Notices by Ted Mielczarek (tedmielczarek@mastodon.social)

@sidereal @foolishowl @PastaThief @brooke I would assume they’re also looking for a pretext for a bailout. Bernie Sanders has proposed partial public ownership of AI companies, I don’t know who whispered that in his ear.

@skinnylatte WHAT

@skinnylatte have you seen her on TikTok? She has been posting very fun, cute videos.

@bob_zim @mcc @dalias @CliftonR @Orb2069 there are a bunch of wireless dongles that can translate Android Auto to CarPlay and other such things. Here's the first search result that showed up from Amazon, for example: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FPQPRRDT

@qdot it’s like that scene from the Simpsons where Sideshow Bob steps on rakes over and over again.

@inthehands I can't find it but someone had a graph showing projections of VR headset adoption from various years and it's a bunch of exponential curves branching off of the real adoption curve, which was just slow, steady growth.

@skinnylatte there are still *a lot* of Americans who believe that America is the best country in the world despite all the evidence to the contrary. Generations of propaganda have hit pretty hard and we're not exactly educating folks to develop critical thinking skills.

@skinnylatte so weird! I'll have to try it at Haraz. I've only been to one once, I got the Qishr and really enjoyed it. I agree that hipster cafe chai is terrible.

@Infoseepage @gabrielesvelto I think the whole thing will start to collapse when some of these multi-billion-dollar datacenter deals fail to hit their agreed-upon milestones and the companies that pledged the bulk of the funding exercise their termination clauses.

I found this article from a law firm on the potential litigation risks involved quite illuminating: https://www.quinnemanuel.com/the-firm/publications/client-alert-emerging-litigation-risks-in-financing-ai-data-centers-boom/

@dalias @bodil @hdgarrood every day I am further convinced that I have underestimated the degree to which it is a cognitohazard. "AI-induced psychosis" is just the most visible outcome.

@skinnylatte my experience as someone who only ever visited offices in SF is that it is nice to have a rooftop patio at the office to hang out on when the sun is out. The Mozilla SF office had a rooftop patio with a *fantastic* view of the bay bridge.

@skinnylatte additionally: I visited New Orleans for the first time in 2024 and my biggest regret was that we didn't make time to try any Viet-Cajun fusion food.

@skinnylatte I would like to subscribe to your newsletter (as I typed out this joke response I realized that also this is an earnest response to your forthcoming venture).

@zkat @b0rk when things felt good at Mozilla there was some of this feeling, even if it wasn't reflected in the org structure. There were volunteer contributors in all parts of the process: developers, module owners, QA, localizers, community support, (I could go on and on). It felt empowering to run Nightly builds and file bug reports, like it was actually making things better.

@whitequark I guess that puts you somewhere between Ann Peebles and Garbage:
https://youtu.be/SmGig_b2QLI
https://youtu.be/GpBFOJ3R0M4

@whitequark @zkat @joepie91 RE: licenses, I'm inclined to agree. Seeing how Apple releases the source to their operating systems as well as how Google manages open source projects over the years—both of which are effectively "here's the source code, go fuck yourself"—I came to the conclusion that the way in which a project is run matters a heck of a lot more than the license.

@whitequark I think you could get a lot of customer loyalty from providing a hosted service comprised of open source components. You could even have a guide for "here's how you could self-host" as an anti-lock-in guarantee. Showing the specifics of what you're paying for is also pretty compelling.

@whitequark @jaseg oh that's a T, I'm also not wearing my glasses, as it turns out.

@whitequark @jaseg reading this last post out of context had me trying to figure out why you would want to put onions in wine.

@skinnylatte do you spatchcock your chicken? I've had great success doing so. I usually also roast chicken in my 12" cast iron skillet so I can preheat it on the stove and sear the skin then flip it over and put it in the oven.