Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Mastodon, is in fact, Fediverse/Mastodon, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Fediverse plus Mastodon. Mastodon is not a social network unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning federated universe made useful by ActivityPub servers, fibre optic cables and vital moderation components comprising a full social network as defined by pedants.

Computers have been beating the best human Go players since 2016. The Go world champion retired in part because AI is “an entity that cannot be defeated.”

But a human just trounced one of the world’s best Go AIs 14 games to 1: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai

I think this news story is more interesting than it might first appear (without knowing details, so grain of salt). It isn’t just a gaming curiosity; it points to a fundamental flaw with “deep learning” approaches in general.
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I've gotten to the point where I think we'd be better off in almost every way, very much including actually useful tech innovation, if we had very strict data collection/privacy laws and simply banned targeted advertising. I think freedom and democracy require a robust right to privacy and that we have really imperiled ourselves by treating its systemic for-profit violation as some kind of unobjectionable, neutral manifestation of free enterprise.

It's so weird the way ADHD can sometimes put you into a state where you know exactly what you need to do and how to do it, but your brain will only let you do literally anything else.

I need to get better at just accepting that when it happens so that I can channel that energy into something else until it goes away, instead of just feeling guilty about it and paralyzing myself.

@mauve This would be a big accessibility and customizability win.

Also having some selection of domain-specific clients (aside from a generic browser) makes it easy to create content while leaving styling and navigation to the user. I would love to one day switch browser tabs without getting blinded by a light theme.

Though I never made the connection between this idea and semantic web. Semantic web for me triggers ideas of "knowledge graphs everywhere! Zettelkasten kugelschreiber!!"

Excited to hear from @mauve on their holistic approach to local-first software at the next @dweb meet-up this Tuesday 5pm PT

Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetup-february-2023-the-latest-in-the-dweb-ecosystem-tickets-548124413877

Twitter and Facebook are headed straight for the ground and accelerating. Google and Microsoft are burning cash chasing AI shadows that are doomed to fail.

What an exciting time to be on the internet.

writing javascript without a build system https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/02/16/writing-javascript-without-a-build-system/

@mauve the feudal web