> Signal (business model: "Uber for texting") falls over. Most communications protocols are federated, and would survive one company's servers eating dirt, but Signal's owner/operator has decided this would degrade the user experience, presumably worse than the entire service shitting the bed out loud. Hackernews assumes that Signal is incapable of paying its hosting fees, and comes to the rescue by sending their money to a company that can't spin up cloud nodes fast enough to serve text messages. Other Hackernews bemoan the fact that once again they look like idiots, since they just conned half their friends and family into signing up for this mess.

http://n-gate.com/hackernews/2021/01/21/0/

**bonifartius** · Jan 21, 2021, 16:23

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**elfrinjo** @elfrinjo@chaos.social · Jan 21, 2021, 16:23

Jan 21, 2021, 16:23

elfrinjo @elfrinjo@chaos.social

Auch in 2021:
Die Selbsthilfegruppe "UTF-8-Probleme" trifft sich am Donnerstag in Raum GrÃ?Â¼n.

**bonifartius** · Jan 21, 2021, 18:55

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**Hypolite Petovan** @hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com · Jan 21, 2021, 18:55

Jan 21, 2021, 18:55

Hypolite Petovan @hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com

Interesting thread about the current ecological impact of proof-of-work cryptocurrencies, but more importantly, the value system they are built upon.
♲ @everestpipkin@twitter.com:

i hope people understand that the ecological cost of crypto is not an ‘unfortunate side effect’ but is instead the very means by which it claims value at all

**bonifartius** · Jan 20, 2021, 00:51

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**Vortex Egg** @vortex_egg@hackers.town · Jan 20, 2021, 00:51

Jan 20, 2021, 00:51

Vortex Egg @vortex_egg@hackers.town

Reminder that machine learning algorithms do not make novel or accurate predictions about the true state of the world. They simply reflect back the pre-existing biases of whatever data sets are fed into them.

_GPT-3 is the world’s most powerful bigotry generator._

> “ OpenAI and the machine learning community at large are heavily invested in combating bias – but there’s currently no paradigm by which entrenched bias in a system like GPT-3 can be removed or compensated for. Its potential for harm is limited only by how much access humans with harmful ideologies have to it.”

https://thenextweb.com/neural/2021/01/19/gpt-3-is-the-worlds-most-powerful-bigotry-generator-what-should-we-do-about-it/

**bonifartius** @bonifartius@qoto.org · Jan 19, 2021, 23:27

**bonifartius** @bonifartius@qoto.org · Jan 19, 2021, 23:27

Jan 19, 2021, 23:27

bonifartius @bonifartius@qoto.org

depol/rant

_jetzt_ nach ca. einem jahr fällt dann auf dass die stoffmasken nicht helfen sollen und man sackteure ffp2 masken kaufen soll?

aber hauptsache zu weihnachten fahren alle quer durchs land.

am arsch ey.

**bonifartius** · Jan 19, 2021, 14:28

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**[XYZ] aetios** @aetios@kawen.space · Jan 19, 2021, 14:28

Jan 19, 2021, 14:28

[XYZ] aetios @aetios@kawen.space

hey just saying

when you put on the hev suit in hl1 and the music starts playing

**bonifartius** · Jan 19, 2021, 02:41

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**sheetposter** @sheetposter@kiwifarms.cc · Jan 19, 2021, 02:41

Jan 19, 2021, 02:41

sheetposter @sheetposter@kiwifarms.cc

@r000t

Corporations: Please flush toilet only once a week to save water

Also corporations: Let's send this beef to China on a big boat so some slave labour can wrap it up and ship it back on another big boat

**bonifartius** · Jan 18, 2021, 18:59

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**muesli** @fribbledom@mastodon.social · Jan 18, 2021, 18:59

Jan 18, 2021, 18:59

muesli @fribbledom@mastodon.social

"Telling a programmer there's already a library to do X is like telling a songwriter there's already a song about love"

-- Pete Cordell

**bonifartius** · Jan 18, 2021, 17:36

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**Kristopher** @krruzic@social.evilma.id · Jan 18, 2021, 17:36

Jan 18, 2021, 17:36

Kristopher @krruzic@social.evilma.id

@bonifartius @matrix I've gotten my whole family onboard with a custom home server no issues. They regularly install browser add on viruses... They don't get computers. But they figured out element just fine. More FUD to push people to the centralized spying services of telegram and Signal

**bonifartius** · Jan 18, 2021, 13:01

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**Dad** @noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.club · Jan 18, 2021, 13:01

Jan 18, 2021, 13:01

Dad @noyoushutthefuckupdad@shitposter.club

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**bonifartius** @bonifartius@qoto.org · Jan 18, 2021, 10:37

**bonifartius** @bonifartius@qoto.org · Jan 18, 2021, 10:37

Jan 18, 2021, 10:37

bonifartius @bonifartius@qoto.org

https://twitter.com/LudwigBald/status/1350978863963262987

while i'm really happy that people want matrix to succeed, this is a thread full of bad ideas.

> element is too hard

no it isn't, my mother could use it without much introduction. stop making good tools dumber because you want lazy people to use them. if someone can't be bothered with 15 minutes of clicking around in an interface, they can stay at whatsapp, thanks. i'm done with giving up my sanity for the sake of people who act if everything has to come free to them.

> homeserver hosting is too hard

if installing an additional debian package and replacing some values in a default config is "too hard", it's better that you don't touch any server anyway. it just would end up in the next botnet. there is a reason why people are trained for system administration (or put in decades of self-teaching). stop devaluing the jobs and knowledge of those people by trying to build shitty "easy" solutions. there are no easy solutions for complicated problems.

> GROWTH HACKING!111

just stop.

#matrix

@matrix