”in 2016, the task force created new software that could "be installed on iOS and Android that intercept traffic for specific sub-domains, allowing us to read what would otherwise be encrypted traffic so we can measure in-app usage (i.e. specific actions that people are performing in Petri Kajander Mar 26, 2024, 5:50 PM
”AT Protocol will be able to support other kinds of apps, and then users will be able to move between them with the same identity and relationships, and then that will just make it a lot easier for other people to build. And so that was part of our idea… Petri Kajander Mar 26, 2024, 5:29 AM
”Dataminr pays for privileged access to X through the company’s “firehose”: a direct, unfiltered feed of every single piece of user content ever shared publicly to the platform. Watching everything that happens on X in real time is key to Dataminr’s pitch to the government. The company essentially… Petri Kajander Mar 25, 2024, 6:15 PM
”Personal data custody, or Personal Custody, means that the information (images, metadata and derived data) generated at the orb and used to generate the iris code during World ID verification is held on your device. This approach gives you control over the flow of this data—not just deletion, but… Petri Kajander Mar 25, 2024, 6:04 PM
Fediforum demos and session notes are available now from last week For example, here’s @Rabble’s demo session… Petri Kajander Mar 25, 2024, 5:43 PM
”The good thing about trust is that you never have to doubt: if you’re unsure if you trust someone, you don’t. 🎉”… Petri Kajander Mar 24, 2024, 6:59 PM
Looks a bit weird when it says there are replies but they are not shown nor indicated that they’re from Fediverse… Petri Kajander Mar 24, 2024, 5:59 PM
Mastodon users are the most active based on my posting responses. 10x less follwers than in X. The rest are relatively inert, listed in descending order: Nostr X Bluesky Threads… Petri Kajander Mar 24, 2024, 1:40 PM
Kicking third-party devs out of the API, blocking outbound links & seeing content without logging in seem to have consequences… Petri Kajander Mar 24, 2024, 12:52 PM
TruthSocial seems to be compromised: ”allows attackers to create and overwrite any file Mastodon has access to, allowing Denial of Service and arbitrary Remote Code Execution”… Petri Kajander Mar 24, 2024, 5:33 AM
”X’s revenue from in-app purchases last month was about $9.5 million, including for X subscriptions and payments to creators. ”… Petri Kajander Mar 23, 2024, 5:16 PM
”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.”… Petri Kajander Mar 23, 2024, 5:04 PM
”Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, 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… Petri Kajander Mar 23, 2024, 4:59 AM
”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… Petri Kajander Mar 23, 2024, 4:40 AM
producthunt I launched @Nootti on Product Hunt today Check it out and don't miss the @FediForum Nootti speed demo. The high quality version is now available and linked on the page. #producthunt… Petri Kajander Mar 22, 2024, 5:37 PM
”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… Petri Kajander Mar 22, 2024, 6:08 AM