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This is a major blow to the open web! For as long as I can remember, Reddit has embraced RSS feeds and public API access to users, apps, and developers, allowing the site to thrive. To start choking access after decades of open doors is really sad and feels like the start of Reddit's demise. https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/
@zackwhittaker "start of"?
Most of you probably know English is my second language. Interestingly I learned to read English before I learned to read Bangla, my native tongue. I DID learn to speak bangla first but when I was developing my language skills around 3-5 years, I spoke Bangla and English simultaneously. I feel like this has changed my brain in such a fundamental level, it’s hard to explain it to others who learn their second language when they are older
@farah wow! That is unusual. An Ex of mine had 3 adults speaking at her in 3 different languages until age 4 when she had to socialize outside the family. Her concept was that everyone had their own way of talking their own language. When she heard an outsider speaking Hebrew and then switching to english her 4 year old mind was permanently blown
@mb unrelated but lol, Apple's app store localizations are broken right now
@twilliability @JulianOliver It's all about Internet trust, and how that is realized in terms of cryptography. The current system lets bots and crawlers discover new sites just by looking at CT Logs.
Every time a new web site with a fresh X.509 certificate spins up, as required for TLS security in HTTPS, the CT logs are updated. Nowhere to hide -- the Common Name (CN) field in the cert will disclose the site's address.
This can be mitigated to some extent if you're willing to push certificates to end users of a web site in other ways. DANE pushes some of that to the Domain Name System, relying on DNSSEC as an alternative trust anchor; the TLSA records in DNS which DANE uses specify what to trust, and how to trust.
This has been broadly criticised by many cybersecurity professionals as leading the user and site alike to trust nation state actors due to its DNSSEC dependency, however, that only applies to the ability to sign the records thus served.
The site decides which certificates to present. They need not be logged to CT and can be self-signed; in practice, they often are. It's a trade-off.
Ultimately end-users are railroaded into the WebPKI trust model as it exists today, mostly because of control of the web browser space.
Although browser extensions from NIC.CZ for example were published in the early 2010s showing that Chromium and Firefox derived browsers alike could use DANE for web site HTTPS trust chains, they are badly bitrotted and unusable now.
@bms @twilliability Bruce is right. I see this in practice often. This exposure is being aggressively exploited, sometimes crawlers hitting a new domain within minutes of it being added to a certificate chain. Again, these are domains that have not even been used yet, they do not front a site or service.
Been having fun learning how to use the Braille Lite with @Tamasg 's emulator since I never had one growing up.
Links for the emulator and manual:
Emulator: https://eurpod.com/synths/blazie-emu.zip
Plenty of Blazie manuals at this link: https://dectalk.nu/Software%20and%20Manuals/Manuals/Blazie%20Engineering/
we need a meme format: How Do You Like That, Richard Stallman
not sure what it would be. something that's free software done in a way he would fucking hate tho
@davidgerard powerful aura
RFK Jr. says AI backs his anti-vaccine views. We checked—it doesn't.
AI is far from a perfect resource. But it seems to hallucinate less than Kennedy.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/09/rfk-jr-says-ai-backs-his-anti-vaccine-views-we-checked-it-doesnt/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica I think he means SI, as per royal decree.
@nathanlovestrees Do you speak/read the language? Chinese language looks so intimidating!
@farah can barely recognize some characters, can speak even less (despite taking two semesters!)
@hipsterelectron @shrub900 sorry you know i appreciate u
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is-killing-rss-feeds-ending-public-api-access-because-of-ai-bots/
I, for one, welcome the 50 meter Lake who now towers above us.
@idlestate I wish I was that tall
It must be nice to be an expert in every tool that you use. Most people trust that when a big company sells a tool to do a specific thing, that it does that specific thing. We have various truth in advertising laws so that this is normally a safe assumption, because there’s significant liability if it turns out not to be the case. Sadly, no one is enforcing those laws against products with ‘AI’ in their description.
i'm sorry but i'm with the judge on this one, anyone who reads the news knows that AIs are inventing stuff & that plenty of other lazy lawyers have got into trouble before using them
again, he was playing with somebody's life & freedom, i just have no sympathy for that
TIL hyperlexia is a thing.
And how did no one suspected about my autism before??
All my report cards should’ve said “very bright but doesn’t work well with others”
@farah I take back my earlier comment. This is as hinged as it comes.
i should ask the question more broadly i suppose. looking for as many responses as possible
1) when does communication spark joy?
2) what makes a social experience good?
3) what drives you away from socializing?
I think we tread a dangerous path when in FOSS we ignore users concerns.
If we don't factor in users feelings, why are we sharing our software?
Why do we suddenly feel put on when folks who build their tech stack around your software get upset? Especially about LLMs?
Word of mouth built a part of your popularity in the places you never see.
I thought there was a social contract with our wider communities. I'm a bit sad that apparently we don't.
https://dotart.blog/cobbles/move-fast-and-break-infrastructure
@onepict I'm reminded of Paul Brainerd, who died earlier this year. Brainerd founded Aldus, the company that made PageMaker and basically saved the Macintosh.
Brainerd said his favorite part of running Aldus was talking with customers. During the initial PM development, he and his team would get in the car and drive around the Pacific Northwest talking to potential users. After Aldus went public, Brainerd said he lost interest in being CEO, since he had to focus on investors, not customers.
RE: https://chaos.social/@Fischblog/117321725092969234
Denkt noch mal drüber nach. :-)
Sind noch Plätze frei und ist vermutlich vorerst das letzte Event in Frankfurt.
Ich versprech auch, ich trag keine Ellenbogenschoner. 🤭
@Fischblog Du kommst nach nur 6 Whiskys sicher nach Hause, "weil die Verkostung nicht weit vom Bahnhof entfernt ist", klingt für mich eher nach einem Komasaufen als nach einer Verkostung. Habe ich da etwas falsch verstanden?
@hipsterelectron @shrub900 sorry you know i appreciate u
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