Quantum computing has taken over from AI as the tech that seems highly promising, but also has been not quite there for years now. I did a series of posts 2 years ago, and I still receive a stream of news in my inbox about it, but it still seems a ways off. e.g. "...today announced a significant milestone on the path to commercially relevant quantum systems. While many existing quantum architectures achieve entanglement within modules, [this co] has demonstrated entanglement between modules."
"The Verge and 404 Media are building out new functions that would allow them to distribute posts on their sites and on federated platforms – like Threads, Mastodon and Bluesky – at the same time. Replies to those posts on those platforms become comments on their sites."
If you're not looking at @theverge and @404mediaco as social web platforms that are hosting hand-picked content creators with a publisher's infrastructure, you're not paying attention. #Fediverse
@artlung@quillmatiq@theverge@404mediaco I’ll have to go back and check how that ended up…it probably just stopped when Facebook bought FriendFeed! But I do remember it was great from a publisher pov, to have social comments coming back to the origin of the story.
@jon thanks Jon :) Yes, pretty soon after that went down, I realized I'd dodged a bullet. RWW had a lot more organic growth to go — including a bunch of great people I hired in the years to come (your good self included, of course!)
@pluralistic@judell I did a big archive project on my old ReadWriteWeb articles back in 2017, linking them all to @internetarchive versions. And that was before RWW got onsold to a scammer gambling company! So glad the Wayback Machine exists. I also have offline backups of all my articles. But of course, I wish I had backed them up at the time, instead of many years later. https://ricmac.org/2017/07/12/creating-an-archive/
Any #Bear users here? I've just started testing it to see if it's better than Apple notes. I've created a couple notes and tagged them, but the tags aren't showing on the sidebar.
What am I doing wrong? This isn't a great first impression…
@kev I use Bear, but more as a way to draft my Cybercultural posts in Markdown, as it has a nice WYSIWYG interface for MD. I've had no issues with hashtags; is this what you're doing in the notes?
Jason Fried from 37Signals announces a “web-based books” product, which I must admit does sound intriguing, even though I already made my own custom book serialization site with Eleventy + Buttondown. Sounds like business books is their main use case, but still, good idea. -> “Workbook […] They have covers, they can have title pages, they can have picture pages, and they can have text pages. Each book gets its own URL, and navigating and keeping track of your progress is all built right in.”
It’s probably time to reposition this account if my goal is to ever meet anyone new on the internet again, but it’s not clear to me how because I’m still not really sure what the fediverse is actually doing, culturally
@taalumot It is a weird time. Culturally, X is Hell and Threads I see as the “blue pill” option (Matrix-wise, not politically). I think Mastodon is the red pill (i.e. reality), but not sure we are all going in the same direction (e.g. the search controversy). I’m not sure what Bluesky is. And the rest of the fediverse is very slow progress. But…better than the alternatives! Although you might be onto something with the smaller community group projects you have been doing.
@taalumot I hear you, and maybe the spiritual stuff isn’t for the real-time formats. I know you do podcasting, video and blogging too — so maybe focusing on those things for spiritual content is the way to go. It’s tough sometimes, nothing ever recaptured the magic of blogging in the 2000s for me. I never fully adapted to the social media era, but the fediverse at least feels more bloggy than Twitter ever was.