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troed

@ troed @fedia.io

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HW/FW security researcher & Demoscene elder.

I started having arguments online back on Fidonet and Usenet. I'm too tired to care now.

  • What's a good alternative to messenger that I can plausibly convince friends to move to?

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  • Matrix. Just use matrix.org unless you know of another server that would have you.

  • What's a good alternative to messenger that I can plausibly convince friends to move to?

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  • Telegram is Russian spyware and has no security whatsoever by default.

    Signal is good. Matrix is good.

  • Google decides it won't comply with EU fact-checking law

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  • VLC tops 6 billion downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles

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  • Yes I have been impressed with the quality of summaries keeping to the content. I have seen, rare, attribution errors though, where who said what got mixed up in unfortunate ways.

  • VLC tops 6 billion downloads, previews AI-generated subtitles

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  • This was not in any way asked for or mandated by the party. Also, no, it wasn't common practice amongst other parties either.

    (I was on the board at the time)

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  • FWIW, when Christian Engström was voted into the European Parliament for the Swedish Pirate Party he voluntarily used a lot of money he could've kept for himself to instead fund party activities (which he then had no control over) back in Sweden.

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  • One of the outcomes from Russia's war on Ukraine is the knowledge of how to build killer FPV drones.

    The rest is covered in the short film "Slaughterbots".

    No, I don't know how anyone will counter that future.

  • How old were you when you learned that Santa Claus wasn’t real?

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  • 5-6 - same with my kids. Keeping it up for too long risks making them religious as well.

  • Australia struggling with oversupply of solar power

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  • Some countries (like Sweden) don't use gas at all for home heating or cooking. We went fully electric in the 70s when we built up our nuclear reactor fleet (sadly, some of now have been closed due to the "nukes are bad" crowd) and that helps a lot now when it comes to relying on renewables.

  • Does anyone else feel like tech peaked around 10+ years ago?

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  • This is the answer.

  • Spotify Has A Pirated Software Problem

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  • EU disease agency considers quitting Elon Musk’s X over disinfo

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  • No, they should be where no entity outside of European jurisdiction can influence their messaging.

    The EU commission has their own Mastodon instance. That's how all public services should do it.

  • Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad. confusing.

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  • That's just replies to a post. It doesn't solve not all posts reaching everybody.

  • Mastodon's federation consistency is laughably bad. confusing.

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  • It cannot be "fixed" unless you centralize into a single firehose like Xitter and Bluesky.

    Those of us running smaller instances can choose to use relays and fetcher-tasks - and there is a PR to put one such fetcher into Mastodon - but if the goal is 100% of everybody always sees 100% of the content then no decentralized solution will ever offer that.

  • Mastodon vs BlueSky - differences

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  • Why do you need to understand any of that? Now, none of it is wrong - but it's not something anyone signing up at a Mastodon instance absolute must know about to use the system and have a good troll-free social network experience.

    On the contrary. Maybe those are exactly the things needed to avoid becoming Xitter. Bluesky is rapidly becoming another instance of the hellhole at this very moment.

  • Mastodon vs BlueSky - differences

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  • What do you need to understand about the technical concepts? Join an instance (mastodon.social if you have no reason to select another one), post and follow.

  • Mayor Adams’ office directs NYC agencies to launch BlueSky accounts amid growth on new platform

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  • Until there is another instance it's not federated.

  • Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X.

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  • We're seeing a substantial increase on the Mastodon instance I help moderate too, but there's no aggregate marketing department at Mastodon so we don't get any headlines.