so who's idea was it exactly to make a US-based mastodon non-profit and bring in a bunch of vulture capitalists and "AI" tech bros to "help" grow the ecosystem
it's really fascinating to see Mastodon speed up on the path of enshittification without even having the kind of budget that would make it worth it financially.
you don't seem to have much faith in the fediverse or open source system.
Who cares what these guys do or do not do. It doesn't actually matter at all.
I'd say that these types of messages are more damaging at this point since it shows we don't trust the systems and regulations that we set up for ourselves.
Mastodon founder Eugen Rochko tells the Financial Times that he turned down multiple six-figure investment offers to avoid turning the site into 'everything you hate about Twitter.'
@doctormo I would argue, further, that calling out such things is in fact demonstrating the faith in the fediverse and open source.
After all, why call it out if you don't believe it would matter? Why call it out, if you have no faith in these regulations and these systems you mentioned?
Two AI-connected venture-capital-linked guys are now on Mastodon's US non-profit board. That is jarring. Calling it out is absolutely the right thing to do.
👀 Twitter co-founder and venture capitalist Biz Stone is on the board of Mastodon's new 501(c)(3) in the US. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/
In Vox, I explained how federal policy encourages car bloat, making American vehicles more enormous, polluting, and dangerous than they'd otherwise be.
That's the exact opposite of what we should be doing.
My wife keeps trying to pressure me into getting delivered meal kits because she's constantly advertised them in videos. I'm not having it because of all of the excessive packaging for the smaller portions and energy wasted in transporting and refrigerating them. Also, they're probably only marginally cheaper because of VC funding.
Had "HelloFresh" in Germany for several months. Expensive, and when we terminated the delivery, ingredients needed (and NOT in our kitchen) were not in the packet. Three times occured, and "bye-bye". Positive is "all needed for one meal" is already "ready to use" but some meals are not our taste really. And yes, advertise is on high gear. Well, not. (Decision from my wife.)
I think so. There are plenty of accident reports showing their use. I like my Helite E Turtle 2. I don’t ride without it. I’ve even been considering their airbag jeans, but would like to read a review on them first.
Every station had events and community groups, and every train was crush loaded at times. Hopefully that excitement translates to real usage for the next year as we wait for the rail connection across the lake!
Airlines really have found ways to gouge their customers despite receiving huge subsidies from the government. You think you’re paying some cheap fare for plane tickets, but the journey ends up costing a ton more than that. >:(
Back when I learned how to drive, pretty much all "normal" cars with automatic transmissions had column shifters. More recent cars have had floor shifters, and now some even have little buttons or dials instead of levers! :P
@enobacon I really like R/1 being opposite each other: it makes rocking the car out in mud or snow so much easier. Alas, none of my current cars have this shift pattern.
I hate that black-and-white view. Cologne had a good Idea to build geo-locked parking areas for hired scooters. That helped a lot to solve that bordwalk gets a jungle climbing over those problem. The car situation is still bad though.
Following a jaunt around Green Lake, local cat Meowntgomery Sinclair confirmed that they were just as weirded out about being seen on a leash as you were. “I feel weird about this too, but if I don…
Is there a Linux [window manager / desktop environment / whatever they're called these days] that has good support for fractional resolution scaling on hidpi displays? My aging eyes really want 150% scaling for this Framework 13 laptop, but gnome only offers 100% and 200%.
EDIT: so far KDE does the right thing. I wish there were more options though.
just run `gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"` and then the option will appear this could, depending on who you ask, increase gpu usage, but apparently that's debated, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
afaik that should only happen if it's running as an xwayland app, and if that's the case there just isn't a fix because gnome devs are fantastic i love them so much
as several of the comments say, you absolutely can have a walkable/bikeable city without public transit. Especially if its small. Many college campuses are an example of this.
Broke a lace in my #motorcycle riding boots during the week and had to tie them up within the criss-cross lacing while I waited for some aramid laces to replace it to arrive. Reminds me of doing the same to a number of #cycling shoes I've had over the years! #bicycle
last night i showed my dad a documentary about Turing, the Space Race, the Cold War, and video games, and he fuckin loved it https://youtu.be/15dxuAbTC0A
An exploration of the Cold War's effect on video games.Complete edit of 5 parts: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOQZmjD6P2Hm47oJBiqdLfmneDK0MrsfUNB: ...
Got the K&N air filter in even though we couldn't for the life of us get the Corbin saddle off. It took a ton of work, but we managed to get the tank off without also taking off the saddle. 🤪 #motorcycle
Took my CBR to the dealer to have it looked at and we both think the cable housing must've compressed or seated just enough to make the latch not release when turning the key. Also, we both think the shop I bought it from didn't spend enough time setting it up due to both this and other issues that I've seen. :/ #motorcycle
Turns out the loop that the seat lock hooks into isn't tall enough, the shop had to shim it taller so it would come off easily. It's a wonder I was able to get it to latch in the first place. 🤪 #motorcycle
Just got a nice message from my dad, who I worked on the air filter swap with. :3
Just wanted to tell you that you had tenacity and will today, which drove the air cleaner change-up. As you know, I was reluctant to proceed. That was mainly due to my lack of knowledge on the hardware, which made me worry about breaking something by proceeding. Just wanted to let you know that your determination made some success out of what I read as a "no go" situation. Well done, young man! I'm proud of you & that facet of you!
Balaji Srinivasan is the spearhead of the new fascist movement establishing itself in Silicon Valley.
It's easy to dismiss him as a clown given how bad, inconsistent and dumb his ideas are but he's a clown with a lot of followers in tech who listen to his visions of "ethnic cleansing".
TIL of the Alcohol Harm Paradox: Poor people who report lower rates of drinking suffer more alcohol-related illnesses than rich people who report higher rates of drinking.
Background Internationally, studies show that similar levels of alcohol consumption in deprived communities (vs. more affluent) result in higher levels of alcohol-related ill health.
The only logical solution to this problem is to lengthen to work day and reduce the free time that poor people would otherwise use to engage in dangerous activities like drinking and smoking.
I'm trying to identify a 386sx motherboard. It has an unusual ISA slot arrangement, and it is using Chips & Technology's CS8221 NEAT chipset. The markings on the top of the board "PCC-77AT05E" have me thinking it might have been made by PC-Calc, and perhaps its a modified 286 board. I'd really like to know its jumper settings.
Auva Computer/Autocomputer NPM 16/20 C-1 is a motherboard based on the Chips & Technologies CS8221 (NEW Enhanced AT (NEAT)) chipset. Get specs, BIOS, documentation and more!
that really helps to narrow it down. sadly, the only handful of usenet posts from 2000 and earlier are people looking for exactly the same thing as you. :\
i searched dataexpert.com.tw on WBM extensively, and the earliest manuals it had were for P5 systems.
good luck. it would be great if someone found the physical manual - (which does exist!.. someone mentioned using it on a usenet post) - and scanned it in.
so, people that still use #telegram for leftist organising, are these the people that you trust not to hand your data to law enforcement considering that none of it is encrypted or protected in any way
telegram decided to sneak in a nazi symbol in their announcement of NFT usernames today, so i guess this is the thing that makes me switch to Signal. (1488 in the subscriber count, and i have been informed that 4/20 is Hitler's birthday, so y'know, not a coincidence)
edit: wolfie@[url=https://queer.party/actor]queer.party[/url] pointed out another thing, they're highlighting Tucker Carlson in the blog post
I want to point out that it is never a good idea to use *any* centralized chat system for personally, socially, or politically sensitive communication that you want to keep secure. This applied to telegram and others from the start.
Telegram *does* have an end to end encrypted chat feature, although it is not enabled by default. While I will not recommend it over alternatives like signal, I will definitely recommend it over non-encrypted telegram chat.
As someone with a BA in History, I am a big fan of retrospective articles, like Ars Technica's recent look back at the history of the Palm Pilot.
I have long been thinking about doing similar retrospective pieces for CoffeeGeek, on subjects like consumer coffee grinders, espresso machines, auto drip makers, etc etc. I could go broad (ie, "auto drip makers") or tight focus (ie, braun auto drip coffee makers). But they do take a lot of work, research, and footnoting.
I might tackle them if there's real interest out there. Sometimes, I think it's just me who's interested in the history of coffee and espresso. Maybe I'll do a poll later about this, but if you want, reply and let me know if this kind of content is of interest to you.
Not even joking, when I look back, I'm pretty sure the introduction of the palm pilot is what got me out of a spiral of living paycheck to paycheck, missing bills and other things.
My ability to actually start saving and such coincides almost exactly with me being able to carry around a little thing around that helps me at least somewhat mitigate my brain's failure to regulate executive function properly and remind me of arbitrary recurring events and alarms.
I loved my Handspring Visor Deluxe (translucent blue, still have it) and my Sony Clie (lost to time). This article was a great trip down memory lane & I hope that if you do make a poll, that the readers choose to make that trip with you.
"After the crash Friday in a suburban area about 15 miles (24 kilometers) northeast of the city (in which he killed a motorcyclist), the driver of a 2022 Tesla Model S told a Washington State Patrol trooper that he was using Autopilot and looked at his cellphone while the Tesla was moving."
Machine Lord Zero
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •Okay, here to help. Where do you want me to start spraying?
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in reply to Eniko Fox • • •Steven Hoefer
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •Everyone: "The thing that sets Mastodon apart is that it is separate from the corporate internet and all its shenanigans."
John Mastodon: "Hey, I invited some people over. Facebook, AI, VC, and a bunch of their friends. Be cool to them okay, they're friends."
Eniko Fox
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in reply to Eniko Fox • • •skua
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •Time to pull on the #MigratingInstances snowshoes and get me to humane climes.
Martin Owens :inkscape:
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •you don't seem to have much faith in the fediverse or open source system.
Who cares what these guys do or do not do. It doesn't actually matter at all.
I'd say that these types of messages are more damaging at this point since it shows we don't trust the systems and regulations that we set up for ourselves.
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Martin Owens :inkscape: • • •@doctormo I would argue that part of these regulations, most of which are unwritten, is "no VCs in positions of power around here, please".
And an important element of these systems you mention is calling out when such regulations, even if unwritten, are being ignored.
It's not like Gargron is unaware of these unwritten regulations, either. He actively promoted Mastodon on them not even full 2y ago:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/mastodon-rejects-funding-offers-to-preserve-nonprofit-status-founder-says
@eniko
Mastodon Rejects Funding Offers to Preserve Nonprofit Status, Founder Says
Marco Marcelline (PCMag)Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •@doctormo I would argue, further, that calling out such things is in fact demonstrating the faith in the fediverse and open source.
After all, why call it out if you don't believe it would matter? Why call it out, if you have no faith in these regulations and these systems you mentioned?
Two AI-connected venture-capital-linked guys are now on Mastodon's US non-profit board. That is jarring. Calling it out is absolutely the right thing to do.
@eniko
Eniko Fox
in reply to Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 • • •SJ
in reply to Eniko Fox • • •hold the phone. Who’s on the board now?
What the fuck does AI have to do with this
Eniko Fox
in reply to SJ • • •L. Rhodes (@lrhodes@merveilles.town)
MerveillesSJ
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