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With experimental cross-silo Federation and so many Fediverse operators running on shoestring budgets, maybe we need Government regulators to demand that all content creators *must* accept this classic UX dialogue before posting
This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. Your message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing. Are you absolutely sure that you want to do this? [ny] https://sources.vsta.org/comp.sources.unix/volume1/rn/patch30
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Today I have learnt something about the central heating system in my home
We had a new boiler and pump installed recently and the house was running at about 23C almost constantly. I was going around switching off radiators and trying to diagnose what was happening but getting nowhere. Finally, today the answer was revealed: At the very end of the central heating ring is a small radiator
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Shoshana Weissmann: Carding People for Joining Social Media Solves Nothing
https://reason.com/podcast/2024/02/14/shoshana-weissmann-carding-people-for-joining-social-media-solves-nothing/
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Hobbyists running AI foundation models at home will be the next frontier of attempted Government regulation; Civil Society will have to decide which side it is on
Do they support general purpose computing and free software, OR do they fear the risk of people using clever software to do abusive things? Perhaps I should build a spreadsheet to track their opinions? I can run almost any model now. So so happy. Cost a little more than a Mac Studio. https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/s/nMQFPXdZRT
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Two Years After Privacy Risks of Client-Side Scanning Paper Was Published, It’s Time for Governments to Move On
Oh, I wish. It would be nice to have a holiday for the first time in 30 years. https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/two-years-after-privacy-risks-paper-published/
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Marco @polotek@social.polotek.net shares a glorious epiphany regarding trust, safety, platforms in general, & Mastodon in specific
So much this thread; my links/emph; quote: After continuing to noodle on it, I had an epiphany earlier today. You’re not gonna like it. I realized that maybe I have been misunderstanding the actual conversation about social norms. Maybe the reason people wanna have the moral argument is because they’re hoping that will convince other
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Nice little explainer thread from David Thiel on the Bluesky Mastodon Bridge Brouhaha
I frequently disagree with David but I think he is bang on regarding this: https://hachyderm.io/@det/111929697516586533
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Reading this and remembering the (subset of) people who told me that it was irresponsible to release a password cracker to USENET in 1991 because it might be used by bad people to do bad things
…so they said I should vet who could use it. Yeah, nah. It’s not the job of software engineers to maintain the delusions of random people. Quote: Whenever you create a new technology – especially in the social space – the first question you have to ask yourself is WW4D: what would 4chan do? And
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“Opt-out is a terrible default and should be reconsidered” | Mastodon users throwing a huge fit that their content may be copied to Bluesky by bridging software
Click through & skim the comments. Back on USENET we lived & loved expansion to Fido & other networks, as it increased community … but now this is a “techbro” perspective which ignores “consent”. #popcorn https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy-fed/issues/835
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Worcestershire: New Road ‘situation worsening’ as water levels rise, says Ashley Giles | Wicket Keeper bitten by Giant Eel
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/68265906
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I signed up for Nextdoor for fun, it’s full of “this country is going to the dogs” DailyMail/Sun-readers… and then I realised…
“This is what happens without algorithmic curation.” …or, more accurately: “…when your algorithm is neutral/geographic and not just a social bubble” — which makes me wonder if Mastodon & Bluesky should require/oblige similar localism so that people are forced to learn about the diversity of opinion in the place where they live.