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Eugen Rochko

i love dried fruit so much you might say it's my raisin d'Γͺtre

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Brian Enigma

@tarajdactyl That pun was so bad, the audience is throwing tomatoes at you. (Sun-dried, of course.)

Stone Bear

@tarajdactyl OY. *sigh* I guess you gotta keep currant on these things? Be the sultana of puns?

Eugen Rochko

Hatching some plans with the man, the myth, the legend... @Gargron!

Lots of great stuff in the works for the open, social web in 2024 and beyond!

Eugen Rochko

Great to meet @Gargron, @andypiper and many other #Fediverse and #Mastodon enthusiasts in SF.

Thanks to @mike and @Flipboard for holding the social event!

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Elena Rossini ⁂

@frozencanuck @Gargron @andypiper @mike @Flipboard So amazing to see these wonderful people together - experiencing real FOMO 😁

RolandOfGilead

@frozencanuck @Gargron @andypiper @mike @Flipboard I love Mastodon, but the standard Android client, which is likely the most used, continues to have awful behavior when you click on the MORE ribbon to fetch the latest posts. It jumps to the top instead of leaving the pointer on the last read post. Then you have to scroll down to try and find your place. PLEASE FIX THIS.

Eugen Rochko

I hope this email finds you no matter how well you think you've disguised yourself.

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niktemadur

The most notorious example for me is Spanish cinema, it’s like they’re rapid-fire whispering, then suddenly they burst out screaming. No middle ground. And just what the hell are film sound editors and mixers in Spain smoking, to think that this is the proper way to mix a film’s audio?

Arandmoor

@MrLovenstein So true. Fuck you #youtube. You're at least as bad as the worst TV show for audio balance.

Eugen Rochko

Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it

"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page

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Kat the Leopardess

@simon Thats why I cant listen to people make the opposite talking point about decentralized or alternative social media. People wanna stick to FB/Meta and the big platforms bc they need the exposure and consider things like the Fedisphere "too complicated"

....and yet you obviously are going to have to get more complicated in how you continue to get that exposure on places like Meta/Ig...by having to do workarounds for the link blocking.

Like, is that complacency really that much better and easier?

@simon Thats why I cant listen to people make the opposite talking point about decentralized or alternative social media. People wanna stick to FB/Meta and the big platforms bc they need the exposure and consider things like the Fedisphere "too complicated"

....and yet you obviously are going to have to get more complicated in how you continue to get that exposure on places like Meta/Ig...by having to do workarounds for the link blocking.

Adam Dalliance

@simon Email too. The more links in your email the more likely they are to put it in a spam folder.

tallship

@simon

A couple of things there Simon. How do you know this? Are you still using the deprecated, privacy mining, monolithic silos to which you refer, or are you just taking this on the word of good, 3rd party information sources?

If it's the former, why?

If it's the latter, then yippie kai yay! The demise of these platforms is underway and in full swing - just as Steve Ballmer once called Linux "Cancer", the fact that these silos aren't simply ignoring links to particular resources, especially those in the #Fediverse, and have taken up with the practice of actively blocking them, is a good thing; and you, as a #Fedizen, should be proud.

Yet again, if it is the former, and you really insist on validating and monetizing those privacy mining silos via your subjugation as inventoried chattel there, consider pinning something akin to the following to the top of your profile (make sure to read the alt-text for the image):

@simon

A couple of things there Simon. How do you know this? Are you still using the deprecated, privacy mining, monolithic silos to which you refer, or are you just taking this on the word of good, 3rd party information sources?

If it's the former, why?

If it's the latter, then yippie kai yay! The demise of these platforms is underway and in full swing - just as Steve Ballmer once called Linux "Cancer", the fact that these silos aren't simply ignoring links to particular resources, especially those in the

Eugen Rochko

About an hour ago, the sky turned blood red over Bavaria, Germany. It's the first time I've ever seen an #Aurora in my life. It was so bright to be easily visible with the naked eye. An absolutely jawdropping experience. πŸ––πŸ˜³βœ¨
#polarlights #northernlights #solarstorm #Polarlichter
cc @tagesschau @DLR @dlr_next @stim3on

Eugen Rochko

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that when Jack Dorsey looks back at his time at Twitter, his only regret is that it was technically possible for him to ban the Nazis so people nagged him to do so.

So now his ideal social network is one where the moderators can’t ban Nazis.

engadget.com/jack-dorsey-claim

Jason Yip

@carnage4life I'm wondering if this is why Twitter was always bad at coming with useful features themselves. Their overall concept of reality was off.

Alex White-Robinson

@carnage4life Must be great to be totally insulated from the tiniest consequences of all of your decisions. Utterly incapable of reflection and learning. Completely surrounded by people who give you endless respect, praise, and never criticism. Absolutely not a recipe for uncaring idealogues, convinced they're right in all respects.

Eugen Rochko

This interview is seriously whacked out, both the questions and Dorsey’s bizarre answers.

He has β€œa strategy for ending censorship forever!” lol

piratewires.com/p/interview-wi

Eugen Rochko

A robot may not harm shareholder value nor, through inaction, allow shareholder value to come to harm.

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CourtneyCantrell won't go back

@benno Well that's a bit on the nose, don't you think?

😫

webcubus

@benno the one rule of robotics in 2024

JoeBecomeTheSun

@benno I am pretty sure the automechanicals in the outer worlds follow this rule. Same with the ai companies keeping the fully functional uncensored models to themselves while giving the general public neutered toys by comparison. Remember when google gemini refused to show C++ source code to minors because it misunderstood a lot of the online dialog around c++ being memory unsafe and possibly type unsafe? Or google image ai generating racially diverse nazis, or chatgpt getting dumber over time as each new jailbreak gets patched? The market is clear what it wants, and the corporations wont give it to us and expect the government to protect them from competition. Sorry, not gonna happen.

@benno I am pretty sure the automechanicals in the outer worlds follow this rule. Same with the ai companies keeping the fully functional uncensored models to themselves while giving the general public neutered toys by comparison. Remember when google gemini refused to show C++ source code to minors because it misunderstood a lot of the online dialog around c++ being memory unsafe and possibly type unsafe? Or google image ai generating racially diverse nazis, or chatgpt getting dumber over time as...

Eugen Rochko

β€œWe found the company's phony authors and their work everywhere from celebrity gossip outlets like Hollywood Life and Us Weekly to venerable newspapers like the Los Angeles Times.” futurism.com/advon-ai-content

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Toni Aittoniemi

@taylorlorenz The garbage machine is just getting started..

64 Islands Airship Co-op

@taylorlorenz @kcarruthers so this will be what finally kills off commercial journalism, companies devaluing writers to the point where they are willing to publish mush written by robots instead

bitcrush.io

@taylorlorenz
This explains so much and also totally sucks to be aware of. In any case, thanks for sharing it.

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