Notices by Peter Bindels (dascandy42@mastodon.social)

@huxley @sabik @chrisisgr8 @hailey I think the paper on this is proposing to make it crash reliably on that point of entering UB land, and not allowing yolo behavior.

@aral The big problem with Threads is that it's too big to fail. The same problem we have already in many places. If allowed in, they'll decide what can and cannot be shown. When they defederate with your instance, you'll be missing most people, and when they break rules you're not going to defederate them, because it's like sawing off the branch you're sitting on.

Break the link proactively to prevent them from getting to such a point.

@aral @Edent Interesting, close to what I have in mind.

Missing:
- Replacement for the tether your phone has to Google/Apple
- Replacement for what people rely on from major tech companies: whatsapp (IM, calls), email, calendar, address book etc. Can't drop whatsapp when there's no usable replacement.

And up to a point, missing an alternative mobile phone OS. But I can understand limiting scope.

@Edent Let me know if I should write up the detailed design somewhere.

@Edent What if you were to run that on a tiny device that's connected to your internet connection, with a global bounce server / address for people without incoming connections? Make the devices link directly to each other, make your own hardware link to your home server.

VPN to your home from anywhere, use IM / phone / cloud storage that's at your home. No giant companies needed at all.

@mekkaokereke

> Men who knew less about Lumumba and Navajo people, liked it more.

Can you help me like it less? I like to learn about the real background behind things where possible.

@thomasfuchs No AI used in that?

@danluu Having test driven a few "modern" cars recently, somebody should do the same for UX. One of them used capacitive touch for driving controls. Shortest test drive of my life.

@steve @thomasfuchs Is this the one that some of the music of A Clockwork Orange came from or was inspired by?

@steve @thomasfuchs That explains it. The limitations of the Moog I read about didn't sound like they came out in Clockwork.

@steve @thomasfuchs Please convince me not to spend $200 on a boxed CD set of her four seminal albums...

@steve @thomasfuchs

Apparently there's a soundtrack of the movie too, and it includes all classical music, plus Singing in the Rain. I wonder if it includes the interspersed "OW"s too... thinking of that song now always has those.

@steve @thomasfuchs Any links to where I can find them? Best I can do is ~$30 or so per CD, which is cheaper but not by a whole lot.

@thomasfuchs Bach on a Moog... what the heck am I seeing?

@GossiTheDog testtenant, not a honeypot?

@inthehands @mekkaokereke I've never understood the US grading system with everybody being graded on a fixed curve from A+ to F. It implies that if you're in a class of idiots you don't even have to do much but you can't score meaningfully high despite being a potential genius, and in a class of absolute geniuses you're never going to get anything but an F, even if you're really smart.

When an F can be really smart and an A+ can be somebody not competent... what value does it even have?

@metacurity Clearly a win for Google.

Actual news sites would be able to be angry at Google for stealing their content. Now Google is stealing AI content, and the AI is stealing their content - so it's not Google taking their stuff, see?

It's like money laundering but with copyright and IP.

@drewdevault wait, it took *FOUR HOURS* to get the NOC to respond?

Might as well not have one then.

@JackEric @thomasfuchs I did notice the 3 minutes remaining. Only 27 minutes late in declaring mayday fuel.

@thomasfuchs You could add a few 4090ti's to make it render a deeper black at a higher framerate... but does that really change anything?