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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: First wireless message sent across Atlantic by Marconi, 1901
Mastodon FeedMastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Today in History: E.G. Robinson born, 1893
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
hilarious... doing a s/w update from Apple & I see "nsurlsessiond" at the top of my sucking-up-bandwidth list. is this left over from the days of the NSAPI? in the early days of the Web, there was commercial competition to grab the server market. Netscape's offering had an API you could tie into to extend the usual Web capabilities & HTTP (to make things like early attempts at what we now know as socmedia services, like Arcadium). this concept is what spawned things like servlet engines &etc
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Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
This is me according to Apple Intelligence’s new Image Playground feature
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Mastodon Feedcstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:
Letting Aurora set the mood for the evening as I get ready to rest for the night. "Dreams":
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
WordPress CEO Rage Quits Community Slack After Court Injunction:
"“I’m sick and disgusted to be legally compelled to provide free labor to an organization as parasitic and exploitive as WP Engine. I hope you all get what you and WP Engine wanted.” His username on that Slack has been changed to “gone 💀”"
Is there anyone from the web’s old guard who’s normal? https://www.404media.co/wordpress-wp-engine-preliminary-injunction/
Mastodon FeedGossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:
ai is the future, burn the planet
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Shoutout to my elder millennials who grew up watching these shows and still managed to find class consciousness.
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Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
ChatGPT seems to be barfing... too many folks wanting to use new video generation tool?
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signalapp@mastodon.world ("Signal") wrote:
It costs around $50 million every year to ensure Signal is robust and available all over the world for anyone whenever they need it.
And as a nonprofit, that money comes from all of you; the people who believe that we all deserve a place to speak freely.
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OpenResearchIns@micro.blog ("Open Research Institute") wrote:
Courtesy of our Director Steve Conklin, we are hearing about this: www.fcc.gov/document/…
What do you think about this? Are there some #opensource #digital #radio opportunities here?
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
UnitedHealthcare’s Leaked Talking Points:
"The guidance makes specific mention of “(social)media reports on claim denial rates,” directing employees to basically say they’re fake news. “The information circulating online about our claims is false,” one talking point reads. “A chart being widely spread on social media is false.” These assertions, however, make no reference to any specific “information,” so it’s ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/11/unitedhealthcares-leaked-talking.html
Mastodon FeedReblogged by xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins"):
NYTGuildTech@union.place ("NYT Tech Guild") wrote:
✊🎉WE HAVE A DEAL 🎉✊
We are thrilled to announce we have reached a tentative three-year agreement with #NYTimes, pending ratification by our members. There’s so much to share but here are just a few highlights of the deal:
#GuildBuilds #SolidarityStreak #BreakMyStreak #UnionStrong #UnionMadeNYC #Strike #Union #Unions #Tech #Election #Election2024 #Labor #CollectiveBargaining #Contract #NewsGuild #CWA #Solidarity
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Mastodon Feed"Please don't use obvious AI slop on flyers for your event. I get hate mail."
"It's not AI, I got it from Adobe Stock!"
[ headdesk ]
https://jwz.org/b/ykec
Mastodon FeedSpecific Suggestions: Simple Sabotage for the 21st Century.
The most potent tools for fighting injustice are the ones already in your hands. The enemy has a new form. Today's wars are fought from computer consoles; climate disinformation campaigns are...
https://jwz.org/b/ykea
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Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Fool me once shame on you. Fool me as an integral part of attracting mass adoption to any start-up service, then slowly walking back your promises once the network effect is achieved, shame on... shame on me? I don't even know anymore.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Last Week in the ATmosphere – 2412.b – The Fediverse Report:
"During an interview earlier this year with Wired, Graber said that Bluesky would not ‘Enshittify the Network With Ads‘. In this week’s interview with TechCrunch, Graber did not rule out advertising completely either, saying that “the ways we would explore advertising, if we did, would be much more user intent-driven”."
Here we go. https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-the-atmosphere-2412-b/
Mastodon FeedEvery mainstream news outlet is currently running a story about the rash of CEO "wanted" posters all over New York. As far as I can tell, every one of these articles is sourced to a single shaky TikTok video showing three (3) posters on one (1) pole...
https://jwz.org/b/ykeU
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SrRochardBunson@universeodon.com ("Sir Rochard 'Dock' Bunson") wrote:
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jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io ("Jenniferplusplus") wrote:
Some of the most neoliberal people I know are displaying a shocking level of class consciousness in the last week. It's kind of amazing
It is entirely appropriate that the oligarchy is just shitting itself right now
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lrhodes@merveilles.town ("L. Rhodes") wrote:
"If all technology requires AI, and only a handful of companies are equipped to handle the computational power that Al requires, then computation becomes a moat too deep for competition to cross. The Computational Web grows stronger." https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/the-computational-web/
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Decentralized social media, block chain, and crypto are part of Web 3.0 but its computation and privatization that defines the era.
The Computational Web:
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
What makes the shift towards a more closed and private Internet so dubious is congruently, whether they know it or not, open web evangelists express a false sense that the web is becoming more "open." It's not. The first couple of layers are opening but infrastructure layers are tightening.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
So if even our most trivial web tools require massive amounts of computational power, and only four companies can meet those demands, then Web 3.0 is defined by compute and privatization.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
One of many consequences of the privatization of the internet is how expensive it's becoming to operate our tools on the web.
By shoehorning AI into all our apps, Big Tech is setting the expectation that even our note-taking apps require cloud computing from servers hundreds of miles away.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
There is a persistent lie in cyberspace lore that suggests the Internet is ownerless. We rationalize the fact that four companies own most of the internet's infrastructure by calling it "the cloud," but really, *that's just the Internet!*
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The expense to build massive data centers and thousands of miles of deep sea fiber optic cables has become a competitive moat.
Currently, 3 companies control 75% of the cloud market. But even that's misleading as Meta, arguably the largest cloud company in the world, is not included in the figure.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Our businesses, homes, cars, even our sunglasses require increasingly larger gulps of compute to run out daily lives.
What makes the requirement so ominous is the scarcity and complexity of scaling computing power for retail consumption.
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
The Computational Web is the successor to Web 2.0. It not only advances the continued privatization of the Internet's technology stack, in many ways, it defines a whole new layer—computation.