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mala

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Dad of 3564020356.org, PicoGopher, BYOTA, and two amazing kids. Interested in open applications of ML on federated systems. Trustworthy AI at mozilla.ai. Genetically a teacher, forever a student. He/him.

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@pojntfx@mastodon.social avatar pojntfx , to random

Here is a sad (and somewhat pathetic, I guess) fact: The new Firefox "smart window" (which is an LLM-based browser), doesn't even use a local or open model, it's literally just Google's models run via their API

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@tommi @pojntfx Thanks Tommi for reaching out!

I took the liberty of writing this: https://fosstodon.org/@mala/116030440135471695

... which is probably not how you intended the "you cannot allow this" but just know I got you: the investigation I did was really to verify whether things had gone as bad as advertised... Luckily they haven't, but thanks to your help I'll keep checking (not that I can do much in the worst case scenario 🙂 but you'll learn how annoying I can be! 😛 )

@mala@fosstodon.org avatar mala , to random

I am quite sure that if you haven’t donated to @bonfire ‘s campaign yet it’s just because you did not know about it yet, so here is a link: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community 🙂

In case you are not convinced yet, here’s a slide for you about (and against!) 💩

In this moment, I think every project that fights enshittification should deserve attention and support. I myself contributed, and got me an awesome print (limited edition number 19, which as y’all know is binary for 🤟😜)

The bonfire team at SFSCon 2025, presenting a slide titled “Enshittification”. On the left hand side of the slide, a bulleted list with the following sentences: “feeds are manipulated, people are silenced, data is sold, ads are everywhere, platforms mutate or vanish overnight”. On the right hand side, a sh!t emoji
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@mala@fosstodon.org avatar mala , to random

Today is opening day! 🤩

(and I am there in case you want to chat 🙂)

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@_elena thank youuu! 💙

@j12t@j12t.social avatar j12t , to random

On my way, SFSCon and the Fediverse track here I come.

https://www.sfscon.it/tracks/fediverse-track-2025/

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@_elena I know this does now solve all logistics, but just in case: I’ll drive from Milan to Bolzano (Thu midday) and back (Sat midday) and I have free seats 😁🚗

@_elena@mastodon.social avatar _elena , to random

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    @_elena JellyFin rocks! My setup is JellyFin and Tailscale on my home server, JellyFin app (+ Finamp or Monet for music) on mobile devices

    @_elena@mastodon.social avatar _elena , to random

    Good morning Fedi friends!

    A mini thread about the Fedi promo video 🧵 1/4

    I'm still on cloud 9 after the phenomenal reception my fediverse promo video had yesterday at . THANK YOU for the support!

    I have screenshots of 12 pages of enthusiastic comments from the Zoom live chat during the screening ❤️ It could not have gone better!

    Where things stand:

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    @_elena Thank you and your team for making this video! Yesterday it was a magical moment: my 12yo kid came back home exactly when the video was about to start, I called him and we watched it together 💙 I am not sure he understood all of it (he’s not a native English speaker) but he definitely got the vibes -and my enthusiasm- right!

    I am now looking forward to showing the video to my eldest (15yo) son too on Tuesday. I hope this will help both realize how great this community is!

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    @_elena Italian, so… yaaaay!!! 🤗

    @_elena@mastodon.social avatar _elena , to random

    Dear Fedi friends, I need your help!

    We are working on motion graphics for the Fediverse promotional video... and we would love to do a sequence at the end with a mosaic of people's profile photos. For that, I need your consent.

    If you'd like to have a small cameo in our video, can you let us know if we can use your profile pic?

    Thanks! 🙏

    Can you please boost this?

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    @_elena Yay, count me in! 💙

    @tio@social.trom.tf avatar tio , to random

    If anyone can afford to support @yunohost I highly recommend forum.yunohost.org/t/donation-… - even small donations count.

    I personally donate 10 Euros a month, despite our projects being underfunded and us providing a lot of services for free.

    But hey I use Yunohost a lot and they deserve some help!

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    @lohang TY for sharing, I am looking to set up my own fediverse instance and I wanted to give a try… it’s great to know you are so happy with it!

    How I got here: @_elena boosted @tio ‘s message, @yunohost you have a lot of friends 💙

    (ah btw, I donated regardless of how things will turn out for me, as I want to support 🙏)

    @_elena@mastodon.social avatar _elena , to random

    I just watched the most brilliant TED Talk by Carole Cadwalladr "This is what a digital coup looks like"

    🔗: https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like

    It's filled with memorable, superb quotes about the broligarchy. A must see, to be shared widely.

    But then I looked up Cadwalladr's online activity. She uses Bluesky for social and Substack for publishing. This is impossibly incongruous after her incendiary TED talk.

    Honestly, it made me sad. One place is owned by crypto bros, the other is funded by A16Z...

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    @_elena @evaristegal0is Thank you for sharing this, I had not seen it yet and it resonated a lot with me!💙

    I also got your point and I appreciate how the discussion moved more towards “we should help her have a presence here too”. I recently read about “user domestication” ( https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/01/27/whatsapp-and-the-domestication-of-users/, linked in @ploum ‘s post https://ploum.net/2025-03-28-geeks-naivety.html) and, while I 100% agree with it, I also understand how hard it can be to free yourself when the ppl you want to reach do not follow you

    @mala@fosstodon.org avatar mala , to random

    I got back home from the amazing and while I am drafting a “Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm” blog post to follow up on my talk I decided to keep the momentum going with a thread about it. You'll find my code at https://github.com/aittalam/byota and the talk slides here: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-5601-build-your-own-timeline-algorithm/ (a video with the recording of the talk should be available soon too). Now let’s dig into !

    The first slide from a presentation. The title is "Build Your Own Timeline Algorithm". Below that, "Davide Eynard" and "FOSDEM, 1 Feb 2025". On the bottom left: "https://fosstodon.org/@mala". On the bottom right: "https://github.com/aittalam/byota"
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    @evan@cosocial.ca avatar evan , to random

    Which part(s) of did you like?

    mala ,
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    @evan I sadly missed the after hours, and I enjoyed both the devroom and the BOF equally. Above all (but I don’t know if it counts as a “part”) I loved the people and the vibes!