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@thisismissem.social

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Corruptress of protocols, working on trust & safety tech, open-source contributor. You've probably used tech I've contributed to. 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 🇩🇪 I'm on the Fediverse: https://hachyderm.io/@thisismissem Bridged: @thisismissem.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · Apr 24

So a not too well known thing about me: I'm the co-author of the Client ID Metadata Documents internet draft that Bluesky / AT Proto uses for OAuth.

This document came about due to my work on Mastodon's OAuth implementation.

If you'd like to support my work: support.thisismissem.social

Support Emelia Smith (@thisismissem)

Fund her work on the Fediverse, improving trust & safety and other open-source contributions

support.thisismissem.social

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Æ. @aesthr.com · 6d

If you ever decide to fully shutdown an ATProto labeler, make sure to remove all the labels from the respective profiles before you pull the plug (unless you intend to bring it back at some point and want to keep the labels around.

I wrote a script for this that I ran before shutting things down.

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 9h

I was going to try it, but a subscription for posting from the app? Really?

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 10h

GitHub removing the list of my recent pull requests / issues from my dashboard in favour of garbage updates from repos I haven't touched in years is really slowing me down

Emelia @thisismissem.social · 10h

For context: github.com/mastodon/mas...

Improve ability to find reports by ThisIsMissEm · Pull Request #31449 · mastodon/mastodon

Fixes #31234 and #22419 This changes the search form to allow searching either reports about or from accounts by domain or @username or @username@domain, and allows viewing all reports regardless o...

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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 12h

Tell me you're desperate for revenue without telling me.

Seriously, imagine your elevator pitch is "we offer an AI that revolutionizes the enterprise, answers questions at a PhD level, and also talks dirty to horny young men." It would be like if PornHub was selling a productivity suite.

404 Media @404media.co · 12h

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.

🔗 www.404media.co/chatgpt-erot...

ChatGPT’s Hail Mary: Chatbots You Can Fuck

As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck t...

www.404media.co

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 12h

Gosh, having a requirement of "don't break bookmarked links" whilst also completely reimplementing filtering results in some messy af code.

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 12h

Yeah, but the intent is very different

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Victoria @vicwalker.dev.br · 14h

Sometimes the report can be used to "appeal" about an incorrect label
Like I often do to correct incorrect "potential Twitter screenshot" labels applied to other people's posts

But would be useful if the report flux were the opposite, you select the categories that apply to the labeler you choose

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 14h

Appealing a label or reporting an error with a label applied by a labeller is rather different from "accept all reports about anything"

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 14h

I think I'd rather a dedicated appeals mechanism than just "report this arbitrary post to the labeller that labels PDS hosts"

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 17h

it’s funny how Jeff bezos dedicated the Washington post to embracing “free markets” and the free market of newspaper subscribers completely rejected it

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 14h

Should a labeller be able to say "hey, I just label things, don't send me reports?"

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 17h

Is cross compilation an option? Though, tbh, better-sqlite3 doesn't ship precompiled binaries for a lot of systems, or at least doesn't seem to use them

Emelia @thisismissem.social · 17h

Yeah, nah, no thanks. 😂

Emelia @thisismissem.social · 17h

Cool, so it'll probably be fullname-hyphenated-with-discriminator.ccTLD? Cool cool cool, would be a shame if you were to change the name you were given at birth.

soap 🇺🇸🦅🇻🇦💦 @soap.systems · 20h

the government should give you a free domain with their ccTLD when you're born

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 17h

The line still shows a downward trend, even if the axis were corrected.

Emelia @thisismissem.social · 18h

I didn't make the chart, but it is one if the canonical sources of data for how the fediverse is growing/shrinking.

I think there's a link to their issue tracker on the link in my post with the chart.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22h

In her life, Marilyn Monroe was exploited and abused by so many men.
Studio executives, so many people.
After she died, men continued to exploit her for their pleasure: trying to get themselves buried near/above her.
What your writer did here is obscene, nonconsensual and makes me feel slightly ill

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 22h

Nah, this just means rather than sending a message 500 times to 2 servers, you send it twice, because you can use the shared inbox but still address 250 people.

It's a network efficiency thing. Multibox is like shared inbox but for sending multiple activities in one http request

Emelia @thisismissem.social · 23h

Garbage in, garbage...

bsky.app/profile/this...

Emelia @thisismissem.social · 23h

I previously referred to JSON-LD as schemaless highly structured garbage that you might happen to find useful data in. So this is pretty on brand for me.

Emelia @thisismissem.social · 23h

I previously referred to JSON-LD as schemaless highly structured garbage that you might happen to find useful data in. So this is pretty on brand for me.

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 23h

Yeah. i'd rather have lexicons with clear requirements about what's needed & allowed by an application, rather than this false open-world approach where you could do SO much more, but everyone just does Note. It's literally this meme:

a person is putting a red object into a square hole in a white bucket .

Alt: a person is putting a red cylindrical object into a square hole in a white bucket

media.tenor.com

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 1d

Oh, and also the Note example above was apparently done for "pragmatic" reasons "not the world we want" — you know how to guarantee a lock-in to a world you don't want? Continuing to do things like this. Do your own thing, other software can improve it's compatibility with different data.

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 1d

Like, teaching people anything at all about RDF with Solid was next to impossible. It was completely unfriendly for developers looking to build.

JSON-LD takes all of RDFs woes and encodes them into JSON so developers forget that it isn't actually JSON. It just looks like JSON.

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Emelia @thisismissem.social · 1d

Also, relatedly, JSON-LD is a bit of a nightmare for developers to learn. That "bob, did you just tell me to go fuck myself" comic comes to mind.

Properties can either be a string or URI, the meaning of properties can change based on the order of @context imports, values can be scalars or arrays

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