It's still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.
@evan what a rollercoaster of emotions! 😅 I really appreciate that you kept working on it even when it didn't seem like open standards would win over proprietary stuff. That takes serious dedication!
I remember feeling the same idealism each time I encountered a new federated social network I thought was going to take over (diaspora, then mastodon) and then the ensuing disappointment when it didn't happen right away. Seeing threads + bluesky has helped buoy my hopes again! Now for instagram...
Last night, using the voice feature, I had ChatGPT on my Phone ask ChatGPT on my Mac a question. After 10 minutes of back and forth, one robot was teaching the other about black holes. Note: I never said anything about black holes.
@soren.iverson I've been complaining for years how unnecessarily reliant Google Maps and other navigation apps have made us on them. Happy to see a step in the right direction of encouraging people to learn to navigate themselves in familiar places! I do think a lot of people still want to see data along the route, like traffic, and have suggestions for less congested alternate routes... not sure how they could do this without it being full-blown navigation
fascinating review of studies on Internet use and cognition — including potentially negative effects on concentration and memory — found by way of an excellent article in Nautilus titled "Viva la library"
@molly0xfff I was reading it on my phone and managed to get through it without task switching, but not for lack of attempts by my phone to distract me! I was feeling proud of myself for getting almost to the end without even thinking about task switching when 2 text message notifications came in 😅 Under normal circumstances I would have opened them, but I thought better of it given what I had just read
I’ve been using the How We Feel app to record my daily emotions for the last couple years. They do a good job of keeping all the data on your phone to protect your privacy. Unfortunately this means I just lost a couple years worth of that data when I upgraded my phone last week 😢 it does have the option to back up or transfer the data to another device, but it wasn’t on my list of apps I needed to remember to do that for, so I didn’t realize I had lost the data until it was too late 😔
The tension between protecting privacy by default and surprise data loss is a tough design decision for each app. I now have iCloud backup turned on, but wish I had been notified that was an option before I lost data from one of the most difficult times in my life.
@veganstraightedge@jamie I’m surprised too. I would honestly expect the drop trigger function to use the IF EXISTS as the default for safety. Maybe you can submit a PR 🙂
Some personal news: I'm now a contributor at @wedistributemedia! I'm so excited to work with the team over there reporting everything happening in the world of distributed social media.
For my first post, I wrote about @ghost joining the Fediverse 🙏🏼
What's exciting about this is that it isn't just an ActivityPub plugin - it's a top-down re-thinking about what Ghost is as a service. This is ActivityPub for publishers done right.
Congrats to @johnonolan and team! cc Fediverse Threads
#WomenWhoCode is shutting down for funding shortfalls. I can’t think of a more dire canary in the Silicon Valley coal mine than this. We can expect a social fascist turn in the IT industry from here out as the remaining jobs not taken by AI are rationed out to men only.
$4m is chump change for infotech capitalists, a few bucks tossed to a pan handler. That they won’t fund #WWC anymore isn’t an economic decision, but palpably a policy priority toward a hard social rightward turn.
@Shufei as a woman who codes, this org was always pretty disappointing to me anyway. a lot of lip service marketing and vague “networking” mixers, very little actual talking about coding 🤷🏻♀️ I hope to see more productive orgs/communities funded.
I also happen to know a woman founder of an AI company who has been funded (by YC no less), and I’ve seen many others with women execs. I don’t believe WWC’s demise is quite the signal you’re claiming it is.
@Shufei thank you for sharing your perspective, it's super helpful to hear their impact outside of my own bubble and how they helped you. I was in Silicon Valley, so it felt a little different there, but I can definitely see how their initiatives could help in a lot of places much less saturated by tech.
Yesterday was really hard. It was my first full day apart from Cookie (she’s still in intensive care). Making the 16 block walk to the vet felt like such a slog. I’m averaging deep breathing for one block and ugly crying for the next. I don’t feel like I’m losing my soulmate, I feel like I’m losing a chunk of my soul. It was a bright, sunny blue skies day yesterday and it was weird to not see her smiling like a silly puppy next to me.
@skinnylatte I’m so sorry to hear about Cookie’s health issues 🫶🏻 sending you both so much love and hope ❤️❤️❤️ she will always be a part of your soul, no matter what happens