Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt
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I will say though that brands.town could absolutely not pull off what the actual real raspberry pi just did, satire has its limits
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Mainstream media journalist: It's too hard to build an audience on Mastodon! I cross-post the same shouty posts and one-sentence slogans as I do on the fowl app, and they just get no traction here! It must be because it's just too complicated for people to read posts from other instances or something!
Me: Okay, do you follow many interesting people here?
Journo: No.
Me: Do you reply to posts and engage with other people?
Journo: No.
Me: Do you like and share many other people's posts?
Journo: No.
Me: Do you post anything interesting, insightful or funny? Or just shouty denouncements?
Journo: Oh, I don't just cross-post shouty posts and slogans — I also do self-promotion! Subscribe now to read my latest article!
Me: Could the problem be that you've relied entirely on an algorithm that's fine-tuned to incite people by distributing the most provocative content widely to generate ad views? That the core issues are that you don't engage, contribute little to the online community, and share little content of real value and substance? That you're essentially no different to the social media bullies you so often denounce in your paywalled articles?
Journo: No. The problem isn't me, the problem is Mastodon!
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Apple has finally killed its ill-conceived plan to scan photos for CSAM. This is a direct result of work by experts and activists. Speaking up is important and sometimes we win.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-photo-scanning-csam-communication-safety-messages/
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Terrible people be like: <I'm unwelcoming. It keeps the bad people away. You can't have a good community if you let just anybody in.>
My dude, there are people saying that second sentence _about you_.
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If I look into this restaurant and find out its line workers did NOT rise up against, overthrow and decapitate the management of a Burger King, I am gonna be pissed.
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This modified version of the famous ‘turn #chatGPT into a pretend Linux system’ prompt is also my prototype for a product that will sell millions.
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POV: Some rocks set off your dwarf's autism
Unclear if I should unfollow people with stupid opinions on the latest fedi drama* or if it will pass and they'll go back to making good posts.
* writ generally, not just whatever it happens to be today.
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Apple just announced that more iCloud storage services (including photos) can be fully encrypted. Thankfully does not appear to include the problematic client-side CSAM detection/snitching. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/12/apple-advances-user-security-with-powerful-new-data-protections/
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There's no better way to disguise the fact that you're a giant asshole than to have other giant assholes who are also total loons start a crusade to wreck you.
Guillermo Del Toro: You know what would really improve Pinocchio? Fascism.
/pol trads aren't real.
(Anyone spending time on 4chan isn't a traditionalist... yet.)
I don't think I've ever installed anything via Snap or Flatpack and had it actually work.
Everything really needed to interact with the actual file system or other installed software, and hence shipped broken.
Maybe it works for games?
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The recently agreed text of the Declaration of Digital Rights and Principles lacks clear definitions and overlooks existing good proposals.
It is incomprehensible that #FreeSoftware has been left out of such a benchmark text.
Me: I saw a post a few days ago. I know who it was from and what it was about. Can I see the post?
Mastodon search: haha no.
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