Kind: Reposts

I tooted Hello World on November 30, 2022.

Then I began tooting my #music and a ton of #puns #jokes, and #memes. And you all responded so genuinely, and with such positivity, that I very quickly was made to feel at home.

My deepest gratitude goes out to the #Mastodon community, a #community that has literally improved the quality of my time on this spinning rock as it hurtles through space, towards a future that seems more uncertain every day. It’s unlike any other “social media platform” here.

Today, I celebrate the arbitrary milestone of five thousand followers, and I just wanted to say thank you.

Thank you for the favourites, the boosts, the follows, and the comments.

Thank you for your conversations, discussions, and corrections.

Thank you for listening to my music and sharing your thoughts on it with me, and for following along on your chosen streaming service. This has been amazing.

But, above all, I’d like to thank you all for making Mastodon the friendly and welcoming place that it is. My experience here is one of wonderful acceptance, and it has been truly humbling. There is nowhere else quite like it.

Massive big huge love to you all,

– Jon (Dgar)

—@dgar

The power of decentralised servers strikes. Yesterday I wrote to the server owner of my music instance to see if he would up the limit from 500 to 1000. He said ‘nope, but I’ll up it to 2000 instead.’ Within a few hours, my one-man wishlist had been fulfilled, just like that. I didn’t expect such an almost immediate response, or even to have my message seen at all because people have lives and I’m just one person, but it happened. I guess therefore all I have to do is say ‘Thanks @steve, you rock.’ This post is already over the 500 char limit and yes, it’s not on the instance I’m talking about, but that doesn’t matter. I’m just making a point. Server admins, you have my respect. Well, the good ones anyway haha

—@FreakyFwoof

This is Jax. He loves a car ride. That is all.
#DogsOfMastodon

—@fraying

welcome to the #crypto industry, where the bar is on the floor

—@molly0xfff

How can we have killed the headphone jack while the real killer, PDFs you must sign with adobe acrobat, walks free? Justice is dead.

—@briannawu

@film_girl @anildash While I don’t want to argue with you about your definition of fun, I would say that calling Bluesky objectively more fun is going a bit too far. When you’re blind like me and Bluesky hasn’t made the effort to consider how its interface makes every single thing I do unnecessarily hard by not taking accessibility into account in its initial design phase, it’s hard to say that Bluesky is fun.

—@ppatel

When an inconvenient fact undermines the powerful, it’s dismissed as a “left-wing” talking point.

Until the fact becomes harder to deny.

After years of mostly shrugging it off, the mainstream media is acknowledging that corporate greed is a major force driving inflation.

—@rbreich

I can see this becoming a more common headline, just replace the publication/service name.

Twitter might be experiencing a content drought soon due to people not auto posting.

Goodbye Twitter: Techdirt Will Soon End Our Automated Posting – By @mmasnick

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/03/goodbye-twitter-techdirt-will-soon-end-our-automated-posting/

@fediversenews @socialmedianews

—@binarytango

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

—@UncleDuke1969

@SarahBreau @delong LLMs don’t abstract; humans have to classify the training set for them. That this was done by underpaid people in the third world has been one of the reasons to suppose the corporate actors pushing LLMs are perhaps not a value of ethically reliable the rest of us ought to be OK with.

There’s a shedload of harm happening now. It’s happening because greed is a sin, not because of some spectral possibility of an inhuman intelligence.

—@graydon

New post, “Use the WordPress REST API to create a custom taxonomy term” #wordpress #api https://tech.chrishardie.com/2023/wordpress-rest-api-create-custom-taxonomy-term/

—@ChrisHardie

I dunno, I don’t begrudge anyone their choices about how to social media, but I’m just done with providing free beta testing and Thought Leadership to another commercial service to help them reach exponential growth.

If the service matures and cross-federation is possible I’ll enjoy following good people on Bluesky or wherever. I’m just gonna sit out the part where I’m acting as unpaid QA.

—@liza

I want to publically thank great allies like @mmasnick and @caseynewton for advocating on behalf of disabled people on #Bluesky. When it’s clear that not much effort has been made to incorporate #accessibility in the design of Bluesky’s interface, influencial people like Mike Masnick and Casey Newton are speaking up to try and change the culture. We see you, and we appreciate you.

—@ppatel

Do you know often you use #encryption? 🤔

You may not notice all the daily encrypted interactions you have, but you surely would notice if your private data was accessed because of a lack of strong encryption.

Take a look at a day with encryption 🔒👇
https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2019/10/your-day-with-encryption/

—@internetsociety

It’s really depressing sometimes that a perfect cautionary tale 1984 was written and Handmaid’s Tale was written and even Fahrenheit 451 was written about destroying books but in the end they just ban those books from existence with the stroke of a pen.

—@CardboardRobot

@ironicsans

♫ I am a language model of a modern major general
I’m trained upon a giant mass of textual material
I’ve billions of parameters and answer questions various
Responses range from perfect to unwittingly hilarious
I’m very well acquainted too with matters mathematical
As long as with correctness you’re not overly fanatical
While many complex queries I can easily elucidate
I have an awkward tendency to freewheel and hallucinate ♫

—@kjhealy

Thank you Steve Rudner, whoever you are

—@meredithw

Kinda tired of the whole “I made a lot of money building the Torment Nexus but now I quit and am warning you about the Torment Nexus (buy my book)” redemption arch for tech people we seem to have settled on.

—@tante

So for the Games for Blind gamers jam 2 I used my custom made engine that is used to make Blind Accessible RPG games. If you’re interested in learning more about the engine, let me know what you think here! You can’t use the engine yet, but I break down who it’s for, and what its current feature set is. https://ericbomb.itch.io/the-unseen-rpg-engine

#GameDev #A11y #Gaming #Blind #accessibility

—@Ericbomb

I’ve spent years writing this blog post. I must have re-read it 100 times, often in my darkest hours. Now, it’s finally time to post it: Divorce.

This post has been my guiding principles, one that I’d come back to in times of doubt. It’s all my calm, collected, rational thoughts that I’d lean on each time those virtues threatened to desert me. https://www.troyhunt.com/divorce/

—@troyhunt