Month: 17 Adar 5783 (March 2023)

Where is the AI app that turns an overproduced 10 minute YouTube video answering a simple question back into text that takes 20 seconds to read?

—@mattmight

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used to serve you targeted ads.

—@changeling

I am considering an #Accessibility Audit for the new #Funkwhale Website before bringing it live. I’d like to pay something for it, but I am not sure how much work it is. If someone is willing to talk about this, hit me up! Boost appreciated 🙂

—@gcrkrause

When a Financial CEO asks bank clients to ‘stay calm’ as shares sink 60%, what he’s really saying is that the big investors have already abandoned ship and he wants the little guy to continue to be stuck holding the bag.

#Science

—@HamonWry

Publications crossposting tweets in which they link one of their posts as a retweet of someone else’s thread which you can’t click on because they don’t include links to the actual tweet has to be the ultimate Twitter crossposting fail. We promise we will never do this because we believe in the fediverse and what its community is trying to build and we want to help build it with you.

—@worldblindherald

“Any email user interface is called the Mail User Agent (MUA). This might be Thunderbird, a web page, or a corporate manifestation of the Dark Side only used because Lord Vader declared it the standard.” #ryoms #nonotryagain

—@mwl

“Let me be blunt: encryption is either broken for everyone, or it works for everyone. There is no way to create a safe backdoor.”

Signal calls the #OnlineSafetyBill what it is, a menace to privacy and a way to impose mass surveillance via our messaging apps. #surveillace #e2ee

A must read 👇

https://signal.org/blog/uk-online-safety-bill/

—@openrightsgroup

Silicon Valley Bank collapsing and the US FDIC stepping in is just another data point in a long line of tech bros being allowed to privatize their profits and socialize their losses.

—@grmpyprogrammer

What Meta has actually done is advertise the Fediverse to millions of people who have never heard of it before.

It doesn’t matter if they build anything. They just acknowledged that decentralized social media is the future.

And guess what? Meta’s current centralized products are not the future.

—@atomicpoet

By announcing a Fediverse social network, Meta has put itself in a near-impossible situation:

Having to maintain cash cow centralized social networks, while “planning” to build a decentralized social network that could put the company itself out of business.

And you wonder why I’m skeptical?

—@atomicpoet

So. Wondering what my ‘thing’ was?

https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2023/03/10/advance-notice-of-retirement/

This is me letting y’all know that by 1-July-2023, I will not be the plugin rep no more.

This is 100% my choice, no one asked/forced/told me to do it.

Gotta take care of ME first.

—@ipstenu