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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
@poundquerydotinfo if you don't mind, I'm curious to learn what an "anti-Facebook" activist is, and which efforts resulted in server blocks?
Have any of these activists been on the podcast circuit, or leveraged digital media to write fluff pieces? Do they have an army of tech influencers and tech CEOs spreading propaganda on social media outlets? I'd love to write about it if so. #threads
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
aires@tiggi.es ("Aires") wrote:
Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use #Windows, #macOS, or any version of #Linux with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.
Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.
Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.
#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #ComputerScience @blackmastodon
https://elective.collegeboard.org/clarence-skip-ellis-computer-science-pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Ellis_(computer_scientist)
https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-6/clarence-ellis
Mastodon FeedReblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
danielpunkass ("Daniel Jalkut") wrote:
You know I don't ask for favors very often, but if you have a friend who REALLY loves crosswords and has possibly ever complained that there isn't a great iOS app for solving puzzles from MULTIPLE SOURCES, then I would appreciate if you spread the word. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/black-ink-crosswords/id312142427
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
finally beginning to make some sense of the process of conversing with a generative AI, beginning to see how a conversational thread should be handled so that the AI does not seem like a dementia patient with no short term memory
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
enkiv2@eldritch.cafe ("𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e") wrote:
Whenever a text input box has the prompt "what's on your mind?" what is on my mind is the hit single What's On Your Mind? (Pure Energy) by Information Society from Tommy Boy Records and how the entire landscape of legal rulings on copyright in the digital age begins here, with a kid from Cleveland who likes roller blades an autistic amount sampling star trek and charting, back before the time lords and the kopyright liberation front. These dudes got radio play, but thought of what they did as disco (in the 80s) and would put modem noises on their vinyls you could play into the cassette port of your c64 and see a little text file.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
I'm going to have nightmares about this. (clueless git autodriving his cybertruck while dicking about with AppleVision Pro)
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/05/oh-hell-naw/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
FediFollows@social.growyourown.services wrote:
The government of #France 🇫🇷 now has an official Fediverse server 🥳
(All accounts in French unless otherwise noted)
➡️ @cnes - France's space agency
➡️ @ambnum - French ambassador for digital affairs (in English)
➡️ @sup_recherche - Ministry of Higher Education & Research
➡️ @astroIAP - Astrophysics Institute of Paris
➡️ @cnrs - CNRS, the French National Centre for Scientific Research
➡️ @umrGeoazur - Geology/geophysics research unit for Côte d'Azur Univ, CNRS, Côte d'Azur Observatory
🧵 1/4
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Ugh. Ick. Yuck.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/05/this-is-not-february/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
mainframed767@infosec.exchange ("Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot:") wrote:
Before you finalize your product, you must fight the final boss: The Scrum Master!
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
So many AI missed opportunities.
How about a feature that summarizes a long email thread when someone forwards it to you and expects you to get caught up.
Or one that detects a project and makes a little folder for you with project highlights, files, and any info you're still waiting on.
If you're gonna spy on me at least be helpful.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Not sure I'm a fan of these auto-repost accounts. I've been blocking them.
What y'all think?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
There are two things that could make me leave the #Apple #ecosystem: a better mobile typing experience, and a better LLM-based virtual assistant with accompanying earbud hardware.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
There's a growing curiosity and invigorated appreciation for physical buttons. #Apple, with its crusade to eliminate moving parts, is in a bit of a jam. My guess is the 2016 Macbook Pro was a step too far, and now people are slowly revolting.
I'm here for it.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Thomas Friedman is still contemplating war crimes with a bloodthirsty joy, after decades of well-rewarded failure.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Does an experiment performed in a void count as science? Neuralink in the absence of information and moral oversight still gets mentioned in Nature.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/05/this-is-some-real-super-villain-shit-you-know/
Mastodon FeedI miss the utopian future I dreamed of as a kid.
Mastodon Feedandreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:
I wonder if there's a linguistics paper comparing the English expression "coulda, shoulda, woulda" with the Latin expression "vini, vidi, vinci" in terms of semantics, prosodics, phonetics, rhythmic structure...
Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
In the conversation that @ahl and I had with @jmc last week, we talked quite a bit about RFD 26, which explains the rationale for Helios and Propolis, our illumos-based host OS and bhyve-based hypervisor, respectively. By popular demand, we have made that RFD public:
https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0026
And if you didn't catch the conversation last week, you can listen to the recording:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Austin_Dern@blimps.xyz ("Austin Dern, Dean of Coatis") wrote:
When two Mastodon people become mutuals.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
andypiper@macaw.social ("Andy Piper") wrote:
@dansup I’m repping my favourite platforms! Might be great to have Pixelfed join a Fediverse devroom next year… 😉
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
beastoftraal ("Karthik S") wrote:
Who did it better?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The Tracy Chapman X Luke Combs performance was actually beautiful. Loved it. #grammys
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
trevorflowers@machines.social ("Ding Dang Trevor Flowers") wrote:
If you've been putting off buying a smol retrocomputer then now might be a good time to look again. I'm clearing out most of my shop and everything is priced to move. In the name of space I don't plan to restock some of the items like the Micro Osborne Ones.
#restock #retrocomputing #miniatures
https://store.transmutable.com/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):
dougiec3@libretooth.gr ("Wokebloke (call me Doug)") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ANNOUNCE: weekly @ROCDIGI group JS8 Learning & Exploration Net
when: 9pm East Coast US time, Tuesday 6 FEB 2024
where: at the 20m JS8 meeting freq
(if 14.0780MHz is too busy
then we shall QSY to 14.107MHz)
what: @ROCDIGI group JS8 Learning & Exploration Netthis week I will open the net with a short call, then send "SNR?" to the net to try automated checkin. please *DO NOT* respond to the initial net-opening call, & please *DO* set your config to automatically reply and ack.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
@h_thoreson insulting junior people is terrible. We need to be lifting each other up regardless of where we are in our careers. There's always something we don't know no matter how long we've been working.
Also, I completely agree about your observations about the state of software engineering. It affects us all.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
My good friend is convincing me to do a podcast and I just don't have it in me lol
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:
The overreliance on LLMs is already stifling tech solutions as companies prioritise AI-driven approaches at the expense of human creativity and problem-solving methods.
Read more 🍕 https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/apples-llm-gap-is-real-it-might-not-last-much-longer
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
ktemkin@chaos.social ("Kate Temkin") wrote:
security budget:
- $1 looking into languages that don’t trivially buffer overflow
- 50¢ looking into enabling exploit mitigation features
- 1¢ research into things like compile-time diversity
- $10M hiring a disgraced CISO from a FAANG company
- $100 hiring a red team to ignore feedback fromsomeone who is good at the economy please help me. my enterprise platform is dying
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
This screenshot shows the app analytics data sent by two different #iOS apps: Duolingo and Tinder. What's the likelihood that both apps are installed on the same device? 💯? 🤯
Both apps use Unity Ads. The data in the screenshot is collected by the Unity Ads framework included in these two apps, and any app that uses Unity Ads. The data is sent to the same Unity server. As a result, Unity Ads can easily fingerprint users and track them across different apps.
