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darius

@darius@friend.camp

I'm the administrator of this server. https://tinysubversions.com is where most of my stuff lives. I make Hometown along with a bunch of other fediverse software (see pinned posts). I'm trying to fix the internet, and some people say I'm at least kind of succeeding. Based in Portland, Oregon, USA. he/him

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kissane, to random
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Man, the Open Collective Foundation dissolution emails continue to be the worst and most needlessly hostile vibes. Pulling the rug out from under hundreds of great tiny vulnerable projects while speaking to them like a power-tripping schoolteacher is really something.

darius,
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@fraying @kissane okay but these ARE the people who are supposed to be good at humans! These are not software people, they are straight up non profit people (it's the foundation not the software platform)

darius,
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@kissane they put emoji in the subject line so all is forgiven

darius, to random
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This August I'm speaking at the last-ever XOXO Festival, revisiting my 2014 talk, "How I Won the Lottery"

https://2024.xoxofest.com/

The 2014 talk: https://youtu.be/l_F9jxsfGCw

darius, to random
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AARON was one of the weirdest and coolest early computer art projects. Very excited to read this new piece from @jomc on its legacy:

https://yalereview.org/article/joanne-mcneil-aaron-harold-cohen

divya, (edited ) to random
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A wild story of a white socialite who killed a Belizean police office & who had kids out of wedlock with a UK conservative billionaire's son

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jasmine-hartin-henry-jemmott-fatal-shooting-48-hours/

darius,
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@divya so I clicked on this because you wrote "socialist" and I thought "wow is this some kind of weird revolutionary strategy" and then realized she is actually a socialite 😅

darius, to random
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just in case you want to browse the Enron website circa 2001, some kind soul has been hosting a very fast mirror for a long time

https://enroncorp.com

mcc, to random
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Dead internet theory but for IRL

darius,
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@mcc I gave a talk ten years ago where the main point was "the AI apocalypse came and went years ago, corporations are AI that runs on humans and we just carry out their algorithms for them"

darius,
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@c0dec0dec0de @eaton @cstross His talk was December 2017

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/dude-you-broke-the-future.html

Mine was March 2016

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19bHmqqnPsK4rBUvUgPdvmNUyh5DQrqrj9L2ehHlN6ho/edit

But! Stross wrote on a similar subject in 2010, about corporations as immortal aliens, which is in fact pretty close to my 2016 talk:

https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/12/invaders-from-mars.html

I am chalking this one up to similar people thinking similarly about similar things :)

darius, to random
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I regret to inform you that the genders have been compromised.

darius,
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@slothrop new type of person who has dozens of genders but only one password

darius, to random
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I just witnessed some software transcribe "Fediverse" as "Feddy bears" which.. do I need to start a new server??

darius, to random
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A little piece of personal internet history. I found an old blog post from a friend in Dec 2009 about how bloggers are moving to Twitter.

> It seems that change is in the air at the moment, as a huge number of people are reassessing their relationships with their blogs this winter. [...] In some respects, a lively blog might be [...] a five year mission, at most. However, I also suspect that it is Twitter which is causing a lot of the reconsideration right now"

https://onlyagame.typepad.com/only_a_game/2009/12/man-bytes-blog-closes.html

darius,
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I do think 2010 was the last year I kept anything close to an active blog. Twitter absolutely ate that energy up for me instead.

mosseri, to random

In my job I spend a fair amount of time with both smart people who are incredibly skeptical of AI and its potentials and other equally intelligent people who are wildly optimistic. One way I square this circle is accepting that we all tend to overestimate what can happen in the short term and underestimate what can be accomplished over the long run.

darius,
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this is such a cursed take in the specific examples even if I agree with the broad point of ML being useful in certain contexts

Me: let's use hammers to build houses instead of bash people's heads in

Meta guy: Some people are pessimistic about hammers. Some people are optimistic about hammers. I personally believe that we can use hammers to marginally perpetuate the shitty world we all live in

glyph, (edited ) to random
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Git fetch vs git pull: how did you develop your preference for one or the other? (If you use both, just pick the one you use more.) Do you just roll with the default from how you learned git, or did you learn both and make a conscious choice or change?

darius,
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@glyph I use fetch, merge, and also pull sometimes (with an explicit upstream & branch specified, never ever "git pull" on its own).

At first I learned to just do "git pull" and was always fucking up my work. Then I sat down with someone more experienced than me who taught me the flow I use now; it became clear quickly to me that being specific about what I do in atomic steps is just a safer way for me to interact with git.

joeyh, to random
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recently read a blog post that was arguing against using git commit -m and suggested that it might be worth learning the basics of nano or something in order to edit the commit message that way

Kind of flabbergasting, but is there a culture of only using -m in that is resulting in entirely oneline commit messages? See also commit messages that look like "feat: adding new feature to optimize apps" and "chore: add CI"

darius,
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@joeyh that is correct, that culture exists. A lot of people literally don't know you can invoke a text editor to do longform commit messages. I wrote about it here

https://meedan.com/post/how-to-write-longform-git-commits-for-better-software-development

darius, to random
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Interesting. When I make a post on my test Threads account with one-way federation turned on (aka fedi can read my posts, I can't read posts outside Threads), and it gets likes from the fediverse, it gets compressed into this "X likes from N servers" notification

darius, to random
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It is sad to me that in 2024 if I search "Moby-Dick by Herman Melville" (no quotes) on Google, the free Project Gutenberg ebook isn't even in the top ten results

darius,
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We launched Google Ads in 2000 in an effort to make a lot of money. While the product has a loyal following among Senior Vice Presidents, over the years we've made enough money. So, on July 1, 2025 we will sunset Google Ads.

darius, to random
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I enjoy having Kindle "popular highlights" turned on because it lets me go "Really? 438 people highlighted THIS of all things?"

overholt, to random
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My "Other duties as assigned" include "Explains that Houghton does not front on a street and therefore does not have a street address, and that attempts to reverse engineer one will only end in tears."

darius,
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@jessamyn @overholt you just need the food delivered to a PO Box

andybaio, to random
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Just popping in to say that Phanpy is my new favorite Mastodon web app. The way it handles threads, alt-text, quote-tweets, drafts, trends, grouped notifications, etc... So much better than anything else I've used, including Elk. Fully customizable layout, multiple accounts. (Even works well as a PWA on mobile.) Give it a try. https://phanpy.social/

darius,
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@dogfood the PWA stuff only applies to European phones I believe

darius, to random
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STEMboat Willie

darius, to random
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@mcc saw the headline "Sun expected to break up Portland clouds Sunday; they return Monday" and thought wow I can't believe the press is trying to pin this one on Sun

darius, to random
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And another #Hometown release this morning. There's been another critical upstream security patch from Mastodon. So even if you updated 2 days ago (and thank you for doing it), you should update again:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v4.0.15%2Bhometown-1.1.1

darius,
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Here is a #Hometown release for those sticking with Mastodon v3:

https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/releases/tag/v3.5.19%2Bhometown-1.0.8

I will note that I expect the Mastodon team to stop supporting security releases for v3 at some point, and I'm not going to be able to implement those myself, so basically once Mastodon stops maintaining v3 I'm going to have to stop as well. So I encourage admins to make a plan to update to v4.

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