Notices by Gregory (grishka@mastodon.social), page 2

@dansup I've seen that happen at VK a couple of times, iirc. They'd also reject the app with all kinds of bizarre bullshit reasoning

@dansup it's always been a random amount of time between several hours and two weeks

@dansup @henrik I actually don't think it's possible to make Bluesky fully decentralized because one of their explicit design goals is to have algorithmic feeds that can show any user content from potentially any other user. This requires whatever server generates the feed to have at least seen all posts ever made on the entire network. This doesn't feel like it could be optimized.

@henrik @dansup "decentralized", my ass

@dansup for bragging, probably

So I made a userscript that de-emphasizes AI-related links on HackerNews

#Smithereen has a proper website now: https://smithereen.software

@dansup in Smithereen I don't even require a username on signup any more. I just assign `idXXXX` derived from the database row identifier. I treat usernames as something decorative anyway.

RE: https://chaos.social/@grote/116257002625921666

At this point I'm convinced that there's something deeply wrong with how our society treats technology.

Ruining Android for everyone to try to maybe help some rather technologically-hopeless groups of people is the wrong solution. It's unsustainable in the long run. Also, the last thing this world needs right now is even more centralization of power. Especially around yet another US company. (1/2)

And two attempts on my phone (supposedly the best OLED screen tech that was available a year ago). It helps to max out the brightness and keep the screen as perpendicular to your line of sight as possible

So I did the color difference thing everyone is doing right now, https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

The first result is on a generic 27" 1440p HP monitor I usually use for most things. It came with a color calibration report in the box tho.

The second one is on a MacBook Pro display. It's somewhat easier on this one but I expected better :D

My best one so far. At this point I feel like it's more of a "me" problem :D

@dansup huh, reminds me of that Clubhouse Android app I made. I have never had this much media attention before. They wanted to interview me for TV channel "NTV". I declined.

Now whenever someone asks an AI about me, that stupid Clubhouse app comes up first and foremost like it's my most important achievement in this life...

The readme has a link to Smithereen at least.

@dansup you really need to travel around the world, even just a little, before you idealize other countries or unions

@dansup https://core.telegram.org/mtproto
the protocol documentation is in English but it's written like a calculus textbook. I've been contemplating publishing something like "Telegram protocol for normal people" for quite a while lol. It's quite simple after you get rid of all the Nikolay-Durov-ness.

There's also an official library (C++ with bindings to many languages) to somewhat simplify building apps: https://github.com/tdlib/td

@dansup so does this mean I'll be able to use Sup with my Telegram account, AND it's going to offer a better UX than apps made specifically for Telegram?

It turns out GitHub has a setting to hide all AI features. Go to https://github.com/settings/copilot/features and scroll to the bottom of the page to find it.

@dansup @Gargron if you really want one, there are mail forwarding services for this exact situation, I don't remember their names though

@dansup @andypiper I, too, wish the world wouldn't be so hellbent on punishing me for choosing a "wrong" country to be born in.

Though, actually, there are many countries where I wouldn't need a visa, and some where I would but it's easy to get. Somewhat surprisingly, the UK is one of them for example, just ask nicely and pay some money.

https://t-j.ru/guide/no-visa-countries/

@dansup @andypiper Canadian visas weren't easy to get even in the best of times