Notices by Semitones (semitones@tiny.tilde.website)

@pluralistic I followed the link from the blog post to the Kickstarter and again to Spill https://reactormag.com/spill-cory-doctorow/), which was awesome.

@Aleums is that the red book app?

@ajroach42 @pluralistic his podcast is really good too, imagine the person writing that getting on the mic to tell you about a new tech development or injustice. "Better Offline by Ed Zitron"

@cwebber I thought the comparison to libera.chat was especially interesting because they've got one "credible exit" behind them! Back when we were all on freenode, but had to suddenly move to libera to deal with the hostile takeover. Freenode was centralized but the network was able to recreate itself in a way I haven't really seen elsewhere because IRC clients could point to a different server and carry on.

Thought keeping me awake ... What if the overworked open source maintainers start letting people contribute gpt-created documentation, and it's wrong in subtle but plausible ways ... How could we the users tell what is real, verified documentation and what is nonsense...

@dave @so_treu On the contrary, I think the racism of users, bad moderation design, and bad UX all serve the same exclusionary end.

@0xabad1dea but who can I really blame? Network-manager? Drivers?

@drwho @thomasfuchs I'm not sure what SIO is? Is it still used today?

@futurebird @martinhowitt I *really* wish there was an official Chrome/Firefox extension for Mastodon that let you interact with other people's Mastodon servers as if you were on your own.

1. Click on link -> visit the other person's server
2. Click "like" or "reply", etc
3. Extension seamlessly takes these actions using your own server.
*. (Would be better if no extension was needed)

No idea if that's technically feasible, but this is 100% why I prefer using Mastodon on my phone vs the web.

@thomasfuchs @shadowsminder

The good quality creator submitted titles were better and IDK why they blocked that.

There was a lot of trolling in user-submitted comments and I don't miss that at all.

The auto generated ones get a lot of individual words wrong, but I leave them on because it's still way easier for me to follow 80% accurate captions than a video without. I can tell what word they're getting wrong from the context. YMMV

@shadowsminder @thomasfuchs It depends how often you need "good" summaries. The reddit bot that summarized articles in the comments was "good enough" the majority of the time. And people reading the comments liked it better than having no summary at all, which was the alternative.

To me this is similar to auto generated captions, which are noticeably worse than the summaries. But they're still so much better than no captions at all.

Humans would do it better, but they weren't doing it.

@thomasfuchs is that why I can reply and reblog, I mean "boost" but I can't reblog with my own comment?

@aral @owncast @peertube Hey, I'm not a coder, but theoretically could this work in Kodi?

@thomasfuchs This happened to me... I found out that my good friend protested at abortion clinics and it was really hard to feel ok with being his friend after that :/