Gregory's Server
tired: getting a VPN to access locally blocked torrent sites
wired: getting a VPN to access a non-AI-enshittified version of Google Search
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Well well well if it isn't cryptocurrency spam coming from the biggest, open instance on the #Fediverse. 👀 I wonder if this is at all related to challenges with moderating an instance of *checks notes* 200k active accounts? Or with moderating new accounts on the only instance actively promoted in the official apps? :thinking_rotate: Thankfully we can always defederate! What's that? It's the biggest instance so there are real concerns about a lot of people losing connections? Whodda thunk it!
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 @rysiek Coping with a bit of spam is preferable to facilating the overthrow of society. Have some perspective.  @rysiek
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 @rysiek  @rysiek @faoluin One reason I'm a little optimistic is, although I'm on mastodon.social, most people I follow are not. In most social networks, about 10% of the people create about 90% of the content, and these people skew away from the big servers. So there's some systemic pressure for everyone to be good federation members. But yeah, my slight optimism does not mean I feel I can just shrug and assume everything will be fine. So I'm happy that people are being pushy about good federation
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@inkscape @rysiek Dependence on any program that requires a license/subscription, only encourages other companies who haven't yet adopted those models, to at least explore the potential.
And as far as "tools for professionals" is concerned, I'd say more than that, we simply need good usable tools in general.  "joinhackerspace dot org" with a "choose your physical community instance" and info on different hackerspaces when? I mean, wiki.hackerspaces.org is great, but. :blobcatwink: I hear instance admins and moderators "keep people hostage" on this here fedi. At least that's what some people commenting on my BlueSky-related blogpost keep claiming. Somehow always in a "free speech" context. :thaenkin: Anyone feeling taken hostage by their admins/moderators? :blobcateyes:
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  @rysiek @tchambers Nope. But I set up my own instance since moving accounts including their identity and timeline data isn’t possible, which, to me, would make it too costly. I’m not aware of another way to own my content here. Hence, I can follow that argument, at least partially. So if you're an engineer working at a social media company… What you do is social engineering, right? :blobcateyes: @rysiek so I made a mastodon account to post this, idk if you mentioned this, but bluesky is not federated. I set up a bluesky "pds" and tested it in the bluesky app. you can't interact with any other pds, like bluesky.social. actors (users) are not replicated into the pds in some way, nor does the jwt token for viewing profiles transfer here's me trying to load Henry Pickavet's did profile on bluesky from another instance Mastodon instance: <goes invite-only> BlueSky: <is invite-only> 🤣
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@rysiek nothing pisses me off more than watching a bunch of yuppies congratulate each other  @rysiek it's so funny to see people on here beg for invites to blue sky
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  i don't trust people with only 6 flags in their bio. you're such a bad npc..you don't even have a rainbow flag ! "Chatbots" on company websites are basically useless and clueless, and that's nothing new. But don't you worry, soon they will all be integrated with ChatGPT. This will not make them less useless and clueless, but they will gain the ability to authoritatively gaslight you as well! This will take "you're holding it wrong" to a whole new automated level! Progress!
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@rysiek  @rysiek I think it's not a new feature, at least for ISP monopolies here. Stories of wizards using magic spells to bind daemons were cool, until I had to speak these so the chatbot would send humans to repair disconnected or burnt telephone wires while trying to convince me that it might magically fix itself and I should call them to cancel the repair, or that it might be my issue with my computer. (Human support worked similarly, but I was able to normally talk to them.) @rysiek I'm just waiting for a service to have the brilliant idea of giving it access to their billing and accounting systems so people find ways to get it to set their bills to $0.00
Every time you use the word "hacker" when you mean "cybercriminal", "attacker", "malicious actor", you *personally* support this kind of bullshit. Every time you use the word "hack" to mean "compromise", "break-in", "leak", you *personally* make it harder for a small community of creative people to focus on their projects, because now they have to go prove to Google they are not, in fact, attacking anyone. #OpenAI is not going to be able to prove that everything they slurped from Teh Intertubes for their model-training-needs was in fact put out there in a way that was *not* copyright infringement in the first place. In other words, if @internetarchive scans a book and puts it out there, that "infringing" scan could (if OpenAI has access to it) be used to train a model, and that would *not* be infringement. Totally reasonable, right? 🤡 This is abhorrent: We opened our doors to Ukrainian refugees, as we should have. We should just as well open our doors to refugees from Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. People don't choose to be refugees. They are forced to. 🧵 And don't get me started on "economic migrants" BS! "Economic migrant" is the correct term for an "expat". I am an economic migrant, born in Poland, living in Iceland, and proud of it. I hate the term "expat" with a passion of a thousand suns. I find it racist, used to artificially differentiate between rich, predominantly white, Northern-born people moving freely and comfortably wherever they want; and destitute, predominantly BIPOC people forced to risk their lives to secure livelihood. 🧵 We blanked and did a double take. For most of the meeting so far it felt as if our arguments flew over the heads of people on the other side of the table, but now it was clear *why*. "Sir, nobody is saying you personally would abuse this data this way. But we simply do not know who will be sitting in this chair — and have access to all of this data — in 3 years." Annoyance gave way to sudden realization on vice-minister's face. "Ooh. Huh! I never thought of it this way!" :blobcateyes: 🧵… Consider how suddenly there is a spike of #TwitterMigration as soon as Elmo bans several journalists, and their media orgs complain publicly. Clear indication that if media orgs decided to move away from :birdsite:, others would follow. And sure, these media orgs are now between a rock and a hard place, having to potentially leave their presence there built over a decade. But they put themselves there, by promoting walled gardens for a decade. They have some reckoning and introspection to do. So about the NIF laser fusion thingy... > If gain meant producing more output energy than input electricity, however, NIF fell far short. Its lasers are inefficient, requiring hundreds of megajoules of electricity to produce the 2 MJ of laser light and 3 MJ of fusion energy. Moreover, a power plant based on NIF would need to raise the repetition rate from one shot per day to about 10 per second.
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@rysiek so an ‘instance’ is a server? … still not had a simple explanation on that term 🤣 |
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Add that to the Brexit shit-list.
@rysiek I think I'll add the term aishittified to my vocabulary.
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> but the EU is excluded
ever since GDPR, however flawed it might be, has been introduced, I've liked "not available in EU" as a quick lithmus test for how privacy-friendly a product is.