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Guy<p>It looks like the public sector in Germany is to drop its patchwork of incoming communications solutions in favour of a decentralised/federated new approach based on the Matrix protocol with MLS for message e2e encryption. </p><p>Well done. I'd wish more public/government orgs would have that foresight. </p><p><a href="https://www.heise.de/en/news/Matrix-replacing-MJP-ZBP-Co-Will-state-mailbox-chaos-belong-to-the-past-10449857.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">heise.de/en/news/Matrix-replac</span><span class="invisible">ing-MJP-ZBP-Co-Will-state-mailbox-chaos-belong-to-the-past-10449857.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/floss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>floss</span></a></p>
Nicole Hennig<p>The battle to AI-enable the web: NLweb and what enterprises need to know <a href="https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-battle-to-ai-enable-the-web-nlweb-and-what-enterprises-need-to-know/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">venturebeat.com/ai/the-battle-</span><span class="invisible">to-ai-enable-the-web-nlweb-and-what-enterprises-need-to-know/</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/standards" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>standards</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a></p>
Nathaniel Gregory<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> didn't give us the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a>.</p><p>Large-scale <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cooperation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cooperation</span></a>, open <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a>, and free <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>software</span></a> gave us the internet. Capitalism gave us mobile sites that don't work because fifteen ads cover the screen.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democrats</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Liberals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Liberals</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Conservatives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conservatives</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Election" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Election</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DemocraticParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DemocraticParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DNC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RepublicanParty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RepublicanParty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RNC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RNC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GOP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DonaldTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DonaldTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JoeBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JoeBiden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Biden</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/KamalaHarris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KamalaHarris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Harris" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harris</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TimWalz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimWalz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Walz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Walz</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Fascist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fascist</span></a></p>
Bob Carver<p><a href="https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">404media.co/the-signal-clone-t</span><span class="invisible">he-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/</span></a><br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Signal</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/archive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>archive</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Telemessage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telemessage</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/RequiresEmailSignup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RequiresEmailSignup</span></a></p>
Tiziano :mastodon:<p>A great video about why <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> is NOT recommended as a truly open and independent alternative to mainstream <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a>.<br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@niccolove" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>niccolove</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tube.kockatoo.org/video-channels/niccolo_ve" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>niccolo_ve</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/activitypub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>activitypub</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/atproto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>atproto</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>protocols</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/thefutureisfederated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>thefutureisfederated</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://peertube.uno/w/kSCtZK8HVhK1xGhf54d6kJ" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">peertube.uno/w/kSCtZK8HVhK1xGh</span><span class="invisible">f54d6kJ</span></a></p>
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.bida.im/@thevril" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>thevril</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@kino" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kino</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SurveillanceState" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceState</span></a></p><p>👉Which <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Messenger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Messenger</span></a> To Replace the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DataKraken" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataKraken</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a> with? 👈</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FightTechnofeudalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FightTechnofeudalism</span></a></p><p>(5/n) </p><p>... I still have one, but 👉federated <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/XMPP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XMPP</span></a> just somehow can't seem to take hold outside of its own niche" 👈. </p><p>If you wanted to dig down even further, you'd get to the point where you'd have to deal with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Protocols" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Protocols</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://eattherich.club/@jmhorner/110991346559623491" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eattherich.club/@jmhorner/1109</span><span class="invisible">91346559623491</span></a></p><p>A French 🇫🇷 librarian association made an...</p>

My wife and I have two cards for an account with a major credit card. Traveling recently, she'd made a purchase on that card that triggered texts and emails to me worrying about fraud. This really bugs me.

Don't ask me why they're asking ME, not her. They CAN tell the cards apart. They should have asked her directly. It'd have been even faster. Delay was due to asking the wrong person.

"Charge OK? Yep. OK, done." That's all it should have been.

I verified things with my wife and texted back to the card's SMS query that it was OK.

But even after I inefficiently confirmed all was well, upon going to the web site, I was again confronted with the Fraud Department wanting to confirm purchases that I had already, through their clumsy interface, dismissed as non-issues.

Also at the site, I saw that they were playing a back-and-forth thing where the vendor was repeatedly retrying apparent new transactions to get an affirmative response. Every vendor in the universe likely knows there's no other way to get past this than to keep trying.

Given how bad their internal bookkeeping is, that they don't know I've dismissed this alert, I kept wondering what the chances are that sometimes people just get double-billed. You'd like to think there was a consistent state, a database, a single source of authority with data integrity and a unique view, but then again, they're not showing evidence they're good at that.

And now today I got mail from their fraud department asking me about my experience and whether, based on that, I'd recommend the card to a friend.

It WASN'T an incident of fraud. It was confirmed normalcy. It should have been finished now. Having already wasted my time once, they want to waste it more?

And let's leave aside my annoyance at the fact that every business in the universe has converged on this practice which (a) assumes I make recommendations based on a single experience, and/or (b) seems to be trying to single out an agent for blame, rather than considering process.

I seriously doubt that feedback from these surveys ever reaches the people designing the offending processes because modern customer service seems to have as its bedrock principle that no one inside the company should ever learn what the customer experience is. It feels like the purpose of customer service is as armor to make sure that the business can really see, much less absorb, the vast amount of useful information that customers would willingly provide about just how bad their product is. I think this because the worst parts never change, no matter how many of these surveys I fill out.

Here's what I wrote today:

«Declining a valid charge is not the answer to fraud. You may feel hampered by existing protocols, but the credit card companies all have this problem and all profess helplessness. They/you own this problem.

The problem is that every time you decline a purchase, the person we're buying from can't tell the difference between a stolen card, someone who doesn't manage money right, and you just being nervous. Create a way to send an error code that distinguishes these. A temporary error that says "I'm querying the customer, please retry this transaction." or even a way to just ask a question before responding. It's completely preposterous that the correct solution to this problem is to leave egg on my face because you can't have rational network protocols that fairly represent the actual information that needs to be represented.

You're using outdated ways of doing things because you're too lazy to make a new standard, and you figure it's just fine if you sully the reputation of every customer every time they make a nervous-making transaction, that they'll be fine about it, that they won't mind the uncomfortable conversations, that they love to have email, text, etc. in a zillion different places for a single transaction, information that confusingly lingers after-the-fact an that is just clutter.

So you're asking me now whether I think that was a kind of fun experience that would make me recommend your card to someone else? Do you hear yourself? Did this question really need to be asked?

What you did does not instill confidence. It just makes a mess of a routine situation that should have a routine interaction, and there is nothing about this interaction that has the look of routine, other than that customers are used to getting dumped on big Big Credit and having to take whatever you dish out.»

After more multiple choice questions, they asked if I had any other comments to add. I did add some reminders about alert fatigue and how real problems are likely to slip through the cracks when they're doing these other things.

Is it any wonder that not all of us are reassured by billionaires taking over the US and saying "don't worry, we're good at this", "deregulate us", "run the US like a business"?

I don't think ActivityPub needs to be reinvented, although it could certainly be better maintained. Maintaining the spec might be an unenviable job given the multitude of competing interests, so it should be rotated or voted on.

Something like Gemini but with an equivalent to webforms would be good, and enable more of an alt-web to become established against the corporate browsers.

#Protocols #Internet

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One Health Surveillance 🔍🌐

The implementation of comprehensive monitoring is imperative:

• Integrated tracking of human, animal, and environmental health.

• The establishment of real-time #datasharing #protocols across relevant sectors.

• UtiliSation of #advanced #molecular techniques for the detection of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is crucial.

• Mapping of climate-related and AMR #hotspots must be undertaken.

#OneHealthSurveillance #GlobalMonitoring

doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2021.584

8/n

FrontiersFrontiers | Reducing Antimicrobial Use and Dependence in Livestock Production Systems: A Social and Economic Sciences Perspective on an Interdisciplinary ApproachObjective: In livestock production, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is considered an externality as it is the undesired result of preventive and curative anti...
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@ditol @samueljohn @linuzifer

THIS is where I disagree...

You may think it's elitist, but if people are too lazy to learn even fundamentals like how to use #Tails then maybe they should just not do #tech at all?

  • Like: We expect people to show at the every least theoretical proficiency in terms of #TrafficCode and #VehicleSafety in +every juristiction I'm aware of* and literally mandated #DrivingLicense|s for that reason.

I'll gladly teach #TechIlliterates but I won't waste my time on people that spread disinfo...

It's 2024: @tails_live / @tails has been out for over a decade and there are a shitload of guides ranging from written documentation to Zoomer-friendly TikTok-Style shorts on how to get started.

FOR THE LAST TIME:

*STOP MAKING EXCUSES TO JUSTIFY ESCALATING COMMITMENT TO EVIDENTLY BAD SOLUTIONS!"

Whereas with #SelfCustody of all the keys as well as #ReproduceableBuilds and real #decentralization, this would be evidently impossible even if all the devs wanted to comply honestly and not just because they could be held at gunpoint.

  • #Signal is not your friend. It's merely a tax-exempt "non-profit" corporation, and corporations are explicitly nobodys friend - espechally when they demand #PII like phone numbers for useage.

Compare that to #monocles where you do pay like €2 p.m. but in return get #standard #protocols like #IMAP, #SMTP & #XMPP and can pay anonymously and not have to provide any PII whatsoever!

  • And unlike #Signal they ain't dependent on #VC funding and #grant money to keep the lights on.

Make of that what you will, but just like allowing flatearthers to roam freely without caretaker supervision doesn't make the world less round, so won't the facts change about #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec.

Because all #centralized, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider solutions are bad, and if they don't even allow for #SelfCustody then they are just a #grift to #scam tech-illiterates that don't know and/or don't care!

Infosec.SpaceKevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)Attached: 1 image @Catweazle@vivaldi.net @baeuchle@chaos.social @Linux@kitty.social @torproject@mastodon.social @Vivaldi@vivaldi.net Claiming that ["[...] Mullvad is as private as Tor [...]"]( https://social.vivaldi.net/@Catweazle/113344664983833218 ) disqualified your for any future discussion. - If you can't distinguish between a #VPN and #Tor then you are either *criminally incompetent* or *acting as a #UsefulIdiot* by *spreading #FUD and known #disinfo*, which *can get people killed* who believe this bs! I'll set you some timeout, so you can think about it and apologize in due time! #thxbye #EOD #next

Dot Social: This Publishing Platform Sees the Future, with Ghost’s John O’Nolan

Love this summary!

"John O’Nolan, the founder and CEO of Ghost, calls himself “the inverse Peter Thiel.” That’s because he wants to build a tech company that bucks the usual narratives, with as few monopolies as possible. His open-source publishing platform is structured as a nonprofit and is integrating with the ActivityPub protocol, giving creators digital sovereignty. No longer do writers have to perform for an algorithm to succeed or get stuck inside closed systems that monetize off their backs."

Getting really excited about what activity pub can do and where this all can go. Another great interview @mike

"How should the web work going forward" 👀

Episode webpage: dot-social.simplecast.com/epis

Media file: cdn.simplecast.com/audio/2ab7f

If you'd like any of these, er, "classic" #tech #books for just the price of posting, let me know. I think they'd be about £3 to send inside the UK, each. Please only bother if you'd personally like to own it/them - if you'd just plan to flip them then it really wouldn't be worth your while!! #FreeBooks #Free #GiveAway #Techbooks #SecondHandBooks #bookstodon #Devops #development #Developers #sre #sysadmin #golang #cucumber #rspec #cloudfoundry #internet #protocols #programming #PleaseBoost

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@DrPen Human autentication #protocols are going to be very necessary very soon.

But the problem is, people won’t start to want them until it’s already too late. And when that happens they’ll be ready to sacrifice their privacy for convenience.

When privacy is gone, we’ll be at a risk of losing democracy as well.

That’s why we need to start NOW and develop #humanauthentication that ALLOWS for #anonymity!

gimulnaut.wordpress.com/2023/0

Gimulnautti · Humans Have Freedom Of Expression, Bots Don’tDemocracy can not survive automatisation of hate-speech and harassment. A world where every single action online by a human is followed by a cloud of synthetic personalities far outnumbering us, is…

"IEEE Life Fellow Robert E. Kahn, widely known as one of the “fathers of the Internet,” is the recipient of the 2024 IEEE Medal of Honor. He is being recognized for “pioneering technical and leadership contributions in packet communication technologies and foundations of the Internet.”"

spectrum.ieee.org/medal-of-hon

IEEE Spectrum · IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob KahnBy Joanna Goodrich