Notices by llewelly (llewelly@sauropods.win), page 2

@cstross @KevinMarks
thing is, spicy autocomplete is a great generator of disinformation. And with so many billionaire fascists seeking to takeover governments, demand for disinformation generators is huge.

And then there is the long-time fascist love affair with using correlations from sloppy, biased databases and the fake imprimatur of statistics to justify their decisions on who goes to the camps. That too promises money for so-called "AI".

@futurebird
nah, two leaves, just like two dwarves, two elves, two shelves, two hooves, two proves, etc.

@cwebber
thank you for providing the share dot tube link - I can't stand youtube bc reasons, and I'm grateful everytime someone gives me a chance to avoid them.

I don't think I'll ever stop hating the phrase "consume content".
a book doesn't disappear when I read it; I didn't eat it or burn it. Same for movies, music, games, etc.

It is a fundamentally dishonest phrase; it lies about what happens when we enjoy creative work, and it lies about what creative work is.

@MakBerberovic exactly.

I feel conflicted about attention given global temps of 2023 to present. On one hand, it's wise to worry they portend ill for a fossil-fuel warped climate. But on the other, they are still well within the 95% confidence interval of past climate science projections, so these temps represent rather small unknowns within a larger milieu of relatively well-understood and well-forecast consequences of burning fossil fuels.

https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2024/01/not-just-another-dot-on-the-graph-part-ii/

#climate

@breadpainter @cwebber
but even renters get their own house or apartment keys. (I've rented both, numerous times.) DRM is even worse than renting.

@barrygoldman1
in reply to: https://sauropods.win/@barrygoldman1/110618044232680747

what kinds of people are you looking to follow?

some artists to follow here: https://mastodon.art/directory , but use the [from mastodon.art only] button.

some scientists to follow here: https://fediscience.org/directory or here: https://ecoevo.social/directory , but use the [from fediscience.org only] and [from ecoevo.social only] buttons.

follow @feditips for tips on how to use the fediverse.

@XOrgFoundation rename wayland as x12. Why that wasn't done earlier, I don't know, but it's not too late.

@thomasfuchs
this is true of most important software, as far as I can tell.

@thomasfuchs
false.

that photo was taken months ago, before musk fired four of those people.

@futurebird @breadandcircuses
in the 1980s, Harry Harrison wrote a series in which a civilization of intelligent mosasaurs (but, oddly more like amphibians rather than reptiles) develops tech, cities, etc, based on organics and genetically modified creatures. Submarines are genetically modified Ichthyosaurs, buildings are genetically modified trees, video cameras are genetically modified frogs, and so on. Unfortunately, the intelligent mosasaurs are the villains.

@thomasfuchs
the first book I got that was mainly about software development but not about how to code in a specific language was Fred Brooks' book _The Mythical Man-Month_ , a 1990s edition, with his famous _No Silver Bullet_ essay, and other later essays tacked on. Some good insights about software development, but, sadly, told through a very conservative, patriarchal lens, even from my viewpoint as a white cis guy from a very conservative part of the USA.

@atomicpoet @Sarahp @fediversenews
I'm hoping that's where all the craptocurrency grifters will go.

@thomasfuchs I say web developers ought to forget web3 ever existed and make a giant leap forward from web2 to web7. It worked out for Solaris ... oh, wait a minute, maybe it didn't. Nevermind.

@thomasfuchs I'm looking at those file names and trying to imagine how that music must sound