 Hey friends, it's hard to write this, but it's time to retire botsin.space. I wrote a post about it here: https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/10/29/10-29-rip-botsin-space/ TLDR the site will go read-only on or around December 15th. I'm so thankful for all the support and good times here ❤️ thanks everyone
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  @darius excellent! This kind of data would be super helpful to developers. I thought about standardizing on schema.org ontologies, but measuring actual usage is much better. And kudos for seeking feedback before development. Overall, I like your privacy priorities. If anyone doesn't trust you to scrub the post data, you could allow them to scrub it on their end, or with a proxy they trust in the middle. I wonder how well someone could be fingerprinted from the data after it is scrubbed. 
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@darius excellent! This kind of data would be super helpful to developers. I thought about standardizing on schema.org ontologies, but measuring actual usage is much better. And kudos for seeking feedback before development. Overall, I like your privacy priorities. If anyone doesn't trust you to scrub the post data, you could allow them to scrub it on their end, or with a proxy they trust in the middle. I wonder how well someone could be fingerprinted from the data after it is scrubbed. Me at age 13 in 1996: wow this Clerks movie is funny. I love the star wars monologue Evil genie: so what I'm hearing is you wish for variants of that monologue to become the dominant form of mainstream cultural commentary Me: uhhhhhhhhhh  @darius I was just thinking about Tarantino and the Pulp Fiction McDonald's discussion and how energized that made people, also see Whit Stillman at that same time. :tes3: At our recent company off-site I figured I ought to learn how to make an STL file I was able to use TESAnnwyn to extract the Morrowind base map, and then printf that as an STL in rust. I threw it into a slicer and it printed right away! Now I can always look fondly at Balmora on my desk. Under sky and sun, outlander - we greet you warmly! Threads bans billionaire jet tracking in bid to move everyone to mastodon https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/22/24276546/meta-threads-instagram-elonjet-celebrity-jet-tracking-suspended
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 @stefan ahhhh this is another explanation for the waves of people showing up again to condemn all of mastodon, claim threads and bluesky are better, and creating grandoise arguments and fights over this. Nice! Whiny man-children tech bros and white supremacists don't like it when you create a better place, then siphon off millions of users, do they. 😅 Don’t miss @justinhendrix interview @kissane for Sunday’s #TechPolicyPress #Podcast discussing #Fediverse Governance Report #FediversalistPapers co-authored with @darius supported by @DigInfFund It occurred to me recently that a video is a three dimensional array of pixels that we view in slices along one axis. And what if we viewed it along a different axis? Like a well-known 1920 wide x 1040 tall x 483 frames film opener as 1920 wide x 483 tall x 1040 frames? If cool URIs don't change, maybe they shouldn't be managed by landlords and rented on a year-to-year basis. (it seems to me that avoiding link rot should be treated as a platform issue, not a slogan for scolding people who didn't successfully predict the future or treat a webpage as a lifelong commitment) One of the most common questions I get is “Where can I find information about the prevalence of hernia among Union troops, mapped by Congressional district?” and today I’ve got great news. https://circulatingnow.nlm.nih.gov/2024/10/15/profiles-in-science-risk-factors-measuring-and-rating-health-illness-and-mortality/ Works much better on desktop, but if you're stuck on the train, becomes a fun Where's Waldo but for government jargon. #FOIA @morisy Love it. One suggestion -- a "this document is irrelevant" button? I got an email that seemed completely unrelated. a web page that makes me a little sad https://drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/farewell-dr-dobbs/240169421  @darius damn, surreal that it has really been that long. Damn and dang and darn. Shit also. stumbled on an old Bush-era leftist song that I hadn't heard before and I think it's still suitably haunting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3PTQ0Gi-_4  I'm not going to say I have nostalgia for the early 2000s because 1. i was like twelve and 2. shit also sucked shit, but it feels like it was nice to have a nascent leftist movement that was not undergirded by the antisocial networks of social media Server governance—moderation, server leadership, all that messy political (de)federation stuff—defines a whole lot of each member's experience of the fediverse. But for newcomers and fedi-curious especially, it's so opaque. I want to address that head-on.  You can also just skip all the fediverse stuff and follow the links to the Aquarius undersea research lab at the bottom. It's incredibly great! What if I decided to amass a book collection consisting only of posthumously published cash-in books from the estates of otherwise excellent authors?
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@darius May I suggest you start with "Dune: The Cash Crusade" or one of the others in the series?  My Twitter account is currently locked and I don't look at it, but I'm hard deleting it this month. If you have a Twitter account you don't read, I also recommend full deletion before Nov. 15. Here's why. Twitter has their TOS now in an unusual state https://x.com/en/tos with two copies of the TOS printed one after the other, with a notice the new TOS goes active November 15. The major difference I see is starting Nov 15 they give themselves explicit rights to train AI models on your posts. |
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