Notices by Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop), page 2

@kingrat Limited, right? That’s where social.coop currently is.

This is essentially my take on Threads. I am glad that social.coop is having a coop-y discussion and vote about this (check your email, instance members!) but if it results in complete defederation I’ll probably finally move to sfba.social.
From: @adam
https://social.lol/@adam/113810663343513922

I don’t think you can do this for Facebook, but I grabbed all my Twitter interactions and sorted the list to find out who I’d interacted with most. And then emailed one of them a day for weeks. It was great.
From: @vkc
https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/113805847867961551

@scott So how do we get her off the fascist site and onto sfba.social or at least Bluesky (non-trolly question, genuinely)

(And don’t always agree with her, as you know, but so obviously correct on this issue)

yo @mozillaofficial (and moz friends) what… is this?
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/113771882893603942

@glyph @aeva why do the magic spells not work

I was promised they were magical

@simon genuinely inspires me—his method of learning is creative, persistent, and dedicated to sharing. His LLM year in review is a great example of talking about a burgeoning field in a thoughtful, low-hype, high-value way.

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/

@ntnsndr I guess it can’t hurt to poke @Markoff and see if he suggests further reading on the topic :) I wish I had his book to hand, but in a situation that would have blown the minds of many of his protagonists I am typing this on a pocket supercomputer while 30,000 feet in the air…

@ntnsndr @JMarkOckerbloom there’s an underexplored thread in Markoff’s What The Dormouse Said about a very early split in computing about wanting users to learn command line “vocabularies” of commands, and simplification/ease of use (not necessarily dumbing down). I assume there’s a deeper literature about that, and how emacs (and excel?) became outliers (with maybe modern IDEs as sophisticated bridges between the two worlds?)

@ntnsndr @JMarkOckerbloom also modern tools tend to make UX decisions early on that inevitably make extensions second-class, because the most easily accessible features get first-class-“space” in the UX (biggest buttons, shortest commands etc.) which demotes extensions to less-good interfaces. Emacs predates that so all extensions are first-class (which means none are).

@ntnsndr @JMarkOckerbloom I wonder to what extent that’s inevitable once you build popular general purpose extensibility into a tool that reads and writes (eg as compared Mozilla, very extensible but not very good at writing, mostly optimized for reading).

@jwz obviously like other great San Francisco techno-cultural institutions EFF and Wikipedia, you need a @craignewmark memorial toilet

@mekkaokereke but then pretty soon you get into the hard core stuff. Adding fruits, nuts, fancy jams, pretty soon you’re looking at waffle makers.

And then your kids start joining you at the waffle maker 🥰

If you’ve been wondering why I’ve been difficult to schedule lately, or seen my magnificent deal beard (RIP), this is why: my company, Tidelift, has been acquired by Sonar.

I'll have more to say in January, but for now, I’ll simply say that I’m proud of what we’ve done so far at Tidelift—both internally and with our Lifters (including some followers here—thanks!). I'm grateful to everyone who has helped along the way. And I’m very excited to building on that at Sonar.

https://www.sonarsource.com/company/press-releases/sonar-to-acquire-tidelift/

Wordpress contributors have moved from “wtf?” to getting organized. That doesn’t guarantee a fork but it’s the next step. (Via @404mediaco , which has done great reporting.)

https://www.therepository.email/wordpress-contributors-and-community-leaders-call-for-governance-reform-in-rare-open-letter

@skinnylatte @Bronwyn basketball seems genuinely pretty internationally popular at this point? Like the Prem having all the money and therefore attracting global talent, the NBA has outsize impact, but there are leagues and players everywhere (definitely unlike baseball and “foot”ball…)

@johnmark @skinnylatte @Bronwyn meh? I take the semantic point; it's pretty silly in "foot"ball in particular, since no one else even really plays the game.

But if you had a FIBA Club World Cup akin to UEFA Champion's League, does anyone really doubt the NBA titleists would be both the regular winners (by larger margins than the US wins the Olympics) and regularly the most-watched games outside the US? Among other things, NBA club teams cherry pick the rest of the world's talent.

@cwebber I agree with this as first-principles, but I do note that every contextual/healthy/secure community that I'm a part of spends a pretty solid amount of time sharing and discussing stuff from the context-collapse firehoses (for many appropriate contextual reasons - laughter, learning, safety, etc.) I am not sure how we square those facts.

One of the regulators of our shared civic life was shame. Which seems to have mostly disappeared in certain classes/segments of society.
https://mas.to/@carnage4life/113651383965916103

@skinnylatte @Bronwyn it's pretty bonkers that the NFL is basically unwatched outside the US and still has more revenue than the Premier League.