... they want a handful of transnational corporate DataFarmers to subsidise it instead. Through government-imposed mandates to pay for commercial license on uses like linking and quoting, which don't violate copyright (or they could take legal action on those grounds).
#stuff We've seen the effects of AI generated news long ago: cheap staff churning out poor material without actual journalism. Rewriting press releases and formulating uneducated guesses that in theory are later checked by editors. That never turns out well, and using ChatGPT or whatever as cheap staff is going to result in the same sorry situation. https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018908117/current-and-future-state-of-stuff
So #Stuff magazine has hit a milestone: 300 issues. I was asked to write a feature that delved into the best gadgets that arrived during the magazine’s long life. (I also wrote my usual back page column, which this issue is on Android 1.0.)
It’s a fab issue if you fancy a paper mag and the warm glow of happy tech memories.
Everything doesn’t have to be so expensive. The staff at The Verge recently came up with their favorite low-priced gadgets, like an electric screwdriver, a stick vacuum, even an eyeglasses necklace. Check it out: https://flip.it/3oWH8r #Tech#Gadgets#Technology#Stuff
@technotramp could I share a little of your Unexpected Tracks as the music for my show this week? (I talk about lisps and smolnet community news, while sharing awesome underground music of people I meet). Is there a big ipfs music scene? You are the first one I encountered.
I'm enjoying Honeycomb -> Funky Cat right now. I once had some bubble gum from Japan that had the words "highly technical flavor" printed on the packaging which this puts me in mind of somehow
As far as the #IPFS community is concerned, I feel the same as you. I'll probably really be #one of the #first. #RPlayer is available for #free, but the #problem is that it's hard for a non-technical #person to make their own #player. You need to program some #tools, but I'll do it.
oh right here's some #stuff i made in like 10 minutes
it's a #mastodonBot that toots the system info (cpu usage, ram usage, disk usage, and uptime) of the server it's running on), which is something that may be useful to #instanceAdmins, and just neat in general, i suppose
There are many large and #serious#problems in the world. Many people are victimized by the #system in a thousand different ways. This is not their story; it is not about their problems, but this should not be seen as minimizing them.
I'd like to talk about something a little closer to home: #employee#abuse in the #tech field. I've been in this field for <mumble> years and worked for tiny companies, medium consulting companies, large orgs, and as a one-man independent contractor.
Some places have sessions organized by employees organically. Management doesn't really care about these ones. They're about things that aren't directly useful in the job; one's a #language#enthusiast and wants to talk about #Elixir, which the company doesn't (yet) use internally, and others are interested in it for their own #curiosity.
I found myself at not being able to find something that sparks my interest to follow on Mastodon. So please share with me your interesting finds. No restrictions…
Finding stuff on Mastodon is more about hashtags. Eventually, by subscribing to #stuff you’re interested in, you will discover accounts worth following. The Tusky app allows you to subscribe to hashtags like to an account. I don’t follow people anymore, I follow topics!
Currently working on my column for #Stuff, which talks about trying to turn people into robots, digs into lessons a certain fruit company could learn from Eugene Jarvis’s Defender, and includes the words “97% snot”.
Apple CEO Siri announces at WWDC33 that Apple has shipped its last iPhone. Siri adds: “And that’s great, because we’re all Apple Vision people now”. A bit too ominously for comfort, if everyone’s being honest.
What are some interesting accounts to follow on Mastodon?
I found myself at not being able to find something that sparks my interest to follow on Mastodon. So please share with me your interesting finds. No restrictions…
Bigmastah's Sky Islands
Sky Islands...