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J12t

@J12t@social.coop

Technologist, founder, organizer.

Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Fediverse is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet.

Check out my home page for more info and links.

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

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Somehow I got stuff done today. The todo list is noticeably shorter. Yay.

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So I got a whole bunch of 10-month old @chrismessina.me@bsky.brid.gy posts from Bluesky in my Mastodon feed today. Bridgy Fed must be working! But is that date mapping working as designed @snarfed ?

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

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 !

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@blake @j12t I didn’t know a out it either, but just signed up to try it out. Works fine on my Mac in the browser.

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@forteller @evan @j12t It's just chat accessed from a virtual environment rather than a flat app or web browser. You still gotta type ...

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In case you are thinking humanity is getting CO2 under control, I have this graph for you.

This is not the absolute CO2 level in the atmosphere, but its growth rate. Think for a second what this growth rate would have to be so we can stay below 1.5 or 2deg warning.

Right, this growth rate would have to be negative: fewer emissions this year than last year.

Of course, it's not. It's worse, much worse. The growth is still growing!! It's not even constant.

https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/gr.html

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Looking at drill bit sets on Amazon. This one metric drill bit set has 25 bits, ranging from 1mm to 13mm.

Helpfully, Amazon points out it costs $2.20 per count.

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A thousand is a crowd!

The last few times I was there, it was more like a couple dozen.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2024/05/03/photos-sea-lions-swarm-the-docks-at-san-franciscos-pier-39/

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Half of internet traffic is now bots.

Hi, bot followers :-)

https://www.imperva.com/company/press_releases/bots-make-up-half-of-all-internet-traffic-globally/

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Opaque algorithms are a funny thing.

Over on , my "Following" feed does consistently have more things in it that are interesting to me than my "For you" feed.

I've been observing this for a few weeks now, and it's consistent.

Seem the cost function might be optimizing for something other than what I like? Or is the signal not good enough because I don't "like" or such enough?

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There are 14 people on the W3C's Social Web Incubator Community Group today. The group is finalizing new documents that describe how to use WebFinger and HTTP Signatures in the , and a bunch of other work going on as well.

So glad to see what there is ongoing work making the technical plumbing that makes the Fediverse work even better!

If you care, you can participate, it's open for all (constructive participants). https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/

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We've made it to 16.

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If you plant two plants of egg plant, as I did, did you just plant two egg plant plants, or merely two egg plants?

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I’m afraid if I say these are two egg plants, people will look at me strangely and then gently try to explain chickens to me.

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Or perhaps I should simply take the snobbish route and call them aubergines.

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And if you get them as small plants from the store, where do they come from?

Egg plant plant plants perhaps?

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The French president is again thinking out loud about the circumstances in which the French would send troops to Ukraine.

Wish we'd live in a world where nobody would have to think about these kinds of things.

(in German) https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Macron-Erwaegen-Truppenentsendung-falls-Front-kollabiert-article24916387.html

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Seeing 14 participants today in the task force on making ActivityPub work for threaded discussions / forums.

Excellent!

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@jupiter_rowland I'm just an observer, I don't know.

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Concerned about ? Overblown imho. Be concerned about people who might even consider doing something like this!

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-official-urges-china-russia-declare-only-humans-not-ai-control-nuclear-2024-05-02/

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@julian I can totally see two LLMs talking to each other and coming to that conclusion :-P /s

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Great dinner today talking with a bunch interesting and smart folks. We are still in the phase where everybody describes a different part of the elephant, but these were interesting descriptions! I learned stuff! And those are the best conversations!!

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This is the first time I’ve been to San Francisco by public transport since the pandemic started. There’s now a subway, wow, so that’s great! But Chinatown is basically shutdown, maybe a third of places are open and basically no customers.

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May 1st, in fourth grade a long time ago, I didn’t have a good time. My belly hurt so much … and later, after surgery, they told me that my appendix had ruptured and (much later) that without antibiotics, I’d probably have died.

Yay antibiotics. Yay for going to the doctor earlier.

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