Corpo Meltdown
- FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta’s ActivityPub Platformwedistribute.org FediPact is an Organized Effort to Block Meta's ActivityPub Platform
Meta, Facebook's parent company, is looking to launch their own fediverse platform. Some people are already advocating to block it en masse.
- tcrn.ch Hackers threaten to leak 80GB of confidential data stolen from Reddit
Hackers are threatening to release confidential data stolen from Reddit unless the company withdraws its controversial API price hikes
- fabulous.systems Meta is a danger to the fediverse and we have to be prepared
Meta is about to join the fediverse. No, they probably don't care about the community at all.
- "Always keep your software up to date." - Guess Who Didn'twww.theregister.com Guess what happened to this US agency that didn't patch?
Also: Hackers target security researchers, MaaS model flourishing, and this week's vulnerabilities
I feel this kinda fits in here.
If it's not welcome (here), I'm happy to learn of better places.
- www.techradar.com Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr have something in common and it's not good
Opinion: It's really not a good sign
Down with corpos hogging all the information. Reject centralization and siloing; embrace federation.
- /r/interestingasfuck plans to reopen with just one rule: "any content you submit must be something you consider interesting as fuck. That's it."
In protest against reddits API changes the "interestingasfuck" subreddit plans to reopen after a week long blackout with just one rule: posters have to consider their content "interesting as fuck" for it to be allowed in the sub. That's it.
In addition, reddits site-wide rules are still in place, and any content breaking those rules will be handed over to Reddits "Anti-Evil Operations", their site-wide moderation team. They're also much better equipped to figure out which users are bots, so when in doubt bots are to be reported to them, they'll surely do a good job enforcing reddits Rules. (Google them, they have a stellar track record!)
Reporting rulebreaks to AEO is encouraged, and the subreddits been marked as NSFW as a precaution. Gone are the days where you'd need to have a minimum amount of karma, or mods would check if they deemed your post actually interesting.
I'm personally hoping for lots of pictures of interesting sticks, John Oliver and a hint of frogs! 🐸
- Reddit is inaccessible to blind users without third party apps and this is a part of the protest-blackout
> Reddit is inaccessible to blind users without third party apps and this is a part of the protest-blackout #disability #reddit #blind #accessibility
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Original post: https://wandering.shop/@meredithw/110563128831408936 (please boost on Mastodon, *key, etc)
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Reddit Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/13zr8h2/reddits_recently_announced_api_changes_and_the/
(It wouldn't let me repost it here so I've copied it over. Disabled users may not want to move to Lemmy because I notice a lack of ALT text for images here too.
So is there anything we can do to amplify things get this message across to Reddit?)
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- Prosecutors in Indiana misinterpret digital surveillance data and use that 'evidence' to put an innocent citizen in jail.www.wired.com An Anti-Porn App Put Him in Jail and His Family Under Surveillance
A court used an app called Covenant Eyes to surveil the family of a man released on bond. Now he’s back in jail, and tech misuse may be to blame.
- Mates, today without warning, the reddit royal navy attacked. I've been demoded by the admins.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/35555
> A fellow mod informed me that about it as I was laying in bed. Reddit sent a message to the mod team and after 1 hour demoded me. I didn't even had time to see it, never-mind respond to it. > > ! > > Looks like we rattled reddit enough to start shooting. There goes all that fancy talk about our protest not affecting them much. > > Just FYI for now. It's late here so I'll see how we proceed tomorrow.
It's happening.
- r/pics Is Doing A Poll To Decide Their Future
Soon the flood of John Oliver pics will come! (I wasn't sure where to post this but it's related to recent happenings so enjoy!)
Link: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/14b2a6q/poll_decide_on_the_future_of_rpics/
- www.nbcnews.com Reddit CEO praises Elon Musk’s cost-cutting as protests rock platform
Steve Huffman said in an interview that Elon Musk's cost-cutting at Twitter was inspiring and that the two have chatted "a handful of times."
- catvalente.substack.com Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media
I bet you're wondering how we got here...
- 9to5google.com Google Domains shutting down, assets sold and being migrated to Squarespace
Google Domains is "winding down following a transition period," with Squarespace taking over the business and assets...
The Google Graveyard grows
- Steve Huffman's meltdown interview with The Vergewww.theverge.com Reddit CEO Steve Huffman isn’t backing down: our full interview
“The blackouts are not representative of the greater Reddit community.”
> I don’t know if I agree with the characterization that Apollo is a fully direct competitor of Reddit.
> Okay, hold on, timeout. You go to the App Store, you type in Reddit, you get two options, right? There’s Apollo. You go to one, it’s my business, and you look at our ads, use our products. That’s 95 percent of our iOS users. The rest go to Apollo, which uses our logo, or something like it, takes our data — for free — and resells it to users making a 100 percent margin. And instead of using our app, they use that app. Is that not competitive?
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- www.denverpost.com Twitter stiffed Boulder office cleaners out of $94K, firm says
Twitter Inc., the social media giant that was evicted from its Boulder office in December, is now accused of stiffing the office’s cleaning company on the way out.
- arstechnica.com Twitter evicted from office amid lawsuits over unpaid rent and cleaning bills
Twitter evicted in Boulder, Colo., still faces unpaid-rent suit at HQ in California.
- OpenAI steals data from the German public broadcaster for their product Whipsergist.github.com "Untertitel im Auftrag des ZDF, 2017"
"Untertitel im Auftrag des ZDF, 2017". GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
Whisper, OpenAI's enigmatic speech recognition model, likely honed its skills on ZDF's subtitled videos, a source of knowledge.
Within its code, the cryptic message 'Untertitel im Auftrag des ZDF, 2017' reveals its origins. An echo of silence becomes the very essence of copyright notices.
