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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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Seeing 14 participants today in the task force on making ActivityPub work for threaded discussions / forums.

Excellent!

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@jupiter_rowland I'm just an observer, I don't know.

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Concerned about ? Overblown imho. Be concerned about people who might even consider doing something like this!

https://www.reuters.com/world/us-official-urges-china-russia-declare-only-humans-not-ai-control-nuclear-2024-05-02/

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Great dinner today talking with a bunch interesting and smart folks. We are still in the phase where everybody describes a different part of the elephant, but these were interesting descriptions! I learned stuff! And those are the best conversations!!

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This is the first time I’ve been to San Francisco by public transport since the pandemic started. There’s now a subway, wow, so that’s great! But Chinatown is basically shutdown, maybe a third of places are open and basically no customers.

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May 1st, in fourth grade a long time ago, I didn’t have a good time. My belly hurt so much … and later, after surgery, they told me that my appendix had ruptured and (much later) that without antibiotics, I’d probably have died.

Yay antibiotics. Yay for going to the doctor earlier.

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Brave woman, fought back and got killed. And no surprise, some guy thought what a great opportunity. Disgusted.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68840881

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Note to self: if you have bread in the oven, don't forget about it.

Fortunately one can smell it when it's ready.

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isn't as straightforward as people sometimes make it out to be.

Example: today's Meta-AI-inside-Messenger experiment. Prompt: A campfire while backpacking in the Sierra at dusk, with me roasting marshmallows.

The scenery is very nice, and looks like the Sierras, even the right type of trees. So that's great. Given Meta has social media photos of me, so one would think ... the guy there is completely unlike me, never had the kind of hat, hair, beard or shirt like this.

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Whittled down the list of people I’m following. With no algorithm in the fediverse that shows me what it thinks I should be interested in, I better pick myself how I fill my feed.

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Score one for ChatGPT.

It correctly showed me that I needed to use quotes to configure pytest inside pyproject.toml. Error message and documentation (that I found) were not useful.

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This is totally amazing.

https://scrollprize.org/grandprize

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Let's say you wanted to increase velocity on your product development process to reach nirvana faster. What can you do?

A laser-sharp focus on putting everywhere clearly can help. And Meta is not the only culprit.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91113437/ai-making-meta-apps-basically-unusable

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Reading about . I get the “louder than the satellite” part, but shouldn’t there be some kind of cryptographic signature or something that lets you distinguish which is which, and some kind of token to guard against replay attacks? Is there? Maybe only in the encrypted US military version? (Guessing wildly…)

https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2024/04/another-us-precision-guided-weapon-falls-prey-russian-electronic-warfare-us-says/396141/

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And then you find yourself as one of the Fediverse handles linked to by Techmeme on the story that Mastodon is forming a US not-for-profit organization.

Never figured out how they pick the linked posts.

/cc @gaberivera any insights you can share?

https://techmeme.com/

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Let's say you set up a ticket vending machine for public transport, and you feel very ... not sure, maybe bureaucratic?

What should you call that machine? What about:

Passenger Operated Machine (POM).

The domain/object modelers among us just died a little.

https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/how-tfls-simple-pop-up-message-led-to-a-significant-drop-in-paper-ticket-sales-71920/

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<P>In the beginning, html was <B>all</B> <BLINK>uppercase.</BLINK>.

I don't remember when or why it turned lowercase. Anybody remember?

https://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

Also, apparently it didn't have an <HTML> tag.

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Interesting choice of board members for the new Mastodon US not-for-profit. Inasmuch directors influence the direction of the project towards their areas of interest, it tells us something where they are planning to go.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

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“I am in shock that a lawyer stood in the U.S. Supreme Court and said that a president could assassinate his political opponent and it would be immune as ‘an official act.’ I am in despair that several Justices seemed to think this answer made perfect sense.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/181032/supreme-court-trump-immunity-sealed-fate

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Achievement unlocked: highest dose in the allergy injection regime.

Status: itchy.

Next steps: now you have reached this achievement for the fourth time in your life, can you maybe manage to stay on the level??!?

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11 people on the data portability task force meeting for the today.

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And then you go through the ActivityStreams standard (which is one of the standards the is built on) and find your own name in the Acknowledgements section.

Among what looks like 1000 other people. But nevertheless ...

https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/

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"Save complete Web page".

Firefox: Garbled.
Chrome: Garbled.
Safari: Perfect.

We have a winner.

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And the next hot hot tech is ....

https://www.threads.net/@techcrunch/post/C6KKtySyzsH

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According to a 3rd party quoted in Business Insider, is now surpassing /#X in a key metric.

In April so far, "Threads has averaged an estimated 28 million daily active users, ....a roughly 55% increase in DAUs from December"

"X has averaged 22 million DAUs, a usage rate that's 21% lower than Threads."

https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-threads-more-daily-us-users-twitter-elon-musk-x-2024-4

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