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COVID in California, the gift that keeps on giving. I suspect itโs similar elsewhere.
Any nary a mask in sight.
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How's the #Tor project doing? Running Tor for the first time in a while, I notice the most current release of the Tor browser is more than 18 months old. UPDATE: I was wrong. See comments. Apparently not: the page it sent me to implied that, but restarting the browser auto-updated it to something newer. Count this user confused.   @J12t they need to replace the "sorry"s with a simple probability that what ever has been said is incorrect. @J12t ask it for links, Gemini always redacts invalid links at least An incredibly long article to basically say โwe didnโt test itโ. Hmmmโฆ #crowdstrike https://www.crowdstrike.com/falcon-content-update-remediation-and-guidance-hub/ @docpop says "The Fediverse is an alliance of websites". Oh, I like that a lot. From the first episode of "The Fediverse Files" he produced for WordPress/Automattic. Somebody updated the Limits To Growth โWorld3โ model and curve-fit it to the actual data over the past 50 years. The original predictions were not pretty. The updated ones arenโt any prettier and are becoming imminent. Corrected: Over $1200 per capita in advertising spending in the US per year. That is .... substantial! And nobody is happy about it except for the ad brokers. https://www.statista.com/outlook/amo/advertising/united-states and https://blog.zgp.org/privacy-id-buy-that/ thanks @dmarti Some people have made up their minds. Disengaging. One of the great features of the Fediverse.  @J12t we've a lot of resources for moderators over on https://connect.iftas.org Like guides on lots of stuff! Back from a very nice hike in the not-so-hot hills today. The Fediverse is missing that "Away" status that we used to have in instant messaging. Or more likely these days "out of coverage" or "taking a mental break"... So ... catching up. Apparently I am a "relatively high-profile fediverse influencer". Not sure what exactly that is, but does that mean one has to answer questions whose answers are quite obvious? Maybe? (I hope not?) But let me try anyway ... (cont'd) What academic papers or masters or other theses have been published in recent times in computer science on decentralized social media, the fediverse, or the social web? Would appreciate pointers because Iโm not coming up with much. Who has active research going on? #compsci #fediverse For those of you who think there is no money on the fediverse, think again. From: @heidilifeldman  @J12t there is not much money *for* the fediverse. This is 50% of the whole Mastodon budget for last year, to put things in comparaison.  I am continuing my efforts to contact key people in digital, outreach, and elsewhere in the Harris campaign. Eventually, I will get through, Iโm sure. Iโd like to have a list ready of qualified volunteers who could assist the campaign in understanding Mastodon and the Fediverse, setting up and maintaining an instance, and so forth. If you are interested in being contacted should an opportunity arise, please provide your details here https://opnform.com/forms/mfh-tech-volunteers-5asxbl. 2/ #MastodonForHarris Is there a way to add people to a Mastodon list in the Web UI that does not take 6+ steps, including a search field that somehow uses a different algorithm than the main search field? Remember the Flock social web browser? @chrismessina brought it up the other day, and fortunately, there are still a bunch of demo videos on YouTube. I wonder which of its features from back then are still good ideas that we don't have today. Anybody building a social browser today? @J12t @chrismessina I saw that @alcinnz is offering a browser development challenge. https://floss.social/@alcinnz/112800185382361096 @J12t @chrismessina Beaker was interesting while it lasted. The GitHub repo includes a great postmortem. https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/blob/master/archive-notice.md Chatgpt is losing the plot today. I ask it for some code, and gives me step 1 and stops. I ask "Is there a step 2", it apologizes continues and stops code generation right in a nonsensical middle: (This is supposed to be python) from datetime import datetime, timedelta Hmmm .... I'm thinking we are missing a term, or a concept when talking about the #Fediverse and #decentralized social networking vs. #centralized platforms. The concept of "middleman" is good. We don't want a #middlemn. But then, most of us don't run our own Mastodon instances, so we have middlemen in the fediverse, too. And our e-mail providers are, and our hosting companies for our personal websites. But those are a kind of different middleman, not as dangerous. We need a new term. (cont'd/) So what about we distinguish between "enforced middleman" and "voluntary" or "service provider" "middlemen". (There may be better terms.) The "enforced middleman" is that one we cannot avoid. We cannot fire, we cannot control, that does things we don't approve of but cannot do anything about other than leave. While the "voluntary middleman" is somebody we hire because it makes our lives more convenient, but they aren't in a position of power to meddle because we can find/replace them any time. As we start to get ready for the debates and energy of the #FediForum, I'd love to collect all of your thoughts on: What are the most pressing issues for the #Fediverse right now and in the next 6 months? What challenges are different from those a year ago? What did we solve in the past 6 months and what didn't we? What help do we need to move the Fediverse forward? P.s. Registration is open: https://fediforum.org/ Join us! |
@J12t California will make no effort to keep this to itself ..