Ah, timely as ever, really riding that crypto hype

At least they’re not launching their own token yet

imo you can’t really open source a black box that is functionally impossible to audit

On CI/CD, woodpecker is fairly trivial to set up to work with gitea/forgejo if something like that is needed

I recently listened to the vergecast episode about all of MS’s recent announcements and was genuinely shocked to hear recall being compared to, more or less, the local caching that already happens while you use your computer (+ the normalized big tech tracking). My gut reaction was that that’s kind of an insane thing to think and I’m glad I’m being vindicated on that point.

I’m shocked I tell you! Shocked!

Inshallah

To be fair the “last time I checked” was a couple months ago, glad to see it tho!

Good thing most of the extant instances are European then 👍

Isn’t the “trajectory” that these systems are incredibly unsustainable both economically and environmentally? I’d hope that a machine that uses a few thousand homes’ worth of energy to answer a single query would be more useful than “can generate boilerplate code for me” or whatever.

Mostly for the federated bits I assume. Being able to follow people’s bookwyrm accounts from your other socials is an interesting idea, though I don’t know how often it actually happens in practice. If that stuff doesn’t interest you then yeah just use OL directly ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

IIRC bookwyrm lets you search openlibrary for books if they’re not known by your server or some well-known instances like bookwyrm.social

Getting revenge on Microsoft by tightly integrating Microsoft’s LLM stuff 😎

The worst part about HP is that I already have one of their printers but don’t use it enough to justify replacing it 😔

For me personally with my instance, yes

If it was almost any other corporation I’d be willing to give them a chance. If Tumblr actually launches ActivityPub I doubt many people will complain. The fact that it’s Facebook though makes it pretty much a non-starter imo.

As an admin of a small instance, the privacy stuff is pretty secondary to the moderation headache Threads’ traffic would surely induce. mastodon.social by itself produces enough crap that I’ve silenced them, I can’t imagine that Threads will be any better and indeed assume it’ll be much worse in that regard.

Besides that, I think there’s a difference between having data publicly available and voluntarily sending it straight to a data broker. Either way I don’t think you should need much of a reason to tell Facebook to fuck off and I find it kind of strange that people seem so hesitant about it ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Yes, I am biased against the energy guzzling lie machine

It’s caused by refraction of the sun’s light by the atmosphere