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Mastodon/fediverse peeps who come across Bluesky accounts that are bridged (i.e. using Bridgy Fed), how do you feel about them and their posts? Please boost widely, I’m trying to get input from more than just my followers. 🙏 #Mastodon #fediverse #Bluesky #ATproto #ActivityPub
Link to article mentioning suicide, sextortion
This is so freaking sad. The criminals behind this are reprehensible—but the buck doesn’t stop there. It is the responsibility of social media platforms to work to prevent these schemes from succeeding and spreading on their watch.
Death of 15-year-old West Virginia boy leads to sextortion investigation
The death of a 15-year-old boy in West Virginia has sparked an investigation into an alleged sextortion scheme.
 #TrustAndSafety #SocialMedia
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Sam Reich (@samreich@mastodon.online)
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 Excuse me, Sam Reich, CEO of Dropout, is posting on Mastodon with *nicely captioned alt-text!* If you don't already subscribe to Dropout, you really should. It’s like if American comedy was actually funny; a spiritual successor to Whose Line Is It Anyway in many ways, but also leaning into all the nerdiness and queerness of theater kids, D&D players, and comic book geeks. Truly smart and hysterical humor that lifts people up while never punching down. I really like Dropout. 🥰 View quoted note →
It’s really tiring hearing the, “open source is bad for security!” argument whenever it pops up, but especially in domains that *have a lot of work to be done* when it comes to adopting open source, like LLMs and AI models. Being MORE open is not the problem here. Opening up the weights and releasing under open licenses does not suddenly create security vulnerabilities, unless you believe solely in security through obscurity—which, I’m sorry, the tech industry has moved on from for the better.
Google Docs has a handy “Copy as Markdown” feature where you can paste rich text and then copy it out as (at least mostly reasonably-formatted) markdown. This is handy for quick and dirty conversion of a web page’s content, e.g. to quote in a blog post. Is there some native app on Flathub I can use to do something similar? The perfect scenario would be just pasting rich text into a text field and it immediately converts it and spits out the Markdown into the text box. #Linux #Flatpak #Flathub
I was admittedly bearish about Bazaar early on; I was confused by the design that was trying to reinvent a lot of things, plus I didn’t know how I felt about diverging efforts from GNOME Software. Now that the Bazaar team has decide to clone the Flathub web UI whenever it makes sense (and improve on it in cool ways!), I’ll admit it: it’s pretty rad. Huge props to the designers and developers making Bazaar. It’s the Flathub app store @npub1dkca...3gke always wanted. #Flathub #Flatpak #Linux #GNOME image
I largely prefer the architecture and experience of the fediverse/Mastodon over ATproto/Bluesky, but there are a number of accounts I care about that are only on Bluesky and not bridged to the fediverse. And even with bridging, it's not the best experience. How are other people handling this? The result for now is that I have two separate accounts… but I really don’t want to manage two different accounts. 😭