Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
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Joined Apr 2022
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OMG.
1. Google has some bad summarization telling people that throwing batteries into the ocean is good.
2. News articles were written about this.
3. Bing's summarization interprets these articles as advice to ... throw batteries in the ocean!
🤦
(To clarify: this is classic Bing, not ChatGPT Bing.)
(Also note not everyone gets this result. Other queries that might work: "is throwing a battery in the ocean beneficial", "is throwing a battery in the ocean useful" without quotes)
@DragonDave Negligible since I'm pretty much a single user instance and don't follow many folks that federate with trolls. Been thinking of opening it up a bit more but I think that'll require setting aside more time to write up a policy and make time for following up on any moderation requests.
I pay several times more running a Mastodon instance than I would for twitter blue. AMA
@garbados I don't think, really
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This Google Meet could have been a Zoom Call that could have been the sound of 2 leaves colliding in a stream.
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COMPOST and Distributed Press are sister projects of two tech worker co-ops, Hypha Worker Co-op (Canada) and Sutty (Argentina)!
We've been partnering with Filecoin Foundation for the DWeb since Fall 2022 to bring no-code publishing tools to the decentralized Web built for activists, journalists, artists + offline folks.
Beta release coming soon to a web near you! More here >> https://ffdweb.org/building-distributed-press-a-publishing-tool-for-the-decentralized-web/
@robin Yeah, my brain is all for being picked in that direction.
I might be at Thing, depends on whether I can get accomodations / travel figured out. I'm probably gonna present on p2p DBs there but I don't know if that'll enable me any sort of travel stipend.
I'm not working for PL at the moment so it's less clear. :P
@robin Yeah! A lot of my work on p2p databases has the idea of "community built search indexes" and "merging indexes from multiple communities without centralized servers" as core principles.
Stuff like cultural institutions, fan communities, and meta aggregators that curate high quality indexes (based on social trust) is also on my mind.
Maybe AI models destroying search results and trust in digital information will being a resurgence of people depending on librarians to get research information. 😛
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Google's Bard demo shows it confidently giving you an incorrect answer to a question, right there in the product announcement.
My daughter is working on an assignment about the benefits and drawbacks of automation right now. She's having a hard time finding reliable sources on the internet.
This is all just great.
@andybaio Maybe they just don't care about destroying the web and forsee some other way to collect the data. 😵 I really hope they crash and burn but I really worry at what would happen if they don't
@andybaio Do you think they're aware of that and just expect to pivot out of regular search before it's a problem?
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Personally, I wish that the "code red" response that ChatGPT inspired at Google wasn't to launch a dozen AI products that their red teams and AI ethicists have warned them not to release, but to combat the tsunami of AI-generated SEO spam bullshit that's in the process of destroying their core product. Instead, they're blissfully launching new free tools to generate even more of it.
Should I live-toot my thinking process when working through stuff some time?
Mostly debugging random nodejs stuff, getting native binaries to build, and maybe a bit of p2p stuff if I'm lucky.
Neat topic
> Why does the Second Law work? And does it even in fact always work, or is it actually sometimes violated? What does it really depend on? What would be needed to “prove it”?
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Think on the bright side: if everything is as bad as you think it is with software monopolies making bad decisions, then conditions are prime for someone (you? me?) to go and eat their lunch. A year ago I would have cringed at this sentiment for being hopelessly naive, but in the mean time some ill advised layoffs and a number of baffling strategic decisions brought springtime to the federated web.
Google is *not* the great library of Alexandria, and it is not too big to fail.
What accounts in the eastern hemisphere should I follow so that I can get a steady stream of morning/noon shitposts when it's my bedtime? (usually around 07:00 UTC)
@malwaretech Whoa, I thought this was fediblock drama I wasn't aware of until I clicked to expand the image.
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Occult Enby that's making local-first software with peer to peer protocols, mesh networks, and the web.
Yap with me and send me cool links relating to my interests. 👍
Joined Apr 2022
