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> new post: 'What is the future of the tech industry TNG?'

https://6work.exmosis.net/2024/10/17/what-is-the-future-of-the-tech-industry-tng/

Morning and #tzag fellowfolk. Thanks for being here, providing a small corner of the internet away from the auto-gloop of generic slup that is taking over the rest of the networld. It means a lot to a lot of us. Stay indie. Stay human.

@jcalpickard .. or "stop being so bloody difficult", as I'm sure my parents told me more than once.

Bit confused by the reporting and methodology on this #BBC headline on incinerator emissions. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3wxgje5pwo

It states more plastic is being incinerated, but the methodology notes organic and food waste was removed from the model, so were emissions removed proportionately too?

Curious enough to follow up. Anyone know the best way to ask these questions to the BBC?

#climate #data

@interstar @davew Yeah the flexibility x simplicity x standardisation here (all relative, of course) is where my head is at too. Still, it does mush together blogging with microblogging, and I can see that tension between long and short form - in both creating, and in consuming - as something I'll personally need to resolve if the trend continues. eg "tag content as short form, long form, pictorial, video, etc depending on length / type".

@adrianh This is how far the knowledge economy has sunk. What's the tech equivalent of virtue signalling?

Hard not to disagree with the results of this poll TBH

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@Ricardus/113297550118877699

LinkedIn asks "How do you choose which technology trends to prioritize?" Is it wrong to just reply with "Perl 6"?

@aperson Weirdly not a huge amount, considering.

@kgjengedal Out of interest, do you still update devices, etc? Or just stick with what you know? I guess there's a difference between using progress, and understanding it.

@slotos @thibaultamartin Even Markdown requires more learning and cognitive load than most people want. (I use it myself, but don't recommend it as standard to others.) But you're right, lack of interest comes back to _why_ we're socialising. And network effect and who we're interacting with is a big part of that.

Interacting with random strangers is fine for me. But most people like to keep up with friends, family, and local community stuff. That's the network layer.

Just updated Firefox. Critical security wotsit yesterday.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-51/

@Moosader My youngest likes the gamified maths stuff they have for school homework. Get the challenge right and the device probably doesn't matter, but a cranking twist has some interesting potential!

Gah, knew I should have taken my own backup of the Internet Archive.

Pants, missed posting at 10/10 10:10.

But it's not too late for anyone that's already decided to move to winter clocks. Learn from my mistakes.

@simoncox @paulsilver Or the last 5 minutes. If I click a link, but then want to go back a page to see something else that looked interesting, it's gone! 🤷♂️

@thibaultamartin Yeah, I still dream of a blog for people (not "non-techies" or anything, just "people") that can be self-hosted by a techie friend (or friends) easily, but posted to from your phone without having to even mention the word "metadata".

Morning and #tzag thees. Today's mandatory reading is the wikipedia list of all of the names of Odin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_of_Odin

"(The best argument for James Cleverly as leader is that he doesn’t project dislike for half the country.)"

Robert Shrimsley making me laugh over at the FT today. https://www.ft.com/content/918306b9-575a-4f3b-9efb-082d8162a1b7

@jcalpickard @orbific Ah thanks. It was https://ollama.com/ that I'd seen before.