L’Europa è a un bivio. La difesa comune, tema dibattuto sin dal fallimento della Comunità europea di Difesa nel 1954, torna al centro del dibattito con ReArm Europe, il progetto promosso dalla Commissione europea per rafforzare le capacità strategiche del
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Le decisioni adottate includono il ridimensionamento della CISA e la cessazione di oltre l’80% dei programmi della USAID, che finanzia gli alleati per la costruzione di infrastrutture internet sicure. Ecco l'effetto Trump sulla cyber
Effettivamente, se esiste un settore nel quale il 90% dei programmi che servono è sviluppato ad hoc e in Cloud, è proprio la PA. Non vedo perché non si debba usare proprio Linux, con una distribuzione dedicata.
Printed circuit boards were once so simple. One or two layers of copper etched on a rectangular fiberglass substrate, with a few holes drilled in key locations so components could be soldered into place. They were functional objects, nothing more—built only for the sake of the circuit itself.
Fast forward to today, and so much has changed. Boards sprout so many layers, often more than 10, and all kinds of fancy geometric features for purposes both practical and pretty. But what catches they eye more than that, other than rich, saturated color? [Joseph Long] came to the 2024 Hackaday Supercon to educate us on the new world of full color PCBs.
[Joseph] begins his talk with an explanation of terminology. We often look at a PCB and cite its color—say, green for example. As [Joseph] explains, the color comes from the solder mask layer—so called for its job in ensuring solder can only go where it’s supposed to go. The solder mask sits atop the copper layer, but beneath the silk screen which has all the component outlines and part labels.
Solder mask was traditionally green, and this is still the most common color you’ll find in the majority of electronics. However, in recent decades, the available gamut of colors has increased. Now, you can routinely order yellow, blue, purple, and red solder masks quite easily, as well as black or white if you’re so inclined. As some creative makers have found, when designing a board, it’s possible to get several colors into a design even if you’re just using one color of solder mask. That’s because the solder mask appears in slightly different shades when it’s laid over the bare fiberglass of the PCB, versus being laid over copper, for example. Add in white silkscreen and you’ve got quite a lot to work with.
Different colors are achievable on a PCB even just by using a single soldermask color. We’re used to having a choice of color on our PCB orders today, but so much more is possible. But what if you want more? What if you want real color? [Joseph] realized this could be possible when he found out that PCB board houses were already using inkjet-like printers to lay down silkscreen layers on small-run boards. Since there was already a printer involved in the board production process, wouldn’t it be simple to start printing on circuit boards in full color?
As it turns out, this was very practical. Two big Shenzhen board houses—JLCPCB and PCBWay—both started delivering color printed boards in 2024. The method involved using a white solder mask layer, with a full-color “silkscreen” layer printed on top using UV-cured ink. Using this ink was a particular key to unlocking full color PCBs. The UV-cured inks are more robust under the tough conditions PCBs face, such as the high temperatures during reflow or hand soldering.
Color printing PCBs might sound trivial and only relevant for cosmetic purposes, but [Joseph] points out it has lots of practical applications too. You can easily color code pinouts and traces right on the the board, a feature that has obvious engineering value. You can even use photorealistic footprints to indicate where other board-level modules should be soldered in, too, making assembly more intuitive. Plus, full color boards are fun—don’t discount that!
[Joseph] likes using the full-color prints to aid in assembly, by using far more realistic footprints for items like board-scale modules and batteries.[Joseph] is also a big fan of the SAO format, having designed several compatible boards himself. At his talk, he showed off special “extender” boards of his own creation and offered giveaways to attendees.If you’re wondering how to get started, [Joseph]’s talk covers all the important ground. He goes over the workflow for doing color PCBs with typical board houses. As the main suppliers in this area, PCBWay and JLCPCB both have slightly different ways of working with design files for color boards. Obviously, creating a color board involves making images outside of your traditional board design software. It’s straightforward enough, but you have to follow some careful practices to ensure your images are printed in the right size and right orientation to match the rest of your PCB design. PCBWay lets you make your own images and submit them with your Gerber files from whatever board design tool, while JLCPCB requires you to produce your PCB within their EasyEDA design software and put the graphics directly in there. [Joseph] also explains the costs involved for printing these boards, which does come at a premium relative to traditional boards.
As a bonus, we even get to see some of Joseph’s awesome color boards. The graphics are stunning—they really show the potential of full-color PCBs and how they can elevate a project or a fun badge design. If you’re eager to try this out, go ahead and watch [Joseph]’s primer and dive in for yourself!
“Gli Stati Uniti proiettano la loro presenza in tutto il mondo attraverso le loro navi da guerra, influenzando quotidianamente le decisioni geopolitiche mantenendo lo stile di vita americano”, ha detto Brett Seidle, assistente (acting) segretario della Marina per la ricerca, lo sviluppo e l’acquisizione. Seidle ha
No phone, no app, no encryption can protect you from yourself if you send the information you’re trying to hide directly to someone you don’t want to have it.#Signal #PeteHegseth
You all already know the story about national security leaders, Signal, and The Atlantic by now. But to summarize in one sentence: a top U.S. official accidentally added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic to a group chat on the secure messaging app Signal, and members of the group chat then discussed plans for striking Houthi targets (and with what weapons) before they happened or were public knowledge, resulting in a catastrophic leak of information bringing up all sorts of questions about why top U.S. brass were sharing these details on a consumer app, potentially on their personal phones, and not a communications channel approved for the sharing of classified information or combat plans.
According to screenshots of the chats and the group chat’s members published by The Atlanticon Wednesday, the outlet’s editor Jeffrey Goldberg used the display name “JG” on Signal. He also said in the original article that he displayed as JG. Presumably National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, who accidentally added Goldberg, added the wrong JG. This is a big, big mistake obviously.
But there is a somewhat overlooked setting inside Signal that can ensure you don’t make the same mistake. It’s the nickname feature. First, take a look at my Signal when I search for “Jason” when trying to make a new group and add members to it. What a total fucking mess. As a journalist I receive Signal messages constantly, all day, every day, from people I know and people I don’t. More times than I can literally count, these people use or have names that are the same as people I’ve already spoken to. It gets even worse when someone pinging me uses the display name “M” or “A” or some other single initial.
A couple of those Jasons are Signal accounts belonging to 404 Media co-founder Jason Koebler, who I often have to add to group chats or talk to. But definitely not all of them. So, when creating a new group, I have to figure out, god, which Jason is the Jason I want to add this time. Previously I’ve worked it out by backing out of the create group section, finding the Jason I want, verifying their phone number if it’s available by clicking on my chat settings with them (which it seems you can’t do from within Signal’s create a group section), remembering what color Jason it is, then adding them. This information isn’t available for every contact though.
There is a much easier way, but it requires you to be proactive. You can add your own nickname to a Signal contact by clicking on the person’s profile picture in a chat with them then clicking “Nickname.” Signal says “Nicknames & notes are stored with Signal and end-to-end encrypted. They are only visible to you.” So, you can add a nickname to a Jason saying “co-founder,” or maybe “national security adviser,” and no one else is going to see it. Just you. When you’re trying to make a group chat, perhaps. See what my Signal looks like after I use the nickname feature to label the correct Jason with “404”: Signal could improve its user interface around groups and people with duplicate display names. But maybe, also don’t plan sensitive military operations in a group chat like this either.
These days we don’t get too fussed about miniaturized electronics, not when you can put an entire processor and analog circuitry on a chip the size of a grain of sand. Things were quite different back in the 1980s, with the idea of a credit card-sized radio almost preposterous. This didn’t stop the engineers over at Casio from having a go at this and many other nutty ideas, with [Matt] from Techmoan having a go at taking one of these miniaturized marvels apart. The Casio FM Stereo radio in happier days. (Credit: Techmoan, YouTube) On the chopping block is the FM stereo device that was featured in a previous episode. Out of the four credit card-sized radios in that video, the one with the rechargeable battery (obviously) had ceased to work, so it was the obvious choice for a teardown. This mostly meant peeling off the glued-on top and bottom, after which the circuitry became visible.
In addition to the battery with a heavily corroded contact, the thin PCB contains a grand total of three ICs in addition to the analog circuitry. These were identified by [Spritetm] as an AM/FM tuner system IC (TA7792), an FM PLL MPX (TA7766AF) and a headphone amplifier (TA7767F), all of them manufactured by Toshiba.
Although [Matt] reckons this was a destructive teardown, we’re looking forward to the repair video where a fresh cell is soldered in and the case glued back together.
@Informatica (Italy e non Italy 😁) Che cosa emerge dall'Annual Threat Assessment 2025 pubblicato dall’Office of the Director of National Intelligence. L'intervento di Francesco D'Arrigo
Ieri il Ministro Giuseppe Valditara si è recato in visita istituzionale in Veneto e ha incontrato studenti, docenti, famiglie e amministratori locali nella provincia di Padova.
sembrava trump ce l'avesse solo con persone gay e persone transessuali non cigender. nessuno ha protestato per questo motivo. alla fine fino a quando non toccano te chi se ne frega. invece no. l'italia non ha una tradizione di solidarietà. siamo troppo indivdualisti. il problema della discriminazione, tipico, è che quando si comincia a pesare le persone in modo diverso in base a criteri arbitrari, si sa come si comincia ma non si sa come si finisce, e chi verrà alla fine colpito. e così adesso sappiamo che trump è pure contro le donne. probabilmente pensa che siano solo degli uteri ambulanti, e non persone.
Lettera aperta al cinema e al mondo della cultura in Italia Noi che lavoriamo e viviamo nel mondo della cultura, ci rifiutiamo di continuare a assistere indifferenti al genocidio in atto nei confronti del popolo palestinese dopo decenni di occupazione illegale e violenta, di pulizia etnica e di oppressione, di regime di apartheid. Non si [...]
Un video interessante che ci fa capire, tra le altre cose, come la "macchina dell'informazione" italiana sia pesantemente spostata ad est, con tutte le conseguenze che ne derivano per l'opinione pubblica.
Ecco perché, poi vediamo questo sentimento antioccidentale e il sentimento anti-armamento crescente. Forse, in molti casi, anche perché mancano le premesse.
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You might think you don’t need a hearing aid, and you might be right. But in general, hearing loss eventually comes to all of us. In fact, you progressively lose hearing every year, which is why kids can have high-pitched ringtones their parents can’t hear.
You’d think hearing aids would be pretty simple, right? After all, we know how to pick up sounds, amplify them, and play them back. But there’s a lot more to it. Hearing aids need to be small, comfortable, have great battery life, and cram a microphone and speaker into a small area. That also can lead to problems with feedback, which can be very uncomfortable for the user. In addition, they need to handle very soft and loud sounds and accommodate devices like telephones.
Although early hearing aids just made sound louder and, possibly, blocked unwanted sound, modern devices will try to increase volume only in certain bands where the user has hearing loss. They may also employ sophisticated methods to block or reduce noise.
A Brief History
Hearing loss is nothing new. Ear trumpets appeared around the 17th century. These were just simple sound baffles that directed sound to your ear and, perhaps, cut some noise out that wasn’t in the trumpet’s direction.
The modern hearing aid dates back to the akouphone in 1895. [Miller Hutchison] developed the device for a friend who was deaf from a bout of scarlet fever. It was bulky — sitting on a table top — and used a carbon microphone, but it did work. He was also able to sell several models to royalty, many of whom suffered from hereditary deafness. This included Denmark’s Queen Alexandra, who, reportedly, was very impressed with the results. The Acousticon microphone (left) and complete unit (right) (From Hawkins Electrical Guide #7, 1923) Around 1902, [Hutchison] changed the device’s name to the acousticon, making it more portable with battery power. Despite impressive marketing, not all medical professionals were sold. If you were totally deaf, the device did nothing, unsurprisingly. In addition, the bulky batteries required frequent replacement, and the frequency response was poor.
It was still better than nothing, and the invention also led to the massacon and akoulalion that converted sound into vibration for the profoundly deaf. He later sold the rights for the acousticon to [Kelley Turner], who would not only improve the device, but also use the technology to launch the dictograph, which was a well-known office machine for many years.
Modern Times
The Zenith Miniature 75 (photo by [France1978] CC-BY-SA-2.0).Amplified hearing aids appeared around 1913, but they were still large boxes. By 1920, the vactuphone used vacuum tubes to perform amplification. At “only” seven pounds, the vactuphone was considered quite portable.
Keep in mind that portable hearing aids in the 1920s was a relative term. Typically, you’d have a unit carried in a bag or hung around your neck. World War II brought advances in minaturization which benefited hearing aids like the Zenith Miniature 75.
Transistors, of course, changed everything, including hearing aids. The Sonotone 1010, which appeared in 1952, used both transistors and tubes. Early transistor units were known to fail early due to moisture and heat. Silicon transistors and encapsulation helped.
Naturally, all of these hearing aids were analog as were the earliest IC-based devices. However, with the advent of ICs, it was possible to use digital techniques. Patent drawing from 1984 — Hardly portable! The path to digital hearing aids was difficult. In the 1970s, large computers could program digital elements in hearing aids to tune the device to set frequency bands and gains.
By 1980, several groups were experimenting with real digital hearing aids, although many of them had wireless links to real computers. A fully digital hearing aid first appeared in a 1984 patent, but it wasn’t tiny. Since then, things have gotten smaller and more capable.
Physical Form
Hearing aids went from table-top devices, to boxes hanging on necks. Getting smaller devices allowed for small boxes that hug the back of the ear with the earpiece into the ear canal.
With even smaller devices, the entire apparatus can be placed in the ear canal. Many of these go so deeply into the ear that they are largely invisible. There are also hearing aids that can surgically attach to your skull using a titanium post embedded in the bone. This can transmit sound even to people who can’t hear sound directly since it relies on bone conduction.
Other places to find hearing aids are built into thick glasses frames. Doctors with hearing problems can opt for stethoscopes with integrated hearing aids.
Modern hearing aids sometimes have rechargeable batteries. Otherwise, there will be some kind of small battery. There was a time that mercury cells were common, but with those banned in most places, many aids now take zinc-air batteries that deliver about 1.4 V.
We hear from an 8th grader that you can make hearing aid batteries last longer by peeling the sticker from them and waiting five minutes before installing them. Apparently, giving them a little time to mix with the air helps them.
What’s Next?
On the market today are hearing aids that use neural networks, have Bluetooth connections, and use other high tech tricks. We’ve looked at the insides of a hearing aid and why they cost so much before. If you want to roll your own, there is an open source design.
“Basta con la retorica sulla Brexit”, dice John Healey. Il segretario alla Difesa del Regno Unito parla di difesa, ma anche di pesca. Perché i due dossier sembrano sempre più collegati man mano che ci sia avvicina al summit tra Regno Unito e Unione europea in agenda il prossimo 19 maggio. L’entente cordiale tra Londra […]
Prosegue l’accelerazione americana sulla sesta generazione. Secondo un’indiscrezione riportata da Reuters, la Marina degli Stati Uniti annuncerà il vincitore della commessa per l’F/A-XX, il nuovo caccia imbarcato che rimpiazzerà gli F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, entro la fine di
Leonardo ha realizzato il primo ricevitore accreditato a livello europeo per il Public regulated service (Prs) di Galileo, il servizio criptato del sistema di navigazione satellitare dell’Unione europea. Il dispositivo, sviluppato su mandato
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo L'aviazione militare del Sudan ha bombardato un mercato in Darfur, facendo strage di civili L'articolo SUDAN. Bombardato un mercato, strage di civili proviene da Pagine Esteri.
Il Texas ci riprova: la nuova proposta di legge SB 3003 prevede l'obbligo di documento d'identità con foto, con ripercussioni penali se i rivenditori non verificano rigorosamente l'età degli acquirenti.
Di fatto, la norma costringerebbe i venditori a tornare a spacciare i sex toy come "dispositivi medici" per aggirare le restrizioni. La legge sarebbe invasiva, ostacolando l'acquisto per tutti, non solo per i minorenni, ed esponendo informazioni personali in giro, il tutto con multe fino a 5.000 dollari per chi sgarra. Insomma, la legge non appare solo inefficace, ma potenzialmente dannosa: un tassella nella grande guerra legislativa contro i sex toy che in Texas portano avanti da anni.
Texans Might Soon Have to Show Photo ID to Buy a Dildo Online
A newly introduced bill in Texas would require online sellers to show a photo ID before buying a dildo.
SB 3003, introduced by Senator Angela Paxton (wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton), would criminally charge online retailers for selling “an obscene device” without verifying the buyers’ age. Sellers would have to require customers to submit their government-issued photographic identification, or use “third-party age verification services that use public records or other reliable sources to verify the purchaser's identity and age,” the bill says. Owning a credit card, which already requires the holder to be over 18 years of age, would not be enough.
Like the regressive and ineffective adult site age verification laws passing all across the country in the last few years, this law would drag Texans back to a not-so-distant time when sex toy sellers had to pretend vibrators were for “massage.”
Hallie Lieberman, journalist and author of Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy, sold sex toys in Texas in the early 2000s under the state’s “six dildo” law, which criminalizes the possession of six or more “obscene devices,” defined as "a device including a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs." That law is still on the books but is now considered unenforceable and unconstitutional. Lieberman told me sellers got around the law by claiming the toys were for “medical purposes.” This bill could send retailers back to that time.
Lieberman told me she had to call the clitoris “the man in the boat” at the time to avoid breaking the law. “When we can't speak openly about our bodies and sexual pleasure, when we're forced to use euphemisms, we not only are under informed about our bodies, but we also feel shame in seeking out pleasure,” she said.
Like age verification laws for websites, the bill would make buying sex toys online harder for everyone, not just minors, and would send consumers to less-safe retailers with lower-quality, possibly dangerous toys. And also like those laws, people who do upload their government ID or undergo other age verification measures could risk having their purchases exposed to a hostile government.
“The government should not have a record of what sex toys we buy. This isn't just a frivolous concern,” Lieberman said. “In a nation where the president has declared that there are only two genders and that transgender people don't exist, where trans people are erased from government websites and kicked out of the military, it would be dangerous for the government to have a record that you purchased sex toys designed for trans people. Imagine you're a school teacher at a public school in Texas and there's a record you purchased a sex toy designed for queer people in a state where a parental bill of rights bill was just passed prohibiting discussion of sexual orientation in schools.”
"We are literally going back in time with this law."
Texas legislators have been trying to limit access to sex toys for their constituents for years. In late 2024, Hillary Hickland, a freshman member of Texas’ Republican House, introduced a bill that would ban retailers in the state from selling sex toys unless they file paperwork to become sexually oriented businesses—effectively forcing stores like Walmart, CVS and Target, which sell vibrators and other sex toys, to take those products off their shelves and forcing brick-and-mortar boutiques to verify the ages of all customers. The bill was referred to Texas’ Trade, Workforce & Economic Development committee earlier this month.
Paxton’s bill would charge online retailers with a Class A Misdemeanor if they don’t verify ages, and would open them up to fines up to $5,000 for each violation.
Invasive and ineffective age verification laws that require users show government-issued ID, like a driver's license or passport, are passing like wildfire across the U.S.
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al mondo c'è chi è vecchio dentro... come i trilobiti (porelli). e non è una bella cosa. l'idea che i russi abbiano una buona areonautica è piuttosto datata. non hanno neppure un grande amore per la tecnologia: basta ricordare lo z80 realizzato a transistor invece che come chip.
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@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Scambio di accuse tra Burundi e Ruanda. Falliti i vari tentativi di mediazione, in Congo avanzano i ribelli sostenuti da Ruanda e Uganda. Kinshasa offre le proprie terre rare agli Stati Uniti in cambio di sostegno militare L'articolo Allarme in Africa, la guerra in Congo rischia di estendersi proviene da Pagine Esteri.
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In Germania la paura sta aumentando: "Questa potrebbe essere la nostra ultima estate di pace", ha dichiarato lo storico militare Sönke Neitzel alla Bild Zeitung il 22 marzo 2025, diffondendo così questo messaggio di panico tra la gente. “Putin potrebbe attaccare la NATO già in autunno”, ha affermato Neitzel. Penso che questo allarmismo sia completamente sbagliato. La paura viene utilizzata per controllare le persone e giustificare i miliardi spesi nell'industria delle armi. Ma la paura non è una buona consigliera. Divide la famiglia umana nella malvagia Russia e nella buona NATO. Oppure tra brave persone vaccinate e cattive persone non vaccinate. La paura ha sempre bisogno dell'immagine del nemico. Come persona non vaccinata, lo ricordo bene: cinque anni fa, a marzo 2020, il panico per i virus era dilagante e la società era divisa. Furono poi investiti miliardi nella vaccinazione contro il coronavirus. Il panico viene utilizzato ripetutamente per controllare le persone. Nel 2001, l'11 settembre alimentò la paura dei musulmani e la NATO dichiarò guerra all'Afghanistan per 20 anni. La guerra finì nel caos. La demolizione del WTC7 non è mai stata risolta. Conclusione: non dovremmo precipitarci ciecamente nel panico successivo, ma piuttosto praticare la consapevolezza e riflettere sugli ultimi 25 anni. Tutti appartengono alla famiglia umana. La paura e la divisione non ci porteranno da nessuna parte.
l'Unione psicopatica Europea vuole spendere 800 miliardi di euro in armi, ma per i giornalai da carta igienica è la Russia che ha un'economia di guerra.
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Nelle ultime 24 ore tre operai sono morti sul lavoro. La strage continua nel menefreghismo del governo. Chiediamo che sia finalmente introdotto il reato di omicidio sul lavoro perchè è inaccettabile che anche quando si accertano le responsabilità delle imprese le condanne risultino irrisorie. Il governo Meloni ha introdotto pene pesantissime inventando reati di ogni genere persino per reprimere le feste danzanti autogestite ma si guarda bene di intervenire per la sicurezza sul lavoro. C’è bisogno di repressione e prevenzione con una rete capillare di controlli perchè la vita umana dovrebbe valere più del profitto. Bisogna investire nella sicurezza per chi lavora che è una vera emergenza non buttare soldi per le armi che arricchiscono azionisti dell’industria bellica. Si assumano ispettori e si ricostruisca una rete di controlli efficaci. Purtroppo non c’è nulla da aspettarsi da questo governo. Per lanciare un segnale forte c’è bisogno di un grande partecipazione al voto nel referendum promosso dalla Cgil che, tra i quesiti, prevede un intervento sacrosanto per la sicurezza cancellando l’attuale norma sui subappalti. Non rassegniamoci alla strage.
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The hottest use of AI right now? Dora the Explorer feet mukbang; Peppa the Pig Skibidi toilet explosion; Steph Curry and LeBron James Ahegao Drakedom threesome.#AI #Instagram
An essay on user preferences, and how the fediverse’s interconnected network of communities can play into that, as well as some other news.
User Intents
The Bluesky Company (Bluesky PBC) recently announced a proposal to add User Intents to the AT Protocol (ATProto). The proposal allows people to set account-wide preferences how their data should be handled outside the network. It gives people the ability to opt in or opt out their account from a few different things, such as bridging to other protocols or not wanting any of their data being used in generative AI datasets. The proposal is similar to how robots.txt works, meaning that it is a machine-readable format which good actors are supposed to abide by, but is not legally enforceable.
I cover both the fediverse and Bluesky (including ATProto) under Fediverse Report because these networks are deeply interconnected and influence each other. Decisions on one network, like Bluesky’s User Intents proposal, can influence how the fediverse develops and builds their own features. My goal is to help readers understand the fediverse more deeply. By observing how Bluesky’s approaches default user preferences, the fediverse can build their own systems that use its strength of having many diverse and connected communities.
The proposal by Bluesky PBC is as follows:
People are able to set their preferences for four different categories:
generative AI
protocol bridging
bulk datasets
public archiving and preservation
These preferences are account wide. They are valid not only for Bluesky, but for every app build on ATProto.
The default value is ‘undefined’, not opt-in or opt-out.
Projects which are intending to use the public data should decide for themselves whether data reuse when the intents are classified as “undefined” is acceptable or not.
the current proposal is set to lead the way for more granular user preferences, allowing people to specify on an app-level or post-level what their preference is.
Also, some concepts of ATProto that are relevant, which makes the protocol different from ActivityPub:
On ATProto, a user has only 1 account, and can use that account to log into any service. This is in contrast with ActivityPub, where you need a new account for every service.
Data on ATProto is public by default, and designed to be accessible. Everyone has full and free access to the data of the entire network.
One thing about user preference settings in social apps is that they are a bit of red herring. The majority of people never change the default settings. Giving people choice is a good thing, but it is impossible force people to choose: the majority of people will just not choose anything. This makes it so that the default value for any preference is hugely important, as it is the de-facto value that the majority of people will experience.
Bluesky PBC tries to avoid this issue by introducing a default “undefined” value. The advantage of using a default value of “undefined” is that Bluesky PBC will not overstep their boundaries and determine the preference of everyone on the network, including people who are not using Bluesky but are using other platforms on the network. The downside is that Bluesky PBC effectively makes no decision at all for the majority of people. Bluesky PBC leaves it to the organisations who use the data to determine how data can be handled if the preference is set to “undefined”. These organisations are likely to value their own interests more than the interest of people whose data they intent to process.
Bluesky PBC has three options here, that all have a downside:
If Bluesky PBC sets default values for how ATProto account data can be handled it reinforces its centralising role in the network.
If Bluesky PBC does not set a default value, no decision is made for the majority of people, and it is left to organisations whose goals do not align with those of the people whose data they process.
If Bluesky PBC sets User Intent not on an ATProto-account wide level, but only on an per-app basis, choices quickly become overwhelming if users must set preferences for every app.
So far I’ve only been talking about Bluesky and ATProto. But the fediverse has a long history of debates, conversations and drama on how to deal with data processing that happens outside of the network. Some high-profile cases include the blowup around Bridgy Fed considering making the bridge between the fediverse and Bluesky opt-out, or the backlash against Searchtodon, which saved user’s timeline locally for searching.
These debates are around data scraping, consent, things being opt-in or opt-out. But one of the struggles that the fediverse has had is to build structural solutions. A significant portion of the fediverse does not consent to have their data handled outside of the network. A persistent problem is that this preference is not expressed in a machine-readable way. This leads to an endless cycle of new developers coming in that are not familiar with the culture who then cross lines of consent and it all blows up in drama again.
Moreover, the fediverse and ActivityPub have a significant advantage on how to deal with the dilemma of setting default values over ATProto. The fediverse is a network that is build up of many different communities connecting with each other. A variety of communities allows for diverse preferences, which can also be expressed in setting default values. And it is a shame that the fediverse is not capitalising on this advantage.
There are communities from whom discoverability is important. Just as there are communities for whom not being easily publicly discoverable is important. These preference can differ within an individual as well: people treat personal photos shared with friends differently from blog articles.
The fediverse can sidestep the question of default account values because people have many accounts on the fediverse, for different use cases. This gives the option to set a different default value for different services. A Pixelfed platform for close friends should set stricter default data-handling preferences. A Mastodon server for blogging platform Medium that has the goal of giving more visibility and reach to its writers could consider setting default values to be more open.
The power of the fediverse is in that there does not have to be a single default at all. Instead, communities and servers should be able to set default values for themselves. This can help shape the tone of the community, and makes it clear what the identity of a community is about. What’s even more powerful is that this only concerns the default value, giving people the ability to set their preferences as they desire. The state of the open social web is such that there are now two protocols in competition with each other. That gives the ability for the fediverse to take ideas from other networks, and improve on them in a way that plays up to the unique strengths that the fediverse has.
The News
Reminder: next week will be FediForum, on April 1-2, and you can register here.
FediverseSharing: A Novel Dataset on Cross-Platform Interaction Dynamics between Threads and Mastodon Users is a new academic paper (currently under review and up on arXiv) that explores the interaction between Threads users and Mastodon users. It takes a dataset of 20k Threads users that have fediverse sharing enabled and compares it to 20k Mastodon users that have interacted with these Threads users. The main goal of the research is to build up this dataset and share it with the community for further research. How sharing a dataset of aggregated user interactions relates to the above essay on user preferences for being included in bulk datasets is left as an exercise to the reader.
PeerTube has done a major redesign for their v7 of the software that came out a few months ago. The organisation now shared the design and development reports that shaped the update.
IFTAS recently had to shut down most of their larger projects due to a lack of funding. One of their projects, FediCheck is now available as open source for someone else to continue with. FediCheck is a deny list management tool that allows server admins to subscribe to external deny lists.
The Lemmy developers will hold an AMA on Wednesday March 26th.
Last week, Ghost made their ActivityPub integration available in public beta for Ghost Pro subscribers. Their weekly update says that now over 250 sites already use the integration. WeDistribute has a hands on with the new features that Ghost offers.
Note: Last week I wrote about the new fediverse platform Forte, and said that the repository did not include an install guide. This is incorrect, the guide can be found here.
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#MiStaiACuore, partecipa anche tu alla campagna del Ministero volta a sensibilizzare scuole, studenti e famiglie sul primo soccorso e sull’utilizzo del defibrillatore semiautomatico esterno (DAE).
#MiStaiACuore, partecipa anche tu alla campagna del Ministero volta a sensibilizzare scuole, studenti e famiglie sul primo soccorso e sull’utilizzo del defibrillatore semiautomatico esterno (DAE).
@Politica interna, europea e internazionale Dare ai figli automaticamente il solo cognome della madre. La proposta arriva dal senatore del Partito democratico Dario Franceschini, che secondo l’Ansa sarebbe pronto a presentare un disegno di legge ad hoc a Palazzo Madama. Franceschini spiega la
A new bill introduced by Angela Paxton, wife of Texas AG Ken Paxton, would impose privacy-invading age verification requirements on online sex toy retailers.#ageverification #texas #sextoys #sex
Texans Might Soon Have to Show Photo ID to Buy a Dildo Online
A newly introduced bill in Texas would require online sellers to show a photo ID before buying a dildo.
SB 3003, introduced by Senator Angela Paxton (wife of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton), would criminally charge online retailers for selling “an obscene device” without verifying the buyers’ age. Sellers would have to require customers to submit their government-issued photographic identification, or use “third-party age verification services that use public records or other reliable sources to verify the purchaser's identity and age,” the bill says. Owning a credit card, which already requires the holder to be over 18 years of age, would not be enough.
Like the regressive and ineffective adult site age verification laws passing all across the country in the last few years, this law would drag Texans back to a not-so-distant time when sex toy sellers had to pretend vibrators were for “massage.”
Hallie Lieberman, journalist and author of Buzz: A Stimulating History of the Sex Toy, sold sex toys in Texas in the early 2000s under the state’s “six dildo” law, which criminalizes the possession of six or more “obscene devices,” defined as "a device including a dildo or artificial vagina, designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs." That law is still on the books but is now considered unenforceable and unconstitutional. Lieberman told me sellers got around the law by claiming the toys were for “medical purposes.” This bill could send retailers back to that time.
Lieberman told me she had to call the clitoris “the man in the boat” at the time to avoid breaking the law. “When we can't speak openly about our bodies and sexual pleasure, when we're forced to use euphemisms, we not only are under informed about our bodies, but we also feel shame in seeking out pleasure,” she said.
Like age verification laws for websites, the bill would make buying sex toys online harder for everyone, not just minors, and would send consumers to less-safe retailers with lower-quality, possibly dangerous toys. And also like those laws, people who do upload their government ID or undergo other age verification measures could risk having their purchases exposed to a hostile government.
“The government should not have a record of what sex toys we buy. This isn't just a frivolous concern,” Lieberman said. “In a nation where the president has declared that there are only two genders and that transgender people don't exist, where trans people are erased from government websites and kicked out of the military, it would be dangerous for the government to have a record that you purchased sex toys designed for trans people. Imagine you're a school teacher at a public school in Texas and there's a record you purchased a sex toy designed for queer people in a state where a parental bill of rights bill was just passed prohibiting discussion of sexual orientation in schools.”
"We are literally going back in time with this law."
Texas legislators have been trying to limit access to sex toys for their constituents for years. In late 2024, Hillary Hickland, a freshman member of Texas’ Republican House, introduced a bill that would ban retailers in the state from selling sex toys unless they file paperwork to become sexually oriented businesses—effectively forcing stores like Walmart, CVS and Target, which sell vibrators and other sex toys, to take those products off their shelves and forcing brick-and-mortar boutiques to verify the ages of all customers. The bill was referred to Texas’ Trade, Workforce & Economic Development committee earlier this month.
Paxton’s bill would charge online retailers with a Class A Misdemeanor if they don’t verify ages, and would open them up to fines up to $5,000 for each violation.
Invasive and ineffective age verification laws that require users show government-issued ID, like a driver's license or passport, are passing like wildfire across the U.S.
Nei paesini un altro momento di vitalità è più o meno verso l’ora di cena. Dai negozi che chiudono, ai bar che si svuotano, c’è movimento. Nessuno però, fa caso al bar dell’angolo perchè il lunedì è chiuso per turno. Le luci spente non impensieriscono nessuno.
Nemmeno Guido, che è quel tipo che cammina a passo spedito almeno un centinaio di volte al giorno su e giù per la via fa caso alle vetrine spente.
Nota però il gatto del bar appollaiato sul davanzale della finestra che miagola.
" Ciao Simba! Ti hanno chiuso fuori?" chiede come se potesse ricevere risposta.
Ma il gatto che lo conosce comincia a fare le fusa e dare colpi con la testa contro la mano.
Come per aiutarlo? Guido fa spaziare gli occhi in lungo e in largo ma purtroppo non scorge nessuno, nessuna luce nessun rumore dentro la casa adiacente al bar.
Sta sopraggiungendo la sera, la sera d’estate, con brevi folate di vento per un effimero refrigerio dall’afa che caratterizza le estati in pianura.
La gente ancora circola in bicicletta o a piedi per respirare più agevolmente e non sudare eccessivamente. Il tempo passa lentamente , solamente cinque minuti dopo il gatto è sparito, ritirato nella sua tana.
Come Anna è ancora ritirata nella sua tana, al caldo ma sembra non importarle, senza cena ma non ha fame. E’ ancora preda della rabbia per non avere sue notizie.
“ Non chiama! E figurati domani avrà tutto il giorno dedicato a se stesso, mangiare da solo, fumare da solo, STARE DA SOLO! Ecco quello che vuole, non me he gli ho dato tutto! vuole stare da solo! Basta prendo 40 gocce e resto immobile a letto."
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