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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
zot! radio blackout time, solar flare activity
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Me trying to spell words like thumb or comb :
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Your SMS Social Index is the number of texts you get from friends divided by the number of texts you get from Senators asking for donations.
I just made this up but now it's real. #imessage #textmessage
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
What share of all chips are high-end data center AI chips? https://blog.heim.xyz/share-of-ai-chips:
> In 2021, the semiconductor industry reportedly produced about 1.15 trillion units (Kharpal, 2022). As calculated above, the production of high-end AI chips in 2022 was likely less than 3 million. This suggests that high-end AI chips only accounted for less than 1:4,000 (0.00026%) of all chips produced.
I'm sorry, HOW MANY UNITS? #tech
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smallweb@coywolf.social ("Small Web Blog Posts") wrote:
What share of all chips are high-end data center AI chips?
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obtener@mastodon.world ("Georgiann Baldino") wrote:
#Meta oversight board calls company's deepfake rule 'incoherent'
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pbump@journa.host ("Philip Bump") wrote:
Finally figured out a good analogy for the Biden impeachment push. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/05/house-gops-impeachment-fyre-festival/
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
@stilgherrian .10% x 5000 is 5 spam reports. A competitor could easily put you in the danger zone by reporting you from five gmail accounts. So just that right there is incentive enough to opt-in to #Google's services.
I haven't looked deep into the #Postmaster tool, but just using history as a guide, I'm certain it collects data.
#AOL tried to pull something similar and people rightfully revolted. It was an anti-competitive weaponization of security.
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
A Tribute to John Coltrane on Aug 10, 2004 at Newport
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Small digital communities are not without its challenges, but nothing scales wholesale abuse like venture capital funding and shareholder value.
And puzzle CAPITAs.
I don't want to train someone's AI. I don't know how that's related but I don't like it. #tech #socialmedia #SmallWeb #indieweb
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Dartmouth basketball team allowed to unionize, US agency says in landmark decision
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/05/2024/dartmouth-basketball-team-allowed-to-unionize-nlrb-rules?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypubPosted into Semafor
https://flipboard.com/@semafor/semafor-qhf227ugz?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
And to be clear, I'm not a free market guy at all. But Congress doesn't seem capable of passing laws that don't have an exploitable loophole that puts us deeper in a hellhole.
We couldn't even fully abolish slavery🙃.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
It's wild how The Telecommunications Act of 1996 and what we're seeing in tech today are so similar.
The country received better access to services as a result. But can anyone say with a straight face that mobile, internet, and cable service providers are motivated by competition? Or that we receive good rates for these services?
And how will social and cloud computing services change once regulation passes in the future? Heh.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
After much study & contemplation, I conclude that the greatest romantic pairing in the movies is…
Barbara Crampton & Jeffrey Combs.
Even better than Morticia & Gomez. Gentlemen, study them to see best how to love.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
OK, if you want to take over my job, fine. But I want to be the one taking a nap.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/05/im-trying-to-get-some-work-done/
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darius@friend.camp ("Darius Kazemi") wrote:
Ooof. "down for everyone or just me" is reporting that fonts.googleapis.com is, in fact, down. No wonder half the sites I'm trying to access are stalling. I thought it was a problem with this public wifi network I'm on...
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josh@phocks.eu.org ("josh :bocchi_arch:") wrote:
a CEO can never be held accountable therefore a CEO must never make a management decision
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a first post to my new blog is up, beginning a short series on how using #ChatGPT as a coach to learn something has destroyed my skeptical preconceptions.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
The thing most people don't remember about Prometheus is that humans already had fire, but then Zeus locked it up behind a paywall, because Zeus was a petty little bitch. Prometheus stole it *back*. In this essay about DRM I will
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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
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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.
