Lol. Wild!

”The company accused 10 anonymous defendants of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, and federal racketeering laws"

So… Their lawyers were bored? I admit, I don’t understand the legal value of brining the case against an anonymous person.

“Microsoft is taking a firm stand against the misuse of its generative AI services and sending a clear message that the weaponization of its AI technology by online actors will not be tolerated.”

Uh… Wow. But I suppose my own firm stances sometimes also involve meaningless gestures.

Standard disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer. I’m just someone who has been exposed to too much marketing technobable bullshit. I’ll allow that maybe my bullshit-o-meter is being unfair?

Anyway, interesting read. Thanks!

Yeah. I think we’re waiting for the kind of installers and updaters that WordPress achieved before we see typical businesses running their own Mastodon server.

But I do think many organizations have got the risk/reward wrong, by underestimating the risk, at the moment.

Lol. Agreed. I feel like Cory picked a controversial title for attention, and then did an odd logic dance to get there.

But I found some of his other analysis in the post thought provoking, anyway.

For some context, Cory is on a quest to change hearts and minds about Intellectual Property law

I had a subscription to Raspberry Pi Magazine when the Pi Zero was released. They celebrated by including a Pi Zero with the magazine in a little plastic bag glued to the cover.

I think it’s so fun to have lived through the moment in history when a full computer became so commonplace they could give one out free with a magazine.

I currently reside in his old home, where occasionally I make him breakfast forgetting he is gone and proceed to have a literal toast to him and eat it in his name upon correcting myself.

That sounds like a beautiful tribute. I hope I’m remembered that fondly when I’m gone.

I like my politics boring if it gets the job done and keeps improving and iterating on a better system.

Absolutely.

Of course, I try to stay aware that my ability to wait patiently for a better world is, in itself, a privilege.

There’s wisdom in carefully iterating forward.

But billionaires also need something to help them focus on cooperation toward a better world. They need to believe in some non-zero chance that the fate of some person they stepped on could randomly suddenly become their own fate.

I don’t have answers for how that happens, but history says it’s almost never been pleasant for anyone concerned.

I don’t know if we can all do better. I hope so.

The sweet spot is for the current ruling class to obey a set of rules out of fear of the guillotine or incarceration.

Exercising the guillotine or incarceration excessively would just be starting over to build the necessary fear with a new ignorant crop of ruling class.

It’s the thought that counts. My Putin expiration celebration will actually also be alcohol free, but it’ll taste just as sweet.

I’m glad we cleared that up. Someone should let the politicians know, as they seemed confused.

I thought this was a place to post Star Trek memes?!

Yeah. I’m surprised businesses haven’t been quicker to setup self-hosted Mastodon as their primary, and then mirror that to Twitter and Bluesky and such, for disaster recovery protection.

Mastodon doesn’t by design, so they’re gonna have a much, much harder time there.

In theory, yes. But what early switching folks are reporting is that the total impressions are much lower on Mastodon, but the total engagement is much higher, for the same effort.

Which is confusing unless we factor in what we know about Twitter farming bot account on purpose to create a false appearance of success.

Of course, there’s still the matter of Twitter genuinely has orders of magnitude more users. So as an either/or proposition, no way does it, yet, make sense to ditch Twitter for Mastodon.

But for the value-to-reach ratio, with the same effort applied to both, anyway, Mastodon is actually already a better value than Twitter.

All that to say, yeah, Twitter is better, purely due to the user base, and Mastodon’s algorithm actually treats creators better. Which we kind of already knew, as it was created by people fed up with Twitters abusive algorithms.

Thank you. I don’t have any vacancies right now, but I’ll be happy to let you know if that changes.

Edit: Also, yes, my team is fully remote.

Heh. I may or may not already have those three.

I’m not excited for anyone to die, but I really want to know, on my deathbed, that I outlived those three.

I tell myself it has something to do with knowing I contributed positive change to the world for longer than their negative, but I realize it’s probably just my pettiness.

I don’t even know why I’m replying here.

She felt like she was literally just in a room with people all around her and a microphone.

It’s hard not to read this as a power play when she was being paid by someone known for memorably misogynist statements, and for needing to go to court against his own sex worker.

I’m inclined to infer that the worst creep factors of old rich American men may have poisoned the vibe in the room.

And yeah, all statements about leopards and faces and knowing better apply here.

I assume Carrie can afford to choose clients carefully. I hope this gives her pause to take stock, and that she moves on to wiser choices.

Well that just got added to my interview question bank…heh.

Nano users unite and edit a few lines of code, but that’s it.

I would pay for that on a shirt. That’s really good.

Holy shit, that looks real.

I… Don’t have words. It’s beautiful. And it’s terrifying.

As a candidate, I have a couple of trusted recruiters I prefer to work through.

I found them through trial and error, and peer recommendations.

As an employer, every year I call and buy lunch for at least about a dozen potential future employees, to remind them that my team exists and that I think they could be a good fit. These are mostly past employees of mine, but may include folks I’ve met through my professional network, at professional networking events, or peers that are currently growing out of other roles toward the roles I need.

I sell my team and organization hard, during intverviews, to candidates that come in cold, but with relevant experience.

Sometimes I can hire the exact folks I spent years recruiting. Sometimes I get lucky and hire someone with the relevant experience who just happened to apply. Sometimes neither of those groups are interested in a job change, and I hire someone inexperienced but trainable.