Rant about the world of social media and marketing:
My latest (very recent) shock was receiving an email from a digital painting software company (I can't name them) asking me my price to switch my entire workflow to their proprietary product and announce it on my channels.
Of course I refused.
I'm still 100% committed to Free/Libre&Open-Source Software. But it made me realise that these days even profiles without a huge internet presence are getting paid to use and advocate things. Meh 😔
The recent excitement surrounding Thread's arrival on the Fediverse is concerning. To understand why this is not a good idea, consider their economic interest in harvesting data, their poor moderation, and their manipulations. Nothing good can come from their federation. Don't roll out the red carpet for them.
@ErikUden XMPP is brought up a lot as an analogy to Threads implementing ActivityPub, but I don't think it works. Google dropping XMPP support didn't destroy it, XMPP still exists today. It still had all the same users it did before Google joined the network after Google left. People don't still use XMPP today like they used to because it didn't adapt to the features people wanted in a modern chat platform. That's why we have Matrix now instead.
I think ActivityPub does have the features people want though, at least right now, and it seems very flexible to the addition of new ones.
@davidrevoy I recommend NOT tagging it in any machine-recognizable way. As the Internet gets flooded by AI-generated content, funding material that can be used to train models becomes more and more difficult. Tagging it in an easily recognizable way makes it easier to be found and fed into the next generation models.
I put a more detailed argument about this here http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/not-by-ai/
although I think the machine is down ATM 8-/
@jtr Hey, thank you.For real reasons, no idea. I don't think my involvement in Free Libre and Open Source for more than a decade is part of it. My blog post against NFT, maybe.Same for my article explaining why I'll not use generative AI images, and what I think of AI artists. But these are assumptions,I never got a clear feedback about the reasons from the haters.It's random. I'm just visible and at one point I attract also this tiny percentage of toxic behavior. It's probably just a statistic.
@diarra Alors si: les messages doivent offrir la possibilité d'être édité. Mais ça peut-être en envoyant un email, sous 24h (ça doit être écris dans les ToS).
Pour des solutions techniques; le mieux c'est encore le compte avec login/pass; et laisser l'user éditer/supprimer ses trucs; c'est ce que je conseillerai aux espaces commentaires de blog moderne. Mais ça transforme vite un simple espace commentaire en un forum 😆
@davidrevoy and we recap like, “Elon is an egomaniacal dunce good at buying stuff” “NFTs are grift” “Snowden isn’t a cybersecurity expert” “blockchain has been hopelessly co-opted” “you still have to secure the cloud” “AI produces mediocrity without humans” “vaccines are real” “the earth is a relative sphere”
@Whidou regarding the images in the back (freenode …): did you notice that the Founder of Freenet recently decided to use the name Freenet for his new non-privacy-related crypto-contract system?
@davidrevoy Love your work, David. And it’s definitely not your fault that we live in the worst possible timeline but what’s missing in that image is the hand from Google giving Mozilla half a billion dollars.
(Mozilla exists on roughly half a billion dollars from Google every year. Sadly, they’re not so much adversaries as partners.)
@TranshumanBlues@davidrevoy
Think about what Google did to email. SMTP is an open protocol like ActivityPub.
Now think about what Google did to XMPP, also an open protocol.
I bet your answer is "I don't know anything about SMTP or XMPP" and that's the problem, big companies "adopt the protocol" then after getting all the users onboard, they deprecate the open protocol using private APIs instead.
There is a large exhibition dedicated to my artworks in a supermarket in Plérin, France, from today until 11 November. ☺️ Yay!
Many comic pages and illustration were printed in big. Their is also many activities around the exhibition: a cooking potion contest, a signing session, drawing and digital painting workshop too.
@lucas Thanks! Oh yes, I wouldn't recommend a long travel like that to see the exhibition; maybe it worth a 1h30 car travel, but not more. I hope it will give ideas to more events; the Creative Commons license of the artworks allow them to do that and it also protect them from copyright infringements (the printed version in France starts to be more popular in the comic bubble afaik than the webcomic version).
I have received new photos from the ongoing exhibition! It's a total of 70 huge prints that have been displayed in the supermarket. :blobaww: I made a montage to share them with you:
Kicking Erwin Schrödinger out of my idols. Not because he chose a cat for his thought experiment, but because of one thing I learnt: he sexually abused children and kept a diary about it. 🤮 Src: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger#Sexual_abuse
@davidrevoy Celebrate ideas, never people: people tend to have many bad ideas beyond the few good ones for which they have become famous. Schrödinger is a good example of that: he was a horrible person.
@piggo Thank you for this tool. First time I met it. I'll keep it on my bookmarks. Also, I received thanks to other another cool option: the 'Internet Archives' method when the article wasn't behind a paywall I guess. Cool method, I'll also try to remember that.
I'm honestly happy that the project is evolving and changing. I'm actually quite fascinated by the world you've created. Honestly whatever project you take on, I will still support you cuz you're an inspiration to the Artists in Open Source Community.
@odysseywestra Thank you so much for your words, and also for supporting my work since the start of Pepper&Carrot, 10 years ago. 10 years soon! I can't believe it myself.
Right now it looks my brain wants to start Mini Fantasy Theater and ending Pepper&Carrot simultaneously. I jump on one when I block on the other, and ideas rejected for one feed the other. An interesting period of overlap. 😆
@davidrevoy cooool, j'avais pas vu passer cet article 🙂
Moi j'utilise les touches les plus à droite de mon mini clavier MIDI (bon du coup je les ai pas décorées vu que ça me sert aussi de vrai clavier de piano, mais bon), avec un script qui map le signal MIDI vers une combinaison de touches reconnue dans Inkscape (annuler, changer d'outil, etc.).
@davidrevoy it's just kinda sad because they're being set on fire by a bored billionare :(
but at the same time it's great to see actual free and open platforms grow, most people who are joining right now have no idea how much freedom they gain, how much more privacy they have, the fact there's no ads without needing an adblocker because you're NOT the product but an actual customer, something that has become increasingly rare in today's megacorp capitalist world