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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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J12t, to fediverse
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The W3C Social Web Community Interest Group -- the home of -- has a new chair, Dmitri Zagidulin aka @dmitri! This is excellent news for the future of ActivityPub and the broader .

Dmitri has long, broad, relevant experience both technically and organizationally in the W3C and outside, and I'm very happy he stepped up to take on this rather challenging task.

At speed. He's already organizing the first meeting! Let's all help him get the group to accomplish much!

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@davew @dmitri Mailing list at https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/

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@davew @dmitri Cobbler's children and all that.

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@dmitri This is how things get done. People step up and do stuff. So I'm with ya! :-)

J12t, to opensource
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I'm still a bit shocked by the -- to me, very unexpected -- insight in the leaked Google memo that the world is now wide open for garage-level ("an evening and a beefy laptop") competitive AI, not just big budget AI, and that might become common for trained models. That upsets a bunch of assumptions I made about the world -- to be sure, in a good way!

What will we see if garage entrepreneurs can outcompete and , as the memo suggests?

https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither

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@braincell Did you read the memo?

J12t, to random
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What a totally fascinating graph! Spot the difference!

Seems to me there is little immunity over time, but certainly a great reduction of symptoms! Except when Omicron hit.

J12t,
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@jimfenton part of it, certainly, but the magnitude difference is significant. I do assume that all the non mild cases are being counted.

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Is there an events instance (eg of @mobilizon or @gancio) we can use to keep track of related events? Both in-person gatherings and online meetings.

I’m conscious that with the growth of interest in the fediverse, and in the number of related events being independently organised (which is great!), we’re going to need a canonical place to keep track of them. So why not dogfood the emerging federated events system!

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/is-there-a-mobilizon-instance-for-fediverse-related-events/3179

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@strypey That would be really useful.

J12t, to random
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World Press Freedom Index: “85% of people live in countries where media freedom has declined in the past five years” https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/03/media-freedom-in-dire-state-in-record-number-of-countries-report-finds

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@cstanhope We are entering ever-darker times, in case it hasn't already been blindingly obvious for some years.

J12t, to random
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Lots of noisy supersonic planes in the air in the bay area. That is very unusual. What is going on?
If you wanted to train your pilots, wouldn't you find some regions with few people on them, and California has plenty of those. So I wonder...

J12t, to random
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Status: filed Mastodon bug.

Only happens when running Mastodon inside a Linux container with recent kernels, which is great for development, but obscure enough I'd be surprised somebody fixed that.

J12t, to random
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Don't you like it when they deprecate your build tools? I'm looking at you, setup.py.

And want you to do something "much better" (hatch) that promptly silently doesn't package one of your files? (test.py -- it's named that way because it's a subcommand and why should I name it something less comprehensible?)

And for which no documentation can be found that addresses your problem? So you get the source, and randomly poke about? Well this random power was successful but can we maybe do better?

J12t, to fediverse
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@kissane Great post! IMHO we need to do holistic design across the entire , not just . The larger value proposition is in the overall network, built from many parts, not just one app. Want to help? There's a budding Fediverse Developers Network :-)

https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

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@kissane Think holistic! :-)

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There’s a chance that 12 months from now, we’ll only have half as many banks as now imho.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/03/investing/pacwest-bank/index.html

J12t, to random
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So I've been working with HTTP since early 1994. And I was today years old to learn that HTTP has "trailer fields". https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Trailer

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@gwachob Now I'm feeling better :-)

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“Oh for f’s sake is something I do not say aloud, but think vehemently at my coffee while I count to FF in hexadecimal.” @cstross in “Escape from Yokai Land”.

I guess I gotta try some time.

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That is a good handle for a root user :-) @omnipotens

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@omnipotens gained root and kept it for 25 years. So far.

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“The user authenticated with the client server.” Maybe I shouldn’t be reading specs late at night, but count me befuddled. What did that user do exactly to whom exactly?

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In other news, in a long pitched battle between the Postgres permission system and the uneducated horde a the gate, the now not as uneducated horde -- me -- can report to have won the contested territory. I wonder though whether I can hold it, given how things have been going.

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@hamishcampbell For right now, we are still finishing up the last event, the demo videos should get published shortly.

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@avolkov https://ubos.net/ maintenance

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@hamishcampbell Would you be willing to introduce us to the right person?

J12t, to random
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If anybody thought that unaccountable internet companies are not so bad, here is exhibit number 49321 or such: https://www.reuters.com/technology/musk-threatens-reassign-npr-twitter-account-npr-says-2023-05-03/

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