Notices by Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)

What to do about a divergence between "public" and "expert" opinion about "AI"? Some might think that we need to educate the public so that they come to understand more how experts do. I disagree: expertise in building these systems is far from the only relevant expertise.

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@alwayscurious That's why I suggested it as a default only for audience who already saw the original.

@koorogi Yeah not particularly critical of Mastodon, just the standard UI/UX expectations everything conforms to in this domain.

@carnage4life I call that 🍿 scrolling.

Potentially unpopular hot take: showing edits to someone who already saw the original form as replacing the original text, without clear indications of *what changed*, is an attack on cognitive coherency.

UX I'd love to see on platforms with "edit post/message" functionality:

As a toggle, with default chosen by whether you've already seen the pre-edit message, showing a diff-like view with color coding and strikeout so it's clear what actually changed.

@mwguy @overunderlay @malwarejake Red/green/yellow is stupid because you have to be in on it to know what they mean. Allow/block or allow/deny is clear in the name, and even *predates* the black/white thing.

This whole topic is well-researched by the people who actually care about it, and it's annoying as fuck when people who don't care (or actively want to undermine and stir up shit) chime in with poorly thought out suggestions.

Wanted: a tiny script that takes ridiculous .ics files and outputs the time of the event in UTC.

@hipsterelectron As I put it, it's pronounced jif, as in the sound Scandinavian furries make.

@mwguy @overunderlay @malwarejake LXO is just trying to stir shit up and does not have any credibility in this area.

When jokes like that can get a laugh, Elon Musk is cooked. Like a Tesla driver.

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We need more Tesla jokes — specifically about how dangerous they are.

Here’s the thing: all cars can catch fire, and all EV fires are especially hard to put out. But Teslas are •uniquely• dangerous:

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@c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io @puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social @dalias@hachyderm.io @inthehands@hachyderm.io @carstenfranke@mastodon.social A Tesla is the safest car in the world to burn alive in… for all the people watching you from the outside.

@c0dec0dec0de @puppygirlhornypost2 @inthehands @carstenfranke Which is probably in violation of all sorts of safety regulations...

@carstenfranke @inthehands Hopefully the "bulletproof glass" performs as poorly IRL as during the demo event.

Also FWIW: I don't think these hammers work without water pressure on the glass.

@inthehands

What do you call 10,000 Cybertruck owners barbecued inside their own vehicle?

A good start

@mwguy @overunderlay @malwarejake Actually, maybe it is a (transient) list: senders that have already been seen and already deferred once. If so, deferred-list[ed] or even waitlist[ed] probably makes sense.

https://www.kxly.com/news/idaho-governor-signs-bill-criminalizing-public-breast-exposure-and-truck-nuts/article_2d191c2c-31da-44f5-913f-e5ec5b5031a4.html “the bill stemmed from him seeing a topless woman at an event at Lakeview Park in Nampa” #Idaho #FreeSpeech #TruckNuts #censorship

@Lyle Best state flag.

@overunderlay @malwarejake "Greylist" only appears in one specific context I know of, spam blocking, where you could call it by the actual role it plays there. Defer-list or something.

But it's really not even a list like the others. It's almost always a default policy for things without an entry on allow or deny list. So it's rather poor naming to begin with.