tedcurran

@tedcurran@indieweb.social

Award-winning #instructionaldesigner for Autodesk with an #indieweb sensibility and a love of #freesoftware. Also a #musician, #singer, #songwriter, #guitarist, #Renoise producer, #videoeditor.

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jrefior, to random
@jrefior@hachyderm.io avatar

Allowing people to burn as much gasoline, jet fuel, methane, coal, etc. as they want is not consistent with stopping .

The freedom of billions to live on a planet that hasn't been destroyed should outweigh the freedom of individuals to destroy the planet.

We should align our policies and practices with that principle.

tedcurran,

@jrefior

Yes and...

I can think of several other freedoms people enjoy that probably also should be curtailed to improve climate change.

You quickly get into questions about who decides, who enforces, and what are the penalties for non-compliance?

tedcurran,

@jrefior I have been listening to Ezra Klein's show a lot where he's circling this idea that liberals are right on a lot of issues, love to make laws (the legislative process), but have too little interest in the implementation of those laws. This episode specifically digs into the way public agencies function... AFTER the righteous law is passed.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/06/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-jennifer-pahlka.html

When it comes to fossil fuels, it becomes a competitive advantage for those who don't comply with the law.

tedcurran,

@jrefior That is, I can envision a world where one country bans fossil fuels and another doesn't. The one that doesn't gains the advantage of cheap energy, the one that complies faces greater costs of implementation and transition, enough that it upsets the balance of their economies. What then?

maegul, (edited ) to fediverse
@maegul@hachyderm.io avatar

So, is it time now for "spread mastodon/fediverse" to adapt somewhat and spread the "" (my moniker, fediverse for reddit-like platforms, eg and )

The energy and pickup in users seems real. Lemmy is def more active, and there's a growing sense of the Reddit-migration happening. (See, eg, https://lemmy.ml/post/1148886?scrollToComments=true, https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/140op93/host_your_own_community_if_reddits_api_rules_go/)

But the platforms probably need help. Instances, communities, documentation, tutorials, forks etc.

@fediversenews

tedcurran,

@maegul @fediversenews

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tedcurran, to ai

๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ this is fine. ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐Ÿ”ฅ

-Controlled Drone Goes Rogue, Kills Human Operator in USAF Simulated Test

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4a33gj/ai-controlled-drone-goes-rogue-kills-human-operator-in-usaf-simulated-test

tedcurran, to random

One of my favorite modern writers on the history of human civilization puts in its proper evolutionary perspective.

https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2023/04/28/yuval-noah-harari-argues-that-ai-has-hacked-the-operating-system-of-human-civilisation

tedcurran, to php

Is there such a thing as that doesn't run on a webserver but rather can just sync between users on a cloud desktop sync like or ?

I'm trying to put together a simple internal relational database-style site to share with my team without spinning up yet another cloud app to do it.

It would have tags, categories, a couple views of the data, and an input form. I know how to build such a thing in but trying to do it with minimal IT fuss or muss.

tedcurran,

@croc Thanks! I've used Publii on my wife's site and ran into problems trying to sync the authoring "database" files between my GDrive and hers. I agree it's a wonderful CMS to work with, and it was still too geeky for her to adopt.

I'm trying to get something dead simple for people to adopt with minimal learning curve. If I ever utter the words "all you have to do is..." then I'm toast.

My previous solution to this problem was a 3/10 on usability, so trying to get up to 7 or 8+.

tedcurran, to random

Even employees hate and are skeptical of its future, new report says

https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/27/apple-employees-siri-struggles/

In my reflection on briefly owning an iPhone...

https://tedcurran.net/2022/10/ios-is-cool-but-android-is-better-fight-me/

... Siri was one of the weakest parts of the experience, far inferior to .

tedcurran, to fediverse

Can save the internet?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network

Excellent deep dive on the current state of the and , with a detailed history of the movement to , and predictions about where we go from here.

Edent, to fediverse
@Edent@mastodon.social avatar

๐Ÿ†• blog! โ€œHow do you decentralise emergency alerts?โ€

Twitter's decision to hobble its API has meant that a number of useful alerting bots might no longer function. Your local subway might not be able to Tweet each morning about delays on the line, nor will a tornado warning be displayed as you scroll through photos of brunch, and forget about โ€ฆ

๐Ÿ‘€ Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/04/how-do-you-decentralise-emergency-alerts/
โธป

tedcurran,

@Edent Masto makes it harder to find these updates, but once you're following the alert account, you get alerts reliably, correct? It's just a problem if the "single source of truth" is published only on Masto like it is on Twitter.

solves this - if the alert sites post mainly to a blog with an RSS feed, users can find (or make) a Masto account to follow it.

Still doesn't solve the discoverability issue you're trying to solve, but seems workable, no?

tedcurran,

@Edent good point.

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