Posts by pzriddle@mstdn.io
(DIR) Post #APKZIoGrGHKvKX4OjA by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2022-11-04T12:25:59Z
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What's your preferred Mastodon client these days? (for iOS)
(DIR) Post #APKb8xhpWkwPbZ7Mno by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2022-11-06T14:01:46Z
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I just got my first outright hate speech reply on Mastodon. That was quick! The instance appears to be a hotbed for the same. I know a virtue of the fediverse is its agility at cutting out the cancer, but I'm fuzzy on what I'm supposed to do to help that happen. I started by blocking the asshole. What next?
(DIR) Post #AXcVPjbFnUEyiU3bTU by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-07-12T13:49:24Z
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Unpopular opinion:I don't see how one can be a stalwart defender of Fair Use by the Internet Archive, Google Books, and even internet search itself while simultaneously arguing that ChatGPT's use of widely published text and images as training data constitutes "theft".Is there some Fair Use test that ChatGPT fails but the others pass?
(DIR) Post #AY4LPovnUBmtCUFcW0 by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-07-25T22:36:25Z
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How did I miss this story? The @TexasObserver nearly shut down this spring after almost 70 years in business, but fans on Mastodon (!) were instrumental in saving it.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Texas_Observer
(DIR) Post #AY4yD0t1cbFkj7q2W8 by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-07-26T05:37:03Z
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@chrisg Is there a simple explainer somewhere?
(DIR) Post #AY4yD2gKwkIAILuw1A by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-07-26T06:19:58Z
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@chrisg Thanks. That helps.It doesn't quite address one of my questions: could the proposed technology be yet another tool for totalitarian states to control access to information?If so, it seems to me that the fate of adblockers is a tiny concern in comparison and critics are ignoring bigger issues.But maybe there are reasons why this proposal is immune to state actors, dunno.
(DIR) Post #AYPklpH7eDje3FXoPY by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-08-05T05:21:48Z
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@anji
(DIR) Post #AYSXa5R51Nd2lf9afQ by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-08-01T14:40:50Z
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@mmiasma đź‘Ťđź‘Ťđź‘ŤWikiquote says it's close. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke#1990s
(DIR) Post #AYSXfVz3kASEYLdTHM by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-07-24T16:34:05Z
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@stoneymonster @flockofnazguls We need an actual IP attorney to weigh in, but you can certainly trademark existing words - consider "Apple". So it wouldn't surprise me if you can in fact trademark an existing Unicode character.Trademark doesn't prevent people from using your mark, it just prevents them from using it to offer competing goods or services in the same industry or market. Which is why my local fruit stand can still sell "apples".
(DIR) Post #AYmeCGYBKuRoGnNYbg by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-08-16T08:33:16Z
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@Polychrome @pixiekat So many Fediverse platforms! What's the TLDR on Mastodon vs Pleroma vs Akkoma?
(DIR) Post #AYzHxwjkX7UapS2GEC by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-08-22T11:31:51Z
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#BackInMyDay Star Trek was a text-only game you played on a Selectric typewriter terminal attached to an IBM 360 mainframe.#deadtrees#HashtagGames
(DIR) Post #AbWnN7Fo4LzzpXa4m0 by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-11-06T08:54:15Z
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@inquiline The false equation "criticizing a country equals criticizing its people" is a standard authoritarian trick.It's particularly galling when people from my country (the US) fall for this trick, since so many evils have been committed in our name. Opposing those evils doesn't mean that we "hate America", if anything it means the opposite.
(DIR) Post #AbjykcMKvQZhiSNWue by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-11-12T15:20:47Z
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@staringatclouds @ParadeGrotesque @RickiTarr Causality loops that have no solution to the chicken/egg problem are one of the lovely mindbonks you can have with time travel stories.But best when they foreground the paradox and don't just leave it seeming like an odd loose end.Here's what I didn't get in Bodies: didn't they say the portal would send one copy to the past and one to the future? Where are the future ones?
(DIR) Post #Abml0Cbbd3E0ajwBxA by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-11-13T09:00:18Z
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@cmdrmoto @brewsterkahle @tomjennings Fidonet would be useful in Gaza right now.In fact I’ve seen reports of Bluetooth-only messaging apps in use during state disruption of communications in Hong Kong and Gaza. Are they store-and-forward?
(DIR) Post #AbugGOUwmF7T2I0IwC by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-11-17T16:14:09Z
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@rafa_font @trains These people are my heroes! To call attention to the demand for night trains in Portugal, they threw a silent disco pajama party at the Santa Apolonia station in Lisbon.Click through for video. #nighttrainhttps://aterra.info/all-abord-the-night-train-pijama-party-silent-disco-em-santa-apolonia/
(DIR) Post #AcEXUAERbNYOPzyU2y by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2023-11-27T13:43:03Z
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@EU_Commission Thanks to Jon Worth ( @jon ) for his analysis of this announcement. Interesting read.https://jonworth.eu/why-the-european-commissions-cross-border-pilot-projects-are-a-good-idea-but-not-the-way-the-commission-communicates-it/
(DIR) Post #AjixWLnEuZDnQd5yHg by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2024-07-08T15:01:10Z
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@futurebird "The sky above the Dollar General was the color of the linoleum floor of a Dollar General"
(DIR) Post #Ajj0sd2Hmew58gRp0i by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2024-07-08T15:33:09Z
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@michaelgemar @futurebird That was written when it meant sort of a frantic pixelated gray, then for a time readers might have thought it meant an unnatural bright blue, and now they might assume it means black.
(DIR) Post #Aq0eCLoKKBe1Kd6B7Y by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2025-01-12T15:02:20Z
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@futurebird "Fahrenheit 451" meets Borges' "Library of Babel"
(DIR) Post #AqTAzwESKvQ9RJt4ZU by pzriddle@mstdn.io
2025-01-26T09:21:15Z
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@foone @futurebird I agree in principle, although as a vintage 20th-century programmer I don't know what half this stuff is.But I'll tell you what I miss on phones and other locked-in devices: a shell prompt and full filesystem access.