Kind: Reposts

“but I need ads to fund my fedi instance”

then you can’t afford to run an instance, don’t.

—@aurynn

Ad-funded toxicity infests everywhere else, don’t bring that here.

—@aurynn

Why an ads plugin concerns me is that paid ads come with a LOT of expectations around analytics and “engagement”. Which means that any instance running an ads plugin would explicitly be harvesting data from the rest of the fediverse to sell to the ad company.

Which is hostile and horrible behaviour, and to me means that federating with that instance is dangerous.

—@aurynn

Congratulations to Mick Curren and @jcsteh for being featured in the upcoming episode of Australian Story. It’s a very well deserved recognition for the two of them and the project they founded, which has led to the democratization of screen reading technology for many #blind people via NVDA, giving us free and unencumbered access to the Windows operating system. Also congrats to the @NVAccess@fosstodon.social Project.

Announcement here: https://www.nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2nd-june-2023/

#accessibility

—@ppatel

“Come work for us! It’s fun and rewarding and we paid for this building so you’re gonna fucking sit in it whether that’s useful or productive or you want to or not, we aren’t measuring it and don’t care. Not in your own office or anything obviously, that’s crazy talk. You won’t even get your own chair. And we’re not paying you more for commute time or covering vehicle/transit costs or anything. This is about much, much more important things: performative management and amortizing real estate.”

—@mhoye

“The article notes that one copywriter lost all 10 of his clients over the last four months — and though one later hired him back, he’s now training to be a plumber.”

This is not good, but also I’ve been advocating for people to learn how to be plumbers for at least 10 years… when plumbing no longer requires a person, nothing will require a person.

Hopefully, we reorganize society to realize that people still matter, but, plumbing is now the Turing test that matters

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/chatgpt-took-their-jobs-now-they-walk-dogs-and-fix-air-conditioners/ar-AA1c23Tf

—@jbigham

Every time your brain insists that you’re not good enough for X, just remember how many morons are paid ridiculous sums to do absolutely nothing of consequence.

And I’m not only talking about Congress.

—@saramg

Vanilla HTML/CSS/JavaScript is the “universal language” of modern networked computing. Know that, and know it deeply, and you can speak “internet” in nearly any context, in nearly any job.

That’s the power of international standards and open protocols. They’ll never go out of style.

—@vanilla

OpenAI’s Altman and other AI giants back warning of advanced AI as ‘extinction’ risk. If Sam truly believes in the risks posed by AI, he should consider shutting down OpenAI. Power down the data center, delete software & models associated with it. I don’t get his motivation here. What do you want, man? First,you say OpenAI is the best. Then, the next day you say it will pose a significant risk to the human race. So, shut down the OpenAI & move on with your life. Stop making up bullshit #ChatGPT

—@nixCraft

@tommorris @hc If the execs didn’t want ad blockers, maybe they shouldn’t have shipped ads that broke the website or were malware vectors.

—@astatide

“Haha lol banks use 60 year old programming languages!”

Yes, young whippersnapper, that’s because they need things to be reliable and not change all the time, the code probably has to run for another 60 years.

“Modern” devs could learn a lot from not trying chase every trendy new framework and every shiny new programming language.

—@thomasfuchs

@aardrian my take on the letter here (also before verdict) https://www.lflegal.com/2023/05/higher-ed-digital-access/ #EdTech #a11y #higherEd

—@LFLegal

Dear journalists: please stop embedding tweets. The infrastructure supporting that has, it seems, started to fail, so articles keep reflowing as parts of tweet embeds eventually load or don’t.

—@silvermoon82

In a meeting at work today I was explaining #Protactile and I told a story about how I used it and said “I find it really helpful, for understanding where things are in space and how they relate to where I am… Like when I’m doing archery.” And there was this shocked silence because there is a for real deafblind person telling them about how they shoot arrows. It was so hilarious. And apparently if you want to get people off of a subject just tell them you can’t see or hear but you shoot

—@Pawpower

@TheBierFrau It’s a sign of our beautiful times that advertising ruined, and made near completely useless:

1. Answering telephone calls.
2. Voicemail
3. Text messages
4. E-Mail

—@PatrickoftheG

It’s amazing that Reddit, having watched the fallout after Twitter killed off their third party developers, would go on to say, “You know what, that’s an excellent idea and we should do it too!”

It seems their new API pricing scheme might very well be a deathblow to @christianselig‘s excellent Apollo client (along with tons of others, I’m sure).

https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/

—@bigzaphod

Uhg. AI-suggested code is fractally wrong. The function calls it gives me have the wrong arguments (like, it just uses the integer “128” instead of a memory buffer), and after I fix all that, I find that it’s calling the wrong function in the first place. It’s just making shit up.

AI gives plausible-looking answers, not correct answers.

—@AlSweigart