32 Burst results for "Mastodon"
Bitcoin Audible
The Nostr Privacy Paradox
"Let's get into today's read. And its titled. The noster privacy paradox by Lola elites. While Nostra is by no means a privacy protocol, it could bring potential improvements to Bitcoin privacy. No stir, short for notes and other stuff transmitted through relays, is a new communication protocol, developed in 2021 by lightning network developer Fiat Jeff, which evolved out of Ellen bits developer Ben arcs attempt at a fully decentralized marketplace called diagon alley. As opposed to other communication solutions, which mostly functioned by a dumb client and smart servers, noster offers smart clients and dumb servers, which heightens censorship resistance for users. In those are all data is stored locally with users and merely distributed via relays rather than stored on central servers such as via Twitter. In the case of social media, no stir increases censorship resistance. As users are enabled to fully own their own content and profiles. In light of recent controversies around Twitter's censorship policies, users began migrating toward the Federated communications solution Mastodon. However, in Mastodon, ownership over content and profiles lies with those running the Mastodon servers that users signed up with. While federation's such as Mastodon offer more censorship resistance than centralized servers, as users are able to simply sign up to another server when censored, criticism has arisen around potential censorship on Mastodon through server owners. In December 2022, the noster community received a 14 Bitcoin grant from Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, which brought unprecedented attention to the protocol. As applications built on Nostra evolved, the mobile client domus jumped to number one in social networking in the iOS App Store in China, resulting in its ban. In an apparent effort to contain the hashtag march off Twitter, Twitter CEO Elon Musk shortly banned the publication of Nostra related content, along with bands on other third party platforms such as Instagram, but to no avail.
Ubuntu Podcast
"mastodon" Discussed on Ubuntu Podcast
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Linux Matters Podcast
Mastodon Server on a Budget: How I Run it with Less than 40 Users
"Linode box because I didn't want to spend a load of money on it. Because I just wanted a Mastodon instance for me and my friends who were into Ubuntu and wanted to talk about Ubuntu things. And it seemed like that was a good idea at the time. And yet, this was well before the Twitter explosion. And so the meteoric rise of people using Mastodon and other alternatives. And yes, now there are more people or masters on and yes, it takes up a lot more resources than it did in the past. But that's countered by the fact that I have intentionally constrained how many users are on this instance. I was very laissez-faire with the criteria of how you get an account on the old one. And on this one, I've said you have to be an Ubuntu member. And that's kept it below 40 people worse before it was hundreds, and it was killing server. And so the balance of those two things is this fewer users, even though it's more popular, I've got fewer users. So penis a picture of those resources. You said it was a constrained server. What did that look like? And what does the one you're running it on now look like by comparison? So the first server I ran was I can't actually remember because I think I destroyed it in a ball of flames, but it was a low end linode box,
She Podcasts
"mastodon" Discussed on She Podcasts
"Only have until March 31st. So please don't forget. And now we can move into Mastodon, which is so far eluded me and it's usefulness and fun. So speaking of, I know. Okay, so my usage of social media, the reason that I'm in the boat that I'm in now is because I'm a huge early adopter, right? So something comes out, I want to test it. I want to go, I want to poke the buttons, I want to see what's going on in there. I want to play with it. And thus, this is where I am. But so now, given the fact that Twitter has essentially imploded and there's so many things about it that I loved and now I really don't. I've been totally rearranging my usage of social in so many different ways. I'm sure I'm not the only one and of course not. Mastodon is one of the places that folks are going into. And I'm not in no way am I saying that Mastodon is not problematic in its own ways. In fact, when I first went into Mastodon, which was I can't remember when I first signed up, it was last year at some point. The first I did not get it. And I remember I went in and I was overwhelmed with the posts were from people. I didn't even know. And I don't get why it's fun. I don't get either one. It was like I was literally in the plate. Like, yeah, you go to a place and it's the worst. It's like where you would never go, right? You walk in and you're like, I have zero in common with all of these people. Why am I here? Why am I here? Yeah, like I don't even know what to say. I don't know. So I kind of was there and I paid attention once in a while I would go in and I didn't even know anyway.
She Podcasts
"mastodon" Discussed on She Podcasts
"Every year. Less people in my life, please. I don't like the people. Yeah, because it's kind of cool. I must say, as one of the people in your life, it's a little, it's a little hurtful. I think that it has to do with my job. Okay, mate. On social. Okay, maybe. Right? I think it has to do with my job on social because I feel I would be more apt to engage and connect with people if I didn't have to do it for my job. I don't know if you would. I think if you didn't have this job, you would, you would sail away into the LC abyss, never to return. Oh my God, it would be so amazing. I know. See? I knew it. Not cool, bro there was something I wanted to do before. Before we go into Mastodon, I want to say a couple things. First, we ran a contest last week saying that whoever bought a ticket from international women's day and beyond, we would mention you and your show on the show. And there were three people that bought a ticket and drew to win. So we have Holland saltzman and her show is called the novel neighbor and ov. We have Megan Lewis and her show is called story pillar, stories and SEL for kids. Very cool. And lastly, we have makita Smith whose show is called time TH Y ME for T with mikita, which sounds very cool and cute. So thank you guys for taking us up on our offer for women say this week.
She Podcasts
"mastodon" Discussed on She Podcasts
"We go with it. That's the tough part, I think. For me. I mean, when you crack down, you've changed your mind about being rigid and not being rigid a few times. So if you're telling me now, okay, I want to be a little, I like what we're doing, but I want to be a little more rigid. I'll go with it. Totally. Right. I'll be careful to follow what we hit. You know why I was already on a weird. But anyway, I do want to follow up on this. These types of tangents are important because it helps other people who are listening, be able to instigate, have these ear with these conversations sound like so that they can perhaps instigate it with their own partners. We can have a conversation and make changes to our podcast live so that people can see how it works, right? Yes, yes. It's a bad thing. I don't think in terms of content because I see how important it is for the planning of the content and creating, again, creating the best show. Now, I've been doing a lot of research and I've been prepping my team over on libsyn, right? At leading content based around video podcasting because I am very, very much bullish on providing as much education for video podcasting as possible for our people because there's going to be a lot of questions. There are a lot of questions that are going to be coming up just coming up all the way around around video. That's just a conversation that needs to be addressed. So I want to provide those things. So I've been doing a lot of research. I've been doing a lot of what are the best practices and whatnot. So there is a podcast. I'm going to be doing a couple of live events coming up for April and May, April and May, with a team of ecamm, the ecamm team, we're going to be co hosting a couple of live events.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Americans Have a Right to Privacy As Much As Free Speech
"I believe Americans have a right to privacy as much as you have a right to speech. Both are in the Bill of Rights, by the way. You have a right to speak, and you also have the right to privacy to have your personal effects, your home, your family, not rated by the government or not rated by other people. Or by a company. So Elon's jet account that now restarted itself on this super weird website called Mastodon, Mastodon is a rival social networking site. Mosque then suspended macedon's Twitter account, and it seems that the journalists whose accounts he suspended were themselves linking to the Mastodon page. So these people, these journalists think they're immune from any rules, even though they are posting intimate and private detail location of Elon Musk and his family. And so now the parasite class of reporters at CNN had a panic attack. Now, it's very interesting because the very people at CNN who have been trying to destroy free speech in the west immediately find it so to be repulsive. That they would dare have their Twitter account suspended. And they are complaining the loudest of any community out there. Let's play cut 98. The impulsive and unjustified suspension of a number of reporters, including CNN's donio Sullivan, is concerning but not surprising, and it goes on and say, Twitter's increasing instability and volatility should have should be of incredible concern for everyone who uses Twitter. So that's CNN saying that this should be a huge concern for anybody that uses Twitter. CNN continues by cut 99 Oliver Darcy says that Elon Musk is exposing Elon's commitment to free speech.
The Dinesh D'Souza Podcast
The Leftist Censors Move to 'Woke' Platform Mastodon
"Yesterday I tweeted out that the censorship on Twitter was not a uniform censorship, but a one way censorship against conservatives that left us were never banned and Elon Musk replied to me and he goes correct, correct. And of course that magnified the reach of my tweet, which was seen by times of people. And it turns out that a lot of these woke leftists on Twitter who are angry. They're not angry by the way that they are being censored. They're not being censored. They're angry that they don't get the sense or other people. And some of them are like, well, Twitter has become a very hateful place. Let's go to the other platform, which I'd never heard of quite frankly. It's called Mastodon. And what's funny about Mastodon is that it's all these leftist tall monitors, if you will, are now on Mastodon, and they're all trying to cancel each other. So it's really fun to watch because one guy says to another guy, you know, well, you're not just sufficiently you don't have sufficient allegiance to the trans issue. You need to be banned. And then the other guy goes, well, I don't want to be banned because of some activists and the guy goes, you can't call me an activist. I'm a journalist. And so all of this is going back and forth, one guy was essentially kicked out of a journalistic platform on Mastodon for calling another guy a boot licker. And so, you know, banning is the name of the game here. In fact, I was telling W she's I had a clever idea that I'm going to go on mastered on myself. Now, I'm not going to go on as diminished as Souza because I'd be banned instantly. I'm going to go on as this kind of super woke Asian Indian guy. And just between you and I think I'm going to use the name Kumar P kumara Swami. That's me. That means like you can't give it away. They'll know it's you. Well, this is kind of between us. Don't let the cat out of the bag, but my idea is to go on as a super woke guy on Mastodon and demand that everybody be banned because they're not sufficiently woke.
Talk Python To Me
"mastodon" Discussed on Talk Python To Me
"Now I really want to have all my favorite people, all my favorite projects, Putin from the 31st, whatever instance they land on and get very excited about the future. Yeah, I completely agree with you. Thanks, Simon. I've got a call to action for people toot about nice things and something I've been doing every day. I try and protect a message about one of my projects, which I do hash projects on, and I'm encouraging other people to do exactly the same thing. It's like celebrate things that we've built. I try and if you click on media, I try and post a wildlife photo every day as well and with wildlife photography because who doesn't want to see a photograph of pelican in their seat. Does your dog have a Mastodon feed? Not yet. No, I haven't moved it. She hasn't moved everything to a yet, but she should do. She's not upset. She's still just sticking with that group. She's not up there. She's a bit old fashioned on that front. Yeah. But yeah, how's nice things? Reply to people, get involved like the one of the things that we're all enjoying about Mastodon is that people are nice to each other and talk about interesting things. So get on there and talk about interesting things and be nice to people. That's the best thing that we can be doing right now. Yeah. I love that. Thank you, Simon, for the project hashtag, because I have had a blast reading through that and also participating in that. Fantastic. It's really fun. Yeah. Yeah, totally. And I'll be sure to link to everybody's Mastodon profile so you can follow all the guests. As I always do, but I think that's especially relevant now. Everyone's coming over. It's a little bit different to find folks and connect, but my experience is Mastodon is very active, very full of python people who are friendly and excited to be there. And so it's a great place. It's not just a couple of people who are there. It's a great community and folks should check it out. Carol Gina Juan Simon has been great to have you all here. Thank you so much for being part of this. Thanks Fox News. Thank you for having us. Thanks for you for the bite. Thank you for having me. Bet. Bye. This has been another episode of talk python to me. Thank you
Talk Python To Me
"mastodon" Discussed on Talk Python To Me
"That server specific though. Emojis. Yeah, I think that doesn't work on mine or at least I haven't seen it on accounts online yet. And it's okay. X wax out there says you can put it in the location field and get up as well. Do you have an example of that? That'd be great to see what you're talking about. I can pull up. Oh, you don't think you can put URLs in the YouTube chat. They will be filtered out. Yes, you're right. Of course they will be filtered out. It's probably the geographical location field. Maybe your user location field GitHub maybe. I just hope that GitHub would see the light about the importance of macedon verification and allow us to either add the Mastodon account there or just more than one homepage link within well equals me thing there. And I've poked them a bit but so far sadly nothing, but I'll keep poking them. There's an open issue about that or a conversation somewhere right. I saw that the other day, but I didn't call it the URL. So yeah, I think the internals lag. And X wax said, yes, the location field. There's a couple other things I want to follow up on here before we go. And Gina, this one might be particularly relevant to you. Here let me put this in. So apparently the German government has set up its own Mastodon server. You probably know more than I do about this. Yeah, they created this social dot Bundy and yeah, more and more ministries and official places. So what you see there in the screenshots is the or was the BME Bond, which is our ministry of inner security and such. And then, yeah, data protection freedom of information. My own county, as I just said, also or rather my own state actually also is apparently now there. The hesitation. So hey, cool. And yeah, they started doing that around the time that Elon bought the thing. So two weeks ago or three weeks. I don't know, maybe the server is older, but the influx of a ten of official accounts started something around that time. And what I also recently learned is so we have this international emergency broadcast thing that is not as an S based, but rather an app. I don't know how official that is, but there is also a server dedicated to just subscribing to the so called Nina notifications for your location so that you get a message on notification when there is some kind of emergency like really bad weather or I don't know some pump that was found from World War II. Again, which also happens all the time here. And that is kind of neat that they integrated that. So I immediately followed my local X one. A little terrifying now because that means make matters on a safety critical system. You know, when my cues backed up for an hour, suddenly, I'm getting nervous that these messages really do need to be delivered in real time. As you're looking at the rubble warning, earthquake coming. But this is a really, really cool. I absolutely love this idea. And I think other governments should also consider this seriously. Now, two more areas, we're getting short on time. I want to make sure we focus on. First a little bit of programmability, there's a thing called toot and a python library, which you can program, hold toot. So the Tutsi, is that what it's called? Yep. This is it, and it's a massive on in the terminal. Which is pretty interesting. But it has a python library. Has anyone done anything with this? Not yet. Now, I've complained with the API directly because masked on your local server has an HTTP API. It's super, it's a very clean, very well designed API. One of the things it can do is it got a streaming API so you can hold open a connection to a URL and every time a new toot comes in, it gets fed to your script. So I've got a little script to the gist, which I've just been to you in the private chat, which listens to my server and writes to a SQLite database every time something happens. And then I can analyze it in dataset and run SQL queries and so forth. This is going to be the basis where you scroll down. So you went python stream dot py and give it a database. That's the schema. And this is the whole thing. It's what, like, 30 lines of code. Because all you have to do is stream against that fairly dot sign wisdom, that API V one streaming public. And then every time a new line comes in, it is JSON right at the database. So when I talk about building my own algorithm, this is how I'm going to do it. I'm going to be sucking all of that data down into a little SQLite database, and then running SQL. There's against it. I was really impressed on how easy this was. Another thing I don't even need an API key this one. This is just
Talk Python To Me
"mastodon" Discussed on Talk Python To Me
"Add a backlink pointing to your Maslow profile. And somehow the system does this update for you and those links appear as verified. And I think it's really interesting first that you don't need any technical special things. You don't need any blockchain or anything like that for it to work. As long as you trust that talk python not FM is by Michael Kennedy, then you can assume that the Barcelona account is going to be properly verified. And at the same time, it sets a very good precedent for news outlets, for example, to create their own instance and say, look, we're going to verify our instance and you know that anybody with an account here is either like a journalist of ours or it's us our official voice and so forth. So it provides a way of doing this distributed inexpensive verification. And I think that's really, really interesting. And there's no central authority that says, we hereby confer upon you this check mark, right? Here's the evidence I present that I am me or that talk python has talked python or whatever and that gets verified and people can decide how much they trust that. I just love this because it's such an elegant solution and it's so funny with Twitter verification being this complete trash fact for the past two weeks and all the questions. Right. And then on Mastodon, it's like, oh, no, you put a rel equals me link on your site back and you highlight my end and that's done. And I think it's beautiful. I mean, it's a really clever set. There are some interesting tricks with it. So I've got to GitHub accounts and GitHub will use rel equals me only on the about URL field on your profile. So and you only get one of those. So you can link back to your account and GitHub and get a verified thing, but then I wanted that point to my regular site, so I edit it back again, which actually breaks because my server knows that I'm verified because it happens to check while that link was that. But then other people servers don't show that application because they all check independently. As they should, right? Nobody should trust my server about the verified links. They all need to do their own little verification stab. It's also, when you look at the activity queues, there's a whole lot of activity at just checking these verified links from each server to make sure that that. But I do think it's a beautifully simple and elegant way of solving this problem. And then, of course, you can add a blue chick bar next to your name just to the dope. And I actually did that and very proud of colon verified. I don't know if I could pull it out. Like this. Oh yeah.
Talk Python To Me
"mastodon" Discussed on Talk Python To Me
"To fall over in the next month than I do. And I guess some of that's the experience that I had with the Federated version of my binder dot org and how we went from a small group of people hosting notebooks for free for the academic world and Federated it out to other institutions to handle the housely and worked out really well over the last few years. So I give a lot of credit to the folks that have been working hard for the last several years on Mastodon. I feel like we should talk about the business model because Twitter adds and selling your data and all sorts of stuff. The thing I love about one of the things I love about masks on the business model is just so open. It's like, there are volunteers who are doing the stuff. They are volunteer there, spending their time moderating their spending their money running instances, you should support them. Obviously shit, right? There's no adverse that you can't use the thing for free and expect it to be paid for because there are ads. There are no outer and saying, and I feel like Elon has set us the price, right? The price is $8 a month, right? That's what he wants us to pay on Twitter. If everyone who's using and can afford to do so, but to $8 a month towards their local, the server they're running on. It's going to be fine. It's just going to work. And we should all be committed to doing that, I think. I absolutely do. Let's talk about the instances because I think the culture aspect of the norms, especially that Carol was talking about a really important here. And that also has a bit to do with the deployment. Now let me track down. There's an interesting place to begin finding incident instance. There's how many instances are there now? 4000, something like that. These are basically hosts for little communities, little islands of Mastodon. And there's this place called instances social and you can say, well, I want to what language do I want to speak? Do I care how many people are there? Because you might want a small community or a large and you can say about what you are the type of content that you would like to be blocked. And then you could go search. I'm interested in open-source. And what do you get? You get all these different faucets on, for example, Knicks net, and so on. The one that I think is pretty interesting that I just recently learned about is hacker them. Carol, I know that you're on there, right? Absolutely. And they have a great nova very seasoned open-source contributor who's done tons of work in Kubernetes and other communities and they have a really open model that's on GitHub. Know exactly what they're doing in terms of the community standards and I started seeing friends of mine go there and I was like, hey, they're doing it right from the start. And I think that's something that to me is really important. Like, a, I know this is going to be about as safe and open space that when easy to know how to contribute back to them, financially, in code, whatever. And you know what the rules are. And the direction is. And I couldn't be more happy to be part of that. My favorite thing about this server, you can see it on Twitch. So Chris nova streams on Twitch and in the background is a rack lit up, and that rack is hacking them, sits in their basement, it's got a fiber optic cable plug coming into it. It's a real thing, right? It's really exciting. You can touch it. Yeah. It's not in the cloud. It's on the ground, actually. It's in basement. This portion of talk python is brought to you by Microsoft for startups, founders hub. Starting a business is hard by some estimates over 90% of startups will go out of business in just their first year. With that in mind, Microsoft for startups set out to understand what startups need to be successful and to create a digital platform to help them overcome those challenges. Microsoft for startups, founders hub was born.
Talk Python To Me
"mastodon" Discussed on Talk Python To Me
"In a way, must have done this a bit like email, right? Yes. You have, you have an open, more or less well defined protocol that is actually a W3C standard called activity department activities streams and email we have SMTP and imap and stuff. And you have servers on the Internet that speak that protocol. Social foster dot org chaos social and anything that you want to set up on master host and whatever. And the thing now is that just the same way that if you write an email from your Gmail account to someone who has their email hosted at fast mail or on their own domain, you can also do that with macedon because you can write a tool and we call these tools and not tweets to someone. So I can toot to Microsoft for Sudan. I am on chaos social that works just fine because there is a common protocol shared that both servers speak. There is even in the activity a concept of an inbox and an outbox, so it is very email like in that regard. And that just works. And that doesn't just work for micro blogging service like Twitter or in this case Mastodon because when we talk about Mastodon, we also have to talk about the fatty worse and macedon is just a part of the fatty wars because there is other stuff. There is an Instagram alternative like called pixel fed, same thing, open-source software you can install on your server and then put your pictures on there and share them across to other pixel fet or even to other Mastodon instances because it's the same protocol. There is stuff like a YouTube alternative called piet tube, same protocol. Again, cross compatible, can talk to each other. We have bookworm that is a bit like goodreads, by the way, witnessed python, very interesting to look into the source if you want to get an idea how to implement activity pub. And yeah, there's a ton of other stuff too. So currently macedon is very big in focus because of this Twitter alternative thing, but when you start looking into this whole very worse and this whole thing that powers mustered on it, how Mastodon works, then you realize, hey, there is a big, big world there beyond just sending toots and talking about where else. And it's crazy how these different alternatives can communicate together because have you seen when people share a tweet that contains a screenshot of an Instagram post that it's itself like a screenshot of something that you saw on TikTok and so it turns out that you can communicate through all these alternatives with the same protocol. It feels real that you can prompt Twitter, so to speak, follow an Instagram account and get their pictures on Twitter. It's like nothing we've ever dreamed of. And it's currently possible with the technology. Of course, it has queer and whatnot. But in a sense, it's like prohibiting world gardens for good. And just interacting with any sort of social media with unified protocol. Yeah, there's nobody who controls whether you have a blog or not on the Internet. Not really. Exactly. Mastodon here, where I think the fact that this works as well as it does is a miracle. It is absolutely phenomenal. Like people have put Mastodon itself as 6 years old, the activity pub standards are even older than that. A huge number of incredibly hardworking incredibly smart people have sweated over this stuff for years and years and years, and I feel like we're getting one of those overnight success moments right now where overnight successes are always like 5 years in the making. The two weeks ago, we all started leaping onto this thing and it hasn't sunk. Like the fact that it's actually managing to scale up with this amount of activity with a few glitches and some things are a little bit slow occasionally. No, I think this is an absolute miracle of software engineering. I could not be more impressed by what these people have built for us, this thing that we're diving on right now. It's just like, this is an incredibly difficult technical problem. Incredibly difficult social problem, the design problem like designing community software is extremely hard and they've done such a great job up there. So you see people sort of complaining about little details and things and missing, no, come on, like we all just got here and I can not believe what an amazingly rich and vibrant world they have created and something that technically works so well. And I'm just astonished by it. Yeah, I love that perspective, and I totally agree with you. It should also maybe be added that some of the things that people complain about missing are actually intentional stuff intentionally left out. For example, a lot of people come unnested on for the first time in the first thing that they miss is where's the quote feature? Why can't I not quote this toot and set my opinion on top and that is intentional because the idea is that on macedon, you should not talk about people. You should talk with people, so comment on that thing, interact with the thing. You are free to just boost retweet. Your response so that it gets more widespread visibility maybe, but the first thing that you should do is interact with the person who wrote something that you want to discuss or want to add to instead of just trying to be like, hey, look what I found. And all of this is now about me. And the other thing is that people miss a search and I can totally understand that because the only thing that you can currently search is your local instance and maybe the Federated timeline. And that is also intentional because the idea is that if you are on Twitter and you are a very, very bad person who wants to target marginalized group, then you enter some keywords. And you add those keywords as a safe touch, and then you constantly and constantly and constantly just abuse the people who pop up with this keyword search. And you can not do that on a macedon. It's simply that it's not possible. It goes a long way to humanizing and re humanizing the tools that we work with because it does give you this sense of, hey, I'm not going to be as targeted for something I say or do that is just part of my normal open-source every day world. But like Simon said, I mean, I think you've got these brilliant people coming together out in the open to manage a service that I have much more questions whether or not
Talk Python To Me
"mastodon" Discussed on Talk Python To Me
"Let's share that. Or python versus ruby. I don't know. Or maybe just silly memes that happen to be fun to watch, but making you lose some neurons. So I think my quality of life improved a lot when I switched to the chronological timeline. So when I disabled the algorithm, but I had to put lots of measures like a browser extension that hides the trending topics and blocking people like there's no tomorrow. I don't know. I had to develop my own habits to make Twitter sustainable for me. And Elon Musk buying it was just the icing in the cake. It pretty much went the same for me. I got to say, so I started taking extended Twitter breaks, especially over the weekends when the pandemic started and then even more so when the war started and just because of all this negativity that constantly got flooded into your timeline and I already was on the chronological one and it still got flooded into there because obviously people who weren't in the chronological one got it got it via the algorithm, then they I was about to say boosted it and I've got that now they retweeted it and that way it then it ended up in mind and I had to mute so many people I had to add so many filters to my experience and all of that that I mean in the end I got a very filtered and very chamber version of Twitter, but it was still way before that guy bought it. It was way before that already just another sink of my energy actually and with Mastodon I never so far have had and I've been very active on there ever since the first hey I'm going to buy Twitter brought happened I think April or so this year. And it was just like a completely utterly different kind of experience like I met a number of people that I would never have found on Twitter who I am now interact with a lot because they are just genuinely interesting and do very, very amazing stuff and there are capybaras and square roots in my timeline way more than they were before on Twitter. So I enjoy that stuff and there is still the bad things and still the serious stuff and still the news, but they are tamed. They are not amplified 2000s and that is really not an algorithm boosting it even more, yeah. This portion of talk python is brought to you by the AWS insider's podcast. When was the last time you ordered a physical server to host your functions as a service, your latest API or your most recent web app. I remember the last time I did, that was around the year 2001. And yes, it was quite the Odyssey. Of course, we don't do that anymore. We run our code in the cloud with near instant provisioning and unparalleled data centers. And the most popular cloud provider is AWS. But for all the ways that AWS has made our lives easier, it has also opened a massive box of choices. Should you choose platform as a service or maybe it's still VMs with Ayaz? What about your database? Maybe you should choose a managed service like RDS with Postgres, or is dynamo
Talk Python To Me
"mastodon" Discussed on Talk Python To Me
"Wondering what Mastodon is all about, more importantly, what is it offer python developers and other open-source folks compared to Twitter? There's a huge amount of interest in the tech community about what's happening at Twitter and about whether people should expand to or even entirely move to a new location. So I decided to put together a set of experienced python developers who have been Mastodon inhabitants for a long time to discuss what this unexpected shift means for one of our most important online watering holes. On this episode, you'll meet Gina houska, Simon willison, Carol welling, and Juan Luis Kano Rodriguez. We're going to have a great time talking about the technology and the culture of Mastodon from this python perspective. This is talk python, episode 390, recorded Monday, November 14th, 2022. Welcome to talk python to me, a weekly podcast on python. This is your host, Michael Kennedy, follow me on macedon where I'm at M Kennedy and follow the podcast using at talk python, both on Boston dot org. Be careful with impersonating accounts on other instances, there are many. Keep up with the show and listen to over 7 years of past episodes at top python FM. We've started streaming most of our episodes live on YouTube. Subscribe to our YouTube channel over at talk python slash YouTube to get notified about upcoming shows and be part of that episode.
AP News Radio
Twitter drama too much? Mastodon, others emerge as options
"With all the upheaval at Twitter after Elon Musk took over industry experts are providing suggestions for alternative social media sites As Elon Musk takes dramatic steps to overhaul Twitter prompting many subscribers to exit Mastodon has emerged as a FrontRunner among those ready to fly away from the Bluebird platform They're not tweets unmasked on their toots and it operates as a decentralized social network made up of independent servers that are able to connect Clubhouse is another It's an audio only app that lets you start or listen in on conversations about things like tech pro sports parenting and black literature tumblr and media are also options And also note that Gabor Shelley a Twitter and Google veteran has been working on an improved version of Twitter which might include text and TikTok style videos I Jackie Quinn
Gadget Lab Podcast
"mastodon" Discussed on Gadget Lab Podcast
"Until this one came along and then I realized that this is the only one that you really need to read. So so much things to say by roger steffens, that's my recommendation. Awesome. Thanks, Mike. Sure. Always happy to squeeze in these obscure musical references about some of the bestselling artists in history for you. That's not obscure though. I know. Last week, was it last week or the week before, I said something about an obscure artist and you said, she's not obscure. Bob Marley is not obscure. Right. What's your recommendation? My recommendation is white lotus season two on HBO Max. Really? No, I'm kidding. I'm just going to say we've got to get you up to speed. I have not watched the whole season yet. HBO is trickling them out week by week, so you can't really binge watch it unless you wait several weeks to watch it all at once. I have watched 5 episodes because that's what was available to the press when HBO handed out their digital screeners. There are only two that are available to broader audiences right now, but it's great. It's brilliant. It's created by Mike white last season. It revolves around a murder again, the very first episode you learn that someone has been multiple someone's have been murdered. And you sort of just see a body floating by, but it's hard to tell who it is. And so then all of these characters are introduced in white lotus is the name of a resort chain. Last season was in Hawaii, this season is in Sicily, so a bunch of incredibly wealthy people are at the white lotus resort again, and it's an ensemble cast. It's like a handful of different couples, and they don't all know each other, but then they sort of interact different ways throughout the season. And yeah, I would say so far this season doesn't feel quite as masterful as the first one. I think the first one was new, and it was the concept was great, the writing was great. You sort of felt very infested and characters, whether they were the resort guests, or people who actually worked at the resort. But the second season does maintain the element of escapism. That's makes it really fun to watch, and it's kind of like a soap opera, and there's all this sexual tension and total weirdness. And this underlying darkness that you're just waiting to rear its ugly head. And I'm really enjoying it so far. I can't wait to watch the final two episodes. You'll have to live to them. I will indeed have to lie to them or boost others who are live tooting about it. Is that we're going to start doing that for live events. We're going to go cover a big event and be like, are we doing a live toot? I look forward to all of your all of your tooths live or not about the finale of white lotus season two. I should be caught up by then. I look forward to your tooth about Swedish psych pop. Andrew, we very much look forward to your toots about your dog collars and everything else that is going on in the world of Twitter and Mastodon. Thanks again for joining us. Thanks so much for having me. And thanks to all of you for listening. If you have feedback, you can find most of us on Mastodon. And all of us on Twitter because we're still there. Just check the show notes. We'll put our handles in. I guess we should probably start putting our mask on handles in. We absolutely should. But why not? Our producer is the excellent Boone ashworth. Who's sitting here wearing a woolly mammoth costume? It's a video. Oh. Sorry. We'll be back next week. Thanks for listening. Hi, I'm Pam druckerman, and this is tell me what you really think. Where I'm talking with innovators and change makers about the challenging and chaotic times we're living through. These are the kinds of conversations everyone wants to hear. Like what everyone is discussing when they think no one is listening. Desantis, let's sit down in the same room and let's have some really hard conversations. I don't think he could handle you. When I'm not hosting this podcast, I'm the global chief revenue officer at Conde nast, but don't worry, we're not taking ourselves too seriously. Tell me what you really think, starting October 19th. What you really italicize really think. Okay. Don't feel nervous about it. And you are not afraid of failure, so this should be easy for you. Okay, okay. Make sure you're following, tell me what you really think, wherever you're listening now. And we'll be releasing new episodes on Wednesdays.
Gadget Lab Podcast
"mastodon" Discussed on Gadget Lab Podcast
"Andrew, you're up first. What is your recommendation this week? My recommendation, I'm going to go with classic gadget recommendation is the 5 dog callers. The privacy side of my brain hates them because it tracks the location of my dogs and my phone constantly. So I'm sure that there's good reasons to not want to use this device, but all my dogs got really fat and this has made them get less fat. And I really like it, it tracks all their steps and everything. It makes it much easier to be a good responsible dog owner and keep your dogs healthy because you push them a little bit farther than you think you really want to on their walks and things like that and it really helps really helps your dogs stay trim and can also track them if they get lost, which might have fortunately not knock on wood, but yeah, 5 dog collars. We're going to need to know everything about your dogs. Quickly, their names, you can rattle them off Matt Damon style and their ages and their breeds, please. Sure. I have three dogs, my first dog is sajo. He's a 12 year old German Shepherd. We also have lucho, who is a three year old German Shepherd and truffle who is a 11 month old yellow lab. Lucho and truffle are both dropouts from guiding eyes for the blind, which is a guide dog school where my wife runs the adoption program. So both of them had some slightly not guide dog traits. And so we got to adopt them when they were little puppies. That's amazing. They're good. So truffle, you said. Truffle, yes. Yeah, it sounds like he was just being set on the path to be a wee bit pudgy. Yeah, it's a she and she is actually not she came in at the after we got the 5 collar for lucho, who was the main fat one. Truffle is actually jacked. She's like a jacked little puppy because of lucha. She weighs around 60 pounds. Lucho is a little over a hundred pounds not fat. And so she thinks she's a hundred pound German Shepherd and plays like one. So she's the fittest of the bunch. Oh, so she's going to stand on the podium with you when you accept your bid for mayor. Exactly. How much do these colors cost? I think they're around $80, but there seems to be a perpetual sale. So I'm not sure. And I think they just came out with a new one, the series three, which I have deemed not worth my money yet. So we'll see. This series three dog holler. Yeah. Like their apple. This is the next generation. Good morning. This is our new dog collar. We're all past the point now where it does not feel weird to do things like charge our dog collars or charge our basketball shoes. Or charge our surfboards. No, I do not charge a surfboard. All right, thanks again for that awesome recommendation. More dogs on gadget lab. More dogs. Mike, what's your recommendation this week? I'm going to recommend a book. It's a book that I just finished. It's called so much things to say, the oral history of Bob Marley. And it's written by roger Stephens. It's an oral history. So it's a book of interviews, but our guide through the history of Bob Marley's life is roger steffens, who is a longtime broadcaster, reggae scholar, and one of the world experts on Bob Marley and that world of Jamaican music. Known as reggae music, which I'm a big fan of. And I've read a lot of Bob Marley books. There are a ton of Bob Marley books, and I've read most of them. And this one is by far the best one I have ever read. It's excellent. Roger steffens has about 40 years worth of interviews with all of the people around bob, his family members, his band members, former band members, business associates, lovers, children, and he's assembled this book that takes us through bob's very early years right up until his death at 36 from melanoma. And it is just really interesting because it's the only book that I've read about bob that paints him as a real complex three dimensional individual, right? A lot of times when there's a figure who is like a really big, important figure for a lot of people in many parts of the world, Bob Marley is considered a prophet. He's considered a saint. He's above human. And a lot of the books about him sort of take that stance where his life is viewed through the lens of somebody who is destined for immortality. This book really presents him as a real human being, a man with problems and joys and sadness and setbacks and successes. It's just phenomenal. The best part about it, of course, is hearing all of the voices of his friends and family talk about him. And all of his complexity. So I could definitely recommend it to anybody who is a lover of reggae music or has read Bob Marley books or is just interested in hearing more about his life because he was such a big figure in music. And even if you're a jaded because I'm jaded, like I said, I've read all these books. I did not need another one in my life.
Gadget Lab Podcast
"mastodon" Discussed on Gadget Lab Podcast
"Everybody wants to keep using it, that remains to be seen. Yeah, that's a good point. I will say despite the fact that Mastodon has been around since 2017, right now it does have that chaotic but good chaotic energy right now. Like that early web, let's fuck around and find out. Let's tinker with things, look at this new feature. Like, who else is here for the hang? It's kind of fun to spend time on. Once you can get over that initial hurdle of finding a server and actually signing up, which took an entire weekend for me. Yeah. I was just waiting and waiting for a verification email and it finally came through. But like Twitter feels chaotic right now, but it's a very dark timeline. We're taping this on election day. And so it's like, how is Twitter going to disrupt democracy yet again? And it's not a good chaotic energy. And Mastodon still feels new. It's going to be wild two years. I do think that a lot of that onboarding experience that you're talking about, Lauren, that is something that could be solved by a good user experience. And the barrier of the server, right? You need to find a server to hook up to. Just the concept of that is very difficult for a lot of people to understand. So some of that can be solved with changing the name or creating a very clear sign up flow. I haven't seen one yet. I'm also curious about the apps. If there are good mobile apps for posting to Mastodon and browsing Mastodon and how do those fit into the Federated environment and the decentralized environment? So just to go back to the user experience part for a moment, I think one of the things that I agree with Lauren, one of the things that's really exciting about Mastodon is that it feels, it doesn't feel new, it feels old, it feels like the Internet that I kind of grew up with. And I think part of that is that there's not just passive consumption or even passive content creation. You can also build things for it. You can maintain your own server, but you can also create tools, and you see a lot of people doing that. There's a real creator energy to the space right now. And I think that having some greater control than you do over a centralized network and your experience there has really invigorated people to want to invest in a different way. And so I think that that's really exciting. And I think one of the ways we can see that evolving is people creating a better onboarding experience. And not just being a few overworked engineers who work for the Mastodon nonprofit there, it could be somebody else entirely who's completely independent who just creates something that makes the user experience a lot better. I do think we'll see an evolution of the terms and kind of people either getting familiar with things like instance and feta verse and all that kind of stuff or just people stopping using those terms and explaining it a little bit better. So we'll see how that goes. As far as the apps are concerned, there's a bunch of different apps. There's the main Mastodon app, which I don't actually like that much. I found it to be a little bit glitchy at this point. I'm currently using one called meta text and it kind of has all the features that I would want on Twitter to the extent that Mastodon mirrors the same experience. And it's been really stable. I did have some lag last night and there's my personal take on it is that having to be patient a little bit with your tech isn't a bad thing. I've kind of found it to be like, okay, it's not working right now. I'm going to go do something else. And it kind of stops the cycle of doom scrolling, and it's like the glitch is the same as that, you know, random person on TikTok who jumps up and says, hey, you've been on TikTok for way too long. You dirt bag like maybe go do something else and spend time with your family or whatever they say. I always scroll past it too fast to know actually what the whole message is. I think that I found it to be more relaxing to have kind of a built in pause button on my consumption of it because I did go a little bit overboard this weekend. So we'll see how it evolves. There's a bunch of other apps too though. There's toot, which is a paid app, I believe it's available on both iOS and Android that a lot of people like, there's 5 or 6 of them on iOS. I think there's a few others. If you search the app stores, you'll be able to find them. I recommend meta text, it's worked really well for me and it's free filling app purchases or anything like that. Andrew, can I tell you something? Mike actually pays attention to those warnings when they pop up on his phone or they're like, oh, do you spend 15 minutes on this app? It's time to go do something else. He actually heeds the warnings. I do. I don't know anyone else who does. It's amazingly disciplined. I admire it. Well, thank you. But to me, it's just hitting snooze. It's just a good habit that I've developed over the last three or four years. I don't know what it is. It just kind of trained my brain to do it. I know that not everybody can do it. But, you know, the thing that what you're talking about, Andrew reminds me of is the fail whale, like the early days of Twitter when Twitter used to crash all the time. And then you sort of had to take a break from Twitter. And like you were saying, Lauren, you know, it had that chaotic in a good way, energy because the fail whale could pop up at any time. Big whale energy. Yeah. People were joining people were like, hey, what's going on on this side, you know, that kind of like curiosity, not really knowing what to post. So it's been kind of fun to watch that happen elsewhere, even if I'm doing it from afar. One of the things I've liked about the Mastodon experience is like people are willing to be earnest on main in a way that they were not on Twitter. It's people are just being a little bit more vulnerable or just being themselves are just saying things that they actually mean. It's not all just either like yelling at each other or jokes or just people posting news or announcements or whatever it is that non journalists do on Twitter. I found it to be just kind of refreshing in that way. One of the things I've learned is that the way that the community has arisen is by being very much about communication and conversation in a way that Twitter evolved to not be that involved to be the worst place possible for that and I think we're going to see changes there and they're probably not going to be good ones, but at the moment the DNA of the Mastodon community is trying to dictate it being a friendly not a friendly place necessarily but a respectful place and a good place to have conversations. And I've had the best interactions I've had with people online on Mastodon over the past couple of weeks. I have to say, I hope that stays the same. It really does feel like right now is the best of the Internet and the worst of the Internet and all happening at once. All right, let's take another quick break. When we come back, we're going to do our favorite segment. Recommendations.
Gadget Lab Podcast
"mastodon" Discussed on Gadget Lab Podcast
"Some really hard conversations. I don't think he could handle you. When I'm not hosting this podcast, I'm the global chief revenue officer at Conde nast, but don't worry, we're not taking ourselves too seriously. Tell me what you really think, starting October 19th. What you really italicize really think. Okay. Don't feel nervous about it. And you are not afraid of failure, so this should be easy for you. Okay, okay. Make sure you're following, tell me what you really think, wherever you're listening now. And we'll be releasing new episodes on Wednesdays. Mike, do you have a better idea now of what Mastodon is? Yes, it's all becoming clear to me. Are you ready to join your Swedish psych pop server? Maybe you can start one. I could start one, yes, it would be like me and four other turbo nerds. All right, well I want to talk to Andrew Moore about what it means to be on a decentralized social network. And if it's self governed, how secure that all is. Andrew, what would you say are the biggest considerations that people should have when they join something that is decentralized? The biggest thing to consider when joining a decentralized network is to recognize that the person who runs your instance or server or the people who run it have access to everything that you do there. This is also true with Twitter and is one of the big reasons why everyone is fleeing because now Elon Musk is the person who controls that on Twitter, but on Mastodon, you have any number of people who can control that depending on what instance you're on. So it's really you need to trust who your instance admins are and that's a big reason why a lot of people are starting their own instances because they don't want somebody else to be kind of in control of their direct messages, things like that. Another thing I would say about, this isn't about decentralized networks in general, but one thing about Mastodon is that direct messages work a lot differently. DMs are posts, but you just control who can see those posts. And you can set it to be only the people who are mentioned within those posts. If you happen to mention another user, you put their at handle in there. They will automatically be included in those DMs. So you don't want to go behind somebody's back and mention them in a DM because they're going to get access to that DM as an example. Again, as the security editor, I'm always recommending that if you really want to say something private, don't say it on a social network regardless, take it to signal. You can take it to WhatsApp or even telegram where things are to 1° another end to end encrypted. That's where you want to keep your private messages. But just one thing to know about Mastodon is work a little bit differently and they might surprise you how they work if you do it a little bit wrong. In this case, is decentralization tied in any way to the blockchain. Is this a bigger part of the whole pitch around web three? As far as I know, there's no direct connection between Mastodon and web three or the blockchain at this point. Decentralization is definitely something that is talked about as part of web three, but it's decentralized in a slightly different way. We're not talking about blockchain based technology. We're talking about a different protocol, essentially. How does moderation work on these servers? Because in a centralized model, if somebody is being a jerk on the platform, they just get booted from the platform. So if somebody is being a jerk on my instance or on my server, and I boot him from my server, can he just go be a jerk somewhere else on somebody else's server? Moderation works a little bit differently on Mastodon. So to answer your question, yes, that person could go and sign up for another server. However, you can also have the option to block entire servers. So for example, if some neo Nazis created a Mastodon server where it's just a bunch of neo Nazis, you could block that entire server and a lot of other people could block them too. And so they essentially get cut out from the main conversations. And they're not able to wage these campaigns. So there is some democratized moderation that happens. Moderation also happens at the server level. So whoever runs your instance or your server can create the rules that they want to create and enforce those rules how they say fit. They're the masters of their domain. I'm kind of think of instant admins as benevolent dictators and we are all in these little fiefdoms of Mastodon. And so they can enforce the rules how they want. You also have ability as a user to block whoever you want to block, including and blocking entire servers. I want to play devil's advocate a little bit here and say that we've tried in the past to build social environments on open-source, decentralized systems before on the Internet, right? And some of them will survive if they're very well maintained in the community has a definite Longview purpose, like a list serve, or a news group that is still going. But for social media at a really large scale, it seems like the centralized platforms have always won. Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, hacker news. They all have owners. They all have rules. Those rules could change. We're sort of at their mercy. So I mean, I get the vision and I understand the vision, but practically, this can never really be as big as Twitter, right? I would say practically speaking, it's going to be difficult for it to get to that scale. However, we've already seen the network deal with a massive influx of people, I think they're up to over 6 million users at this point, which is far more than they had before Musk's bought Twitter and everybody started fleeing. So it remains to be seen. It depends on how invested people get. If there are enough people willing to run servers, if there are enough people willing to pay to maintain those servers, then yeah, we can see it grow to be as large as Twitter, which is much smaller itself than Facebook or TikTok or a lot of the other bigger social networks. But it remains to be seen. I'm cautiously optimistic about Mastodon's potential. I think it really just depends on whether people stay interested when we're outside of this whirlwind of news and Musk seemingly doing some drastic shift every ten seconds. We'll see how it goes, but so far. So good. They've survived this influx of people, and they've been around for years now. So I don't think it's going anywhere.
Gadget Lab Podcast
"mastodon" Discussed on Gadget Lab Podcast
"Have, you know, a good number of people I'm following. And so home tab is just people you follow, regardless of what server they're on. So it's going to be the most similar to what you'd see on your Twitter feed based on who you follow. So the home tab is where it's at. So even though this is a decentralized network, I'm curious about who runs it and who funds it. Is there any kind of leadership or chief executive or as Elon Musk is now describing himself like the chief hotline? What does he achieve complain hotline operator? Is there someone you can basically ring up or drop a line to and say, hey, I want to talk to you about this. And who is funding Mastodon? So nobody owns Mastodon overall. It's basically a protocol and then whoever runs your server owns that instance of Mastodon. And so that's one of the things that makes it a lot different than Twitter. There's no one person to complain to. Probably if you were going to say, hey, I'm getting harassed by a bunch of trolls. You would go to the admins of your server. There is somebody who founded macedon and kind of is in charge. His name's Eugene roko. I think you pronounce it. And he's the main developer and the main person behind Mastodon, but only in the I believe the Mastodon social instance or any other one that he's involved in would you want to complain directly to him. He's really active on Mastodon. I think he seems pretty accessible, but in general, you're going to want to talk to whoever the admins are of your instance, or you could start your own instance and you could complain to yourself. And what about funding? I don't actually know the answer to that. It's a nonprofit, so I believe it's mostly crowdsourced funding. I know they have a Patreon page, and so that's who you would be giving to you would be giving to the main Mastodon nonprofit. But besides that, I'm sure that there are Patreon pages for individual servers and individual instances. And it's mostly just a crowdfunded thing. Nobody owns it, so there's no buddy to pay or anything of that nature. You're not going to be charged $8 for using Mastodon. And if you were, you could move to another Mastodon server and ignore that. All right, we have to take a quick break. But when we come back, we're going to talk more about this whole concept of a decentralized social network. Hi, I'm Pam druckerman, and this is tell me what you really think. Where I'm talking with innovators and change makers about the challenging and chaotic times we're living through. These are the kinds of conversations everyone wants to hear. Like what everyone is discussing when they think no one is listening. Desantis, let's sit down in the same room and let's have
Gadget Lab Podcast
"mastodon" Discussed on Gadget Lab Podcast
"Hi, everybody. I just wanted to say Hamlet. Hey, Andrew. How many people live in this Hamlet? 188. Seriously? Yes. That's incredible. Are you like mayor there? Nope, but I probably could be if I wanted to. I think I don't know if we even have a mayor. We have a board, but it's very small. It's quaint. It's nice. I'm willing to bet that if everyone who lives in your Hamlet, you have the most followers on Mastodon. That is probably true. I kind of hope it's true because if it's not, then that means my neighbors are weirder than I think they are. And you need to go friend them immediately. All right, well, we've definitely tipped off what we're talking about today. Right now, if you're active on any popular social media platform, like Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. You're using a centralized social media app. What does this even mean? Basically, it means that one body or one corporation holds all the power over that network. It might also mean that you really experience one primary feed when you log onto the app. But in the first two extremely chaotic weeks of Elon Musk's ownership of Twitter. Another narrative has emerged. One about decentralized social media apps. And one in particular. It's called Mastodon. Now Mastodon looks and feels a little like Twitter, but it's pretty different at its core. So we've invited Andrew Ron to talk about it because Andrew, I think you like me spent all weekend banging your head against the keyboard trying to figure out Mastodon. Is that correct? Yes, I have spent far too much time on master. And I think my weekly screen report said I was up 16% over the past week, so and almost all of that was spent on Mastodon and definitely the most increase was on Mastodon. I am a little bit obsessed with it. Okay, so what is it? So Mastodon is, like you said, a decentralized social network. It looks very similar to Twitter in a lot of ways. It has some different vocabularies. It has some different rules or at least social norms than Twitter does. But overall, it's a very similar experience to Twitter. The big difference is the decentralized bit, which means that my account might exist on a different server than your account. But they can talk to each other and there's no reason to be too concerned about that. It's just a little bit different in the way it set up and it can have big implications for content moderation and all types of different aspects that make up our overall social experience there. So the thing that people often talk about when they talk about Twitter and the thing that I would argue makes Twitter special is its role as the great public square of the Internet, right? It's the place where everybody is hanging out in the same spot talking about whatever they want to talk about with their individual communities inside that public square. But it's there's no fence that you have to hop over to go from one community to another. It's just one big community. So how is Mastodon different in that way? Like how much of a public square can it be? I think it could be the same kind of public square as Twitter. There's very little friction between the different servers and it really you don't recognize when you're talking to somebody on a different server than the one you're on. It all looks the same and you can follow people from different servers. There is the option for a server to not be connected to the network so you could have your own little social network with only people who know your server and it never communicates with another server. That's something somebody could do. However, it's really easy to connect a server to another one. If, for example, if I boosted a post from Lauren server in a boost is very similar to a retweet. That would automatically connect her Mastodon instance or Mastodon server to the rest of the Mastodon network. And so just as little as a retweet or a boost is something that can introduce your server to the rest of the Mastodon ecosystem, which is then part of a bigger they call it a feta verse. That's part of that are other applications that are on top of this thing. All these terms are what make this all a big barrier to a big barrier to entry for people. And it makes it really confusing, but it's not really that complicated once you're actually using it. So take us through some of these wonky terms. You mentioned boosts. There are also something called toots, there's the feta verse. What do we need to know? So toots is the, I would say, unfortunate word for tweet. And honestly, I think it's going out of favor. It seems to be, it seems to be people are just saying post and it's kind of normalizing it. But mastodons has been around since I believe 2017. And so it developed its own little culture and until we all invaded that space over the past two weeks. They had their own little ways in norms that were, I think, really smart and wise in some ways to keep it a good community, but other things like toot might go out of favor. The feta verse is the name for everything that is connected that's using the same protocol as Mastodon. And so you can have a video sharing platform or a photo sharing platform. And those exist on the fed of verse that you can connect your Mastodon account to those accounts and use the Internet a little bit differently with these decentralized social media apps. And that's short for Federated universe. Is that correct? Yes, that's correct. Sorry, I should explain that. Federated is what it means when I'm going to botch this and someone's going to yell at me. But basically it just means that it's a bunch of networks that are connected together that you can see everything that's on all the connected networks. So when I log in to Mastodon and I land on my server, what do I see? Do I just see the people's posts on my server? Or do I see people's posts from the fevers? Is there a way to select what I see? Because when you show up on Twitter, there's this algorithmically generated stream that shows me all of the tweets of all the people that I'm following, or if I'm not following a lot of people, it suggests a bunch of people for me to follow. What's the login experience like on Mastodon? What do I see when I show up? So when you first log in, you will only be able to see posts from everyone on your server. So for example, I'm on the Mastodon social server, I believe that's the first one that was set up and it's one of the largest, if not the largest server. So everybody who is on there, I can see it on my local tab. So local is everybody on your server. There's also the Federated tab that will show you everybody within all of Mastodon. And then there's your home tab, which is the one that I use most frequently.
Daily Tech News Show
Apple reportedly developing next-gen ultra-thin displays for AR devices with TSMC
"Nikei sources say that apple partnered with chipmaker. Tsmc to develop micro. Ola displays would displays built directly onto chip wafers for use in our future. Headsets that displays underdevelopment are less than one inch in size with mass production estimated several years away the beta for iowa's fourteen point five adds accident hazard and speed check reporting to apple maps. A new report button is available in the bottom tray of maps to report incidents and voiced support for siri is available as well and analysis by cambridge university university although they probably have anniversaries also estimates that bitcoin mining consumes roughly one hundred twenty one point three six terawatt hours of electricity per year which would make a top thirty energy consumer if it were used by country however for context the researchers noted that electricity consumed in the us by always on inactive could power the bitcoin network for year. I liked that comparison there. It's like yeah that sounds bad but then also that Following its launch in australia. Google new showcase launched in argentina and the united kingdom offering now includes free and paywall two articles for more than one hundred twenty uk and forty argentinian outlets bringing its total to four hundred fifty publications twitter announced monetize daily active users increased twenty seven percent on the year in. Its q four to one hundred ninety two million but missed analysts expectations of one hundred ninety three point. Five million with growth slowing for the third consecutive quarter. Twitter also said wednesday it suspended more than five hundred accounts and reduced certain hashtag visibility in india to comply with several orders from the indian government amidst farmers protests on agricultural reforms in the country. The twitter accounts are only being blocked in india and don't include news media entities. Journalists activists were politicians who have twitter accounts and twitter. Cfo ned siegel said on cnbc. Wednesday that people removed from its platform are not allowed to come back and that applies to president donald trump. Even if he ran for office again. All right let's talk a little bit more about what twitter is planning jack dorsey. He's been talking a lot about decentralisation over the past couple of months what did he say. This time scott feels like every time i'm on the show. There's something about his little idea but on this same call with investors on tuesday twitter ceo. Jack dorsey explained how it's internet project or internal project rather called blue sky and this something. He first announced wave back in december of two thousand nineteen Could create a decentralized social network to give people more choice over their twitter twitter experience Dorsey said twitter might create multiple rhythms for you to choose from offer them alongside those made by others a sort of marketplace on a lot of detail beyond that but dorsey feels Choice like this would not only help out business. But dr more people into participating in social media in the first place Decentralisation could also help twitter address concerns about moderation neutrality. all that kind of stuff Pretty fascinating idea I i still hope he does it with partners. And not just a a twitter store with algorithm skins. Well i mean it sounds like it's it's a combination of both the way twitter sees it happening. The company itself would say all right. You might want this experience. We have enough user feedback to know that some users are frustrated with the kind of stock twitter experience and using hashtags and maybe Filtering out certain keywords or searching for users or topics isn't enough for you you want twitter built a certain way and we can do that for you but then the company saying also third party developers might have some really great ideas and we welcome those algorithms as well as long as you know people wanted that. Could this be something that people would potentially pay for in the future. I would think yes. Yeah although i mean his focus on decentralisation implies that this would be something out in the wild right to the for longtime twitter's been talking about maybe we'll partner up with an existing decentralized solution which there are a few out there like mastodon. And i think that's a really really interesting way to approach this to say what if we decentralized twitter and differentiated twitter is just one of the better ways to talk with folks but like you said scott. He thinks that would help drive more people into participating if there was a federation so to speak that mastodon is that right now but twitter isn't part of mastodon so you don't have enough people using it so it doesn't get that momentum that it needs if twitter gets behind something like that whether it's mastodon or something else then suddenly it's got momentum and if you could say like well what i would like is a more environmental spin on this. I want a more libertarian. Spin you know wanted to promote things that are more about molecular biology promote scientists. I want i want to have a spiritual issues in christianity. Promoted more you you could have that and still everybody be participating in the same network and to his point about moderation neutrality. If you're the one picking the algorithm then you might have issues with how that particular algorithm works. But there'd be less burden on twitter or any other participant to be the person in charge of deciding what gets promoted and what doesn't because you'd have a lot of different approaches to it
Climate Connections
Farmer mimics ecosystem where mastodons once roamed
"In the mid west. It's now rare to find an oak savanna grassland scattered trees but those ecosystems were once widespread and rich with species. All the early european settlers talked. About how amazing these savannah's were and how much food there was. And how beautiful they were. Peter allen is a farmer who studied oak savannahs in graduate school. He's one reason they were so common. In north america is that native americans burn land to create open areas that attracted bison in the before that we had savannah for millions of years. Because we had mega-fauna mastodons ground. Sloths large elk. And moose. That eight trees at mastodon valley farm in south west wisconsin allen is mimicking this system but with cattle sheep goats and pigs instead of prehistoric creatures. His herds graze on a few acres for day. Then move on so the ground can rest for a month or so. He says conventional agriculture depletes the soil. But this approach to raising livestock can help build topsoil and store carbon we've grown about three inches of topsoil in six years so that's really inspiring by learning from the past allen hopes to produce food while also preserving savanna ecosystems for the future
BrainStuff
The Now-extinct Castoroides Was a Bear-sized Beaver
"Brain stuff Lauren Vogel. Bam here. mammoths, mastodons and Sabertooth hats weren't the only giants roaming ancient America. The Pleistocene was a global epoch kicked off two point six, million years ago. It lasted right up. Until Earth's most recent ice age ended about eleven thousand, seven, hundred years before the present day. When you live in a cold environment, being big has its advantages. Large animals tend to conserve body heat more easily than smaller ones. This is one of the major reasons why colossal mammals were so widespread during the frigid pleistocene. CASTA Roy was very much a product of its time. The largest rodent in Pleistocene north. America, this very big beaver grew to more than seven feet long from tail to stout that's over two meters and could have weighed as much as two hundred and twenty pounds or a hundred kilos or more. Rivaling the American black bear in size casta royalties utterly dwarfed the Beavers that lived today modern Eurasian, and American beaver species clock in just around three feet long a bit less than a meter and way somewhere between twenty nine, seventy, seven pounds. That's about thirteen to thirty five kilos. Proportionately castaways had a narrower tail and shorter legs albeit with bigger hind feet than its extant relatives. We also know that it didn't eat the same foods. What he plans are a crucial part of every living beavers diet. The critters use chisel like incisors that's their front teeth to gnaw through bark and take down trees. But. Even though castaways incisors grew to be a whopping six inches or fifteen centimeters long the teeth had dollar edges by comparison. Dental differences would have made it a lot harder for Castro to eat tree bark and indeed it looks like this was not really on their menu. Using isotopic signatures and castaways teeth from Ohio and the Yukon a twenty nineteen study found that the giant beaver mostly eight softer aquatic plants. The findings say a lot about the Rodin's ecological niche and why it might have died out. For starters, castaways probably didn't build dams. Unusual. About that the earliest known beavers appeared during the easing. A which lasted between about fifty, six, thirty, four, million years ago. New evidence suggests that the wood harvesting specialists came along much later perhaps around twenty million years ago. In all likelihood, these bark fanciers used would as a food source before any of them started constructing dams. Since as fed on aquatic plants, its survival would have depended on wetland habitats. The animal was highly successful for a time cast Roy these fossils representing at least two distinct species have been documented in the Great Plains the Great Lakes, the American South Alaska and numerous Canadian provinces. Unfortunately for the mega sized beaver north. America. became warmer and drier after the last ice age ended wetlands grew scarcer as a result. Today's beavers used their logging skills to reshape the land around them so that it meets their needs with some well placed would in the nearest stream, a determined beaver engineer brand-new Pons. Yet if Castro Reuters didn't harvest would or build dams, it couldn't followed suit. So theoretically decline in natural wetlands left the giant beaver more susceptible to extinction. Last of these creatures perished around ten thousand years ago.
60-Second Science
Foxes Have Dined on Our Leftovers for 30,000 Years
"Fox's hunt small animals and when other predators including US kill large animals foxes are known to scavenge the leftovers. Now, a study of their scavenging shows that Fox's have slyly relied on people for food for tens of thousands of years a solid Fox's benefit a not today from humans I was wondering if this is also the case in the past Chris Bowman from the University of Michigan's Institute for Scientific Archaeology. Humans may have had a hand in driving the extinction of large urban stores like mammoths and mastodons in the late Pleistocene, which ended around twelve thousand years ago. But we inadvertently helped other species and Bouwman suspects that plays a scene Era Fox's may have been among them. So Bellman and his team obtained the remains. Of Seventy. Fox's found in southwestern. Germany. They range from around forty two thousand years ago when neanderthals lived in the area to some thirty, thousand years ago Homo Sapiens came to dominate the region. In this study, we analyzed the question of the Fox. saw doubt indeed this different strategies of feeding the carbon and nitrogen isotope in the Fox bones supplied clues to what the Fox's had eaten. And at the earlier Neanderthal era sites a few the Fox's hunted rodents but most diet indistinguishable from the larger carnivores meaning that they regularly scavenged from the kills made by woven bears. But by the late Pleistocene when we showed up the Fox's had switched to a diet of mainly reindeer and horse me, that is human table scraps. The finding is in the journal plus. One. And so this one niche that we figured out that comes when Homo Sapiens this area is more or less stable. So focuses have time to feed on this results over the last eight years of their lives, and that's very cool because now we know that humans must have made some changes in the environment to provide this niche neanderthals Shirley hunted animals too, but there weren't enough of them or they didn't stay in one place long enough for the foxes to adapt to scavenging off their dinner plates Homo Sapiens on the other hand did stick around long enough to affect the Fox's foraging strategy. Bellman says that studying the remains of opportunistic scavengers like Fox's at learned to take of human societies can offer useful information about human impacts on ecosystems over time.
Crackdown
Apocalypse Prescribing
"This is Sam Fan. Crackdown senior producer and We're we'RE GONNA be talking about the new clinical guidelines the new policy here in BC. Basically all show but first of all garth. I think we should start out by just giving people an impression of how fucking grim things are here right now. So what is what? What have the past couple of weeks look like from your point of view? Yes it's bad Overdoses our backup. They were declining bit. But they're back into as bad as they've been really for the last couple of years a harm reduction services and overdose. Prevention sites are closing in the neighborhood or they're operating at a diminished capacity. People can't social distance you know. There's there's a lot of Crowded living conditions and a lot of people. Just don't have housing so people can't put that distance between themselves. I was through the neighborhood yesterday. People were still crowded on the sidewalks and everything and last week we were able to confirm the first person who tested positive for Cova nineteen in the neighborhood so one can only assume that combination of things is is pretty bad and the other. Obviously the really really big part of this is that we keep hearing press conferences from the city that there's going to be some kind of housing option for people who are homeless or who live in a shelter. Sro and aren't able to physically distance right but we haven't. We're not seeing like any any sort of like bold action. Take place there right We we haven't heard anything like that like Vancouver. Coastal health is told people to keep their physical distance. But we're still waiting on some kind of housing option and then finally Everyone's worried about the drug supply running out so there's already been kind of reports of shortages We've heard about prices going up but you know with all the borders and everything closed It's gotta be disrupting illegal. Drugs supply the first person I thought to call was Simona Marsh on crackdowns editorial board. She's also on the board of the Vancouver Area Network of drug users but she understands a lot about sort of the supply and distribution side of the illegal market so I called her up while she was actually working at the front desk. Advan do and good. How's it going? I'm good. How are you good So you can talk to me for a few minutes. So you're talking to us through a mask right anyway little bit but you sound good to me and so you're you're behind the desk there. Advani when people are just in the room there. What's it like there is it? Is it very crowded? Is it normal? What's going on? Yeah more than usual. Yeah because it's really up to you and other places that are opening night so our people keeping you know six feet apart from each other as vca has has told us all to do. I'm not sure how Iraq here we're GONNA have a meeting about it. Yeah and part of Your Job. Sitting at that desk is now to give out harm. Reduction supplies like people can't help themselves anymore right correct. Are you worried about running out of anything? I yeah and if you run out of pipes that means people share pipes and pipes are you can transmit cove in one thousand nine on pipes. That's right I mean not only that like down here. We're dealing with both an could still having this right and you and me were texting a couple days ago and you were saying you were worried about the illicit drug supply. What's going on with that? I'm powder devils like crazy so wait explained that you mean like to get coke is now twice as expensive. Yeah the prices went. I guess not twice as expensive. They run up. So what was it before? Like four hundred three a quarter now by fifty. Three quarters ZIP right. I've never bought in quantity before. What does that? I'm I'm small time? Simona Ground Look. I've never been to really. I don't go shopping at whole foods either or like Costco like I. Don't get a jar of mayonnaise that six feet tall and I'm just like a simple one time guy so because I know you kind of have special knowledge and all this because you have as delicately put it on this show you have helped alligator. Could you say that again agricole subsidies navigator right so? But you've been in this game for a long time. What do you think's going to happen in the next couple of weeks to the supply route borders to being shut? And it's well I can see a lot of people they don't want to sell it because they don't know next one night closed so I don't think it's GonNa be did well. Let's keep in touch about how things are going with the with the drug supply. I'm just I'm interested to see what goes on and I'm kind of worried for everybody. Who relies on it so much? You know I'm worried about them like making shit going down right right. Hopefully not okay. We'll can stay safe if you can do. Ok Tedi by so Simona tells us that coke prices are up and I talked to crackdown DETTORI board. Member Jeff Loudon yesterday. And what he's seeing is a fifty percent increase in the price of down. So you know from forty dollars a quarter now. Seems like it's going for sixty quarter at least where he is. And then you know we've heard from Laura that her connections are telling her Get Ready Droughts are coming better stockpile and there's also some reports of stimulants being harder to come by right now right. So it's it's patchy and it's it's hard to get an overall picture. It always is. But you can really see the jitters now. I guess all of this begs the question of what what it is. We should be doing right now. What would help Keep people safe. I mean it's safe supply. You know I know I know we say that a lot but it's true in in nineteen but it's also been true for the whole overdose crisis and in fact I I heard about it in the last over those crisis so in Vancouver there was overdose crisis and HIV crisis in the nineties. So you actually. You sent me a poster and this is from. Is this from the event that you would have? Is this a rally or something The posters from a meeting that we put together in the summer of Nineteen Ninety Eight. You know there was a like a lot of overdoses. A lot of overdose deaths being projected For the next year and so we were having a meeting about what we can do about this. What we were saying is let's legalize and decriminalize heroin And so the poster is of a fist holding a needle with a circle of chain going around you. You drew this and then stuck in your head right so when you wanted to make the crackdown through it. Again to be the logo the show. That's right yeah and I know you know. At that time I was really new to all this is just trying to stay ahead of my dope cygnus from the day to day so yeah. I was at the meeting. I made the poster but Dean Wilson was really involved in this stuff back then and it was just around that time. He started advocating for the same thing. So I called up Dean Wilson. He's on our editorial board and he's been an activist in this town for a couple of decades everybody. Yep Yep all right. Cool he Thanks thanks for making a little time. How you doing man? Oh I'm all right I'm just I'm kind of tired today just It was good. I saw my son. And Um it's good to see people you love and that you know what I mean. 'cause we're all kind of estranged even though we all live in the same city you know what? I mean right so and so did you guys stay like six feet apart or did you manage that. I gave a big hug and that was close. Then that it was all there was it. Was you know both kept their heads? You know what I mean. It's just you know it was whether it was and if I get the shit because I gave my son a hug well too bad I guess you gotTa do you gotTa do. Yeah Yeah we both needed it so that was all there was to. Do you remember the first time you raise the idea of safe? Supply with somebody Other than another drug user. Actually it was all part of the original insights stuff in our version before it opened up Professionally and like legitimately. We wanted to give drugs out at the place. So what did you call it before before the term safe supply? How did you refer to it like just like we should give out heroin for prescription heroin or well? We always viewed it as a a medical supply of drugs for Addiction. Not for pain not for nothing else. But for addiction we could go to doctors. They would give us a a prescription and you know we always thought it'd be a lot like mastodon well. We went and picked up every day or at salons every day and went home
60-Second Science
Pablo Escobar's Hippos Could Endanger Colombian Ecology
"Around one hundred and fifteen miles east of medicine in Colombia since the enormous Hacienda built by the drug Lord Pablo Escobar. Who had his own personal zoo? Which included hippos when Escobar's empire fell most of the exotic animals were safely relocated except for the hippos who eventually escaped to eat right four from as you in the US to Columbia and they lived at his ranch and they've grown slowly but steadily Jonathan suren ecologists from the University of California in San Diego. The original population of four in nineteen eighty one is estimated to be at least eighty. Now Hippos have tremendous influence on their native ecosystems in Africa so sure and wanted to see how they might be affecting their new ecosystem in Columbia. Shouldn't surprise anybody hippos poop in the water South America Africa Hippos on both Continents Wallow in ponds and lakes where their droppings release a tremendous amount of nutrients into the water that imported materials stimulates photosynthesis of algae and aquatic plants and also microbial battery production of bacteria. That are living off your Ganic matter. That's imported have mass. The hippos can cause ecological trouble if there is too much photosynthesis occurring in the water becomes full of oxygen during the daytime but at night when the sun goes down and the plants and algae stop releasing oxygen into the water a phenomenon called eutrophication occurs all the creatures that consume oxygen keep consuming it and the overall amount of oxygen dissolved in the water becomes critically low dropping. Low enough you can help. All the fish SORTA croaking going belly up. The researchers also say the situation provides a unique glimpse into the way that massive mammals like mammoths and mastodons. Long extinct in the new world may have influenced their habitats prior to their extinction but they also know that unless we can somehow curtail their population growth. The hippo population could explode in the next couple decades at which point they will disrupt larger and wild river systems. The study is in the Journal. Ecology lethal control isn't the popular management strategy among people who love hippos or see them as valuable tourism attraction but the question is when not if the hippos become detrimental to Colombian ecology which means that folks should be thinking about the best way to solve the problem now when there are fewer than a hundred hippos to manage and not thousands.
Techmeme Ride Home
Jack Dorsey Wants to Decentralize Social Media
"So I guess my running joke about who put the be in Jack. Dorsey Bonnet is kind of running stale at this point this this morning Jack released a pretty ambitious twitter thread outlining how twitter intends to fund the development of project known as Blue Sky an independent in an effort to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. Let me just quote. Twitter is funding a small independent team of up to five open source source architects engineers and designers to develop an open and decentralized standard for social media. The goal is for twitter to ultimately be a client of the standard. Twitter was so open early on that many saw its potential to be a decentralized internet standard like SMTP the email protocol for a variety variety of reasons all reasonable at the time we took a different path and increasingly centralized twitter but a lot has changed over the years I were facing entirely new challenges centralized centralized solutions are struggling to meet for instance centralized enforcement of global policy to address abuse and misleading. Information is unlikely to scale over the long term without placing far far too much burden on people second. The value of social media is shifting away from content hosting and removal and towards recommendation Algorithms. Directing one's attention unfortunately these algorithms are typically proprietary and one can't choose or build alternatives yet third existing listing social media incentives frequently lead to attention being focused on content and conversation that sparks controversy and outrage rather than conversation which informs and promotes health. Finally new technologies. These have emerged to make a decentralized approach more viable blockchain points to a series of decentralized solutions for open endurable hosting governance and even monetization and much work to be done but the fundamentals are there and quote skipping down a bit quote. Why is this good for twitter? It it will allow us to access and contribute to a much larger corpus of public conversation. Focus our efforts on building open recommendation Algorithms which promote healthy conversation and and will force us to be far more innovative than in the past. There are many challenges to make this work that twitter would feel right becoming a client of the standard which is why the work must be done transparently in the open not owned by any single private corporation furthering the open and decentralized principles of the Internet. We'd expect this team not only to develop develop a decentralized standard for social media but to also build open community around it inclusive of companies and organizations researchers civil society leaders. All who. You're thinking deeply about the consequences positive and negative. This isn't going to happen overnight. It will take many years to develop a sound scalable and usable decentralized standard for social media that paves paves the path to solving the challenges listed above our commitment is to fund this work to that point and beyond and quote Jack went onto name Parag Agarwal as the lead of the project so a few ways to look at this number one. I've I've said for years that twitter is really just a protocol disguised as a company and frankly smarter minds than me have said for years that social media hadn't been invented a decade earlier would have been a protocol. Things would be a lot more efficient at this point if it had been and of course you can still built massively successful businesses off of protocols I mean just look at Amazon and Google and second you could look at this as twitter's version of Libra Gra but in a way a more ambitious and radical project. Also you could see this as Jack's version of Zack's vaunted pivot to privacy as Alex. Alex stamos pointed out on twitter. Both companies want to be out of the controlling what people say business. Lots of folks including the official mastodon twitter account pointed out that projects like this already exist but it is super interesting that it's one of the existing platform plays that is inspired to blow up the status quo of massive platforms parenthetically strangling the open Internet. Sort of reminds one of this scene from. HBO Silicon Valley. Kahad there's billions of phones all around the world but the same computing power
60-Second Science
We Owe Our Pumpkins to Pooping Megafauna
"Form of Pumpkin is about the size of a tennis ball and it tastes like one it's incredibly unpalatable as those early squashes were they made a tasty tidbit for mastodons and we Russians Kistler says mastodons probably weren't put off by the gourds bitter taste because a few absolutely beautiful correlation between body size and the ability to taste bitter compounds a deter small mammals who would destroy the seeds but they've evolved at just the right level fifteen along with dispersing seeds mastodons just like modern elephants the mastodons died out and humans kizlar says which also tend to disturb the environment little bit of a mystery because they're bitter and toxic in the wild and they get to this Ryan discovered in a cave in Oaxaca Mexico provide evidence that at least ten thousand years ago
Daily Tech News Show
Is there a way to make an alternative to Facebook?
"I think the key to the rise of. Social networks in general, and particularly Facebook was the ease of finding your friends and then the ease of communicating with them because GIO cities had all of the things. Right. You know, you you create your page you can link to other pages, you can be in neighborhoods with people live journal as well. But Facebook made it super easy to find people. And and also by design or dumb luck became the place that everybody wanted to be so that it was a self-fulfilling prophecy that you wanted to be on Facebook. Because that's where everybody was. And before that, it was nice base. Well, but Facebook really be because of the exclusivity with the with the college kids, and then it became a a desired thing. And once it got momentum than as like, why should be on Facebook because everybody's on Facebook. Yeah. Yeah. You know? And it's no balled from there. And now it's hard to get away for a lot of people because they're like, yeah. But that's where my family is. That's where my friends are. That's where I communicate. That's where I talk about things. So to get people off of that you have to provide an easy compelling switch, and it has to it has to give them something. They don't want or give them something. They want that Facebook doesn't like freedom that is easy enough and compelling enough that they'll go to the trouble to start the move, and it has to have an attractive enough business plan to get the venture capital to get off the ground. And that's the thing. Where is the buy in? When you're saying, no set up your own thing in space. Where certainly, you know, is it is it just that you're going to sell ads on that that, you know, I don't know. Guess business wise, I don't necessarily see it. But man what I love there. There's something very delightful to me to the idea that we could be going back to a world where we all have our own little towns. Visit I'd add all of you guys to my blog. It's not impossible for an open source project to take off. But it's harder. The way you jump start. This is with money and marketing to get people. Like, hey, you tired of giving your data away come to this place? It's safe and decentralized, then open I mean, it can be open source and venture capital backed that would be the ideal way to make it work making it work as a grassroots organization as we've seen with mastodon and all these others really difficult really difficult to get the momentum.
Geek News Central
Google, Lincoln and Amazon discussed on Geek News Central
"So how do you think humanity would react if we really found aliens love to hear your comments kicked news at g mail dot com face or you could join our mastodon channel at keith news dot chat please do that facebook messenger for kids get a new sleep mode basically parents can set the times of that app is allowed to send messages back and forth don't worry parents your kids are gonna find a way around the facebook messenger child mode it's being reported that google home and google assistant finally offer the same experience after user a feedback google's fulfill this promise of a consistent assistant across bones and google home so i guess they all work the same now which is a very very cool lincoln be up the show notes on that fitbit ionic is down to two hundred forty nine dollars on amazon he'd been looking to buy one on prices down quite a little bit sub be aware of that also you know some people just are are too stupid for their own good a fake yes a fake us marshal stolen iphone now he say how did he do that well a man in florida was accused of stealing iphone ten from best buy combine ended the crime by going back to the same store and falsely claiming to be us marshal in instant that was caught on camera the man had been seen shoplifting in iphone ten from location and when he returned to the same store days later was stopped by police he was carrying both a gun and a us marshals badge the gun was a bb gun in the badgers fake which a man soon omitted the stolen iphone was later found in his car along with a second bogus marshall badge he was arrested and has been charged for with retail grand theft as well as impersonating law enforcement officer.