Notices by Hisham (hisham_hm@mastodon.social)

@bob_zim @mwl I don't know if we're talking about the same thing, but my main contention with such thought exercises is precisely that ethical frameworks cannot be neatly isolated into axes (I have a similar gripe with the Political Compass, which I see as Libertarian propaganda; the fact that it is used in Libertarian recruitment corroborates my view).

Continental philosophy has its flaws (it often gets lost in language) but, at its worst, analytic philosophy can be dehumanizing.

@mwl

This is exactly how I feel about the Trolley Problem.

It is a completely unrealistic propaganda device for a kind of utilitarian philosophy. One with terrible consequences we see all around us today.

The fact that it comes from and is especially popular in the English-speaking world (and has slowly spread to the rest of the world via memes in the recent years) also denounces its lack of universality. It is not a fundamental moral dilemma. It is exactly what this story describes.

@yzakius valeeeu!!!

just finished playing a gig where we performed the album Hot Fuss by The Killers in its entirety.

I played keyboards and handled lead vocals.

Moments of joy, to be cherished and shared!

a snippet from the gig!

@Gargron I don't understand how they *kept* this change and had it deployed to computers, phones and TVs given how easy it was for me to find other people who had the same "oh no! is my monitor broken?" negative reaction as me. I'd expect YouTube's usability testing to catch this. But I guess it's not something you can infer from A/B test telemetry, you'd need user interviews for that.

Am I the only one irked by the subtle gradient on YouTube's progress bar which makes it looks like the monitor has red color burn-in problems?

It looks like either an OLED that's ruined by constant use or a CRT in need of a serious degaussing. Both things send me shivers on a visceral level.

@the_bobbly @lukito because that's where the mouse goes to exit!

@Gargron They might even be public now?...

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/28/threads-deepens-its-ties-to-the-open-social-web-aka-the-fediverse/ "Since June, users have been able to see fediverse replies on their posts if they enabled fediverse sharing in the app’s settings. (...) Now [August] users will be able to see the fediverse replies on other people’s posts, too" but it says that's a couple of extra clicks away.

Then this October post says that the ability to reply back is "under development".
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/01/threads-users-can-now-see-who-follows-them-from-other-fediverse-servers/

What is the current state of federation with threads.net? I see people boosting posts here. If we reply here on Mastodon, do our reply show up to other Threads users?

@liaamancio vai ter remake de Vale Tudo?

@tillshadeisgone @blackfedi not sure you're aware because of the language barrier, but Brazilian Black users have done the same a while ago, when they started https://bantu.social !

Holy shit! English has an actual name to that elusive color that in Brazilian Portuguese we infomally call "cor-de-burro-quando-foge" (literally "the color of a donkey as he runs away" -- yes, I'm not making this up).

TAUPE (pronounced "tope")

From Wikipedia: "Taupe is a vague color term which may refer to almost any grayish brown or brownish gray, but true taupe is difficult to pinpoint as brown or gray."

AND this name is also derived from an animal! (it's French for "mole").

it's very confusing to my brain when people abbreviate Internet Archive to IA when that's my native language's abbreviation for AI.

@liaamancio sobre o plano de negócios deles, até que não seria a pior das ideias, dado que faria sentido pagar pelo hosting de contas usando um domínio próprio, tipo todos os funcionários de um jornal terem o seu "@jornalista@jornal.com.br" que o público possa imediatamente confiar que não é fake, e o jornal não precisar administrar sua própria instância. O que eu não confio é se vai ter qualquer tipo de "portabilidade" desse serviço, o que seria fundamental pra uma descentralização real.

@liaamancio eu normalmente acho as tentativas de aportuguesamento forçado da língua meio ridículas numa vibe ufanista (e por isso mesmo adorei o seu "enshittificação"), mas taí uma palavra que convida um brainstorm divertido de possíveis traduções:

amerdalhamento
embostificação
encocozamento ("esse último, termo já corrente na língua para descrever o ciclo de vida das fraldas")

I updated my Firefox. There's a new icon at the end of the row of tabs. It shows a "List of all tabs". I don't want it. I right-click and select "Customize Toolbar..."

I go into the customization screen. It lets me move the new button around: to the left of the tabs row, or to the right of the tabs. It does not let me remove it. The customization screen lets me remove all other preexisting buttons, *including the New Tab button*. But not the new button.

@mozilla "Ever since we shutdown mozilla.social and disengaged from Mastodon, the sentiment analysis on our social media posts regarding our AI initiatives shows positive reactions went up a staggering 857%! I guess everyone on X seems to like them! A great win for our sharehol—I mean, our sponsors!"

Do you, a friend or a loved one need a Twitter detox?

HOLIDAYS IN BRAZIL!

Great food, great beaches, friendly people and no Twitter!

Seen in a YouTube comment:

Serbian: "od YouTube do F1"
English: "from YouTube to F1"

How amazing is it that there's a language where "to" and "from" are literally "od" and "do"!? I thought I was reading a Bash script for a second 😆