Notices by デイヴ (deivudesu@mastodon.social)

@dansup TBH, it feels (from a rather uninformed tourist's PoV) that the Fediverse could really do with a few well-developed well-maintained AP libraries…
Last time I tried to find something in Python to build a basic AP server off, I mainly found an endless string of half-completed long-abandoned projects. Having to reimplement the entire AP protocol every time, is probably not a very productive way to go about it… 😕

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/

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