Sometimes in the debate about federation, we miss that open APIs are still very valuable alone. Bluesky’s API has so many nice touches including many requests that do not need authorization at all. I’d like to see Mastodon ease off some of its more strict requirements for e.g. HTTP signatures.
People and blogs involved with and about the IndieWeb community, the fediverse, and/or the open web in general.
Seeing an increase in security proxies like Cloudflare interfering with legitimate Micro.blog requests to other services. Likely not related to the new AI Labyrinth, but along the same lines: when you try to catch “misbehaving bots”, you’re going to affect real users too.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
[Joshua Kaplan and Justin Elliott at ProPublica]
I bet this practice is more common than anyone might think, and certainly isn't limited to China. As always, follow the money:
"In December, [SpaceX investor] Kahlon testified that SpaceX prefers to avoid inv...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
Careless People: Facebook insider’s memoir reveals more in what it omits
[Sabhanaz Rashid Diya at Rest of World]
Like the author, I read Careless People, Sarah Wynn-Williams' account of her time as a director for global public policy at Facebook during a period when the company transitioned from a largely-domestic social network ...
Manuel Moreale — Everything Feed
• Manuel Moreale
The cost of getting too big
The other morning while I was catching up with news over coffee I stumbled on this article on The Verge commenting on the rumours about Apple considering adding a camera and AI to the Apple Watch. I don’t own an Apple Watch, I don’t plan to own an Apple Watch—I already have ...
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
Used the Handski today and it was fun.
Micro.blog expanding photo servers in Europe
Today we’re rolling out a big improvement to our new EU-based servers. Along with the option to host your web pages in Europe, Micro.blog will now also copy your photos and other uploads. It will copy your data the first time the feature is enabled, and then going forward wi...
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
No, we’re not a startup — and that’s fine
You can’t “be a startup” inside a big organization. And you shouldn't try.
Ben Werdmuller
• Ben Werdmuller
No, we’re not a startup — and that’s fine
Inadvertently, the other day, I became one of those people.
My team and I were sitting together as part of a week-long summit; some attendees were in New York City, while others attended remotely. I was taking them through the principles that I believe are important fo...
The page for WWDC 2025 is vague enough that Apple could still do a live keynote. Not holding my breath. But it feels out of touch to not bring back a couple live demos. OpenAI is doing live streams every couple weeks (there was one today). It shows faith in your product.
Zac Hall blogs at 9to5Mac that Apple should acquire Mira Murati’s new company, Thinking Machines Labs:
Let Rockwell make all the repairs and changes needed to allow Siri to meet the baseline performance that Apple should expect. Tap Murati to focus not on the baggage but instead on the future.
Watching a couple of the videos from ATmosphereConf. The videos are up on YouTube in this playlist.
Chris Aldrich
• Chris Aldrich
You’re invited to a Southern California Type-In!
Putting the final touches on a nice improvement for our blogging friends across the pond… I’ll announce in a blog post later today.
AI takes something and sands the edges down, so it makes the blob average. And that could be very useful in a lot of ways. But if you really want to do something brand new and really insightful and speak from a personal angle, that’s not going to come from AI fully.
ArtLung
• Joe Crawford
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This may seem controversial, but the Repubs do have a point re DEI. We really do have a problem honoring the achievements of white men. I know because I get the bullshit when people have tried to honor me for my achievements. When I was offered a keynote spot a the ISOJ confe...
You know how they have walkability scores for different places? I live in a place now with a score of zero, you can't do anything without a car. I moved from a place with a score of 99. I'd like to have social networks get a score like that, for how much they feed energy int...
A thought for everyone struggling to see a good future in all the michegas. My advice -- please -- do your protesting, resisting, DEIing, organizing, learning, look for silver linings (they are there) and most important keep doing things that feed your soul. Treat yourself with love even if the world isn't. So in that spirit for those of us who have cats they love -- a story.
What a world we live in.