@J12t there is far too little concern about heatwaves going above the limit for human survival, especially in densely populated areas, especially in places without widespread air conditioning and a grid to support it.
@ShadSterling I didn't like The Ministry for the Future very much, except for the opening scene of the deadly heatwave in India. IMHO it could happen like that any year now.
Pondering how the #threadiverse group thinks of having consistent reply trees across instances for the purpose of forum software. One proposal is to have a “group” actor re-announce everything that has been sent to it. It appears to me this approach would work just as well in a microblogging context where we have, today, the inconsistent reply tree problem across instances as well. The actor that made the root post would act as the re-announcer.
@J12t the thinking is less "consistent reply trees" and more "consistent moderated conversations". whereas the reply tree is an implicit structure that needs no approval to be part of, having an actual reified collection with an explicit owner/moderator allows us to authoritatively decide which certain posts are allowed into the conversation or not. anyone can reply to anything, but not anyone can Add into a Collection.
@trwnh imho these finer points are really hard for casual users to understand. And nobody wants to think hard when chatting casually. Avoid if possible I would recommend…
What is the likelihood that one of the jurors in “that” trial is currently being offered a million dollars?
Actually, probably far less, because people are poor, and also cheap. But the “investor” could certainly go much higher than a million and still get a nice ROI.
If "AI answers" are the future of web search -- at least that's the common wisdom these days -- then it appears search ads will turn into paid mentions as part of the AI answers.
Overt and covert strategies are possible. Like mentioning the product or vendor overtly, or not mentioning them at all, but claiming that some feature X is absolutely required (but only the paid vendor provides it).
In other words, web search will be entirely corrupted, and nobody will be able to tell how.
I just realized that arguably I started working on the social web in ~1999, not ~2005.
At Aviatis, I created this feature where our users -- who were engineers -- could share semantic objects of certain engineering diagrams shown in a browser with each other with deep context for purposes of collaboration around those objects. That's about as social as a use case as I can think of...
That was Java applets rather than HTML, but I don't think the users cared (except for the load times ...)
Back in civilization! Todays hike to the top of Mt Umunhum, from the lower parking lot. About 15-16 miles, depending which map you believe, and about 2400 vertical feet. Took me 6.5h including lunch. Happy with myself but sure glad to be sitting on the couch again. Here’s the view from the start of the trail.
@J12t mastodon is terrible for activism. it's public, or not encrypted, and not heavily scrutinized for security requirements.
use something encrypted, not federated (or restrict federation to trusted servers/instances), or peer to perr
briar, cwtch, matrix, xmpp, or signal are all better options.
bear in mind that activism is risky, and can be dangerous. your server admin is actually not likely to be competent to harden a server adequately to defend against a prepared adversary, and even if they were they might just cooperate with law enforcement anyway. they should be tantamount to an adversary themselves if they aren't a collaborator
@xyhhx the context of this post was that Threads is apparently used quite a bit for organizing in Taiwan. It’s not obvious to me that mastodon or other fediverse apps are any worse than Threads for that purpose, and may even be better?
Laura, you might have seen this recent piece in DigiDay on why some publishers are investing in connecting their sites to the fediverse.
It appears this line of reasoning applies to Scientific American as well, and more so, because the Fediverse doesn't have a middle man with their own (perhaps anti-reality) agend. A publication focused on the facts will find it a better channel to their audience.
I took the "shorter" route when I went a few years ago.
"There are other routes ... that lead to Mt. Whitney. They begin at less heavily-used trailheads, but require a much longer hike to reach the summit. The High Sierra Trail leaves from Giant Forest on the west side of Sequoia National Park, and is about 60 miles (100 km) one-way. It takes a minimum of 6 days (one way) or 10 days (round trip) to complete."