Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

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Why is Twitler so angry? 🤔
"Billionaire investor George Soros' family office dumped its entire stake in Tesla during the first quarter of 2023." https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/george-soros-fund-dumps-entire-stake-tesla-elon-musk-2023-5

@bastardsheep still working for me over on my instance.
A few other instances have been blanket banning the service - just have a look at @vincent's mentions/reply toots.

There's been conversation surrounding people from the birdsite not consenting to their tweets showing up here, but under the twitter terms of service, their tweets can be embedded anywhere by anyone, so I don't think that holds water. People can put a stop to it by making their Twitter accounts private. 🤷‍♂️

I saw a discussion recently about creating an MX record like concept for activitypub - where, like with email, incoming messages can be sent to a mail exchanger, not necessarily the same host or even domain that the end users interact with. Would likely help with scalability.

Happy new zelda night to those who observe

#Feditip

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Many thanks to @vincent for creating this excellent #FOSS #OpenSource service! ✨

"NASA’s planetary science program is in trouble,” writes Shannon Hall in #ScientificAmerican. #MarsSampleReturn is running over budget, which is delaying other missions. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-interplanetary-plans-may-be-lurching-toward-disaster/

This. Is. Amazing.

Montréal suburb Brossard has a traffic light in a school zone that defaults to red, and only turns green when an attached speed camera detects a car driving under the speed limit.

The light is on a 90-day trial, on a 2-lane residential street. Similar signals are widespread across Europe.

Before it was installed, average vehicle speeds of 40 km/h. But in the past week, average speeds have dropped to 29 km/h.

https://mass.streetsblog.org/2023/05/05/steal-this-idea-in-quebec-a-new-traffic-light-only-turns-green-for-safe-drivers/

#Montreal #VisionZero #WalkTO #BIkeTO

The social network is always bluer on the other side.

@ariadne making software for other people is overrated

Pushing around these little robot soccer players, from DeepMind’s “Learning Agile Soccer Skills for a Bipedal Robot with Deep Reinforcement Learning” paper.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13653
https://sites.google.com/view/op3-soccer

The clear message I am getting from Bluesky is that black people felt unsafe on mastodon. Black Twitter was a huge part of what made it special, and it's been notably absent on mastodon. I will be sad if mastodon loses to a less-open alternative because it couldn't figure out how to be welcoming to everyone.

Just get in a car and find somebody on a bicycle you'll be fine

Some initial thoughts: The next iteration should decouple user content and instance. Right now your data is not under your control. You can migrate your account to another instance, but the data remains at the old place. If we could find a way where content is more tightly coupled to the user, not the instance, that would be a big step forward, IMHO.

Every app on the Fediverse could talk to Bluesky if they really wanted to, and Bluesky really was as decentralized as they say they want to be.

For example, look at Friendica. It uses at least four protocols to talk to other server software:

1. DRFN
2. Diaspora
3. OStatus
4. ActivityPub

In theory, adding AT protocol shouldn’t be a big deal—it’s open source.

The question is whether Bluesky actually wants to federate with other servers.