Notices by Jenniferplusplus (jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io), page 6

@mattly yeah 😞

But it's hard to do anything about that due to network effects. Assuming you want other people to contribute to a project

@inthehands my first thought is to remove the reply button from home feed posts where you don't follow the author. Or maybe always? Maybe no one needs to do drive by replies? Anyway, definitely make strangers click into the whole thread in order to reply.

@inthehands I hate how well this explains so many of the interactions on here. Now I'm trying to imagine how I could unflatten timeline views to make it more clear at what level a post could have been intended for the reader.

Like, I'm more welcoming of replies from my followers than total strangers. More still from mutuals, and people I've exchanged replies in the past. That kind of thing could feed into some UI nudges to remind people of the actual social distances involved.

@inthehands have I brought up my idea to separate the function of cops into exactly public safety and law enforcement?

Public safety would be an emergency service, empowered very narrowly to contain and end dangerous situations, and obligated to protect life, health, and property, in that order. They would have no investigative or law enforcement powers whatsoever.

And law enforcement would be like it sounds, but with no authority to use force or violence.

@mattly I don't even know how I feel about this book and its degree of believability. Like, it makes 2 little conceits. 1 is that the scenario is possible at all. And 2 is that it's survivable at all.

And I can grant those. But I needed it to go all the way. It has to make that worth it. And seveneves stops just short of all of the most interesting bits.

It should have been two books. That or the first half should have been a prologue and we just completely handwave the physics

@mattly There is something happening that induces some deeply rooted and powerful magical thinking around this concept. But I have not figured out what it is or how to disrupt it.

@inthehands I can easily believe it

@inthehands it is a little improbable, yeah. At full speed, EVSEs are channeling like 6kW of power. It's hard to imagine how only a tiny trickle of that goes to the body and also doesn't trip every cutoff in the whole chain. More likely they hooked it up to an arc welding rig.

But still, it's Tesla, and it's the incelcamino. If anything could be built this wrong, it's that.

People describe ATProto as federated, and that has always bugged me. And I think I figured out why. It's not NOT federated. But that's deceptively incomplete. It's much more complete to say that ATProto is brokered.

I get why they do it. ATP describes itself as federated, after all. But there's a broker, and everything is mediated by the broker, which they name a "relay" (and used to call a big graph server, which was actually more honest).

New instance, new reminder that

Testosterone implies the existence of stagingtosterone and productiontosterone

Anyway, I said approximately this on cohost, and it's true here, too:

It's too bad that cohost is shutting down. I wanted it to succeed in the long term, even if it never seemed likely to happen.

The fediverse sucks, but it's also the only option with any future upside. It's the only option that's resilient against capitalism. It's the only option where the flaws are within our power to fix.

So, this is where I am, and that's what I'm doing.

People are pretty over how expensive it is to run in clouds, how impossible it is control those costs, how hard it is to develop against cloud services, and how brittle their systems become.

The conversation we're having about react is just preamble to the conversation that's coming about clouds and kubernetes.

Cloud vendors know it, and they're trying to bake in immovable workloads to everything so they can keep extracting rent.

So, I have this theory. The big clouds see a looming drop in usage on the horizon, and they keep jamming gen AI into everything to try to stave that off. It's probably not going to work, but it's going to do enormous damage to the environment and the field of computing before it all comes crashing down.

@mattly @laurenshof but I think they goes back to Lauren's point. Asking for a gift link is constructive and engages with the OP. "pw;dr" is entitled and dismissive

Incidentally, the combined population of those counties is about 11.5 million people. Compare to the total population of Texas at 29 million.

So, you know, when Ken Paxton sues Harris and Bexar counties for *checks notes* letting people register to vote, that's something like 12% of the entire state.

But things are totally fine here, nothing to worry about.
https://newrepublic.com/post/185585/ken-paxton-threatens-sue-democrats-voter-registration

For some reason, national news about election shenanigans in Texas mostly identify the county name, as though anyone outside Texas knows what that means? Anyway, Ken Paxton is up to his usual shit, so you might need this little translation:

Harris county -> Houston
Bexar county -> San Antonio
Travis county -> Austin
Tarrant county -> Fort Worth
Dallas county -> Dallas, but I feel like most people can connect the dots on that one.

@inthehands @JessTheUnstill That's possible. But, so much of the tescreal, uh, philosphy and the techno supremacy that feeds it reads exactly like the deepest satire in hitchhiker's guide. It seems at least as possible that he would lament having written the torment nexus.

Does anyone else get rate limited from just using mastodon normally from the mastodon website? Like, doing absolutely nothing exotic. Just scrolling the timeline, sometimes hitting like or boost, checking notifications when they come in, very occasionally replying to something. And then there's a wall of toast messages saying to try again in 1 to 5 minutes.

Is this a me thing? Or a hachyderm thing? Or is mastodon just like this?

I don't accept the premise that there is a harmful class bias in opposing gen AI. This argument presumes both that the writing of working class and marginalized people is less valuable unless it matches the style of wealthy people, and that they cannot do so on their own, so a computer must do it for them.

Tbh, that sounds like the classist position to me. 🤷🏻♀️

#NaNoWriMo

@seachanger @scott so, this is a social problem, but it's rooted in the influence that Eugen has due to how widely deployed mastodon is. And that is addressable from a technical angle. I'm building alternative software, and there's a couple other serious projects also doing that. Contributing to one of those would help. Another option would be to build migration tooling to let existing servers go from mastodon to something else.