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Today's Poll 👇

How often do you use AI tools in your daily life?

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Poll #Tech #FutureOfWork

On #Mastodon there are now
412 verified accounts from #news organizations in
21 languages and on
122 instances.

231 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@ZarautzGuka (BAQ)
@globalvoices (ENG)
@ElSaltoDiario (SPA)
@linforme (FRA)
@thetyee (ENG)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

Yes, #Fedilab has some differences between its Google Play version and its #FDroid version.
There are mostly due to restrictions from Google.

In the Google app we had to remove:

- Donation links
- Register an account on Mastodon (as they don't want to understand that the app doesn't collect emails).
- Filter some search results with #Peertube to exclude "YouTube Downloader" videos

To Google users, keep in mind you can easily switch to FDroid, we would be happy to help if you have questions

New design has dropped on our Goodie store - get yours now 👇
https://www.redbubble.com/people/KiwixOffline/explore?asc=u&page=1&sortOrder=recent

A Snickers is about 570Wh, which is like eating a very sizable ebike battery's entire charge in one go.

A Big Mac slightly tops that with about 650Wh. A slice of pizza is about half that with 340Wh.

Meanwhile, fruits like apples/bananas are in the ~100-130 watt-hour oversized twice laptop battery ballpark, and a cup of greek yogurt is about the same, so a big cup of fruit-filled yogurt is still less calories than a big mac or snickers!

A full english breakfast can be over 1kWh! Quickcharge ⚡⚡

I propose replacing calories with watt-hours.

- Almost same value (1 kilocalorie / Calorie is ~1.1 watt-hours)
- more intuitive for people who use electricity
- never the confusion between calories (science), Calories (food, which is technically kilocalories), kilocalories, and 'kilo Calories' (which is technically megacalories)
- you get to feel more like a robot with your 2.5kwh power consumption a day which may feel like validation to some creatures on this fediverse
- become powered by cake

In order to please the requests a large publisher (Axel Springer), #Germany may be on the verge of making ad-blockers illegal - and, worse, anything that modifies a Web page before or after rendering.

Axel Springer has an open lawsuit against Eyeo (the maker of Adblock Plus).

Publishers or Big Tech companies waging war against browsers and extensions culprit of blocking their juicy ads+tracking revenues aren't anything new. But this time the argument is a very dangerous one.

The argument is that the source code of a website (its HTML, JS and CSS) is copyrighted content intended to be rendered as-is on a client's device.

Therefore ad-blockers, by intercepting or blocking requests made through this copyrighted content, or modifying the DOM it renders, are breaking copyright laws.

In 2022, the Hamburg appeal court ruled that Adblock Plus did not infringe the copyright of websites, but rather it was merely facilitating a choice by users about how they wished their browser to render the page.

Unfortunately, on July 31, the German Federal Supreme Court partially overturned the decision of the Hamburg court and remanded the case for further proceedings. The BGH (as the Federal Supreme Court is known) called for a new hearing so that the Hamburg court can provide more detail regarding which part of the website (such as bytecode or object code) is altered by ad blockers, whether this code is protected by copyright, and under what conditions the interference might be justified.

The statement that a website as a whole, including its 3rd-party integrations (such as ads/trackers SDKs), is copyrighted content intended to be rendered without modifications only on the clients supported by the author is an extremely dangerous one.

It goes against everything that HTTP and HTML have always been.

Not only it would make ad-blockers illegal, but it'd make anything that alters the flow of an HTTP session illegal.

Think of things like Greasemonkey scripts to change the style of some webpages. Or accessibility extensions that modify the contrast and font size of a page. Or things like Firefox's Reader Mode, often used by blind people to distill webpages before feeding their content to a screen reader. Or even just inspecting and manually modifying the DOM of a Web page through the browser's dev tools.

And what if I do the blocking on DNS level, through something like Pihole? Would a DNS block towards a domain I don't want to be rendered on my devices be illegal too?

If I acquired some content in a legal way (e.g. through an HTTP request to an openly accessible website), then I'm free to do whatever I can with that content, for personal usage, once it reaches my device.

Imagine a law that makes it illegal to install another OS on a computer or phone that you regularly purchased.

Or use alternative clients to render your chats.

Or use a text-based browser with a minimal JS engine to access a Website.

A law that wouldn't just imply a void warranty in these cases - just make them straight out illegal, as in "copyright infringment" illegal.

It would be the biggest blow to the way the Internet is built - around open protocols open to all kind of implementations and messages open to all kind and manipulations on each step of the route.

It would set a very dangerous precedent towards an over-reaching definition of copyright that could also mandate on what devices and under what condition some HTTP content should be rendered (and it's not such a far-fetched dystopia: look no further than the DRM implementations).

And it would violate other EU laws (like the DMA) which are exactly meant to foster accessibility, inter-compatibility, freedom of implementation and modification of online content acquired through legal means.

And what's most ironic is that blocking ads or modifying the CSS of a webpage may amount to copyright infringment, but massive scraping done by AI models may not.

https://blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/2025/08/14/is-germany-on-the-brink-of-banning-ad-blockers-user-freedom-privacy-and-security-is-at-risk/

smolweb HTML specification
"smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate."

#HTML #SmallInternet #spec #smolweb

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💵 If you were previously paying for a GitHub account, please consider redirecting that support to Codeberg.

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#codeberg #git #GitHub

If you are familiar with #Ruby and want to help making #Mastodon web available in browsers without #JavaScript, consider implementing any of:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/34241

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23153

Good morning, fedizens / fedifriends / masto-mateys 🌅

A reminder on the real #luxuries in life 🙌💞

(This post is for non-Americans.) Folks, it's time to stop agonising over everything the Americans do, and focus instead on building a world that works without them. Let's accept that we can no longer rely on them for anything: trade, global security, aid, medical research, a model of democracy, tech innovation … anything.

Even if the U.S. somehow achieves peaceful democratic transfers of power in 2026 and 2028 — and there are many good Americans fighting hard for that — there''ll be years or decades of cleaning up and rebuilding shattered democratic institutions from the ground up. Write them out of the global script for now and move on.

#USpolitics #trade #war #science

Has someone already done work to fix the OpenGraph link previews from @gotosocial ? When I share a post I’d like the entire post to be visible from the preview. Not just a generic link with username and my avatar. #gotosocial #opengraph

@Edwin085 it seems it is an hoax https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/30/fact-check-story-boy-cardboard-nintendo-console-unproven/4310183001/
@adele

So touching.

Dumb question that I was always too afraid to ask:

I know how the #Fediverse and its federation works. It's intuitive and familiar to me; I mean, I even host my own instance.

But I never understood how interaction cross-software is supposed to work. In theory, I can use whatever #ActivityPub software I want and still interact with everyone else. But in practice that just... isn't the case, right?

I mean, for text it's quite simple: I write a short post on #Mastodon and people on #GoToSocial or #Misskey or whatever can see and read that same post and interact with it. They can see my profile and it appears on their instance in their style and with their features.

Even outside of microblogging I still get it. A super-long post on #Friendica or #Diaspora appears on my timeline, too. Their profiles might have more fields than I can see here, but that's fine.

But what's up beyond that?

I can see #Pixelfed posts here, converted into image galleries. But what about the other way 'round? If someone on Pixelfed follows my Mastodon account, they can't see any of my non-image posts, right?

What about #PeerTube and such niche software? I guess I could follow a PeerTube account as a microblogger and see their videos and descriptions in my timeline. Video comments are replies.

But the other way 'round? How are they supposed to interact with Friendica or Pixelfed users? PeerTube doesn't even have a "timeline".

Doesn't that feature disparity undermine the whole idea of the #Fediverse or am I missing something?

#AskFedi #FediAdmin