Notices by Wiredfire :BA: (wiredfire@mas.to)

@binarytango @tokyo_0 intriguing! Thanks for sharing 😃

@camhunt @enby_of_the_apocalypse @strathamer regardless of an instance’s position on federating with Threads an individual can still block an entire instance. The choice and the controls remain robust. This is a big part of the benefit of Masto/fedi.

@camhunt @enby_of_the_apocalypse @strathamer

Fediverse admins are, and should be, free to follow whatever approach they like. I don't think we should have a consensus. That's the key to fedi - anyone can have their own setup to suit them.

You and I might not agree with the approach, and we can chose and individual or server level to disengage.

Like Truth Social is clearly a cesspit, but I acknowledge their right to exist - awful as they are - for a number of reasons.

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@youronlyone or use a VPN which is going to become increasingly important for more people in coming months and years

@loke @mike replies really are key - ActivityPub integration without it feels incomplete.

Flipboard comments on articles always felt like they were talking to no-one, having them become conversation starters on fedi would be super interesting.

@gvs @nxadm @mullvadnet not more but different.

Problem is in the UK there is no viable option for a government that would actually be competent & capable.

This is a problem. A big problem that voting in Labour won’t fix.

Make noise.

From: @MediaActivist
https://kolektiva.social/@MediaActivist/110782594121412480

@killyourfm I simultaneously now want even more and even Less to hear it 😆

It’s been quite a couple of years for emotional losses but also new beginnings.. I’m sure it’ll resonate with me.

When’s the full album out?

@atomicpoet I have a very real concern that disproportionately loud gatekeepers risk quite badly damaging fedi. Though I also think there’s enough welcoming folk to overcome the damage they do 😊

@atomicpoet it’s horrific.. I read an article about someone on Twitch who felt trapped by their audience, terrified to take a day off as their metrics would drop.

Sure if you’re lucky you can pull in some big coins but at what cost??

I appreciate I sound very millennial of me but I think part of that comes from having lived in the pre internet era, seeing it explode, & spotting the horrors along the way 😅

@killyourfm @ProfessorCode not unlike how signing in to Windows with a Microsoft account has become increasingly difficult to avoid.

Thing is, I LIKE a lot of Microsoft things. I have an m365 sub that is fantastic value.. but I’m actively experimenting on a spare laptop about getting OneDrive working nicely on Linux Mint. Once I’m happy with that I’m likely going to hop back to The Penguin.

@killyourfm @ProfessorCode though that said, I might like to keep my options open for playing Left 4 Dead 2.. shall have to look if that has Linux support on Steam 🤔

@killyourfm it’s the lack of transparency around privacy that bothers me. I have a gmail, so I’m clearly ok trading some level of data for service, but I doubt many will have that data harvesting aspect put front and centre when agreeing to copilot.

I’m not fully anti-data-snaffling, per se, but the EULAs long as the bible written in legal technobabble make it functionally impossible for folk to make an informed choice much of the time.

@killyourfm copilot feels like one of the less crowbarred uses of LLMs to me. For many a PC is still a complicated thing. If this can make (comparatively) complex tasks easier to access for the very non-technical person then there’s a real use case here.

The whole idea of asking Excel to cut a complex bit of data is alone a compelling scenario.

It looks.. actually useful dare I say. Nothing that calls to me, but I’m not the target market for it.

That said I’m not getting Win11 so it’s moot

@killyourfm @lootre Then they’ll haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaave it aaaaall.

@mattl @bnys Crazy lead times and absurd delivery charges to the UK pushed me away from ordering anything from Analogue. I was very very interested in the Super NT & the pocket!! Hope yours arrive before long and you have a lot of fun with them 😃

@killyourfm @system76 I've heard very good things of Framework laptops.

Bramble is becoming a big fan of Sir Terry Pratchett’s work ?
#catsofmastodon #gnuterrypratchett @DiscworldMonthly

@mattl @ernie I’ll be honest, I’m not of a Linux Mint kinda guy when I tinker these days. Give me something that works out of the box and damned if the drivers are freely distributed but proprietary ?

@ernie @mattl savage ?