Aaron Parecki

Please stop laughing at CatGPT. Please stop sharing this picture. It's not funny. This is a slippery slope. It might only meow for now, but what's next? What will our cats do if CatGPT takes their jobs? Do we really want artificial intelligence to sleep all day? To scoff at the $50 worth of cat food you just purchased? To knock your full glass of water over and feel zero remorse when it shatters on the floor? Call me a Luddite, but I believe we must destroy CatGPT to protect our feline friends.

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I have so far seen no compelling arguments for why a bridge is fundamentally different from any other instance, and instance federation is opt-out by design.

If an instance is too big, block it. If it’s too unmoderated, block it. If you don’t approve of its implementation, block it. If you don’t like it, block it.

It’s pretty core to how the Fediverse works.

No one opted-in to interact with abyssdomain.expert.

The recent chatter about #microformats turning 20 reminded me I’d re-found this book by @johnallsopp when I was clearing out the loft a few years ago.

I kept putting microformats into my markup for years, even though I was convinced no one was using them any more. Then I discovered people had moved on to v2 in #indieweb circles and I had some catching up to do 😂

In short, who are you yelling at? Who do you expect to "fix" things for you? Right now people are coming down on the guy who is building the bridge to bluesky. That specific guy. They're yelling at him and telling him to make different decisions to protect their personal privacy. Is that what people think they signed up for with the fediverse? Fighting with other individual humans and trying to force them to do what you want?

If you’ve been following the Bridgy and Mastodon drama, consider that many Mastodon users don’t want a bridge that allows Bluesky to federate with Mastodon, but they do want Bluesky to support ActivityPub so Bluesky can… also federate with Mastodon. 😜

If God wanted us to interact with each other then he wouldn't have made ActivityPub and AT Protocol separate.

there's been almost twenty years of work on optimizing javascript engines with JIT and complex heuristic-based GC and a wealth of feature-rich profiling and analysis tools and validation and testing frameworks for deployment and integration and syntax improvements and functional and higher-order primitives and serverside transpiled code. and it's all enabled some amazing new stuff, for example github now takes 10 seconds to display a plain text file, and you cant search properly anymore

@kissane IME there’s a mismatch between Fediverse as a collection of standards and tech and Fediverse as culture and norms- the insistence that Threads implementing ActivityPub “isn’t fediverse” is culture-over-tech, or bridging being antithetical etc. it’s gonna keep rearing its head as the people who desire the scale/ergo of twitter etc try to use/extend fediverse tech to do so and clash with the people who are very happy with the current scale/reach and see it as a feature.

they should switch to passkeys

I love Elle Cordova and her clever, funny videos. This one is for all my writer and editor friends.

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In a world with even “digital-natives” increasingly don’t understand basic file management, and where it’s more and more common for user data to be siloed per-app even on desktops, I propose a corollary to Zawinski’s Law: “All apps which don’t store data transparently in the file system are doomed to implement their own limited and fragile filesystem equivalent”

PLEASE check your kids' Halloween candy. Just found an Okta admin access token in a Snickers bar.

It’s a very autumnal IndieWebCamp in Nuremberg this weekend. #indieweb