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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

About iMessage Contact Key Verification - Apple Support:

"iMessage Contact Key Verification automatically verifies that you’re messaging with the person that you intend. In iMessage conversations with people who have also turned on iMessage Contact Key Verification, you receive an alert if there’s an error in this verification process."

Anyone else on iOS have this feature? #beepermini https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213465

Attachments:

• Screenshot of a button with Contact Verification Key and description.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I have a question for the #smallweb

Rereading The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral – Hapgood really solidifies for me the idea that when we spend too much time in the “stream” (ie #Twitter, #Threads) we lose our ability to consume longer forms of content.

My experience suggests this is true. Curious to hear your experiences? https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/

teller ("Siim Teller") wrote:

Sunset in Mui Ne, Vietnam. November 2008. One of my all time fave pics I’ve taken. #photography

Attachments:

• The image shows a group of people standing on a beach at sunset. There are silhouettes of five individuals—two appear to be women and three men—against a vibrant sky painted with shades of pink, purple, and blue. The ocean can be seen at their feet with waves gently coming in, and there are palm trees to the right, creating a tropical scene. The lighting suggests it is either sunrise or sunset, with the sun below the horizon casting a warm glow across the sky.

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bw@social.lol ("Blake Watson :prami:") wrote:

This is a story all about how @mhilltopple and I built our own private Discord knockoff.

https://blakewatson.com/journal/building-our-own-private-discord-knockoff/

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grimalkina ("Cat Hicks") wrote:

I have ✨ a new preprint ✨ to share!!

This is a scientific review paper which seeks to provide a map, an entry point, and a call to action for improving the lives of the people who create software:

"Psychological Affordances Can Provide a Missing Explanatory Layer for Why Interventions to Improve Developer Experience Take Hold or Fail"

You can download it free and open access here:

https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/qz43x

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

consent? hah!

Attachments:

• f3f2b431ac8fcfd1.png (remote)

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tommi@pan.rent ("Tommi 🤯") wrote:

My heart was pounding and my mind was running, inspired by so much wit and enthusiasm.

You are the best, @pluralistic

I am glad I finally got to attend a talk!

#Berlin #InternetCon #SurveillanceCapitalism

Attachments:

• A photo of me and Cory Doctorow (remote)
• “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism” in my hand (remote)
• Cory’s autograph on “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism” (remote)
• Cory reading “The Lost Cause” in Otherland Library (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

ANNOUNCE: @ROCDIGI group JS8 Learning & Exploration Net

#AmateurRadio #JS8 #RocDigi 📡

when: 9pm East Coast US time, Tuesday 30 JAN 2024
where: at the 20m JS8 meeting freq
(if 14.0780MHz is too busy
then we shall QSY to 14.107MHz)
and on Zoom (see below)
what: @ROCDIGI group JS8 Learning & Exploration Net

we have established a weekly net to explore the possibilities in JS8 with others, centered around but not limited to the Rochester NY area. feel free to join us no matter your location, it will be more fun with a good turnout to explore things like automated checkins and message relaying.

the idea is to establish a welcoming environment for people to get comfortable operating in this short-text-message mode, which works great with low power, with less-than-optimal antennas & sites, and over relatively long distances-per-watt.

this week there will be a parallel Zoom presentation, with a "live" walk-through of rig control and JS8Call settings & basic configuration and "live" operations. I will be sharing my desktop to the Zoom meeting while running the rig and JS8Call from that desktop. my partner in this amusing attempt at flying without a net (KN2Z) will organize and field questions from the Zoom text-chat display.

looking fwd to working together

jeffs
—
Jeff Sonstein
wa2rrb

----- snip -----
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86417285725?pwd=nHiT76HRLG0rUlk4Q9aesaDZYgO05k.1

Meeting ID: 864 1728 5725
Passcode: 288157

Tuesday Jan 30, 2024 ⋅ 9pm – 10pm (Eastern Time - New York)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

@ignace I'm about to compose and post a note about this week's "JS8 Experimental" net @ROCDIGI - hope you can hear & maybe even join in the play... we'll be running it over Zoom too, as I try to show new-to-the-mode folks how I am set up and how it works though a "live demo"

here is the test I ran today:
https://masto.deoan.org/@jsonstein/111834628058923901

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cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

Now, I wonder if I can make Bard write traditional Kirk/Spock slashfic? Or Rocket Raccoon/Groot?

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

#AmateurRadio
https://mastodon.social/@destevez/111834656625435212

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destevez ("Daniel Estévez") wrote:

Next Sunday I will be speaking at FOSDEM's Software-Defined Radio and Amateur Radio devroom about Maia SDR. The talks will be streamed live. To all those attending in person, meet you there!

Attachments:

• The title slide for the talk: "Maia SDR: An open-source FPGA-based project for AD936x+Zynq radios", 4 February 2024, FOSDEM, Brussels.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

my dead and wounded comrades are not "suckers and losers", Oh Ye who never did a day of any public serice in your life

yes, I'm a #Vet and I #Vote

https://votevets.org/news

https://youtu.be/KdOl1AMEc-4?si=rLJLUrZ5mNFdEado

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draconigen@packmates.org wrote:

Totally didn't do this while slacking off another project.

Attachments:

• Two timespan bars. One is titled "Junior" and is fully fulled with a single timespan, "working on the project". The other timespan is title "Senior", 90% filled with "finding motivation to start" and 10% "actually doing it". Both bars are the same length, expressing that both actually take the same time completing a project. (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

And before the inevitable "just switch browsers" responses show up: a) I'm not going to go look up how to enable feature flags in mobile Chrome. That's too much trouble. And b) I shouldn't have to switch browsers to view content anyway.

I get that I can't expect the code to run everywhere. But if you want to show your users something, you have a responsibility to meet them where they are.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Web dev pet peeve: demos of new browser features that don't include a screenshot/video.

Thanks for the CodePen demo, but it doesn't actually work in my browser, so it's useless. I've come away with nothing but a code snippet with an output I have to just imagine.

Please, if at all possible, show demos in a way that's guaranteed to work no matter what browser or device I'm on.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Is this the OS equivalent of being transported back to the moments before the brief (and ill-conceived) relationship between your biological parents was consummated?

Attachments:

• Passage from "Sunburst" (1990) that describes the relationship between AT&T and Sun -- and what will become Solaris (and ultimately, illumos)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Tim Pool has never been insightful or good at analysis, so his lack of comprehension about ongoing demographic changes is unsurprising. LGBTQ+ and atheism rising!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/28/encouraging-news-from-the-younguns/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5SgS5qcIoI

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gurupanguji ("@gurupanguji") wrote:

"Only Apple can protect us" is a bad position for these people to be in.

#apple #eu #dma #ios

https://gurupanguji.com/2024/01/28/losing-the-plot/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

When supposedly great minds can't (or won't) tell the difference between the *existence* of a gatekeeper and the *abuse *of that position, it's time to re-evaluate their status.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

If you hadn't already written off Steve Sinofsky as a monopoly apologist and blowhard, this oughta seal the deal:

https://hardcoresoftware.learningbyshipping.com/p/215-building-under-regulation

It's a masterclass in deflection and denial, in love with the idea that being maximally dickish (as Apple has been) is always the best policy. Wild, wild stuff.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I told one of my clients I had a crush on Twister Helen Hunt, and now they keep sending me pictures of her in the Teams chat

Attachments:

• Two similar photographs of a woman standing next to a satellite dish, with an autograph on the image. A chat notification states, "Meeting ended 1 hr 12 min 29 sec". Still from movie Twister with Helen Hunt.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

When we look at #Meta's recent moves individually— billions spent on data centers and GPUs, big marketing push for AR VR, open-sourcing AI— it's easy to brush off #Zuckerberg as a wild-eyed tech bro chasing trends.

But, when we step back to consider these plays as a collective, and moves toward a long-term strategy, we see something new— infrastructure building and consumer influence to adopt data hungry tech.

Almost like Zuck is pivoting to Cloud Services.

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vampiress@eigenmagic.net ("Elissa") wrote:

A quick reminder that on radio garden you can scroll around the map of the world and listen to local radio stations from all over.

And it rules.

https://radio.garden/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

we likes it when things
work right the first time

ran a test...

fired off a Zoom mtg
logged on 2x...
once on tablet
plus once on desktop

successfully kept routing
of desktop audio on track
so #JS8Call / #flrig audio
running to/from radio
in parallel w 
desktop voice mic audio
running to/from Zoom
(so I can talk at the same time
as running the radio)
plus
screen shared from desktop
worked fine
display + audio on tablet
simultaneously with
desktop rig ops from desktop worked fine

I love my little desktop 'puter
;^}

wa2rrb
#AmateurRadio 📡

Attachments:

• Mac Mini desktop running Zoom mtg and JS8 radio operations simultaneously (remote)

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jd@mstdn.ca ("jd 🔆") wrote:

The first 2024 Mastodon award, presented for creative wordsmithing, goes to @GottaLaff for the phrase ‘Flopsweat McBoneSpurs’

Congratulations, Laffy!

Attachments:

• A gold award cup within a circle of gold leaves with the inscription, “Laffy, January 2024” on the base. (remote)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I did a bronze workshop once. We worked on bas-reliefs to eliminate many of the difficulties encountered in a typical piece, but it was still quite involved. I did everything up to the wax casting and then handed it over to the foundry. I never did get a proper patina on the final piece though. :(

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lea@lea.lgbt ("Lea Rosema") wrote:

So, Zuck bought 350000 gpu chips for #AI, each 30k US dollar. That's an environmental nightmare I guess. #meta

https://futurism.com/the-byte/experts-terrified-zuckerberg-agi

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I've been catching up with my copy of Spectrum 26 and came to Patrick Masson's piece "Reflection", which won the gold award in the dimensional category. I went to the internet to see if there was any additional information or photos. Luckily Kristine Poole had an entire blog post just last year about working with Masson to cast this piece in bronze.

Worth checking out if you have an interest in bronze casting and the team effort it takes:

https://www.muddycolors.com/2023/04/reflection-an-artists-vision-realized-in-bronze/

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klim@typo.social ("Kris Sowersby") wrote:

@reichenstein I think I found iA Writer’s polar opposite

https://ash-k.itch.io/textreme-2