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jalcine@todon.eu ("jalciné needs a job but also") wrote:
When I see those defending unethical systems because it's profitable for them, their phrasing almost always devolves into this.
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Mastodon FeedAggregator sites like #freefediverse are amazing. It helps us understand the issues and provides a good reference for the community sentiment https://freefediverse.org/index.php/Main_Page
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Down to You by Joni Mitchell
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
The Letter (Stereo Mix) by Joe Cocker, Leon Russell & The Shelter People
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Redemption Day (Album Version) by Johnny Cash
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Friend of the Devil (2013 Remaster) by Grateful Dead
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Baltimore by Nina Simone
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Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
I posted the @owa end-of-year update [1] yesterday, but this bit really got me.
These folks are working in the shadows to constantly brief regulators on extremely complex browser competition issues. They're web developers who, instead of making websites, are endlessly preparing presentations and documents for regulators to make a better web possible.
If you want to stand up for the web in '24, they can use your help:
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- "In addition to OWA’s continued direct advocacy toward browser and OS vendors, we have remained in constant contact with regulators around the world, responding to dozens of requests for information and briefing this year alone. This behind-the-scenes work only occasionally becomes public, but it’s the in-the-weeds problem-description and guidance-giving that changes the agenda and has enabled so many regulators to emphasize the importance to consumers of effective browser and Web App competition." (remote)
Mastodon FeedStarting a #closedFediServer2024 thread because there seems be increased chatter about servers shutting down.
#firefish with a reported 500 servers and 5,000 users has a uncertain future. The owner seems to have abandoned the project, and some of the volunteers don't know what to do >> https://catodon.social/notes/9nvp68a5a10zrdi2
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
nahga@evil.social ("Nahga") wrote:
@kspatlasThe main developer has gone MIA. If you follow the #firefish hashtag you’ll see what has happened lately. The TLDR is it’s been abandoned.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
manton@manton.org ("Manton Reece") wrote:
Updated book.micro.blog with the latest draft. Lots of little edits, and more updates for X, Mastodon, and Bluesky. Near final, planning to link up the ePub tomorrow and call it done.
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Happy New Year! Join @ahl and me next week when we partake in our annual tradition of 1-, 3- and 6 year tech predictions -- and get your own crystal ball warmed up by checking out the predictions from last year:
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/predictions-2023
And don't forget to check in on those 3-year predictions from 2022:
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/predictions-2022-2022-01-03
Bring your own next week!
Mastodon FeedAny smart people out there that would know why my website is getting referral traffic from chat.OpenAI.com? How is that even possible? #chatgpt
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social ("ophiocephalic 🐍") wrote:
@fromjason
Another good one, I'll add it to the wiki! Agree with all points, but a mild cautionary counterpoint here to this observation: "People are tired of Meta-Mastodon think-pieces and want action."If you're detecting this, there may be a contradiction. Ever since news first broke of the Zuckerberg incursion, I've been posting on alternative organizational modeling which could serve as a bulwark against not only Meta, but other attempts at capitalist recuperation of the fediverse. Consistently, these posts "underperform" compared to those that are directly about the Meta disaster. It's true that they tend to be longer and more complex.
If we want to activate the fedi into real action, even at this point we've got an uphill push, because the seeming fact is that what many people want from social media is to hang out and shoot the shit, not engage a new form of prefigurative activism. I say this regretfully and with a dash of disillusion, because I've been trying to contribute to a such a catalyst on here and not getting much reciprocal energy back beyond a smattering of boosts. But circumstances are growing more urgent and we have to keep trying, because regardless of the exact details of the scheme, it's clear the fedi is in imminent danger as a community-owned and operated online space
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
god I hate how you can only save by going to bed and advancing to the next day in (unmodded) Stardew Valley. I'd like to be happier about their runaway success in creating a Harvest Moon game for desktop computers, but no quicksaves, even? Despite big content updates every few years? Jail for 1000 years
You also have to start a new game if you wanna change resolution/ui scale settings.
I played it a bunch a few years ago so this isn't new to me, but it keeps me from coming back to it for long
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
forrestbrazeal@hachyderm.io ("Forrest Brazeal") wrote:
I drew this 12 months ago, as LLM code assistants were just becoming available.
Has it held up?
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mathew@universeodon.com wrote:
Here we see an example of the perfect application of stick-on googly eyes.
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Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
The Racket has been hard to get a hold of for a long time now. It was effectively lost until rediscovered in Howard Hughes' collection. It got a restoration that airs on TCM sometimes, but I don't think it's ever had a disc release. Until now, it was either catch a broadcast or pirate it.
Mastodon Feedrmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest") wrote:
So everything nominated for the first-ever Oscars is public domain now! This includes The Racket, a pessimistic proto-noir about Prohibition actually made during Prohibition: https://archive.org/details/1928-the-racket-la-horda-lewis-milestone-vose
Mastodon FeedMy last post about #Meta received some unexpected reactions. People are rightfully tired of what feels like inaction within the #Fediverse. Perhaps they're correct.
I wrote about something I call the "information loop", why I think it's broken, and how we might fix it. Spoiler: it takes all of us writing, sharing, and compiling.
I may have hard opinions, but I'm a softie for good faith objectors. Let's keep talking in #2024
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/how-do-we-stop-meta-in-2024-we-fix-the-information-loop/
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
I love the cat that goes “huh”
Mastodon Feedxor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:
I didn't set any new PRs for NYT crosswords in 2023; that's okay, I figured I'd probably plateaued on speed.
...but I just blew my Monday PR out of the water on 1/1/24
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AskNick ("Nick Francesco") wrote:
A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing. ~ Muhammad Ali
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
surPRISE (not)
from NYTimes: “Breaking news: Israeli justices reject Netanyahu-led move to limit court”
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's hard to take a good portrait of black on black.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/01/the-problem-with-photographing-black-widows-is/
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
DRAFT of my upcoming JAN preso on JS8/JS8Call to the Rochester #AmateurRadio Association (RARA) now avail in various formats for download from:
https://www.well.com/~jeffs/RARA/
comments & feedback most welcome 📡
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
We're surrounded by intelligent machines! (but no AI).
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/01/first-charge-my-phone-next-stepthe-moon/
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by rmrenner ("The Old Gay Gristle Fest"):
internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:
Welcome to the public domain, STEAMBOAT WILLIE (1928)! https://archive.org/details/SteamboatWillie
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Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("Jason"):
BenjaminBuse@climatejustice.social ("Ben Buse") wrote:
With #meta monopoly and lobbying power, and billionaire Mark Zuckerberg building a bunker, why are we still using #facebook? Why don't we use a non billionaire alternative - e.g. #friendica although may be other decentralised alternatives
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2023/06/06/new-report-exposes-facebooks-lobbying-behavior-to-influence-government-and-define-regulation/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
For 2024 I hope we can talk less about decentralization and more about democratization.
Decentralization sounds nice, is sometimes the right approach but is also tech's version of "the market is gonna fix this". Way more interested in finding more robust ways of doing democracy on, with and to the platforms we inhabit.