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haecksen

We’re living in the age of attention, and sadly, the concerns of FLINTA peeps still don’t get nearly enough of it. Whatever’s on your mind, we’ve got a platform for you!

No worries, the platform is totally optional ☺️ , you can also pick a cozy workshop space or join in from home while sharing your talk or leading your workshop:
events.haecksen.org/cfc25/inde

events.haecksen.orgHaecksen Events - CFC25
#cfc25#FLINTA#queerfeminist
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@BernieDoesIt @Catvalente there is:

  • REFUSE TO RELEASE ON #iOS UNTIL THE TERMS ARE CHANGED!

As with every #Platform, #Software makes #OperatingSystems and the #OperatingSystem makes #Hardware.

  • This worked with #WindowsPhone and #UWP: everyone refused to build #Apps for it and thus it died pretty quickly.

And if you want to say that's not an option, take a look at #AltStore which automates all the necessary work to perpetually #sideload any #App on iOS in a noob-friendly way.

Remember: "Everyone else does it" never was and never will be a valid excuse for any shit system!

  • Also you could just refuse to offer the sales on Apple's platform and add any "#Premium Features" post-launch with your own payment & licensing infrastructure. If you're big enough or small enough myou may get away with it. #NotLegalAdvice

Otherwise band together with other #developers and coordinate.

And if you allow Apple to exploit you harder than #Valve, then you normalize that shit!

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Thor A. Hopland

Of course, you do realize that I want the original #SpaceJam #Website to have at least a couple of posts using the #ActivityPub protocol, preferably one by @BugsBunny@SpaceJam.com that says:

"Michael sure can play! But everyone's distracted by Lola..."

And maybe some homage to Tex Avery, if he wasn't a complete monster.

In any case, you get my point. It's not actually a #SocialPlatform, a #Service, or any kind of #platform at all. The web just got a jungle telegraph. Have at it, Hoss.

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Thor A. Hopland

A #platform, is a platform, is a platform. The user don't care.

What is that, a #CSR on #serverless, an #SSR hooked up to a #VPS - or maybe you even manage your own #kubernetes. Daring, aren't we?

For some people, this is all static. But, they know what the #web is. They know that it's where the crawlers live.

When I look at this chart, I think #WebSocial has a ring to it that might project "Other" into the top 5 - maybe even top 3.

Why?

This chart shows the distribution of monthly active users (MAU) across various software platforms that are compatible with Web Social (formerly known as "The Fediverse"). The Fediverse user distribution shows that on the date of March 29th 2025 Mastodon had 71.53%, Pixelfed had 11.90%, Lemmy had 4.11%, and PeerTube had 3.96%, while other platforms like Misskey, Microdotblog, and Writefreely had shares below 1%, and Bridgy-fed and Mobilizon have no recorded users, with 6.73% belonging to other platforms."
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Paul Nemitz

This is finally a useful project for European #Democracy: A #Platform which shows all journalistic #news produced by all licensed terrestrial TV Stations in Europe, translates all this in all languages and makes it searchable. The Platform will enrich plurality and access to news in all Member States.It will be the first technology project using #AI which really serves #Democracy without any risc of undermining it. #Journalism #News #Democracy #Europe #AIforDemocracy

netzpolitik.org/2025/mehr-info

netzpolitik.org · Mehr Informationen wagen: Wie eine europäische Medienplattform die Demokratie schützen könnteWir können Propaganda auf sozialen Medien nicht mit Gesetzen begegnen. Was es braucht, ist eine Plattform für europäische Nachrichten – in allen europäischen Sprachen. Technisch ist das möglich. Es braucht nur den politischen Willen, fordert Matthias Pfeffer in seinem Gastbeitrag.
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Frederik Borgesius

New pre-print online:

‘The EU Digital Services Act: what does it mean for online advertising and adtech?’

By Pieter Wolters and me.

We explore the question: what does the Digital Services Act mean for online advertising?

We show that some types of ad tech companies, such as ad networks, should be considered platforms.

Comments are welcome! It's a pre-print, so we can still improve it.

arxiv.org/abs/2503.05764

Screenshot of the paper abstract. It says: 'We describe and analyse the DSA rules that are most relevant for online advertising and adtech (advertising technology). We also highlight to what extent the DSA's advertising rules add something to the rules in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive. The DSA introduces several specific requirements for online advertising. First, the DSA imposes transparency requirements in relation to advertisements. Second, very large online platforms (VLOPs) should develop a publicly available repository with information about the ads they presented. Third, the DSA bans profiling-based advertising (behavioural advertising) if it uses sensitive data or if it targets children. Besides these specific provisions, the general rules of the DSA on illegal content also apply to advertising. Advertisements are a form of information, and thus subject to the general DSA rules. Moreover, we conclude that the DSA applies to some types of ad tech companies. For example, ad networks, companies that connect advertisers to publishers of apps and websites, should be considered platforms. Some ad networks may even qualify as VLOPs. Hence, ad networks must comply with the more general obligations in the DSA. The application of these general rules to advertisements and ad networks can have far-reaching effects that have been underexplored and deserve further research.' (We deleted some sentences here because of the word limit)
#eu#law#dsa
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Fishing For Moments
Beim Blick durch einen Durchgang zur anderen Bahnsteigseite in der U-Bahnstation Hauptbahnhof Süd in #Hamburg traute ich meinen Augen kaum. Die Frau stand mit dem Rücken zu mir, fast perfekt mittig zum Torbogen, die Farbe des Mantels passend zu den Fliesen des Durchgangs. Und dann lief auch noch die Taube ins Bild. Und ich erwischte diese dann auch noch in einem Moment mit überkreuzten Beinen – passend zu denen der Frau. Perfekt für den #FotoMontag!

I could hardly believe my eyes when I looked through a passageway to the other side of the platform in the Hauptbahnhof Süd subway station in Hamburg. The woman was standing with her back to me, almost perfectly centered to the archway, the color of her coat matching that of the tiles of the passageway. And then this pigeon ran into the picture. And I caught it at a moment with its legs crossed - just like the woman's legs. Perfect for #PhotoMonday!

#photography #Fotografie #StreetPhotography #UrbanPhotography
#subway #ubahn #Bahnsteig #platform #FujifilmX #FujiXseries #FujifilmX100VI #FujiLove #FujiFeed #ishootjpeg #sooc
Der Blick führt durch einen hell gefliesten Durchgang auf eine Frau in hellem Mantel auf einem U-Bahnsteig. Die Frau mit schwarzen langen Haaren steht mit dem Rücken zum Betrachter. Rechts neben der Frau sitzt eine Taube auf dem rotbraun gepflasterten Bahnsteig. An der hellgrün gefliesten Wand im Hintergrund steht auf einem weißen Schild „Hauptbahnhof Süd“. Zwei kleinere Schilder zeigen Piktogramme mit einer durchgestrichenen Zigarette und einer ebenso durchgestrichenen Flasche mit der Aufschrift ALC. The view leads through a brightly tiled passageway to a woman in a light-colored coat on a subway platform. The woman with long black hair is standing with her back to the viewer. To the right of the woman, a pigeon sits on the red-brown paved platform. A white sign on the light green tiled wall in the background reads “Hauptbahnhof Süd”. Two smaller signs show pictograms with a crossed-out cigarette and an equally crossed-out bottle with the inscription ALC.
#sooc
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Hans Kastell

#öffentlich #Platform #internet #demokratie #fair #urheberrecht #streaming ...ach guckt selber und unterschreibt.
Auch #DotaKehr stellte es gerade bei #3sat #Kulturzeit vor; dann muss es ja gut sein.

weact.campact.de/petitions/sav

WeActSoziale Netzwerke als demokratische Kraft rettenRund 100 Akteur*innen aus Kultur, Wirtschaft und Medien haben sich zur Initiative Save Social zusammengetan. [1] Gemeinsam schlagen sie zehn konkrete Schritte vor, um das Internet von der Dominanz der Monopolkonzerne zu befreien und alternative Plattformen für Information und Debatte zu stärken: 1. Wir stärken Alternativen mit guten Inhalten: Mit öffentlichen Mitteln finanzierte Inhalte müssen vollständig zumindest auch auf diesen Plattformen verfügbar sein, denen offene und anerkannte...
#Nr093
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Scott Leggett :fedi: :golang:

2. "Human error" is _never_ a contributing factor (or "root cause" 🤬). The problem is that until Human 2.0 comes out it is completely unfixable. Humans don't make decisions or take actions in a vacuum. There is _always_ an outdated procedure, bad policy, false belief, missing documentation, poor tooling, or lack of training behind a mistake made by a human. That is something you can fix!

#DevOps#platform#sre
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Aral Balkan

A quick demonstration of using the State: Overview page in Kitten’s¹ settings while developing to keep an eye on your event and event listener counts to avoid memory leaks.

Notice how the events and listeners counts change as I navigate between the People and Settings pages in my Place² node and that they are consistent. If they were rising as I navigated back and forth I’d know I had a memory leak somewhere.

If you use Kitten’s built-in features (e.g., the `addEventHandler()` method on your `kitten.Component` subclasses, Kitten will handle adding and removing listeners for you automatically during your component’s lifecycle. You can also do so manually in your component’s automatically-called `onConnect()` and `onDisconnect()` event handlers.

This view is useful during development to ensure you don’t have any memory leaks as pages are loaded and unloaded.

vimeo.com/1050714714

¹ kitten.small-web.org
² Place is in early development at the moment (codeberg.org/place/app)

VimeoKitten state overview: events and listenersA quick demonstration of using the State: overview page in Kitten’s settings while developing to keep an eye on your event and event listener counts. If you…
#Kitten#SmallWeb#SmallTech
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Aral Balkan

New Kitten¹ update

Experimental:

• Adds `data` property to Kitten components

• Adds swap target to `page.send` so you can have an element added before, after, as first child of, or as last child of another (this is syntactic sugar over htmx and works around some of the complexities with out-of-band swaps in htmx, especially when streaming table rows to tables).

Also, check out the latest live page and page events state view in Kitten’s Settings (every Kitten app has this settings view).

vimeo.com/1050348456

¹ kitten.small-web.org

VimeoKitten settings: page and events statesBy Small Technology Foundation
#Kitten#SmallWeb#OOP
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n8chz 🩎

@wdlindsy I'm not a purist and I'm not dumping on allies, I'm simply bemoaning the fact that #Substack, being a #platform, has high exit costs, and so staying with Substack may indeed bee my allies' most rational course of action. I would never suggest that rebellion against #PlatformCapitalism is anywhere near as important to #opposition to fascism, but this particular iteration of fascism happens to have the full support of Silicon Valley (i.e. the platform capitalism industry) seemingly in its entirely, and more to the point, if there is a counterexample to the rule of thumb that all Silicon Valley platforms are run by fascists, Substack is demonstrably NOT that counterexample.

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Aral Balkan

So last night, while recording the preview of Kitten’s¹ improved component model², I made a silly mistake (copying raw HTML into a JavaScript function instead of wrapping it in a kitten.html`` tagged template, easy to do when you’re refactoring to pull out components from pages).

Then, once I figured out what I’d done, I made another one by forgetting to return the value from the function (easy to do when you’re used to using one-line closures as render functions).

I would have caught both of those so much faster if Kitten had helpful error messages for those two pitfalls. And guess what, this morning, it does :)

Attached are screenshot showing the before and after error messages.

Enjoy!

:kitten:💕

¹ kitten.small-web.org
² Scroll up the thread to watch the video.

Screenshot of first error message (before): 500 TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'match')
Screenshot of first error message (after): Error: Render function did not return kitten.html`` class Count extends kitten.Component { html { kitten.html`<h1 morph>${kitten.db.counter.count}</h1>` } onIncrement { kitten.db.counter.count++ this.update } }
Screenshot of second error message (before): 500 SyntaxError: Unexpected token '<
Screenshot of second error message (after): 500 SyntaxError: Unexpected token '< (Did you put raw HTML inside a function by mistake instead of wrapping it in a kitten.html`` tagged template?)
#Kitten#SmallWeb#PeerToPeerWeb
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