Paul Biggar removed from CircleCI board for pro-Palestine blog post(hachyderm.io)

21 points by dmazin 2 years ago | 1 comments

A list of recent hostile moves by Google's Chrome team(mastodon.social)

841 points by luu 3 years ago | 491 comments

A Mastodon post listing recent controversial moves by Google's Chrome team, such as Manifest v3, JPEG XL removal, and Web Environment Integrity, urging users to switch browsers.

Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground(mastodon.social)

309 points by behnamoh 3 years ago | 43 comments

OpenAI slams court order to save all ChatGPT logs, including deleted chats(arstechnica.com)

1074 points by ColinWright 1 year ago | 879 comments

A Mastodon post by Lauren Weinstein noting that, after a court order, OpenAI is preserving all ChatGPT user logs, including deleted and sensitive chats.

Power over fiber(chaos.social)

360 points by rwmj 2 years ago | 251 comments

A Mastodon post noting that power-over-fiber components can deliver 3V 180mA from 1.5W of 800nm infrared light sent over standard multimode optical fiber.

Unix v4 Tape Found(discuss.systems)

476 points by greatquux 11 months ago | 77 comments

Mastodon post by Rob Ricci reporting that staff found a tape containing UNIX v4 from Bell Labs (c. 1973), to be delivered to the Computer History Museum.

I am stepping down as the CEO of Mastodon(blog.joinmastodon.org)

540 points by Tomte 11 months ago | 379 comments

Op-ed on the Mastodon blog by founder Eugen Rochko announcing he is stepping down as CEO and taking a strategy and product advisor role.

BBC gives up on Threads, sticks with Mastodon(darnell.day)

370 points by cmrdporcupine 3 years ago | 211 comments

Blog post reporting that the BBC has abandoned Meta's Threads while continuing its presence on Mastodon.

More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math(mathstodon.xyz)

845 points by pred_ 1 month ago | 787 comments

Mastodon thread by mathematician Andreas Thom questioning whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished mathematics shared via ChatGPT, citing the non-sofic group result.

The BBC on Mastodon(bbc.co.uk)

377 points by _han 3 years ago | 142 comments

BBC Research & Development blog post describing its experimental Mastodon server at social.bbc and its exploration of the Fediverse.

We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x(blog.redplanetlabs.com)

856 points by tekacs 3 years ago | 317 comments

Red Planet Labs blog post by Nathan Marz describing how they built a Twitter-scale Mastodon implementation at 100x lower cost using their Rama platform.

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation(discuss.python.org)

329 points by ayhanfuat 9 months ago | 151 comments

A Python discussion forum post from PSF staff announcing Anthropic's $1.5 million, two-year donation to the PSF focused on security work.