Darryl Wright 🇨🇦 🎧 @darryl@qoto.org

My local theatre company have spun up a mastodon server. An entire instance full of bad actors.

Here's an adorable Quokka having a snack you didn't realize you needed in your feed.

❤️

“AI” will not replace you. A person making half what you do with no benefits whose job is the same as yours but now includes babysitting “AI” will.

interviewer: give me an example of a time when you took control of a situation

me: no, YOU give ME an example

interviewer: lol okay, that was pretty impressive

me: I’m afraid we’re going to have to let you go

interviewer: *being led away by security* what is happening right now

It's much easier and cheaper than you think to start your own server on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

Non-technical people can use a "Managed Hosting" service, where the hosting company does all the technical stuff for you, including setting up, upgrades and fixing things.

I run a website all about creating your own servers through managed hosting at:

➡️ https://growyourown.services

This section is all about making your own Fediverse servers:

➡️ https://growyourown.services/grow-your-own-social-network/

#Fediverse #Mastodon

WhatsApp will now let users connect through a proxy to bypass internet censorship https://9to5mac.com/2023/01/05/whatsapp-proxy-bypass-censorship/

Turns out that Adobe is collecting all of its customers' pictures into a machine learning training set.

This is opt-out, not opt-in so if you use Lightroom, for example, it defaults to adding all of your photos to the set.

If these are unpublished pictures, work-in-progress, etc. they'll still be analysed as soon as they're synced.

I've been using Lightroom to sync photos from my Windows desktop to my iPad. Now I need to reconsider that.

The Aurora Borealis over Tromso, Norway. #norway #norwegian #photography #aurora #auroraborealis #northernlights #nordlicht #nordlichter #fotografie