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@xgranade@wandering.shop @mcc@mastodon.social I am unironically considering getting the Barbie phone (US version). It’s apparently a pretty good device for a feature phone. Plus…pink!

@xgranade@wandering.shop An opt-in search engine would have the benefit that it doesn’t have to be done “at scale”. It may be possible to run and manage without having the resources of a non-trivial fraction of the global economy. Hmmm

@MissConstrue@mefi.social I say that every member of the fellowship was a hero in their own right. Even Boromir. Frodo and Sam were the only two that could bear the ring for any length of time. Sam was the only member of the fellowship with the strength to see the journey through from beginning to end, but between the two Frodo was the only one with both the courage to volunteer and the conviction that destroying the ring was the only choice. Once the path was set, not even the armies of Mordor could stop Samwise Gamgee. But he’d never have gone if Frodo hadn’t taken the first step.

@inthehands This is parody? She says as she glances aside at her inherited collection of mid-century folk albums.

@soatok@furry.engineer “Hey, let’s make the systemd of network protocols.” :neocat_sign_no:

@jk You mean the decades when popular music went through extremely rapid development before somebody slammed on the brakes in the early aughts and now everything sounds like it could have been done in 2010?

@faithisleaping @malcircuit Mostly I'm frustrated that we continue to dive into technology after technology without learning to moderate the harms. With AI we know a lot of the harms and we're still failing to moderate them. (I don't know how well we knew the harms of past technologies early in their use as well as we know the harms of AI this time.) Intuitively I don't agree that technology is destroying everything. I don't want to make a "technology is destroying everything" argument. I also don't want to moderate my argument just because I don't want to be making that argument. I'd have to give more thought to what argument I want to make and how. I definitely agree the technologies I chose have done more good than harm. I chose media technologies by accident, but since they go together...they have progressively increased the spread of culture and human connection and that's amazing. And now I notice that my fear of the harm of AI is that it will undo that...flatten culture and erase human connection.

@faithisleaping @malcircuit I see the implicit argument now. Sorry, bad wording from a bad mood. I didn't mean to imply the world would be better off without those technologies. I'm not so sure about AI. Hypothetically if we started from scratch and built it in a good ethical framework it would be fine. I don't think it can be redeemed as-is.

@foone@digipres.club Ensuring your retro tech has not become discolored is beige verification.

@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place It's like an inverse NIH syndrome for an entire industry.

@ifixcoinops@retro.social @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space An alternative to the subject line might be categories. I don't think I'll ever stop going back to Google+ as the best example of social media until somebody finally makes something better. Late in its life, Google+ added a feature that I don't remember the exact name of, but I think it was categories. When making a post you could select which categories to tag the post with. This was made separate from hashtags in the UI. I think this was the brilliant piece. Although functionally there was little difference, hashtags are such a poor experience if you're not well versed in the practice or deep in the community they relate to. Anyways, when you made a post with a category, any of your followers could select which categories they were actually interested in seeing. So if they wanted to see more "hole" but didn't care about "shaft", they selected only the one category to see. I think the goal is to create a filtering/discoverability tool. The mechanism I'm suggesting is categorization. My preference for categorization is a good tagging scheme, but hashtags as they exist now are definitely not it. I expect that subjects are too free form to be a useful categorization system. Or maybe categorization is too complicated. Nobody should have to be an amateur librarian to make a post.

@Impossible_PhD@hachyderm.io I don't normally do New Year's resolutions, and I started out pretty down on observing the new year. Why would I want a new year when the old one was so terrible? But by the time I went to sleep I found myself with a resolution. I've got a lot of work to do on myself, and one part of that is that I'm going to stop making myself small. I still have to unwrap what that means, honestly. But I know I moderate my actions based on the anticipated reaction or lack of reaction from other people. I need to learn how to do things for my own satisfaction and to stop letting a few mistakes and negative experiences color my expectations.

@anildash@me.dm The worst part is they removed the perfectly functional tiled window manager that they had and replaced it with an inferior alternative. The windowed apps work as a replacement, until you try to use swipe-from-edge gestures. But it's OK. Gestures were only a core selling point of touch screens.

@sashag You mean most people don't think it's their personal responsibility to fix everything wrong with the world? That would explain a lot, actually.

@ifixcoinops@retro.social @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space Oh, or the idea more like a mandatory content warning? Or maybe it's both.

@ifixcoinops@retro.social I also like how this focuses on the small scale. Another idea I've tried to imagine is "local social". It's social media designed just for your friends and family. I eventually came to the conclusion that that's solved by a group chat. I think I'll give the idea more thought after all. There are levels between friends and family and the entire world.

@inthehands I rewatched that movie a couple months ago and couldn’t help feeling sad at how quaint it feels these days.

@faithisleaping @malcircuit I wish I could believe that it will eventually be proven to be bad. I'm afraid it's going to become a subliminal part of society and stick with us forever. Technologies have a tendency to do that no matter how harmful they are. Broadcasting brought us manufactured consent. Cable brought us cognitive overwhelm. Social media brought psyops to the individual. I'm afraid AI be around forever and destroy conceptual diversity.

@Impossible_PhD Definitely not me. Because that would require a friend group.

@stux Never has humanity invented a machine that says more boldly “That’s it, I’m outta here.”

@zkat My instance’s awareness of accounts has just grown over time, but unless the post comes from somebody I’m following - posted or boosted - the instance won’t know it exists. The only way to get the full post list is to go the person’s home instance. I use Phanpy which has an easily accessible link to the account’s home instance. My understanding is that relays would help, but GTS doesn’t support relays yet.

@ophis@brain.worm.pink @mcc@mastodon.social @xgranade@wandering.shop Here’s a link that explains the differences between the two versions. The company’s product page doesn’t even mention the US version. https://www.phonearena.com/news/the-us-version-of-the-barbie-phone-is-better-than-the-global-one_id161984

@eswag@dju.social @Landa@graz.social @futurebird@sauropods.win @cabel@social.panic.com I agree that it’s a good comparison in that we should be highly skeptical. The Industrial Revolution has wrought numerous harms on human beings, possibly including our eventual extinction. If this really is a revolution on the same scale (which I doubt), maybe this time we should give some thought to the harms and risks before reshaping everything around it.

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange “Don’t think of an elephant,” is a good way to get people to think about an elephant.

@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange I like that term, nasal demons. I used to say that the full problem space of software testing included making sure that there wasn’t a scenario that caused lawn gnomes to start pouring out of the CD drive. Which is of course an impossible test and yet you can’t say testing is complete unless you’ve covered that scenario. It’s an idea meant to convey the infinite problem space of software testing. Nice to know there’s a concept out there closely related to my own.

@alice@lgbtqia.space Sounds like a gouda way to earn some cheddar. I’d never be able muenster up the courage to do something like that, but I’ll brie your first subscriber.

@glyph@mastodon.social “Hey, remember how we all got upset at boomers for mortgaging our future to keep themselves comfortable a little longer? Maybe don’t be like them.”

@svat@mathstodon.xyz well, I think he’d just like all this to stop, really. Arthur Dent is the hero we need.

@ifixcoinops@retro.social All in all this is a great vision. It probably takes a bottom-up re-imagining of the entire Internet. But, well, why not. The fundamental technical constraints of the Internet are less constraining than most people imagine. You can rely on TCP and usually UDP but nothing else.Computers are not always online.Computers cannot always talk directly to each other.

@ifixcoinops@retro.social The battery issue is one of the major hurdles here. It's bad to be able to drain somebody's battery unexpectedly. It's especially bad to be able to do it on demand. That said, to a point I think this is a solvable technical problem. The hard party is ensuring that a DOS is impossible.

@iamada@tech.lgbt Are the straights OK?