Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

With experimental cross-silo Federation and so many Fediverse operators running on shoestring budgets, maybe we need Government regulators to demand that all content creators *must* accept this classic UX dialogue before posting

2024/02/15
Today I have learnt something about the central heating system in my home

2024/02/15
Shoshana Weissmann: Carding People for Joining Social Media Solves Nothing

2024/02/15
Hobbyists running AI foundation models at home will be the next frontier of attempted Government regulation; Civil Society will have to decide which side it is on

2024/02/15
Two Years After Privacy Risks of Client-Side Scanning Paper Was Published, It’s Time for Governments to Move On

2024/02/15
Marco @polotek@social.polotek.net shares a glorious epiphany regarding trust, safety, platforms in general, & Mastodon in specific

2024/02/14
Nice little explainer thread from David Thiel on the Bluesky Mastodon Bridge Brouhaha

2024/02/14
Reading this and remembering the (subset of) people who told me that it was irresponsible to release a password cracker to USENET in 1991 because it might be used by bad people to do bad things

2024/02/14
“Opt-out is a terrible default and should be reconsidered” | Mastodon users throwing a huge fit that their content may be copied to Bluesky by bridging software

2024/02/14
Worcestershire: New Road ‘situation worsening’ as water levels rise, says Ashley Giles | Wicket Keeper bitten by Giant Eel

2024/02/13
I signed up for Nextdoor for fun, it’s full of “this country is going to the dogs” DailyMail/Sun-readers… and then I realised…

2024/02/13
A chatbot that imitates the dead. Is it a good idea? | FT

2024/02/12