Xeno Danger Evil @XenoDangerEvil@dpw.social

never meet your heroes; only meet your enemies, interact only with those whom you wholly detest to make you more powerful than anyone can possibly imagine

If you subscribe to the maxim “There are two sides to every story,” you’re on the right track but you’re short by a few hundred sides.

Getting out of bed every hour to pee is my cardio.

Try my Linux Bash Shell Scripting Tutorial wiki https://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Main_Page too ;)

haram l, selfportrait. #blending #photography #darkArt #visualArt #BlackAndWhite #darkArt #selfportraitPhotography

WIRED just published my beginner's guide to Mastodon! Thank you to the 100+ people who responded to my request for tips and advice for understanding the culture here. https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-started-use-mastodon/

Did you know you can verify your account on Mastodon? It's free, privacy-friendly, based on open web standards, and available to everyone!

https://joinmastodon.org/verification

This is the subject of the Ars Electronica Festival 2023: "Who Owns the Truth? Wem gehört die Wahrheit?"

Credit: Created with the AI-System DALL·E2.

@requiem It's vastly disappointing how many people (including here) misunderstand both the problems associated with AI and the capabilities of AI in of itself.

* The current capabilities of AI are over-hyped and over estimated. It's fancy pattern recognition. It is by no means intelligent.

* Corporations are abusing it to steal code, art, and thus get rid of jobs.

* AI output is error prone, and always worse than what a skilled human would produce, but bad quality has never stopped a corporation from cheaping out in order to profit.

It is a multiplier in the race to the bottom. Artists, writers, etc,... are all getting massively screwed by having derivatives of their work stolen while at the same time job offers for the more simpler tasks vanish. As if creative people needed another kick while down. And their customers are being screwed by getting worse products in the end.

We're not "scared" of AI because we think it might go skynet on us. It ain't that clever. It's problematic because it gives corporations another way to exploit us. On a massive scale.

And sorry, but "Should have reviewed the code" is a lame excuse. We all know it's harder and slower to properly and thoroughly review code than to write it from scratch, especially for the trivial stuff AI would be used for at this time.

By using AI you're feeding more data to the companies running them which they can assimilate into their models. By using the tools you are accelerating the problem and actively making the world worse.

There is just no reason and no excuse to use AI. Just don't.

Everyone needs to know there's a Fediverse -- much like they need to know there's an Internet.

Referring to @pixelfed as a Mastodon app, for example, is kind of like referring to Wikipedia as a Facebook app. Yes, @pixelfed with Mastodon, but it's not a Mastodon apps. Yes, Wikipedia connects to Facebook via hyperlinking and previewing, but it's not a Facebook app.

You wouldn't refer to Facebook as the Internet. This is why you shouldn't refer to Mastodon as the Fediverse.

“Meatloaf” is my safe word during sex, as in, “I’ll do anything for love but I won’t do that.”

Since so many appreciated our #FollowFriday picks today, we're sharing a second round of #tech writers:

@AnneCronin — Bloomberg

@b_fung — CNN

@clive — New York Times Magazine, Wired, Smithsonian

@corbin — How-To Geek

@cfarivar — Forbes

@joshuatopolsky — What Future

@klillington — Irish Times

@mmasnick — TechDirt

@skrishna — PBS

@firstadopter — Barron’s

@gruber — Daring Fireball

@ryansingel — Outpost.pub

@HilliTech — AppleInsider

@willknight — Wired

Found an unpublished Dr. Suess book for adults called "Oh, the Weirdos You'll Bang!"

RT from mpesce has a substack // @mpesce (@mpesce)

"Every algorithm that recommends things to us - music or movies or podcasts etc - should be completely visible...That’s too much power to leave with an algorithm, and too much control to cede to those who tend those algorithms..."

latest @theregister
https://www.theregister.com/2023/04/13/reveal_all_recommendation_algorithms/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.fdn.fr/mpesce/status/1647006618578726912

The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.

For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).

"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.

There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.

It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.

Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.

#twitter #mastodon #twittermigration @fediverse

BREAKING: society

Okay fine. Fans of #NPR on the Fediverse, I have temporarily put up a "bot" which toots out the news stories posted to NPR.org as they are posted (within 5 minutes). It's at @npr_bot If you're NPR, you can have this account anytime you join us here on the Fediverse... stopgap until you are here with us! (NOTE: This is NOT the same as the bots out there, which post from Twitter; this is direct from the NPR RSS feed). #news #bot