Notices by Kristoffer Lawson (setok@attractive.space), page 2

#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.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1e5y8ny1l4o

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?

#Maripilvi as #LisleVonRhuman from #DeathBecomesHer at #finncon2024. The necklace is entirely made by her by hand, one piece at a time (it took forever!).

#finncon

@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).

#Israel is banning #AlJazeera

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68708984

@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.

@liztai not only that, they use the word ‘sandwich’ to describe a filled baguette thing. I’m not sure Lord Sandwich would approve!

So #MarkZuckerberg and #ElonMusk are aiming to have an MMA fight. We need to get @Gargron in on the action too. I offer to arrange his training!

@aurynn Why defederate? What’s it to you if their users get ads? Maybe they are good enough or the service is good enough to warrant being on there. We need sustainable business models and diverse approaches. Opposing diversity through extreme measures such as defederation is quite a negative culture and enforces the social bubble.

@aurynn perhaps not the most mature response to discussion

@aurynn no part of it. Just disappointed you stoop to that level

@pettter fundamentally I would say: ease of use for everyone. Good usability, fun, and ease benefits all.

#Mastodon has a vision, but it's good to make that vision as accessible to as many as possible. Social networks are for connecting people, and everyone on this planet wants to connect somehow.

I see a lot of arguments that are seemingly against #Mastodon growth: 'We don't need to be bigger than #Bluesky or #Twitter, we don't need to change anything'. But why would we intentionally want a platform that is difficult for users and obtuse? Many opensource projects seem to fall into that trap of thinking ease of use is somehow a bad thing, not worthy of attention.

Surely the web is an example of why open standards, with good experience and business (the horror!) is beneficial?

#UX

@thomasfuchs @Gargron we also desperately need to see all replies of a post when clicking on it. Not just whatever the server knows about and thus silently missing often the majority of a discussion.

@Mrfunkedude somewhat seriously, this is a fine example of the limitations of Mastodon: I see only a couple replies from people when viewing your toot. It’s only when I open your toot up on your server that I see there are dozens and dozens. This is a big problem.