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MnemosyneSinger@kolektiva.social ("the happy leftist") wrote:
Today in the USA we celebrate the Presidents of the United States of America, who in 1996 gave us millions of peaches, peaches for free.
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Creationists hate being "woke".
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/02/19/martyn-iles-clarifies-a-few-things/
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brianbilston@mastodon.online ("Brian Bilston") wrote:
Today’s poem is a love poem.
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enkiv2@eldritch.cafe ("𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e") wrote:
A week of not using a search engine https://neilzone.co.uk/2024/01/a-week-of-not-using-a-search-engine/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:
She dutifully gave the talk on the project as is, complete with the rug pull at the end: “Here’s our results! They’re so broken! Look, it learned the bias in our dataset! Surprise!“ It got an audible reaction from the audience. People •loved• her talk.
I wish there had been some HR folks at her talk.
Train an AI on your discriminatory hiring practices, and guess what it learns? That should be a rhetorical question, but I’ll spell it out: it learns how to infer the gender of applicants.
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ThermiteBeGiants@aus.social ("Thermite Be Giants") wrote:
Americans wondering how on earth all the Taylor Swift fans got to last week’s concert at the Melbourne Cricket Ground when there’s no sea of car parking next to the stadium:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
Little bit of the Geek Social Fallacies, too. @fromjason
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/growth-at-any-cost-top-facebook-executive-defended-data
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Oh shit is #microblog down?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:
I can see the current spam attack taking out a lot of hobbyist instances for good. I've seen mentions of it already
Reputational damage and defedations lead to people giving up as it is, for less than this, but with potential to be impacted by increased costs because of it is insult to injury, and that could be pretty hefty if they only log in occasionally.
I've always been a champion for the little guys on here, I think we need more tiny communities, so it's really sad to see all this
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
jalcine@todon.eu ("jacky") wrote:
This is applicable for any and every online group: FediForum, the IndieWeb, SmallWeb, Gemini, all of them. They suffer from a (imo) libertarian sense that if you know the problem then you must solve it. And that shit is so fucking entitled. I've been rattling around on something in a more pointed and cited way but God knows if I will have the willpower to finish it because truly: what does it matter in the grand scheme of shit?
Like AP/AT all still have hard ties to systems that require higher access to capital, obsess over Western systems of thought (and language and discourse) and I'm aggressively bored of it. If I wanted that, I wouldn't have deleted my Twitter account.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The federation concept is dope. Big fan. But this emerging worldview that "all connection is good connection" regardless of implementation or even an ounce of thoughtfulness, is bizarre.
To me, it feels like VC growth-at-all-cost religion repackaged. Big Boz memo vibes. It's giving "your safety is a sacrifice I'm willing to make"
Where's this weird urgency coming from? What deadline are we trying to meet that demands such thoughtless action, and subsequent unabashed defending?
Mastodon Feedcollinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:
You know there are marketers just foaming at the mouth to show a unique AI-generated video to every individual visitor like a never-ending A/B test.
You know they're already figuring out how to host that binary or whatever.
You know we're about to 10x the resources we consume to load a goddamn web page, just so we can sell more Expedia or whatever fucking bullshit.
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
TIL about Color.io; this a badass PWA. So flipping cool.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
What #movie have you watched more than any other movie?
Mine is Catch Me If You Can, which I've watched maybe 100 times?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Back in January FediDB reported 1.5 MILLION new sign ups (13.5%) in December for Mastodon. It was a whole thing. People celebrated.
I found it odd as the monthly active user metic only increased 0.2%.
That surge is now missing from the totals and from December?
February 18th shows 10 million total users. The chart suggests that the December spike never happened.
Did we dream it? Where'd those users go?
From: @fromjason
https://mastodon.social/@fromjason/111722864894996063
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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
Not even sure where to start with my landlord situation, but y'all I need to move.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
jerry@infosec.exchange ("Jerry Bell :verified_paw: :donor: :verified_dragon: :rebelverified:") wrote:
May I present…
Mastodon FeedReblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):
nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt ("Nina Kalinina") wrote:
It is time for me to re-do my old thread about the origins of "80 columns" and how it can very well be related to pretty ancient stuff, not dissimilar to "space shuttle and horse's rear end".
As you know, the default mode on IBM PCs is text 80x25. The limitation of 80 columns per line, also known as "80 column rule" is still widespread; for example, that's the rule for Linux kernel. But why 80? Why not 70 or 90?
The answer to that is usually "IBM punch cards are 80 characters wide", but things are more interesting than that!
First, the commonly accepted column width was supposed to be 72. American typewriters used to have just 72 columns, earlier DEC terminals supported only 72 columns, and even IBM punch cards had only 72 columns for text.
Second, yes, IBM punch cards were 80 characters wide, but why?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Let me explain:
Around 2019, Meta and Google decided to advocate for #DataPortability and an #OpenWeb. Weird right?
It might be because of Amazon. AWS has become too powerful in cloud computing.
#Amazon maintains its 35% cloud market share by making it extremely expensive and complicated to move data out of its data centers.
The #DataPortability craze is largely faux grassroots movement to loosen Amazon's grip on the market.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
Can't help but notice that Crypto, AI, and Spacial Computing all have two things in common:
1. All require mass amounts of cloud computing power.
2. All are heavily hyped by the cloud computing oligopoly— #Microsoft, #Amazon, #Google, and #Meta.
Also can't help notice that everything we attribute to the "web in transition" and the #openWeb is related to the turf war between these 4 companies.
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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:
Let’s make it very clear. Apple is under NO obligation to kill Web Apps in the EU. It’s a spiteful decision driven from pure greed.
Don’t put up with it, join us in fighting back
https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attempts-killing-webapps/
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inthehands@hachyderm.io ("Paul Cantrell") wrote:
There’s a lot to chew on in this short article (ht @ajsadauskas):
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240214-ai-recruiting-hiring-software-bias-discrimination“An AI resume screener…trained on CVs of employees already at the firm” gave candidates extra marks if they listed male-associated sports, and downgraded female-associated sports.
Bias like this is enraging, but completely unsurprising to anybody who knows half a thing about how machine learning works. Which apparently doesn’t include a lot of execs and HR folks.
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
If it's between
A. the people who live in the margins; who always experience the brunt of techno-utopia, and
B. the tech-bros who say "it'll be different this time"
I'm giving all the grace and benefit of doubt to group A.
Every time. Always. Forever. ❤️ #SmallWeb #indieWeb #Fediverse #fediverseMeta
Mastodon Feedisagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:
There's a weasel living around and under our house. I'm not sure if it's just one weasel (unlikely) or even the same one, because we only spot it may be two or three times a year for may be a dozen of seconds. It's impossible to ever take a picture of it. So every time it happens we cherish the experience and share it among the family.
"I saw our weasel today again! it ran from here to there!"
"Wow!"
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
clacke@libranet.de ("clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛") wrote:
Concept: an immortal who doesn’t shy away from photos or paintings. Draws self portraits on cave walls. Photobombs everything with a pout and a suave pose. Commissions numerous portraits of themself as a literary Romantic before faking their death. Tries to be at least slightly famous every time they have a new identity. Creates a conspiracy blog linking all their past photos together before mysteriously disappearing in mysterious circumstances. Mysteriously. Usually only disappears for 10 to 20 years after “"dying”“ before making another appearance. Everyone else in the immortal community lowkey hates them. “Ah, fuck. You’ll never guess who’s resurfaced again.” “Fucking… Dave?” “Fucking Dave.”
Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Anybody know of an incoming call indicator light that can connect to cell phones over bluetooth? Something like this but over bluetooth:
https://www.amazon.com/PHONE-LIGHT-FLASHER-RINGER-1/dp/B00627EIS0
Basically I want something completely stripped back to the core function of showing a light indicator of some kind. Anything more than that will just be trouble. (I'm not adverse to snipping wires to speakers when needed, but excess functionality tends to be its own source of trouble.)
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:
The small digital community is an act of defiance. It exists in a web where perpetual growth and relentless extractions are the only pursuits.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
loren@flipping.rocks ("Loren") wrote:
i was originally going to only post the more cropped version of this without the clothes pin but then i realized what good scale it gave for just how tiny the golden crowned kinglets are. they are so! small!
