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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.

He/him. tfr

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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

J12t, to random
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This leaked Google AI document is really interesting. It was clearly written by a very senior person who understands both tech and marketplace dynamics very well. It is coming to the -- to me, entirely unexpected -- conclusion that the only winning strategy for Google is to open-source Google's crown jewels.

Will Google does that? I doubt it, it's now a conservative org and they don't move just because somebody is right. But so intriguing ...

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

J12t, to random
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That is a good handle for a root user :-) @omnipotens

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!

J12t,
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@davew @dmitri Mailing list at https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/

J12t,
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@davew @dmitri Cobbler's children and all that.

J12t,
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@dmitri This is how things get done. People step up and do stuff. So I'm with ya! :-)

J12t, to random
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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?

J12t, to random
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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.

J12t, to fediverse
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Looking for a good instance to host demo videos (of apps). Any recommendations?

J12t, to random
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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

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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

J12t,
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@strypey That would be really useful.

J12t, to random
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These are too good not to share. Trust me, I'm an engineer!!

From https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protected-files/hotsec15_slides_green.pdf

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

J12t,
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@gwachob Now I'm feeling better :-)

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/

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

J12t,
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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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Asking others what they really mean, and why, in some more detail, is underrated. Just saying.

J12t,
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@olivermantell Self-irony, never heard of it :-P

J12t, to internet
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The suggested follower experience appears to work. I made one single meaningless post right when I created the account, engaged basically with nobody, and I have 49 followers.

What can we learn from that in the ?

J12t,
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@voron @markigra The needs to find a reliable way to fund itself for certain.

J12t,
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@John Not randos, many people I know and appreciate the follow from. I suspect it's from affinity in the social graph of the people I decided to follow myself.

J12t,
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@GregCirillo I know many of these unexpected followers, and presumably they know me. I appreciate the follow from those people.

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@mastodonmigration Not meaningless followers. Many of those followers are people I know.

J12t,
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@jeff Oh absolutely it would be possible to build something similar in the Fediverse. IMHO it would be very useful, but would have to be in the main flow of the onboarding experience.

  1. Let's try out this new Fediverse thing.
  2. Ohh, all my friends are here.
  3. I'm happy.
J12t,
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@cstanhope I have very little experience myself because I haven't really used the app! If I ever do, I will post about it.

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