@sam@BeAware@rolle there are a lot of busybodies on the Fediverse. Without knowing exactly what you were building I would hope you are not discouraged by those people. The whole beauty of this place is its built on open protocols which allows all kinds of innovations. We should have more of them, not less. Even, heaven forbid, businesses.
I just realised that even after years of watching #StarTrek I know almost nothing about how regular people live in that world. What is their home like, if they haven’t conveniently inherited a massive vineyard? What do they do if they can’t just hop on a spaceship to save the universe, or land on a scientific breakthrough?
I realise it’s a post-money society, but by Star Trek’s own admission only the best of the best are in Starfleet. So what of the others?
@darnell@FastCompany@fast-co-technology-FastCompany I think Mastodon gives us a certain level of built in protection against this due to federation. For better or for worse, account discovery is more difficult.
@parents4future just to play the devil’s advocate. How is this election interference? This is one person’s view. An influential and wealthy person, yes, but hardly unique in that regard.
If it could be shown that X was tweaking algorithms or otherwise promoting AfD over other choices, that would be a clearer case.
The latest stroke of genius by the #Taleban is to ban women in #Afghanistan from studying to become midwives and nurses. The whole situation there is such an embarrassment to western nations and a downright tragedy.
@clive@pluralistic one key takeaway from the article is the inherent (or current?) nature of BlueSky’s decentralisation is such that you need pretty huge resources to fully run your own thing. In that sense Mastodon’s decentralisation is more widely scalable.
@liztai@ellane I recommend checking the reMarkable e-ink notepad. Benefits of a traditional notebook with some digital benefits (storage, backups, sharing)
It appears the #pagers were possibly just the first step in a larger operation against #Hezbollah by #Israel. Today #walkietalkies have reportedly exploded and now bobs going off? Including at one funeral.
@LittleTokyo not just any man, but Jean-Michel Jarre himself. One of the biggest electronic music artists of all time. I think he must be in his 70s now…
I know Mastodon is the anti-#AI community, or something, but the generated ALT text that @IceCubesApp offers is good enough that I’d be pretty much willing to have it on automatically for any image I post. Even when I do edit it it’s just small changes to highlight something I might want to emphasise. It’s actually shockingly good.
@nafnlaus.bsky.social oh, absolutely. However #BlueSky is way more centralised (I'm not sure if they still have federation working), so an ad approach might be more feasible too.
FWIW I think #Mastodon instances need to start coming up with some sustainable revenue models.
#Israel strike on a school in #Gaza kills at least 30. Reportedly most children. The #IDF states there was a ‘#Hamas command and control centre embedded within the school’. Ah well, I guess that’s all right then.
The nature of #Trump is that whether he is spewing nonsense, or groping ladies, or losing a court case, he needs to be the centre of attention. He needs to be grabbing the headlines.
Right now he is not, #Kamala#Harris is. That will be the case for the next several weeks at least. This will aggravate Trump no end. He will be contemplating what big move to make to turn the attention back to himself. Will he go on a firing spree?
@MastodonEngineering@Gargron@renchap@Claire despite all the hype about full stack I have very rarely, if ever, bumped into someone who is truly good at frontend and backend frameworks and techs. I wonder if you should consider splitting those roles? (Not for me, I might add, but I’d struggle to come up with anyone I could honestly recommend for both).
@tchambers@scottjenson one should trust #AI#LLM facts just as much as you’d trust a drunk guy in a bar. For the same reasons. It may raise some interesting tidbit, but you absolutely have to check it if you plan to use it for anything. I actually think the use of LLMs for knowledge sources is a misguided use of the tech.
@liztai at the moment a lot of folks in the tech industry have had those zeroes slipping away. A lot of people made redundant or unemployed. I can't remember when I've seen that in tech.
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