I think I'm going to try to participate in this one:

https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117433142286370236

First, I need to figure out what I will focus on. 🤔

I just had a thought. A lot of people I hear talking about using LLMs say they use it to do things they don't want to do... Maybe I can use an LLM to use an LLM so I don't have to use the LLM? :thonking:

Am I the only that avoids app stores these days? I basically ignore them for discovery as my assumption is that they are basically overrun with low quality software from questionable sources. (This goes for the app stores hosting FLOSS stuff too.) Everybody wants an app store, nobody wants to curate it.

About the only time I go to them is to access a specific application I learned about from somewhere else. I was doing this before slopageddon. I can only imagine things have gotten worse.

Also, I learned this morning that Wookiees have discovered DJing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEoM0pYIkiE

If you need a jolt of energy and good vibes this morning, this set from Baalti and Lapgan could have what you're looking for:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xzRL9iSlDg

Edit: Also, it should work for other time zones. It's just early morning for me as I toot this.

The kiddo seems to be getting frustrated with me. Every time they ask me what my favorite animal is, I answer, "Humans." 😆

Which is both true and a (not so) subtle way for me to break down those walls we hold between us and the rest of the natural world.

Ruh-roh. Spotted a Waymo vehicle after dropping the kiddo off at school. I couldn't quite see the cab from my angle, but it drove like a human was at the wheel, and it had a bunch of what looked like lidar sensors spinning around the top and corners. I guess they sent one of their scouts to test our defenses...

TIL Neil Young had a cyberpunk phase about ten years before Billy Idol:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MK2wWZ2vRQ

There's quite a few additional tracks on "Trans" that are of that flavor.

Obviously slopageddon is causing the general youtube experience[1] to devolve ever deeper into trash, and I keep seeing things like this post:

https://social.notjustbikes.com/@notjustbikes/117309052859417965

And it just feels like there is an opportunity for a youtube like service focused on curation (even the ads if it had any). It could be a cooperative even. Is there such a thing already?

[1] I basically only use youtube to seek out specific creators, and I generally do not find new creators on that platform. I find them elsewhere and follow links to their channels if they have them.

This weekend I took the kiddo to a thrift store and snagged a CD from 2006 I didn't have thinking to myself, "Oh sweet. That's a recent release I missed." It wasn't until I got home and started to rip it that I did the math. 🤯

What were the motivations of people doing the original work anyway? Better compression? (which is about the only application I have been able to come up with that doesn't immediately make my skin crawl)

I think giving people easy access to technology that makes it trivial to clone voices or likenesses is irresponsible at best.

Yes, the technology exists now, but you don't have to give your assistance to every random person that wants to use it. And I really have a hard time imagining any worthwhile or legitimate use for it.

This thought brought to by musing about (online) social media being mediated by physical location.

Say you want to hang out with one set of your friendly freaks, so you go to the location you've indicated is your friendly freak spot, and all social media is properly directed both in and out. No risk of leaking or collapsing context.

Then you need to get your public persona out and make some announcements or something, so you go to that public space you like with that old tree. Now only the public facing ins and outs are available.

Then when you're done being social, you go home, and it all turns off, or maybe is set to a very small subset of "family".

Anyway, I was thinking about that, and then I was just like, "Geez, computers are not the solution here. Get a grip."

I say "unfortunately", but I think this is actually okay. This means computers and computer controlled things are only usefully applied to a limited number of problems and may not be the optimal solution in many cases. Just like any other technology! Once you recognize that and identify a situation where a computer is not usefully applied, you can just let it go. You're free to not computer in that case! It's great!

Unfortunately, the affordances of the physical world will likely remain unmatched by the computer, no matter how much computer you throw at the problem.

But when I do, I... uh... really struggle. I'm not a professional and haven't taken any classes. Anyway, here is one.

As a person trying hard to be a decent human being, I want software projects that reject fascism so that we can build a better world.

One the best things that computer and information technology has given us: instantaneous and frictionless communication between any two people.

One of the worst things that computer and information technology has given us: instantaneous and frictionless communication between any two people.

(This toot brought you by replacing yet another toilet seat.)

May all streaming services contributing to this mess and not doing anything to curate what they play completely fail and go out of business.

(This was the polite version of my sentiment. You can imagine I started with a much more... forceful version and then decided to make it family friendly.)