Monkey With A Shell

Never used don’t care really but:

users can also force touch a post in order to open a menu with more options.

Their terminology needs some work, force touching is not ok…

Should not, wonder if there’s any adguard/pihole lists to smack OneDrive/box/Dropbox/etc domains and just take these services out before they can start.

Plugging a modem into the POTS made them smart I say.

That too, I haven’t delved into the whole AR space a lot but would plenty well like the option to connect something lightweight and have a virtual giant screen.

The other question I’d have for something like that is the contrast levels. If it ends up as a ‘ghost’ overlay it could make doing things with a lot of text/terminals a big strain to look at.

Make it cost less that $2K and enable the use of a standard OS and I’d give it a go. Would also be great if the glasses could somehow not be wired, but trying to power them for any length of time would be a pain.

It can also be an awesome idea, depending on your perspective. Having an instance without all the cruft is a pristine peaceful thing at times. For a while I ran one of those subscriber bots on Lemmy and pretty quickly found it to be so full of shitposting spam as to be unusable. Just don’t start an instance and expect it to be a raging party and you won’t find it disappointing.

So now you can have the devs that shun the cheat of having AI write their code instead copy-pasting from stack overflow’s AI written code.

I thought they switched CEOs to focus on privacy a week or so ago?

A big part of it comes to the dying throws of a scarcity model that has been in progress for the past several decades. Data, or media, can be duplicated with trivial cost where a bit of bread or plank of wood cannot. Scarcity adds a premium onto the value of something irreplaceable.

Mass produced media holds less value individually to the average user since they have no stake on the creation, but family photos do since they have personal ties to them. Both are at the end just bits on a disk though.

What gives gives something functionally infinate in supply then is that the person holding it sees it as important, or in the case of purchases goods that they’ve exchanged something of known value for it. I don’t have a clear answer on how to give permanence to something that can stop existing with a few keystrokes, but a part of that is in not ceding control to another entity over access to it.

Given some of the results of prior AI systems unleashed on the public once the more ‘eccentric’ parts of society got ahold of them that’s no surprise. Not only do they have to worry about the AI picking up bad behaviors but are probably looking out for ‘well this bot told me that it’s a relatively simple surgery so…’ style liabilities.

Had to start with a low bar to be able to claim ‘capable of mimicking the human brain’ I guess.

I’ve wondered about finding something like this. Putting in good alternative text for pictures could be a lot easier that way.

Heck, there’s a self hosted app out there on GitHub (https://github.com/Yooooomi/your_spotify) that allows people to do this in house and I’d guess more real-time, so there’s a demand for it out there. Spotify knows these things anyhow, they have to in order to calculate payments, so why not make it available.

I’m pretty sure Ars has a minimum acceptable level of snark and sarcasm that needs to be met for publication, particularly with things like Google shutting down some service they’re bored with.

In those two cases I’d think the Friendica/Hubzilla apps and the Lemmy/K-Bin apps would fit those two needs respectively. I’ve also bookmarked this thing called Fire fish that seems to have potential as a sort of all-of-the-above effort that could prove interesting, just don’t want to see something that tries to be too much at once and fails at all of it as a result though.

A big part of the problems in anything on the fediverse as a professional presentation is that very little of the software is really well polished. Mastodon is probably the most ‘pretty’ of any of them right now that I’m familiar with, but there’s always the balancing act with new software between working well and looking good/friendly that takes some time to hammer out, particularly if there isn’t a massive development team backing it.

Given the way this is tagged up with the @ and # throughout the comments I’m venturing it originated on Mastodon, yet here I am commenting on it from a Lemmy instance. Some of the inconsistencies of the federation between different platforms are going to come down to them each having different focuses, and that’s plenty good. Trying to jam every functionality into a single platform is likely to result in it doing none of them well.

For my part having the ability to see one from another is a neat bonus, but not the main driver of use. The format and style of interactions leads me more towards things like Lemmy/K-Bin where some find Mastodon, Pixelfed, or any of the Friendica/Hubzilla style page base ones to be their thing. It’s even possible people like more than one. I host both a Mastodon and Lemmy instance, and have toyed with others but didn’t find them compelling enough to maintain.

So no, the notion of talking across platforms isn’t so much the huge point of the fedi in my mind, but toss that in with the ability to do what you want to do similar to any of the big social platforms (they all pretty much have some kind of fedi counterpart now) without selling your soul to the corporate overlords is pretty fn awesome

So they’re still concerned with AI training from the data on their site which funny enough was the supposed reasoning behind the whole API price change that started 3rd part app shutdown shit show. It’s almost like they where being disingenuous about why they needed to suddenly start charging a massive sum for a formerly free service…

Federated ID seems interesting but impractical. Take your home instance ID and use it to auth to another server, nice to have if the home base is down but if the home is down then how does the remote host validate the user in a realtime sense? Storing tokens or creating a local version of the account would be possible but if the user was banned from the home base then you have to trust replication to clear it from the remotes or have a short enough token expiration to know they need to revalidate against the home base after X time.

A ways out of my expertise, I work more on the lower layers of connectivity so maybe I’m overthinking it. What could be helpful would some sort of local app setup that would create an instance with an easy executable. Creating spontaneous servers has playing with fire potential and doesn’t address domain creation or port allocations, but with the certbot/acme systems out there it seems like it wouldn’t be too far out of the realm of reality. Musings of a mad scientist…

Only cuzin Ellie tho, we got rules

Cletus dun took over yer kee-clicky box n typed it fur ye.