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ZachWeinersmith,
@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social avatar

So, one lens on the weird direction of the modern Internet is that entities created to route you to cool stuff, e.g. search, social media, have especially in the last 5-10 years been taking an ever larger part of the pie via having giant networks. Google can now control whether a news site lives or dies. Meta can take 99.5% of all ad revenue displayed next to an artist's work and they have no power.

Long-term effect? Damage to the creative class.

Chrishallbeck,
@Chrishallbeck@mastodon.social avatar

@ZachWeinersmith How much do you get?

ZachWeinersmith,
@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social avatar

@i_understand @AlexanderKingsbury Right, but they don't. Not usually, which is why even really well-known sites also have Instagram, Facebook, etc. Additionally, if I post anything but naked content on Facebook (e.g. asking people to see a product launch or come to a signing) their algorithm crushes it.

flexghost,
@flexghost@mastodon.social avatar
flexghost,
@flexghost@mastodon.social avatar

@kalfatermann The fact that you brought Jean-Claude Van Damme into this makes me like you even more

ChrisHolladay,
@ChrisHolladay@mastodon.social avatar

@flexghost
So if the alt left booed him.....will the alt arrived greet him at Rikers?🤔

gsuberland,
@gsuberland@chaos.social avatar

SD cards are the literal worst.

they've expanded to be the size of small hard drives, and devices like the rpi keep using them as boot media, but they:

  • use garbage tier low endurance flash cells internally
  • have little to no overprovisioning for wear
  • perform only the most basic wear levelling
  • have no protocol level integrity checking
  • have few internal error correction features, if any
  • decay comparatively quickly without patrol scrubs
  • do not perform patrol scrubs
  • cannot do PLP
azonenberg,
@azonenberg@ioc.exchange avatar

@gsuberland Yep this is something I've started to design into my architecture, prototyping on the trigger crossbar and then scaling to a next-generation system with more capabilities on my next project.

Luckily there's not a whole lot to worry about in terms of data integrity because MicroKVS is a) seldom written and b) designed to not corrupt data if interrupted at any point.

At some point I need to build a board where I can test that assumption: have one MCU that controls power to another and the target is just constantly booting up, doing KVS reads and writes, and being randomly reset/power cycled.

And see if I can make it break.

nyrath,
@nyrath@spacey.space avatar

@gsuberland

So you are telling me I have set myself up to fail by sticking a one terabytes SD card into my tablet?

I guess I'll have to teach myself how to set up an NAS or something.

jeffjarvis,
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social avatar

Meta’s new AI council is composed entirely of white men https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/metas-new-ai-council-is-comprised-entirely-of-white-men/

Darberoom1954,
@Darberoom1954@mastodon.social avatar

@jeffjarvis If your AI starts calling you meathead now you will know why. 😈 🖖

darwinwoodka,
@darwinwoodka@mastodon.social avatar

@jeffjarvis of course it is

Daojoan,
@Daojoan@mastodon.social avatar

"Embrace AI or be left behind" is a condescending and heartless ultimatum. A false dichotomy that reeks of debunked social darwinist horse-fuckery.

Tech should adapt to people's needs.

Not the reverse.

Roundcat,
@Roundcat@mastodon.social avatar

@AlexanderKingsbury @shiri @mmby @Daojoan “Could” is not a substitute for “Will.” NFT could have revolutionized a lot of things but the most common use case for them became to scam people and launder money. Given the implementations I see now, I have no reason to be even slightly optimistic about what we call Ai.

Also, no artist has ever asked for this, and most have had their livelihoods jepardized by how it. But sure, let’s keep pretending we’re doing them a favor.

Roundcat,
@Roundcat@mastodon.social avatar

@AlexanderKingsbury @mmby @shiri @Daojoan “You don’t have to shop here”
-Small town Walmart

davidho,
@davidho@mastodon.world avatar

Lamppost EV chargers are the answer to how you charge your vehicle in cities.

This is possible because when energy intensive street lamps were replaced by LEDs, there’s excess power for charging EVs.

All cities should do this. ⚡️

h/t Robert Llewllyn

ELS,
@ELS@sfba.social avatar

@lauren @davidho LA is a disaster for bicycles. That needs to be fixed, but it won’t work for folks who can’t bike.

lauren,
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org avatar

@ELS @davidho This is a sore point with me, all the people who don't seem to realize that not everyone can bike, and that even for those who can, it's often totally impractical and too dangerous in the city.

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

I have a soft spot for Libertarians even though I shouldn't and they don't deserve it. When I was a kid I had a weird neighbor who was always giving me Libertarian books... I wish I still had some of them they were WILD. He was a thorn in the side of the local, school board as well insisting that if they had an event at the school that involved politics Libertarians had to be included.

And in defense of the guy, he was about as likable and earnest as a Libertarian could be.

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futurebird, (edited )
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@carrideen @IPmonger @angst_ridden

I mean also, I'm not going to point and yell at someone who has a real connection to these events & "just can't vote for him" but the people I know who have said that have also said "don't know if I'd feel the same if I weren't in NYC, where it's unlikely to matter" & they have even said "I feel like I'm being selfish."(!)

Someone who has LOST people. How do they have more willingness to think about the consequences than those with no direct connections?

glyph,
@glyph@mastodon.social avatar

@richpuchalsky @futurebird @jonquass @ehproque @moira yes sure whatever, but the voting itself is not a piece of performance art that expresses your abstract endorsement of “the state” as a concept. It’s a mechanism you use to exercise control over the state. It’s not direct, perfect control to align it with your values, but it is the control we have got. By not voting, you are sacrificing collective praxis for personal aesthetic preference.

kaia,
@kaia@brotka.st avatar

I urgently need a nerdy gift that can be Amazon-Primed for a 40-something dude who likes Star Wars, Blade, and many other nerdy things :mukiHelp:

fzer0,
@fzer0@nerdculture.de avatar

@kaia

What? No, not lewd at all.

Getdigital.de is a good shopping site for nerdy stuff.
Quality is usually pretty good, not sure about the speed tho.

grillchen,
@grillchen@brotka.st avatar

@kaia star trek collectors edition blue rays

cstross,
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

Not enough people realize that the "Turing Test" as originally presented was "can a gay English man in 1945 tell the difference between a chatbot and a femme-coded woman" over a teletype connection.

(Turing was very gay and had a sex-segregated education and then work life: he basically didn't know women and his alienation is palpable. But today's techbros don't have any such excuse, and the emphasis on femme-coded AI is ... telling.)
https://mastodon.xyz/@pmorinerie/112506480363973206

theogrin,
@theogrin@chaosfem.tw avatar

@cstross @tobiaspatton

Oh, it's absolutely a religious belief masquerading as science. The notion of AGI eventually becoming a certainty is unprovable in many ways, and it even has its own devil in the form of Roko's Basilisk.

And like all religions (including some varieties of capital-A Atheism!), it gathers its share of hucksters and mountebanks intent on siphoning as much money as possible out of the True Believers.

cstross,
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

@theogrin @tobiaspatton AI-oriented religious grifters are the focus of my next-but-two novel (hopefully out in 2026).

auschwitzmuseum,
@auschwitzmuseum@mastodon.world avatar

A heartbreaking moment that was saved by an SS photographer at Auschwitz II-Birkenau during the deportations of Hungarian Jews. It was taken 80 years ago, most likely in late May 1944. A little child finds a dandelion in the grass and is handing it or showing it to an older boy.
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eliasp,
@eliasp@mastodon.social avatar

@ArneBab that's a phishing SPAM-bot.

Reported & hopefully soon removed!

ArneBab,
@ArneBab@rollenspiel.social avatar

@eliasp Thank you! I reported it, too.

thomas, German
@thomas@metalhead.club avatar

ist ne coole Sache und ich mag das Projekt.

Trotzdem hat es so seine Macken. Und die sind nicht ohne: Beispielsweise fängt die offizielle App beim Musikplayback an, zu stottern. Nämlich dann, wenn sie nicht mehr im Hintergrund läuft.

Das Problem ist bekannt und liegt wohl daran, dass die App in Grunde nur ein Webbrowser ist, der dann von Android schlafen gelegt wird.

Aber trotzdem. Das ist doch eine absolut grundlegende Funktion. Dass das so schlecht funktioniert, frustriert.

constancies,
@constancies@metalhead.club avatar

@thomas @saiki I use Finamp and it works very well. Highly recommend

frankenmichl,
@frankenmichl@metalhead.club avatar

@thomas ich habe seit vielen Jahren Plex, war immer zufrieden. Für Musik benutze ich inzwischen aber Roon..

dgar,
@dgar@aus.social avatar

Those who boost my posts are happier, more intelligent and better looking than those who don't according to a study I made up.

Susan60,
@Susan60@aus.social avatar

@dgar
That worked.

dgar,
@dgar@aus.social avatar

@Susan60 😁

Alice,
@Alice@beige.party avatar

You can try to distract me with a woman wearing a shirt with a boob cutout and not one but TWO bucket hats, but your shoes will always be ugly, skechers.

NickGates,
@NickGates@friendsofdesoto.social avatar

@Alice people still wear bucket hats?

Alice,
@Alice@beige.party avatar

@NickGates Aw, man. Don’t do @the_etrain dirty like that.

MarSolRivas, French
@MarSolRivas@mastodon.online avatar

Si Jeanne Mas n'avait pas écrit "Le rouge et le noir" de Stendhal, jamais Victor Hugo n'aurait eu l'idée des "Fleurs du mal" de Baudelaire ☝️😌

Toi aussi, aide les à acquérir les bonnes bases du 😊

AugierLe42e,
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@MarSolRivas Ben évidemment ! Tout le monde sait que c'est la boulangerie de Paloma à Narnia qui méritait de gagner l'année précédente 😑
@Superspindoctor @Natouille

MarSolRivas,
@MarSolRivas@mastodon.online avatar

@AugierLe42e @Superspindoctor @Natouille Heureuse de l'entendre, je l'ai dit à ma soeur, elle m'a pas cru. Elle croit plus, elle décroit à présent 😌

patrislav,
@patrislav@chaos.social avatar

Heute am Frühstückstisch einen miesen Lachflash bekommen … Danke @sueddeutsche_feed

NatureMC,
@NatureMC@mastodon.online avatar

@scobiform Drum schrieb ich "um" = ungefähr (Datum als Symbol). Der Terror damals auf den Straßen wurde sehr gefördert durch all diejenigen, die wegschauten, passiv waren, aus dem Weg gingen. Wir vergessen gern, dass die genauso ermöglichen wie die Anhänger*innen.

Natürlich haben Herumstehende auch schon in den 1920ern mitgeprügelt.

Im obigen Fall stand die Politikerin an einem Wahlkampfstand. Sie war da nicht allein. Und es gibt viele Passant*innen an Wahlkampfständen.

@patrislav

NatureMC,
@NatureMC@mastodon.online avatar

@scobiform Du hast natürlich völlig recht, dieses Datum als Geschichtssymbol war unglücklich gewählt. Mir fällt kein passenderes, ähnlich bekanntes ein. Das Parteiprogramm der Nazis war ja schon 1920 bekannt ... @patrislav

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