@darius Huh. Milspec section headings, two-column monospaced text. Betting he prepared it in NROFF.

@darius the one where he refers to himself as 'cp, the celestial person' is amazing, no joke

@darius I need my inhaler now

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Won't you think of the poor tie-ins? Who would buy this but for movies?

@darius Omg.

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Anything that promotes fascist agenda =well funded and free

Anything that challenges it = broke.

@darius When I see the words Game Changer, I only think about the awesome show on Dropout.tv.

@darius rolling up to that with 493 person-years of game developer careers in a dusty, scratched up stack to exchange for enough money to buy a boba tea

@darius @winampskins thanks for sharing! Do you have any thoughts on how an automated bot like this could do better with text descriptions? I don’t have the bandwidth to hand author them so I’ve just settled for omitting them. I’m sure this is something you’ve thought about!

@darius @winampskins PS2 theme WinAmp playing The Matrix OST is peak 1999.

A point I went back to a lot was that communities often have technical experts inside them. Not everyone is techie and that's fine. For example, in the US many people have a car but don't know how to fix it. We have auto mechanics as the technical experts for that.

I think ideally, fediverse admins are auto mechanics for social media: our job is to make sure this stuff runs and works for our communities.

@darius finally, my time has come.

@darius this sounds fine

@darius My university sponsored that phone service until 2013. I hoped it would last forever, but clearly missed the mark.
https://pittnews.com/article/62675/news/dont-forget-the-answers-a-telefact-retrospective/

@darius super interesting and thought provoking.

I'd never thought that moderation was something that needed to be planned and brainstormed for the future. Which I guess illustrates both the challenge and the opportunity.

You mentioned some work you'd done on verification / validation / authentication. Would be great to read it 👍

@darius just caught the recording of this session. thanks for hosting it! really love the idea of moderation-as-a-service, with different providers to chose from and different types/levels of ‘outputs’ - excited to see this solution space explored

Would be interesting to consider then too what a discovery library / marketplace of these services would look like - with info about each team’s principles & values, ratings/reviews, filters for free vs paid, etc.

@darius Hi there! I read on the Fediverse Report that you presented an idea for server admins to outsource community moderation. I'm an organization that provides factchecking to server admins to help them moderate. Thought I'd say hi.

@darius chef's kiss

@darius I love a shitpost that makes me look things up. 😆

@darius I asked ChatGPT to explain the joke to me, and I am happy to report it doesn't get it.

@darius if isaac chotiner ever reached out to me for an interview i would fake my death and leave the country

I want to reread this every time I need to feel cozy and warm. Like, how many journalists out there can manage to get a politician to say "yeah I did it for the money" in basically any context?

@darius man Barney Frank is an expert spin doctor. Still sharp as a tack. The fact that he could hold his own with a ruthless interrogator like Chotiner when he was clearly in the wrong in this bank situation is frankly pretty impressive. Still left really disappointed he was on that sketchy bank board

@darius running dogs of consensus; some rough code slouching toward Bethlehem.

@darius oh it's one of those choose none situations

@darius I’m not ashamed to say that in my native Hokkien, the equivalent phrase is ‘cheap, fresh, and big boobs, you can only have two’

@darius The Fast and the Functional

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@darius the GPTs will continue until morale improves

@darius It’s been days and this is still the best post.

@darius This isn’t incorrect. (Obviously there’s more to the story.) But the single biggest mistake they made was assuming the likes of Peter Thiel would act like community members for them, not just opportunists.

@darius All of my retirement planning is predicated on the assumption that once I've been in business for 40 years, I will be able to raise $2 billion privately

@darius Figma export in general is just an absolute shitshow. I was looking to automate a UX dev pipeline last week and it really does seem my options are "rebuild manually on output platform" or "spend as much time fixing up exports as it would take to rebuild manually"

@darius what the heck, i've never had this happen over...years? is the selection you're trying to export all vector?

@darius that’s embarrassing 😬

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I would love to know what happened to masthead.social. Here one day and gone the next

@darius That would be me. A software update failed, and I didn't have the spoons to deal with it. Running a Mastodon instance was, for me, an unfunded side project of an unfunded side project; it became more effort (and expense) than it was worth to me.

@darius You could speak with @FT as they launched one and closed it due to legal concerns around moderation. https://www.ft.com/content/8d995a24-d77c-4208-a3a6-603d8788ebcd

@darius While I get your point I think the concern would be that there are two main avenues of compromise: in transit and at the endpoints. I think the belief of most is that their email, likely gmail, outlook, exchange, etc is likely managed by a large organization that will keep it secured and up to date while a random mastodon stack has a higher risk of one side or the other falling behind on maintenance and thus exposing a private conversation.

@darius not exactly the same, Darius.
Your email server and the recipient's server are run by an admin that's usually governed by a confidentiality agreement and can lose their job if they viewed or shares a private email.
Besides the OG instances and the few company ones, most people have Mastodon accounts on servers run by hobbyists, no confidentiality, no SOPs

@darius Good ole March 10. It was a Friday, IIRC.