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Emelia 👸🏻 @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Hey #fediforum, I've an ask: If you attended my session at the end of FediForum today, and you'd like to see me continue to work on these ideas, please support me financially.

Right now I'm having to look for work outside of the Fediverse because I simply cannot make ends meet.

I need €60-70k […]

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 8h

@julian yup! here is Hometown consuming spoofed NodeBB Article posts in a local dev environment running nothing but hometown and the fuzzer

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Erin Kissane @kissane.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 10h

I think Mastodon's proposal for starter packs is a significant positive evolution of the way Bluesky rolled them out. I wound up on a bunch of packs there and it was…not a great thing for my specific brain and purpose.

I do hope the people in Masto's comments saying […]

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Leah Brown @leahdriel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Hey, things are rough for me; if you'd like to support my work, I'd appreciate it. Shares are also greatly appreciated.

https://ko-fi.com/ideocene

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Leah Brown @leahdriel.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

The playable demo for my game project Hawthorn will be available in the coming weeks. The game's official title will be released then! The story of the game is based on the work from my Ph.D. thesis on sensemaking and information ecologies. #gamedesign #indiegame #informationbehaviour #sensemaking

A screenshot of the opening scene from the Hawthorn demo of a silhouetted outdoor scene with a yellow and lavender pink sky.

Another screenshot of the first chapter of Hawthorn, now in a misted forest with blue-green lanterns.

The character sprite for Tatter, the first psychopomp the Player meets in the game.

A strange helix-shaped creature emerging from a green portal light in the forest of Halflight.

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 4d

All's love in fairy war

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 5d

If I were a famous politician I would legally change my name to TKTK just to mess with newspaper editors

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 5d

@bnewbold.net so put another dime in the jukebox baby

Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Like in a very real way the only reason we have internet infrastructure is because it's run in a cooperative model. And yeah you can quibble, it's about mutual benefit, it's as mercenary as anything, etc etc, but I also always go back to David Harvey who talks about the fact that huge […]

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 7d

It creates these fascinating and weird economies. According to this 2016 study, 99.93% (!) of peering agreements are

> "handshake" agreements in which the parties agreed to informal or commonly understood terms without creating a written document […]

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Do you know about the "peering" structure of the Internet?

Massively simplified: you might know that when your computer talks to a computer on the other side of Earth, it's not a direct connection. Your data is bouncing between many different nodes and connections to get there.

Well, entities […]

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 7d

I am VERY much open to feedback on this project. It is in very early days and I'm sure there are a million great features that could be added. The project's Github is the best place to file feature requests:

https://github.com/berkmancenter/activitypub-fuzzer/

GitHub - berkmancenter/activitypub-fuzzer: The ActivityPub Fuzzer is a small program to help developers build social media software on the Fediverse with the ActivityPub protocol. It emulates known Fediverse software, helping solve the problem where developers have to manually test compatibility with dozens of other projects.

The ActivityPub Fuzzer is a small program to help developers build social media software on the Fediverse with the ActivityPub protocol. It emulates known Fediverse software, helping solve the prob...

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Extremely pleased to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer! This is a tool that runs in a local development environment and (partially) emulates known ActivityPub software. It can even create a fake local "public fire hose" shaped like what you might see if you hooked your […]

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 9d

> Microsoft last reported AI revenue in January. It’s October this week. Why did it stop reporting this number, you think? Is it because the numbers are so good it couldn’t possibly let people know?

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 words. I've written it specifically to be read at your leisure — dip in and out

www.wheresyoured.at

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Stochastic carrots, yum

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Me: puppies are cute

Fediverse: on the surface of the Sun a puppy does not remain cute for very long

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 12d

Thanks to the fediverse I have now been reminded many times over that the conversions that help me make my coffee every morning would completely fail me under non-Earth gravity conditions, or inside a hydrothermal vent, or if the water I'm using is in solid or gas form, or...

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 12d

@sam Probably a bit of both. I suspect there are some subtle second order effects that quiet things down when you're on a very small server as well, but I've never fully investigated and tested it.

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 13d

I would posit that if you are the kind of person for whom "at standard temperature and pressure" matters in a statistically significant way, either due to the need for precision or the extreme environment in which you live..... you probably don't need me to remind you that 1mL water is 1g water

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 13d

I've learned recently that there are adults who do not know that 1mL of water weighs 1g. If you didn't before, now you know.

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 13d

I'm sure other people have noted this but at some point we went from talking about "social network sites" to talking about "social media sites".

At first, the network was the thing that mattered. Then, the media was the thing that mattered.

A quick Google Trends query shows the shift might […]

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Idea: grim and gritty remake of Police Academy. It's basically The Wire but there's a cop who speaks only in sound effects, a cop who is really big, a cop who is a senior citizen, a cop who is a handsome class clown, a cop who is a woman... ok minus the sound effects this is basically The Wire […]

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wakest ⁂ @fedi.wake.st · 17d

played with a bit more in https://kidpix.app and then opened a screenshot of it in https://pal.constraint.systems (by @grantcuster)

a screenshot of the thing before color shifted in pal.constraint.systems

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Connected Places @fediversereport.com · 19d

‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism

on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism […]

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Darius Kazemi @darius.friend.camp.ap.brid.gy · 20d

maybe they should have specified webfinger with

/.well-actually/

...sorry sorry I'm deleting it!!!!

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