danhon

danhon, 3 months ago to random

hello I have I created some more tongue-in-cheek ha-ha no-actually-really-serious images to help you manage replies in lieu of affordances to help you manage replies please steal and use if you find useful or, so help me, funny

1. Do not reply unless you have direct experience
2. Do not reply with a software suggestion
3. (multipart) This is an observation. Do not attempt to help. No reply necessary.

YOU MAY REPLY if you have a suggestion or request for another helpful informational message.

An information message to manage replies. It reads DO NOT REPLY WITH A SOFTWARE SUGGESTION ANTWORTEN SIE NICHT MIT EINEM SOFTWARE-VORSCHLAG NO RESPONDA CON UNA SUGERENCIA DE SOFTWARE NE RÉPONDEZ PAS AVEC UNE SUGGESTION DE LOGICIEL
An information message to manage replies. It reads: THIS IS AN OBSERVATION DIES IST EINE BEOBACHTUNG ESTA ES UNA OBSERVACIÓN DO NOT ATTEMPT TO HELP VERSUCHEN SIE NICHT, ZU HELFEN NO INTENTE AYUDAR NO REPLY NECESSARY KEINE ANTWORT ERFORDERLICH NO ES NECESARIA RESPUESTA

danhon, 7 months ago to random

Holy shit looks like the WGA pretty much got everything it wanted, including structural change.

UNIONS WORK.

https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/summary-of-the-2023-wga-mba

danhon, 10 months ago to random

So public institutions understand that all their Twitter accounts are now only visible to people with Twitter accounts now, right?

danhon, 9 months ago to random

some notes reading zoom's "oh shit we need to explain this" post about their TOS change on training AI:

1. the post talks about "your" consent, but the "you" here is a "customer", not "an end-user of zoom"
2. the person who provides consent is an account owner or administrator (i.e. likely not "you”)
3. "participants" are notified that someone else has consented for them

it's very carefully worded: customers aren’t the same as users

https://blog.zoom.us/zooms-term-service-ai/

danhon, 2 months ago to random

They're here.

Finally.

https://donotreply.cards/

Oh, and subscribe for when the stickers are out.

(You want the stickers.)

Made with @Ffangohr with a lot of fun.

danhon, 8 months ago to random

Life is short. Use the fancy olive oil and the special salt. Drink the expensive wine and the fine spirits you've been saving. Get out the nice plates you're worried will break. Buy the guillotine you've had your eye on. Stake out and learn the routines of billionaires. Blow that rainy day money on turning inside sources. Don't waste your life on what-ifs. Behead them all and let the revolution sing.

danhon, 9 months ago to random

oh nothing, just a reminder that mitch mcconnell is going to be receiving healthcare that he thinks other people will never, ever deserve

danhon, 3 months ago to random

Remember the reply stickers I made? I need some translation help!

The original German, French and Spanish translations of the stickers are shit because I used Google Translate.

Can you do better? Add your translation to the sticker in the album in the next 24 hours :)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/danhon/53527341808/in/album-72177720314761105/

danhon, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

Hey! Who are you favorite journalists on Mastodon?

(If you are a journalist on Mastodon, please also reply)

Please boost/spread!

I'm putting together a new Hallway Track.

https://verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack

danhon, 2 months ago to random

For some reason, Wordpress weirdly forgot how to title posts clearly.

Instead of the opaque, milquetoast ”More Control Over the Content You Share”, which is really about opting out of sharing content with AI model trainers, why didn't Wordpress use titles like these?

• Excluding your Content from AI Training
• Opting Out from AI Training

Oh wait, this is a rhetorical question.

The choice of title is a signal and a sign of underlying intent.

https://wordpress.com/blog/2024/02/27/more-control-over-the-content-you-share/

Do better, @photomatt

danhon, 1 year ago to random

You know, I bet a whole bunch of "onboarding people to Mastodon is hard because of the choosing an instance thing" could be mitigated by letting instance users generate and share invite codes to the instance they're using, which are effectively just links to that instance's signup page, but see how they'd already feel different?

danhon, 9 months ago to random

Omg my wife just described what the orcas are doing as "yacht tipping" and I think we can all get behind this even more than we were before

danhon, 1 month ago to random

The DO NOT REPLY stickers are fiiiiinally here!

• DO NOT PLAY with the website to take a peek at the new copy that's great for stickers
• DO NOT EXPECT any bonus stickers at all
• Proudly printed at Brick City Printing in St. Louis, MO a union print shop!
• $35 for a set of 15, and 10% of proceeds go to Trans Lifeline

Tell your friends!

https://donotreply.cards/buy

danhon, 1 month ago to random

Did you know the DO NOT REPLY stickers are here?

A set of 15 for $35 includes this DO NOT MANSPLAIN BACK TO ME WHAT I AM AN EXPERT IN. Maybe perfect for your laptop?

10% of proceeds go to Trans Lifeline, and they're proudly printed at union print shop Brick City Printing.

We are VERY SORRY that we don't ship internationally yet. We plan to do international orders once we've figured out a way for them to make sense and not stupidly expensive.

/by me + @Ffangohr

https://donotreply.cards/buy

danhon, 1 month ago to random

I've been informed by the 11yo that his mother and I are the target of an antitrust lawsuit joined by at least 15 other children, that we have abused our power to maintain an illegal monopoly in the relevant market of "parenting decisions" specifically for preventing choice and putting in place limits regarding food, videogames, and other media, and have conspired to make it effectively impossible for them to switch to alternative parenting decision providers

danhon, 3 months ago to random

you took a perfectly good turing machine and gave it to a bunch of capitalists

danhon, 9 months ago to random

honestly a lot of silicon valley tech nonsense is imho down to a bunch of insecure people* who can't deal with ambiguity and want to strive for "certainty” through technological means when that just isn't possible

• normally men

danhon, 3 months ago to random

a horrifying screensaver that just does a slideshow of all your tabs

danhon, 7 months ago to random

can't believe that thanks to light, the universe is laid out in reverse-chronological order

danhon, 8 months ago to random

Now this is cyberpunk:

Paw Patrol snacks from Lidl under urgent recall because the URL on the pack has been compromised and is serving hardcore porn

https://scorpinc.social/@az/110987129846643998

danhon, 2 months ago to random

I love how 404 media co has rapidly and assuredly established itself as the place for "but does it, tho?" about tech claims. Excellent work all around.

https://www.404media.co/

danhon, 5 months ago to random

Look, Substack is saying that if you want a free newsletter platform that doesn't charge you, then their price is "be in a platform that is OK with Nazis but not OK with adult content" (which is fine, that's their choice!)

But the reason why they're offering free newsletter hosting is a bet that they make more money being Nazi-friendly. Hosting and running a newsletter platform isn't free - their price is welcoming Nazis.

danhon, 1 month ago to random

I AM A CREATOR!

I AM A MEMBER OF THE CREATOR ECONOMY!!!

danhon, 3 months ago to random

I bet a significant percentage of the people who think the universe is a simulation don't understand videogame development and the cosmic horror implied.

danhon, 9 months ago to random

That scene from 2001 when Bowman's removing HAL's processing units brick by brick, but HAL is ChatGPT and each brick is a copyright infringement lawsuit