Notices by Troed Sångberg (troed@masto.sangberg.se), page 2

I have a feeling these need to be saved for posterity.

@glynmoody tl;dr:

A board member of Bluesky thinks that ActivityPub fails because running your own instance is "a chore", and believes the Bluesky approach where only rich entities can run critical parts of the system is better.

well then

@andreaslindholm https://matrix.org

(Jag känner inte till någon öppen svensk Matrix-server, men det är något jag rekommenderar föreningar/företag etc att sätta upp. Kör en egen för min familj)

@rasmusfleischer yt-dlp

Mycket mer än Youtube.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp

@thanius but but ... I AM using Firefox!!

@thanius I very much agree with your sentiment, but I have since years had issues with Wikipedia's donation drives. They're sitting on piles of money.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/wikipedia-millions-bank-beg/

I think Wikipedia needs to get decentralized as well.

@nullagent

Brains are indeed extremely energy efficient at a level we don't understand, but I was more alluding to that according to all known science we're also just deterministic autocomplete machines.

This is such an inconvenient fact though so we tend to just claim - without any scientific backing - that "there must be more to it".

@markotway @cstross

@MisuseCase

Eh no. We know of no physics or chemistry that can result in anything except deterministic autocomplete.

(Thus you have some who talk about "quantum tubes" or pure dualism with "a soul outside of physics" etc)

Sabine Hossenfelder has a good video on why she doesn't think free will exists.

@nullagent @markotway @cstross

@thelovebing

Precis - detta är jätteviktigt att hamra in.

En brutal, och korrekt, jämförelse är med en person som just nu utövar våldtäkt på en annan.

Det finns ingen "medling" där. Det finns inget ge och ta där man kan komma överens om något som fungerar för båda parter.

@iakonkret @mortenfrisch @jonbrunberg

@glynmoody It was absolutely heart breaking to see that blunder.

Otoh, it was absolutely fantastic to see Gukesh's reaction!

@glynmoody Oh wow that didn't take long

@thanius All is not lost, I'm sure you can replace it with Atari ST?

@iakonkret Doctorow uttryckte det så otroligt väl här:

"I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will"

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

(Sen kanske jag inte själv tänker på det som "building up an audience" men nog 17 gör det ont att ha tappat kontakten med så många människor bara för att jag lämnat Twitter och Facebook)

@thanius I save a shitload of money on automating heating and car charging :) When the kids were younger I had audible notifications in the mesh speaker system whenever doors to the outside weren't closed etc.

I'd say there's lots of utility - but outside of "the common stuff".

@rasmusfleischer Jo, men jag menade att det skulle vara just därför de istället tog PP-åsikter och klistrade på PB, för att få med "yttrandefrihet" och annat utan att för den skulle prata (för) mycket om PP.

Bara en reflektion - vi var många i PPs ledning/styrelse som identifierade oss som libertarianer.

@rasmusfleischer Det känns som om de ville skriva om Piratpartiet men inte kunde eftersom det är ett fortfarande aktivt politiskt parti och därför klistrades en del av tankarna där på Piratbyrån istället!?

idk

@glynmoody "Elfdalian" sounds so Tolkien compared to the actual Swedish name "älvdalska".

(And now I'll go look at the etymologi for the word "älv" - Swedish for "river" - and elfs)

@glynmoody It took me longer than I want to admit to realize this wasn't about (Kamala) Harris and Georgia (the state).

@mmasnick $15M Series A means Bluesky has convinced investors they can extract $150-200MUSD from a userbase of 3-4M MAU.

That's $50 per user. There's simply no way of doing that without going down the route of enshittification - and most certainly not without staying centralized.

Surely you know this.

@thanius

Volkswagen ID.7 is by far the best electric car on the market right now.

@euronews @europe-videos-euronews