"I do not need the one magic machine that claims to solve all my issues and then makes me jump through conversational hoops to get a mediocre result. That is actually the opposite of what I need."
On chatbots as a bad design paradigm
(Original title: “ChatBot” is bad design)
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As anyone who has ever seen anything I have created knows: I am not a designer. So take my reasoning and thinking here with a grain of salt.tante (Smashing Frames)
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#CraigMurray | You Cannot Negotiate with the Zionist West
"I see much futile discussion as to whether Israel is controlling the US or the US controlling Israel. Plainly the answer is both; there is a deep symbiotic relationship of the political classes in both places. The key point is that the Israel settler colony carries an insupportable weight in the policy decisions of Western politicians. Like all colonialism – and as outlined by Lenin and Hobson – this is because colonialism benefits the personal interests of the wealthy and military classes but is a burden on working people."
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#Zionism #Gaza #Genocide #Palestine #Iran
Israel and the USA have each attacked Iran in the middle of negotiations. Iran must not fall for it a third time. Negotiation is dead.craig (Craig Murray)
Today, at the Living Planet Symposium, ESA revealed the first stunning images from its groundbreaking Biomass satellite mission – marking a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s forests are changing and exactly how they contribute to the global carbon cycle. But these inaugural glimpses go beyond forests. Remarkably, the satellite is already showing potential to unlock new insights into some of Earth’s most extreme environments.
#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Cats and dogs living together
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If we want to keep teenage boys out of the toxic manosphere, we need to give them a better choice of role models.YouTube
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France arrested people for being private and using Linux
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Windows 11 is losing users
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Debian 12 is now out
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Apple has announced a significant tool for getting Windows games running on Mac. A new Game Porting Toolkit can run DirectX 12 games on macOS unmodified, allowing developers to quickly port games.Tom Warren (The Verge)
Zarah Sultana wasn't afraid to hold both the biased BBC and the genocide-complicit Labour government to accountThe Canary
With the initiation by the United States of war on Iran this weekend, the final military objective of the 2001 “seven countries in five years” plan revealed on March 2, 2007 by Gen.Dennis Speed (EIR News)
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Israeli censorship tried to hide that Iran struck a major military base. U.S. media parroted the line: “residential buildings.”
But Microsoft and the IDF don’t share office space in an apartment complex.
IRGC uses new Kheibar missile against Israel for the first time Rossa Primavera News from the Middle East and Central AsiaAvis Krane (Rossa Primavera International News)
Show HN: Lego Island Playable in the Browser
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Play the classic 1997 PC game LEGO® Island directly in your web browser!LEGO Island Web Port
Els reis espanyols, Felipe VI i Letizia, s’ha vist obligat a entrar d’amagat al monestir de Montserrat arran de les protestes de l’Assemblea Nacional Catalana (ANC).Redacció (VilaWeb)
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Radio Garden
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There's been a furious reaction to Rupert Lowe's revelation that he had his pet labrador put down with a rifle shot to the back of the head.Bill Curtis (The London Economic)
Nine years on from the EU referendum, it turns out that predictions of the impact Brexit would have on the UK were pretty much spot on.Charlie Herbert (The London Economic)
TRUMP DISSES MASSIE
( Trump Doesn't Like Dissenting Voices )
====Bullhorn Barry📢 (Opinion / News)
In my opinion, this is NOT a good look for Trump. It comes off as if Trump wants everyone to agree with him on every decision he makes and that is not a good look. I think it's CRUCIAL we have dissenting voices at this time or we get runaway Presidents like we had with Biden. Of course Biden wasn't running anything but he was definitely the front man.
I'm a staunch Trump Supporter, but I could care less if Trump likes my opinions about his decisions or not. I will praise Trump when I think he's doing right and criticize him when I think it's necessary. Btw, I think a lot of MAGA Supporters are grateful for what Massie has been saying. And that doesn't even mean they all agree with him. It simply means they appreciate him speaking his point of view and dissenting.
The support for Massie is certainly not non-existent among MAGA. Probably more people are behind Trump than Massie, but Massie's support is not insignificant. And maybe Trump sees that as a threat, but the MAGA Movement is NOT about Trump—It's about We The People.
The search for extraterrestrial intelligence simultaneously inscribes itself within the domains of science, art, and the paranormal. Yet, whether we are dealing with astrobiology, science fiction, or superstition, each of ... Read MoreElad Magomedov (The Philosophical Salon)
left wingers are always looking for enemies to validate their identity
once they find one they won't do anything to dissuade themselves because it ruins their game
@Ann1944, another day in the Nazi US
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There is a lot bluesky gets right, and a lot it gets wrong, the same is true with Activitypub.
Atproto is content-addressed, and portable. This means that posts can exist independantly of their original server.
Instead of giving posts a https uri, which will stop working if a user moves servers or their server disappears, they give them at uris.
For example, this post on bsky.app: bsky.app/profile/ponder.ooo/po…
Has the at:// link is: at://did:plc:i4bfh2tyxihe2ksplmtcoopk/app.bsky.feed.post/3lk4yrmyugc2f.
The post does exist over https at https://porcini.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.repo.getRecord?repo=did:plc:i4bfh2tyxihe2ksplmtcoopk&collection=app.bsky.feed.post&rkey=3lk4yrmyugc2f.
Atproto is very easy to build apps on. For example, tangled.sh, frontpage.fyi and flushes.app are all apps built on atproto.
Atproto allows more flexibility in what an app can do, as opposed to lemmy or mastodon's api.
Atproto is better documented. The ActivityPub spec leaves a lot up to the reader.
Atproto has some really good moderation tools for users. People can make public blocklists of users, and people can subscribe to labellers, people or services which give users/posts a label.
almost everyone is on bluesky's PDSes. I thought mastodon.social and lemmy.world were bad, but the people on alternate PDSes altogether adds up to only a few thousand.
Its decentralised identifiers are actually completely centralised!
DID:PLC, their DID method, originally stood for placeholder, but they renamed it to Public Ledger of Credentials.
To use it, you have to use plc.directory.
You can use a DID:WEB DID, but if your website linked to it goes down you lose your identity.
(I find it extremely funny that its not actually a requirement for a decentralised identifier to be decentralised. )
Everything on the network has to be public to work.
since relays have to be able to collect all the information on the network for Appviews to be able to make use of that information, anyone can find out who's blocking someone, or who is on a list, or who's following who, with no way of hiding that information.
Private accounts and posts are impossible to do on atproto.
Since everything is public, DMs (for now) are centralised. They do seem like they want to change that though.
AP (ActivityPub) is better distributed. While it has large servers (like mastodon.social or lemmy.world (and threads, but we don't talk about threads)) the majority of users are not on those servers. There is no single point of failure. If bluesky disappeared tomorrow, atproto would still exist, it would just have a negligable amount of users.
One node in the network lets you do everything, as opposed to bluesky which has three parts (You can do stuff without a relay though). This means you can trust a lot less of the network.
ActivityPub scales better than ATProto. Atproto scales quadratically, meaning that having a lot of nodes in the network harms performance.
AP scales horizontally, meaning it works better with a lot of small servers.
ActivityPub can keep stuff private, like blocks and posts.
Though, a lot of implementations can leak posts.
The spec leaves so much out. They didn't propose a way to make sure requests between servers are validated, so mastodon chose HTTP signatures.
They didn't add any way of looking up handles, so mastodon chose webfinger.
A posts's id is its https uri, this means thatif a server goes down, stuff can't be fetched. A user can't move their followers if their server goes down (you can on ATproto). There is a standard to fix this, FEP-ef61, but it breaks compatibility with a lot of implementations.
Missing information is a problem. Its not really a problem on lemmy, but on mastodon likes and replies from other servers may not make it to your server at all (you can fetch replies in newer versions of mastodon though).
All this aside, I do think the two can coexist. I don't see anything like lemmy working on atproto. ActivityPub seems closer to social networking, as opposed to social media.
Something like facebook would be impossible to make on atproto, because not everything is made to be public.
I am hoping for a bridge, but good (bridgy is opt-in, making it useless).
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Would SSO every be possible with ActivityPub?
Like if you built a new app (network) on AP and allow people to sign in with their Mastodon handle?
Pixelfed lets you sign in using mastodon's oauth, but that's probably not what you mean.
There is OpenWebAuth, but its not really implemented by many major projects. codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src…
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@mstoeckel, besser Filen verwenden (Made in Germany, bis 10GB kostenlos)
Filen – Next Generation End-To-End Encrypted Cloud Storage. Get started with 10 GB of free space.filen.io
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A Quiet Roar - Simpler Times
***aquietroar.bandcamp.com/track/…Simpler times with a simpler mind
Unburdened shoulders, lighter, quicker and bolderIt was better years with fewer fears
Innocence reigning, with less aching and strainingJust as joyful as can be, when it made sense to me
Fleeting through time, frictions and burns now to be alive
Oh, take me back to when hope had no endLooking back I see the cracks
That formed and widened as I somehow grew silentBut before the fall I do recall
A happier version, almost a different personJust as joyful as can be, when it made sense to me
Fleeting through time, frictions and burns now to be alive
Oh, take me back to then, when hope had no end
#AQuietRoar #aqr #music
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Huh… so deep state antifa has been putting up flyers
It definitely is, but it’s still in the millions vs the antifa/blm/commie/terror punks and gun ownership keeps increasing especially among women
Iran has requested an emergency UN Security Council meeting and accused the United States of committing a “criminal and illegal” airstrike on its nuclear facilities.teleSURenglish
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#fl-fleur25Hello #Diaspora
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We got an unsolicited offer on our house in Perth WA it wasn't terrible. made me pull out the calculator. And consider not renting. But the wife says we can't sell that. we will get screwed on fees and taxes. The houses here suck and it's our retirement.
Married that woman for a reason.
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Something refreshing on a hot day…
Well, it's not far down to paradise
At least it's not for me
And if the wind is right you can sail away
And find tranquility
Oh, the canvas can do miracles
Just you wait and see
Believe me
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For all those people who welcomed Threads to the fediverse, Meta is now literally the US military. Not just subcontractors.
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Big tech executives have been sworn in as high ranking officers in the US Army. Normally it takes around 2 decades of sacrifice to achieve such a high rank. ...YouTube
You must be mistaken, Meta are partners with Mastodon at the Social Web Foundation. Are you saying Mastodon would partner with such a horrible corporation? Or that the illustrious Social Web Foundation would allow them in if they were as bad as you say?
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La Cour des comptes vient d’annoncer ce lundi, dans « une première estimation », le coût pour l’argent public des JO de Paris 2024Gilles Varela (20 Minutes)
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SANAA, June 22 (YPA) - The Sanaa-based government strongly condemned on Sunday the blatant and barbaric US aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.In a statement, the government considered the US strikes a blatant declaration of war against tاحسن (Yemen Press Agency)
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in reply to Spartacus • • •#Iran on the road to a nuclear bomb.
#Tehran's greatest asset is its stockpile of enriched uranium, which it already has and no one in the West knows where it is.
Iran is now very likely to withdraw from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty #NPT and seek to build a nuclear arsenal argues a report from the
International Institute for Strategic Studies #IISS