Dr. Guillermo Power 
@gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org
This is my fun social media account, I will post a lot of video game stuff (mostly old or cloud gaming) and some work stuff.
If I post an image with no Alt text it is because the image is just there for decoration and doesn't provide any extra meaning to the toot.
Mi aventura: http://gpowerf.itch.io/8-bit-island
Joined Nov 2022
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@profbriancox welcome to 🦣 ! Thought you’d like - if you run this toot of code on a BBC Micro in 3 hours you get an impression of the Southern Ring Nebula as seen by JWST… it would probably take 6 hrs on an Acorn Electron though 🤓https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@p_malin/109337802759513674
@LordArse@toot.community so many memories of this :) Playing on so many formats too! I first experienced it on an Acorn Archimedes.
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I did a little thread on Twitter about traffic. Elon claimed Twitter was a big source of traffic, the reality is that it's tiny.
About 4% clicked it, and only a small percent of our actual followers ever even saw the Tweet.
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#TwitterCarCrash
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RT @CaseyNewton
Update: company sources tell me that yesterday Twitter eliminated ~4,400 of its ~5,500 contract employees, with cuts expected to have significant impact to content moderation and the core infrastructure services that keep the site up and running.
People inside are stunned.
https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1591848844899540992
@Ductos I'm not aware of its history other than recalling vividly when it was a current product.
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For Sale in the UK
A slightly uncommon pong-style console from Takara. It has a bit of a unique design and is tough to get in the UK due to the included gun - which is also the reason why I can only sell it to people in the UK. It's untested, but I have no reason to believe it won't work £100+p&p #ForSale
@djdellamorte I feel the same. It is a way to tell the author that you liked the toot.
@jonn_blanchard @darth totally understand that 100%. So I take it you think that the Fediverse can accommodate everyone without it becoming a "wretched hive of scum and villainy" due to the nature of it being federated?
I'm not suggesting that I know either way (I don't). I'm asking for your opinion. I'm curious.
@jonn_blanchard @darth the other question is does Mastodon (or any other social network) have to accommodate everyone?
Or is it fine to simply be great for those users to who it caters to without being discriminatory?
I'm new here, but I don't think it is wrong for a social network to be great for a specific target user base.
@darth @jonn_blanchard maybe I am super naive, but I think the main way that non-technical users will feel immediately at home is if they don't have to think of joining a server that's federated with a bunch of other servers.
They want to just "join Mastodon".
@jonn_blanchard @darth sadly true. It's too common for technical users to think this way, I'm guilty of it.
@darth @jonn_blanchard OK, that's really great 👍
@darth @jonn_blanchard one things that interestes me about the instances would be a section on "How are we hosted".
I'd like to see where and how they are hosted (someone's home or office or a data centre), is there redundancy, growth plans, backup policy, etc... Given the nature of it being community hosted I think this is important.
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Such an iconic #Usborne80s type-in book. Enhanced for the #Commodorer64.
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On one of my infrequent trips back to the other platform I saw two posts that were disappointing. One was slightly more disappointing than the other, someone tried to join Mastodon, got a server not accepting new joins message, stopped trying and went back to make fun of it. The other is more understandably bad, the server they joined up with has been down for 3 days. We really need to do something to address stuff like this. It’s not easy, but it’s a major roadblock to adoption
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@gpowerf The first problem is, at least partially, solvable. We don't need central control to have a dynamic directory that can poll servers to check they're responding and I imagine the API has a way to see if a server is allowing registration. The other is more of an education issue, for that we need better constructed web pages and videos
@jonn_blanchard it is difficult with a decentralised platform like this as there's no central control of how servers are set up. One server might have redundancy and another might be a RaspberryPi in a small apartment.
The other problem is the users who are coming from the other site, they might not appreciate how to use a service like this and that they have to work differently and even do a little due diligence before choosing a server to be their permanent home.
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Oh, schon wieder #RetroMontag?
Mein Beitrag heute ist halb Retro. Neues System, alte Spiele. Die Rede ist vom Analogue NT Mini.
Ein Premium FPGA NES welches kaum Wünsche offen lässt. Akkurate Wiedergabe von Original NES Spielen in bis zu 1080p, 2 Cartridge Slots, digitale und analoge Videoausgänge, volle Kompatibilität mit Original Zubehör, ein edles Aluminium Gehäuse und weitere Extras.
Entsprechend auch der Preis und ist inzwischen nicht mehr in Produktion. :(
This lawsuit has implications for how we train and use AI in the future.
One thing I don't understand is why attributions cannot happen automatically in order to comply with MIT, GPL, Apache etc. #xp
Dr. Guillermo Power has moved to @gpowerf@mastodon.social:
has moved to @gpowerf@mastodon.social:
This is my fun social media account, I will post a lot of video game stuff (mostly old or cloud gaming) and some work stuff.
If I post an image with no Alt text it is because the image is just there for decoration and doesn't provide any extra meaning to the toot.
Mi aventura: http://gpowerf.itch.io/8-bit-island
Joined Nov 2022
