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@JamesGleick Agreed. Steven King made that point rather forcefully and journalists are doing so too. Which might suggest an on-ramp for Mastodon:
@Danhon said ~"First news organization to stand up its Mastodon and accounts for staff gets a prize."
Like email domains in the Time Before, server domains can provide credibility (and prestige).
@ParadeGrotesque great for users to have volunteers willing to vet at bot scale. It isn't commonplace, I was on an instance (fsmi.social) where I couldn't even get my password reset (and they also had active spam accounts).
@coderCyclist
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#Introduction : I'm a computer programmer and I web developer and long-time #Linux/#UNIX fan. I'm currently enjoying learning #LogicProgramming in #Prolog and take a currently passive interest in #FunctionalProgramming.
I'm also interested in #infosec broadly and specifically in #appsec, #osint/#privacy, and #misinfo/#disinfo/#psyops.
I've always been a science nerd and I love me some science-fiction/fantasy.
I listen to a lot of audiobooks and podcasts, including news, fiction, & technical.
@mathiasx
> tried to write an on-call scheduler in Prolog
Great! How was the experience? I am slowly getting into Prolog, yet to build anything with non-Prolog-term I/O outside of the interactive prompt.
@icedquinn most software could use arena allocation 😞 but most of them don't. If writing in C/C++ or its ilk, Valgrind's leak-check would be a breeze to pass.
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it bothers me now that so many web frameworks don't use arena allocation 
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sometimes i wonder why i get away with some of the shit i do.
i guess being moderately aware of cognition biases and not screaming jew and n-word at everyone who disagrees goes a long way.
i guess being moderately aware of cognition biases and not screaming jew and n-word at everyone who disagrees goes a long way.
@mathiasx how often do Twitter OP's use tags? That seems to be the only chance of getting engagement, anywhere. Following too many accounts or having too many followers isn't ... healthy?
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You know what would be **the** most epic twist?
Musk shutting down Twitter and replacing it with a Mastodon instance and start federating. He should also rebrand the instance to Muskodon. 😁
@mathiasx the only high-level language I know of that eliminates the need to a separate database (and a web server) is Prolog, particularly SWI-Prolog, but no ActivityPub implementation I know of. https://openengiadina.net is another interesting setup (in Elixir), but isn't for social media.
@mathiasx epicyon.net apparently targets this use-case, but more standards-compatible rather than dominant-server-compatible.
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Dear #TwitterMigration folks, an important tip on #privacy on the fediverse:
There is none.
This is a public medium; please treat it as such. Just as you have no privacy on Twitter (Elon Musk can read all your DMs), you have no privacy on the instance you’re on (your administrators can read all your posts).
You can set the visibility of a post but that’s a viewing suggestion, not a privacy guarantee.
Think of your posts as postcards, not sealed letters, and you should be fine.
@kensanata https://webxdr.org is Delta Chat's webapp framework. Maybe a Git-serving app can be built?
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Maybe we can help all of them get to Mars faster. Put our heads together, bring our various skills together, volunteer, and send Bezos, Musk and the rest of them there just like they want.
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My CSS layout skills are pretty good these days and I can hand-craft SVG in a text editor. I cannot, however, drive GIMP to do even simple things any more. I used to, but it's much much quicker for me to mark up what I want some other way and just take a screenshot.
GIMP is a complex tool that lets you do very complex things, but it does not make the simple things simple.
@arachnomyrmex@eldritch.cafe
> begone, foul spirit
Great standards of interaction there ...
@kensanata @dan
@arachnomyrmex@eldritch.cafe really? a link to an article from 2017 that hypothesises about the future actions of a then-just-launched UnHerd? when there is 5 years of YT content from them since then showing that they are unbiased?
@kensanata @dan
https://unherd.com/thepost/the-next-time-wikipedia-asks-for-a-donation-ignore-it/ isn't controversial unless somebody can point out why Wikimedia unqualified-ly needs donations at this time. Others' donation appeals usually state current funding status to set the stage for further donations.
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"Libraries in these scenarios are no longer custodians for the ages of anything, whether tangible or intangible, but rather poolers of funding to pay for fleeting access to knowledge elsewhere."
#JonathanZittrain, 2021
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@mike
> for electricity generation I think it's possible quickly if we spend enough.
... or reduce usage enough. Imagine a small datacentre in each apartment building where it gets cold in the winter, that redirects its waste heat into the central heating system. What about in the summer? Turn them off/ down and default to mirror servers in the opposite hemisphere. For that matter, imagine household space heaters that run power through a #HoloChain server instead of a resistor.
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