 This @theverge_com article points out that many would-be #Twitter alternatives have gone down, but the ones still standing all connect to the #fediverse. Hmm, I sense a pattern? https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/19/24135011/twitter-alternative-post-news-shutdown RIP Z80. May your opcodes live forever in our hearts. > Z80 Product Line: Z85C00 End of Life. https://www.mouser.com/PCN/Littelfuse_PCN_Z84C00.pdf (The Z80 was the second microprocessor I ever wrote Assembly to target – the 6502 being the first.) @jackwilliambell I learned assembly on a Z80. Hand-translated assembly that is because I couldn’t afford buying an assembler … but I had a disassembler! Which I got by typing it in (yes!) in hex that was published in a book!! There’s a bird outside that’s making an incredible ruckus every night these days. How do I figure out what’s going on?? #ChatGPT is useless for me. I've been trying to use it for Web search where I'm not certain how to express what I want to look for in some easy search terms. But it doesn't get what I'm saying either. The words match, but the meaning does not. There were two other sessions on the #Fediverse at Internet Identity Workshop this week. One by me, on Identity in the Fediverse and one by @dmitri on Data Portability. To my surprise, many attendees were not or only very marginally aware of the Fediverse. We need to communicate what it is and why it matters much more broadly than we have so far, apparently. Talking about FediTest and Fediverse testing @feditest at Internet Identity Workshop today. Thanks @kudrix for the photo! #iiw #activitypub #fediverse  During college, when my EE internship placed me in a manufacturing line job that was somewhat repetitive (not very repetitive as repetitive goes though), on the second day, I distinctly remember I felt like my brain was dying. It was not a good feeling. So can confirm. Fortunately, my manager saw sense and made me write some Turbo Pascal instead the day after. https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/17/health/brain-job-dementia-wellness/index.html Now the #AI chatbot got pregnant. What's next? P.S. Well, it thought so. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133184/metas-ai-apparently-thinks-it-has-a-child An entrepreneur -- who doesn't yet want to be publicly identified -- ran a session here at #IIW why he's pivoting his company out of the #SSI Self-sovereign Identity / #VC Verifiable Credential space after years of trying to make a business there. It was extremely interesting and I hope he will publish his lessons learned both for the #identity community and any new technology market really that has similar challenges. P.S. Much resonated with my reasons why I never got deep into SSI myself. About to run a session on identity and the open social web / fediverse at #iiw. Lots of unsolved problems. Internet Identity Workshop number 38 #iiw has started. Thirty-eight!! And somehow the internet identity problem is still not close to being solved. Still fun though. @J12t If you believe the attack by #iran was mostly for show, consider the bar graph here: https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/iran’s-attempt-hit-israel-russian-style-strike-package-failedfor-now I think it clearly disproves the thesis. @J12t I retract my theory that it wasn't intended to do significant damage. My theory was based on the perspective that Iran was aware of how built-up Israel's defenses are against other rocket barrages. It seems silly to me for a neighboring country to see them so well-defended against aerial bombardment, and think "yeah, this is the way to go" Journalism elder statesman @dangillmor is retiring. Just kidding. He is only pretending to retire, as he outlines here. https://dangillmor.com/2024/04/14/whats-next-for-me/ Interesting pov on the decline of social media traffic to “conservative” sites as a result of meta de-emphasizing news content. No idea whether it’s accurate, but worth pondering. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/04/conservative-digital-media-traffic/678055/  @J12t without reading the article, I will take a shot at explaining it: "Conservative" news are now being spread via messaging groups: Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, et caterva. |
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@J12t Couldn't agree more! https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/112300049171938311