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Bookmarked Home Assistant, en wat ik er momenteel mee doe (by Max Roeleveld) Useful post (in Dutch) by Max Roeleveld on his home automation using a RaspberryPi with Home Assistant. On how to do these...
View ArticleEU Open Web Search Project Started
In reply to Open Web Search project kicked off by Djoerd Hiemstra I’m looking forward to following this project, Djoerd! It sounds sort-of IndieWeb like. Where e.g. MicroSub decouples feed fetching...
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Twitter After The Bird’s Capture, Find Me At @ton@m.tzyl.nl
Now that the deal is done and Musk captured the bird, i.e. Twitter, let’s see what happens. Will there be a wave(let) of people migrating to decentralised places in the fediverse? There were mulitple...
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Bookmarked Target_Is_New, Issue 212 by Iskander Smit Iskander asks what about users, next to makers, when it comes to responsible AI? For a slightly different type of user at least, such...
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How To Federate Like Our Business Ecosystem?
As the Internet is alive with the sounds of #twittermigration these past days, I returned to some earlier thoughts and ideas, w.r.t to both self-hosting fediverse instances, and mapping those on to the...
View ArticleOur Company Mastodon Instance M.tgl.eu
Following up on “How to federate like our business ecosystem” I went ahead and created a Mastodon-instance for my company. It’s at m.tgl.eu. Next to me and a generic ‘team’, three colleagues have...
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Everyone’s So Nice Around Here! (Best Before: See Back)
In the noisy chaotic phase that Twitter Inc. is going through, I downloaded my data from them 2 weeks ago. Meanwhile in the Fediverse newcomers mention they appreciate how nice, pleasant and...
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Mastodon Timeline Fatigue While AP and Governance Energy
Peter has experimented for a while with Mastodon (and the ActivityPub protocol behind it) and decided that it’s not for him. Well, this has been fun, but it turns out that the effort-vs-reward for the...
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Bookmarked The push to AI is meant to devalue the open web so we will move to web3 for compensation (by Mita Williams) Adding this interesting perspective from Mita Williams to my notes on the effects...
View ArticleChatPKM Or Your Personal Stochastic Parrot
I have a little over 25 years worth of various notes and writings, and a little over 20 years of blogposts. A corpus that reflects my life, interests, attitude, thoughts, interactions and work over...
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Hey Cool! This Is Great Rubbish!
Bookmarked WordPress AI: Generative Content & Blocks (by Joe Hoyle, found via Chuck Grimmett) As many others I am fascinated by what generative algorithms like ChatGPT for texts and Stable...
View ArticleDisinformation and its effects on social capital networks
Bookmarked Disinformation and its effects on social capital networks (Google Doc) by Dave Troy This document by US journalist Dave Troy positions resistance against disinformation not as a matter of...
View ArticleTweetdeck Is Gone For Non-paying Accounts
It had been expected, Tweetdeck is now no longer available to me to follow Twitter topics and lists. Tweetdeck is only available to paying Twitter accounts. Earlier today it still worked for me as a...
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Call To Action: Strengthen the Civic Network Around EU Data/Digital Laws and...
I’ve been involved in open data for about 15 years. Back then we had a vibrant European wide network of activists and civic organisations around open data, partially triggered by the first PSI...
View ArticleExpressing My First Encounter With ODRL
ODRL, Open Digital Rights Language popped up twice this week for me and I don’t think I’ve been aware of it before. Some notes for me to start exploring. Rights Expression Languages Rights Expression...
View ArticleInternet of Things as Objects of Sociality and EU Legislation
Bookmarked Internet of Things and Objects of Sociality (by Ton Zijlstra, 2008) Fifteen years ago today I blogged this brainstorming exercise about how internet-connectivity for objects might make for...
View ArticleEuropean Commission Launches Several DMA Investigations: Google, Apple,...
Bookmarked Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta under the Digital Markets Act (by European Commission) With the large horizontal legal framework for the...
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