Don Thompson @guardeddon@social.cleverlibre.org

That idiot who set $44 billion on fire, formerly known as Elon Musk…

Bring back reasonably sized cars.

Over 6,000 in
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23Brighton
Pavilion live in fuel poverty. Barely ⅓ of homes have good energy efficiency. 35% of my constituents are renters, yet PM scrapped plans to make homes warmer & bills cheaper. Time to reverse that scandalous decision.
https://nitter.cz/search?q=%23FuelPovertyAwarenessDay
https://nitter.cz/NEA_UKCharity

🐦🔗: https://nitter.cz/CarolineLucas/status/1730161244634554522#m

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I found out today you can follor Nostr people here on Mastodon. e.g. here is Jack Dorsey: https://mostr.pub/users/82341f882b6eabcd2ba7f1ef90aad961cf074af15b9ef44a09f9d2a8fbfbe6a2

Whatever you think of Nostr or Jack, it is worth tracking some of their fediverse-related activities. I did try Nostr a while back, but it wasn't for me. Still, I am interested in how it continues to evolve. (hat-tip @laurenshof for this discovery)

My son's class is organising a digital card for his grade 1 teacher. You open the app and you can tap a button to generate an AI message and sign it with a pre-populated AI signature.

And so I guess my questions is, what the fuck is the point?

In this excellent scrollytelling piece, the FT explains basically everything you need to know about the genesis and concept of generative AI. RNNs, transformers, LLMs, beam search, hallucinations, grounding, RLHF, and the general recognition and prediction of motifs or patterns – it's all there.

https://ig.ft.com/generative-ai/

For #30daymapchallenge #Day24's theme of "Black and White", I made this map of the "Salish Sea Bioregion At Night" using NASA's Black Marble data.

#geography #gis #cartography #SalishSea #WWUGeography

I’m reminded of the naivety of early social media engineers assuming that if you connect the whole world then we’d live happily ever after. Instead we now know it’s just a thankless job fighting hate speech, election meddling, COVID misinformation, cyber bullying, etc.

The AI people are actively ignoring thinking through the harms LLMs can and are causing today to focus on fantasies inspired by books and movies they saw as kids.

Here is an overview of all the other news that has happened this week in the #fediverse.

ActivityPods is a project that aims to combine the ActivityPub protocol with the Solid protocol. The goal of the project is that you can have one account on the fediverse, which hosts your data and followers, using the Solid Protocol. Other ActivityPub applications can then connect to your data. ActivityPods posted an update on their road towards version 2.0, scheduled to be released early 2024. They will also be working on Mastopod; a Mastodon-compatible implementation of ActivityPods.

Tagginator is a small new bot for Lemmy, that does something simple but smart: it replies from a Mastodon account to new posts on Lemmy communities that it monitors, and comments with a hashtag that is relevant to that community. This way, people on Mastodon who follow that hashtag will now also start to see Lemmy posts in their feed. As Lemmy will not add hashtags in the near future, this is a workaround to improve the interoperability between the microblogging side of the fediverse and the threadiverse.

Heise Online’s editor Martin Holland has regularly given updates on data and traffic for their news account. In the latest update he provides some insight in the decentralisation of the fediverse. It also shows the extend of the peak of the twittermigration last year, and how traffic has slowed down since.

The University of Innsbruck put out a press release that they’ll be focusing more on Mastodon for science communication, and that their presence at X will be significantly reduced.

Mastodon will be present at FOSDEM 24.

Kbin dev gives an overview of the current work and plans for the near future.

All fediverse client and server updates for the week.

https://fediversereport.com/fediverse-report-in-other-news-episode-45/

#fediverse

FFmpeg 6.1 drops a Heaviside dose of codec magic

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/24/ffmpeg_6_1/

You may never have heard of it, but you almost certainly use it, possibly many times a day

← by me on @theregister

#30daymapchallenge Day 25 Antartica. Done in #blender

Peter I Øy

DEM from Norwegian Polar Institute. https://doi.org/10.21334/npolar.2014.e4ae1d26

Going for an ice-like material - cyan subsurface scattering with radius (0,1,1)

This looks *very* interesting. The goal of ActivityPods 2.0 is Mastodon-compatible integration of #ActivityPub with Solid Pods. They call it Mastopods.
https://activitypods.org/blog/the-road-to-activitypods-2-0/

@lproven @Reuters There are concrete, achievable steps you can take right now to slow the insect apocalypse. Leave your autumn leaves in place. Or rake them aside beneath a garden hedge, don’t trash them. Don’t cut your flowers down, but leave the dead plants standing till spring. Insects— nearly all beneficial—use this habitat as shelter. Reduce your lawn in favor of diverse perennial plant species. Stop using pesticide sprays.
#gardening #GardeningMastodon #insects #biodiversity

So you want to make a Raspberry Pi killer... https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/so-you-want-make-raspberry-pi-killer

Flipboard is abandoning X for Mastodon

The platform says it will hold on to its accounts and retweet from time to time, but it plans to focus on Mastodon and other social platforms instead.

#30DayMapChallenge Day 21: Raster. Bathymetry of the Sound of Raasay and the Inner Sound, also showing the elevation of the Isle of Skye and Applecross Peninsula. I combined #srtm data from NASA and bathymetry data from https://emodnet-bathymetry.eu/ in #qgis. Exported the layout and added the labels in #inkscape. The deep water on the east of Rona shows why the lovely sheltered harbour is on the west of the island.

@Flipboard just announced it is ceasing support for X and focusing on Mastodon and other platforms. They just sent this to their 452,000+ X followers: https://twitter.com/Flipboard/status/1726999607866208604

cc: @fediversenews

How can you educate people from embedded chips, all the way up to massive server racks? If you're @geerlingguy, you do it with kindness and curiosity. I have really enjoyed Jeff's videos! Especially impressed with how he can condense bulky technical topics into consumable content:

https://theamphour.com/651-learning-computing-with-jeff-geerling/