Notices by MaineC (mainec@fromm.social)

@mekkaokereke there are Germans that do believe you. Almost a century ago a very young democracy died for lack of democrats - democracy needs people to participate, school is one place where democracy starts.

@inthehands “… it should be clear that improvements in communication tend to divide mankind …” by Harold Innis in Changing Concepts of Time

Someone with a degree in communication science gave me that quote years ago when I was wondering what was wrong with people on social media.

Remember what happened when the printing press was invented, or radio became a commodity?

@inthehands wisdom coming out of Google decades ago: what works with ten users is so different from what you need with a few orders of magnitude more that you'll need to rewrite anyway

@inthehands it's too long ago to be able to dig out the slide deck with that any longer

@inthehands https://research.google.com/people/jeff/Stanford-DL-Nov-2010.pdf ... Found it. The design for growth, but not to scale infinitely and the 'numbers everyone should know' stuck in my head over the years

@jeffowski typewriter is not what they teach :)

@jeffowski hmm, at least three of these things are still part of the official curriculum of German primary schools :)

@dalias @gamingonlinux likely that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Back when everyone was impressed about Google's reaction to ChatGPT and taking that as a sign that Google feared a competitor coming up with a better interface to search I kept wondering why nobody saw the much more immediate thread of LLMs used for SEO...

@dalias @gamingonlinux what surprises me though is that this SEO approach wasn't spotted automatically and the effect throttled.

@josh @phpledge @FOSSBackstage there were speakers who were happy to see that as well - not only immunocompromised people but also those with things they wanted to do the week after the conference that were important to them so spending a week or two in sickbay really was no option.

Plus those with children where one family member getting sick typically means additional work for a month or two while the infection makes its way to everyone one after another.

Applies to all respiratory viruses.