Notes suite aux Utopiales 2040 #utopiales #utopiales2024 https://si3t.ch/log/2024-11-16-notes-utopiales-2024.txt

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Looks awesome!

(I often view your photos in the evenings when redshift is active. That probably gives it a nice extra warm touch. A bit like bass-boosted music.)

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Sooooooooooooooo … you order now and they deliver in April? Sounds like a good deal.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Hm, well I guess I just expected ants to be tiny. But that girl looks like it’s the size of a regular bug/spider. 😅

Got an advertising handout in the letterbox that a pizzeria will offer and also deliver brick-oven-baked pizza starting 1st April.

Taking photos from a moving car is a tough challenge. https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendheimfahrt-2024-11-16/

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@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net I can’t make it, we tidy up our scout yard.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Oh, cool. Larger than the the workers. I don’t know the actual size of this test tube, but when this is a regular sized one, the queen is still not that big.

I didn’t realize that the queens of our very common black ants are huge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjbAsdiE7ZI

@prologic@twtxt.net I will make it in. Will make sure to tell mum in advance that “I have a meet with the boys”. LOL.

👋 Reminder folks of the upcoming Yarn.social monthly online meetup:

• Event: Yarn.social Online Meetup
  
• When: 23rd November 2024 at 12:00PM UTC (midday)
  
• Where: Mills Meet : Yarn.social
  

#Yarn.social #Meetup

@prologic@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net No worries. In the end you did it all with your backup. And sorry for my exported timezone mess. :-/

The Australia Labor government, Albanese and the honourable Michelle Rowland federal member for parliament and communications minster are fucking clowns. It’s stupid shit like this that’s the real problem with “big tech” social media platforms. These morons just simply don’t understand basic economics and basic business.

Why would a company like Meta, X and TikTok give up a large multi-billion dollar segment of the market. That is, young children from the ages of ~3 to 16 (yes kids these days can use a computer or device from a pretty young age!)

The whole masquerade of “online saftey” and the new Australia legislation of the Online Safety Act 2021 is complete and utter bullshit.

You wanna fix this whole cybercrime and cyber bullying that goes on (which btw if you understood how these fucking platforms worked in the first place, you’d realise drives up engagement on the platforms by abusing human emotional and psychological weakness), then ban and make illegal with multi-Billion dollar fines the following:

• Profiting off data collected by users on your platform(s)
  
• Categorizing users on your platform and performing A/B tests
  
• Targeting users (of any age) for advertising
  

In fact just ban targeted advertising period.

Disgusting 🤦‍♂️

@bender@twtxt.net He sure did! 👏 Thanks @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org 🙏

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net Uh huh sure 😉 Bluesky, the “decentralized” social media platform that won’t steal and profit from your data huh?! 🤦‍♂️

@bender@twtxt.net Yes and Will do! 👌

@prologic@twtxt.net time for a well deserved rest. Get well soon. Before you go, monthly call next weekend? If so, set the banner now! :-)

After several hard hours, I think I’ve recovered the last missing 1 Twt from @bender@twtxt.net 🥳 Turns out just before I accidentally nuked my pod, I took a dump of it’s cached just seconds before 🤣 – So I was also able to rebuild anything that was missing from the backup from the recent cache dump!

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com oh, you still had an account there? Oh dear.

So long Blue Birdy 👋 it was a … Never mind, GTFO of my life already! 😆

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com hahahaha! What?! And prive you from framing it with all its magnificent glory? Never! :’-D

Bluesky Says It Won’t Train AI On Your Posts
Bluesky, the social network surging in popularity, says it has “no intention” of training AI tools on users content. “The social network made the announcement on the same day that X (formerly Twitter) is implementing its new terms of service that allow the platform to use public posts to train AI,” notes TechCrunch. From the report: “A number of artists and creators have made their home … ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net woot, woot! @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org came to save the day!

Thanks to @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org’s own archived feeds we’ve managed to restore quite a bit and probably only lost a couple of hours. 🙇‍♂️

@news@twtxt.net all good, and thank you @prologic@twtxt.net for the transparency, and quick action. I feel lighter already! :-D

@wbknl@twtxt.net You of all are the most affected as our newest member of my pod and most recently joined. I’m so sorry 😢

🔥 ATTENTION: I have really bad news folks 😢

Today, (just this morning in AEST) I accidentally nuke my pod (twtxt.net). I keep backups, but unfortunately the recovery point objective (RTP) is at worst a month! 🤦‍♂️ 😱 (the recovery time objective is around ~30m or so, restoring can take a while due to the size of the archive and index) – For those that are unfamiliar with these terms, they essentially relate to “how much data loss can occur” (RPO) and “how quickly you can restore the system” (RTO).

This pod (twtxt.net) is back up and online. However we’ve last the last ~5 days worth of posts y’all may have made on your feeds (for those that use this pod).

I’m so sorry 😞

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org wrote:

“The parchment, on the other hand, might be a bit wasteful for just temporary ideas that are not perfectly layed out yet.”

OK, OK, I will use the cheap one. :-P

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’m all in on paper. In fact I noted down a todo item today on a physical sheet of paper when I was on the phone with a workmate. It then occurred to me that I could have just written it in a scratch file.

The parchment, on the other hand, might be a bit wasteful for just temporary ideas that are not perfectly layed out yet.

@movq@www.uninformativ.de no, no stupid at all. I just don’t like more things laying around, collecting dust. I am 100% digital.

You guys make it sound like a stupid idea. 🤣 Dunno, I like the idea. But I also like writing in general and calligraphy, maybe that’s the reason. 😝

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org woah! Why didn’t I think of that?! “/me chisels this for the record in a crispy, brand new, thin granite slab.”

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org can one truly set a fixed price on art? I wouldn’t pay the original amount (in retrospect, I regret it, as it could make me richer now), but those who did were buying art, and a piece of history. It is well made, to boot.

But again, not for me. 😅

@wbknl@twtxt.net @bender@twtxt.net For improved longevity you should consider carving in steel or stone. This also has the additional benefit that you think more carefully before actually noting it down.

@bender@twtxt.net The world is full of fools. One of ‘em might even buy that for this money. O_o Even the original price is a total ripoff in my opinion.

Crazy, ain’t it?

“Designed by Apple in California” stopped being sold in 2019. It sold for $199, and $299 (two sizes). Check the eBay pricing on that link, if you want to know the selling price today.

OpenAI, Google, Anthropic admit they can’t scale up their chatbots any further

Once you’ve trained your large language model on the entire written output of humanity, where do you go?

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/11/14/openai-google-anthropic-admit-they-cant-scale-up-their-chatbots-any-further/

So we’re going to destroy the environment for AI slop that isn’t fit for purpose now and, if you believe the above post, never will be.

Portion of the modified Twitter TOS that goes into effect today (it’s on right now), as summarised (ironically) by Google’s Gemini:

“In simpler terms, this means that when you share your content (like text, images, or videos) on the service, you’re giving the company permission to use it in various ways. They can copy, modify, distribute, and even use it to train their AI models. This includes sharing your content with others and using it on other platforms. You won’t be paid for this, but using the service itself is considered enough compensation.”

@bender@twtxt.net Ahh I see 👌

@prologic@twtxt.net true. I was thinking more on Yarn’s/twtxt size (as it’s today). I find it attractive to have the ability of having a small group of GtS instances that only, and exclusively, federate with each other.

Not really sure how this is similar at all teally as Yarn like every other twtxt client just fetches feeds you tell it to? 🤔

Perhaps I should have said, a “similar […] thing as Yarn” instead.

While on a small community topic, GoToSocial recently implemented the ability to run isolated instances that will not federate openly with the rest of the Fediverse, but that will allow administrators to federate exclusively to other instances (silos), creating a similar, actually more restricted, thing as twtxt. See GoToSocial Federation Modes.

@bender@twtxt.net I hear ya 👌 I feel very much the same 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net yes, this community being much smaller makes it easier to interact. I didn’t interact, or didn’t interact much on BlueSky, so I sowed what I ripped. As I have grown older I have found myself less inclined to socialise in bigger places. One of the reasons I feel fine here, and on the Fediverse.

@bender@twtxt.net LIL 🤣 Starting to wonder whether maybe I’m the one that’s wrong here? 🤔 And have a warped sense of the terms distributed and decentralized? 😅

@wbknl@twtxt.net I prefer vellum to write my stuff. It lasts longer. 😂

@prologic@twtxt.net what I, poorly, tried to say is that you could run those “key services” if you want. Again, I know you have a certain fixation on what’s decentralised, or not… LOL, so start fixing it by changing that Wikipedia entry! I believe in you! 🙈