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Eugen Rochko

Saw some text online that made me want to turn it into signage. What good are graphic design skills if you can't have a little fun with them.๐Ÿ˜œ

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Chumchum Tumtum

@Javier aren't we ambush predators and trappers, necessarily, by nature? Like, the whole outlast predator thing never made much sense to me, because it's such a poor cost to benefit ratio, and also so much more effort than ambush and trapping, which would have likely come to early humans pretty easily, given that who we evolved from was already socially cooperative - so as soon as we mutated for high cortical growth, we'd probably be planning ambushes, if not even before then? Conjecture though

Joviko Wi

@Javier

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."

Eugen Rochko

Seriously pissed about this. Offering $10,000 in seed funding for a Deviant Art alternative built on ActivityPub. Q&A below or email your pitch to info@moth.social. slate.com/technology/2024/05/d

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Danny Dragon

@bart Not surprising, especially since DA tried to not opt out with AI scanning the art for their "Art"

Vaughn

@bart could this be done with a PixelFed instance?

Chris

@bart This could be designed not just like DeviantArt, but also adding interesting component from existing art-related gallery like Behance, Artstation, Pixiv, CureCosplay, Xfolio, and so on.

Eugen Rochko

What jobs are we preparing students for by boosting their writing productivity with AI? After shedding 40% of its workforce, the gaming site Gamurs posted an ad last June for an editor to write 250 articles per week. Thatโ€™s a new article every 10 minutes, at $4.25 per article.

As @novomancy has noted, AI is only the accomplice here. This clickbait nightmare is the logical conclusion of the ad-supported web.

sciencetimes.com/articles/4430

#Journalism #Writing #AIethics #AIEdu #AIinEducation #Gaming

What jobs are we preparing students for by boosting their writing productivity with AI? After shedding 40% of its workforce, the gaming site Gamurs posted an ad last June for an editor to write 250 articles per week. Thatโ€™s a new article every 10 minutes, at $4.25 per article.

As @novomancy has noted, AI is only the accomplice here. This clickbait nightmare is the logical conclusion of the ad-supported web.

Eugen Rochko

phanpy.social is a pretty incredible Mastodon client. Entirely web based, looks great on mobile and desktop, you can configure your shortcuts that appear above or below the river of news.

Some screenshots from my own account: good notifications page, different kinds of toots get a different status, plus Boosts are shown in their own carousel.

I've heard one developer made all this, it's pretty incredible.

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Dan Neuman

@mathowie The one feature that keeps me using Mona for iOS is putting photo captions into the Alt Text field so I don't have to copy and paste manually. But otherwise phanpy.social is the web app I can use anywhere, even in VR.

Theresa

@mathowie trying it out now. This is really nice! Thanks for sharing.

Gianluca :press:

@mathowie It works fine even with Hermit... ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ’ช

Eugen Rochko

Imagine if we had to hunt for food like our ancestors. I donโ€™t know if I could hit a breakfast taco with a spear.

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@xinicit

They're more afraid of you then you are of them.

If the Taco fixes their eyes on you wave your arms in the air and scream, it will show dominance.

Jon

@xinicit @Gargron burritos are bigger and easier to hit.

krakalak :clubtwit:

@xinicit no, no. You trap wild tacos. Guacamole is the best bait to use .

Eugen Rochko

Sir please youโ€™re over capacity of cuteness you have to reduce it for your own safety

muskanity

@annaecook
he's my hero ๐Ÿ˜ป from now on ๐Ÿ’–

Eugen Rochko

I took a new (to me) lens to San Francisco, the Canon FD 50mm/1.4, which I haven't had a chance to test before going (which I in hindsight realized was not very wise). I shot 4 rolls of film on the trip. Eagerly awaiting the scans to come back from the lab...

#BelieveInFilm

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Dฮ›NIEL Tส˜Mฮ›N

@Gargron great lens! I was lucky to get that one handed down on my Grandmaโ€™s Canon FTb

[DATA EXPUNGED]
Peter Amthor

@Gargron Wonderful Classic ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿผ

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Matt Maddux

@tvaziri The smoothing out of the grain kills me on the newest releases.

AN/CRM-114

@tvaziri That B&W preview is amazing. In monochrome those movies would look like a twelve hour Smiths music video directed by Anton Corbijn and I am totally into that

Eugen Rochko

Back home after a very busy week in San Francisco. I spoke with @caseynewton, @mmasnick, @harrymccracken, @laurengoode, @chrismessina, @Markoff and so many others. In an age where the old web is gradually getting killed off by AI, there is still hope for the future in the shape of the fediverse.

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Shoq

Thatโ€™s a pretty potent group of notables. Any other takeaways to share from the confab?

Xeno Danger Evil

@Gargron @caseynewton @mmasnick @harrymccracken @laurengoode @chrismessina @Markoff what makes you say that? Sorry for my question I don't have context, but I very much want good news about the old internet. I run my own server(s) and hand code. If people are pushing for more of that, I want to hear about it. Thanks!

Nathan Schneider

@Gargron @caseynewton @mmasnick @harrymccracken @laurengoode @chrismessina @Markoff Ooh that is a great set of folks! You certainly got a very skewed impression of our strange country.

Eugen Rochko

Tried looking up the average height of one story of a building, in the current era of the internet.

I wonder if this is what having a stroke feels like.

Eugen Rochko

i see a lot of people making fun of the new Apple goggles, but if it allows me to finally fuck an Excel file, there's no amount i won't spend

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froggy

@healyn strap in, i'm gonna take this baby all the way to column AAAAAA

Max

@healyn Looks like your post is doing the numbers

Max Leibman

@healyn Mild in the streets, wild in the sheets



of my Excel workbook.

Eugen Rochko

If you hate Windows, simply switch to Linux so you can hate Linux instead

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Brett Edmond Carlock

@schratze
That was the dance I dutifully did every other year or so since 2006 until I found @alpinelinux about four years ago and started by moving my laptops over first, switching fully on my desktop just over a year ago.

Esther Alter

@schratze I use a custom Debian install and it basically doesn't work but on the other hand there's no notification popups

Vivian

@schratze that's why I dualboot, so I can hate both

Eugen Rochko

Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.

We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.

Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.

This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!

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Tuxicoman

@EUCommission

Is there any web centent of the annoucement for press ?

ร€lex Fiestas

@EUCommission @Mastodon Lovely, next thing is to support actual privacy by supporting e2e encryption without any doubt.

Eugen Rochko

As warned, Reddit has taken a bundle of money from "Open"AI and will use it to further monetize what you -- and the volunteers who moderate it all -- contributed for free.

It's the norm now, and particularly slimy in this case.

theverge.com/2024/5/16/2415852

Brian Sullivan

@dangillmor Isn't that the only way social media sites can make money ... to somehow monetize what users contribute? I am not sure how this is any different or more slimey than any other monetization.

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