Kind: Notes

Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Monday, the most distrusted day of the week. I got a very late start this morning but I'm not too upset about that, and I got my phone working again. I'm still not exactly sure what happened but got the battery down to 0 and when I plugged it into the battery brick to charge after its regularly scheduled cleaning, it came up like a charm. I think it may have been a faulty cable. Still drinking coffee and deciding what to have for lunch.

Listen as my friend @wiljames demonstrates what happens when 11labs cute AI toy falls over. #AIHype #AIIsGoingGreat https://indieweb.social/@wiljames@tweesecake.social/109853818105850783

We need an AI is going great website.

I think that, should Mastodon officially add quote-posts as a feature, it should be opt-in at the account and post level, not opt-out, so that people have a choice about which posts are subject to quoting and which ones aren't before they hit publish.

New rule: If you're using role="alert" to tell me your page has finished loading, I'm closing the damn tab immediately. I want to know who thought this was a good idea.

Happy Sportsball day to those celebrating.

Morning everybody and welcome to Sunday. Phone is still playing dead. Going to try to get some sighted help to help with this, hopefully someone moderately tech-oriented.

A good new week everybody. I hope Saturday's been good to you. This morning my phone apparently decided to turn itself off or something because it got a full charge last night but it's been dead as a doornail all day and won't turn on. Watch even shows it as disconnected although some notifications just randomly showed up a few minutes ago. Hopefully I get this sorted.

Yet another quick Bridgy Fed test after plugin update.

Just another quick Bridgy Fed test.

Just a quick Bridgy Fed test.

It's been a long week. Shabbat shalom everybody, see you in 25 hours. #MazelDon

One more call this afternoon and then I am done. Also, it's cold in here.

From the inbox: "Let's talk about ChatGPT and APIs!" Me: No actually let's not, and you can pretend we did!

Morning everybody, we've made it to Friday!

Friendly reminder to be nice to your moderators and admins, but especially the moderators. Usually, they're not waking up each morning saying to themselves "how can I make people's lives difficult/fuck up their day today?" Moderation is hard, and the bigger the size of the server/platform the harder it gets, up to the point where it's impossible to do well at scale. Wrong calls/mistakes are going to be made. Best that can be hoped for is that mistakes are recognized and corrected quickly.

I'd like to know who we blame for inventing UTM parameters so I can thank them for the special little joys I receive every time I strip them from URLs.

Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Thursday. It's rainy and thus damp here so we're trying to balance between not roasting in here and also not letting the indoor air get damp enough to seep into our bones. Good thing there are fuzzy blankets and soup.

Welp the Twitter app is definitely going to start heading down the shitter because the head of product engineering for the app has left the building. https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/#more-key-senior-engineers-leave-twitter

I completely understand why some people might want to use something like 11labs to preserve the voice of a deceased loved-one for their own use, but did anyone check with Tunehead's family, for instance, to find out if they're OK with his being reduced to a voice print for mass consumption? That struck me as disturbing in a way I'm having trouble defining and I knew him for years. And it demonstrates why we need to be having robust ethics discussions around this kind of technology.