 I was a buyer of an iPhone 2, not an iPhone 1. That turned out to be a good choice. I guess I will try and find a way to play around with the #visionpro early February but resist to buy the thing, although I suspect the impact this product might have on tech in the years to come will be at least as large as the impact that iPhone had back then. We need to reduce energy consumption, they said, to mitigate the #climate. “By 2050, India will be among the first places where temperatures will cross survivability limits … And … the demand for air conditioners (AC) in the country is expected to rise nine-fold.” 9x https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/06/india/extreme-heat-india-climate-ac-intl-hnk/index.html Who maintains the best / most complete / current list of libraries for fediverse-relevant protocols? Why do I live in California if it has weather like this? I can be depressed elsewhere, too. So Clojure has a library called Verschlimmbesserung. The Germans among us are excited, particularly the engineers :-)  Discussing Embrace-Extend-and-Extinguish, @Gargron on @mike's podcast uses #XMPP as a historical analogy of how things can go wrong. He points out that XMPP had some self-inflicted problems, eg that the standard did not support new, desirable features quickly enough, like stickers in chat. I hope we won't get the same problem in the #fediverse. #ActivityPub was created in 2018 and there is currently no W3C standards activity. Maybe Mastodon could come back to W3C and help re-energize? It was a good discussion. I think the point about XMPP not having a popular base supporting it, like the Fediverse, also seems very relevent. It seems that there may be a much larger base of platforms and users that are invested in the long term success of Activity Pub than there ever was in XMPP - as I understand it. “God made Trump”. If so, clearly as a bad example. https://themessenger.com/politics/trump-shares-new-ad-god-made-trump IETF RFCs are written in XML, and then converter into various formats like HTML and TXT, right? Where would I find the XML originals? So #InflectionAI raises over a billion dollars in venture capital, and this is the typesetting on the about page of their website. Yep, no spaces. Was asked about #fediverse vis-a-vis #indieweb on a podcast. I said: “Two identical twins separated a birth.” That was a spur of the moment thought, but probably not wrong. Can we reunite the family? "it’s highly likely that 2024 will be the year the fediverse goes mainstream." Prediction by @ricmac in The New Stack https://thenewstack.io/web-dev-2024-fediverse-ramps-up-more-ai-less-javascript/ Ouch. Not good, regardless of who actually did it if that can ever be ascertained. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/03/middleeast/iran-explosions-soleimani-ceremony-intl/index.html One of the weirdest things is the number of upvotes and downvotes on lemmy in the group I created for collecting Fediverse press. Some highly positive, some very negative ... I don't see the pattern. @J12t There's an interesting discussion on what some call the #polycrisis -- the set of interrelated, growing problems the world faces from #climate change to #fakenews etc -- over at The Well, in the "State of the World 2024" discussion with @bruces and @jonl Here's a better link: https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/540/Bruce-Sterling-and-Jon-Lebkowsky-page01.html One of the questions from a listener was basically "so what can we do?" It took the liberty to have some thoughts on this related to the #fediverse: ...  Lunch includes 4 cherry tomatoes, which I just harvested from the back yard. Yes, this is California, but no, harvesting tomatoes on January 2nd is not the (old) normal. #globalwarming |
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