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maegul

@maegul@hachyderm.io

A little bit of computing and a little bit of neuroscience.

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danderson, to random
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How to tell your OSS is ridiculously popular: people aren't 100% sure they didn't embed it, and tack on the software equivalent of "packaged in a facility where peanuts were also present" to the license list.

This watch contains software, so statistically probably contains at least traces of curl.

hrefna, to fediverse
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This statement is going to live rent-free in my head for a long time to come, I suspect.

dangillmor, to random
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As warned, Reddit has taken a bundle of money from "Open"AI and will use it to further monetize what you -- and the volunteers who moderate it all -- contributed for free.

It's the norm now, and particularly slimy in this case.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158529/reddit-openai-chatgpt-api-access-advertising

GossiTheDog, to random
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Slack have decided to start training AI on enterprise customer data, including DMs, private workspaces and files. You have to have admin opt out via email. HT @Quinnypig

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

evacide, to random
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When I talk about digital privacy, there is always some smug genius who shrugs and tells me, "Who cares? We all know we don't have any privacy anyway." Nothing could be more wrong. Convincing you that the fight is already over to the way people in power get you to stop resisting.

yogthos, to random
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julian, to random
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At the last ForumWG meeting, we discussed at length about Article vs. Note, and whether there was a desire to expand usage of as:Article. You can review those minutes here.

One of the action items that came out was to collate the state of current implementations. Unfortunately, outside of implementations that federate non-textual content (e.g. Pixelfed Stories, Mobilizon Events, etc.), the majority of implementors just use as:Note, which is not surprising given Mastodon's treatment of non-Note objects.

You can see the results of the summary here.

What is less clear is whether there is pent-up demand for use of a different data type for more richly forrmatted content. @mikedev and @jupiter_rowland provided some very illuminating history behind previous attempts to use as:Article, but importantly it seems that Mastodon (via @renchap) may be open to supporting this in some form as well.

While Mastodon has every reason to display as:Note as it sees fit, I'd like to hopefully address the undue influence towards using it especially in instances where as:Article were more appropriate. Mike (upthread) suggested a compromise:

  • that as:Note be reserved for content with attachments (images or otherwise), perhaps with a limited subset of html
  • and as:Article be used for content with a richer set of html (e.g. tables), and including the ability to display inline images

I explicitly did not specify that Note was for shorter content and Article for longer, because there exist plenty of examples of the reverse.

Does anybody see potential complications from such an arrangement?

juliancday, to random
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Deleted my Reddit account ✌️

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/16/24158529/reddit-openai-chatgpt-api-access-advertising

juliancday,
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Gonna maybe mess around with Lemmy, see if there's anything there, but wow do I ever miss when forums were set up by hobbyists and the thought of selling user data was repugnant.

alshafei, to privacy
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Slack has always had a horrific privacy policy and default settings that enable workplace surveillance, so it's a good time as ever to share this campaign by @fight - supported by dozens of civil society organizations globally:

https://www.makeslacksafe.com/

"Safety should be an inherent feature of the tech we use in our daily lives and our workplaces. Sign the letter to demand Slack put user privacy and security first."

waldoj, to random
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OK Apple's new Vehicle Motion Cues is super cool. They reduce motion sickness while using an iPhone or iPad in the car by having little dots move around on the screen in tandem with the vehicle's movement, to align visual cues with your inner ear's sense of movement (the lack of which causes motion sickness). https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2024/05/apple-announces-new-accessibility-features-including-eye-tracking/

A video showing a drawing of a car next to a mocked-up iPhone. Whenever the car stops, starts, or turns, a flock of little black dots move across the screen of the iPhone in tandem with that movement.

UncivilServant, to random
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Dear Google,

When I search, I am not looking for The Answer. I am looking for sources. A search that generates only answers will be useless personally, and worse than useless professionally for me.

What I would really like is an internet search engine that works. Google did that once. Then they focused on other things and used it for ad revenue and it became the new Craigslist.

It would sure be nice if Google would reinvent an actual internet search engine.

scottsantens, to random
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Money is like shit. If we spread it around, it functions as fertilizer, enabling incredible ideas to sprout and grow. If instead we just pile it up into mountains, it stinks and all the great stuff that could sprout and flourish is starved of nutrients.

Universal basic income is the good shit.

mekkaokereke, to random
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Is Trump ahead in the polls, because Biden is losing support amongst one of his key demographics: Black men? Or are the polls all a lie?

Trump ahead in polls?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/us/politics/biden-trump-battleground-poll.html

Biden camp doesn't believe the polls?
https://www.axios.com/2024/05/14/biden-polls-denial-trump-2024-election

Either way, the most important thing to do, is to ignore, insult, argue with, and generally disrespect, Black men online! 🤡 Find a Black man, and yell "Trump is worse!" in his face as hard as you can! Swear at him, and threaten him with violence!

1/N

mekkaokereke,
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I don't care if Black men vote 100% for Biden.

Or 90% for Biden.

Or 80% for Biden.

Or 70% for Biden.

Or 60% for Biden.

If Biden doesn't win, it will be the fault of people who vote more than 50% for Trump. Stop expecting Black people to save you. That's not what we're here for. We exist outside of the world of being a voting block every 4 years.

Your "democracy" only works if Black people vote 90% plus for a candidate whose policies exposed them to genocide levels of harm. That's garbage.

hailey, to random
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bicycles are the linux of getting around

tty, to random
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It feels so meaningful to me when I see some dangerous debris on the bike path, and I slow down & stop, and take the time to move it off the path, so future cyclists don't need to worry about it.

I think about how important and undervalued maintenance is in the dominant culture. Building new things gets all of the glory, when it's the maintainers and acts of service that are what truly, imo, make this world work.

Platform_Journalism, to auspol
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The first Australian soldier who served in Afghanistan to go to prison is the one who exposed war crimes of the Australian military.

#AusPol #WarCrimes #PressFreedom #McBride #MichaelWest

https://youtu.be/6B_toC3eBP8

inthehands, to random
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So…there is a concerted campaign, with Musk as its mouthpiece, to discredit Signal and get people to switch to Telegram. It’s disinformation, but there’s also useful information in it. The useful information is that a hideous, powerful, right-wing crank — or whoever’s yanking his chain — really, really wants people to use Telegram.

We’ve long known Telegram’s security is weak. But now, in light of this new information, we should move forward assuming that Telegram is actively compromised.

VeroniqueB99, to random
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Yes please.

J12t, to random
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We need a better framework for how to think about online relationships between people, and between people and organizations/websites. Logged on/off from a authentication perspective and follow/block from a social media perspective are really not quite right and not at all complete.

We did a bit of work on this when I was on the board of what was still called the Me2B Alliance, and of course there is seminal work by Doc Searls in ProjectVRM, but much remains to be done. The social web needs it!

thebishopgame, to random
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Finally got to do a proper studio mix after doing mostly live and mastering work for the last few months and GOD do I fucking love mixing. Hire me to mix your records! I’m really good at it!

thomasfuchs, to Eurovision
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As a European I can assure you that is for many Europeans the most political thing they do all year.

It’s a proxy for many a historical rivalry and friendship between countries; and also always reflects current events.

The claim it’s “apolitical” is laughable.

The implosion they’re experiencing is their own fault.

jonny, to random
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Nothing dismays me more in academia than my colleagues excusing themselves from the world because they have internalized their job as their identity, and exist in a separate domain from everyone else. every time I knock on doors with my union I get someone, sometimes angrily, wondering what any of this has to do with them - they're here to just do science.

jonny,
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To the inculcated, the academy is a place of pure knowledge work, uncomplicated by the problems of "normal" workers. From another view, the academy is a means of rapacious industries outsourcing the costs of training to the government, where the myth of exceptionalism prevents meaningful labor organization to prevent the abysmal working conditions from eventually forcing you to take a job at a weapons manufacturer or ad company because that's the only option left.

If you cling to that first view, it should horrify you that your institution is a gigantic investment fund with a side hustle in lab real estate. It should perplex you why you have no power over any of how it works, that students would have to resort to escalating protest to affect how it operates, because surely reason will prevail.

Even to the unconcerned moderate, no matter how you feel about what theyre saying, divestment encampments should be part of your cause, because no enlightened place of learning should be brutalizing its students.

BillySmith,
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@jonny

And don't forget the brainwashing effect of the teaching approach:

https://disciplinedminds.tripod.com/

Codeberg, to stackoverflow
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Anyone considering how to break the #StackOverflow #monopoly already? Any #federated alternative work in progress?

julian,
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@Codeberg @maegul @drewdevault I'd argue that a forum with Q&A functionality is already most of what SO is.

So NodeBB can do that with the Q&A plugin, and we're moving towards federation.

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