Notices by John Conway (john@sauropods.win)

In my quest to free myself of the (American) corporations (man), I keep coming back to NextCloud for syncing/photos/calendars. But it feels like the WordPress of cloudy things, which makes me feel like it would be a mistake... help me out here, people!

#OpenSource

Linux desktop people, what disto and desktop do you use, and why?

#Linux #OpenSource

Hey open source nerds, what’s your personal device setup, and how do you handle the “cloudy” bits, like sync, email, calendars, document sharing, photos, that sort of stuff?

#OpenSource

When you’ve got Jeremy Clarkson (yes, that Jeremy Clarkson) writing things like this in the Times, you know Maga’s antics have disgusted nearly everyone outside of America.

@LydiaConwell yep, it seems to have been used historically (although that is somewhat confused by coloured mud that is used decoratively), and it’s recommended as a replacement if you don’t have any sunscreen by outdoorsy types.

@aral You mean AI military targeting? That's not what I'm talking about here, I'm an artist talking about art, and is the context most artists are using it in.

When I’m browsing artist's bios, I see #NoAI a lot, but there's still a lot number with #NoNFT. It's been an exhausting couple of years, huh?

On the other hand, NFTs turned out to be a bunch of nothing in the end, and I feel like just ignoring the whole thing would have worked.

I feel like maybe this is true of AI ‘art’. It's boring. It doesn't even need a backlash.

@darnell Ads can be fitted to content, so it's not like they will be completely irrelevant. TV, radio, and until recently podcasting got by without ad tracking. Meta and Google are massively profitable. Non-tracked ads can be considerably less effective and the'd still profit.

@darnell You can do ads without tracking. That's what they would do if tracking were just flat illegal.

@llewelly @MakBerberovic Yeah, but it when it regresses to the mean (trendline, that is) for a couple of years people will be all like, oh, so global warming is over, what was all the fuss about?

@thomasfuchs is the replies thing a deliberate design decision? If so, that’s crazy. I thought it was a bug or at least accidental.

@freemo I already follow you!

Browsing the #AI tag from here is depressing. Has anyone got any recommendations of people to follow with a more positive take?

Especially people building #OpenSource models and tools?

@apophis @evan It's often used in bad faith, for sure. Strangely, it didn't occur to me that Evan's original toot was a reference to anything in particular. I was talking more generally.

@evan Referencing Nazis is an attempt to find common ground, surely? We can all agree the Nazis were bad, starting there gives at least some frame of moral structure to an argument.

@atlemo @Vivaldi Website: We Value Your Privacy! Please allow 647 of our besties to follow you around the web.

@ntnsndr I just got a bunch of people to spend a couple of hours trying to get AI to put people faces on foxes, does that count?

https://sauropods.win/@john/111459497588783952

@freemo Do you think the profile pic has anything to do with it? NAH.

@futurebird @misc I think it’s worth considering that there is the *other side*; your Gabs and a large number of “free speech” instances. They lean right or libertarian.

For those of us who plan to federate with #Threads, we really need to do a better job of communicating to people that they will be able to interact with Threads from Mastodon, and that it is the superior choice.

Some people here are getting Threads accounts, without realising it will soon be unnecessary. People on Twitter are pretty much in the dark about the whole thing.