Marc Madness @marcmadness@librem.one

‘2023’s public domain is a banger’ says @pluralistic
Cory Doctorow on nee titles entering public domain, including ‘all of Sherlock Holmes, finally wrestling control back from the copyright trolls who control the Arthur Conan Doyle estate. This is a firm of rent-seeking bullies who have abused the court process to extract menaces money from living creators, including rent on works that were unambiguously in the public domain.’ /1

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/20/free-for-2023/

Stop Talking To Each Other.

Being an elderly #millennial myself, the #essay on the commodification of the social commons on the #web by Cat Valente resonates deeply, and sadly as it is a dead spiral.

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

The essay is further given context by a masterful description by @pluralistic on why #mastodon matters.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/semipermeable-membranes/#free-as-in-puppies

Take time to read through it. Also, be like Andrew of Dairyland: "just a guy making a thing that people liked and giving a shit about it."

"A type of simple DIY air filter can be an effective way to filter out indoor air pollutants" https://techxplore.com/news/2022-12-simple-diy-air-filter-effective.html

“Without a driving mission, journalism is guided by profit and, often, power. Without a theory of change, journalism resists it. Without a framework for measuring real-world impact, journalism counts what people click with little concern for what they do.”

https://www.cjr.org/special_report/journalism-power-public-good-community-infrastructure.php

Entitled journalists threatening to “leave the app” unless they get “quote tweets” could do worse than to read and attempt to understand this piece.

#journalism #journalists #fediverse #mastodon #quoteToots

All these moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

And yet, these moments are what make life worth living.

@mmasnick

Lumen is scoping building an "easy to install and use" tool that would allow fediverse instance admins to easily and effectively accept takedown requests of whatever variety and simultaneously send them (in whatever form deemed appropriate) to us here at Lumen.

If you were wondering about the UK Online Safety (nee Harms) Bill and where it's at, read: https://www.gp-digital.org/the-return-of-the-uks-online-safety-bill-whats-changed-and-whats-next/

New research reveals a scalable technique that uses synthetic data to improve the accuracy of AI models that recognize images.

https://bit.ly/3HgonWz

#ACMTechNews #AI #ArtificialIntelligence

Years ago I bought a collection of IBM Selectric Typewriter ‘golf balls’ (including some rarer ones) from a typewriter repair shop. Once upon a time this was how fonts were stored for the machine. The owner literally used his arm to shovel them into a cardboard box like he couldn’t get rid of them fast enough, in a shop full of hundreds of them. A good memory. #design #typography #typewriter #fonts

What twisted product designer thought this was a good part of that #FrostyTheSnowman cartoon to make kids reenact in boiling snack form?

Today it is to celebrate 25 years of #GnuPG 🎉 a #FreeSoftware implementation of the '#OpenPGP and #CMS standards for #endtoendcrypto . For this GnuPG 2.4.0 is announced and #Gpg4win 4.1.0, see https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2022q4/000477.html and https://lists.wald.intevation.org/pipermail/gpg4win-announce/2022/000099.html

If you're hearing a lot about the fediverse these days, you should know: Mastodon is not the whole fediverse and the fediverse is not simply a Twitter replacement. The fediverse is an entire ecosystem, built on something called ActivityPub. Learn more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/leaving-twitters-walled-garden

@pluralistic @Bloomberg I'm just spitballing here, but it seems to me that Apple (and Google) should either be able to block third party app stores, or charge fees to use theirs, but not both. Either could be considered a valid business plan (regardless of merits), doing both is extortion.

Introduction:
L0pht Heavy Industries was a group of hackers based in the Boston area during the late 90's. Our early website spread hacking information far and wide. We pioneered early vulnerability research and the vulnerability disclosure debate. In May 1998 we warned the US Congress about weak computer security in government. We went on to found the internet security consultancy @stake. Today the original members of the L0pht, former employees of @stake and those we influenced along the way have scattered throughout all corners of the Internet.
#Forging Machines to Build Your Dreams.

Today’s social media status quo isn’t cutting it, so Mozilla is exploring an alternative here on Mastodon. In early 2023, Mozilla will be testing a publicly accessible instance in the Fediverse at Mozilla.Social. We will keep you updated, but for now learn more here: mzl.la/3BNXQMQ

"Police provide first official details of Elon Musk’s alleged stalker incident"

🚨"Police say a member of Elon Musk’s security team is currently a suspect in their investigation, not a victim"🚨

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/dec/20/police-provide-first-official-details-on-elon-musks-alleged-stalker-incident

In rehearsals for Allegiance opening in Jan at London’s Charing Cross Theater. First show is already sold out, and the rest filling up!

For tickets: https://AllegianceMusical.com

No one: ….

Absolutely no one: ….

Wait, do I hear bagpipes? OH MY GOD IT’S ROWDY RODIMUS PRIME!