Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

Remember Internet Explorer? Still trying to forget it? Check out this retrospective!

https://tilvids.com/w/tKFXycttMjZrECPHwYroNV

#PeerTube #RetroComputing

Sunday afternoon wisdom for today: "one can only truly admire a 34" #curved #LCD screen once a *real* computer is connected to it!"

#Commodore64

Might as well talk about the most motivated troll I came across on the Fediverse.

First bad interaction, I blocked him.

He came back on another instance.

I blocked that.

Then he said, "I can keep doing this, I have hundreds of accounts."

"Fine," I replied—so I looked up every variation of his username on all instances I could find and blocked them. There were indeed hundreds.

He came back, and seriously requested, "Can you stop doing that? It's costing me a fortune in server costs!"

🤣

Few examples:

1. Online troll bots & fake personalities
It's going to get a *lot* harder to distinguish bots from people and much easier to create entirely fictitious credible online personalities to troll/harass/do crime

2. Persuasive letters by e.g. constituents to regulators.
Volume of (~sensible, unique) letters was a valid indication of sentiment. Soon won't be.

3. Ransomware victim communications & negotiations
Used to be one of the few costly areas in scale. Not for long

So these AI chats are pretty cool.

One thing that's gonna cause some problems tho is that they sound really really convincing while sometimes being extremely extremely wrong

My sister was playing the opening of Half Life Alyx, she picked up a marker and was like, “why can’t I just put this in my pocket? Oh right, I’m playing as a woman.”

Birdsite was theirs. Mastodon is ours. All hail the heroes of open source, which can be you, too.

You don't need to be a programmer. You just need to care and then find your role.

Ask yourself every day, "What is my role?" Your role will reveal itself to you.

Who are you going to teach Mastodon to? Your friends? Your family? Your neighborhood? Your town/city?

You don't need to teach in person. You can screencast, Twitch, webinar, etc.

Be bold and unafraid. It's now ours.

if i were illustrated by the late dr. seuss, this manifestation i'd consider quite loose ~ i queried #ai to render as heard and #midjourney came up with this little #nerd ~ #books #illustration #aiart #art #digitalart

Can’t decide if I like long cat or short cat more

#Gizmo #TabbyCat #MastoCats #CatsOfMastodon

Tusky update, nice!

Mastodon which is incredibly hot, supports RSS beautifully.

Just add .rss to any account to get the feed. Amazing!

https://mastodon.social/@davew.rss

Open that in your favorite feed reader. It’ll work.

Post a screenshot, say what the reader app is.

And pass this on to everyone who uses a feed reader.

Spread the word!

This is a huge deal for the open web.

My Mastodon home feed today. #cats #caturday

Here's a #GoogleChrome extension that lets you click on a birdsite link and allows you to see the posting without actually going to the birdsite and without giving its owner registered click & user count. #TwitterMigration #TwitterHack

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nitter-redirect/mohaicophfnifehkkkdbcejkflmgfkof

If you decide to keep your #Twitter account but make it a carcass without any actual urge to use it, here's the holy grail of cleaning up your Twitter (for technical/tech-curious people):

- Untick all twitter ad settings https://gist.github.com/padajo/b95b42d5627306e33fb6bade63d90e18
- Unfollow everyone on twitter.com https://gist.github.com/JamieMason/7580315
- Remove your Twitter likes https://gist.github.com/cacheflowe/6c26bb757d934e2e6c68c9287148af58 #TwitterMigration #TwitterTakeover #TwitterExodus

Britain is sleepwalking into censorship and we’re running out of time to stop it

Link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/01/britain-sleepwalking-censorship-running-time-stop/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33842776

I am now compiling a list of all servers who may have an interest in joining the United Federation of Instances.

Quite a few instances have already signed up.

Please reach out to me, all servers of any size are welcome!

This is non binding, its just to get a preliminary list. You can withdrawl at any time and dont have to go through the application process. I just want to know what servers to reach out to once we begin kicking things off.

If you are a server admin please let me know **in DM** if you have an interest and I will add you to the (for now) private list. I want to only release the list once we have enough momentum so please respond in DM only.

for those who are new to this you can read the proposal here:

https://ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/united_federation_of_instances_proposal.pdf

You can read the early draft of the full bylaws here:

https://ufoi.gitlab.io/constitution/united_federation_of_instances_bylaws.pdf

Both of these will still undergo a lot of modification. For information on how to join the conversation see this post:

https://qoto.org/@freemo/109433298021890915

You can see the progress and conversation specifically at the official repo here:

https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution

#UFI #UFoI @ufoi #mastoadmin