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New: The Roundup episode 14

This week’s #fediverse news gathered into an easy reading. Some standout ones:

🎉 Mastodon hits 11M accounts, signing up 1M accounts in 25 days
💻 New initiatives and energy about fediverse developer cooperation
📈 https://beta.fedidb.org/ is live, a dashboard for fediverse statistics

If you want to get the weekly Roundup in your mailbox a day early on Sunday, sign up at the fediversereport.com

@fediversenews

Read everything here: https://fediversereport.com/the-roundup-episode-14/

—@fediversereport

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🤯 watched this, mind blown

“Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss how existing A.I. capabilities already pose catastrophic risks to a functional society, how A.I. companies are caught in a race to deploy as quickly as possible without adequate safety measures, and what it would mean to upgrade our institutions to a post-A.I. world.

… This presentation was given before the launch of GPT-4.”

https://youtu.be/xoVJKj8lcNQ

#AI #ethics #safety #Politics #GLLMM

—@SteveFaulkner

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The @thunderbird betas have a rewritten main window UI. This has a lot of accessibility problems. Unfortunately, I currently don’t have the energy to file the bugs myself. Here’s what I found:

1. Too many tab stops. Toolbars should definitely be a one-tabstop container and employ the ARIA toolbar design pattern.
2. Speaking of which, the containers should all be made into proper toolbar containers in the process.
3. The main messages list should be a tree with tree items, since they are collapsible. List and list items are not. Also, there are a lot of focus issues still remaining when deleting messages/threads or when the view refreshes from the IMAP server.

Perhaps someone on the team can convert these into proper bugs in Bugzilla, or maybe most of these are already filed. Like I said, I unfortunately currently lack the energy to do so myself.

—@Marco

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Once a month, I buy fresh raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries in bulk, put them on cookie sheets, freeze them and put them in the freezer in the garage, and then bag the frozen fruit for the kitchen freezer. (I eat it for breakfast.)

I store the frozen fruit in quart-sized freezer bags.

When I’m bagging the fruit, two of the dogs hang out in case I drop some. (I rarely do LOL.)

Here’s last night’s view.

—@CharJTF

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Fellow North Carolinians, if you want to follow a bot that reproduces info in text from the National Weather Service’s Raleigh office (#ncwx info), follow @iembot_rah. If you are in southeastern NC, substitute “ilm” for “rah” to get the Wilmington office. In Charlotte and elsewhere in western NC, follow the Greensboro-Spartanburg, SC, office at @iembot_gsp. You’re welcome, and thanks to the unpaid but dedicated #weather geeks who set up these bots.

—@panamared27401

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I don’t care for the company, but give Substack credit for clever marketing. It’s somehow persuaded a lot of people that newsletters should be called “Substacks” — when they’re just one of many newsletter offerings, albeit a popular one.

No one calls anyone else’s blog a “WordPress” — even though the vast majority of blogs are written on that platform.

It’s understandable that people who publish on Substack do this.

But if you aren’t and do it anyway, you’re doing free PR for the company.

—@dangillmor

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You don’t need to use link shorteners on Mastodon!

All links on Mastodon count as 23 characters towards your post limit, no matter how long the links actually are.

Link shortener services like bit.ly, t.co etc track users who click on their links. This is really bad for privacy. If you use link shorteners on Mastodon, people may assume you are just doing it for tracking purposes.

More info at https://fedi.tips/you-dont-need-link-shorteners-on-mastodon

—@feditips