RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/117453794779199297
"If we nominate him, we will be destroyed-- and we will deserve it." -- #LindseyGraham in 2016, speaking to the #Republican party.
#Vote like our democracy depends upon it...
Because it does.
#USPol #DonaldTrump #TraitorTrump #Cult45 #VoteBlue #RussiaSanctions #IranWar #TrumpEpsteinWar #Russia #Putin #PutinsPuppet #GOP #MeidasTouch
It's also about the lack of ads and the lack of promoted posts.
Your post does not get buried among ads, or bumped in favor of a dozen other rage-bait and click-bait posts that the algorithm pushes at users so they will stay on the platform, arguing with strangers and bots for hours.
Without ads, there is no need for an artificial algorithm. Without ads, there is no need for data tracking. Without ads, there is no built-in promotion of AI slop, disinformation, rage-baiting, and click-bait posts. Without ads, trolls are not encouraged or rewarded (and therefore do not stick around in the platform).
Without ads, the people who see your posts are the people who are genuinely interested in your posts, and they do not have to waste their time digging through mounds of slop before finding the posts they want.
Without ads, your feed is more positive, because there is no artificial algorithm trying to rage-bait you, or to scare you, or as a way to manipulate you (to vote a certain way, or to buy anything).
The foundational and fundamental superpower of the #Fediverse is its lack of ads.
#Mastodon #SocialMedia #NoAlgorithms #NoAdvertising #NoAds #No_Ads
Something I've noticed while on book tour for the past couple of weeks is that Mastodon is a really good way to let people know about bookstore events. So many people I've met on the road have told me that they found out about my book tour from me or other folks on the fedi. I think it's partly because so many book-loving people are on Mastodon. But also if you compare Mastodon to places like Bluesky or Insta, the community here has a higher percentage of actual humans vs. bots or operatives.
You can park here if you’re disabled, old, a parent, or expecting a wifi router.
The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro
www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...
Brazil’s Lula wins electoral c...
Wow, SwiftUI and all of the competent designers retiring has made #Apple so bad at UIs. I helped my mother set up a MacBook Air yesterday. We set the UI size to the maximum so she could see it easily. Around half of the setup boxes then had buttons that were either off the bottom of the screen or obscured by the dock (and therefore not clickable).
Almost all of them had huge amounts of empty space in the middle and so could easily have fitted if some idiots private aesthetic had been considered less important than accessibility at Apple.
All of them were either modal or app-modal (hey, Apple folks: you might like to read your own Human Interface Guidelines, they explain in detail why this is stupid). You couldn’t progress or go back until you’d hit the button that was off the screen and, because some were system-wide global, you couldn’t go to settings and change UI size without killing the thing that produced the box.
All completely preventable if anyone in QA had bothered to try the first-time setup flow on an Apple device using each of the five UI-size options.
Oh, honourable mention for #Microsoft if you install Word or Excel, the first launch window is a massive thing (which, at least, can be scrolled, unlike the Apple ones) giving you a bunch of options to buy an M356 subscription. There is no option anywhere in that window for logging in with your existing subscription. There is an option in the app menu, but it’s greyed out. If you close this window, the app exits. In your next release testing, try asking someone on your team to figure out how to log in from a fresh install. I eventually figured out the flow, but I was very close to the point of saying ‘let’s just put LibreOffice, Pages, and Numbers on this and not bother with the M365 stuff’. And I have a PhD in computer science and worked at Microsoft for five years: how do you think a vaguely normal human will do?
I don't want flying cars.
I want clean water.
I want a stable climate.
I want bees to survive.
Hey, heads up to any users of Libby the library service. You need to check your settings to opt out of ai slop books and narrators
As a white man I approve this message for our culture! 😂
@philosophy @stoicism @psychology
@humor@fedigroups.social @humor@lemmy.world @aiop
#Thinking #Meme
#Philosophy #Psyhology #Humor #Humour #Funny
On the current spam wave some of you experience on the Fediverse: I think @stux is right by suspecting it might be one or more 3rd party apps or services that got hacked or are leaking authentication tokens.
So. Go to your account settings and check the "Authorized Apps" part. Revoke the permissions of apps you don't use anymore. Consider it housekeeping and make it a regular Todo :)
You'll be unsurprised Amazon is using an AI-related tool to assess its distribution sites for signs of nascent union activity...
Of course, Amazon denies the tool (Atlas) is being used to head-off unionisation efforts at specific warehouses, but then again they would say that, wouldn't they?
Their problem is the information has arisen during 'discovery' during a Court battle between Amazon & Canadian union; and as such, the source is the firm itself.
#unions #Amazon
https://www.opendemocracy.net/amazon-ai-surveillance-monitor-union-activity-uk-warehouses-birmingham-coventry-atlas-sutton-coldfield/?ref=weekly-newsletter
Women shouldn't have to anticipate violence.
This month marks three years since the EU joined the Istanbul Convention, a landmark treaty recognising gender-based violence against women as a violation of human rights.
It sets out concrete measures to prevent it, to protect victims, and hold perpetrators accountable.
Our goal is clear: a world where women can live free from fear. 🧡
🔗 Learn more about the Istanbul Convention: https://www.coe.int/en/web/istanbul-convention/key-facts
I grew up during the cold war, expecting that one day we might be at war with Russia.
I just never expected we would be at war with Russia backed by the president of the USA.
RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/117453794779199297
"If we nominate him, we will be destroyed-- and we will deserve it." -- #LindseyGraham in 2016, speaking to the #Republican party.
#Vote like our democracy depends upon it...
Because it does.
#USPol #DonaldTrump #TraitorTrump #Cult45 #VoteBlue #RussiaSanctions #IranWar #TrumpEpsteinWar #Russia #Putin #PutinsPuppet #GOP #MeidasTouch
RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/117453794779199297
The insanity of this is that Trump is funding a country who is supplying armaments to Iran, who the US is at war with.
This is such a perfect illustration of the obscene veil of geopolitical nonsense when it's pulled back.
There are men who want to cling onto power. They will do anything, fund anyone, kill any number of civilians, ruin any number of healthy economies.... just to hang onto their own personal power a few minutes longer.
Great Wheat Sharks — by Anne Melady in Dublin, Canada 🇨🇦
The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head.
People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too specific, easier to produce a new one).
Single use software is not maintained. Nobody understands it or has an interest in keeping it working.
The creation of single use software feels cheap, but isn't. It takes time to create the software, it needs infrastructure and power. The time is experienced as short compared to how long it takes to create maintainable and reusable software. But once you take into account how many people benefit from reusable software, the single use software takes way more time to create than what it saves. The infrastructure and power costs are hidden because the data center isn't visible. The costs are subsidized by venture capital.
Like other single use items, single use software brings risks of unforeseen consequences. From data loss or leaks to issues for maintainers of reusable software (eg. verbal abuse, less motivation and lost income).
As an example of single use software is a German LinkedIn post of a person who slopcoded a HEMS (home energy management system). It took them more than a week. While open source projects like https://evcc.io/ already provide the same functionality. They could have used it for free or paid 100€ and got support for some additional devices. But they decided that they know better how it should work and now have a single use software. If it breaks there is nobody they can ask. There won't be updates and no community to discuss and develop new features. No organization will ever be interested in officially supporting it. And even if it works, it only benefits that one person.
(This doesn't mean people shouldn't build things that only they use. But they should enjoy doing so.)
I feel like the old science twitter would have a good answer to this question, but let's try here. I understand Eutel Oneweb can/will make a European equivalent to #starlink.
Perhaps even with higher orbits to avoid the satellite orbit pollution.
Is this true? When will it be ready? How do we switch to it?
Yes this is also a question about how we can help #Ukraine.
#AskFedi