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a traveler from the land of online journalism. @rdmurphy in most other haunts.

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ryan, to random
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Really wish I could trust Mozilla to not find a way to also inject AI into its browser

ryan,
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Wow this wasn't even a reaction to today's Mozilla news (which I just saw), must have just felt the vibes

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Wild just how bad GitHub's site when you have a subpar connection, like it's almost intentionally a non-priority

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If you want to destroy your brain with frothy SV technocapitalist rhetoric as well as the news this week, this would be a fantastic starting point. I’ve been staring at it for awhile and I’m just going to have to come back to it later.

https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

ryan,
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@kissane Had to close the tab at the Prometheus line, I’m not ready to consume this currently

ryan, to random
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I see I made the right call to purge Arc browser from my computer a couple months ago https://arc.net/max

ryan,
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Sending the contents of every file you download to ChatGPT as a service, thanks Arc

zachleat, to random
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One unfortunate byproduct of the shuttering of Google Domains is that .dev registrations are now $30+/year on Squarespace instead of $12.

That’s a 150% price increase—for business!

ryan,
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@zachleat It was a real shock to learn that was gonna be the case. 😵‍💫 I made the jump to Porkbun with mine while it's still just shy of $11 for .dev over there, will see if that's my long term resting place.

ryan, to random
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Bluesky has met the early Twitter-esque threshold of getting tech reporters to do inside joke-driven PR for it, so that's one thing it has going for it

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/27/23701551/bluesky-skeets-now

ryan,
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I'm sure it'll level out eventually but right now I find it chaotic in an anxiety-inducing way. There are only ~45K accounts on there but it's a selective group of very excited folks.

ryan,
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There are also the issues of "you cannot block anyone" and "mutes don't actually work," which you'd think the very online journalism contingent that migrated en masse would consider a major blocker (both to joining it and writing about how great it is)

Yes, Bluesky says it is working on it — but people are already getting harassed there with less than 50K users on the platform, sooooo

ryan, to random
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Cannot remember the last time I used 1Password and wasn't kind of annoyed

ryan, to random
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I don’t want public agencies to set up Mastodon accounts in the wake of Twitter’s ongoing implosion, I want them to set up functioning RSS feeds

ryan,
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I appreciate you all, but please — you do not have to reply to this and explain to me how Mastodon works, I know every account is an RSS feed

If you replied with "why not both?" you're not wrong, but you are missing my point — I am not against public agencies using Mastodon, I just do not want them to repeat the same mistakes they made with Twitter and other platforms

ryan,
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One of my favorite accounts on Twitter was for the National Weather Service's Los Angeles branch.

It was a constant feed of useful information and visuals. Like many other accounts this month they announced that due to Twitter's plan to tamp down on automated posts that they expect the feed to break.

The problem with this? They do not publish the steady feed of information like this anywhere else. Its RSS feed has been stagnant for years. https://twitter.com/NWSLosAngeles/status/1644123245006958593

ryan,
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If a public agency wants to create an official Mastodon server it controls (or use one a jurisdiction above them sets up) — that's great! They should do that. I'd love to see a dedicated National Weather Service instance.

But this shouldn't happen at the expense of having their web sites actually be useful. So start putting all this information on their sites again. Get that stuff back into those dormant RSS feeds.

Then they can pipe that wherever they want (including Mastodon)!

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