@FOG90 @wobl could take some hours. Mine was also stuck at 40% for a while. Refreshing the page seems ok.

@mindaugas fast forward is your friend 🙂

but which segments are interesting/relevant varies. Try this one, its a lively panel

https://youtu.be/KlO8ta86BMI?t=20950

@madeindex yep, the landing page is like that already (and maybe there is more to think along this direction, like have some dedicated namespace that is public etc.)

But wikis (like wikipedia itself) were designed to be open. For a friendly collaborating internet, not a hostile one...

Not clear to me how we could ever restore that environment. People have not realized that it was not a given and if you don't nurture your nice things they die.

@madeindex oh, the bot traffic is substantially gone.

But once behind a login, old style search engines (google, bing etc.) don't index you either, so you effectively vanish.

Now the users are only people who already had bookmarked the wiki (and bother to request an account).

And since 95% have an gmail accounts, its again down to mama Google 🤦

You couldn't design a worse internet if you tried really hard.

@madeindex

I have been running a wiki for more than a decade for people to use as they see fit. Its no longer possible because for each person visiting you have ten thousand bots scrapping indiscriminately. Effectively I must pay for a server for the "AI" bros to build LLMs to serve the same information in chatbot format (and collect payment 😡 )

The wiki is now behind a login. But even that will not survive. LLM's impersonating real people (e.g by filling forms) is getting easier by the day.

Breng op 18 maart uw stem uit voor de Piratenpartij, dan stemt u voor:

privacy, inclusie, respect voor elkaar, vrijheid, een overheid om op te vertrouwen, goede Europese samenwerking en zo veel mogelijk groen

#Privacy #Inclusief #Respect #Autonomie #Transparantie #Europees
#Natuur #GR2026

@madeindex "AI" already damaged the open internet because to produce slop you first need to pilfer every accessible pool of information, and that brings down servers😥

But there is no point crying, in a sense some of this disruption was inevitable, it's a tipping point created by all of us making a lot of good digital information, code, art etc. available.

It's been exploited by bad actors but we need to really think what good actors would do. Screaming "fire" is at best the first step.

@koen_hufkens yes, thats their purpose, fairly explicitly. The silver lining is that over time they have made the concept of "open source" (starting with the huge adoption of linux itself as the "cloud" platform) known to powerful circles (corporate world, government) that the grassroots movement never had much influence with.

Its a double edged knife and remains to be seen how it will all play out, but the current environment seems at least conducive for some hope 🤞

@adamsteer

@adamsteer like you said, its a systems within systems with systems complexity...

The challenge is that, even while all of them are conventions (and thus changeable), once power structures are built around them, they solidify like concrete. Thats why they say "never waste a crisis" 🤣 , they act like a sledgehammers.

But we need to find better ways, more systemic ways to disolve the concrete, because waiting for disasters means one of the next crises might be the last one... 🥶

@koen_hufkens this, plus a general lack of knowledge about open source. There was visceral antipathy for open source because the lack of explicit commercialism was interpreted as being anti-commercial (which is only true in part) - and hence even more invalidating.

I say "was" because in a perverse way the selective push of open source by bigtech (despite being detrimental in other ways) is what has started changing this perception in the worlds of corporates and government.

@adamsteer

@adamsteer

the "invisible hand" is real but it is also mutable and therein lies the challenge. To find what is missing, or what is wrong and must be replaced, so that the actions of inumerable actors lead to unambiguous benefit for *all* these actors [including for example their continued existence in a livable planet 🤣🥶 ]

RE: https://mastodon.nl/@tkdocs/116201032502858583

Als de coalitie hier dinsdag tegen stemt is het overigens wel over met de digitale soevereiniteitsambities van deze regering. Deze verkeerde beslissing is nog niet uitgevoerd en kan eenvoudig teruggedraaid worden. Als je dit al niet wil doen, dan ga je ingrijpendere soevereiniteitsmaatregelen ook zeker niet nemen. [Update: er wordt niet gestemd...]

Linux, Windows and Mac packages of #QGIS point release 3.44.8 "Solothurn" (new LTR) and new major release 4.0.0 "Norrköping" (vEA) ready on https://qgis.org. Make maps not war!

The hiring of former Meta political lobbyists is all you need to know about how "AI" will be shoved down our throats. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

British AI datacentre firm Nsc...

The #fediverse is embarking again in its anti #bluesky tirades (tbh no idea what the need for an interim CEO means, hopefully nothing really bad).

The interesting story on that front (and underreported around here) is the launch of #eurosky, based on #atproto but run separately (in Europe and by a non-profit).

Truth is, the overall architecture of #opensource decentral non-bigtech platforms is still wide open. It will not be shaped by rants but successful experiments.

https://eurosky.leaflet.pub/3mgnjewfva22q

@RobertoOtarola @schratze very true. As the writer said, paths are made by walking.

Before you ask a diffusion model to barf up a banner image for your article, please consider searching one of the many existing sources of fine & free media:
• Public Domain Image Archive
• Openverse
• Wellcome Collection Image Archive
• Digital Bodleian
• Getty Open Content Program
• Wikimedia Commons

#publicdomain #substack

Viewing water as a closed loop is key to protecting our #environment. Op-ed by Professor Frederic Coulon, director of the Environmental Biotechnology Innovation Centre (EBIC). 🚰

https://sustainabilityonline.net/explainer/viewing-water-as-a-closed-loop-is-key-to-protecting-our-environment/

We are aware of recent reports regarding targeted phishing attacks that have resulted in account takeovers of some Signal users, including government officials and journalists. We take this very seriously.

To be clear: Signal’s encryption and infrastructure have not been compromised and remain robust. These attacks were executed via sophisticated phishing campaigns, designed to trick users into sharing information – SMS codes and/or Signal PIN – to gain access to users’ accounts.

@Gina @agturcz @CiaraNi @fdroidorg @bo

they do not only require you to have one of the Apple/Google OS devices to participate in anything, you must also keep buying new ones because of planned obsolescence / not supporting older versions.

Happened to me: banking app stoped working because android phone was getting "old" (was still otherwise fully functional).

Forceful e-waste on top of the surveillance etc

I don't know how European politicians can see themselves in the mirror to be honest.