The only way to make sure you don’t contribute to things like this is to not participate in public internet social media services.

https://www.404media.co/someone-made-a-dataset-of-one-million-bluesky-posts-for-machine-learning-research/

To everyone when they see horrible privacy news about Microsoft replying with:

"I don't care, I use Linux"

Sure, you do. But does your medical clinic do? Does your therapist do? Does your family member typing a personal email to you in Word before sending it do too?

This is a systemic problem.

You cannot protect your own data only by using Linux yourself. You must also demand stronger regulations and enforcement to obligate organizations around to protect your data as well.

#Privacy #Microsoft

#snac #snac2 #bluesky #bridge

Wanna help #PeerTube?
We need tests and feedbacks on our future mobile app!

Whether on iOS, Play Store or with an apk, download our test version and share your feedback on here: https://framaforms.org/peertube-mobile-application-release-candidate-1731599644

You have until dec. 8th to share, test and help us have a great release!

Added a new user option to collapse top level threads by default.

Added a new disable_block_notifications boolean field to server.json to disable the notifications of Block activities.

Added a new strict_public_timelines boolean field to server.json to only show an account's posts and boosts (no trees) in public timelines.

Fixed repeated images in posts from some implementations (those that include an image both as an attachment and as an <img> tag inside the post content).

Added a small HTML/CSS tweak to improve post previews from some implementations (contributed by nyanide).

Notifications for EmojiReact activities now show the emoji.

New command-line action insert, to insert a post by its URL in a user's timeline.

Fixed bad processing/rendering of URLs with two or more @ symbols.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider contributing via LiberaPay: https://liberapay.com/grunfink/donate

#snacAnnounces

This release has been inspired by the song Subways Of Your Mind by #FEX.

If you were born before March 1994 then you're older than most people.

i just read the absolutely saddest twelve-word short story

“The Church of Scientology has reportedly purchased the Jim Henson Studios Lot”

Anyone got an idea?

No ads. No trackers. No subscriptions. No Cost. Just wallpapers.

https://basicappleguy.com

Guess I'm not getting the latest iPhone update cause I'm on "Developer Beta"?

Not sure how that makes sense, since the developer beta hasn't been updated in 2 weeks, but I guess I'm just stuck here for now...😒

Don't mind me, I'll just be over here👉 being very annoyed.

#iPhone #iOS18 #iOS

https://lemmy.world/post/19608194

I just read a comment on a thread that said something to the effect of “I preferred the internet that wasn’t driven by profit focused influencers” and it made me realize that I loathe that profit-driven focus of social networks these days.

The new Vitals feature in the #iOS18 #Health app is pretty neat. No new data really, but a straightforward way to visual data. When I got #Covid a couple weeks ago I felt awful and there was no doubt that I was sick, but interestingly the day before I started feeling bad the Vitals app showed “Outliers” in my sensor data. High body temperature, fast respiration, rapid heart beat, etc…

I assume data centers are frequently decomissioning server hardware as new more efficient hardware comes out. who gets the old stuff?

anyone have any intel on this?

The thing that really gets me about this screen capture situation in the next version of macOS is that it lays bare the hubris of security folks.

I bet they rarely take screenshots - all their work is low-level internal mechanisms. What good is an image of a SHA hash going to do them?

Meanwhile there are hundreds of thousands of developers working with designers, clients, managers, and other folks who want to see the current state of their work.

We take a shit-ton of screenshots.

On Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1712350/Riven

On GOG: https://gog.com/en/game/riven

If you’ve never heard of this company or game and you like adventure games with well thought out puzzles, just get it!

And… it’s got PCVR support and I will finally realize a dream I had when I was a young teenager. I will go to the islands in VR!

https://cyan.com/2024/06/03/riven-launch-date/

I guess there’s one upside to my deteriorating memory function. Like seriously, I appreciate being able to experience the things I love, again, for the “first” time. Hopefully the old memory bank doesn’t get any worse.

This week has felt 12 days longer than 7 and it hasn’t even been 7 yet.

I of course will customize and upgrade it myself however.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/delta-game-emulator/id1048524688

#AppStore #Apple #Gaming #emulators

#StarTrek #FirstContactDay

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Season 2 Episode 10 GIF by Paramount+

Is there something already that runs yt-dlp on a server and outputs an rss feed / podcast of the results?

Support for custom Emojis has been added; they are no longer hardcoded, but read from the emojis.json file at the server base directory. Also, they are no longer limited to string substitutions, but images as external URLs are also supported (see snac(8) for more information).

Fixed a bug that caused some notifications to be lost when coming from a user in the same instance.

Added an additional check for blocked instances (sometimes, posts from blocked sites that were ancestors of legit posts were 'leaking' into the timeline).

On OpenBSD, if the disable_email_notifications server flag is set to true, unveil() is not called for the execution of the /usr/sbin/sendmail binary and pledge() doesn't set the exec promise.

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

If you find #snac useful, please consider buying grunfink a coffee: https://ko-fi.com/grunfink

This release has been inspired by the album Eternal Embers by #Meltt.

#snacAnnounces

#StarTrek #StarTrekDiscovery

I really miss the frequency of the rain storms where I grew up.

I'm running the following services myself, and your donations are increasingly important!

https://pixelfed.org
https://fedidb.org
https://fediverse.info
https://pubkit.net
https://loops.video

Please consider donating at one of the links on https://pixelfed.org/support-our-project

Together we can achieve so much, your support helps us go even further ❤️

Does it work?

Worf: Just remember Rule of Aquisition No. 111: Treat people in your debt like family – exploit them.

Jadzia: You know the Rules of Aquisition?

Worf: I am a graduate of Starfleet Academy. I know many things.

#StarTrek #DeepSpaceNine

http://marchintosh.com/globaltalk.html

The answer is: 1 (doesn’t count though because he’s a threads tech engineer).

Working on a page for my #fediverse SVG icons. Anyone want to help make this page better? My CSS and HTML abilities are lacking...

The page is live at https://fediverse.wake.st

I have a @Codeberg repo here up here https://codeberg.org/FediverseX/pages

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screenshot of a website with a list of the icons of a bunch of fediverse projects

An important distinction is slowly being uncovered about the definition of the term "fediverse." Who is it that gets to decide what this place is? How are we being represented? These are not easy questions to answer and if we don't do a better job describing ourselves, then the job will get done for us by people who don't understand the underlying values we hold. #fediverse #meta #threads

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An info graphic with two icons, one is the symbol for the fediverse that has risen from below and the other is made by Threads The "open fediverse" symbol The peoples representation of the fediverse The "Corporate Fediverse" symbol Threads* representation of the fediverse *Threads is a sub-brand of Meta as is Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp

I’ve been wondering what I’m going to do in the not-too-distant future when my photo library is so large I have no choice but to pay for its storage somewhere.

Incoming posts can now be filtered out by content using regular expressions on a server level (these regexes are written in the filter_reject.txt file at the server base directory; see snac(5) and snac(8)).

Improved page position after hitting the Hide or MUTE buttons (for most cases).

Use a shorter maximum conversation thread level (also, this maximum value is now configurable at compilation level with the MAX_CONVERSATION_LEVELS define).

Fixed a bug where editing a post made the attached media or video to be lost.

The way of refreshing remote actor data has been improved.

Posting from the command-line now allows attachments.

Added defines for time to enable MacOS builds (contributed by andypiper).

https://comam.es/what-is-snac

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This release has been inspired by the song The Raven by #CarolineLavelle.

#snacAnnounces

15 years ago: iPhone got Cut, Copy, & Paste.

Here's a comparison of the 6-foot model (#StarTrekTNG's "Peak Performance"⬆️, "The Vengeance Factor"⬇️) and the 4-foot model ("Reunion") of the USS Enterprise-D, seen from similar angles. The 6-foot model shots re-use the same footage.

I quite miss the satisfying “kla-chunk!” sound they made.

I actually haven’t seen this two-parter in decades and I’m super excited to watch it with new eyes!

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Captain Picard looking quite worried on a Borg ship. (Image capture from the season 3 finale)