Notices by Jorge Candeias (jorgecandeias@mastodon.social)

@quinn You may eventually find some slaming from me, aimed at a very specific group of people: politicians.

Not for being there. But for not being here, at least in addition to being there. That's who I think is really slammable in all this.

@quinn I'm not slaming anyone. You may check - you won't find any slaming.

I'm just telling why I do what I do. I was there. I no longer am. Twitter went further than I'm willing to tolerate. So I left. Inactivated everything and I'm telling people why.

It's a "me" thing. Not a "shame on you for not doing the same" thing.

@quinn Well, my argument is that I don't want my twitter data to be used to train a nazi IA. And the way things are going, this alone may prove your "staying there doesn't give musk as much power" argument wrong. Hallucinations and all.

The way I see it, it isn't me who's breaking the community. It's space karen.

Os brasileiros gostam muito da palavra "ruim" porque não conseguem perceber se as pessoas dizem "mal" ou "mau".

Yes, please.

https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/113113034272582082

I don't post on #twitter, but I do lurk there. Because sometimes I get info such as this, which needs to be public knowledge. In two words, this is #Musk 's kompromat.

#russia

@BeAware It might, I guess (where'd one's data be stored? Locally on one's devices? That also can be dangerous. Distributed throughout the whole network? Hm... I dunno...), but I also suppose that you'd have a much harder time approving and then implementing something that changes stuff at the core of the whole shebang than just building a new service on top of what's working now.

Then again, that's me talking off of my derrière. I don't know nearly enough about all this to have solid opinions.

@BeAware Got it, thanks.

As far as I understood it, that's more of a tweak in the functioning of AP federation overall, closing the gap between the fediverse proper and how Bluesky works (and maybe opening way to full integration between the two protocols).

My idea doesn't require any fundamental changes. It's just a service built on top of what's already there, and I can't really say how feasible it'd be.

@BeAware Take your time. Thanks.

@BeAware That's pretty cool.

You've got a link to point me to, by any chance?

This case with venera.social (and libranet.de) is due to a database update what went catastrofically wrong. It's been getting worse and worse for the last 11 days. And at this point I'm getting somewhat skeptical that it's ever gonna get sorted out. In normal circumstances, you'd put the backups on, investigate the problem and start over.

But what if there are no backups?

This is revealing one major limitation in the whole idea of "you can move servers any time you want": it only works if the servers are still up. If the server is down, and stays down (which at this point I don't know if it's going to be the case with venera.social) you can't move. You can create a new account elsewhere, but whatever's connected with the dead account is gone.

The #fediverse needs redundancy, methinks. Some sort of service that backs up account networks.

OK, apparently venera.social is completely dead now... 😔

@RuiSeabra @ammdias Não é bem a mesma coisa. Os DARPA grants não subsidiam custos primários: fornecem dinheiro para investigação e desenvolvimento, projetos de risco sem capitalização óbvia, em que, por isso mesmo, os privados nunca tocariam.

Os substídios "à socialista" são um tanto ou quanto diferentes: subsidiam custos primários na economia segundo a ideia de que esta como um todo fica mais saudável por isso. A PAC é um exemplo prático. Energia subsidiada seria outro. Ou transportes. Etc.

@RuiSeabra @ammdias Retirar da equação precisamente os usos de energia de que fala o meu post inicial é fazer batota. ;)

@RuiSeabra @ammdias Sim, mas mesmo sem capitalismo aconteceria o mesmo, porque as duas tecnologias que mencionei são extremamente devoradoras de energia, por vezes sem proveito evidente para ninguém, e esse apetite por energia iria ter sempre impacto nos preços ou na disponibilidade energética, caso os preços fossem subsidiados "à socialista".

Uma coisa que as pessoas deviam perceber bem:

Sabem toda a energia gasta por merdas inúteis como criptomoedas e blockchains e coisas menos inúteis mas também grandes consumidoras de energia como sistemas de "IA"?

Essa energia corresponde a um aumento de procura que faz pressão sobre os preços da energia. Ou, dito de outra forma, TAMBÉM é por causa dela que há mais inflação e estamos todos com menos dinheiro no bolso ao fim do mês.

@Gargron I can't see it. I'm missing a banana for scale.

@BethanyBlack Eggzactly.

@feditips Full text. Hashtags get cut if you add a space to them, after all...