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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
briannawu@mstdn.social ("Brianna Wu") wrote:
I couldn’t believe this was true, so I verified it. Musk did remove a Community Note critiquing China over their Uygur genocide.
Free speech my ass. This is about protecting Tesla.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
luna@tech.lgbt ("Luna 🐀") wrote:
While today it’s near-ubiquitous to have both, early CPUs often featured a ‘mul’ instruction while lacking a corresponding ‘div’
Meanwhile, as of 2023, HTML is the only major language to feature ‘div’ but no ‘mul’
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I didn't want to visit your stupid park anyway.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/05/im-taking-this-personally/
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I wanna continue to Fallout 2 but I also returned to Fallout 3 a few days ago and had a good time doing the Intro + the school building near Megaton. The thing where a sneak attack = instant crit makes it so fun to play a stealth character
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Anyway I finished off Fallout 1. I got a little impatient to get through it toward the end but I think I'll probably return to it eventually just to fuck around
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Huge line at the pharmacy for this time of day. I wonder if they were closed for longer than just the 4th
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Lorie Smith lied, and the Supreme Court rewarded her with approval.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/05/lorie-smith-is-a-liar/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
The line goes down. I'd like to see a steeper slope, though.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2023/07/05/mormonism-is-declining/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
computerchroniclesbot@botsin.space ("ComputerChroniclesScreens") wrote:
Approximate Frame #348 from The Computer Chronicles - Shareware 1988-1aDXV10-5lo
Mastodon FeedProcrastinating.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
I'm doing the final couple of areas now. I accidentally chose something that led to a friendly faction sending a group of fighters to the cathedral with me, which kinda rules out the sneaky/talky approach I was thinking of taking
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
this is an excellent summary of the real-life problems - moderation, discoverability, searchability - of a future federated Bluesky AT Protocol network from @jonny
https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/110552684614320107
see also
https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/issues/18
https://github.com/bluesky-social/proposals/issues/19i particularly like the observation that the functions people *want* from social media - moderation, discoverability, search - just straight-up require centralisation.
Decentralisation has its virtues, such as the fediverse ticking along mostly fine while Twitter and Bluesky pooped themselves on Saturday. But for usability for non-nerds, decentralisation is a harsh antifeature - see Mastodon. You can't search your fuckin' friends, I mean wtf, FUNCTION NUMBER ONE on a new network!
Any eventual atproto network will naturally centralise on a big graph server, 'cos otherwise you don't get search or discoverability.
there isn't as yet a central repository of critiques. also the protocol isn't finished yet, there's a lotta vaporware and handwaving.
actual Trust & Safety people of considerable experience, e.g. Yoel Roth from Twitter and Denise from Dreamwidth and formerly of LiveJournal, spent many futile hours posting at length to the company CEO and devs on how Bluesky's plans would make essential moderation functions literally impossible.
even if Bluesky gave a hoot about doing moderation properly, which doesn't seem to occur to them. they seem literally incapable of understanding the question.
some of the devs are getting to understand the problems. because Bluesky pressed them into service to do moderation personally. they understood there was a problem here once they saw some shit.
but basically Bluesky wrote a moderation white paper and fell in love with it, and they are impervious to any idea they didn't think of themselves, or the history of thirty years of internet social media.
like, when you get to "let's make block lists public!" why the fuck are you doing something that obviously stupid? "well the white paper requires it" i mean.
there is no one weird trick to technically scale moderation. you have to do the fucking moderation. with people.
that's *fine* for now - there is no network. bsky.app is a fun single-node server to be on. 200k users, high quality queer shitposters, great userbase!
but it's important to keep in mind that it's *run* by rationalist neoreactionary-leaning blockchain bros who have shown an unfortunate tendency in practice to defend their neo-nazi friends from being kicked off for death threats against minorities.
the technical details are secondary, even if you approach them with an unwarranted assumption of good faith. because atproto was designed with bad assumptions by idiots. it's a historical fact that Jack Dorsey's driving motivation was to make a network nazis couldn't be permanently banned from. that's what he funded these people to do, and the tech is just details at that point.
on Mastodon, Bluesky would have been fediblocked by now just for its nazi coddling.
btw i will definitely be calling Bluesky's wizard white paper idea "compostable moderation" from now on
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
Got home fairly late today, but here's one pic from the 4th of July fireworks in our town.
You know, despite everything that's happening every day, I still believe in democracy in this country. Happy 4th!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
haunting starring polterguy, print ad (1993) https://archive.org/details/megazoneau32/page/n75/mode/2up?view=theater
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
Been continuing with Fallout 1. I installed the Fallout Fixt mod pack that has a lot of nice QOL stuff and started a new crit-focused snipery kind of build and that's been fun. It didn't take me too long to get back to where I was in my first game
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
bflipp@vmst.io ("Brett Flippin") wrote:
I feel like #Threads would be much better served being used as an on-ramp to the Fediverse for normies and we should be providing ample resources to migrate them out of #Meta ASAP instead of preemptively blocking Threads completely. People on #Mastodon seem overly skittish and reactionary when we can use Threads to poison pill all of Facebook.
Mastodon FeedFireworks should be silent.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
seldo@alpaca.gold ("Laurie Voss") wrote:
Web developers get all sorts of perks.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
scott@carfree.city ("scott f") wrote:
Love their "Corporate greed life cycle" image. We've all been through this cycle with tech companies that used to offer really cool products.
(image credit: Artisans Cooperative, https://artisans.coop/blog/join-an-authentic-handmade-marketplace-now-enrolling-members)
Mastodon FeedReblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
On last night's Oxide and Friends, @sdtuck and @bcantrill answered the questions occasioned by the shipment of our first Oxide Computer!
What is Oxide? Why do people need it? Why did we build it the way we did? Your questions answered. My favorite? The answer to "what was the hardest part about building Oxide?"--some surprising answers!
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ahhhhh
https://music.apple.com/us/album/k%C3%B6ln-january-24-1975-pt-i-live/1440840566?i=1440840567
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:
I am once again encouraging #Fediverse #admins to add a clause to prohibit using their server’s data for machine training into their Terms of Use, because at some point in the near future there is likely going to be a lawsuit against some major company for scraping and exploiting users’ data, and we should make sure we have a legal leg to stand on.
Please ask your server’s admin to do this.
@seb please consider doing this. https://mastodon.world/@Chimaera/110652906429977656
Mastodon FeedReblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
SutroTower@sfba.social ("Sutro Tower :sutro:") wrote:
Today I am celebrating 50 towering years in the heart of San Francisco! A big thank you to the city's residents and my wonderful fans for embracing me in your skyline. Looking forward to more years of standing tall together!
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
graay@tech.lgbt ("The Male Hysteric 🏳️⚧️🪬") wrote:
Did you know? #lgbtq #queerhistory
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
ukraine@mastodon.world ("Ukraine") wrote:
In #London, near the headquarters of #Unilever activists installed a sign "Helps to finance the war of the Russian Federation in #Ukraine."
Unilever still does business in the Russian Federation, in 2022 the company paid $331 million in taxes there.
Video: Ukraine Solidarity Project. https://t.me/United24media/11169
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ElizabethLeeCo@vmst.io ("Elizabeth Lee :neurodi:") wrote:
Heads-up, Vudu is having a massive $5 HD streaming sale on #Horror and #SciFi movies. Probably US-only w/o a VPN.
Vudu - $5 Movie Blowout Sale: Horror
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/uxrow/-5-Movie-Blowout-Sale-Horror/18514?offset=2Vudu - $5 Movie Blowout Sale: Sci-Fi
https://www.vudu.com/content/movies/uxrow/-5-Movie-Blowout-Sale-Sci-Fi/18515
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
#Firefox 115:
> Linux users can also middle click on the new tab button to open clipboard content (if its text) in a new tab.
This is uncanny! I had an idea about this exact feature just last week, and then I thought there was no chance a big project like Firefox would care about such arcane conveniences. But what a coincidence!
Link: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/07/firefox-115-intel-gpu-video-decoding-on-linux
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
voting is a minimal duty of citizenship; if you do not vote then you are not a full citizen. period. this is what is so ugly about attempts to suppress the vote.
https://progressivecafe.social/@TonyStark/110657718825921660
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein"):
kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange ("Kevin Rothrock") wrote:
The OSCE Parliamentary Assembly has adopted a resolution that declares Wagner Group to be a terrorist organization. https://www.oscepa.org/en/documents/annual-sessions/2023-vancouver/declaration-29
Mastodon Feedjeffsonstein ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
“People carrying a hidden gun must have valid ID with them at all times and must show that ID if a law enforcement officer asks to see it. The gun must be concealed at all times. Only US citizens or resident aliens over age 21 may carry a hidden gun. Permitless carriers must have no felony convictions or other legal disqualifier.”
no training, no need, just feelings of powerlessness required. as a society, we are so very screwed.
