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Johannes Ernst

Also, Mastodon has a cache update problem. I posted a link to the Verge article whose title changed since it was first posted on my server. Today's post still has the old title.

I would bet it doesn't periodically check back.

28 Oct 2023 at 23:55 | Open on social.coop
Tristan Harward

@J12t considering link preview querying is one of the more resource consuming tasks in the queue, I would agree.

29 Oct 2023 at 0:00 | Open on m.trisweb.com
Dale Reardon

@J12t Need a tool like FB & Linkedin have to let you clear their social media cache for a particular url which are very useful

30 Oct 2023 at 14:49 | Open on mastodon.social
Johannes Ernst

I've been thinking a bunch about #Meta's "playbook" for a new app, which they are following with #threads:

1. Create enough curiosity that people will try it out (once)
2. Focus on making one-time users come back and become regular users
3. Focus on widening the user base e.g. by getting users to bring their friends
4. Monetization

From a product/biz perspective, this makes a lot of sense.

Does any project/product/app in the #fediverse follow a comparable playbook? Or are there no playbooks?

I've been thinking a bunch about #Meta's "playbook" for a new app, which they are following with #threads:

1. Create enough curiosity that people will try it out (once)
2. Focus on making one-time users come back and become regular users
3. Focus on widening the user base e.g. by getting users to bring their friends
4. Monetization

28 Oct 2023 at 23:54 | Open on social.coop
Emelia 👸🏻

@J12t I don't think I've really seen any playbooks in use.

29 Oct 2023 at 0:06 | Open on hachyderm.io
Johannes Ernst

"If this ActivityPub-fueled change takes off, it will break every social network into a thousand pieces."

@davidpierce for The Verge: theverge.com/2023/10/23/239285

28 Oct 2023 at 23:39 | Open on social.coop
Johannes Ernst

So @davidpierce, you are writing so much about the Fediverse (thank you!) but The Verge does not have a Fediverse icon next to Twitter and Facebook.

How we can change this?
28 Oct 2023 at 23:41 | Open on social.coop
Johannes Ernst

Running Arch Linux ARM (!) on my x86 MacBook Air with UTM. Works just fine out of the box. I'm fascinated!

That's after I ran the exact same image on my M1 MacBook Pro with UTM, which is indeed an ARM platform.

If I hadn;t been paying attention closely, I'd never be able to tell the difference.

docs.getutm.app/installation/m

#virtualization #utm #opensource #qemu

28 Oct 2023 at 1:52 | Open on social.coop
Johannes Ernst

So I just shared an article to the #Lemmy group on Fediverse press coverage, and as I hit refresh, the number of Likes goes back and forth between 1 and 2. Given that both are from me, and I'm not changing them, what is going on here?

lemmy.world/c/fediverse_press

28 Oct 2023 at 1:07 | Open on social.coop
Johannes Ernst

Very nice explanation of “tipping points” for the climate and other subjects in the “Interconnected Disaster Risks” report by a branch of the UN.

Pull quote: the aquifer feeding India’s breadbasket region is “predicted to experience critically low groundwater availability by 2025”. That’s in two years!

interconnectedrisks.org/summar

27 Oct 2023 at 19:57 | Open on social.coop
Johannes Ernst

Which mega company’s ad business is growing faster than Google’s and Meta’s?

Amazon’s.

26% higher than the year before, at over $12 billion in the most recent quarter. That number is larger than its overall net income (just under $10 billion) and about 10% of revenue excluding the cloud computing business AWS.

And almost all of those ads — at almost $50b annualized run rate — direct you to products on the Amazon site that could not reach this position on the merits.

cnbc.com/2023/10/26/amazon-amz

Which mega company’s ad business is growing faster than Google’s and Meta’s?

Amazon’s.

26% higher than the year before, at over $12 billion in the most recent quarter. That number is larger than its overall net income (just under $10 billion) and about 10% of revenue excluding the cloud computing business AWS.

27 Oct 2023 at 6:03 | Open on social.coop
Johannes Ernst

Watched a recent talk by famed Sci-Fi author and astrophysicist @davidbrin, in which he describes the core feature of democracy as "reciprocal delusion penetration".

The essence: if you have a social system in which having to confront one's intellectual mistakes is valued more than in other systems, that system will eventually outcompete the others. For that to work, you need a reasonably equal playing field, rule of law etc.

That's a really interesting insight.

youtube.com/watch?v=1J6uGeFEVx

Watched a recent talk by famed Sci-Fi author and astrophysicist @davidbrin, in which he describes the core feature of democracy as "reciprocal delusion penetration".

The essence: if you have a social system in which having to confront one's intellectual mistakes is valued more than in other systems, that system will eventually outcompete the others. For that to work, you need a reasonably equal playing field, rule of law etc.

27 Oct 2023 at 4:44 | Open on social.coop
Johannes Ernst

Playing with @simon's llm module, which is nice. OpenAI's response on my first query is not so much:

$ llm 'The distance from San Francisco to New York is like the distance from Lisboa to ..?'

The distance from San Francisco to New York is approximately 2,906 miles.. To find a city with a similar distance from Lisbon, we can consider cities located in the same general direction from Lisbon, which is west. A comparable city in terms of distance would be Recife, Brazil....

Go west, AI, go west!

26 Oct 2023 at 22:58 | Open on social.coop
Dan Lyke

@J12t I've been using GPT4 just using curl and POST requests, and... I think I'm starting to understand what it might be useful for, but holy crap it doesn't reason.

26 Oct 2023 at 23:06 | Open on researchbuzz.masto.host
Johannes Ernst
christina bowen

@J12t
“Rather than focusing only on carbon reduction and climate change, addressing the underlying issue of ecological overshoot will give us our best shot at surviving these challenges in the long run.”💯

#ComplexityWranglers

26 Oct 2023 at 2:59 | Open on social.coop
Gemma 👽

@J12t
But look, the profits for Q4/23 might decrease slightly if we made decisions based on these silly notions of ”saving humankind as we know it”. So… Surely you see it’s just not worthy?

26 Oct 2023 at 5:03 | Open on piipitin.fi
Mike Macgirvin (dev)
During Back Summer, I stopped debating whether climate change was real or imaginary and shifted to saving lives - as did most Australians. We're now seeing the same reactions in most of the world. Let the talking heads talk. The rest of us have got a lot of work to do.
26 Oct 2023 at 22:10 | Open on fediversity.site
Johannes Ernst

Came across this quote from Scott Adams:

"Facts don’t matter. What matters is how much we hate the person talking."

Stuff for thought! h/t @doc in doc.searls.com/2023/08/31/we-n

twitter.com/ScottAdamsSays/sta

25 Oct 2023 at 1:18 | Open on social.coop
Johannes Ernst

"Activating data" is apparently a term in some quarters.

But what might it possibly mean?

data->activate() ? I tried. It didn't start singing and dancing.

25 Oct 2023 at 0:41 | Open on social.coop
Johannes Ernst

The internet of old still survives in some corners.

ctrl-c.club

24 Oct 2023 at 22:36 | Open on social.coop
Johannes Ernst

Looking at the logo #animation for the upcoming #apple event. I have no idea what tools I would use to create an animation like that. Any ideas?

apple.com/apple-events/

24 Oct 2023 at 22:25 | Open on social.coop
Mr Fry

@J12t I would render the lighting effects in 3D software. That halo looks awfully like a shadow in negative, so probably make a model of a “cookie cutter” white apple, spin a light around it, convert to negative so the shadow is white. Same for the Finder icon. Then for the transition use animated masks in some compositing software.

24 Oct 2023 at 22:32 | Open on tilde.zone
Cullen Thomas

@J12t
I've found that typically when I'm looking at something thinking "I don't even know where to start" the answer turns out to be shader math.

24 Oct 2023 at 22:37 | Open on infosec.exchange
Johannes Ernst

Another impact of the EU’s Digital Acts, I’m sure: Automattic is getting into messaging.

theverge.com/2023/10/24/239286

24 Oct 2023 at 19:10 | Open on social.coop
Anders Thoresson

@J12t What is the connection to the new EU regulation?

24 Oct 2023 at 19:39 | Open on thoresson.social
Austin Huang ❤

@J12t Thought "didn't Automattic fund Matrix at first?" (See matrix.org/blog/2020/05/21/wel .) I guess they got short attention spans... though they do have a valid point on Matrix, whose management (New Vector) kinda just banks on the DMA and wants to coerce everyone into using it. But at least Matrix's goal is real interoperability (regardless of what clients users are using), this Texts thing isn't (plus, in terms of multi-platform clients, we already had Pidgin & Trillium long before)...

@J12t Thought "didn't Automattic fund Matrix at first?" (See matrix.org/blog/2020/05/21/wel .) I guess they got short attention spans... though they do have a valid point on Matrix, whose management (New Vector) kinda just banks on the DMA and wants to coerce everyone into using it. But at least Matrix's goal is real interoperability (regardless of what clients users are using), this Texts thing isn't (plus, in terms of multi-platform clients, we already had Pidgin...

25 Oct 2023 at 12:00 | Open on mstdn.ca
Johannes Ernst

So Google owns almost $10 billion in real estate in Santa Clara County alone (that’s Silicon Valley).

sanjosespotlight.com/santa-cla

24 Oct 2023 at 18:57 | Open on social.coop
Johannes Ernst
Johannes Ernst

Headline: “highest-ranking representative of Russia at the EU might be a spy” (in German)

Sweet summer child … really?

spiegel.de/politik/europaeisch

24 Oct 2023 at 8:03 | Open on social.coop
Johannes Ernst

“If the conflict spills across the Middle East, it would likely shatter hopes of mustering global agreement on anything else, including the shared crisis of climate.”

Somebody is taking the big picture view. It’s so rare! (I also agree, sadly.)

nytimes.com/2023/10/23/climate

#israel #hamas #gaza #iran #climatechange

24 Oct 2023 at 2:00 | Open on social.coop
Sampath Pāṇini ®

@J12t
In other words, if you were the sort of person with interests that are harmed by mustering global agreement on multiple shared crises, then you’d openly foster this conflict.

24 Oct 2023 at 2:04 | Open on mastodon.world
Easelbitch™️ :verified: 🕉️

@J12t A photographer to watch

reza photog his works are too deeply profound

24 Oct 2023 at 2:11 | Open on mastodon.world
Johannes Ernst

Anybody can explain how this #Matter #iot connectivity standard actually works?

The specs requires registration, and I don't feel like registering.

Also, can I connect my open-source code without having to go through their certification? How?

theverge.com/2023/10/23/239254

23 Oct 2023 at 23:14 | Open on social.coop
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