Notices by Tony Hoyle (tony@toot.hoyle.me.uk)

@nerb @human3500 @pluralistic When he gets a bit older you can hit him with this..

@GossiTheDog I'm surprised.. Normally it's said if the chip is already damaged by the faulty microcode then the only solution is RMA - the updates just stop it getitng worse.

@danieldurrans @neil Every single time you interact with a company there's some bleedin' survey about it.

Why are they so needy these days? It never used to be a thing.

@ptrc @wdormann It seems you can replace an existing known printer too, which makes invocation risk higher if you know the internal network config.

But it's just a bug.. another day at the office, install the update and move on. This dramatic '9.9 world ending' shit needs to stop.

@GossiTheDog The way Microsoft are going they'll announce an xbox with an AI chatbot in it..

@GossiTheDog It's always fascinated me that large networks take so long to deal with that stuff. My disaster recovery plan for such an event is to shut everything down and reimage/recover the backups.. obviously spend a bit of time first to find out how they got in but not *too* much because people gotta work.

Clearly there's a reason it takes that long, it's just outside my experience.

@GossiTheDog They'll likely just go to Signal. and I don't think that has any moderation at all..

@babe It comes down to a lot of people know how to write code but don't know how to release a product.

You want someone else to use your stuff? Release it properly. Documentation. An installer. Actual testing. Those kinds of things.

Otherwise it's just 'bits of code on github'.

@evan A million people generating a small amount of revenue ends up a lot.

368 million adds up to a hell of a lot.

@evan I'm a hard no here..bad actors will just curate their feeds to have only posts that agree with them. The same reason review sites are essentially useless now.

You could post a poll and more or less dictate the result by filtering answers.. you might not do it, but plenty of people would.

Social media is an avenue for discussion.. I'd hate to lose that.

@georgetakei No different to words we made up when we were younger..

'rizz' is easy, it's just a contraction of charisma.

Windows 95 pixellated for legal reasons..

#Eurovision #finland

@evan UTC is the only correct answer (yes for the pedants I know UTC isn't technicallly a time zone).

@darnell @mayadev @randahl Gaza has been under continuous bombardment for months. The population is starving and homeless

If you think the hostages are still alive under all that I've got a bridge to sell you. It was never about them, this is about erasing gaza.

@chronohart @shiri @snarfed.org One thing that occurs to me is the bluesky TOS:

"By sharing User Content through Bluesky Social, you grant us permission to: <lots of stuff>"

An opt out bridge simply can't obey that.. they don't have rights to grant permission to mastodon posts they don't own. Opt in they can have a TOS with similar wording that says you agree to allow that stuff to happen.
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@evan @oliphant @snarfed.org Indeed but it would have to given that it's proposed to be a single instance.
It's also going to need insane amounts of bandwidth.. being a central pipe for potentially millions of messages is not cheap.

Much better would have been a per mastodon instance relay, but this is the path they have chosen.

@evan @oliphant @snarfed.org Bluesky has algorithms which grab accounts and suggest them.. I presume when it federates it'll be caching lists of users and pushing them onto timelines as it does now..except now with potentially access to the entire fediverse..

This gateway is presumably going to appear to bluesky to be a single mega instance with 14 milllion users on it.. madness ensues.

@evan Until this post I didn't know such a thing existed. Not sure what to do with it though.. let's see if this works..

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@the_moep @evan Doesn't for me either.. maybe firefox doesn't support it or I'm misunderstanding how to use it.

@thomasfuchs 4GL, which begat things like Uniface
MFC..
VB..

All were supposed to make programming 'just clicking buttons' and all failed completely.

AI is more of the same.