@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
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@AppleVis Correction: presentation and content, not presentation and layout.
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@AppleVis I'm not sure how you can claim something is accessible when you need to use an offline tool to compose your content. Also, the assertion that Gutenberg is primarily a layout editor is incorrect. It deliberately erases the line between presentation and layout and attempts to be Microsoft Word for WordPress, which it will never succeed at.
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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/
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@KaraLG84 Yeah the first one's not my favorite, but because it sets up some stuff for the rest of the series I always read it when rereading the series.
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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.
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There’s a fediverse reddit version called Lemmy? And reddits API is about to cost a fortune and price out 3rd party apps like Apollo? It’s like the fediverse is just right there waiting every time now.
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The worst part of the Reddit situation is that for folks training certain models, the data is actually worth that much and Reddit will make some money.
So we’re entering into a world where all content of any value to people will be even more locked down because of its value to AI companies.
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About ten years ago, the IT building for a local highschool burned to the ground.
My company donated a spare Juniper EX3200 switch to help get them back online. They had erected a small structure without any insulation, and left the switch inside unpowered for a day while the fiber splicers got them hooked back up.
They started the switch, and it immediately shutdown. They looked a gift horse in the mouth and bitched to us that our donation was garbage.
I was dispatched to assist. I connected to the serial console and powered the device up. It immediately indicated that the CPU temperature was 252 C, and shut itself down.
It was January, the outside temperature was -3 C. The Juniper device was storing temperature as an 8-bit unsigned integer value. It got so cold, it thought it was on fire.
Can’t say I ever expected to use a heat gun to get a switch to start before that day. Got it warm enough to power on, and then it kept itself plenty warm to continue operating.
Data types matter, yo.
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@babumenos @cambridgeport90 @_L1vY_ Also, I like Classic Press, but you can only call it easy for people who are comfortable with replacing core files or manually installing WordPress, or want to spend the time doing this along with all the maintenance that goes with it. Which I'm almost certain doesn't fit this particular situation.
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@babumenos @cambridgeport90 @_L1vY_ MB would need to pay for hosting at that point, and I think she's mentioned a couple times that that's not in her budget right now.
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It looks like Reddit is keen to pull an Elon around API pricing.
Yes, of course it is risky to build a business based on access to someone else’s platform. They hold the cards. But one of the joys of the open web was the ability to use the client you wanted. A graphical browser, a command line browser, from a script etc.
Once again, what a mess corporatisation of the web has caused.
https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
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@redcrew I have an idea for them: If you don't want me to reply to your email, how about not sending me email?
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BU President whines about dissent, calls it “cancel culture”
https://popehat.substack.com/p/speech-or-cancel-culture-at-boston