J12t

J12t, 23 hours ago to random

Imagine two identical #social #networks with mainstream users. Same number of users, same connectedness of the social graph, same demographics etc.

Social network A only has an algorithmic feed. Social network B only has a chronological people-I-follow feed.

What would the usage numbers look like in comparison? Numbers of posts, numbers of likes/replies/boosts, growth trajectory, etc?

I would expect somebody has done some research on this. Anybody know of any public results?

J12t, 1 day ago to random

What an amazing opportunity to do the opposite of the shiny new thing called “AI”.

Let’s go.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html

J12t, 2 days ago to random

"Meta AI Chief Says Large Language Models Will Not Reach Human Intelligence"

His peers must hate him!

https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/22/143243/meta-ai-chief-says-large-language-models-will-not-reach-human-intelligence

J12t, 3 days ago to random

Tax billionaires with 2% of their wealth annually? Now here is an idea…

https://www.ft.com/content/1f1160e0-3267-4f5f-94eb-6778c65e65a4

J12t, 3 days ago to fediverse

Exciting things are progressing around the #Fediverse. I can't wait!!!

J12t, 6 days ago to random

I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users.

Anybody else see what he apparently sees?

https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-ban-frank-mccourt-bytedance-liberty-china-app-1851478825

J12t, 6 days ago to mastodon

Anybody know what triggers a profile re-fetch in #mastodon ?

After an instance accessed a remote account for the first time, it fetches name, avatar, number of followers etc. When will it fetch it next to potentially update?

J12t, 6 days ago to random

Apple fail.

Today, my Mac's available disk space keeps dropping. I keep deleting stuff and disk space keeps dropping to where applications stop working and I apparently have less than 100M left. I'm panicking a bit because I keep deleting things and it gets worse not better.

Finally, I kill time machine. I haven't deleted any more files and have not done anything since, but now I have 135G free on disk.

What the?

J12t, 7 days ago to fediverse

Ghost has a (pretty funny) update on their #ActivityPub development.

https://activitypub.ghost.org/building-activitypub-day-1/

J12t, 8 days ago to fediverse

The #Fediverse is like a startup in many ways.

Some days you are totally elated about all the amazing things that are becoming possible and within reach. We are changing the world!

Some other days you are in the depth of despair that this is never going to work and how could you possibly ever have thought otherwise.

This week definitely is the former. A movement is forming, good people are coming out of hiding and are getting excited and involved. So glad to be part of it!!

J12t, 9 days ago to random

A distributed social web of meaningful relationships.

Instead of a few centralized walled-garden apps that only tell you what an unaccountable third party wants you to know.

P.S. Still working on the messaging... how can I improve this?

J12t, 9 days ago to fediverse

"“Web publishers brace for carnage as Google adds AI answers,” ...Until now, publishers have been able to rely on significant volumes of traffic coming from the blue links that appear under many queries. But [their new] AI overviews often obscure these links, requiring users to click to see them, or simply abstracting them away in an automatically generated summary. Analysts ... say a bloodbath is coming..."

Can the #Fediverse help? I think it can.

By @caseynewton in https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

J12t, 10 days ago to random

Tried to send a message to the IETF's #WebFinger mailing list with some feedback from @feditest. Tried three different sender e-mail addresses. None of them went through. Not sure what else to try.

J12t, 12 days ago to random

Making glazed citron from this recipe and the lemons in the front yard. I’m on the last day, trying to get it to 235deg F. Somehow (heh!) the temperature doesn’t want to rise above 212. I think I made some kind of scientific discovery /s

https://www.davidlebovitz.com/making-glazed-candied-fruit-citron-recipe/

J12t, 12 days ago to random

We need a better framework for how to think about online relationships between people, and between people and organizations/websites. Logged on/off from a authentication perspective and follow/block from a social media perspective are really not quite right and not at all complete.

We did a bit of work on this when I was on the board of what was still called the Me2B Alliance, and of course there is seminal work by Doc Searls in ProjectVRM, but much remains to be done. The social web needs it!

J12t, 13 days ago to climate

Compliments to The Guardian for polling #climate scientists recently and publishing their predictions that are so much scarier than the official ones.

But in spite of their coverage, the Guardian has a hard time accepting it themselves. At +2.7°C, they say, 2 billion people will be pushed out of the conditions that allow humanity to live. And at above +3°C, they say we will have “millions of refugees”. Ahem.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/11/brutal-heatwaves-submerged-cities-what-3c-world-would-look-like

J12t, 14 days ago to meta

Finally I'm getting around to listen to @mike 's Dot.Social episode with @rklambo and @pcottle from #meta, talking about #threads.

Mike asks the most important question first: "why are you [Meta] doing this [Fediverse integration]?"

[cont]

J12t, 15 days ago to bluesky

Jack Dorsey interview post-#Bluesky. Whatever you think of him, his views on why he helped getting Bluesky started in the first place are interesting. I wonder which of those might apply to the Fediverse (which he doesn't mention at all).

https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

J12t, 15 days ago to privacy

"Navigating User Privacy in the Decentralized Social Web".

Online webinar, sponsored by Meta.

Just fluttered into my inbox.

https://www.privacylaws.com/events-gateway/events/fediverse2024/

#privacy #meta #fediverse

J12t, 16 days ago to random

“Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT”

Yet another amazing the-not-exploitative-alternative business opportunity.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

J12t, 16 days ago to random

Protocol-invention-itis:

A widespread disease among software developers.

Like for other diseases, a simple vaccination -- ahem, a bit of research on what exists already -- can eliminate 90% of the outbreaks.

Just sayin'.

J12t, 16 days ago to bluesky

So #Bluesky is implementing an (unspecified) new protocol for direct messages. Because AtProto is really not suitable for anything that isn't 100% public.

I wonder whether they can do this now that Jack is off the board. But maintaining two separate protocols in the same app? Who knows, maybe #ActivityPub is next?

https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-07-2024-product-roadmap

J12t, 17 days ago to CSS

Today I learned:

display: flow-root

which solves a real problem for me. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78439601/shrink-border-of-a-html-element-which-shares-space-with-a-floating-element #CSS

J12t, 19 days ago to random

“Swiss public broadcasters withdraw from X/Twitter”
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/workplace-switzerland/swiss-public-broadcasters-withdraw-from-x-twitter/76901650

J12t, 20 days ago to fediverse

I have a 3D avatar that's connected to the #Fediverse!

HTC's Viviverse virtual world turned on their Fediverse connection yesterday I think.

This is actually major news. HTC is a major company!!

Say Hi to @j12t !