Explore community mesh networks, governance on the P2P web, and more in @mauve's talk: https://youtu.be/rSvj_NQ5rho #dweb #p2p
NEW: Researchers used a hardware-based attack to jailbreak Tesla's infotainment system, which gave them the ability to get upgrades that would cost $$$ for free.
https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/03/researchers-jailbreak-a-tesla-to-get-free-in-car-feature-upgrades/
App developers, I am BEGGING you to provide web versions and not force us to do our work on tiny screens and thumb-type everything. This goes triple for apps that are restricted to just one of the two major corporate mobile platforms.
For many if not most, this should be readily possible, given how many apps are websites with app wrappers.
I gladly pay for or donate to software that helps me...
4. Since I'm really liking my Rokid Max, I might get their Rokid Station device which they're marketing as an Android TV for AR headsets. I could probably get termux on this thing at least. https://www.forbes.com/sites/bensin/2023/08/02/rokid-station-is-the-first-android-tv-box-for-ar-glasses-and-it-works/?sh=1894b1d05cde
Writing up database wrappers for storing ActivityPub data.
Been really into this artist lately:
https://soundcloud.com/billjobs/fashion-pluck
No sure what to call this genre but it's pretty funky and makes me want to play Broken Reality.
Este viernes en Bogotá nos encontramos compas de Sutty, Hackbo y otros proyectos a charlar sobre la web distribuida, infraestructuras colectivas y sitios web resilientes, entre otras. Habrá tigres! Y un recorrido por el bosque del Hackbo. Pueden acercarse el 4 de Agosto, 2023 de 4 a 7 pm a Calle 44 # 8 - 50. Apto. 201. Bogotá, Colombia. https://hackbo.org/
The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:
"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub
Welcome to:
@BBCRD
@BBC5Live @BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs
I wonder if the whole #AI thing will finally convince artists that modern #copyright regime was never meant to protect *them*.
It was meant to protect the middlemen. The Amazons, the Spotifies, the Sonys, the Disneys. The film studios, the publishing houses.
Now the middlemen figured out they own basically all of art, and that they can just train a computer on that, to replace artists with a piece of software.
And then stop paying artists even the pittance they were being paid so far.
🧵
Perhaps it was never about the money, it is about exerting the power, making others break, and inflicting pain.
As brilliant screenwriter, David Slack can make a simple image tell a clear story below.
#WritersStrike #ActorsStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong
I have Ruffle, a chrome extension installed, and on many sites flash content simply works and yes, newgrounds etc are still around. Newgrounds has it's own flash player even.
Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Exploring what a local-first cyberspace might look like in my spare time.