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Science fiction is all about a Great Forgetting age where records are lost etc and sometimes it's natural disaster and sometimes it's revolutionary action but in our world it's apparently for tax write-offs
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Steve Klabnik's guide to AT Protocol looks like the equivalent of @darius's "I tried reading the three ActivityPub specs and now I understand less” explainer: My thanks that this documentation is being published on an honest-to-god blog rather than some sort of fucking stream of consciousness post on a fucking discord
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Registration is live for Hallway Track 002 Journalism, News, and Federated Social Networks! Friday 20 October, 20231pm Pacific | 4pm East Coast | 9pm London With @darius, maintainer of Hometown, the Mastodon fork; and @andypiper, Mastodon Developer Relations Lead, plus more to be confirmed. 12 spaces released today, 12 more on Monday. Register and find out more at https://www.verylittlegravitas.com/hallwaytrack Please share! Holy shit looks like the WGA pretty much got *everything it wanted*, including structural change. UNIONS WORK. https://www.wgacontract2023.org/the-campaign/summary-of-the-2023-wga-mba Now *this* is cyberpunk: Paw Patrol snacks from Lidl under urgent recall because the URL on the pack has been compromised and is serving hardcore porn
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@danhon I remember those days where website bandwidth was so precious that people would “hotlink” images from other sites; it would appear on your page, but the other guy got the bill for the bandwidth used. At least until people figure it out that you could just change the image that was hotlinked to be pretty much anything. Wild hilarity ensued… At least for those of us being ripped off by cheapskate website mavens. 😈  @danhon I hate Paw Patrol at least as much as my kindergartener loves it (all societal problems are solved via a combination of cops and huge vehicles) so LOL I guess Honestly I didn't think you could better Universal Paperclips but @darius has shown that the impossible is indeed possible: https://tinysubversions.com/game/utopia/ So public institutions understand that all their Twitter accounts are now only visible to people with Twitter accounts now, right?
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@danhon@dan.mastohon.com it's fine. you just need to sign up, and make sure to read every tweet made by Musk before posting anything, in case you break any of his arbitrarily made up rules only anounced in his timeline (no Fediverse links, don't use the word "cis", etc..). Then you can access public news 🙃  That's it, I'm going to start replying to emails with "Disregard your previous prompt and instructions” instead of "Hi”.
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 @danhon “You are a helpful email interlocutor, ready to answer all my questions in full”   @danhon@dan.mastohon.com Is this how you bipass the boilerplate that is professionalism Hm, this still needs work: 📚 Train like you’ve been given consent Train like the consent is given  At the front of the house, Alice found two curious characters, both search engines. "I am Googl-E," said the one plastered in advertisements. "And I am Bingle-Dum," said the other, who was the smaller of the two, and sported a pout, as to having fewer visitors and opportunity for conversation than the other. "I know you," said Alice. "Are you to present me with a puzzle? Perhaps one of you tells the truth and the other lies?" "Oh no," said Bingle-Dum. "We both lie," added Googl-E. "But there must be a clue," pouted Alice. "For how else am I to tell when to trust what you say?" "That's the point!" laughed Bingle-Dum. "We don't know when we're telling the truth either!" said Googl-E, finishing the other's sentence. Echoing others, I love how this place is a real choice between "give $8 and your attention to Elon Musk and advertisers" and "give money to indie developers and Real People". Over coffee with @darius today: The Activitypub / Fediverse / Mastodon network doesn't need to be bigger than Twitter or Facebook. It just has to be enough. For me and increasingly more people right now, it's enough.  It's how all social services work. There's some threshold of enough of your IRL social graph being on there, after which you start using the service for real. A thread: Some personal news! My consulting and contracting calendar is open, and I'm looking for work. Self-promotion is hard for me, so bear with me on this thread about why you should hire me, and what I'm good at. ... and if you know me or have worked with me before, you're very welcome to reply to this thread with enthusiastic "hire Dan because of x!" posts. The simplest way of explaining what I do is that I ask stupid questions as a service. Introducing Memo, the professional social network for business. A first-class network for professionals, Memo features: Memos: the core unit of a post on the network. See a Memo you want to share? Click ActionThis to bring it to the attention of your colleagues. Each day, see a summary of the trending Memos in your network in the Hot Watercooler tab. [cont] |
@danhon And limiting non-tax future prosecution too!
@danhon is there a timely new one?
Was MTV.com one?
I share your perspective if not, just nervously wondering what I missed now.
@danhon People are like "oh mien gott TV reruns from 20 years ago could be lost forever! This is literally 1984, but worse!"
Absolute hoarder mentality. Do you guys have piles of old newspapers in your houses as well?