Daniel Penny’s Innocence—and the Shame of Alvin Bragg
Daniel Penny’s Innocence—and the Shame of Alvin Bragg
A just verdict for Daniel Penny does not erase the unwarranted prosecution—nor the Manhattan district attorney's petty lawfare against Donald Trump.The Editors (The Free Press)
Time Magazine names Caitlin Clark ‘Athlete of the Year’
Time Magazine names Caitlin Clark 'Athlete of the Year'
Caitlin Clark was honored by Time Magazine as their 'Athlete of the Year' after an incredible year in college basketball and the WNBA.Matt Yoder (Awful Announcing)
Time Magazine names Caitlin Clark ‘Athlete of the Year’
Time Magazine names Caitlin Clark 'Athlete of the Year'
Caitlin Clark was honored by Time Magazine as their 'Athlete of the Year' after an incredible year in college basketball and the WNBA.Matt Yoder (Awful Announcing)
Sidekicks introduces collective and anarchist posting
Theory
A new decentralized social media paradigma, in which data of posts is used to gain some addional features (opt-in).
I would additionally differentiate between central and decentralized bots.
Collective posting means posting to a bot (centralized or not), which then determines which posts go out and how, based on data collected by the bot through earlier iterations of this process, determined by some agreed upon guidelines.
Anarachist posting means posting to the Fediverse, while at the same time collecting all of these messages via a bot (centralized or not), which sends the data back to the client, who can use it again for some calculation based on chosen processes.
Examples
Let's see what that means if I want to post my cooking plan for the week.
Anarchist Posting
I post my fridge-content and what I want to cook. This information with all the other participants is saved by the bot and later provided to me as suggestions for my next cooking plan based on a process that I picked.
Centralized bot
The bot posts global suggestions what each participant can do better (for example to eat healthier), based on their chosen settings.
Decentralized bot
Its all done in my bot, which displays suggestions individually to me.
Collective Posting
I post my fridge-content and what I would like to cook. The bot takes this message in with what all the others want to cook and have and then decides what I get to cook and post it based on a distribution-algorithm that I have agreed to.
Centralized bot
One centralized bot calculates the perfect meal for everyone; or every participant but the message is posted globally.
Decentralized bot
Perfect meals are calculated decentrally based on the agreed upon guidelines.
In Sidekick
Anarchist posting: When posting through the Dolphin-bot, all posts are collected and then used on the client-side to provide suggestions to Dolphin-users.
Collective posting: With the Buzz Lightsting-bot, all posts done via Buzz are not sent immediatly, but collected at the central Lightsting-bot, shuffled and then sent randomly over the participating profiles at specified times.
(This is just an outlook, its theoretically implemented, but the client currently only supports being used by a single person ... it would also be nice to attach this functionality to hashtags ... its all a bit work in progress ;))
The readme describes it better:
Bot-centered Fediverse app. Users post ONLY through bots. On sign-up, every user chooses a bot (or Sidekick) and can then customize user experience and execute commands with it by posting to the bot. The post prompt is made customizable and elevated in this sense (fedi-app with custom-prompts).
I understood it all to mean, you get a layer of automation and triggers that can be used when you post to interact with data both within and beyond the scope of the actual social platform.
I’m not 100% sure this is accurate, but that’s what I got.
2) what does anarchist posting have to do with anarchism?
3) was this post generated by one of your sidekicks? Because I think he might have schizophrenia
All posts are filtered, organized and sometimes made by AI, or non AI programs, which will decide which users get shown which posts?
Interesting
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Unfortunately, no, but you can get kind of close for Debian distros with LURE.
EDIT: Apparently LURE is supposed to be distro-agnostic, so it'd probably work for EL too.
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apt-get upgrade (or however, I always messed it up!) was annoying to me, and I switched to an arch distro (Endeavour) and I'm super happy with it. It's my only machine and it is awesome
Israel strikes and advances into Syrian territory after Assad's overthrow, fueling alarm
Israel strikes and advances into Syrian territory after Assad's overthrow, fueling alarm
While Syria celebrates overthrowing its longtime dictator, it is also being subjected to a new ground incursion and a wave of airstrikes from its neighbor Israel that drew growing international condemnation and concern Tuesday.Freddie Clayton (NBC News)
Vänstern satsar på video. Den svenska vänstern har sent omsider beslutat sig för att på bred front satsa på video för att sprida sitt budskap. Det är flera år senare än högerextremisternas satsning på film och video via sociala medier.
The Onion's bid for Infowars is still in court as judge reviews auction
The Onion's bid for Infowars is still in court as judge reviews auction
It is not clear how quickly U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston will decide whether to approve the bid.Associated Press (Spectrum News 1 South Texas / El Paso)
The Onion's bid for Infowars is still in court as judge reviews auction
The Onion's bid for Infowars is still in court as judge reviews auction
It is not clear how quickly U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Christopher Lopez in Houston will decide whether to approve the bid.Associated Press (Spectrum News 1 South Texas / El Paso)
Jay-Z calls for rape accuser's identity to be revealed or case dismissed
Jay-Z calls for rape accuser's identity to be revealed or case dismissed
Jay-Z has been accused of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 after the MTV Video Music Awards, allegedly along with Sean "Diddy" Combs. Both men deny the allegations.Bethany Minelle (Sky News)
The Brutalist | Official Trailer 2 HD | A24
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
The Brutalist | Official Trailer 2 HD | A24
- YouTube
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Futures Rise As Yields Hit 1 Week High, China Stimulus Hopes Fizzle
Futures Rise As Yields Hit 1 Week High, China Stimulus Hopes Fizzle
ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zeroTyler Durden (www.zerohedge.com)
PeerTube mobile app : discover videos while caring for your attention
PeerTube mobile app : discover videos while caring for your attention
Today, at Framasoft (bonjour!), we publish the very first version of the PeerTube Mobile app for android and iOS. A lot of care went into its conception, to help a wider audience watch videos and...Framablog
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a small « support us » donation link in our website footer or even on one of the allowed platforms triggered a « nope » from Apple.
Christ. Caring about your rights and using Apple products is not compatible.
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I don't think it has to be all-or-nothing when it comes to caring about your rights. I care about my rights, but might still have to deal with a Windows PC for select use cases.
I have friends who undoubtedly care about their rights and simultaneously own an iPhone. Does it make them a hypocrite? I don't think so. I think it means that "caring about your rights" is situationally, and generally, really difficult to put into practice in 2024 and not everyone can go full RMS and completely forgo all cell phone use on principle.
You can still install things on your Windows PC. Apple's control over their ecosystem is to a degree where you have no meaningful ownership over your hardware any more.
I think people don't need to be hypocritical, it's enough to be ignorant. But if you care enough not to be ignorant and you still tolerate it, you might have a problem walking the walk rather than just talking the talk.
But if you care enough not to be ignorant and you still tolerate it, you might have a problem walking the walk rather than just talking the talk.
I think it's disingenuous to suggest that people are only "walking the walk" if they take every single avenue possible to protect every single right they believe they have. I run Linux on every device I own, but the CPUs on those systems are still largely vulnerable to privacy violations from things like Intel Management Engine and other vectors caused by closed-source blobs in the firmware. Am I only "walking the walk" if I also go the extra mile to flash Coreboot or Libreboot to my devices?
If you believe in your right to privacy, you shouldn't own a cell phone at all, should you? Even a dumb flip phone allows governments and other private entities with enough power or resources to monitor your location at all times.
I think using Apple products involves paying money to a company who actively hurts you and limits your rights. That you cannot install software developed by an orbganization that accepts donations is pretty insane.
I'm not much of an absolutist. One can only do so much. But Apple is putting unreasonable constraints on consumers, and it should not be tolerated.
I think using Apple products involves paying money to a company who actively hurts you and limits your rights
Vendor lock-in and walled gardens aren't an Apple-specific problem, though. I'm not saying Apple doesn't have problems that they are particularly bad for, just that "paying money to a company who actively hurts you and limits your rights" isn't unique enough to Apple for me to consider someone not "walking the walk" for buying their products. Most mainstream phone brands have locked bootloaders that limit your rights to affect the hardware you purchased, but I'm not going to suggest someone isn't "walking the walk" with regard to their consumer rights for owning one.
I’m not much of an absolutist. One can only do so much. But Apple is putting unreasonable constraints on consumers, and it should not be tolerated.
I agree they're putting unreasonable constraints on consumers. I do not agree with labelling those who do tolerate it as not caring about their rights or not "walking the walk" when everyone has different, if arbitrary, desires, goals, and limitations that are unique to them.
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I don't judge them too hard. Much like Twitter users I think they are blndly using a product that has gotten gradually worse. Much like Twitter users I think they need to realise at some point. But I understand that it's difficult, and much like Twitter's social graph, Apple's network of services keep people captive.
And yes, there are huge problems in the Android camp as well. I sympathize with users who think all alternatives are bad, but I think we need to realize some are worse than others.
Also worth noting I don't think anyone should buy a new phone over this. Whoever has an iPhone should keep using it until they can't. But if they care, they should get something else after.
The UI works well. Can't get it to play videos on my Pixel 8 though.
Definitely will try again once it's on F-Droid proper.
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If it's harder to use than Dailymotion, Odysee or Rumble, most people won't use it. Creators, certainly, won't consider it. The thing that made YT, Dailymotion, Vimeo, etc., big is that you didn't have to necessarily worry about the "hard stuff". You just shoot the video and push the upload button.
PeerTube needs more instances with the push-button option for creators to adopt the platform at first. The big challenge is, no matter what you do for compression or P2P or whatever-have-you, someone, somewhere, will have to pay for it. If it's not creators, it'll have to be either the viewers (not happening when the platforms listed above are free-to-watch), advertisers (not happening if the user base is too small and the content isn't brand-suited), or sponsors (not happening if the user base is small and made up of free/libre/pirate enthusiasts). That's part of the issue with PeerTube's adoption and I don't see a way to overcome it. We need an equivalent to mastodon.social or lemmy.world for the video side of the fediverse. Trust that creators and communities will break off, but have a canonical location with very few limits. Preferably you also would prefer that said canonical location doesn't defederate from anybody.
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I think this happens because everyone does this in youtube and by habit people do it on other platforms.
But at the same time, clickbait works and that's the problem basically. If a clickbait tittle gives you more views and you want to be relevant doing clickbait tittles will help to get to that goal.
Hopefully with time and less algorithms promoting this behavior we will have less clickbait stuff but I don't think it will never disappear, specially when there's a big industry behind.
not prioritizing the ability to login (easy access to synced subscriptions) is wild to me
I was so surprised by this as well. I thought I just couldn't find the login at first. Well at least the feature is planned for next year.
Have they been using AI art? All of their art that I've noticed has been from David Revoy.
And it's a fairly small open source project that only started working on the phone app last year. It's not that surprising they haven't gotten apps for every platform yet.
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could be replaced
I don't recall mentioning that PeerTube could replace YouTube in my comment.
Maybe PeerTube will see better days when Google can't pay for YouTube anymore.
I don't see how I implied a hope for PeerTube to replace YouTube.
I simply said that PeerTube might see better days when Google can't pay for YouTube anymore, as in PeerTube might get some popularity after that.
It challenges even the multi billionaire tech companies to host something like YouTube at similar scale. I don't think anyone that knows how big YouTube actually is would think that.
Not available on f-droid yet 🥲
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Edit: man, the user experience is uhhh... Not great :(
Literally just a worse imitation of newpipe.
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