@Codeschubse well, thing is, I don’t communicate with Zuck. I haven’t got a relationship with Zuck. I communicate with people. Some of them have chosen Threads. I don’t mind, it’s their choice. You don’t like the people.

@Codeschubse Destroy the Fediverse by ... federating? Yep, that'll do it...

@jglypt @ivory oh, that’s sad. I thought I read something a while back that they were seriously considering it, so I was hopeful. Well, they’re a small team and I realize they have to prioritize. Still hopeful, though. 🤞

I’m trying out https://skybridge.fly.dev, a #Bluesky AT-protocol bridge pretty much custom written for @ivory , and it’s pretty great! I’m still hoping (and willing to pay) for native Ivory Bsky support some day, but this is a pretty sweet deal in the mean time! Just look at Bsky in all of its Ivory glory! 😁

Tänk om svenska myndigheter var lika djärva, experimentella och nyfikna på hur öppna, icke-kommersiella sociala medier kan bidra till våra demokratiska samtal. Det skulle stärka vår opinionsbildning och myndigheternas digitala rådighet.

https://social.network.europa.eu/@EU_Commission/112338626558805977

When European settler colonists first encountered the indigenous communities of northeastern North America, many things surprised them about the indigenous communities.

Among these, the Europeans were surprised to discover how restrained and personally responsible the people in these communities were. They very, very rarely engaged in interpersonal violence. They didn’t insult each other; they didn’t lose their tempers around each other.

The Europeans were also surprised to discover that the people in these communities rarely, if ever, disciplined their children. They were, the Europeans believed, impossibly indulgent with their children, allowing them immense personal freedom.

I think it would surprise many contemporary readers that those two things don’t conflict with each other. People living in contemporary state-capitalist modernity tend to assume that children require quite rigid discipline, the routinized order of mass schooling, and fairly constant coercion to keep them out of trouble and turn them into civilized, responsible adults.

It turns out that lots of things we assume to be self-evidently true are not actually true at all.

Unfortunately the EU will be leaving the Fediverse because nobody wants to host the service. https://www.edps.europa.eu/press-publications/press-news/press-releases/2024/edps-decentralised-social-media-pilot-end-successful-story_en So much for digital sovereignty.
Edit: @EU_Commission says they are here to stay 🙌

If asking for directions to walk to a place was on an Internet technical forum.

"Well I wouldn't start from here"

"Catch a bus, the driver will know"

"Why do you want to go there xxx is better"

"You are using the wrong shoes, try £5000 worth of wellingtons"

"My friend once walked to somewhere else"

"Don't walk trains are better"

"Turn right before you get to the bridge"

"Never heard of xxx "

"Read the f%£%%$g map!"

We’re digitising your lives with things like the EU Digital Identity Wallet for safe online ID checks and doc shares.

The #EUDigitalIdentity Wallet will allow users to easily obtain, store and share important digital documents, while electronically signing or sealing them for added convenience.

With this tool, control over shared data and access permissions are guaranteed for maximum privacy and security.

📍 It will be a voluntary service available to all who choose to use it.

#EUDelivers

😂 dad knows the truth 💥

#Stockholm Mastodon #meetup! Wednesday 17 April 17:30 at Wirström’s pub, Stora Nygatan 13, Gamla Stan. I’ve booked the big round table with the couches in the cellar. Join me there for pub food, drinks and conversation!

Oh for heaven’s sake, people.

AI generation when writing software is a false economy. You are replacing writing code with code review. Code review is harder and requires you to already have an understanding of the domain which often means that you would’ve even able to write it yourself to begin with. If you code gen something because you don’t know how to write it yourself, you by definition cannot review it without going though an effort equivalent to writing it yourself in the first place.

Unless of course you don’t care about code review and so doom yourself into treating software like magical incantations that break randomly for no perceivable reason; but no good mage would do that, surely.

my new burger restaurant concept is inspired by modern software. the options for mayo are "yes" and "maybe later", and if you pick maybe later, the chef stands at your table with a squeezy bottle, threatening to add mayo to your burger when you least expect it

@potus is now on Fediverse Threads 🌐

Welcome to the future of the social web, Mr. President!

I keep brooding on the way the xz backdoor was enabled in significant part via weaponizing the FOSS culture of shitty behavior and abuse.

Yes, there're other pathologies at work here (the big tech capitalist pillaging of the commons, etc).

But what is striking is that the uncool, mean standards of FOSS conduct that many of us have decried for years, & that many defended as authentic, tough, etc., ended up not just being exclusionary loser behavior, but a significant attack surface.

Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

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From the book: “Science Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness” by @ZachWeinersmith

computers used to yell at us when we connected to the internet, but in our hubris we ignored them.