Oblomov @oblomov@sociale.network

Oh, what a surprise, I didn't know this: The "End Poem" in #Minecraft was released by its author under #CC0 (Public Domain). The "End Poem" is the text that appears after you defeat the end boss.

https://theeggandtherock.substack.com/p/i-wrote-a-story-for-a-friend

#cc0 #minecraft #publicdomain #writing

Today I learned from @0xabad1dea that a lot of large solar farm owners use sheep herds to maintain their grass and they're called solarpunk grazers and life seems a little better. 🤘

James Cameron should remake the Terminator and replace Skynet with ChatGPT. The movie would still hold up and be more realistic.

@atomicpoet

OMG Chris, JERRI CAME THROUGH! I emailed them via their web site's contact form and they corrected their mistake, and their fact-checker herself emailed me back.

I love e-ink ereaders because they're like this vestige of when tech was good

The battery lasts like a month

They work fine (better) without an internet connexion

You can interact with them using the file manager and it's perfectly good

The files are an open format

It isn't surveillance ad-tech

This makes the "community" around AI very weird to watch from outside. People within it treat it as liberatory, giving them abilities they didn't have before. But they don't "have" anything. They're in a company's lobby playing around with a computer. They printed some stuff out, and they can keep that, but if the printouts are later found infringing on its source data OpenAI won't help with that. The liberation is within the bounds OpenAI chooses. Remix culture but it's owned by a corporation.

THERE IS A NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT LETS YOU DO AN EXISTING THING CHEAPER.

Ideal: Now smaller operators, or even individual hobbyists, will be able to do the thing on their smaller budgets; the thing will no longer be restricted to big corps.

Reality: Small operators cannot make use of the technology due to unrelated barriers. Instead the big corps use the new tech to save money and keep the profit, possibly causing the quality of the thing to drop universally because of the new, cheaper process.

do, or do not; there is no future

— yoloda

"flu, rsv, and other viruses"

"other viruses" huh. Do they have names?

“an e-bike subsidy is 2.9 times more effective per dollar at displacing gasoline miles than a zero-emission vehicle subsidy.”

Some people might think, "What's the big deal? Mastodon looks like the Fediverse to me!"

Sure, until it doesn't.

Case in point, this website—which is part of the Fediverse:

https://peertube.tv

What makes Peertube communicate with Mastodon? ActivityPub.

"But people don't use Peertube!"

Wrong. Peertube has 500,000 users, and it's growing.

That's right, Mastodon isn't the only Fediverse game in town.

The petition to remove #LGBT content from the uk curriculum now has 190,671 signatures, sigh. It only needed 100k to force a debate in parliament, so that will be scheduled by #Uk Gov.

The counter petition is rapidly gaining ground, being newer. It now has 33,030 signatures, but we need more!

Pls sign if uk, boost otherwise! 👇

Link to official petition to UK Gov & Parliament: Do not remove LGBT content from the Relationships Education curriculum
https://t.co/IIHgvhpB2O

#LGBTQ #TransRights

The absolute fucking gall of #Github to claim in their celebratory blogpost that actually, *they* are responsible for "developers no longer just being people building software for tech companies", and that they are "always putting developers first" in the same line as where they bring up Copilot.

Fuck you, Github. Sincerely, go fuck yourself. We were here before you, and this isn't your fucking achievement to claim. You *co-opted* the FOSS community, you didn't fucking create it.

(This is the post in question, by the way: https://github.blog/2023-01-25-100-million-developers-and-counting/)

If you’ve been laid off, please let me tell you something.

The best chances for landing your next gig are not through LinkedIn, Indeed, or anything like that. It’s through the people you’ve worked with before.

Start there. Keep checking in with them periodically. Don’t worry that you’ll be a bother, because they’d want the same from you.

And please, PLEASE be gentle on yourself. Job hunting and interviewing is hard and a deeply flawed, chaotic process.

#layoffs

@ScottSoCal @SrRochardBunson @hannu_ikonen

@SrRochardBunson @hannu_ikonen
It's your civic duty to punch Nazis.