)
We’ll soon be implementing some changes in our effort to reduce spam in Direct Messages. Unverified accounts will have daily limits on the number of DMs they can send. Subscribe today to send more messages...
Instance Assistant v1.2.3 is now available on Chrome & Firefox + New Features
cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/2012318...
No apologies as Reddit halfheartedly tries to repair ties with moderators (arstechnica.com)
Reddit is reaching out to moderators after tensions rose over recent policy changes and API pricing. A Reddit admin acknowledged the strained relationship and outlined new weekly feedback sessions and other outreach efforts to repair ties. However, moderators remain skeptical of Reddit’s efforts given mixed results from past...
BMW smart glasses help bikers navigate with head-up display technology: But of course it's not cheap (www.timeslive.co.za)
The new BMW Motorrad ConnectedRide smart glasses integrate the familiar BMW head-up display technology found in its cars. They project data such as navigation, speed or selected gear directly into the rider’s field of vision in real time....
Fibre optics could be the answer to water loss from leaky pipes: 48.6 billion cubic meters of water are lost globally daily (beehaw.org)
According to the International Water Association (IWA), the main culprits for this loss are underground leaks on water mains and service pipes....
This AI Watches Millions Of Cars Daily And Tells Cops If You’re Driving Like A Criminal (www.forbes.com)
Become ungoogleable (joeyh.name)
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin token to launch Monday (www.semafor.com)
The token has been controversial in Silicon Valley for its ambitious and unorthodox approach to trying to solve two vexing problems: Online identity authentication and income inequality....
VanMoof’s failure epitomizes the problem with the e-bike market (www.axios.com)
Twitter’s new X logo wasn’t made by an in-house designer. It’s from an old podcast (lemmy.ml)
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/2399016...
Elon Musk rebrands Twitter as X (www.cnn.com)
A rant, with useful information, about the ‘Web Environment Integrity’ proposal by Google" (orowith2os.gitlab.io)
One of my first blog posts in a while, I go over Google’s recent web proposal, and point out exactly why it won’t turn out well. Hope y’all have fun with it.
Bluesky allowed people to include the n-word in their usernames | Engadget (www.engadget.com)
Bluesky, a decentralized social network, allowed users to register usernames containing the n-word. When reports surfaced about a user with the racial slur in their name, Bluesky took 40 minutes to remove the account but did not publicly apologize. A LinkedIn post criticized Bluesky for failing to filter offensive terms from the...
Ubisoft is suspending "inactive" accounts, removing access to attached games (www.vg247.com)
Bluesky CEO responds | 2023-07-22 Letter to the Community (blueskyweb.xyz)
The social media platform Bluesky recently had an incident where a user created an account with a racial slur as the handle. The Bluesky team quickly removed the account but realized they should have had automated filters in place to prevent such issues. They are now implementing a two-step automated filtering and flagging...
Why We Don’t Recommend Ring Cameras (www.wired.com)
They’re affordable and ubiquitous, but homeowners shouldn’t be able to act as vigilantes.
Part 1 - Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center - AT&T Archives (www.youtube.com)
Converting Your Twitter Archive to Markdown, and t.co links to original URL (matthiasott.com)
Once your archive is on your machine, you will have a browsable HTML archive of your tweets, direct messages, and moments including media like images, videos, and GIFs. This is nice, but it also has a few flaws. For one, you can’t easily copy your Tweets somewhere else, for example, into your website because they are stored in...