ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

Percy joining a Zoom meeting. #caturday #Catsofmastodon

So, this is the best bargain of the week. Just $125K. But I have to warn you NOT TO CLICK ON IT if you want to sleep tonight. Texas. #CheapZillow #HauntedZillow #FridayNightZillow https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3516-Interstate-Highway-20-W-Baird-TX-79504/300115893_zpid/

#Logseq honest review

🟢 #FOSS with AGPL license (in theory)
🔴 In reality it depends on a closed source module responsible for sync, dubious legality and misleading
🟡 Developed almost privately by a Venture Capitals funded company but accepting small contributions on GitHub and donations on OpenCollective
🟢 Store notes in #Markdown (or in less supported #OrgMode) locally
🟡 Forces indented lists in .md files and it doesn't support normal paragraphs at all
🟡 Introduces syntax that breaks Markdown in a very bad way instead of using code blocks where possible (in Advanced Queries?)
🟡 Based on Electron, NodeJS and NPM
🟡 UI and business logic mixed together, it forces you to always run the whole UI, including for sync
🟢 Available for Linux on FlatHub (unofficially)
🔴 AppImage is the only officially supported way to install on Linux
🟡 No official reproducible builds but unofficial Flatpak ones are reproducible
🟡 Not in F-droid (and the closed source sync feature wouldn't be allowed there anyway), you have to grab their APK manually or automatically
🟢 Supports Wayland but not by default
🟢 Custom CSS
🟡 Fixed UI, no tabs, no split view
🟡 Multi-window means multiple conflicting whole instances
🟢 Plugins platform
🔴 Plugins marketplace based on GitHub
🟡 Poor integration of plugins especially from UI/UX PoV
🟢 Very interesting concept of PDF annotations
🟡 PDF annotations not stored in the .pdf as standard annotations
🟡 PDF annotations stored in their own .md files with odd names
🟢 LaTeX formulas support
🟡 No native PDF export and in general problematic
🟡 Too many menus, command palettes and other redundant UI elements
🟢 Queries with simple syntax and UI
🟡 Advanced Queries are too often needed
🟢 Datalog query language in Advanced Queries
🟡 Very broken aliases feature
🟡 Inconsistent requirements of capitalize, lowercase etc in query syntax and elsewhere that even break some functionalities
🟢 Macros
🟡 Macros don't work with most syntax, including Advanced Queries
🟢 Supports HTML and Hiccup syntax
🟢 Supports embedding Web pages using iframes
🟢 Sync is e2e encrypted
🔴 The code for e2e encryption can't be audited because it is closed source
🟡 Tons of functionalities must be configured by editing a EDN file that it is very easy to break
🟢 Forum based on Discourse
🔴 Use (and abuse) of Discord, even release announcements are made there
🟡 Some Matrix bridges

Concept: 8/10
Execution: 5/10

CC @logseq

📢 NEW MUST READ RESEARCH! After a year+ at the FTC, AI Now Research Institute
is back in action. Led by Amba Kak and Sarah West, the new AI Now report offers an urgent & timely analysis & call to action on the state of AI & the industry that controls it.

https://ainowinstitute.org/2023-landscape

It's important to name the stakes of mass surveillance proposals. They may be justified based on noble sounding hypotheticals, but we already have evidence of how the power to surveil all communications will be used in practice. If we let it.

We absolutely ♥️ Signal's Meredith Whittaker's speech on why we must stop mass surveillance. It ticks all the boxes when looking for arguments against the EU #ChatControl proposal or the UK Online Safety Bill #OSB

Check it out now! 👇
https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/110191583523803409

Does their state flag have toes?

The Seven Steps Of Oneironautics, Op. 10 № 8752. An imaginary film. #aifilm #scifi #byproduct

#Art #Fantasy

First breaking out of the parasol for the #cricket season.

Ceiling cat blesses you and protects you under his watchful eye on this wonderful Caturday

#catsofmastadon

#Intoduction and quick self-plug:

1. I write a newsletter called The Present Age. It's about media, communication, politics, culture, LGBTQ stuff, etc. -- kind of a hodgepodge of analysis, reporting, opinion.

2. It's free.

3. If you enjoy it, there is a paid version with some extras and full access to the newsletter's archives. https://www.readtpa.com/mastodon?utm_content=buffer9e86b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bufferapp.com&utm_campaign=buffer

New podcast episode!

Eighteenth-century pornography was surprisingly progressive, challenging gender roles and the very definition of sex. This week, we talk to Dr Kathleen Lubey about that, plus dildos, gender fluidity, LGBTQ+ content, female empowerment, and the link to modern Romance novels.

Streaming now across all major platforms, or direct from the website at dirtysexyhistory.com

#histodon #histodons @histodons #18thcentury #LGBTQHistory #womenshistory

"Every algorithm that recommends things to us - music or movies or podcasts or stories or news reports - should be completely visible...That’s too much power to leave with an algorithm, and too much control to cede to those who tend those algorithms..."

My latest in @theregister

https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/13/reveal_all_recommendation_algorithms/

in the grand tradition of joining mastodon and liking computers again, I made a tiny new website for the first time in one hundred thousand years

https://erinkissane.com

"A handful of companies own the patents on virtually every seed planted in the US. Now, a new crop of unowned seeds is bringing biodiversity back to farming" https://worldsensorium.com/open-source-seeds-loosen-big-ags-grip-on-farmers/ /via @gijs

Dear GNU project: Wat

13 billion years ago, Microsoft made a bet on a technology called "UTF-16". Now, here at the end of time, that bad bet is ruining my day.