@marado@ciberlandia.pt @ciberlandia.pt
 (2y ago)

Oh, there is a chance, of course there is a way. Sort of.

Mind you, you will need to choose one of those options: either pay with money or with personal data. And no, choosing to “pay with personal data” isn’t the same as “staying with what you already had”*. But at least you don’t need to accept the new ToS’s if you don’t want to - now I actually went there to read them and compare/check what changes, and there there’s this:

“The updates go into effect on January 12, 2024”

So, until the 12th, you can choose one of those options, backup your data and delete your account, without having to actually accept those terms.

On the other hand, you will accept them by default - if I was on vacations or hadn’t tried to go to facebook until the 12th, I would have accepted it by default, apparently. Of course, I falled into that trap on my own, when I accepted their ToS in the first place, that say that they can change it at any time and you’ve automatically accepted it. I knew back then I shouldn’t have**, but
 here we are.

#rjebz2q
@marado@ciberlandia.pt @ciberlandia.pt
 (2y ago)

I was feeling bullied, then I found my data is hostage. What next?

Well, the only remaining option is to just delete the account. Right?

Well
 wrong. Because, you know, that’s also on those menus you will only have access to if you first accept the terms of service you don’t want to accept. :picardfacepalm:

#xzqpmsq
@marado@ciberlandia.pt @ciberlandia.pt
 (2y ago)

You can, of course, not accept these changes, and decide to leave Facebook. There’s no time for you to go in and say goodbye, but at least you can download your data before you go.

How? I’m glad you asked. You can do it from two different menus. But
 you can’t really access any menus without choosing one of those options (thus first accepting the new terms of service). WTF?

#jw4i64q
@marado@ciberlandia.pt @ciberlandia.pt
 (2y ago)

Espantando ninguém:

Marcelo diz que nova versĂŁo da lei de metadados continua inconstitucional*.

O que tem mais “piada” Ă© que os partidos que aprovaram esta treta jĂĄ sabiam que nĂŁo cumpre, que isto ia ao TC
 E estĂŁo interessados nisso, porque tĂȘm a esperança que seja o Constitucional a dar-lhes “pistas” sobre como legislar sobre a matĂ©ria**.

Foram os trĂȘs partidos mais votados em Portugal!, e vai-se a ver e como legisladores valem zero.

** https://www.publico.pt/2023/10/14/politica/noticia/parlamento-espera-constitucional-pistas-solucao-metadados-2066712

#sm64z4q
@marado@ciberlandia.pt @ciberlandia.pt
 (2y ago)

“Sam Altman disse recentemente ser mais fĂĄcil fazer as pessoas agir se as confrontarmos com uma ameaça existencial. Se este paradoxo recorda as palavras de Mark Fisher/Frederic Jameson — “É mais fĂĄcil imaginar o fim do mundo do que o fim do capitalismo” —, a apropriação mais adequada seria qualquer coisa como: Ă© mais fĂĄcil imaginar o fim do mundo do que admitir as falhas da I.A. corporativa. As mesmas pessoas que anunciam o apocalipse descrevem os modelos como ferramentas de propĂłsito geral, capazes de desempenhar qualquer tarefa, e selam contratos para o uso desta tecnologia (por exemplo com o Estado portuguĂȘs) num ambiente ainda vazio de regulação. E de compreensĂŁo.”

https://setentaequatro.pt/ensaio/ferramentas-mudam-mas-lutas-continuam-inteligencia-artificial-e-o-que-quer-dizer-para-o-teu

#rwrrjxq
@marado@ciberlandia.pt @ciberlandia.pt
 (2y ago)

“the European Union (EU) proposed an amendment to the Electronic Identification, Authentication and Trust Services (eIDAS) Regulation that would change provisions related to Qualified Website Authentication Certificates (QWACs). The proposal could empower governments to compel browsers to validate specific Certificate Authorities (CAs) that may or may not comply with industry best practices for ensuring security online”

https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/doc/2021/internet-impact-brief-mandated-browser-root-certificates-in-the-eu-eidas-regulation/

#5mikurq
yakumo_izuru @tsuki.chaotic.ninja
 (2y ago)

(#5q5kh5q) @prologic@twtxt.net I know, right.

If the Tao is great, then the software is great.
If the software is great, the moderation toolkit is great.
If the moderation toolkit is great, the moderators are great.
The people are pleased, and there is harmony in the world.
---
The path the fediverse took was bad because the software sucks,
the moderation toolkit sucks, the moderators suck (for a lot of reasons, including political correctness or people borderline insane and unsuitable for admining or moderating any instances at all), and there's no harmony among users.
#jxlyqma
lumen @tw.lumen.pink
 (2y ago)

Hello @prologic@twtxt.net It’s been a while since we talked. I don’t think you remember me, but I’m the person who used to run the tw.lohn.in pod. I’ve gone through a lot of changes in the last few months, including my identity, but I’m still the same annoying person who enjoys obscure protocols. It’s good to be back.

#guaz2nq
eapl.me @eapl.me
 (2y ago)

(#ckwbdwq) Disclaimer: Although I know the basis, I’m not an expert by any means. I like twtxt even with its disadvantages, blockchains are an interesting technology but it’s difficult to love them, although I’m not radicalized as I have written before. I don’t hate blockchains b/c I don’t want to spend my energy hating them.

So, when technology, monetary power, decision-making, and other sensitive topics are put together, it’s tricky to have a single definition.
A quick search on ‘Distributed vs Decentralized’ gave:

Decentralized systems offer power to the many, not just the few.
[
] Distributed systems can enable resource sharing and improve efficiency and performance. These systems can function with or without a central authority.

From the first result on Google: https://www.hivenet.com/post/decentralized-or-distributed-whats-the-big-difference

ChatGPT says:

[
] While both federated and decentralized platforms involve distributed systems, they differ in terms of control and decision-making. [
] The key characteristic of a distributed platform is the distribution of workload and data across multiple nodes, allowing for parallel processing and faster response times.

From a long response of about 3,500 characters. It’s not a simple topic to grasp.

Why Google and GPT? I think those are the first sources for many people now. Perhaps not the most trustable sources if you ask me.

So I think having your vision on the topic would be enlightening. But losing it in the emerging flow of twts would be a shame.

#ryxkfta
eapl.me @eapl.me
 (2y ago)

(#ohrlr6a) When I talk about twtxt with friends, usually that question emerges.
What’s the difference between Federated, Distributed, and Decentralized?
 And also the difference between platforms, systems, services, and such.
I remember we discussed that a few months ago.

I think you should have a post in your blog or similar as a future reference.

#ckwbdwq
eapl.me @eapl.me
 (2y ago)

(#nqcozgq) Well, smol.pub has some unique features for the smol net community:
From the main page:

Smol Pub is tiny blogging service.
Web interface and CLI to manage your posts.
Accessible from Web, Gemini and Gopher.
Storage for your images.
Write custom CSS for web.
Attach your custom domain with SSL.
Export your posts.
No JavaScript, ads, or tracking technology.

I was using Gohugo and it was so painful to start writing, and push the HTML to the server, that I stopped writing. It was almost impossible to fix a typo on my phone or simply push a quick text.
Smol.pub is a typical blogging platform but compatible with Gemini, has a customizable interface and it just works.
And although is too simplistic, Gemtext works for me as an alternative to Markdown.

I wrote a bit about that here: https://text.eapl.mx/writing-in-2021

#qetvzzq
eapl.me @eapl.me
 (2y ago)

(#kwnxdia) That’s neat!
I don’t know what are you thinking of exactly. Yarn Pods?

As an example, my blog is ‘hosted’ on smol.pub with a perpetual key for 5 USD. I think that’s subsidized, m15o is paying to keep the lights on. But I like this service so much, that paying 0.5 or 1 dollar per month is nothing!

Compared with the effort of paying 2-5 USD/month for a VPS, setting up a Go environment, updating dependencies in a language I don’t master, tweaking things, and maintaining everything for a personal smol.pub instance. I tried to run it once, and I quit after a few hours.

#bobkq7q
eapl.me @eapl.me
 (2y ago)

(#iaiqdeq) It could be interesting.
As has been discussed, these services are ‘centralized’, although having mirrors hosted by volunteers syncing somehow, would be a good idea. So if one server disappears you can jump to another.

I lost track of Registries, but they seem to be down, which is an example of that problem:
https://twtxt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user/registry.html

And I’m aware of this kind of CSVs made by ‘scraping a social graph’, but they seem to be manually updated:
https://github.com/tkanos/we-are-twtxt

#lf3ysrq
eapl.me @eapl.me
 (2y ago)

(#nrtxtpa) what do you have in mind?
I was using 6 USD servers from Digital Ocean, but saw that on Vultr they start at 2.5 USD.

VPS are great to learn, although paying a dollar for a service with no maintenance makes sense to me by all the time we save. The problem exists when you don’t use the service that much and have to pay anyway.

#f6nsc2q