This FEP draft proposes translation credits for language-tagged Activity Streams objects. The metadata records who translated the text into each language and whether the translation was machine-assisted or human-reviewed. It also tracks how up to date each translation is with the source. Servers don't have to expose their private revision history.

It grew out of [Hackers' Pub]'s work on letting authors publish their own article translations.

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/922

Feedback welcome, thanks!

[Hackers' Pub]: https://hackers.pub/

A couple quick notes on ActivityPub

A few weeks ago, I made this site publish to ActivityPub (really mostly thinking about Mastodon, although as an open standard other software can consume it). Just wanted to write down a few notes on the experience for posterity. …

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Today we bring you the second @localfirstconf.com@bsky.brid.gy Lab Day video.

Follow Ivy Reese @spiralganglion.com@bsky.brid.gy as she whirls through PlayBook: A Programmable Paper Notebook

It's a blank page in the truest sense, for pulling ideas out of your head so you can feel and think differently about them.

PlayBook: A Programmable Paper...

Following up with Arkady...

Sixteen Locks Ought to Be Enough for Anybody

https://thebuild.com/blog/sixteen-locks-ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49699611

#HackerNews #sixteenlocks #security #cybersecurity #technology #accesscontrol

72% of Americans believe promoting DEI should be a priority for businesses. 3/4 said businesses w/ diverse workforces make more innovative products & 71% say they are more profitable. 95% of Dems consider DEI a key priority; 71% of Independents; 37% of Republicans. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2026/09/17/corporate-dei-retreat-surprising-bipartisan-pushback/91767177007/

@greg_harvey Aha - I have not tried LDAP integration. So perhaps it was simpler when I did it.

(I wrote some of the Jitsi "secure domain" documentation, years ago, but it may have changed...)

Was hat die Debatte um Künstliche Intelligenz mit digitaler Souveränität zu tun? Den Zusammenhang habe ich in der DW - Talkshow "auf den Punkt" erklärt.

Wir sind der Entwicklung nicht hilflos ausgeliefert. Wir haben Handlungsmacht, die wir noch zu zu wenig nutzen.

https://www.dw.com/de/ki-au%C3%9Fer-kontrolle-panikmache-oder-reale-gefahr/video-79308257

I get that song stuck in my head all the time now

@juliagersey I'm also just now starting to collect some laptop stickers. I picked up these two nice small ones at @berlinfediday. I think @informatik has a few that I gotta try to get my hands on. And we'll try to get some printed for @SafeguardingResearch and https://sciop.net via my current work project soon.

Quick heads-up for other Mastodon admins: this registration spam wave isn't over yet.

On lsbt.me, we first saw a flood of API registrations using Python/aiohttp. The telltale signs were usernames following the pattern bp plus 16 hex characters, and the sign-up reason was always "Automated protocol deliverability probe". A narrow block on that user agent stopped the first wave.

Today, however, five new registrations came in with the same usernames and the same sign-up reason. This time the bot simply identified itself as Chrome 126. That's exactly why a user agent is only useful as a short-term filter. It's a header the client can set to anything.

The requests go to POST /api/v1/accounts. This endpoint lets client apps create a new local account directly in the app. No app needs it for OAuth connections to existing accounts. #FediSuite doesn't use it either. It registers itself via /api/v1/apps, obtains consent via /oauth/authorize, and then works with a user token. Regular sign-up through the Mastodon website is also handled separately via POST /auth.

So I've completely disabled API account creation on lsbt.me. Web sign-up, OAuth, and existing clients keep working as before. Anyone who wants a new account just signs up once on the web as usual and can then use any client.

If you'd also rather not offer this optional native sign-up path, you can add the following to your Nginx server block, before the general location / block. The example assumes the @proxy location that many Mastodon Nginx configs already include:

location = /api/v1/accounts {
 limit_except GET {
 deny all;
 }

 try_files $uri @proxy;
}

This returns a 403 only for POST /api/v1/accounts. The read-only GET endpoint remains reachable. As always, run nginx -t afterwards and only reload once the test passes.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #FediMod #FediBlock #Moderation #Registration #Spam #Nginx #SelfHosting #SysAdmin #ActivityPub

g to the i to r to the l to the b to the a to the GIRLBALL

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@neuralreckoning/117207726663968699

Reminder everyone, the SNUFA spiking neural network workshop abstract submission deadline is end of next week! Get your abstracts in, and register for the event too.

#Neuroscience #ComputationalNeuroscience #SpikingNeuralNetworks

Telephones are a really interesting case that end up in a similar situation to Cars, but for different reasons.

Many people loved the concept of the telephone and were eager to use it. Public phones and communal phones and the phone as a replacement for the telegraph were all pretty popular.

But private ownership of telephones resulted in a major upset of etiquette and an erosion of the separation between home and public, an encroachment.

Many people of the day resented that.

I've never know a world without a telephone, but I knew one without a cellphone.

I miss being unreachable. The telephone was, ultimately, more good than harm. The cellphone (though perhaps not the smartphone) probably the same.

But I can absolutely understand how and why some people would have been resistant to it. I still know people without cellphones, I knew people without a phone of any kind not that long ago ("Write me a letter or come over. If it's not important enough to tell me in person, it can wait on the post")

@adamas.dev défaut : trop zinzinsoumis

@CrusherMD Had I not literally watched the first part last night I probably wouldn't have gotten this joke.

it's so good to be a girl baaaaalllll

Ah oui mais je suis déjà signataire désolé!!!