Notices by デイヴ (deivudesu@mastodon.social)

@Blanche Franponais, highway omiyage edition…

Shut up and take my money!

Tanuki eco-bag where the balls grow with content

It took a whole decade for Paris metro to support iPhone contactless, bc the Paris Transport Authority kept insisting that they wanted to snoop on all user data collected by Apple…

Meanwhile, it also took years for iPhones to work on Japanese transport, but the main reason was that the global NFC standard was ~0.7s gate tape speed, vs Japan’s FeliCa’s <0.2s, and Tokyo transit companies were like: that’s unacceptably slow. 😂

#japan #transport #felica #iphone #paris

Technoligarchs have successfully convinced politicians and corporate execs to gamble other people's money on #AI for one reason: negative externalities are totally absent from corporate accounting.

Back in early 20s, when people took #ClimateChange seriously for a brief second, corps felt the wind change and put all their weight toward convincing regulators that they did not need regulation, and would just do better on their own…

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Last Summer, walking around Badaro, we'd regularly see this dapper older man playing the oud outside restaurants…

Due to Israel's indiscriminate bombing of south beirut, he's been displaced and now lives out of a van… 💔

He still plays music…

#beirut #lebanon #israel

https://today.lorientlejour.com/article/1503880/abed-sabagh-sits-in-his-van-in-a-tuxedo-playing-his-oud-surviving-once-again.html

There's no word to describe the level of rogue state terrorist behaviours Israel has been engaging in, all over the middle-east, over the past few years. 😡

But that latest wave of destruction they've unleashed on a country barely managing to stay afloat, is particularly disgusting.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Bellingcat/116195203740479781

Just the US, caught trying to hide the obvious fact that they murdered a 100 schoolgirls as part of an unprovoked attack on a sovereign country…

I'd say that's a new low, and ought to be a wake up call, but I don't think the vast majority of maga voters has even heard of my lai…

Billionaires should not exist.

We can always argue to eternity about the finer points of economic justice beyond that, but if we could just at least focus on that one part of the programme, we’d likely solve most of the urgent issues all at once.

As for the “how”: I naively think that merely enforcing aggressive and effective taxation that goes asymptotically to 100%, would do most the work. But admittedly we are fast reaching a point where a bit of guillotine-based coercion might help.

If I hear one more person talk about “putting our brightest people toward solving climate change”, I will scream.

Climate change is not some deep mystery waiting for a scientific breakthrough: we know exactly what causes it and how we address that. We have SOLVED climate change.

The problem is not “finding the solution”, the problem is convincing literally anyone in power that the solution is better than building billionaire bunkers in new zealand.

#climate #climatechange

The worst part of googling "how do I remove Meta's shitty AI button from WhatsApp", is not that the answer is "downgrade to a previous version"… it's that in order to get that information, one has to sift through dozen pages of shitty AI slop… 🤬

#meta #ai #whatsapp

Letsencrypt has, by now, sent me roughly 300 emails to inform me that it will no longer be sending emails…

#linux #letsencrypt #dns

Home Automation reddit can be quite entertaining…

@markhurst @pluralistic It's been countless years since Instagram decided it was going to ignore user preferences and reset to the "For You" feed every time you reloaded the app… that should have been a bit of a tip off to everyone…

@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/