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Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

seachanger@alaskan.social ("malena") wrote:

@fromjason billionaires are *never* our friends

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Technocrats are using the language of revolution as a means of winning hearts and minds.

Lower-level fiefdoms are perhaps sincere in their attempt to make a better web. But mostly, we are witnessing a Potemkin revolution by the same folks who made their fortunes off our data and content.

Jack Dorsey is not a revolutionary. Mark Zuckerberg is not a revolutionary. Andreessen Horowitz, Sam Altman, and Steve Huffman are not revolutionaries.

They are the old lords of the new #socialweb.

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• @jack don't depend on corporations to grant you rights. defend them yourself using freedom technology. (you're on one)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

mhoye wrote:

Every cyclist in every city in North America knows you need locks like this because the police don't do anything about bike theft, ever.

The thing I love most about this picture, the thing that really locks in the flavor, is that our guy doesn't recognize what he's holding at all. The police are so ineffective at preventing property crime that a deputy commissioner can have the public's response to their incompetence in his hands and be saying "nobody needs this."

https://www.404media.co/nypd-bike-lock-chain-kryptonite-columbia-university-protests/

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andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella") wrote:

Today, in random linguistics thoughts of a possibly-ADHD brain:

I wonder when the name Stephen had to have entered the English language, given that the sound /f/ in Greek "Stephanos" became /v/ in English.

In Old English /f/ and /v/ were not distinct phonemes – instead, /v/ is how /f/ was pronounced between vowels. And I think /f/ and /v/ only became separate phonemes after the Norman conquest of England, with a bunch of French loanwords entering the language?

rust@octodon.social ("Rust tips") wrote:

If you're writing a small #Rustlang library, use the quick-error crate instead of thiserror.

It reduces compilation time, because it doesn't use procedural macros.

https://lib.rs/crates/quick-error

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

the more I look at this, the more attractive it becomes:

https://github.com/huggingface/candle

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

Today in History: Hindenburg explodes and burns, Lakehurst NJ, 1937

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

Today in History: EDSAC demonstrated, 1949

Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

delan@kolektiva.social wrote:

“The long-term popularity of any given tool for software development is proportional to how much labour arbitrage it enables. […]

“The components sourced from an intern fixing ChatGPT’s output just enough for it to run and the exhaustively tested ones from a senior developer are equivalent in the eyes of management.”

https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/ by @baldur

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

How can someone be so right and so wrong at the same time.

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• @jack from Twitter: don't depend on corporations to grant you rights. defend them yourself using freedom technology. (you're on one)

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

Listening to The Byrds from Jan 16, 1972

https://wolfgangs.app.link/tE6j73WEmJb

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I'm not so much of a stickler with the interchangeable use of the terms "web" and "internet"

But.

#bluesky

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• Screenshot of BlueSky's website. It reads "Welcome to the social internet."

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Maybe the real decentralized social media were the friends we made along the way

#BlueSky #JackDorsey

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Jack Dorsey is still an investor of #BlueSky, at least according to CrunchBase.

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• Screenshot of Bluesky's crunchbase profile listing Jack Dorsey as Seed Round Investor.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

#BlueSky confirms Jack's departure via skeet on the day of our lord.

Just your typical late Sunday afternoon press release for an exiting board member.

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• Screenshot of BlueSky post: We sincerely thank Jack for his help funding and initiating the bluesky project. Today, Bluesky is thriving as an open source social network running on atproto, the decentralized protocol we have built. With Jack's departure, we are searching for a new board member for the Bluesky public benefit company who shares our commitment to building a social network that puts people in control of their experience. More to come! May 5, 2024

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

rickberkphoto ("Rick Berk") wrote:

Was going through my archives yesterday looking for an image to try a new editing technique on, and found this one that I'd never edited before, from a trip to Yosemite back in 2012. I really need to get back there soon.

Prints available at https://rickberk.pixels.com/featured/the-majesty-of-yosemite-rick-berk.html

#yosemite #findyourpark #mastoart #photography #landscape #landscapephotography #artist #buyintoart #prints #wallart #homedecor #officedecor #decor #california #nationalpark

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

georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Quick, someone call the Avengerzzzzz 😴

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

depends on your perspective, of course

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

https://mcusercontent.com/c196cb2377d2d5462fdfa5dbf/images/3b8d54e9-40c0-743b-2762-510efca51472.png

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

this is So Very Not Good for navigation:

“Over the past two years, almost all airlines flying over the Baltic region have experienced navigation problems.“

“GPS jamming in the Baltic region: Is Russia responsible?” – DW – 05/05/2024

https://www.dw.com/en/gps-jamming-in-the-baltic-region-is-russia-responsible/a-68993942?maca=en-newsletter_en_bulletin-2097-xml-newsletter&at_medium=Newsletter&at_campaign=EN%20-%20Daily%20Bulletin&at_dw_language=en&at_number=20240505&r=67275931656289982&lid=2936582&pm_ln=250695

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

donnodubus@mas.to ("Donnodubus") wrote:

@vetehinen @fromjason how's this:

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.app/post/3krreazpfpu2t

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

ZachWeinersmith ("Zach Weinersmith") wrote:

So there's a lot of kvetching, from myself included, about how the modern internet has gotten worse, usually due to a combination of SEO, social media gone evil, and the prevalence of money as more and more of a guiding factor in tech.

But of course the old internet had the problem of being fairly boring. The interesting question is how to get a third way. I've heard a few proposals:

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

eklektikos@mastodon.uno ("🖖 εκᴧεκτικός :fediverso:") wrote:

Riscrivo qui per maggior visibilità a proposito del bridge #Mastodon #Bluesky (con https://fed.brid.gy). 😁

Da quello che ho visto, per un'interazione tra i due "universi" è necessario che:

gli utenti Mastodon seguano dal loro account @bsky.brid.gy

gli utenti Bluesky seguano dal loro account
@ap.brid.gy

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

From The Verge: Jack Dorsey says he’s no longer on Bluesky’s board

> There’s seemingly no evidence that Dorsey is off the Bluesky board yet, apart from his post. The company still lists him as a board member, along with its CEO, Jay Graeber, and Jabber / XMPP inventor Jeremie Miller.

Jack just abruptly broke up with #BlueSky on #Twitter?

Also, I was sure his distancing was a strategic move. Guess he really was just throwing a tantrum.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/5/24149543/jack-dorsey-gone-bluesky-board

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Tim Pool looks like an Express Menswear DJ

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• Tim Pool and Roger Stone standing next to each other in front of a pool. Pool is wearing a grey suit with a black beenie. Stone is wearing a suit and tie.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Always nice to see music videos still shot on film. New Blossoms single.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n75ftaRT8RA

#NowPlaying #NP #FilmIsNotDead #BlossomsBand

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

how reassuring you are, @CARROT

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

It irritates me way more than it should that the bubbles on my kid's sticker sheets are clearly just copy-and-pasted "O" characters from some basic font.

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• An underwater scene with dozens of bubbles, each identical to the others (except in size), each identically modulated in stroke width in the same places in its oblong shape. (remote)

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

djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology ("DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab") wrote:

when I was a kid, there was this cat named Don Muro who would tour schools performing concerts on his super high tech synthesizers, showing how it all worked together to let him make so much music all by himself.

cat was also a working musician, recording and composing and publishing, but he used the money gigs to pay for his trips around to spread the word.

he's still at it and that makes him one of my heroes.

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

alshafei ("Esra'a") wrote:

Disappointed to see The Markup share advice for people to use WhatsApp in its post about preparing your phone for a protest, and that it's coming from "digital security trainers."

Metadata literally kills, and WhatsApp is swimming in it. The metadata they collect includes:

Groups you're a member of, location, personal info (email, phone number, user IDs), contacts and their phone numbers, in-app search history, when you use the app & how often you use it. E2EE alone doesn't guarantee #privacy