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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
So now we get into the territory of branding myself which, eh. I think of it better as "contextualizing" myself and my writing. I don't need to design a logo, but I do need to give readers a succinct messaging about who I am.
That's a bit scary 🕺
WHO AM I I-I-I-I-I (echo)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
So, I won't be a source of information on a set topic or news, and my "niche" will be broad. That means people subscribe for...me? That's terrible. Unsubscribe.
No but for real, this is where I get stuck and conclude that a newsletter isn't for me 😭
It's not so much that I care about audience size, it's just that I want my newsletter to be good. I want it to be meaningful; something that isn't contributing more noise to an already crowded medium. 🤷♂️
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Vivaldi@vivaldi.net ("Vivaldi Browser") wrote:
The anti-Big-Tech movement isn't a trend, it's a correction. Our societies spent 20 years accepting surveillance capitalism as normal. And now, we're slowly remembering we have choices.
Sure, switching browsers is a small thing. But small rebellions are how everything big begins, or so we like to believe. 🤞
If you think about those around you, have you noticed an increased awareness lately about what's behind the tech they use?
Mastodon Feedadam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:
Hetzner is increasing its server prices across the board, which means the bulk of omg.lol's expenses will increase by 38% starting in April. 😮
Am I going to increase prices? No way! I'll just eat the cost. Going to try to keep omg.lol below $2/month for as long as I can.
But if you want to help, maybe consider subscribing to DNS Kitchen or NeatStats when they're ready (both are getting closer by the day!).
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
Topic/niche: this is where I get stuck and talk myself out of it.
I don't want to corner myself into a niche that I won't stick with longterm (been there done that).
I don't want to do anything even resembling "breaking news" or be overtly political. Nothing MuellerSheWrote-ish.
And, I don't want to be another Garbage Day-type newsletter that reports back all the happenings of the internet. I like those newsletters but there's enough of them out there.
So...
Mastodon FeedBoosted by kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin"):
Viss wrote:
stop fighting with shitty people on the internet
its literally killing you
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2515331123
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
- Audience (size): not a big concern. Thrilled to write for a group of 50 people who enjoy my writing.
- Audience (demographics): moderate concern. I guess if I'm writing for me, that means I'm writing for aging leftist technology nerds who also like the occasional design appreciation/observation. Can I find 50 of them? lol
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
Can I think out loud at you all for a bit? Brainstorm and organize my thoughts to hopefully find a path that makes sense for me?
The urge for a newsletter keeps coming back so maybe that means it's a good idea? Lol
Gonna make a list...
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
tante@tldr.nettime.org wrote:
Worth repeating: Claims of "AI" democratizing anything (coding, creative endeavors, etc) are always BS. The thing locking out people from doing that is not having the time/resources.
You want to democratize coding/art/creativity? Give people paid time off to do it and access to infrastructure. Easy.
Mastodon Feeddb@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:
prompted it wrong m8
https://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox/
Mastodon FeedBoosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
kottke ("kottke.org") wrote:
“A new ethic is quietly emerging among modern travelers. It is called Digital Silence. It is the conscious decision to share the art and the emotion of a place without giving away its exact coordinates… It is a radical act of conservation.” https://www.instagram.com/p/DU8WJIeidh-/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:
Gather round y'all. Jason is thinking about doing a newsletter again. Get ready for him to get excited for a bit but inevitably talk himself out of it because he doesn't believe he can write consistently even though his drafts folder is overflowing. 🫨
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
@jargon_bot are you awake?
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
making decent progress on https://boris.arghstudios.com/design/backstory.html for my seekrit project
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:
Looks like they’ve resolved the issue, though it may still be a little bit while our instance catches up on fetching media and such. But at least things are working again!
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
It really is like cooking, where good cooks have an instinctive awareness of how exactly to make a recipe.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:
I must have magic fly hands. I just compared cultures that I and my class set up together…and mine are flawless, clean, and full of happy flies. Not theirs. Next year, I need to just have them practice making media.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:
After a successful migration of social.lol’s media object storage last night, it looks like Hetzner is having some difficulty today. 😭
https://status.hetzner.com/incident/da12dc96-517d-4a41-97ee-a87fa5cf9cb2
Keeping an eye on it, and hopefully we’ll be back to normal soon. Very sorry for the disruption.
(Incidentally, I just received an invitation to Bunny’s new S3 storage service, but given that it’s in beta I’d rather not take any chances.)
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
pikesley@mastodon.me.uk ("Continvous Morger") wrote:
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born; now is the time of unimaginably stupid shit every fucking day
Mastodon FeedBoosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
markmetz@sfba.social ("Mr.Mark "The Sharpie King"") wrote:
To hell with AI, more innovation like this please.
#solarpunk
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
Data protection authorities from across the globe have today published a Joint Statement on AI-Generated Imagery.
The statement represents the united position of 61 authorities and has been issued in response to serious concerns about artificial intelligence (AI) systems that generate realistic images and videos depicting identifiable individuals without their knowledge and consent. The signatories are especially concerned about potential harms to children.
Cc Elon
https://ico.org.uk/media2/fb1br3d4/20260223-iewg-joint-statement-on-ai-generated-imagery.pdf
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
heiseonlineenglish@social.heise.de ("heise online English") wrote:
Hetzner increases prices from April 1
Hosting provider Hetzner is increasing prices for existing and new services from April 2026. The reason is increased costs for RAM and SSDs.
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
it's that time of the month when I ask: if Pivot to AI brightens *your* day, you can keep it going with just $5!
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:
Why agentic AI creeps out women: because it's written by bros for bros who want Stepford Wives, and conveys that vibe: commercial AIs are fine-tuned to perform as cheerfully submissive handmaids, not working partners:
https://abiawomosu.substack.com/p/they-built-stepford-ai-and-called
Mastodon FeedBoosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:
This is how to benchmark networks in 2026 ⚡🐁
📡 **xfr** — A modern network throughput tester TUI
💯 Real-time graphs, TCP/UDP/QUIC support, multi-client server & Prometheus metrics
🔥 "Next-gen iperf3"
🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs
⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/lance0/xfr
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
Any scenario where "AI" works well enough to be in wide use long term means mass unemployment, wholesale political capture of media and cultural industries, dysfunctional products, and other continuing large-scale harms
The thankfully bullshit "AGI" scenario would just be an unending clusterfuck
Which is why "this is shit and you're a fool for using it" is the optimistic take
The best case scenario for the rest of us is that we have to clean up after a bunch of fools in the tech industry
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
In some of the scenarios billionaires do really well and in others they are largely insulated from the worst outcomes. Win-win for them
For the rest of us they're all bad. The scenarios where the tech is largely dysfunctional are the optimistic ones
If you posit that "AI" won't work well enough to make up for the costs long term and we realise this early to mitigate for the harms that are already happening then we might get out of this with a functional economy after the hubbub has died down.
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
One thing "AI" has in common with cryptocoin that pretty much every posited scenario is disastrous to some degree, just a question of flavour and distribution of said disaster.
If doomers are right: disaster
If naysayers—"it's dysfunctional"—are right: disaster ("Congrats! all software is broken")
If "moderate" boosters are right: disaster (mass unemployment)
If optimists are right: disaster (also mass unemployment)
If the AGI folks are right: disaster ( "Congrats! Digital chattel slavery")
Mastodon FeedBoosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
konrad@fedi.neuwirth.priv.at ("Konrad") wrote:
Software development is so much easier and faster if you don't care about the tiny stuff like security or privacy. #openclaw
Mastodon Feedbaldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:
RE: https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116116686458550609
I’ve had basically tan identical encounter to the one described in this thread a few times as well, both offline and online