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rebeccawatson@mstdn.social ("Rebecca Watson") wrote:
I wonder if King Charles will stick to his principles and treat his cancer with homeopathy
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Mastodon Feedbcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:
Nate Silver trolled the internet last week with an inane tweet about the putative stagnation in the pace of innovation -- and @ahl and I are apparently incapable of not spending an episode discussing it. Join us, 5p Pacific today!
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danhon@dan.mastohon.com ("Dan Hon") wrote:
The story of Prometheus stealing fire from the gods but it's actually Promethe.us stealing signing keys, source and documentation to internet connected hardware so we can turn on our lights again and use cooking appliances without pre-roll ads.
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eamon@social.coop ("Eamon") wrote:
Besides being unethical*, these tools strike me as a real life instantiation of the apocryphal "faster horse". It's an indictment of our field that people are turning to duct tape for poor tooling instead of building better tools, right?
* Because they were trained on code that was scraped without the authors' consent, and clearly violate the spirit—and probably the letter—of GPL and other copyleft licenses.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Shout out to Mucinex, and whichever active ingredient we'll look back on in fifty years and wonder how it was legal.
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RyunoKi@layer8.space ("Ryuno-Ki") wrote:
@dev Hey there 👋
Today someone pointed out to me that @firefish is no longer.
I couldn't reach it at least.
Can you think of another account I could list at https://delightful.club/delightful-fediverse-apps/ instead?
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iyashikei_kris@mstdn.social wrote:
Previously I called them the "how you do fellow kids" of web design lol
Mastodon FeedGargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:
Thank you to everyone who came by to say hi, share feedback, and buy our merch at #FOSDEM, it was awesome. Feel free to tag me in the selfies we took together if you haven't already, and use the hashtag #merchtodon if you want to show our merch to the world.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Osbourn Dorsey / SamePassage
https://samepassage.org/osbourn-dorsey/
h/t @mathewi
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ieure@retro.social ("cop ululation") wrote:
What I'm listening to today: "Cybotron - Cosmic Cars."
This is the second single from Cybotron. Along with their first single, Alleys of your Mind, the duo of Juan Atkins and Richard Davis created and defined the early techno sound. Techno music is pretty white these days, but... it came from Detroit in the late 70s and early 80s, of course it was created by Black artists. They were both influenced heavily by Kraftwerk and Parliament-Funkadelic, and both are readily apparent.
One can trace back a lot of the decline of Detroit directly to racism. Extensive redlining meant that 80% of all home deeds had restrictive covenants preventing their sale to non-whites by 1940. In the postwar era, this meant that returning white veterans could use the G.I. Bill to buy new homes, but Black veterans could not. The structural inequality and white flight decimated the tax base and set the city up for failure.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Hate to be that guy (i love it) but, The Verge's attempt to appeal to a younger audience by designing mini-sites to look like the #smallweb or the #indiweb doesn't vibe with what those sites usually represent— data privacy, independence, and non-corporate reach.
Shout out to the journalist and designer, though. It reads and looks great.
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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
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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
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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/
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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/
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mainframed767@infosec.exchange ("Soldier of FORTRAN :ReBoot:") wrote:
Before you finalize your product, you must fight the final boss: The Scrum Master!
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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.
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Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Thomas Friedman is still contemplating war crimes with a bloodthirsty joy, after decades of well-rewarded failure.
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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/
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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:
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Austin_Dern@blimps.xyz ("Austin Dern, Dean of Coatis") wrote:
When two Mastodon people become mutuals.
