Gregory's Server
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We got a ton of responses to our pledge of $10,000 in seed funding to help kickstart a federated Deviant Art alternative. Submission deadline is next TUE, June 4. Pls checkout the FAQ & spread the word. We’re esp eager to hear from builders in the Deviant Art community (maybe new to ActivityPub) https://melted-april-eb6.notion.site/FAQ-Project-Defiant-df2b81bd5613434383bead3aca67c83b?pvs=4 Does the Bible have any numerical values for at which temperature hell starts? That’s over 125F. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-temperatures-cross-52-c-heatwave-2024-05-27/ @J12t there is far too little concern about heatwaves going above the limit for human survival, especially in densely populated areas, especially in places without widespread air conditioning and a grid to support it.  @J12t It actually do: https://www.me.iitb.ac.in/~awdate/other4.html TL;DR: it's colder than heaven.
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 @J12t So if i suddenly reach 20k people in one post, on accident, my server has to bear the distribution of the resulting thread flood? Maybe I misunderstand.  @J12t the thinking is less "consistent reply trees" and more "consistent moderated conversations". whereas the reply tree is an implicit structure that needs no approval to be part of, having an actual reified collection with an explicit owner/moderator allows us to authoritatively decide which certain posts are allowed into the conversation or not. anyone can reply to anything, but not anyone can Add into a Collection.  @J12t even for forums, does the Fediverse really need a consistent tree? There would be inconsistencies due to instance and account blocks, language and keyword exclusion, instance policies and moderation All of those being two-way inconsistency tools I understand wanting a consistent tree, so everyone has access to all the posts, but I think the Fediverse focus on safety should override an attempt at consistency What is the likelihood that one of the jurors in “that” trial is currently being offered a million dollars? Actually, probably far less, because people are poor, and also cheap. But the “investor” could certainly go much higher than a million and still get a nice ROI.   @J12t haha let me know how that goes - if you dare! 😆 Unrelated but I love Signal and it's the first time I'm experiencing issues with it. I need to move over my chat history to a new iOS phone and I've been at it for a WEEK... est. time was 37 hrs and I simply can't be without a phone for that long. I was disappointed... until I looked at how much data I had on it. 🥁 roll: 44GB!!! No wonder. I deleted a few chats and I'm now down to 29GB, which gives an estimate of 7 hrs. Doing it overnight 😅 Pondering fake news and AI hallucinations. Practically, there isn't really any difference, is there? Fake news might be more credible at this point, but I'm sure AIs will improve ... 😛 If "AI answers" are the future of web search -- at least that's the common wisdom these days -- then it appears search ads will turn into paid mentions as part of the AI answers. Overt and covert strategies are possible. Like mentioning the product or vendor overtly, or not mentioning them at all, but claiming that some feature X is absolutely required (but only the paid vendor provides it). In other words, web search will be entirely corrupted, and nobody will be able to tell how. I just realized that arguably I started working on the social web in ~1999, not ~2005. At Aviatis, I created this feature where our users -- who were engineers -- could share semantic objects of certain engineering diagrams shown in a browser with each other with deep context for purposes of collaboration around those objects. That's about as social as a use case as I can think of... That was Java applets rather than HTML, but I don't think the users cared (except for the load times ...) "Well shit, we just need to blog more". The Verge on why they redesigned their site in 2022. And that was before the Twitter takeover! https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/13/23349876/the-verge-website-redesign-new-newsfeed-blogs-logo Back in civilization! Todays hike to the top of Mt Umunhum, from the lower parking lot. About 15-16 miles, depending which map you believe, and about 2400 vertical feet. Took me 6.5h including lunch. Happy with myself but sure glad to be sitting on the couch again. Here’s the view from the start of the trail. What would it take for #Mastodon to become that political organizing app instead of Twitter or Threads? Isn’t it a much more logical place? Anybody trying to make it so? Any reasons that speak against? https://restofworld.org/2024/instagram-threads-app-taiwan-protests/
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@J12t I truly miss the way Twitter 1.0 helped activists organize and get visibility for their causes. Every time I mention the Fediverse / Mastodon to my old friends that used to organize on there, they immediately ask “what’s that?” Apparently some that tried to use Mastodon were turned off by the signup process. The network effect (lack of our community on here) was another problem for adoption. I want to make it my mission to get them on here - and encourage their friends to join too We need to invite Scientific American to the #fediverse. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-must-face-down-the-expanding-anti-reality-industry/   @J12t Scientific American is *part* of the Anti-Reality Industry. Check out anything it posts about human sexual biology; the place is run by gender activists now. I’ve heard somewhere that democracy dies in darkness. “In a series of paragraphs that are up there as being among the most shocking I have read in my journalistic career, the Post acknowledged on Saturday — dropped in the middle of the holiday weekend, more than a week after the Times’s report — that they had known about the flag since at least January 20, 2021, and had not revealed knowledge of it until May 25, 2024.” https://www.lawdork.com/p/washington-post-bombshell-washington
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For the past few years, I’ve been running #WeDistribute, a tech blog / news publication dedicated to open source, decentralized social communication systems. It’s evolved from a tiny personal blog to something that kind of resembles a news outlet. This is a musing on my journey, and my hopes on where I can take this thing. https://deadsuperhero.com/2024/05/my-hopes-for-we-distribute/
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  @laurenshof Funny and sad. BTW how are people getting these answers? By just searching at google dot com? When I do that, I don't see any result labeled "AI Overview" in the All tab. Maybe a good thing, but I'm just curious. Why would Google News basically randomize the order of the results in their search? I want to know what's new in the press about the #fediverse and I have to manually scan the whole list. |
@lennby I think I have at least friend that will be leaning into Mg.
Meaningwhile, I’m still trying to figure out what to use instead of Sir/Ma’am.
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*leans back and ponders this while drinking a can of Mg. Pibb*
@lennby it doesn't fucking end in a vowel sound what are they on about