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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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People will look back and realize OpenAi had the competitive advantage of crawling the web to train their AI before publishers realized what was going on.

Reddit & Twitter raising their API prices to tens or hundreds of thousands for basic access is just the beginning.

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@carnage4life Ah! That would explain it!!

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How do I get rid of the terrible Google popups on all kinds of websites to log in with the Google account that I would never use to log into other websites?

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@ntnsndr It's a side effect of new regulations like GDPR/CCPA etc. They can't run Google Analytics on you any more unless you are logged in, so they "encourage you" to log in. And if you check the setting on the Google side, that only works if Google is tracking you!

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"Code new worlds" is the tagline for Apple's headset event next Monday.

I have to admit I am very curious. Unlike just about anybody, I am highly intrigued by what 3D can do for us. And who wouldn't want to code a new world??

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@emmah IMHO we haven't figured out how to use the medium. Due to lack of imagination and insufficient technology I would think.

I think it can do wonders if applied well to data-rich problems of many kinds -- random pick: debugging! Just hanging out with your friends in 3D is not it, I agree with that.

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Bluesky aims to be Mastodon + algorithmic feeds + a better experience moving accounts between instances. As an end user, I’d have preferred this was done in a manner compatible with Mastodon versus being a competing service.

I doubt either will get to critical mass but perhaps together they might.

I think Mastodon would be better with algorithmic feeds and quote tweets. However they dev team seems stubbornly opposed to these features. Bluesky has these features but at the cost of fragmentation

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@carnage4life imho the scope is the fediverse, not mastodon. We need to figure out how to leverage interoperating, heterogeneous apps, not just one app and its built in features.

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Note to self: document your design rationales. Because when try to write them down, those "rationales" sometimes don't sound so rational.

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Going to a museum will never be the same.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CsreGaqNgMz/

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Somebody is making sense about the real dangers of ! I completely agree -- I'm not worried about electronic overlords any time soon, but I am very worried about new human overlords (hiding behind the supposed threat of electronic overlords.)

And I would add I'm also worried about clueless people applying hallucinating tech to important things -- sooner or later somebody is going to hook up GPT4 to, well, why not a nuclear power plant. And then we're in for a ride.

https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/is-avoiding-extinction-from-ai-really

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"Right to repair" in California is coming. Passed 38 to zero.

https://pirg.org/california/media-center/california-senate-passes-right-to-repair-act/

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@ShadSterling @pyperkub @TechConnectify Big difference between core driving software — like engine control, abs etc — and say, media related software. I wouldn’t be interested in touching the former, but I sure want to stop my car from sometimes randomly (to me)switching on the radio. Probably runs on very different hardware in most cases anyway.

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@pyperkub I'm in favor of all progress in that direction, even if it is only small steps at a time.

(P.S. There are a few bugs I'd really like to fix in my car's firmware, they are annoying enough I might actually do it if I could.)

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OH this morning on the Fediverse Developer Network call:

"How much of the internet should I cache?"

Indeed.

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An error message would be nice, dear git, instead of just hanging.

git config --global http.postBuffer <higher-value> did it.

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Interesting survey numbers on LGBT+ equality and lack thereof globally. The acceptance numbers are generally higher than I would have thought.

“Dangers of woke” is clearly a political strategy that would not work if it relied on getting a democratic majority. That in itself tells you something.

https://www.ipsos.com/en-us/pride-month-2023-9-adults-identify-lgbt

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Great piece on by Ezra Klein in The NY Times. Except at the end, where he is hopeful we’ll handle it well, imho there is very little chance of that. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/28/opinion/artificial-intelligence-thinking-minds-concentration.html

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“Bashing” is apparently now a word in the German language.

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@emmah not that I know …

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The set of all numbers some human has written down or thought of at some time.

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Mercedes-Benz has a division.

Knowing what I know of German automotive engineering companies ... let's just say the management meetings including the head of the web3 division might be for the ages.

https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/05/30/mercedes-benz-web3-arm-to-release-nft-collection-with-digital-art-community-fingerprints-dao/

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"BIMI (Brand Indicators for Message Identification), an email specification that allows brand-controlled logos to be displayed [in the mail client]".

Never heard of this before, but apparently it's a thing.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213155

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“Respiratory infections are the leading cause of death for children around the world and the No. 1 reason kids are hospitalized in the United States, but scientists don’t know what causes a good chunk of them.” Something I suspected but didn’t know. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/29/health/human-metapneumovirus-explainer-wellness/index.html

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The national womens’ soccer league in Germany is being renamed “Google Pixel Frauen-Bundesliga”. What new insanity is this?

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What interest would trump have in holding on to an Iran attack plan? Why that document?

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Registered for the next in October -- the premier event for the movers and shakers in digital identity and self-sovereign identity. It is the 37th time!

How many events do you know who have a track record of 37? With more people coming these days than ever before? Wouldn't be surprised if it sold out again because the venue is full.

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Also, has done more to refresh my (clearly very rusty) knowledge of trigonometry and 2-D linear algebra than anything else since math in college.

Just how to you smoothly transition a sphere into a cone? Took three attempts to get it right!

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Off the allergy pills for an upcoming allergy test. Not happy.

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