haverholm

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[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 8 points 6 days ago (4 children)

This show has been a balm for my worst nerd impulses since episode 1, and I will miss it. As finales go, I think this was damn near perfect, too.

Like others have mentioned, Rutherford's sudden frustration with the Cerritos felt a little off to me, but that's really small fry in the larger picture of

PREVIEW_HEREa bona fide, stable quantum portal to parallel universes hanging around the Alpha quadrant since 2382!

Wow, you'd think that would have been brought up even tangentially in Prodigy or chronologically later set shows? It could even feasibly have been used to

PREVIEW_HEREbring Mirror Giorgiou home to her own universe in Discovery s3.

But what do I know, it might not be as stable as it looked in this episode...

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Probably to position themselves in relation to Microsoft offerings eager to siphon as much user data as possible for their own ratty "AI" and passing the rest off to third parties?

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 2 points 6 days ago

Good to know, I'll brace myself for disappointment when I try out Docker next 😄

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Oh, I tested YNH for a while on a local server, and I wiped the whole thing when I saw the mess it made of my file system. I must have a deeper need to know where everything goes than the urge for convenience 😄

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 2 points 6 days ago (4 children)

I was eyeing microblogpub for a while, but now that development has stalled I'm coming around to GTS as well — should I ever self host a single user fedi instance.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 6 points 1 week ago

There are different ways of approaching microblogs — reading, writing and interacting. You have @s and hashtags in mind already, they're a good way of finding conversations and engaging with people.

You'll find users who write interesting stuff about your favourite subjects — you'd want to follow those to get all their updates. That includes boosts/reposts, i.e. posts by others that those you follow share to spread a message. That will also help you find more interesting people and organisations.

Now, interaction. I have come recently to Lemmy from Mastodon instances, and I see quite a bit of difference in the etiquette and forms of socialising. Two generalisations that I can think of:

  1. Mastodon and other fedi microblogs were built by users who were fed up by Twitter's lax moderation of harassment, so they built in safeguards against that; Lemmy was made in reaction to the commodification and heavy handed enshittification of Reddit, but largely expect the same conversations here. They are not the same mentality.

  2. On Lemmy, you post a question or thought in a dedicated community to get answers or start a discussion. Each community has its own room where the discussion is centred around one subject. On the microblog side, you might imagine one big, sprawling social club where people mingle and form smaller groups to talk about one thing, then disperse and join other conversations. And sometimes they just talk about their pets or hobbies to nobody in particular.

Sorry, I'm writing this over morning coffee and I know I'm only covering broad fragments of the microblog experience as it differs from using a forum. I hope it helps though.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

uBlock's source code is hosted on Github I think, so maybe they're not so keen on openly disrupting their dumb AI.

Github itself has a helpful guide though, on how your firewall may be blocking Copilot. Might be possible to just ban all traffic from these URLs and be rid of it?

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

And in your understanding, Google are somehow superheroes swooping in from on high by ... putting the thumbscrews on a union website?

I get you have an undefined grudge against publishers, but you're kind of off the mark here.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 8 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Hardly. The lesser evil perhaps, but in any context that includes Google there's never a doubt who's actually the bigger culprit.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 5 points 1 week ago

Picard agrees.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 4 points 1 week ago

I've been thinking the same thing. The first season felt a little like a patchwork of different visions.

I'm glad for what we got, I'm one of the people who actually liked Disco from the beginning. It would be interesting to hear his roadmap in more detail, though.

[–] haverholm@kbin.earth 9 points 1 week ago

Given how much fediverse users have actively campaigned for instances to defederate from Threads, this martyr posturing tells me a lot about Minds.

Besides, they're still free to talk, doesn't mean others have to listen.

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