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photovince

@photovince@mastodon.social

Urban and human landscape photography | photo books | Fotoacademie graduate | Delft Rotterdam Berlin | Leiden University Alumnus | Medical Computer Science | Dutch Government | Business and IT architecture | Hiker, love outdoors | Cats | C64 | Sarcoidosis | Non-fossil energy sources | Avoiding and mitigating climate crisis and ecosystem collapse | Born at 325ppm and 3.65B humans

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timkmak, to random
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Good morning to readers; Moscow remains in Putin’s hands.

For now.

The Wagner Group has seized territory in Russia and is trying to remove the nation’s military leadership from power.

The UK assesses that the mercenaries are trying to get to Moscow.

photovince,
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@timkmak It’s a dangerous situation, but there are just too many humourous sides to it!

“We will sort out the lawless factions in this nation, said the leader of the prominent lawless faction”

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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Never make the mistake of thinking the enemy of your enemy is your friend - but, if it's any consolation, watching two of your enemies tear chunks out of each other is still pretty awesome.

photovince,
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@AbandonedAmerica 😂

dansup, to random
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Sorry if I don’t respond to your comments, I get a lot of notifications and I’m trying to ship a big update to fedidb before I hit the hay

photovince,
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@dansup Aviate, navigate, communicate - what goes for aviation goes for software releases I guess!

paul, to random
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As a casual user the macrumors comment section remains one of my favorite parts of the internet.

photovince,
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@paul Much gravitational lensing in the distortion field

paul, (edited ) to random
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Are you buying a v1 Vision Pro?

photovince,
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@paul Me and what money?

Em0nM4stodon, to random

“Why do you use Signal and all this Encryption!
Do you have anything to hide? 😡“

Yes! I do!

  • The color of my underwear
  • My friends’ cats photos
  • My failed gym class grades
  • My first attempt at "portrait"
  • The outcome of my last meal
  • The weird mole on my left toe
  • How much I cried watching Star Trek
  • How much cheese there is in my fridge
  • My failed knitting experiment
  • The horrible poem I just wrote
  • My bank card pin number
  • My social security number
  • My main password
  • The web search history for your birthday gift

Privacy is a Human Right! ✊

Not sharing publicly what you do not wish to share is your right! 🔒✨

🎉

photovince,
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@dr2chase @Em0nM4stodon The cheese manufacturers trade organization will contact you shortly

paul, to random
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That video conferencing thing is the coolest new feature I'll feel way too awkward to use in years.

photovince,
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@paul Oh, I’ll use them and annoy the crap out of my co-workers on Teams so much that they will never invite me again

paul, to random
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I know that this is better, but I miss the live on stage only keynotes.

photovince,
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@paul Don’t even think this is better - I’ve less of a dystopian feel than during the pandemic but it’s just too clean

photovince, to random
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Take a in the sun on !

paul, to random
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The reality distortion field better be at record levels next week because I still don't get this headset stuff. I'd understand it as an R&D side project to be ready for 15-20 years from now when battery/compute tech might be ready. But this moonshot approach of throwing tons of resources at it and shipping something maybe even this year? Just don't see it working out.

photovince,
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@paul Could be. But it’s also what I thought about the first ipad - what, a hundreds-of-euros device above my laptop for browsing websites?

It all depends on having a killer app -or apps- and websites aren’t it. Neither are games IMO though, for mainstream. As obnoxious as Google Glass was, I’d look more into that territory than a VR set.

But I also think of the lidars they’ve been putting in iphones and ipads. Not much use after a few hours toying… but done with a purpose, I’m sure. Curious!

Floppy, to random
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Ooh, here’s a new dark pattern I’ve not seen before. Decline cookies and you get a spinner saying it may take a few minutes to set your prefs, with a large cancel button. Utter bullshit.

photovince,
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@Floppy New? Had it a more than once for a number of years now - instant close of the tab, whatever the site

paul, to random
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Neat.

photovince,
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@paul App store? Nice!

Pwnallthethings, to random
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OpenAI's statement on "governance of superintelligence" is basically "in our humble opinion you should regulate AI, but not our company's AI which is good, but instead only imaginary evil AI that exists only in the nightmares you have after reading too many Sci-Fi books, and the regulatory framework you choose should be this laughably guaranteed-to-fail regulatory framework which we designed here on a napkin while laughing" https://openai.com/blog/governance-of-superintelligence

photovince,
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@Pwnallthethings “We think it’s important to allow companies and open-source projects to develop models below a significant capability threshold, without the kind of regulation we describe here (including burdensome mechanisms like licenses or audits).”

Licenses and audits, oh! The burden!

arstechnica, to random
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Tesla’s “Full Self-Driving” sees pedestrian, chooses not to slow down

Fan is gleeful about video of beta Full Self-Driving mode breaking traffic laws.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/05/teslas-full-self-driving-sees-pedestrian-chooses-not-to-slow-down/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

photovince,
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@arstechnica People will die, then Tesla will be sued to death

kevinmgill, to random

Saw this guy walking the dog this afternoon. I was surprised he let me get this close for a picture before running off

photovince,
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@kevinmgill That’s an odd squirrell

johncarlosbaez, (edited ) to random
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The surprising part is not that math grad students named Cox and Zucker would come up with the idea of writing a paper together just as a joke.

It's that they followed through after they became professors, and wrote a paper that was actually rather significant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cox%E2%80%93Zucker_machine

photovince,
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@johncarlosbaez I’m guessing this will be my level of humour for the day… 😂

Mer__edith, to random
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This is HUGE. It's also a stunning example of what meaningful AI regulation looks like -- workers taking their conditions into their own hands, making demands of tech & the companies that control it.

Sincerely grateful to
@billyperrigo
for his sharp, relentless reporting ♥️🙏

https://time.com/6275995/chatgpt-facebook-african-workers-union/

photovince,
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@Mer__edith “ChatGPT, write me a howto on unionization”

pixelfed, to random
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We're working to restore https://pixelfed.social, it is under heavy load!

photovince,
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@pixelfed Still better than under a heavy toad

AbandonedAmerica, to random
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The cool thing about anxiety is if a bad thing happens you can worry about it but if a good thing happens you can also worry about that too

photovince,
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@AbandonedAmerica Hey, who truly knows whether a good thing is really a good thing?

dansup, to random
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I've seen a few mastodon posts (with photos attached) include the hashtag and I'm curious why.

I'm not complaining, we could use the increased visibility! I'm just super curious to know if they know about @pixelfed or just seen the hashtag before and used it.

photovince,
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@dansup @pixelfed Are those posts that are hashtag bombing? Lots of ‘m?

paul, to random
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I'm sorry, if I'm buying a $4k machine the last thing I want to see is a tip % option. I'm all for them to make more money and have better conditions but no way this crap.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-05-03/apple-s-unionized-store-workers-seek-tips-and-higher-holiday-pay

photovince,
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@paul Glad to see that even among Americans tipping meets with this much pushback. Get unionized, get proper pay - don‘t push it to the customers to outbid each other on who gets the best service (if loitering around in the shop waiting for help is called that) for an already overpriced product.

pixelfed, to random
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✨ We're redesigning the People Directory (https://fediverse.info/explore/people) to make it easier to discover people across the fediverse!

Some highlights include:
⚡ Open API
⚡ Improved search (combine topics, search by software)
⚡ More account data (avatar, header, html bio, software)
⚡ Faster crawler (add/remove quicker)
⚡ More results per page

Shipping soon!

photovince,
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@pixelfed Sounds interesting… is it a true people directory, ie is it possible to add more than one account to one person?

dansup, (edited ) to fediverse
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Meta aka Instagram is working on a Twitter competitor that is rumored to be ActivityPub compatible.

If you run a fediverse instance (Mastodon, Pixelfed, Calckey and others), would you ban a Meta instance?

Boosts appreciated 👍

photovince,
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@dansup Not an instance host, but if I were I’d treat them as any other instance - by my instance’s federation rules.

It’d be interesting to know (and part of decision) if they’d support migrating off their instance, whether they push their own client (lock-in?) and if, where and how algo is implemented.

That said, I am hoping (and will advocate) that anyone in journalism, activism or who in general do not need corporate censorship or algorithms to avoid such instance as the plague.

paul, to random
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New hobby. Googling "As an AI language model" site:amazon.com.

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photovince,
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@paul “Verified purchase” 🤷‍♂️

feditips, to random
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I don't think people are realising the danger the Fediverse is in.

The only thing stopping corporations and VCs taking over this place is that the Fediverse is spread out on many different servers, which makes it very difficult to purchase.

If most of the Fediverse ends up on mastodon.social, which is now a strong possibility, there will be nothing to stop most of it being sold to Musk or Zuckerberg or whoever.

The bigger mastodon.social becomes, the more likely a buyout is to happen.

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photovince,
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@feditips Aaaaand an unfollow

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