Wordpress-activitypub is a WordPress plugin that enables ActivityPub protocol support, allowing WordPress sites to interact with decentralized social networks. This release updates compatibility and improves interactivity features.

Key changes in version 6.0.0:

• Add in_reply_to Actor to Activity audience
• Validate $type integrity for published posts
• Add fallback-avatar to reaction dropdown list
• Update WordPress requirement to 6.5
• Remove deprecated functions, filters, and actions
• Make "Follow Me" interactive
• Improve wp-config handling for Surge
• Remove JavaScript wave effect
• Use Interactivity API for Reactions and Remote Reply
• Re-add HTML handling for summaries/excerpts
• Fix Site-Health WebFinger check
• Strip shortcodes from excerpts
• Fix editor console warnings and add back compatibility with WP 6.5
• Improve plugin's Followers storage and use Interactivity API for Followers
• Limit user options to users with ActivityPub capability
• Change to use post_content to store Actor-JSON
• Avoid showing likes and reposts for comments
• Add h-card support for IndieWeb movement

OC below by @HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org

What called my attention is that assessments of AI are becoming polarized and somewhat a matter of belief.

Some people firmly believe LLMs are helpful. But programming is a logical task and LLMs can't think - only generate statistically plausible patterns.

The author of the article explains that this creates the same psychological hazards like astrology or tarot cards, psychological traps that have been exploited by psychics for centuries - and even very intelligent people can fall prey to these.

Finally what should cause alarm is that on top that LLMs can't think, but people behave as if they do, there is no objective scientifically sound examination whether AI models can create any working software faster. Given that there are multi-billion dollar investments, and there was more than enough time to carry through controlled experiments, this should raise loud alarm bells.

It is a "snippet manager" although I mainly use it to note down useful pieces of code in case I need some of it for later. Or as a scratchpad.

https://curi.ooo/

A big project was merged into FFmpeg overnight in providing a WHIP muxer for sub-second latency streaming.

WHIP stands for the WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol and is a low-latency live-streaming specification building off WebRTC. WHIP uses HTTP for exchanging initial information and capabilities and then uses STUN binding to establish a UDP session. Encryption is supported -- and due to WebRTC, mandatory -- with WHIP and audio/video frames are split into RTP packets.

WebRTC-HTTP Ingestion Protocol is an IETF standard for ushering low-latency communication over WebRTC to help with streaming/broadcasting uses.

shared from: https://programming.dev/post/31662028

I know this might be more tightly knit to encryption but I do not think it is entirely irrelevant for this community.

Question is in the title.

Letting ideas flow into your next presentation, paper or book.

Markdown meets the power of LaTeX in this modern typesetting system.

OC by @jerrimu@lemmy.world

Hello everyone, about a month ago I open-sourced my web app Peersuite. It's peer-to-peer instead of having servers, and all data is encrypted in transit with AES-GCM algorithm.

Features:

• chat with channels, images, PMs, and file send ( no size limit)
• audio/video conferencing No hard cap on users but since it's a mesh network it would degrade at over 15 users
• Screensharing tab, window, or entire screen
• whiteboard for diagrams/drawing
• group document creation/editing
• kanban board for task management

Since there is no server, you can download a workspace to an encrypted file to restore later, this saves you chats, documents, everything. This software is new, and still undergoing heavy development, but I think it's a valid choice over closed source solutions with no encryption.

Currently you can use it on the web at https://peersuite.space/ Download desktop versions from github Download docker image from https://hub.docker.com/repository/docker/openconstruct/peersuite

You can also install it as a PWA on desktop or mobile. I have an android port in the works, If anyone would like to test let that me know, and I'll PM you for your email.

I've also done some initial work on a nodejs server so that you can keep a workspace open 24/7 effectively having a server.

Super happy to get any kind of feedback, positive or negative.

The IRS open sourced much of its incredibly popular Direct File software as the future of the free tax filing program is at risk of being killed by Intuit’s lobbyists and Donald Trump’s megabill. Meanwhile, several top developers who worked on the software have left the government and joined a project to explore the “future of tax filing” in the private sector.

Direct File is a piece of software created by developers at the US Digital Service and 18F, the former of which became DOGE and is now unrecognizable, and the latter of which was killed by DOGE. Direct File has been called a “free, easy, and trustworthy” piece of software that made tax filing “more efficient.” About 300,000 people used it last year as part of a limited pilot program, and those who did gave it incredibly positive reviews, according to reporting by Federal News Network.

But because it is free and because it is an example of government working, Direct File and the IRS’s Free File program more broadly have been the subject of years of lobbying efforts by financial technology giants like Intuit, which makes TurboTax. DOGE sought to kill Direct File, and currently, there is language in Trump’s massive budget reconciliation bill that would kill Direct File. Experts say that “ending [the] Direct File program is a gift to the tax-prep industry that will cost taxpayers time and money.”