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

Hello there, FindOut Media! Welcome to the for-lack-of-a-clearer-name, Fediverse.

@JayPowers83 , @TimFullerton , @Belfora

Your "on my computer" way in to your app is going to https://findout.media with any web browser, and you should be able to sign in via the (possibly very different-looking) Mastodon Web Client, which is built in to the server framework under your app!

https://findout.media/@JayPowers83/116524746716156313

@tchambers

That is awesome. But ... I had to go digging for actual fedi handles to follow, the Threads link throws the "sign in to Instagram" baffle up in front of me. And a lot of us limit or block Threads.

We need to follow someone @findout.media in order to federate them in! I followed @admin, but remind people to go find friends there directly.

@evan Nominally, I just picked Fediverse Instance, except that's the one that comes closest, but none of those is the true object of my loyalty. When I gave it a moment of thought, the *loyalty* applies to a human or community of humans. I don't remain "loyal" to an institution or organization in the absence of a higher-order connection to it. Like, if a political party I have supported shifts badly in a direction I can no longer support, the brand is not what'll keep me there.

@dansup

Dan! "Loop Dogg" was RIGHT THERE.

@evan WikiFeedia!

@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.