”X’s revenue from in-app purchases last month was about $9.5 million, including for X subscriptions and payments to creators. ”
”Redis, the popular in-memory data store, is switching away from the open source three-clause BSD license…
Under this new license, cloud service providers hosting Redis will need to enter into a commercial agreement with Redis. The first company to do so is Microsoft.”
”The dark fleet of old vessels that lack proper insurance, have opaque ownership, and “flag hop” between different permissive ship registries has grown explosively, to an estimated 1,400 ships. Their presence poses considerable risk to other ships, to the environment, and to countries experiencing maritime accidents caused by the vessels. ”
”Nadella’s novel twist is to hire the people and leave the company behind.
This week, Microsoft announced that it had recruited two of the three founders of Inflection…
following its $13bn investment in OpenAI and its more recent partnership with France’s Mistral, highlights the company’s intent to ally with ambitious AI start-ups and command the market. It had also been an early backer of Inflection.”
https://www.ft.com/content/2892bac2-d848-49ea-b983-bc649a8c0529
A museum built around the restored Star Trek 1701-D bridge opens in May
The bridge is going on display at Sci-Fi World Musem in Santa Monica, California.
I launched @nootti on Product Hunt today.
Check it out: https://www.producthunt.com/products/nootti
Don't miss the @fediforum Nootti speed demo. The high quality version is now available and linked on the page.
”The GoFetch app connects to the targeted app and feeds it inputs that it signs or decrypts. As its doing this, it extracts the app secret key that it uses to perform these cryptographic operations. This mechanism means the targeted app need not perform any cryptographic operations on its own during the collection period.”
”Beta experience of sharing Threads accounts to the fediverse is now open to users ages 18 and up with public profiles. The integration is only available in three countries to start, including the U.S., Canada and Japan.”
“Beijing has become Moscow's most important economic ally since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, with trade surging between the two countries.
Bilateral trade hit $240.1 billion in 2023 — a 26% annual increase — according to Chinese customs data.”
A 2-day #FediForum just ended. It was my first and I really enjoyed the demos and discussions during the unconference.
So many talented people building Fediverse solutions and thinking about the decentralised future of public Internet.
Here’s a speed demo of Nootti from the first day
Lots of great demos at #FediForum today. Particularly looking forward to Emissary by @benpate, which was described as an "RSS Server", but it seems to be a lot more than that. I like that it brings the indie web and ActivityPub together. https://github.com/EmissarySocial/emissary
Today is the first day I thought that the #nostr #bluesky model might be a better way to build a decentralized social network. Because seemingly smart and honest people told me those protocols make using one profile for lots of different services much simpler and automatic than #ActivityPub. I still have serious questions re how they seem more likely to remain more centralized via relays and unlikely to do moderation well enough, but we haven't really solved those here yet either. #fediforum
I’m going to adopt that term, legacy social. It’s good.
”an expansion of Russia's military capabilities, as well as military restructuring, are indicators that Russia is setting conditions for the possibility of future direct conflict with NATO.”
If you had code on GitHub at any point it looks like it might be included in a large dataset called “The Stack” — If you want your code removed from this massive “ai” training data go here:
https://huggingface.co/spaces/bigcode/in-the-stack
I found two of my old Github repos in there. Both were deleted last year and both were private. This is a serious breach of trust by Github and @huggingface.
Remove all your code from Github.
CONSENT IS NOT OPT-OUT.
Edit — thanks for all the replies. More context here: https://hachyderm.io/@joeyh/112105744123363587
Also the repos i found of mine i’m sure were private, but even if they were public at some point, for a brief time, in the past that isn’t my consent to use them for purposes beyond their intent.
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Edit 2 -- I see this made it to HN, which is a level of attention I do not want nor appreciate....
For all those wondering about the private repo issue -- No, I am not 100% sure that these ancient repos weren't at some point public for a split second before I changed it. I do know that they were never meant for this and that one of them didn't even contain any code.
If my accidentally making a repo public for a moment just so happened to overlap with this scraping, then I guess that's possible. But it in no way invalidates the issues, and the anger that i feel about it.
Edit: As mentioned below, it appears to be a bug, not intentional!
Threads hiding @pixelfed mentions, not a good look Meta 🙄
”Hungary and Russia worked together during the 2020 Slovak elections to help the Slovak government stay in power, all at the request of Slovakia’s then-prime minister, Peter Pellegrini. Today, the same man is the front-runner to become Slovakia’s next president (the first and second rounds of the country’s presidential election will be held on March 23 and April 6, respectively).”
https://vsquare.org/slovakia-elections-peter-pellegrini-russia-hungary-orban-szijjarto/