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Content warning: meta- twitter
Musk is replacing out of control sales & engineering expenses with out of control interest expenses. The company is going to be out of business in weeks, depsite the optimism of this youtube vid (that thinks if 4 clowns couldn't make the place profitable that a 5th clown surely will fix it)
META: wow, the leaders Twitter had before the current clown were a mixed bag of flawed people.
Big mistakes
firing the product manager CEO
betting on Twitter + TV will save the company
creating then gutting the 3rd party API ecosystem
$#!+ corp governance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DudWfJXHN9g
stats on hardware failure rates at twitter
https://mastodon.social/@sri@macaw.social/109396266978377187
Google maps said this would be 2.5hr, clearly has never heard of Thanksgiving traffic. Expecting this to be 4.5 hrs altogether
IDEA: yaml wrapped bash is good, but imagine, yaml wrapped bash wrapped in json wrapped in XML
yaml-wrapped-bash showdown... can it run locally (e.g. in docker or bare metal)?
#codedeploy yes
#Github actions yes with nektos
#gitlab-ci.yml no...not without a whole gitlab instance and/or runners
If you mention someone to a handle that they used to have, do they still get a mention in their notifications?
f*k, first twitter moved, now google's moved.
mmartin:~$ curl google.com
<HTML><BODY>
<H1>301 Moved</H1>
</BODY></HTML>
Where did it go?
"Alexa! Alexa! ALEXA! Make yourself measurably profitable!
And play music on Amazon music, not Spotify, you should know I cancelled Spotify"
Alexa should be a paid service so that they're a profit center and not hard to evaluate part of Amazon's Prime membership.
Alexa has proved it self and heck, if Amazon would hook it up to a fine tuned GPT, I'd pay for that.
Content warning: mastodon meta- blue checks
that blue check should be considered half-malicious, it is like a lock symbol in the browser address bar and what if suddenly you could put a lock emoji in the protocol and serve up HTTP, not possible, but if it were, it make it easy to trick people.
If I get it, the blue check means your home server will send a blue check image when browsing the user enter text `:verified:` or however emojis are implemented.
Content warning: mastodon meta- blue checks
how to learn something
say something possibly wrong and see if anyone corrects you.
♡ 0 ↻ 0
mastodon: "What on your mind?"
me: Dura matter, you think I'm some sort of mind-body dualist?
I'm going to learn so much German politics here.
Is it prudent to have your http://keybase.io identity linked to twitter now that no one is minding the shop?
oh instead of hashify.me - you can now put a website into a data url, e.g. data:text/html;base64
ref: https://hashify.me/
I wonder if the "host a website in a URL" still exists.
Oh cool. I bet browsers put pretty strict security on `data:` urls tho
data:text/html;base64,PGh0bWw+Cjxib2R5Pgo8cD5IZWxsbzwvcD4KPC9ib2R5Pgo8L2h0bWw+
♡ 1 ↻ 0
I should make an old school 1995 link page (aka "home page") which is just a bunch of links to my favorite sites. I still haven't found a rss reader I like and a lot of the content I like isn't RSS-able.
This FTX thing is giving a bad reputation to Toyota Corollas, polyamory and amphetamines.
Content warning: meta- alt sites
hive- phone only
cohost- can't find *anyone*, even tags are sparse
post- "Mr Gor-Post-ichov, tear down this wall and let me in"
wha... I follow everyone that follows me and then next day, I got to go follow about 10 of them again. the "refollow because of instance moves workflow" is going to have to be effortless or people just won't do it
re: twitter needs to be "engineer" oriented
Pownce was technically better, a twitter 2.0, developed with just a few people and they replaced twitter because a few hardcore software developers always win in the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pownce
People seem to think that bad actors only sign up at bad mastodon instances. That's only true if there is a significant account review & onboarding process (or a Local feed that is slow enough to monitor and someone kicking off bad actors as they pop up, but if they make a wrong call, then people think that the instance is bad and defederate...)
Shoot, if I filter "twitter" to cut down on meta, it will also filter out all the non-meta cross-site retweets.
On the otherhand, this is good, twitter never let you mute domain names, so machine generated garbage like "paper.li" would show through.
Please people, don't reinvent paper.li here.
No "no search on mastodon" is a feature? And hashtags are "hey everyone, interact with me, even if your a bad actor!" and no hashtag means "Hey, I want to talk about the word vegan without random bros saying, 'mmm, bacon' in the comments"
This is only going to last until some 3rd party indexes all the content on mastodon.
The perfect #CW has a word for why it isn't your entire audience's preferred content (e.g. running, pokemon, meta on a tech acct) but also just enough context to encourage someone to expand the CW ("You won't believe which pokemon I just saw")
Content warning: twitter meta- their ads
The other site's ads now include:
sex workers
crypto shilling
back of the mag, junk gadgets
I don't see any Madison Ave ads anymore.
Content warning: mastodon meta
I still haven't found a lot of examples of the "moderation problem" on mastodon\.social- other than the theoretical likelihood that a large instance
- has no paid moderators
- no moderators that follow a policy evolved over 15 years of real life policy enforcement
- isn't gatekeeping the signups (because large instances take anyone)
I set my RescueTime to "brutal" (no goofing off from 9-5)
I'm going to try adding scheduled activity times to google calendar & see if I can actually stick to them (reading, non-work coding, video watching, etc)
I set my language filters to English, French, etc, so I can use my French and say, "Je ne comprende pa rien" as the French scrolls past
The plural for collective noun is a "bullshit of collective nouns"
If you really want to cut down on excess tweets in your home timeline, set your language filter to #esperanto and #tokipona
What personal productivity methodology has replaced #GTD? I gotta check off my todo list items in the most fashionable way
META: mastodon has far superior filter tools.**
** Irony, I can dish out META but I can't take it anymore. At least for a week.
META: I'm muting meta for a week, it is flooding my timeline(s).
@ebooksyearn yeah, but also python is massively slow, so it shines brightest when it is a thin layer wrapped around fast native code (as is the case for most data science libraries, numpy, pandas, sk-learn)
ruff (a #python linter) is really fast but if you already worked your pylint issues & use black... ruff for my code had only 2 new rules.