Notices by デイヴ (deivudesu@mastodon.social)

@offensive littéralement Don Quixotes du 21e siècle : pourfendeurs de moulins algorithmiques, sous le regard hilare des milliardaires fascistes, à qui du click de gauchiste rapporte autant que du click de fasciste. 😐

I am 100% not a murderer!

Well, 92-to-100% not a murderer…

@joachim Go on!

[Edit] Arg. <screams in PHP>

(and yes: I have finally decided to dedicate part of my weekend toward getting rid of that bloated piece of software, if only so I never need to care again about the inane pronouncements of Automattic CEO and Zuckerberg-wannabe Matt #Mullenweg)

Doubtful that I'll do much beyond extracting my old WP posts to a clean format with a basic HTML template on top, but it got me curious about what a modern blog/CMS system could look like…

#wordpress

If you were to design a brand new blogging platform from scratch today, what would it look like?

Would it stick to the standard "N columns" template format?

Would it have a dedicated Admin UI, or would it reuse existing tools?

Would it define its own DB schema, or piggyback off existing standards?

Would it make sense to design it as an ActivityPub client with a Web UI?

#blog #software #development #wordpress #mastodon #activitypub

Looking at the whole Gen AI ecosystem, it is rather striking to realise that none of the countless models for text, image and videos, can acknowledge, let alone handle, the existence of anything connected to human sexuality…

Considering the dystopian role played by these models in shaping the whole of our online experience, and most of our interactions with the world, this is a weird blind spot.

You were hoping for the Matrix? Welcome to Barbie World.

Remember these cheesy 80s sci-fi movies with their cartoonishly evil billionaires ruling over dystopian fascistic societies?

Don't seem so cartoonish any more, do they.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/

I really don't get where people get all this anxiety about 2025. I've decided to spend it having uninterrupted sex, and so far it's working out brilliant.

In case you’re wondering, the end result was impeccable.

#xmas #baking #gingerbread

Have you ever looked at food and thought “I wished this experience felt more like Ikea”

Muji has you covered!

#xmas #baking

"emerging"… yea…

(from a paper who's been obsequiously careful in the past to stuff its headlines with a never-ending supply of weasel words and passive voice)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/23/israel-gaza-war-genocide-where-is-the-action

When that finally happens, when History makes it clear who sat on the side of the genocidal oppressors, I just really really hope no one lets those people forget where they stood:
the “concerned-about-antisemitism” British soft-left luvvies, the “forget-the-Nazi-stuff-we-❤️-Israel’s-right-to-genocide” Germans, the self-proclaimed French “intellectuals” who’ll pick fascists over Muslims…

All those lazy cowards who not only cheer on genocide, but probably think History will look kindly on them.

In a few months, in a few years, not long after Israel finishes razing Gaza and killing off the last Palestinian, the world will come to a consensus that Israel committed genocide, murdered an entire people, and that the world stood there and watched, when not actively helping.

Much like Srebrenica or Rwanda, there will eventually be inquiries and documentaries, showing how much Western countries knew and supported that genocide: US, UK, Germany, France…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2024/dec/23/middle-east-crisis-israel-orders-kamal-adwan-hospital-close-gaza-syria-latest-updates

#Israel #gaza

@joachim J'offset mes émissions raclette, en utilisant de la viande de milliardaire fumée.
(c'est un peu plus coriace que la viande des grisons, mais en macérant un peu, ça passe)

#London transportation being incapacitated for a month due to <check notes> leaf fall…

🤦♂️

Tintin is Public Domain next year 🤩

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113668951995574969

I better be seeing an AVALANCHE of porn Tintin parodies, as of the 1st of January 2025!

@pluralistic

@joachim I think for the sake of this discussion, we need to limit ourselves to the artistic *output* of these bands. Otherwise we can spend many eternities discussing (real or alleged) shite behaviour of all these people… 😁

@joachim Kinda curious who else you have in mind? 🤔

I think lots of songs over the years may complain about *use of taxes* (esp for war, policing and whatnot). But being against the concept of taxes as a whole (especially from the position of people who've done quite well for themselves and are pissed about giving back), seems very specific to that song. At least as far as I can think right now.

@joachim I mean… they literally had a hit about paying too much taxes. 🤷

Not a throwaway lyric in a song or some mention of taxes: an entire song complaining that they pay too much taxes. 🙃

@joachim broken clocks etc.

Je ne suis pas sûr que la remise en cause de *certains* courants d'extrême droite ferait de lui un centriste… Pareil pour la classe des techbros libertariens en général. Ou d'autres sous-groupes en vogue (les naturopathes nazis, les antivax racistes etc)…

De ce point de vue, le dernier bouquin de Naomi Klein dissèque bien le réagencement (et la réappropriation)…

Indépendamment du tueur lui même, je pensais surtout aux courants qui le soutiennent/soutiendraient…