Notices by Anil Dash (anildash@me.dm), page 19

@HarryLanders @waldoj because it mostly is!

one of the people behind this project is Max Howell of homebrew fame.

he also runs what seems to be some sort of AI-powered package manager, which generates incorrect and nonsensical descriptions for the packages it lists.

when people asked questions, they were met with an AI bot

https://github.com/pkgxdev/pantry/issues/5358

@waldoj and interestingly it also applies to people — some will refer to “the wife” or “the spouse” or “the kid”, with a familiarity, and then “the doctor” or “the dentist” as generic.

@ianbetteridge it’s gotten a pejorative implication of late, though you’re bot factually incorrect.

@glyph It’s here. The intro incidentally forced me to have to explain to my child why Will.I.Am had beef with me on Twitter. https://youtu.be/0dDeRbB0Xtc?si=rnpneLPXcDT8BefU

Trying to teach my child about culture and have somehow ended up playing a YouTube video of Psy and Hammer doing a live mashup of “Gangnam Style” and “2 Legit 2 Quit”, which is something I never knew existed but also fully believe children need to be educated about.

@Charlobo super helpful, thanks!

I've been thinking about doing some kind of "office hours"/AMA thing because I really want to share what I've learned about the tech industry over my years in the business, and also because I know there are things I'm missing by not being in conversation with folks. Would that be useful/interesting?

Me, a Sheetz partisan: “Has been for years!” https://macaw.social/@jay/111946837477519841

@agocke @tshirtman @polotek this is only tech solving a social problem if every conversation everywhere is encrypted. You can't fix social problems with technical solutions.

@tshirtman @polotek it’s worked at chasing off lots of devs and even more casuals. For sure.

@polotek yeah that’s fair.

@polotek yeah there’s a real thing here about a digital equivalent of “citizenship” or being a good neighbor. But the idea id requiring literacies for participating in community online is very unfamiliar to most. And part of what I think many of us are looking for is whether a creator is a well-intentioned person making a mistake or if they’re a bad actor. Having the norms/consent discourse is about interrogating that.

@repeattofade @polotek @janl yep, it’s an evolving social norm. It’s unfamiliar to people who came online in a context where protocols or formats or platforms were ultimate authority about consent. But it’s changing, and that’s fine, imo.

@polotek @janl I understand your argument, but I don’t think I agree. It’s reasonable to be upset at someone for knowingly violating community norms, even if it’s technically doable.

@dgold @polotek @timbray I don’t think that’s correct.

This headline is false. https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/14/bluesky-and-mastodon-users-are-having-a-fight-that-could-shape-the-next-generation-of-social-media/

@CartyBoston @polotek it’s differently bad. lol

@janl @polotek yeah but that’s sort of a separate issue? Another way to put it, this guy is bad at marketing to fediverse users.

@polotek all other things aside, what matters isn’t the technical architecture but the social norms. Mastodon is full of folks who are extremists (by modern tech standards) about consent, and who want defaults to be opt-in for nearly everything. In particular, Bluesky has both a different economic model and a different privacy model than the rest of the fediverse, so it makes sense to start with consent because the decision to federate is irrevocable in terms of data leakage.