Aaron Parecki

girl are you the ipv4 address space because you seem completely exhausted

“But AI is cheap!”

It’s not, it has horrendous hardware, server housing and water and power requirements; it’s just that VCs are financing it now so you get in on the hype and later they will charge you rent and it will cost you way more—with inferior results—than, you know, hiring the writers and artists it’s stealing from, but those will be gone by then.

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Who called it “intellectual property problems around the acquisition of training data for Large Language Models” and not Grand Theft Autocorrect?

What idiot called it "our glorious AI future" instead of "Nightmare on LLM Street"?

@aaronpk Interesting idea. I tend to ebb and flow as to whether I do any "work" on weekends, or at least the depth of work. Example: probably working tomorrow, probably snowshoeing Monday. But 10/4 is definitely food for thought.

New DVR / Gateway Rules Announced for ATSC 3.0
https://blog.lon.tv/2024/02/28/new-dvr-gateway-rules-announced-for-atsc-3-0/

If there was ever a moment when the obvious, catastrophic, imminent risk of trusting Big Tech intermediaries to sit between you and your customers or audience, it was now. This is *not* the moment to be "social first." This is the moment for POSSE (Post Own Site, Share Everywhere), a strategy that sees social media as a strategy for bringing readers to channels that *you* control:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/19/now-we-are-two/#two-much-posse

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it's all about perspective

@aaronpk you now have #CargoCult #Cats ... fascinating!

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.

How QR codes are made:

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.