hankg

@hankg@friendica.myportal.social

Software developer and (sometimes) blogger trying to figure out secret to living a healthy and content life into his 100's.

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hankg, to random

Poor #NYTPitchBot can't out-satire the NYT and the rest of the supposedly liberal MSM anymore can he? It's beyond pathetic at this point. #satire #uspoli

hankg, to TeslaMotors

Brilliant! LOL

hankg, to OpenAI

More enshitification. DropBox adds to the OpenAI data vacuum all your files unless you opt out. Having the pipe is one thing. Having it be opt out and not even telling users about it makes me furious.
Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features

hankg, to fediverse

The Reddit enshitification continues...I hope kbin and/or Lemmy is up to the task of absorbing users and mods that decide they've had enough. I'm also hoping that the remaining mods remember that they are essentially volunteering to prop up a billion dollar business who only keeps them around as long as is convenient for them. Yet another reminder why I won't join any social networks that aren't open source, open data, and optionally self hosted ever again. Thank you #fediverse for filling these gaps more than enough for me; and hopefully with time for the majority of internet users. #fediverse #reddit #lemmy #kbin #RedditMigration #enshittification
After porn-y protest, Reddit ousted mods; replacing them isn’t simple

hankg, to StarTrek

#StarTrek #humor #GeekHumor #christmas

hankg, to LGBT

When you hear DeSantis/GOP apologists say that calling these anti-LGBT bills "Don't Say Gay" is being blown out of proportion, here is yet another example of how it is actually exactly what they are doing. It isn't about "protecting kids" it is about fucking with LGBT people and shoving us out of society like "the good old days" they keep pining for... news.yahoo.com/florida-teacher…

hankg, to random

It wasn't until digging into Musk background after the whole going after the guy who criticized his cave rescue submarine stunt that I realized how many times he just made shit up as on the verge of existing or 1-2 years away tops to have it be total BS. Good news, now there is a site that tracks it. It is truly mind bending that people take what he says at face value any longer. He is more grifter and charlatan than "real world Tony Stark" tech genius. The data is all there for you to see for yourself. #ElonMusk #MuskIsADick elonmusk.today/

hankg, to retrocomputing

A bunch of old videos from Xerox PARC just got dumped on the Computer History Museum's YouTube channel. This is just one of them. Really neat stuff. #RetroComputing #XeroxPARC youtu.be/rR_24-_83-o

hankg, (edited ) to fediverse

OK Enough playing with the new Friendica...back to the tasks I am supposed to be doing. The Bluesky bridge, the thing I've been looking forward to the most seems to be working very well. Posts from Friendica shows up there, with proper segmentation if longer than their paltry 300 character limit. Reshares/likes/comments on Bluesky posts done in Friendica are properly reflected there. Reshares/likes/comments on fediverse posts do not show up over there, as expected. The Bluesky content is not federated to other fediverse servers, as expected. I can't even get it to come up with a direct link search. So all thumbs up! The only hiccup I've found so far is posts that are reflected from Friendica to Bluesky seem to show up in Relatica as from my Bluesky user since the API doesn't seem to know to filter it out like the UI does. Still overall excellent work to everyone that worked on it, especially @heluecht

hankg, to random

Nope, not NYT Pitchbot (god I wish he was on the fediverse)...economy been reving up for two years now...here's why that's bad news for Biden apparently. Great job WaPo! SMH H/T @jeffjarvis

hankg, to fediverse

The latest beta of the Relatica mobile and desktop Friendica client, version 0.6.0, has just been released. This release includes three major new features: blocks management, post/comment filtering, and image gallery management functions. It also includes fixes for the jankiness and apparent freezing that could be seen when processing posts coming back from the server, a problem where delayed logins could prevent the app from loading, and several other bug nits. The CHANGELOG file has more details. The Install file can be used for installing Android, Linux, and Windows version. Apple has it in review for iOS and macOS users so should be available within the next 24 hours. If you would like to join the beta on Apple platforms feel free to DM me here, on Matrix, or in the Relatica Matrix room. Enjoy! #relatica #friendica #fediverse gitlab.com/mysocialportal/rela…

hankg, to InitialD

I had this sort of reaction happen in real life on NYE when I was talking about coding problems. Someone at the party who was half listening stopped me in the middle and asked, “Wait what do you do for a living again?” “Programmer.” He is a nurse.

hankg, to politics

Republicans in OH played dirty to keep the right to abortion amendment off the ballot, then to mess with the language to make it less likely to pass. It passed with huge margins anyway. Now they are saying they will ignore it and pass laws that supposedly will make it so the courts can’t rule on it. So much for balanced government between judicial, legislative, and executive branches. This stuff is why I can’t see ever voting for a Republican ever again. It is at local, state, and federal level through the nation. #uspoli #politics #WomensRights
DECEPTIVE OHIO ISSUE 1 MISLED THE PUBLIC BUT DOESN'T REPEAL OUR LAWS

hankg, to fediverse

Every day another cautionary tale for larger organizations why they should be ditching Birdshite/$8chan and jumping to a social network that lets them self host (e.g. etc) so that they aren't setting themselves up to be under the capricious control of some other Silicon Valley Techbro or his billionaire financiers (e.g. , , Notes, etc.) who will inevitably pull the same maneuver eventually. A lesson they will eventually learn? If I were a betting man my mone would be on "no" but fingers crossed! On another note, I guess my account isn't safe after all with this recycling new recycling policy. Fuck it. I'm never logging back into that site again. If my placeholder strategy of keeping the account be deactivating it fails then so be it.
Elon Musk threatens to re-assign @NPR on Twitter to

hankg, to random

Not all hero’s wear capes. A theme park especially designed for special needs kids but useable by all. To this day admission is free for special needs kids and those under 2. I’m still getting teary eyed thinking about this fifteen minutes after seeing this in a chat room. #inspiration

morganswonderland.com/about-us…

hankg, to random

♲ @kennychaffin@diasp.org:> Portugal just ran on 100% renewables for six days in a row****For nearly a week, the country of 10 million met customer needs with wind, hydro and solar — a test run for operating the grid without fossil fuels.

www.canarymedia.com/articles/c…

hankg, to random

So…Substack management and founders are openly saying they don’t care about monetizing and boosting literal Nazis on their platform. He couldn’t even say he wouldn’t have a literal neo-Nazi on his podcast again because their point of view has cache in the US now, the irony of platforming by people like them being lost. Independent creators who use Substack I implore you to use the option that lets you port your content and get it hosted on Ghost if for no other reason to to keep your own conscience clear. #Substack
Note by Hamish McKenzie on Substack

hankg, to Health

I have to say I'm pretty floored by the 100% plant based crab cakes I just ate, made by Omni. Flavor-wise tasted exactly like a crab cake. Texture-wise it was as a good as your average mediocre crab cake you'd get in most of the world. So of course it wouldn't hold a candle to a good Maryland area crab cake but that's not a deal breaker for me in this context. Nutrition wise though it rocks. It has more protein by weight than lump crab meat but it has less sodium, half the fat, and half the calories of a real crab cake. Not only would I buy this again but I am going to try their other products too. omnifoods.co

hankg, to fediverse

I've been given links to several comment chains which have simultaneously been full of far left and right demagoging and conspiracy theory. The beauty of the fediverse is that my view of the world didn't have that. When I went to them I could see them but my world's view didn't have it. This is because of the nature of how the fediverse works. Specifically:

  • Federation isn't all-on-all
  • We don't have a click/engagement goosing algorithm shoveling the content in our faces
  • Users and server admins have powerful moderation tools

Ask me again why I prefer a decentralized, open source, open data, self hostable social network ecosystem over the walled gardens, new and old, that the SV VCs keep trying to lock us into. It isn't perfect but is improving. #fediverse #BigTech #SocialMedia

hankg, to bluesky

The people behind Bluesky/Threads/Post/anything besides ActivityPub/Diaspora protocol federated social web, financially and otherwise, are the exact same people that gave us the calamity of modern social media and tried the exact same market monopoly move with web3/crypto (which I despise for other reasons but that’s a segue). They even sold the latter with the same decentralization and egalitarianism marketing shtick. I’ll be damned if I trust my social media presence to them again. To quote The Wire: “Fuck me once, shame on you. Fuck me twice, shame on me.”

hankg, to random

I've been a single issue voter since 2004 on the courts. The undoing of a GOP gerrymander so bad they even had supermajority in one house of the legislature even though the Democrats won the majority of the votes shows the power of that. If more people voted like that for POTUS in recent years we would still have Roe. We would still be able to enact gun control laws like we had until the early-2000s. We would not have resurgence of systemic disenfranchisement of minority voters throughout the country. We would not have had the Wisconsin gerrymander or comparable ones in states like North Carolina long ago. My entire life SCOTUS has been right of center and trending further right with each year. It took a sharp turn right in 2017 thanks to Trump winning the presidency. Until SCOTUS and the federal judiciary are balanced and that balanced state exists long enough for the results to percolate down into real effects I will never be able to vote for the Republican candidate for POTUS or Senate even if there was some magic wand resurgence of moderate Republicanism of mid-20th century. Voting does matter. Elections have consequences for you whether you vote in it or not. Get out and vote. Vote Democratic Party to get these courts fixed and to help us continue moving in the right direction again. #uspoli #scotus #Election2024
Wisconsin governor signs new state legislative maps into law, ending a GOP gerrymander

hankg, to random

Filed under the "no shit Sherlock" department...

RFK Camp: Helping Trump Win NY Is Our “#1 Priority”

joemygod.com/2024/04/rfk-camp-…

hankg, to random

Oh good CNN is getting in on the "why good jobs reports are bad news" thing too. Outlets like the NYT, CNN, etc. may be better than the literal propaganda organs of the right of Fox News, etc. but that is such a low bar. It is ironic that the country that pioneered having freedom of the press and freedom of speech in their constitution has a media closer to what you see in a banana republic. #uspoli #msm #cnn

hankg, to scifi

I'm finally watching the Foundation series on AppleTV. I'm really enjoying it. Although I suck at reading fiction its making me want to read the books. However the CW is that the series is not much like the books. So I wonder how much I'd actually enjoy them.

hankg, to fediverse

Watching the social media landscape news the past couple weeks has me in a dual mindset of despondancy and determination about the fediverse. The despondancy comes from the reinforced realism that usage decisions around these systems will forever be driven by FOMO and frictionless entry and our systems aren't really ready for either yet. I have mixed feelings about Mastodon changing onboarding to make it all "mastodon.social" by default (where 90% of the users will go now) but getting rid of the biggest analysis paralysis part of getting people here is vitally important. To be frank, normal people don't give a damn about decentralization or data control they care about FOMO and "it just works". Friendica, my network, has even further to go on that front than Mastodon even. The determination comes from the knowledge that we did get a glimpse of people being able to feel FOMO about the fediverse thanks to Musk's Twitter enshitification. As people, including me, continue to refine the fediverse we could be in a position where more of them feel it enough to stay on the next wave. The fact is I'm not working on these systems to "conquering the world". I'm working on these systems because I enjoy using them on a daily basis and I want to improve that experience for myself and others. I hope that as we improve more will come into the fold and we could eventually hit a critical mass to be a real fraction of the social media space. If we remain niche though I have to be fine with that too. "Be the change you want to see in the world," as the saying goes... #friendica #fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia #rant #ElonMusk #twitter

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