Notices by Johanna, CanCon variety (johannab@cosocial.ca), page 2

@evan we need a daily betting pool for "where is Evan going to turn up today?"

Recognizing that 2-5 correct answers might be possible. 😁

Thought here … #fediforum, #fedidev, #atproto builders who are deeper in the architecture than I can get…

Are there any self-hosting options out there that can literally just be the sign-in server for other services? Where’s our independent, federated “sign in with {Google/fb/linkedIn/mastodon}” option? Am I just talking about a Mastodon instance that doesn’t federate and doesn’t allow posting?

Maybe this is not even a need, I’m trying to assemble a systems theory map in my head.

The upside of a couple of the #fediforum presentations having a higher gravitational pull than usual today is that @jaz and I got a semi-private hack hour with @mapache to kick some @fediprofile tires and fam, one thing I love about FediForum is that there are So. Many. Ideas. that get their legs and start at a run.

@johannab@profile.stone-soup.ca is now out here if you want to follow some experiments/sandboxing for a bit.

Getting a coding agent to assemble the seaborn library bits and pieces to make my climate projection data make nice charts.

Certainly not submitting this to any code repositories ... 😬

OTOH, I now have reusable functions to run with any city dataset from climatedata.ca. Anybody wanna know their best and worst case scenarios for heat risk events through 2100? Southwestern Ontario is gonna be damned hot.

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116454543787345457

Dr. Bender just called out one of the “unacknowledged stakeholders” concerns I started noticing when I jumped into some systems-heavy classes last year. This hype-driven AI in all things wave is particularly risky in healthcare where it could lead to delisting patients for not being sufficiently compliant *with AI recordkeeping*.

That is abhorrent. These things have entered the Medical Devices space, utterly unchallenged and unregulated. Clinical Risk analysts nowhere to be seen.

@evan I feel like this one might have been clearer if you chose options that were either "up to" x%, or "at least" x%.

Wouldn't it depend on many factors *about * the project? There are A+ projects out there that are wholly on one person. And there are great projects out there that couldn't possibly be managed by less than a team numbering in the double-digits (like linux itself, or Python) and in those, a "core maintainer" could be much more PM or QA/Validation than coder.

@cwebber who's your backing band

@evan

Ha, I thought it was just us blue-haired oldies who remembered *plonk*. I'm only using it in my admin notes, and only in public if I'm sarcastiposting about the week's moderation adventures from a mod-persona account.

Generally NOT in interpersonal chat ... I stick with the "move on" part if I need to block and move on.

I'm also trying to take a breath and note if a "mute" is more appropriate, as those can be time-limited.

@evan

Yes, but unfortunately at the cost of recreating the sort of factions we've been trying to get out of for many years.

Gonna be a while, and a lot of pain, before we settle on an acceptable and productive moderate middle and start reskilling not just 'hackers' but users/consumers to be more aware of what their software is doing.

@evan Given that we started at X, we could've just called them A. None of us will be around long enough to make it BACK to X, so there's not likely to be confusion.

OTOH, are today's kids the alpha release version of our cyber-integrated species? 🤣

Great, we'll have a stable release candidate sometime after 2080.

@evan

It's either zero, or "as many as possible", until we get enough remedial civics education out there that your vote is only and exactly for your local MP/MPP in our system.

That parties have become like sports teams to the uncritical electorate is absolutely gangrenous in our system.

@dansup

I *boop* thee Sir Jake, honourary full-privileges member of the Order of #caturday Adherents!

-- Leelo(o) Ten

@evan I think I am with you on the "no, but...", and I can see why others are not. If someone's "social network" experience has *only* happened in the time frame since Facebook and shortly thereafter Twitter turned to monetization-motivated algorithms, then their ability to conceive of different is limited. There is no distinction in most minds between "social network" and "social MEDIA" and treating those as synonymous limits understanding.

@skinnylatte That makes me really ponder, was that translated from Korean to English by a native Korean speaker, a native English speaker, or did the description happen in both languages without knowing the name in the other?

@Niall @inthehands @ai6yr

No kidding, I had apparently actually listened to those ones but forgotten, and now I've listened again AND need to pile those into my "slow the fuck down with AI in everything" references pile. "automation paradox" is being baked in to the whole stack right now. Particularly terrifying when I think of my previous medical systems roles, because we seem to have dropped any idea of regulating life-endangering tech, too.

@inthehands @ai6yr oh, cool, thanks! I love 99pi, except for the fact that their back-catalogue is longer than I have years left to live, I suspect. I've listened on-and-off for over a decade and they had quite the archive when I started!

@ai6yr every time

This publication comes to mind:

https://how.complexsystems.fail

As does a Human Factors lecture I attended last century (ugh) on the amount of money spent on psychological research to make fighter plane cockpits human-goof-proof, ON TOP of the extended, intense, and repeated training pilots go through.

One of the points in the early 90's was cars were becoming too complex for mere untrained humans to cope with, with next to no thought about the human-tech interface required.

@evan oh that's awful - I'm so sorry.

It's so important to have the soles of your shoes out on the pavement of your streets. You live among neighbours that way. And should never lose one of your community THIS way. 😩

@evan Missed this poll and I'm somewhere between Yes, but... and No, but ... because it kinda depends on how you define, AND how you deploy, "algorithms".

The mythical "global town square" does not exist, as humans have a finite capacity for direct relationships with other humans.

Topical, temporal or spatial communities shortcut this *somewhat* and we can expand our web and feel connected.

but it still cannot go meaningfully into thousands of connections per day and have our brains cope.

@AnnaAnthro

It's great!

Now, can we convince all you Canadians using Mastodon dot Social to get your accounts over to one of the Canadian sovereign Fediverse instances?

🤣

At least the mothership is EU-based, but we can keep it even closer to home.