Notices by Larry Garfield (crell@phpc.social)

As usual, @theonion calling it as they see it.

https://theonion.com/mark-zuckerberg-defends-decision-to-fly-confederate-fla-1826847417/

Just a reminder that Republicans have been committing treason to get elected since before I was born. There's nothing new about the current GQP. Just more of it.

https://youtu.be/f12IQiV2oxU

Remember: "Assassination" means "killing a rich/powerful person, which makes it less tolerable than killing a poor person."

#Luigi

@inthehands I am still partially agreeing with you. :-) I've referred to spreadsheet gurus as the largest stealth group of functional programmers in the world.

But conversely, if you're defining virtually any interaction with a microprocessor as programming, then the word means everything, and thus nothing. There is a qualitative difference between writing C++ or CSS and playing win-solitaire. How to capture that if not the word "programming"?

This is the kind of HR diversity training we need.

This seems spot on.

Don't do this in Postgres, according to Postgres.

https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don%27t_Do_This

#postgresql

Sadly accurate...

"If your business model requires doing something unethical, you don't have a business model." --Me

Some thoughtful and hopeful insights from @pluralistic, as is often the case.

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/14/fracture-lines/#disassembly-manual

#TrumpFascist #uspol #project2025

"X is no longer a social-media site with a white-supremacy problem, but a white-supremacist site with a social-media problem."

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/11/x-white-supremacist-site/680538/?gift=bQgJMMVzeo8RHHcE1_KM0T8uB7iimO1-elCapdzG8XE&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Bloody cowards. Carter was important enough to make an endorsement, but endorsing the not-fascist candidate would violate independence? What kind of asinine logic is that?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/25/washington-post-endorsement/

#uspol

Oh of course, that's why. Herr Bezos doesn't want to piss off the fascist, in case he wins.

This is why rich people owning the media is not OK!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/10/25/washington-post-endorsement-president/

#uspol

Remember when everyone (in VC) thought the #metaverse was going to be the next big thing that changes everything and poured money into it?

Remember when everyone (in VC) thought #NFTs were going to be the next big thing that changes everything and poured money into it?

Remember when everyone (in VC) thought #Web3/#blockchain was going to be the next big thing that changes everything and poured money into it?

Anyway, how are #LLMs going?

@paul_ipv6 @ryanc @jerry If only the GPG chain wasn't such a mess for mere mortals to use...

@Rickd6 @ryanc @jerry "My gang is bigger than your gang" is the approach used in a failed society.

@ryanc @jerry Yeah, the onboarding experience is definitely still a sore point. Like, I'd like to get my brother or the NFP I work with onto Mastodon, but I don't know what server to send them to. Mine isn't appropriate for them, mastodon.social isn't a good answer, and the alternative is... *citation needed*

@ryanc @jerry True dat.

@ryanc @jerry The spam analogy is very apt, I think, given Fediverse is often analogized to email.

And the wild-west-anyone-runs-anything approach is largely a failure there, too. I also used to run a personal mail server. It only worked if I proxied every message through my ISP's mail server.

A similar network-of-trust seems the only option here, give or take details.

@ryanc @jerry In the abstract sense, we're dealing with the scaling problems of the tit-for-tat experiment dynamics. Reputation-building approaches to social behavior only work when the # of actors is small enough that repeated interactions can build reputation. The Internet is vastly too big for that, just like society at large.