โWe need to get beyond the arguments of slop vs sophistication,โ Nadella wrote in a rambling post flagged by Windows Central, arguing, "Humanity needs to learn to accept AI as the new equilibrium of human nature."
If "the new equilibrium of human nature" is code for worthless, mind-numbing garbage that is clogging up any and all human interaction, then I guess we agree!
It's two hours after the family's return from a week-long New Year's vacation. In thhat time, I've cleaned dog pee off the floor, both kids have had meltdowns and the entire contents of a jelly jar has filled a refrigerator shelf.
Ahh... Home Sweet Home...
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"Trump responded, โMy friends will get hurt.โ" - If this doesn't convince you he's a crook and a cheat, you are trying to not be convinced.
Remember the candidate who was the only one who could end the wars? I guess he thinks he can win this one in 3 years or less!
If you want to learn about geopolitics, you must check this guy out. I've only had time to fact-check a couple of his videos, but they were spot-on!
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OK, hear me out:
Current experiments seem to be producing skin-based(pressure or vibration) remote object detection for blind people. If it works, lets make them superhuman by plugging their devices into things like car radar systems, active radar sets, or topographic satellite data!
I. See. EVERYTHING.
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ฤe English language once had an alphabet ฤat actually represented its sounds. It's past time we fix this. I propose the letter ฤorn ("Thorn", ฤ, ฤ) as the first back-substitution.
Who's wiฤ me?
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You are not even close to being an old man ๐
Friends, free yourselves from the bonds of Goopple! The time of the degoogling (and deappling - unappling? disappling?) is nigh!
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Is Fairphone available in the US? If youโre wondering where to buy the Fairphoneย (Gen.6) in your country, here are good news for you: The sustainable, repairable, and privacy-focused Murena Fairphone (Gen.Murena - deGoogled phones and services
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For Pete's Fucking SAKE, can we stop with the "We'll log you in just as soon as you return this code we emailed you." bullshit, please!
It shouldn't take 5 fucking minutes to log into fucking Vrbo!
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The joys of 2fid ๐
Holy Crap! I am flabbergasted that this worked, but what a whole new vista of thought!
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Learn for free on Brilliant for a full 30 days: https://brilliant.org/matthewlim/Youโll also get 20% off an annual Premium subscription!๐ Patreon project fi...YouTube
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Axial tilt is the reason for the season!
Happy Winter Solstice, which will occur at 15:03 UTC (10:03 a.m. EDT) today.Today, earth's axis, which is currently tilted 23.44ยฐ from the plane of its orbit around the Sun (the ecliptic), will point away from the Sun.
It is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere; which means that days will keep getting longer starting tomorrow ๐ฅณ
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What software are you using?
โShe literally went to the police station because an unidentified white man was in her car and she didnโt know what he was doing thereโ
โmay be the first criminal in history to call 911 during the commission of his alleged crime.โ
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Attorneys for a couple charged with driving to a police station with an HSI agent in their car dispute the governmentโs account of the incident. A judge released both from jail pending trial.Matt Sepic (MPR News)
They went into schools looking for "illegal immigrants", armed and ready for violence. In a school. While the kids were there. So they could be hurt or killed should violence have occurred.
One of these days they're going to get people killed doing this shit!
ICE descends on my hometown of Columbus, Ohio, hitting K-12 schools and immigrant neighborhoods. Update: ICE reportedly arrested two Dublin Scioto high schools students today.austinkocher.substack.com/p/icโฆ
ICE Descends on Columbus, Ohio, Hits K-12 Schools and Immigrant Neighborhoods
I received a disturbing text message from my sister yesterday afternoon: โICE has been at the girlsโ old school today.โAustin Kocher
They terrorize the populace by stomping into homes and schools, wearing in many cases no identification or uniform, and often masked to conceal their identities. They are literally Stasi.
"Sicherheit" uber alles!
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Have you seen the new Ice propaganda commercials. I see them in the break room at work. Were they have kids singing how Ice keeps them safe?
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TAPAS: Trump Always Projects All Shortcomings
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The Trump administration has argued that Fed board member Lisa Cook may have committed mortgage fraud by declaring more than one primary residence on her loans. We found Trump once did the very thing he called โdeceitful and potentially criminal.โshoshana.gordon@propublica.org (ProPublica)
"The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters"
Unfortunately this doesn't work the other way around ๐
For them, politics is just a game where the only goal is to win. For them, there are no morals in politics, and it would be as absurd to them as applying morals to winning in a board game.
They can still accuse their opponents for moral failings, because thatโs part of the game.
Shit people, idioms only work if we all agree on the definitions!
After nearly 200 years of "Out-Of-Pocket" meaning "Paid for it yourself", some ignorant bonehead mashed "Out of office" together with it, and now all of corporate America says "Out-of-pocket" when they mean "unavailable".
Culturally it important? No, of course not. Am I irrationally furious every time I spend time during a meeting looking like an idiot because I have to translate before I can reply to your ignorant ass? Yes.
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The one thing no one's figured out how to do is require politicians to know what they are doing...
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Quebec Opens the Door to Mandating Minimum French Content Quotas for User Generated Content on Social Mediawww.michaelgeist.ca
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Why do hundreds and hundreds of websites all incorrectly, and wierdly using identical phrases, insist that the the term 'blog' is short for 'web log' (True), "which was originally a record of server requests" (False)?
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Iโve been blogging for over a year now, which is a big exciting accomplishment for me! And yet, it wasnโt until this week that I stopped and thought about how weird the word blog is. ItโฆMy Book Joy
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Why do hundreds and hundreds of websites all incorrectly, and wierdly using identical phrases, insist that the the term 'blog' is short for 'web log' (True), "which was originally a record of server requests" (False)?
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Raw numbers are perhaps not enough to get across just how bad the centralisation of the Fediverse by mastodon.social is. I've done a chart to show this visually, hopefully this will make the situation clearer?
Given the circumstances, getting people to join *any* other server except mastodon.social would greatly help decentralise the Fediverse. It's no longer big vs medium vs small, it's more like supergiant deathstar mastodon.social vs everyone else ๐
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p.p.s. If anyone currently on mastodon.social wants help moving to a different server, there's an easy-to-understand step-by-step guide at fedi.tips/transferring-your-maโฆ
Let me know if you have any difficulties with any particular step ๐
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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p.p.p.s. Looks like Mastodon gGmbH are now discussing this issue, really good to hear them being proactive! ๐
Let's give the new leadership a chance and see what they come up with ๐
hachyderm.io/@haubles/11558779โฆ
Hi there - Iโve just joined the Mastodon team full time, and part of my role is working on mastodon.social and mastodon.online. Iโm just getting started and still in learning mode, but I want to say that Iโm aware of this issue and the team is actively discussing how we can evolve in a way that both delivers on #Mastodonโs promise of decentralization, and provides a โsafe landing placeโ for new users. Iโm grateful for all the ideas and writing youโve shared. Iโm listening, and thank you.
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A tool giving Mastodon users visibility into how federated moderation applies to themmoderation-explorer.online
I think one of the main problems is you can't transfer your posts to a new account. But I heard that @jonny was maybe working on finding a fix for this! So, one can hope that if this gets fixed it will be much easier for people to move out of mastodon.social.
PS: thank you for all your great guides ๐
If you follow the guide, your old posts will remain in existence and help redirect people to your new account ๐
I recently did a poll, and nearly half of all people who voted said that it bothered them that their posts didn't migrate with their accounts.
I have to admit, I was quite surprised.
@juergen_hubert you were surprised that it wasn't more? Or less?
@elduvelle
That it wasn't less.
I mean, for me #Mastodon is #microblogging first and foremost. And in microblogging, posts are ephemeral and soon forgotten. Personally, I don't really _care_ what I posted a year ago - unless I bookmarked it. And even then, the old posts arent even _gone_ unless the old instance closes down.
But evidently, a very large number of Mastodon users feel very differently about this.
@juergen_hubert
I see! Indeed I am more on the side of "permanent repository of my thoughts", I often search my old posts for some link, poll or info that I know exists in the past. I wouldn't want to migrate instances if it meant loosing my post history. I'd rather loose my follows / followers - you can always find then back - than my posts.
I guess I probably also have some trauma from when I had to leave twitter to join mastodon and had to say bye-bye to all my precious tweets.. Not ready for that to ever happen again!
i've moved and deleted thousands of old posts. it doesn't bother me, i think like juergen. but also, i never quote post, and don't see the point: just reply to the person
but i appreciate some people want to keep their posts forever, and like quote posts. it's not like someone else having another option hurts me in any way
but moving posts is *hard*
if you reply to 1,000 comments on 500 servers, then move, every database on every server needs an extensive update
It's possible to split the middle, though. For instance, I am running a #WordPress site - and turned it into a #Fediverse server with the #ActivityPub plugin.
Now people can search for individual blog posts on their Fediverse instance, and read it and comment on it as if it was a Mastodon post (for instance).
There are also quite a few other Fediverse-based blogging solutions that allow people to blog right into other people's feeds.
@juergen_hubert @me @veronica
I also spend hours (days?) figuring out how to get a twitter archive working.
Do I go back to it sometimes? Yes! I would say once every few months to try and find something that I posted. Unfortunately it couldn't archive other people's posts, or even poll results, so it's not that useful.
I also used it to (re-)make some of my pinned posts on here, e.g:
neuromatch.social/@elduvelle_nโฆ (my "work" account)
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This is the archive: elduvelle.github.io/
Attached: 1 image ยท Content warning: revival of my thread on cute rat thingsEl Duvelle (neurospace.live)
Do you plan to update the feditips article, section "just recommend one good server", now that mas.to is invite only? ๐ค
Thanks, didn't notice that! I've put ohai.social on there instead as it's also a good general server with lots of connections to the Fediverse.
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Just to push back against this concept of a "starter server" or "launching place", that doesn't really exist. There are just well-run servers and badly-run servers.
There's nothing easier or safer or tutorial-like about using mastodon.social than other reputable servers, and if there was it would simply encourage even more people to join mastodon.social and stay there ๐ฆ
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Think it has merit. Another way to think about this concept would be to take a page from role playing computer games. When you start you arrive on "newbie island" when you walk through a few simple tasks that familiarize you with the UI and your various server options. But pretty soon you have to (get to!) move off into the real game equipt with some knowledge, the choices you've made, and a modicum of skill.
I feel like this is really easily solvable by just having the apps randomly cycle which server is selected by "default" when people are signing up. Obviously still give the option for people to manually select their preferred network, but by having the default random.
Just limit the random server selection to something like 10-20 reputable instances that have a track record of quality administration. That would avoid sending people to an instance that is unsupported and at a higher risk of shutting down.
J.R.R. Tolkien Expressed a โHeartfelt Loathingโ for Walt Disney and Refused to Let Disney Studios Adapt His Work
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Image via Wikimedia Commons Iโve just started reading J.R.R. Tolkienโs The Hobbitย to my daughter.OC (Openculture.com)
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I like that printables.com has this switch for excluding AI-generated 3D models.
@pluralistic great!
Ill give you this button as an premium feature, for premium money and itll do premium nothing โ except looking fancy!
Deal?
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why do you all want a button to exclude AI? In that way you accept this kind of intusion in a passive way. It's like a trojan horse/virus - take it or die.
That is NOT acceptable.
The correct way should allways be the other way around: If someone wants to use AI, he/she/they could actively turn it on. That will be a way to speak with customers on eye level. I know, it is hard to understand, but that is how it is.
Please think extra long and extra deep about these Standards and come to your own conclusion ๐
Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn'tโI intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodonโand the fediverseโis one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/11/โฆ
Reflections on my time leading Mastodon and what's to come next.Mastodon Blog
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thank you, God bless and godspeed!
Yes, #fediverse is the last bastion for community platforms against the corporate model that eventually, and inevitably, devalues into a self-sustaining greed cycle.
@individual8
+1
and to add:
When I look at how Mastodon has evolved, I think you did a VERY good job in saying "no"!
Saying "no" is one of the hardest thing good product people have to do.
Thank you for providing us all a new "home" in these times.
Thanks Eugen. You have delivered a tool that opened a window to return to the original intention of the Internet.
Your focus on decentralisation brought thousands of communities the ability to communicate safely. Among themselves or in connection to others.
The Fediverse wouldn't be where it is now without your tenacity and focus to bring Mastodon to where it is now.
You have the respect and gratitude of many.
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thank you for your work (and play) and all the best in your new adventures, Eugen.
Eskerrik asko guztiagatik.
"The fediverse is an island within an increasingly dystopian capitalist hellscape. And from my perspective, Mastodon is our best shot at bringing this vision of a better future to the masses."
Amazing ๐คฉ Wishing you all the best best, Eugen and thank you for everything you have done ๐๐ป
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Thank you for all the great work done for the Fediverse, it would not have been this big and public without Mastodon and your effort towards it.
@mellifluousbox @haubles @renchap
It is always mixed feelings when the kids grow and leave the house ;)
You can be proud that mastodon continue to grow without you.
Take care and thank you for this candle of hope that mastodon is.
@mellifluousbox is the new John Mastodon
@mellifluousbox @haubles @renchap
Mastodon is the only social media I use, and I'm grateful both for the philosophy behind it and for the work you've done to build an application the supports this philosophy. Thanks for everything you've done and for all of your hard work.
Thank you for all the work youโve done!
Mastodon specifically has had a character that I really appreciate, and it brought me to the Fediverse after Iโd abandoned all the commercial platforms.
I wish you and your family well.
@mellifluousbox @haubles @renchap
Thanks for all that you have done.
Because of Mastodon, I am reading, writing, and staying up to date on world events again.
thank you for all your work, and for getting Mastodon to where it is.
And thank you for making the hard decision to step down and pass the torch. I have seen too many organizations hobbled by the Founder's Syndrome, it is very good to see Mastodon is taking steps to avoid that.
"I have so much passion for Mastodon and the fediverse. The fediverse is an island within an increasingly dystopian capitalist hellscape. And from my perspective, Mastodon is our best shot at bringing this vision of a better future to the masses."
Thanks for all that you've done (which I believe your above comment summarises the most key part of, IMHO), and I wish you all the very best for a happy (and less stressful) future in every way!
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Thank you for what you've done - and endured - over the years. You have my respect for making this transition.
Kudos!
Thank you for what you've created with Mastodon!
It was a bright and bold idea, and a great tool!
It is also one major proof that the Fediverse concept can thrive, and often serves as the first introduction to that decentralized "movement" for many, such as myself.
I hope you'll take some time off to rest and come back stronger to the project!
thank you for starting this project, for shepherding it, and for dealing with all of us ๐
Good luck on your future endeavours!
that was a really good post. You have created this out in the open, you've had to learn a lot. You've grown.
It is no easy thing to work in the open, especially with such a popular project.
Ensuring that your project can survive into the future is the most important thing any of us can do in this space, and especially in this time.
Thank you.
โI have so much passion for Mastodon and the fediverse. The fediverse is an island within an increasingly dystopian capitalist hellscapeโ
Thank you for making it possible @Gargron !
Ich kann mir kaum vorstellen, wie sich das fรผr dich anfรผhlen muss.
Tausend, tausend Dank fรผr diese wunderbare Plattform und fรผr deine vielen Jahre der Arbeit und die Badewannen voll Herzblut!
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Thinking of what to say, apart from THANK YOU, best wishes, and congratulations, I have just learned that the etymology of pachyderm says "'thick skin', from the Greek ฯฮฑฯฯฯ, pachys, 'thick', and ฮดฮญฯฮผฮฑ, derma, 'skin'", so...
Here's hoping your skin can get softer and thinner now, if you so wish!
Hats off.
Bravissimo Eugene! Every founder's dream should be to build an organisation that can be run by others: this is, surely, the best mark of maturity.
Mastodon is a truly wonderful - and exceptionally important - creation. Traditional investors and business folk might lament lack of (even) faster growth, and urge the raising of much more capital to 'leverage' what you and the team have built so far.
But, as you obviously know, that type of investment sows the seeds of enshittification.
Eugen you've been a personal inspiration to me and offered me and so many others a viable digital space grounded in civil society values, I am incredibly grateful for everything you've done to build and nurture this space.
Whatever else comes next, you've had a significant impact on the Web, something I hold very dear, and I know from experience how hard it is to take a step like this with something you've created and grown.
On behalf of the Tลตt community, diolch yn fawr iawn!
Thank you for all your work on building this place, especially your prioritising of non-technical people who want to use decentralised social networks. Mastodon being aimed at a general non-technical audience was a real breakthrough, as was curating instance lists, the covenant etc.
And thank you especially for putting the project's non-profit status first when you turned down buyouts in 2022, this was a crucial moment that showed real integrity.
All the best for your future ๐
I can totally understand this decition and will, as many before me, say Thank You for the vision and fir the work you gave done.
Take steolps for more self care and trust in the fediverse and the Mastodon Non-Profit to take good care of Mastodon.
The fact that youโre stepping down rather than becoming a neurotic megalomaniac is the very proof that you were the right person for the job. Prioritising yourself as a human being is a great example for a safe and sane Internet.
Thanks for all youโve done and welcome on the Fediverseโs backseat. It ainโt that bad. You can see the driver while enjoying the view!
Thanks a lot Mastodon. Have a good time away from tge helm and being an informed observer. May be difficult to let go but hat one point someone else should take over.
It's a little with with kids. ๐
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I think this is a great step. Not because you did bad work, to the contrary! You did amazing work but at some point it feels inevitable that one burns out with such responsibility and things take a turn for the worse. Even with best and friendliest of people. Stepping down before that happens is a humbling move.
Thank you for the time you served as CEO and looking forward to your future contributions as an advisor!
Thanks to all you have done for Mastodon to thrive into something awesome, it truly became my home on the social web after the dumpster fire that is Twitterโฆ
Iโm glad youโll still be providing input in some capacity, while taking care of your mental health.
Good luck with your future endeavours!
Thank you for Mastodon Eugene. It's been a sanctuary in a sea of tech-bro hellsites and has gone some way towards restoring my faith in social media.
Enjoy the (relative) peace and quiet ๐
Thanks for everything ๐
And enjoy the next steps in your journey.
Thanks for all your hard work, and for giving us somewhere to go when the capitalist hellscape got too much!
Remember that fashion is like a game for 5 year olds
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Thanks for everything, Eugen! This has been one of the few projects that has helped make the internet better.
I get it and Iโm glad youโre not stepping away entirely.
Thank you for all that you have done, it has been no mean feat!
It speaks enormously to your character that you are willing to do what you are doing.
Congratulations! You have done great things with Mastodon and deserve a semi-retirement. I will always be glad to see your toots in my feed.
Special thanks for the wisdom to step aside. Wear your humility with pride!
Vielen dank Eugen, ใใใใจใ!!
When I learn that someone like you--who has done such wonderful work for so many people--has personally suffered, I feel truly painful and sad. No one would ever be happy to be unfairly oppressed.
I sincerely hope that you, just as you are, can continue your calm and positive path (with your wonderful wife by your side!).
With respect and gratitude from Tokyo, Japan ๐
@Gargron@mastodon.social Thank you so much for your work.
Even though I don't use Mastodon directly, its positive impact growing the Fediverse is undeniable. โค๏ธ
โซas long as you shut up about Palestine getting genocided
Yea sure
Good fucking riddance
Long live the fediverse! Long live Mastodon! 
Thank you, Eugen! May your days be filled with joy!
You gave us a tool that is free and open. Thank you for your leadership.
I look forward to how the community continues to grow and make the platform even better.
You have done an incredible job for many, many thousands of users here on Mastodon and beyond.
Personally Iโd like to thank you for creating this space for me.
All the very best Eugen
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Thank you for everything Eugen.
If you ever find yourself in suburban New Jersey, I'll buy you a beer.
Thank you for everything
Thank you for everything, Eugen! Including modeling self-care and sharing leadership.
Looking forward to your pictures when you feel like sharing as you take a good rest. Put down that heavy pack and breathe. Ya done good.
Way to become an immortal legend!
Thank you for making things fun again!
I don't know if you'll read this, but thanks for truely great work which has brought some little hope into my heart in this age of full speed enshittification.
I am sorry to read comments have chipped things away from your inner self. And, you are right that you created something that is bigger than yourself, but for a better part.
So, I hope you get well in your feelings again. Thanks again for creating Mastodon โค๏ธ๐ช๐พ
What a thoughtful post, such a gracious departure.
Thank you so much for all you created here. It matters more than you think.
incredible run: appreciate the honest and heartfelt postโโโa level of self awareness we should all aspire to โค๏ธ
look forward to a more healthy future for you!
.@Gargron por mi te puedes ir lejos y no volver-
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#fediverse >> fediverse.party/
Mastodon solo es un pedacito del fediverse-
No se dice eso en las migraciones
Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms.fediverse.party
Dear @Gargron, thank you so much for your huge participation in creating this place we all love so much.
All the best for you and your family! ๐
Joining everyone else in saying, "Thank you for Mastodon." You created something very special, and I hope you're proud.
And I admire you for realizing it was time to step down (while still staying engaged), for your own mental health.
you accomplished something monumental here, Mr. Rochko.
You helped give the world back control of their social media, their very memories, from the clutches of the multinational corporations.
You've helped to rebuild a decentralized internet - the way it was always meant to be.
Someday, your name will be up there with Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Wozniak, and Larry Page, as one of the visionaries that helped connect the world together.
... we're just not there, quite yet.
But your work, here, will pave the way for that to happen. You've helped DEMOCRATIZE the internet. Now any schlub (like me) that's half-competent with computers and can get their hands on an old "throw-away" hunk of metal and plastic can spin up their own little server and connect to a larger social world.
And be found.
Thank you, Mr. Rochko, for helping free us, and for helping connect us.
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I hope you can have a relaxing holiday to celebrate your new role. Yay, now you have a whole crew to share the load.
Thank you for all your hard work so far keeping it all together.
Any comment regarding the amount of money youโre getting for what we understood to be a non-profit?
heise.de/news/Mastodon-Gruendeโฆ
Mastodon soll kรผnftig von einer gemeinnรผtzigen Organisation nach belgischem Recht entwickelt werden. Zudem tritt Eugen Rochko ab, verlรคsst Mastodon aber nicht.Martin Holland (heise online)
thank you for your work
I was delighted to see that you will get a significant compensation for all your effort and contributions over these years ๐
thanks for being awesome. You were so hands on with an issue, minuscule issue that I had related to Mastodon. You replied and took care of it right away.
Thank you for what you have done and looking forward to the next things youโre working on.
Just a quick reminder that we've had so much of our freedom taken, and gotten literally *nothing* in return. No peace of mind, no extra safety, no societal value of any kind.
So now, the US is the dictatorship that its stupid, power-mad, corrupt, game-playing political parties have made it, and no one will even admit what they've lost.
theintercept.com/2015/11/17/u-โฆ
A newly disclosed DHS document, for instance, shows how the lack of ISIS attacks in the U.S. is not something the intelligence community can take credit for.Jenna McLaughlin (The Intercept)
When you're running low on fake criminals to arrest for made up reasons, so you try to expand the pool a bit!
timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/neโฆ
Clerks in seven upstate counties say the agency offered no explanation for the sudden cancellationswww.timesunion.com
Hear me out
At this moment in time I am more pissed than when Trump won his second term.
I'm a supporter of third parties because I have felt for decades that neither the Democrats or Republicans have our interest in mind. When the that of Trump emerged, especially in the second term, I bought into the "Democrats care more at least" narrative. For the first time I was motivated against the evil more than I was voting for what I believed.
And here I am watching the people who are supposed to "be a little better" completely throw America under the bus after paying lip service and having people go without pay and go without food assistance and then throw that away despite those people sending a clear message that they were behind the fight.
Trump is evil and he wears that on his sleeve but it's the Democrats who are saying they care but still just throw America under the bus. Please explain to me how the wolf in sheep's clothing is better than the wolf that makes it's self known.
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Sadly, it's incredibly simple. It is virtually impossible to get elected without lots of money. Big corporate donors to the Democrats were fine with this until their CEO's faced the prospect of not being able to fly their jets home without delays, so they called the party up and said "fix this or I'm not sending you any more money!" And then the Dems caved.
In the US, if you try to run on just your principles, you're almost assured to be in a third party. Bernie Sanders might be the only one who manages to escape this trap.
@alan
On Saturday I would have said OK.... But today, fuck that. It's not the people dumping money into campaigns but the people like you saying "it's impossible" because if every person that ever said that voted for a third party then we would be seeing a real revolution right now.
The Democrats just spoke loud and clear that they don't give a shit about us. Why should I keep voting for people that don't care?
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Two things, I wasn't saying it's impossible. Second, not quite "people like me" though. I live in a country where money is less important, but still we have at most three viable choices, thanks to the first past the post voting system. I've voted for my second or third choice more than once because in my location, opposition to the right is split among several parties, so it's a case of "pick the person on the left who is most likely to win, independent of party". That's worked, but only one time out of three.
You guys really don't have a Left. Up here the Dems would be seen as right wingers who lean slightly toward the centre. Then again, here most voters know the difference between a socialist and a communist.
The US needs to both fix the funding model and the way votes are tallied, and nobody is holding their breath on that one.
Were I a US citizen and in a democratic or swing state, I'd be working to get the person most like Bernie or AOC elected in the primary. Were I in a red state, I'd be working to get the GOP candidate least like Trump elected. In both cases I might vote independent anyway.
@alan
I didn't catch that you weren't a US citizen so apologies for that.
We have a very broken system here and the reality is ranked choice voting (combined with strong third parties) is likely our only hope but I fear it's too late for that. Democrats really did rally and earn the centrist and independent vote and today they shot that all to hell.
Most of all what happened today is the Democrats ripped hope away from people... A hope that grew so much last week.
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I hate to say this, but it was always a false hope. As your closest partner, we've got a massive interest in seeing the US have a viable democracy and honestly it's been looking less and less viable over the past few decades. I wish I knew what the answer was, but whatever it is we all hope it can be achieved peacefully.
A wave of independents would be great but I really don't know how you overcome the "my granddaddy's granddaddy was a Republican, and so am I, so even if their platform explicitly says they'll cut my arm off and feed it to me for breakfast I'm voting for the GOP" problem.
As for voting systems, I'm leaning more toward proportional representation than ranked choice, but I'll take anything other than FPP. Let the house be full of a cacophony of voices where meaningful compromise is the only way forward.
@alan
Ranked choice basically gives people the option of voting for a third party while not letting "the bad guys" win because you can say "I like third party but if they don't win then I like Democrats" so it takes away the biggest obstacle to getting people to vote for a third party.
As for generations I live in West Virginia and the whole state basically swapped a decade or so ago so change can happen (though I wish WV went the other way).
@alan
8 Dems who need to be voted out, while meanwhile better Dems need to be voted in -- it's the voters who put them in these positions to do good or harm
@alan
8 Democrats, voted in by voters in their states -- find better Dems to vote in when you can, because the Repubs are not going to suddenly care about us
To be clear, I don't know how I'll vote. Maybe the Democrats will do something (boot Schumer?) to turn this around. I doubt it.
The thing is last week I actually felt good about getting behind the Democrats... Hell, I actually had a little hope for our country. What they did today has just made me feel horrible and all the hope that I actually had is gone.
It's really hard to get behind a group of people that just completely shattered what little hope I had. Watching people I supported stand aside and let an authoritarian party walk all over them isn't exactly people I *want* to vote for....
I don't want to have to tell future generations that I voted for the party that rolled out the red carpet for evil.
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I have no issue with AI, the technology, I have been working on it since 1986. The development of LLMs, artificial neural networks has certainly been a game changer. Though I am not any part of the obsession to make huge server farms that power AI Instances to provide services for mobile devices, or any device you want to hook to them. I use only local AI that I work on, or those that collaborate with me work on.
One very disturbing issue for me is that people cannot make a distinction between AI, the technology, and services provided by corporations. There is a huge difference. For instance I do not train my AI on copyrighted material stolen on the internet. I train them on open source, public domain resources and my own content.
I use ComfyUI (generative AI) to make assets, and just to have fun. I use only checkpoints and loras trained on public domain content, and yes, you can check this. I have used LLMs that I have trained to turn
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I have no issue with AI, the technology, I have been working on it since 1986. The development of LLMs, artificial neural networks has certainly been a game changer. Though I am not any part of the obsession to make huge server farms that power AI Instances to provide services for mobile devices, or any device you want to hook to them. I use only local AI that I work on, or those that collaborate with me work on.
One very disturbing issue for me is that people cannot make a distinction between AI, the technology, and services provided by corporations. There is a huge difference. For instance I do not train my AI on copyrighted material stolen on the internet. I train them on open source, public domain resources and my own content.
I use ComfyUI (generative AI) to make assets, and just to have fun. I use only checkpoints and loras trained on public domain content, and yes, you can check this. I have used LLMs that I have trained to turn
vimon my machine into a full blown IDE (not that it was not already). There are many practical implementations of AI that does and will enhance all of our lives. That does not mean I support corporate server farms trying to inject AI into all aspects of our life, need or want it or not. On the other hand I do not feel that it is fair for people to be judging AI for what corporations do. Should I judge fire for what arsonist do? Should I judge antibiotics by their current abuse in agriculture?It is an old technology that we have been working on for decades. With great success in recent decades. It is not SLOP it is valuable technology when used appropriately. AI should not be held accountable for the way corporation misuse it for monetization. Corporations should be held accountable for their actions. Not the millions of developers that have diligently worked to hone a technology that is quite valuable.
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Yes, except I write my own extension and do not use a plugin manager ๐
Unus Nemo
Unknown parent • •@plan-A
There is nothing wrong with using
vim-plug. It just does not do anything for me as I write most of my own plugins. The main reason to usevim-plugis for keeping plugins updated. Today, that is moot, as even tpope has not updated a vim plugin in over 4 years. I tend to hard fork the plugins I like best and maintain them myself. So a plugin manager is not required.Yes, with low ram your options are rather limited. I find it is best to train your own LLM though that requires a significant GPU. At the very least an RTX 3060i or equivalent. You just have to be careful what open source, or your own source you train the LLM on. As there are a lot of low quality projects. Train with a bunch of low quality code, get low quality suggestions.
Though I mainly use AI for an Intel-sense level of auto completion. Having an AI write actual code is very risky. With anything even slightly complicated you are bound to do more debugging than it is worth. It would be less effort to just write it from scratch yourself.
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You can ask the AI how to train it, it knows ๐
Unus Nemo
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I have a server with two Tesla K80s they're are ancient but great for training. The big issue is power, they use 300 watts each. So I have to have a 1300 watt power supply for the rig, they are also intense on heat, so you have to plan for that in your build! You can typically get them for around $80.00 USD each though you have to build for them, and you are going to have to know how to build and maintain a lot of older code that has been abandoned as there is not a lot of support for the Kepler architecture these days.
Other factors of the build are that K80s are GPU accelerators so they do not have video ports. Server mother boards do not have built in Graphics so you will have to have an addition card for that. I use a
ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 Graphics Card (PCIe 2.0, 2GB GDDR5 Memory, 4X HDMI Portson a PCI x 1 port just to attach a monitor if needed. Though I do not typically leave a monitor attached to my server.In budge
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I have a server with two Tesla K80s they're are ancient but great for training. The big issue is power, they use 300 watts each. So I have to have a 1300 watt power supply for the rig, they are also intense on heat, so you have to plan for that in your build! You can typically get them for around $80.00 USD each though you have to build for them, and you are going to have to know how to build and maintain a lot of older code that has been abandoned as there is not a lot of support for the Kepler architecture these days.
Other factors of the build are that K80s are GPU accelerators so they do not have video ports. Server mother boards do not have built in Graphics so you will have to have an addition card for that. I use a
ASUS NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 Graphics Card (PCIe 2.0, 2GB GDDR5 Memory, 4X HDMI Portson a PCI x 1 port just to attach a monitor if needed. Though I do not typically leave a monitor attached to my server.In budget build you would likely be better off with P100 They have the Pascal architecture v. Kepler. More recent but still weakly supported. It out performs the K80 using less power as well.