CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]

It looks like they left because they were no longer getting engagement. Not because “it was the right decision”.

I’m glad they made the decision and I get their rationale for staying on other fascist platforms. But let’s not let go of the fact that they would have stayed on twitter if they still had engagement.

Doing the right thing would have been “we know our work is important and we are encouraging our large and active audience to leave twitter and follow us to mastodon. In fact we put together a great blog post on how to make this easy for you.”

Instead this reads as a whiney post about how Musk is minimizing their exposure, which, fair. But still they are trying to make it mean something more than it actually is.

Jfc you weren’t kidding.

Taylor v. Google or just search class action

There is no way to prove definitively that the person using the credential is the same person using the Internet. Hell there’s barely enough of a way to prove that there is a human sitting behind your device.

This is why age/identify verification is pointless.

You kid but it literally starts this way. Imagine if someone like Paul McCartney says, “I’m moving over to mastodon and you should too.”

He starts to share exclusive content there, sharing videos on loops…

People will stop going to other places.

But the content has to come first.

As a technologist, I have to remind everyone that AI is not intelligence. It’s a word prediction/statistical machine. It’s guessing at a surprisingly good rate what words follow the words before it.

It’s math. All the way down.

We as humans have simply taken these words and have said that it is “intelligence”.

The best use of AI I’ve seen thus far is reading legislative bills. Those monstrosities are so fucking long and filled with earmarks that it’s next to impossible to understand what is in them.

Having an AI not only read the bill but keep a watch of it as it goes through Congress is probably the best use of AI because it actually helps citizens.

I am on record saying we need an AI that can track prices of various things that can then predict when the best time it is to buy something.

I want an AI bot that saves me money or gets me a good deal or extracts money from the capital class.

I remember reading a study about speeding in neighborhoods. It’s not unusual to have people driving 50+ in a 25 MPH neighborhood.

Speed bumps actually caused people to drive faster between the bumps.

What worked was more curves and narrow roads. Essentially making it more dangerous.

So you’re not wrong.

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

The problem with “age” verification is that politicians are confusing it with identity verification.

I should not have to prove my name and other biometrics to prove age.

Age verification is the fascist way to get people to identify themselves and their online activity. Almost every state that has some sort of age verification law has zero method to actually verify age. No digital ID service, no way to share a credential for verification.

They want people to upload an ID.

This isn’t about keeping children safe and it never is. It’s about identifying critics of the government.

The same public libraries that vigorously defend the privacy of our reading lists

The Patriot act allows the feds to get the books you’ve checked out at your local library.

!waterfox@programming.dev

This behavior seems to be very similar to NFL stars and how they never wanted their kids to play football.

Everyone involved knows how dangerous social media/football is and many of them are in positions to actually do something about it. But because it benefits them personally, they won’t even rock the boat.

In a completely unrelated move, Ring will partner with a complete difference company that will pay 20% above what Flock was paying.

I wonder if removing the cameras is the best move.

It might be better to let them run but have them watching a TV streaming Disney movies.

Then drop the dime to Disney that they are copying their IP.

My understanding is that if your community is not adult content and you aren’t on any adult servers, you won’t need to ID verify. But I suspect it’s only a matter of time before all accounts are required to verify.

If people didn’t leave Twitter when it became an unholy cestpool of alt-right propaganda, they have chosen to stay there because their audience is the alt-right.

The DevOps way is to have them die at regular intervals in addition to other triggers and then rebuild on a regular cadence. Iirc correctly Netflix servers have a 12 hour TTL. Windscribe could easily do a 1-2 hour TTL with matching certs and encryption keys.

The biggest issue is that making a browser from scratch takes a lot of resources. It’s not cheap and takes a long time.

We essentially have Chrome and Firefox now. And Firefox is starting to enshitify.

We desperately need a third browser.

The goal of companies mandating RTO is attrition. They want people to quit without firing or laying them off.

Their goal is to hire younger, hungrier (both literally and figuratively) coders who are cheaper and less experienced and will use “AI” to clean up their code.

Bare in mind that the government requires a warrant to obtain data against you, the barrier in which to get a warrant requires probable cause.

Obtaining data about you from a company only requires a subpoena if the company doesn’t cooperate.

BUYING data about you from the same company is completely allowed.

Until we get privacy laws, we are truly fucked.