This is so Discworld that I almost feel like singing "We Can Rule You Wholesale" (The Ankh-Morpork national anthem)

"£3.99, and that's cutting down my own flag"

#Discworld #TerryPratchett

Inspired by the late great Sir Terry Pratchett, I've decided to become a renegade in the world of Millenials by switching from using parentheses to footnotes to anxiously/pedantically clarify my inane* digital ramblings.

*Depending on who you ask, this word may be short one 's'

#Discworld #TerryPratchett #millennials

Pretty much every software development related email I've received lately...

#SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #LLM #AI

@elduvelle @acs @Mikaleb @pixelfed ads are fine in themselves. Independently run parts of the internet existed for a long time on ads that were responsibly run i.e. just basic text or images aimed at the community, which didn't require or collect any data.

Hell, I remember we used to be happy when our favourite independent sites got sponsorships, and popular content creators still do it with product endorsements.

So I wouldn't object to that form of advertising again.

Internet: "Blue lights help cats to relax. I put blue lights on and my cat immediately curls up and goes to sleep"

My cat: <Looks for things to murderize in blue>

#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

@aral What if you solve a RegEx problem with AI? 🤔

@engravecavedave @aral before all the complaints about the name of the software, I wasn't aware of the fact that it can also mean someone with a physical disability. In the UK, I've only ever heard it used to call someone stupid.

I'm not a fan of the name regardless tbh, but I think the "master" thing is a bit of a stretch considering that's a default branch name that predates even Git, and people are moving away from it now.

@jeff @aral hey, if an omnipotent sky entity wants to show up and fix capitalism I'd vote for them.

@dansup My cat doesn't bother trying that. She just stares at me like this, until her eyes drilling into the depths of my very soul become too much to bear, and I just cave.

On the rare occasion that I don't give in fast enough, she just gets closer and closer, or, if I'm sitting at my desk chair, hurls herself at the headrest and perches behind my head to really drive the message home.

@dansup Does this mean we can expect to see a paws in development?

The proud artist posing with her work.

#CatsOfMastodon
#Caturday

@aral @GossiTheDog that's a fair point, I didn't like it when Google did it either, but the article implies both in the headline and the first paragraph that it's something it isn't (injection & a barrier), which I don't like either.

@GossiTheDog @aral looks like a misleading article. While the messages appear, you don't need to interact with any of them to download Chrome.

One: It's the link immediately under the banner.
Two: Ignore
Three: Ignore, the download is already complete and you were probably going to close edge anyway.
Four: See three

Edit: I just checked, nothing is "Injected" into the google pages either, they appear to run in independent viewports that aren't part of the main browser viewport.

@feditips Exactly, and so what we've ended up with is a data silo that's a core/integral part of the fediverse, or at least the Mastodon part of it.

There isn't really a way to "migrate" to another server in any meaningful sense either, so I can't see many people actually doing it.

@feditips indeed. They really should have capped the number of users, and better directed them to other instances. It seems like growth at the expense of vision.

@dansup while I do like Mastodon and what it has done for social media, sharedInbox is defined by the ActivityPub spec, and Webfinger was created by the IETF

@dansup not the answer I was expecting, but very interesting. Thanks!

@dansup out of interest, what's the most resource intensive job type that is likely to backlog other jobs? Mostly curious whether it's processing or I/O.

@dansup @pixelfed @Mastodon A minor point, but rel=me was the creation of the people behind the XML Friends Network (XFN) specification :)

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/rel/me

https://gmpg.org/xfn/

@aral @opengeohub @mwfc billion dollar corporations want AI restricted to only those with a government issued license. I surely can't imagine why... 🙄