Today in 1885, after the end of the North West Resistance at the Battle of Batoche, Louis Riel surrenders himself. His trial for treason will begin on July 20, and he will be sentenced to death on Aug. 1. He is put to death by hanging in Regina on Nov. 16, 1885.
Fast forward to Jan 6 2021 there was an insurrection incited by the former president The criminal. behind this attempted coup to overturn a democratic election is still free 4 years and also free to run for office again for a 2nd term.
How times have changed, we are apparently now more enlightened.
" AI-art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history. Perpetrated by respectable-seeming corporate entities backed by Silicon Valley venture capital. It’s daylight robbery." artisticinquiry.org/AI-Open-Le…
If they can’t afford to pay writers then they can’t afford to be making movies and TV.
If you can't afford a yacht, telling the yacht dealer to simply accept less doesn't work. If you can't afford an employee, telling the employee to simply accept less doesn't work. #WGAStrong
Wait you mean they have NOT told the writers yet "You all been replaced by ChatGPT ?" 🤔 .. yes it's dark humour but ... ( but how long before it becomes true ? ) ...
I know sadly a few "big places" where this is already happened. Can't make names/precisely for what but is definitely happening. Some people seems to think that "ChapGTP and the like" can replace SO MANY THINGS and are "extremely happy" to do so it seems.
@gilesgoat they seem unaware of how deeply not human the AI LLMs like ChatGPT are. They are compelling tools, and so is a hammer. Not really people replacers even if folks want them to be.
At the moment, people work, get paid and use salaries to pay for goods and services, which pays for other people to run / provide those goods and services.
Once you replace people with AI, don't you then remove the money from the people who will go on to buy those goods / services. The result is people won't have the captial to spend, the companies now running AI will lose money as no one is buying their products.
What happens then, profits down, share down, dividends down and the CEOs who make these decisions will be thrown off boards for damaging profits.
@fcktheworld587 @zleap @gilesgoat and yet, there are zero instances of that actually occurring before. And history is full of examples of the reverse: the rich being..removed. It could give them caution.
They must allow for a gentle change toward more equality, for if they don't: the ungentle change will visit them first.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." — John F Kennedy.
We should make learning about French revolution and wood / metal work compulsory in schools, anyone rich and who sees the connection will be terrified.
I'd like to thank @supakaity@blahaj.zone for adding an edit feature to #Calckey. Within a day that I've been able to use this, it's been such a huge quality of life improvement for me. I no longer have to stress out because I misspelled something or forgot a word in a sentence.
She does so much great work. Please show some appreciation and love for this incredible Calckey developer!
I hope the editing functionality improves everyone who uses our software's experience on the fediverse.
I know a lot of people cited lack of editing as one of the detractors from being able to move across, so hopefully they now have additional choices.
That's what the fediverse should be: a bunch of small to middle sized instances and largest choice driving innovation and growth.
Cramming as many people onto a stagnated platform as you can, milking them for donations and then not providing the required amount of moderation, protection and new functionality is not the proper way forward, in my opinion.
So if there's anyone out there who's been on a mega instance and waiting to move, now might be the time. With editing functionality, improvements to moderation and tooling, and a lot of quality of life improvements in the pipeline, why not jump to a new instance where your needs, safety and visibility is important?
Here Justine Bateman’s thread lays out a case for why AI in entertainment must be addressed now, protections created or writers, actors and directors may not have a profession or career at all very soon. Writers Guild (WGA), SAG-AFTRA and the Directors Guild of America (DGA) are fighting for our professions to exist at all.
@billyjoebowers I recently read about a new British satirical comedy show, where the actors impersonate other public figures (a fairly standard format) but unlike the old school impressionists they are just using the actors as literal "meatsacks" for the body movements and replacing their faces with AI generated ones (like how many computer games are already made), which seems particularly dystopian (I never thought I'd end up feeling nostalgic for Mike Yarwood!)
UK peeps: consider signing this government petition (to halt passage of the Online Safety Bill, which will gut end-to-end encryption including your online banking security, personal message privacy, and right to privacy in general): petition.parliament.uk/petitio…
This week we released AntennaPod 3.0 – three reasons why the latest update rocks 🤟 ◦ The Home screen personalises your experience while maintaining your privacy ◦ Our Material Design interface can adapt to your wallpaper colour palette ◦ You can now use multi-select in the Inbox to clean it up even faster
Unfortunately the new home screen is senseless and annoying. It's the idea of an App of a big cooperation where the KPI of "time of active interaction by customer" is targeted. Most of the time this results in worse user experience, because more interactions/scrolling is forced onto users by introducing a worse UI. By accident, you hit that too. Queue shows 2.6 items unless scrolled sideways. 2.6 is too much for just returning >>
to the last episodes played. Also the last active episode is available at the bottom player overlay. Therefore one item of the 2.6 displayed Queue is redundant. Next is "what's new", 2 items shown, which most of the times is way less than items available (new downloads should be automated any ways). If one side scrolls on "what's new" like on Queue, Download items become dismissed. On "Get surprised" it looks like the "Queue" block, but is not scrollable at all, but "classics" is. >>
Also "classics" is just the subscribed podcasts without any order and name (it's just a picture and some podcasts don't include any or any meaningful picture at all).
TLDR: Podcast App added a feature as useful as the home screen of an Samsung TV :/
Hi @gom, thanks for the extensive feedback. Let's look at each of your points.
> the KPI of "time of active interaction by customer" is targeted
That was most certainly not the reason our volunteer team initiated this work. The motivation was a) results from user tests indicating it was confusing not to have a central start screen & b) interest of active contributors to navigate the app without any menu. Have a look here to see the discussions: github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaP… & forum.antennapod.org/t/home-sc…
In my usability studies, users were sometimes confused by the lack of a "home" screen. The home screen would be a sidebar entry like the existing ones (and can therefore be hidden by long-pressing)...
@gom > Queue shows 2.6 items unless scrolled sideways. 2.6 is too much for just returning to the last episodes played
Why is it too much? (We could display just 1 episode and leave whitespace, but that's not really helpful either.) The purpose, as explained in our blog post (antennapod.org/blog/2023/05/in…), is to allow users to continue listening to episodes they started but didn't finish yet. These episodes may be spread over the queue, making this compact overview handy for this specific purpose.
@gom > the last active episode is available at the bottom player overlay. Therefore one item of the 2.6 displayed Queue is redundant.
We have been struggling with this also. The problem: when you press play on an item it would disappear from that row, because it's already in the mini-player. This can lead to unexpected behaviour with episodes dis-/reappearing. See also enhancement request and discussion here: github.com/AntennaPod/AntennaP… (feel free to suggest other solutions).
Checklist I have used the search function for open and closed issues to see if someone else has already submitted the same feature request. I will describe the problem with as much detail as possib...
@gom > Next is "what's new", 2 items shown, which most of the times is way less than items available
Including the full list would go against the purpose of the Home screen (providing an overview & quick entry points to several screens). Including many very long lists would make the Home screen hard to use. It's a balance we have to strike. Concrete suggestions for tweaking the balance welcome!
Remember that this is not the case for everyone: it's a user setting, so it depends on your context.
> If one side scrolls on "what's new" like on Queue, Download items become dismissed.
That can happen indeed. The different patterns stem from their 'parent' screens: inbox has swipe actions that we want to maintain. In other blocks we wanted to give more visual visibility to the episode covers. We trust it's a matter of getting used to.
@gom > Also "classics" is just the subscribed podcasts without any order and name (it's just a picture and some podcasts don't include any or any meaningful picture at all).
There is an order actually, based on hours of listening. While some podcasts might not include a meaningful image, that really is a minority. In a large majority of cases displaying a title would be superfluous.
@gom > TLDR: Podcast App added a feature as useful as the home screen of an Samsung TV :/
This feature has been under active discussion & development for over two years. Many people were involved and gave feedback. But of course it's possible it's not for you. In that case you can, as with many other things in AntennaPod, adjust it to your liking and turn off the Home screen. Simply long-press the side-menu and disable the Home screen. Via the settings you can also change your 'Default page'.
@gom If you'd like to think along and make concrete suggestions on the Home screen or anything else, you're most welcome to join our forum (forum.antennapod.org) and/or our community meetings (antennapod.org/events/communit…)!
I'm not sure if I like the new home screen but at least I can also use the app almost exactly as I did before. And I value the effort 👍 However, sadly, with the 3.0 release AntennaPod has become very slow at startup for me. It takes roughly 5 seconds to load. I use a Sony Xperia XZ2 Compact (not a slow one)
I have been struggling with the world of podcast apps for 20 years and am absolutely blown away by how good #Antennapod is. Every feature I always wanted captured in one app. #podcasts have become the curated radio stream and thanks to private RSS and Patreon you can support the ones you want.
I’m hearing murmurs of YouTube blocking browsers that support ad blockers.
You know where you don’t have to worry about such things? Host your videos on a #PeerTube instance and use #Owncast for your live video streaming needs.
@stardust I'm not sure how captions would work on livestreaming, but Owncast has a Twitch-style text chat window at the side which the livestreamers can type or paste text into?
Wouldn't the people uploading videos to youtube get money from ads running on their videos, so they'd be in favor of preventing ads from being blocked?
@chewyadupp From what I hear, the amount video makers get from ads on YT is very small nowadays? That's why so many of them have a sponsor featured in the video itself.
@tio made a 5 hour documentary (divided into 4 parts) that he'll upload to his #Peertube instance. He made it all by himself and only using FOSS programs like #Kdenlive, #Inkscape, #Krita, etc. Here's the trailer for the documentary if you're interested - videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG6…
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@tio made a 5 hour documentary (divided into 4 parts) that he'll upload to his #Peertube instance. He made it all by himself and only using FOSS programs like #Kdenlive, #Inkscape, #Krita, etc. Here's the trailer for the documentary if you're interested - videos.trom.tf/w/uzsWV9z42KKG6…
We live in a world where everyone is busy, everyone is consumed, everyone seems confused. Money, social credits, ads, data collection, prices and billionaires. Climate change? Who cares!
A one-marble world, floating in a giant soup of stars and planets, clustered in donut-shaped galaxies.
What are these humans living for?
In a 5 hour, 4 parts documentary, we try to explore their world, to understand what makes them human, what makes them enslave their kind, destroy their habitat, and be unaware of their place in this universe. But also what makes them so special.
Through the lives of 5 humans, we look at the culture that creates them, their struggles growing up on this planet, and where they are headed toward.
I was just let go from my job and I’m looking for a new place to land. If anyone knows of an open role for a Senior QA with 10 years of experience, please let me know.
I have extensive skills in Agile, SDLC, Jira, Confluence, Smoke and regression testing, Postman, documentation and more. I’m in the US (NY) and am looking for something remote / WFH.
Even if you don’t have a role but see this post, PLEASE BOOST IT so someone else may see it. Thank you.
Got fired from working maintenance at Disney World because every time I found something that needed to be fixed I would yell out “What kind of a Mickey Mouse operation are they running around here?!?”
Alright #CalcKey junkies, I'm a Mastodon instance admin and I'm an engineering group lead at Automattic (think the company of WordPress' founder) who is leading the work to add Mastodon as a supported service for our Jetpack Social product.
That said, what's the sell to get me to spend more time here?
it could be a few different things. What we've added/adding for Mastodon is a "Share to Mastodon" button ( see an example at kraft.blog/2023/02/joining-the… ) and we're adding support for our auto-post function where when you publish a blog post, an excerpt, some media, and a link is published on your socials.
For Twitter, we also had things like tweetswarming where we'd suck in a thread and import it into a new post for those who did huge Twitter threads and realized it should be on their site. Also, had the reverse. Write a post and have it auto-posted as a Twitter thread with sensible breakpoints.
Those latter two were really because of the char count limits of Twitter which I don't think would apply to the Fediverse platforms I've checked out so far.
He's working now on integrating it for all WordPress.com sites and making it a better experience.
Right now, it isn't feature-complete enough for me, personally, to say it's ready for folks who aren't early adopters and okay with rough edges.
The sharing and auto-posting is a bit easier to do since there is the existing model of doing it on legacy social media platforms.
On the Tumblr side of the company, same thing. Want to get it to be ActivityPub-compliant. I don't work over there but I imagine that's a pretty big effort and I don't know where it stands off hand.
Long answer but yes. Having a site published using the ActivityPub protocol is on the horizon.
heh, yeah. Mastodon, at least, had a common share intent URL (e.g. instance.tld/share?title=blah or whatever it was) so we went with Mastodon instead of generic. If all Fediverse had the same URL scheme for share intent, it would have been a no brainer for a generalized button!
could we make this work somehow? And get @dansup@mastodon.social from Pixelfed on board, and Akkoma and Misskey and whoever else makes software for this magic place?
@kainoa@kraft@dansup@mastodon.social So, already a significant part of the fediverse (outside mastodon) supports this! On second thought, I'm not sure if a Share button for articles applies to Pixelfed, since it's a photo sharing platform. But if this is supported by a few more other major platforms, like Lemmy and Akkoma, then this would mean any "Mastodon share" button would practically work as a "Fediverse share" button! This is something we need to standardize. I wonder if @evan@cosocial.ca has any thoughts on this, if there is a way to achieve a standard on that front. I found this project github.com/Uden-AI/fediverse-s… but I think that it would be better if we could somehow have an official (or unofficial, but widely used) universal way of doing it, so that other sites could add Fedi share buttons easily.
That said, I think the most practical option for Automattic would be to ask for your Mastodon API server, let you log in, and then save your key for future likes/shares/whatevs.
@kainoa And to top off the discussion I'll add an obligatory reference to the #Fediverse Enhancement Proposal process, where any dev can take the initiative and bring a particular mechanism into standard use..
@kainoa That's definitely something worthy of discussion!
As far as I know there is no FEP for this yet, but we have been discussing introducing a standard for a set of ActivityPub protocol handlers in this issue (the first issue in the fediverse/fediverse-ideas repo!).
Instead of Web Intents, we were discussing custom Web-based protocol handlers, that would be useful for all kinds of ActivityPub actions:
Share, like with a "Share to Fediverse" button.
Like
Follow: this would greatly improve the user experience when following new folks.
## Idea
We all are familiar with protocol handlers, e.g.
```html
Email
```
The idea here is to use [Web-based protocol handlers](https://developer.mozilla.
Thank you all so much for your input! With new fedi platforms emerging or gaining traction, the sooner we find a way to standardize things like that, the better it will be for the success and wider adoption of the #Fediverse.
The Social Web Incubator Community Group (also known as SocialCG, or SWICG) is the successor of the Social Web Working Group, which ran from 2014 to 2017.
@kainoa I love this idea most (besides the WebIntents) because it is not only independent from Mastodon, but also from the fediverse and a generic solution that sadly never established.
@kainoa these are very specific to ActivityPub and the fediverse, I would suggest to be way more general with web+share: or web+follow: or web+subscribe: to not be compatible with any kind of service/website/cms/blog/… as @paul suggested in his blogpost
## Idea
We all are familiar with protocol handlers, e.g.
```html
Email
```
The idea here is to use [Web-based protocol handlers](https://developer.mozilla.
it is a tragedy that we are discussing the same problems over and over again. I just had a look at my blog and realized that I started writing about WebIntents and Custom Protocol Handlers over 10 years ago notiz.blog/?s=web+intents (I maybe should install a multi language plugin and translate all of this). In most of the cases it ends with someone "having a better idea" and years later we start over again ;)
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Impacted plugin Jetpack What The Mastodon sharing button works well with Mastodon, but could be extended to support more Fediverse platforms How This is something we had discussed when we first int...
@kainoa Could you expand on that? I'm not sure I understand where the API would fit in here, so I'm guessing I'm missing something obvious :)
To me, API means that the visitor aiming to share the post would have to authenticate to their ActivityPub instance to be able to push an update there, but I do not imagine folks would be interested in entering private credentials on sites that are not theirs just to share a post.
Or do you think we should provide the service that would cover all of that? You'd click on the share button, a modal for a service hosted on WordPress.com would open, and there you'd authenticate, then modify / customize the message you want to post, and hit send?
When will people realize he does this shit primarily to stay in the news cycle? When will they stop reacting to these pronouncements like Pavlov's Dog? #ElonMusk #MuskIsADick #BillionairesShouldNotExist
Hands in chains for a fist full of dollars Who do we blame for the holes in our knowledge? The past you know has been written by the victor So I ask you now, who is it writing your future? The butcher, the liar, the thief or the killer? Your freedom died quiet in the halls of power Starved for peace, we'll eat war until it kills us Six feet deep with a belly full of bullets
Paul Sutton
in reply to Canadian History Ehx • • •Fast forward to Jan 6 2021 there was an insurrection incited by the former president The criminal. behind this attempted coup to overturn a democratic election is still free 4 years and also free to run for office again for a 2nd term.
How times have changed, we are apparently now more enlightened.