Notices by FeralRobots (feralrobots@mastodon.social), page 6

@thomasfuchs Do you think VisionPro is really intended as a viable product, or is it essentially market R&D?

@eaton I can see my grandkid being taught using a blended approach. They understand sounding out words, & understand coaching to figure out words from context. (I learned in a blended way, though in retrospect I think that was self-taught - I was so far in advance of my grade level that I was reading a lot of words I never had occasion to pronounce. E.g. I was literally in my 30s when i realized one day that 'misled' was pronounced 'mis-led', not 'meiseled.'

@thomasfuchs
This is gonna land a lot harder for those of us who've spent a few decades getting pitched "turnkey", "no code" data mining solutions that require heavy infrastructure & which turn out to need skilled operators with lots & lots of training. To the same people who fall for that pitch every time it seems like a no-brainer; to the people who get burned (often not the same people), the tradeoff looks like "so the quality's not as great, at least it's less work." (Obviously both wrong.)

@thomasfuchs @janl
I get that's not your aim, but it would be used that way.

@janl @thomasfuchs
yeh I feel like there's sufficient explanation for why those things happened without letting the perps off the hook.

@goatsarah @ajlanes
I mean...

@goatsarah @demoographics looking good on meg & desktop!

@goatsarah @demoographics
They show for me (in Megalodon) as attachments, which I didn't know was a thing. (I can click through to them, but they're displaying from your server.) Will try to remember to see what they look like in Mastodon web-native when I get back to my desk.

@karohemd @goatsarah I'll say! The lighting is incredible, too.

If:

- you're trying to pitch yourself as the THE person with THE solution to preventing harassment of marginalized folks on the fediverse...

- & you make it a point to issue thinly-veiled threats about what you'll do to your enemies once your "solution" is widely implemented

- ...then I submit you should not be trusted to implement such a solution - & perhaps not even to craft one.

Seen people passing around this link to a retrospective by Ian Hickson on 9 years at google:
https://ln.hixie.ch/?start=1700627373&count=1

special thanks to @anildash [https://me.dm/@anildash/111506988791615922] for pointing out something I havent seen mentioned: the paragraph were "Hixie" spends several sentences excoriating a specific black woman for her 'incompetent' middle-management decisions & skills. He won't have to look for another job again, but that's some seriously unprofesisonal & likely racist/misogynoir bullshit.

@thomasfuchs Did this go with a 99/4A (which IIRC was similar footprint to a Tandy ColorComputer)? Or was this for a big sibling of the 99/4A?

@mainframed767 @Sempf
Weirdly, they were well on their way to irrelevance when they did that. They produced a bunch of streaming video shows around then. I remember a lot of folks being super puzzled about the business model.

@Mastodon 'tone policing as a feature' would probably make me move off Mastodon.

@thomasfuchs
When dogs stop fetching you basically know they're getting old enough to worry about.
With cats it could happen any time & means nothing much, as far as I've ever been able to see.
It's a bit like how a kid one day decides 'no that breakfast cereal is actually poison, yes I am aware that yesterday I would eat nothing else.'

@thomasfuchs
Interesting!
I haven't done it so far just because my mental bandwidth is about maxed, but I'm seeing more & more arguments for at least getting familiar with how bsky works.

@thomasfuchs
Is sharing mute/block lists an actual UI feature, or does one do it via export/import? (E.g. I export & send to you, you import.)

@jwz @jhpot
I use it unironically on a regular basis. It's a pretty darn cromulent word. Reliably embiggens the conversation.

Note total failure by #AirCanada to acknowledge that the problem wasn't lack of a wheelchair, it was publicly humiliating a human being for the sin of being disabled. #accessibility #a11y
[h/t @knittingknots2 | https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/111324914769560604]

@goatsarah
I would not go to those lengths, but I sincerely & heartily respect that you have done so.