Notices by Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏 (ferdiz@mastodon.cloud), page 14

Changeling🖤💚 (changelingrandy@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 13:23:58 EDT Changeling🖤💚

if you pretend the CW box is the subject line on an email, it's easier to understand when to use it.

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏 (ferdiz@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 13:49:51 EDT Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏

That was a kickflip-to-tail-slide down a 10-stair hubba, right..? [Disclaimer I don't skate I just watch too much skate youtube...]

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏 (ferdiz@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 13:47:40 EDT Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏

This lady's excitement over seeing a skateboarding trick: https://gfycat.com/cheapsillyherculesbeetle
Via Reddit just now: https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/9bts3p/this_ladys_excitement_over_seeing_a_skateboarding/
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  r/MadeMeSmile - This lady's excitement over seeing a skateboarding trick
  
  from reddit
  
  61,090 votes and 1,452 comments so far on Reddit
Daniel Appelquist (torgo@social.samsunginter.net)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 09:51:41 EDT Daniel Appelquist
- Rachel Nabors
Great article on browser diversity by @rachelnabors https://css-tricks.com/the-ecological-impact-of-browser-diversity/
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  The Ecological Impact of Browser Diversity
  
  By Rachel Nabors from CSS-Tricks
  
  The Ecological Impact of Browser Diversity
Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏 (ferdiz@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 13:23:41 EDT Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏

(Kinda wondering am I using HeyFeedFox right or not...) (But eh whatever.)

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏 (ferdiz@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 13:23:16 EDT Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏
- Nolan
"Should computers serve humans, or should humans serve computers?" - a blog post by @nolan
📑 https://nolanlawson.com/2018/05/16/should-computers-serve-humans-or-should-humans-serve-computers/
#HeyFeedFox
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  Should computers serve humans, or should humans serve computers?
  
  By Nolan Lawson from Read the Tea Leaves
  
  The best science fiction doesn’t necessarily tell us something about the future, but it might tell us something about the present.
  
  At its best, sci-fi finds something true about human nature or human society and then places it in a new context, where we can look at it with fresh eyes. Sci-fi helps us see ourselves more clearly.
  
  This is a video made by Microsoft in 2011 that shows one sci-fi vision of the future:
  
  This is a utopian vision of technology. Computers exist to make people more productive, to extend the natural capabilities of our bodies, to serve as a true “bicycle of the mind”. Computers are omnipresent, but they are at our beck and call, and they exist to serve us.
  
  This is a video showing a different vision of the future:
  
  This is a dystopian vision of technology. Computers are omnipresent, but instead of enabling us to be more productive or to grant us more leisure time, they exist to distract us, harass us, and cajole us. In this world, the goal of technology is to convince us to buy more things, or to earn points in a useless game, or to send us on odd jobs the computer chose for us.
  
  A similar vision of the future comes from Audrey Schulman’s Theory of Bastards. The protagonist rides a self-driving car, but she can’t turn off the video advertisements because her implant is six months out of date, and so the commands she barks at the car fail with an “unknown” error.
  
  She blames herself for failing to upgrade her implant, in the way you might chide yourself for forgetting to see the dentist.
  
  As the car arrives, she pays for the trip. Then she notes:
  
  “At least in terms of payment, the manufacturers made sure there was never any difficulty with version differences. It was only the actual applications that gradually became impossible to control.”
  
  Between the utopian and dystopian, which vision of the future seems more likely to you? Which vision seems more true to how we currently live with technology, in the form of our smartphones and social media apps?
  
  I know which one seems more likely to me, and it gives me the willies.
  
  The core question we technologists should be asking ourselves is: do we want to live in a world where computers serve humans, or where humans serve computers?
  
  Or to put it another way: do we want to live in a world where the users of technology are in control of their devices? Or do we want to live in a world where the owners of technology use it as yet another means of control over those without the resources, the knowledge, or the privilege to fight back?
  
  Are we building technology for a world of masters, or a world of slaves?
Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 13:20:04 EDT Electronic Frontier Foundation

Hey Google: Patenting an algorithm that's in the public domain by applying it to a specific application is not just a misuse of the patent system, it's overriding an inventor who made his work available for all to use. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/08/after-patent-office-rejection-it-time-google-abandon-its-attempt-patent-use-public
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  After Patent Office Rejection, It is Time For Google To Abandon Its Attempt to Patent Use of Public Domain Algorithm
  
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  At EFF, we often criticize software patents that claim small variations on known techniques. These include a patent on updating software over the Internet, a patent on out-of-office email, and a patent on storing data in a database. Now, Google is trying to patent the use of a known data...
Pinafore (pinafore@mastodon.technology)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 13:15:54 EDT Pinafore

Since folks have asked, you can enable dark mode in Pinafore! The themes are under Settings -> Instances -> (instance name) -> Theme. Each instance you sign into can have its own theme!

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Nolan (nolan@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 07-Apr-2017 12:37:22 EDT Nolan

mom: hey son I joined this new Mastodon thing
me: oh shit mom, I coulda helped you find a server, which one did you choose?
mom: well I liked the privacy policy on satanic.bikerladi.es but then communist.blaze.party had the shortest ping latency so

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏 (ferdiz@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 11:48:53 EDT Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏

Hey yo peeps, anyone got a list of Masto instances that allow more than 500 characters per toot/awoo/boop?
#askMastodon

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏 (ferdiz@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 11:45:03 EDT Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏

Tom Scott's "How to be Popular on the Internet", episode 3 of 3: "Why You Don't Want to Go Viral"
📹 https://youtu.be/9LZEZ5QuyzM
#HeyFeedFox
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  Why You Don't Want To Go Viral
  
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🔶Jennie Rigg🔶 (misssb@dragon.style)'s status on Friday, 31-Aug-2018 02:03:39 EDT 🔶Jennie Rigg🔶

I did a blog about CWs on Mastodon and how they are hugely important
https://miss-s-b.dreamwidth.org/1991584.html

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏 (ferdiz@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 16:57:27 EDT Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏
- codl
@codl Also I couldn't find the EV West Lambo; I must have misremembered. They made an electric Ferrari though: https://youtu.be/6z-1G1u9iVg
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  Converting a 308 Ferrari to Electric: Video Series - E03
  
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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏 (ferdiz@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 16:55:38 EDT Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏
- codl
@codl Check out Tube, a custom 3rd-party unendorsed minimalist YouTube front-end: https://tube.quinzel.tech/
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  Tube - Minimalist YouTube
  
  from Tube
  
  Cut-down YouTube so you can focus
Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏 (ferdiz@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 16:10:28 EDT Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏
- codl
@codl The EV West garage of Los Angeles once did a full electric conversion of a classic 1940s(?) Lamborghini... The 10-minute YouTube video was fun to watch if you're into that review-type vlog thingie, which I am...

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏 (ferdiz@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 14:29:20 EDT Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏

Back to work.
Back to work.
Back to work.
[mantra3x]

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Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏 (ferdiz@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Aug-2018 14:27:42 EDT Ferdi F. Zebua 🌏

[from the Daily Dot] Man swaps ‘Redskins’ logo for ‘Caucasians’—and watches white people get offended:
https://www.dailydot.com/irl/caucasians-shirt-redskins-social-experiment/
(Heads up: web banner ads & popups etc., use precaution as necessary etc.)

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Adam (inkslinger@mastodon.club)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jul-2018 16:05:08 EDT Adam
- Chris
@brainblasted That's the worst. I've tried using Calibre to try and convert PDFs into ePub format for proper reading on my e-reader, but I've yet to find the correct settings to make it actually work properly...the resulting ePub is always formatted even worse than the original PDF (full of strange line breaks, for instance).

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Chris (brainblasted@social.libre.fi)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jul-2018 16:00:51 EDT Chris

PDFs are frustratingly inflexible format for reading books electronically

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codl :mareep: (codl@donphan.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jul-2018 07:48:02 EDT codl :mareep:

:corsola:

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