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@stefan @fediverse in my mental roadmap is to implement openbadges/activitybadges, but one must start with something:

https://activitybadges.org/

@mapache @mike @fediverse This is cool

@mapache i love this idea! Following with interest.

I gave a little bit of thinking on the changes I want to do to #badgefed before making my server public.

The one who emits the badges, is a #fediverse actor, this should be no controversial, after all, I use the public/private keys to sign the badges itself.

But in the first prototype the recipient of the grant, was a record in the system itself. The idea was to allow recipients outside the fediverse to receive badges as well. I did not wanted to store the email, so I required a profile url, think of your fediverse url, or for those outside #linkedin, #blog, even #facebook if they want. However, it gets things a little bit more complex and less clean than what I want.

Today, I decided that the recipient MUST be an actor of the #Fediverse. That is, it, that will be embedded as a mention, and should be clean and neat. For those who are not in the fediverse, #badgefed will provide an actor (and profile url) where they can add basic information such name, and bio links. Or they can create an account in any of the fediverse platforms at the moment of receiving the badge.

#activitypub #dotnet

the first badge and activitypub object, you can copy/paste the url and "open in mastodon" and will show as a note: https://badges.vocalcat.com/record/10

as with other activitypub implementations the idea is that you celebrate, comment, share the badge inside your activitypub client, e.g. mastodon!

Furthermore, think of a decentralized system, where the credentials get "federated", so different badges instances will recognize notes that are "certificates" issued by other instances. Now, if your certificate issuer disappear, well, the certificate is already decentralized, talk about survivability as the last episode of #dotsocial @Flipboard !

@cstross
Should be enough to keep the night watch busy for a few months.
@paolobacigalupi @harari_yuval @AdamGrant

Packing a #LittleLibrary to give away at #Mayday (#NoKings) in DC this week https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/

Favorite #fiction:
Accelerando @cstross
Water Knife @paolobacigalupi

#Nonfiction:
Sapiens @harari_yuval
Think Again @AdamGrant

#GraphicNovel
Toussaint Louverture - Karimjee et al

#boostodon #books

SO NOT ONE DEMOCRAT IS GOING TO FILIBUSTER THIS?
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/big-beautiful-bill-trans-medicaid-healthcare-minors-adults/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

#transphobia #transmisogyny #fascism #LGBTQ

@psyhackological
ruff must have some pretty awesome parsing crates under the hood, so maybe I'm wrong

@psyhackological
I love rust but parser generating/interpretting is tough in any compiled language. You are right, though, i found this suggestion https://users.rust-lang.org/t/lex-and-yacc-replacement/8761/2

Building a parser generator would be tough for a compiled language like Rust. If the target language is interpretted then it might be possible to port a tutorial like this to Rust: https://ruslanspivak.com/lsbasi-part1/
Haven't found similar tutorials for Rust as the "master" language.

I have an idea about how to get people to use turn signals.

Someone should create a device that listens to the music in the car and adjusts the blink rate of the signal to match the beat of whatever is playing. But don't advertise that the car has that feature.

I think it would encourage people to use their signals just to get that oddly satisfied feeling.

More than 40% of insect species have declined in just a decade. They’re vanishing 8 times faster than mammals, birds or reptiles.

If insects go, so do the ecosystems that keep us alive.

Biodiversity is our life-support system — we can’t afford to let it collapse.

#WorldBiodiversityDay

No problem. Just a little AI hallucination, but was the Tesla doing a little Ketamine?

https://fuelarc.com/tech/tesla-full-self-driving-veers-off-road-hits-tree-and-flips-car-for-no-obvious-reason-no-serious-injuries-but-scary/

@Savvyhomestead
TL;DR as tesla approached a "watch for trucks" sign, the slight rise in the road and shaddow of the sign on the road caused the tesla to turn hard left and drive into a tree, in less than a second, so there was no time for the driver to take any action at all. driver is unharmed. car is totaled.

Testing the Gosper curve in my variable iteration halftoning setup. So far I've only used the Hilbert curve this way, and things get a bit coarser with the Gosper, so it was harder to find images that make nice results. So here we are with the old Venus again.

The number of points multiplies by 4 for Hilbert and 7 for Gosper on each step, so the latter has to get by with fewer iterations for a sensible resolution. Here we have 6 iterations for 6 grey levels.

#halftoneart #gospercurve #planefillingcurve #spacefillingcurve #singlelinedrawing #pythoncode #opengl #algorithmicart #algorist #mathart #laskutaide #ittaide #kuavataide #iterati

DeGoogling is possible, and it doesn't need to be difficult. 👏

Take a look at our in-depth guide of Google alternatives to learn how you can take back your privacy in 2025. ❤️🔒

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Have you already DeGoogled? If so, let us know your favorite Google-free apps.

#DeGoogle #GoogleAlternatives #PrivacyMatters

@psyhackological
a parser generator? a self-modifying script?

This is a good news. Progress towards universal Copy/Paste shortcuts on Linux https://mark.stosberg.com/universal-copy-paste/

#linux #opensource