@davidgerard In defence of Patreon having a mobile app: I support a couple creators that post videos only to Patreon and that’s the only way to watch them. Some I want to watch on my TV (they can be over an hour long) which is where AirPlay comes in.
Push notifications are also appreciated for some creators when their stuff is about current events.
It’s on my agenda to automate downloading videos to my Plex server, but until then, the app is ok.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run when a web site drives people to an app, there’s something in it for the operators. Smart money is on telemetry and ads, both of which can be blocked in mere web browsers.

Tying features like video to the app “experience” is just a way to get people on the app.

Rest assured, I hate all of it

⚠️ This also goes for the Patreon pages for mstdn ❤️

We do not want to give Apple another 30% on top of all they claim already

Please do not use the Patreon app for iOS to subscribe

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@davidgerard Yep. Headline grabbers that will never go anywhere to distract from the fact that they're missing their sustainability targets chasing the AI bubble for no return whatsoever.

@davidgerard Huh. I knew the economics weren't great for SMRs but I didn't realize *how* not great, not even counting all the other reasons that make them really not worth bothering with.

Kind of a pity, but I haven't found reality really paying much attention to what I wanted no matter *how* hard I wished for something.

@davidgerard SMRs and "portable" nuclear reactors are NOT the way forward. Absolutely not.

- ardent nuclear energy enthusiast

@davidgerard I think there is something inaccurate in the article. WordPress not limit access to their open source resources. They limited access to their repositories of plugins, themes and updates.

I understand that the code is still accessible and WP-Engine could work a bit to make their own repositories and not keep using Automattic's without giving anything in return.

@davidgerard I hate capitalism as a whole.

@davidgerard cc @da_667

@davidgerard I have a 15 year old buddy who made $16,000 on NFTs when he was around 13. Got in and got out fast. He'll go far, but I am a little scared of him.

@davidgerard@circumstances.run as chonos slays his father ouranos, so to shall chronos's own kin slay him & so too shall the son of metis slay his father, & so on

@davidgerard came for the giggle, stayed for what's actually a fairly interesting article about attempts to use AI in verification.

@davidgerard Of course firat fucking thing thry did was use Ai to just brute forcr through jacking up profits. Not making workers work easier and more efficient or some crazy shit like that...

@davidgerard that’s disappointing as I was planning on switching to Proton Mail in the very near future.

@davidgerard I took part in that survey and was put off that they were even considering it. Hopefully when the fad washes over and nobody finds any actual usefulness out of it, it'll be scrapped

@davidgerard Another service to avoid in the future.

@davidgerard "millions of small files on disk" gives me the heeby jeebies.

@davidgerard how much of the push for decentralisation is to decentralise the astronomical costs of running a social media site rather than an ideological belief that it somehow provides better freedom/security

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"storing repo data as millions of small files on disk"

whut

"GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE bgs TO bigsky;"
"GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE carstore TO bigsky;"

oh no

"focus here is on the compute resources"

Good thing that it is and nobody reading this would learn any other lessons from this document.

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I see more and more companies doing this authoritarian "we do what we want" bullshit and not caring what their users want. It's disturbing.

Don't give these companies your data. If they care so little about what you want, they will do shady things with your info behind your back when it benefits them.

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So now none of their data is good.

Glassdoor was a trustworthy source on employers because if its anonymity.

Now it's just an employer circle-jerk recruitment tool.

@davidgerard thereby eliminating their sole distinguishing value proposition. Yet another brilliant business decision from Silly Valley

@davidgerard excellent!

@davidgerard Haha I think it's the contrary in fact. 😅

@davidgerard Will startx still launch the graphial interface for Linux or will it soon open a social media client?

@davidgerard tweets as framebuffer transport over Layer 7 OSI

@davidgerard The devs have started blocking the users on bsky, several of them locked their twitter accounts, and one of them took their website offline.

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racists are gonna racist. Not sure why this guy sounds so surprised.

@davidgerard yeah idk why anyone thought that would play out differently

@davidgerard I was not aware that was a slur. Bluesky helps us learn 🙃

@davidgerard Cracker isn't a slur. Ask any number of white people here in Florida and Georgia.

As I posted a few days ago, former Florida governor and U.S. Senator Bob Graham loved to call himself a Florida Graham cracker. And that's a sentiment widely shared by probably millions of white people across the South in the U.S., even today.

@davidgerard to be precise - a restaurant owner. Probably, of a shitty restaurant, but nevertheless.

@davidgerard "a Jewish comedian who performed in drag!"

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@davidgerard Lesbian wrath is absolutely deserved these days, but bisexual sloth sounds pretty awesome, honestly. A bunch of bi folks doing nothing for days at a time, maybe watching Netflix or cuddling cats or a whole bunch of other stuff needed to stay sane in these insane times.

@davidgerard Hmm, would lust be poly? Pan? Queer?

@davidgerard what up bitches bisexual sloth here

@davidgerard Forget NNTP, I'm nostalgic for uucp over V.22bis modems these days! No room for large GIFs, never mind video. Web hadn't been invented yet. No advertising, no fucking new media oligarchs pwning the internet, just raw ASCII text files.

@davidgerard Who is "us"? Many people have remarked for a very long time that offices were terrible environments, and many people have been working remotely for decades if not longer.

@davidgerard "Hello I would like to hear half of your Zoom call" is chef's kiss.

@davidgerard here as @PavelASamsonov, i believe

@davidgerard I also recommend @anildash 's timeless "If Your Website Is Full of Assholes, It's Your Fault": https://www.anildash.com/2011/07/20/if_your_websites_full_of_assholes_its_your_fault-2/

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RE: A group is its own worst enemy

I did see two people flirting on Mastodon once, then they stopped. And there's a guy I know who seems pretty thirsty but he's been quiet. So not so much on the sex talk.

The lesson that one needs to build in moderation from the start seems to have been missed again on a different site. And you can't solve social problems with tech has not been learnt here! And size of server keeping small and interesting is not .social.

@davidgerard Thanks for sharing this. Clay Shirky’s piece “A Group Is Its Own Worst Enemy” is really relevant and helpful for stuff we’re working on right now in https://www.socialroots.io/

Much appreciated. 🙏

@davidgerard yes but it's fine, it won't actually remove them, it'll just shove an icon on them so you'll actually get to see everything.

@davidgerard The 69,420th Law of Robotics

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