Notices by chris@strafpla.net (chris@mstdn.strafpla.net), page 3

@liztai I’m not an economist, but from what I read withing the last decade it’s not completely without parallels to the challenges international companies are facing when doing business in China.
And I never heard that those companies tried to campaign Chinese citizens to pressure their government into doing something.
So, from a distance, it does not seem too drastic.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/tiktok-unleashed-pressure-campaign-congress

Ich frage mich, ob es helfen würde, mich an den Füssen an die Decke zu hängen.
#Erkältung #Schleim #Husten

#TIL die Herstellung von 1kg Plastik verbraucht locker 10-20KWh Energie, oder mehr.
Wenn ich mich so umschaue, wird mir schwindelig und hoffnungslos.

@Gargron Did they really use the words „Don‘t panic“?

@mcc That’s why grounding the containment grid of your server racks is essential…

Duty calls on the Fediverse
#Mastodon #ActivityPub #Fediverse #XKCD

@neil
The less one knows about a problem, the more #LLM #AI looks like a solution to it.
But generating legal documents by #WhafflingDevices seems peak stupid.

@timdnewman @neil To be fair from own experience I think that there is use for #LLM in programming.
It‘s a nice interactive boilerplate/scaffolding generator *if* you know what you want but don‘t know the libraries yet and *because* one can test the code and read documentation.
It‘s a like rubber duck debugging but with a parrot that has a huge vocabulary and is good in grammar but has no idea what it says.
Nothing of this is to be used in production, neither in legal nor in computer code.

@timdnewman I love how it hallucinates methods that would make its job easier.
I convinced myself to try it out and it is useful to me with knowlegde in IT between “okay” and “@neil” and documentation/sites at hand.
If the user is aware that the code just a prototype without proper structure, proper tests, sanitation and checks for boundaries/unforseen conditions. It helped me iteratively prototype some ideas that would otherwise be lost on the graveyard list by lowering the bar just enough.

Can we please have a feature that lets us block traffic of Mastodon servers that have not been patched?
The API gives away the version number of the server - I‘m close to hacking a script that creates blocklists based on Server versions.
#mastoadmin #spam #feature

@user8e8f87c @allen099 @proximacentauri @Snowshadow @Gargron I have yet to find someone explain to me the difference between the proposed #bluesky bridge and someone following me from a Hubzilla instance.
While my instinctive reaction was “leave us alone” I didn’t find a definition for “us” and I don’t think that the angry people have.
My conclusion is that the bridge is *exactly* what the rest of the #fedi is. All the drama is stupid.
Shun it for size or lack of moderation, not for existing.

@tauon And if it is the protocol -
where does it have to be implemented? Can a service use a different protocol for internal communication and communicate to external instances using AP? Can this part run as a separate server? What’s the difference to a bridge?
No, this drama is not about the protocol.
“The Fedi” means something(s) else and we need to understand this to solve the drama.
@pixelpusher220 @baralheia @noxypaws @snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews

@tauon
So what’ the difference between the fedi
and bridged bluesky?
Just the protocol? What parts/variants?
If I ask those very angry posters in this thread, can they explain to me what activitypub is?
What about services that use OStatus? Are they fedi? And then most posts are accessible using rss and some are integrating this into their blogs.
Is wordpress an ok member of the fediverse?

@pixelpusher220 @baralheia @noxypaws @snarfed.org @activitypubblueskybridge @fedidevs @fediversenews