Jayjader

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[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The easy answer for music is these kid's parents are putting those tunes on their home speakers. While I would agree Haruhi is some form of "classic", I do wonder what parent is showing it to their kid...

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 3 points 2 weeks ago

Alternatively, how many of them have invested in one or more of these LLM makers and are ready to torpedo their own business as long as it makes the share price go up/feeds more authentic training data?

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 65 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Interesting read, but boy does this journalist have a ... different read on things than I do.

People talk a lot about the protocols that power Bluesky vs. ActivityPub, because we're nerds and we believe deep in our hearts that the superior protocol will win.

IMO it's the exact opposite; we talk about this because we want the best protocol to win, this time, while knowing full well that usually it doesn't.

Of course search was broken because all OSS social tools must have one glaring lack of functionality.

My understanding is that search on the microblogging side of the fedi is intended to be "broken" (from the view of someone expecting a Twitter-style search); hashtags are for opting-in to global discoverability whilst without them your posts are intended to be stumbled upon and/or passed around rather than sought out.

If the American press had given me 20 minutes of airtime I could have convinced everyone they don’t want to get involved with Greenland. We’re not tough enough as a people to survive in Greenland, much less “take it over”.

I doubt that trump supporters cheering on the USA throwing their weight around like the world's bully-in-chief would be receptive to such a message.

I can't tell if I'm just too deep in the fedi-culture weeds, or if the article really is confidently ignorant.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)
[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 1 points 2 weeks ago

They aren't fediverse-first, and they're French-based/French-focused/French-language-only, but Blast is an online, video-first news station that hosts their own peertube instance (https://video.blast-info.fr/) where they upload everything as well as putting their videos on YouTube. They also have a mastodon account where they share everything they publish: https://mamot.fr/@blast_info.

So, it's definitely possible to have news on the fediverse, but I don't think we're at a point where it can be exclusively on the fedi - even if the stations' website is ActivityPub-enabled, the majority of the people that a news station would want to reach just aren't browsing the fediverse, let alone have accounts here.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 6 points 3 weeks ago

Flashy and pretty, but as a UI I find it places too much visual emphasis on form over function / style over substance. The biggest example I can give us that I don't think the bright neon blue left border on posts should be so much more eye-catching than the post titles. If I were to change things, I would probably try to find a dimmer shade of blue for them, and/or add some additional decoration to post titles so that they more clearly are the first thing my eyes are drawn to when scanning the page.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Davos, Switzerland
February 8,1996

Thirty years have not been kind

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hi, not OP, but: that's known as frontmatter, it's somewhat widespread, and thus I suspect that it's much more difficult to have it live at the end of your markdown files than in a separate file or db altogether - unless OP is already rolling their own markdown parser.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In case you omitted the following out of ignorance and not by deliberate choice:

podman unshare can be used to (mostly) painlessly access the files created by rootless podman.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Someone is working on something related: https://soatok.blog/2025/12/15/announcing-key-transparency-fediverse/

The rest of their blog is pretty great, too!

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 points 1 month ago

I get random friend requests from accounts in discord servers that I haven't even viewed, let alone interacted in, for years - most have some sort of "live/laugh/love" bio blurb. Maybe I'm just an antisocial hermit at this point, but I ignore every single one.

In comparison, Steam seems a lot more genuine. You can always try suggesting discord for voice chat if you're leery of installing an unknown program just for talking to that user.

[–] Jayjader@jlai.lu 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm surprised that's what your experience of it was. To me it was about his hopeless (arguably naive) struggle to do what he thought was right and true in a time where both truth and morality were mostly becoming weaponized in service of alignments of power. He thought he could thread the needle only to time and time again have simply been used by others to further their own agendas, leaving hurt bystanders in his wake.

I somewhat agree that an hour could be cut out, though I don't exactly know which parts.

 
 
 
 

95,350,331 documents from at least 17 data breaches and had a total size of 30.1GB

“This database is dedicated to compiling information from multiple French-related data breaches and includes previously known and unknown leaks,” researchers said.

L'explication donnée par l'article me parait correcte, mais j'y connais rien a ce genre de fuite.

Parmis les fichiers du leak, le seul truc que je reconnais est le suivant:

ldlc.txt. Points to an alleged compromise involving LDLC, a French online electronics retailer.

LDLC pwned ? :(

 

Je lisais des fils dans !yepowertrippinbastards@lemmy.dbzer0.com et suis tombé sur une n-ième discussion concernant les chars, les ours, et la dés[t]alinisation du développement du logiciel lemmy (dsl pour les jeux de mots enfantins mais c'est pas la partie importante de mon message et je ne veux surtout pas relancer de sujet à leur propos).

Non seulement des discussions assez intéressantes politiquement (et pas que sur les logiciels du fédivers), mais surtout j'y découvre qu'il y a plusieurs tentatives de fork de Lemmy en ce moment, ainsi qu'apparemment sublinks se voudrait être capable de fonctionner directement avec une ancienne db de/pour lemmy.

Le commentaire qui en parle dans la discussion : https://jlai.lu/comment/10577392

Perso, je préfère investir mes efforts sur mon projet de client activity pub multi-services^[0], donc je ne vais militer dans un sens ni l'autre. Ça me semblait juste pertinent de partager cette info au cas où ça aiderait la réflexion (si elle n'est pas déjà résolue).

[0] : pour l'instant ça sait afficher des objets AP lus sur une URL en json brut, et si toi tu lui dis qu'un objet particulier est un pouet masto il l'affiche alors un peu plus mis en page. Si un jour j'arrive a en être satisfait de sa capacité "client Lemmy/piefed/etc" je reviens volontiers en faire la promo, mais c'est pas pour demain!

 

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/10771034

n’hésitez-pas à me demander de traduire certains passages de mon post en français si besoin

Personal review:

A good recap of his previous writings and talks on the subject for the first third, but a bit long. Having paid attention to them for the past year or two, my attention started drifting a few times. I ended up being more impressed with how much he's managed to condense explaining "enshittification" from 45+ minutes down to around 15.

As soon as he starts building off of that to work towards the core of his message for this talk, I was more-or-less glued to the screen. At first because it's not exactly clear where he's going, and there are (what felt like) many specific court rulings to keep up with. Thankfully, once he has laid enough groundwork he gets straight his point. I don't want to spoil or otherwise lessen the performance he gives, so I won't directly comment on what his point is in the body of this post - I think the comments are better suited for that anyways.

I found the rest to be pretty compelling. He rides the fine line between directionless discontent and overenthusiastic activist-with-a-plan as he doubles down on his narrative by calling back to the various bits of groundwork he laid before - now that we're "in" on the idea, what felt like stumbling around in the dark turns into an illuminating path through some of the specifics of the last twenty to forty years of the dynamics of power between tech bosses and their employees. The rousing call to action was also great way to end and wrap it all up.

I've become very biased towards Cory Doctorow's ideas, in part because they line up with a lot of the impressions I have from my few years working as a dev in a big-ish multinational tech company. This talk has done nothing to diminish that bias - on the contrary.

 

cross-posted from: https://jlai.lu/post/10771035, https://jlai.lu/post/10771034

Personal review:

A good recap of his previous writings and talks on the subject for the first third, but a bit long. Having paid attention to them for the past year or two, my attention started drifting a few times. I ended up being more impressed with how much he's managed to condense explaining "enshittification" from 45+ minutes down to around 15.

As soon as he starts building off of that to work towards the core of his message for this talk, I was more-or-less glued to the screen. At first because it's not exactly clear where he's going, and there are (what felt like) many specific court rulings to keep up with. Thankfully, once he has laid enough groundwork he gets straight his point. I don't want to spoil or otherwise lessen the performance he gives, so I won't directly comment on what his point is in the body of this post - I think the comments are better suited for that anyways.

I found the rest to be pretty compelling. He rides the fine line between directionless discontent and overenthusiastic activist-with-a-plan as he doubles down on his narrative by calling back to the various bits of groundwork he laid before - now that we're "in" on the idea, what felt like stumbling around in the dark turns into an illuminating path through some of the specifics of the last twenty to forty years of the dynamics of power between tech bosses and their employees. The rousing call to action was also great way to end and wrap it all up.

I've become very biased towards Cory Doctorow's ideas, in part because they line up with a lot of the impressions I have from my few years working as a dev in a big-ish multinational tech company. This talk has done nothing to diminish that bias - on the contrary.

 

Personal review:

A good recap of his previous writings and talks on the subject for the first third, but a bit long. Having paid attention to them for the past year or two, my attention started drifting a few times. I ended up being more impressed with how much he's managed to condense explaining "enshittification" from 45+ minutes down to around 15.

As soon as he starts building off of that to work towards the core of his message for this talk, I was more-or-less glued to the screen. At first because it's not exactly clear where he's going, and there are (what felt like) many specific court rulings to keep up with. Thankfully, once he has laid enough groundwork he gets straight his point. I don't want to spoil or otherwise lessen the performance he gives, so I won't directly comment on what his point is in the body of this post - I think the comments are better suited for that anyways.

I found the rest to be pretty compelling. He rides the fine line between directionless discontent and overenthusiastic activist-with-a-plan as he doubles down on his narrative by calling back to the various bits of groundwork he laid before - now that we're "in" on the idea, what felt like stumbling around in the dark turns into an illuminating path through some of the specifics of the last twenty to forty years of the dynamics of power between tech bosses and their employees. The rousing call to action was also great way to end and wrap it all up.

I've become very biased towards Cory Doctorow's ideas, in part because they line up with a lot of the impressions I have from my few years working as a dev in a big-ish multinational tech company. This talk has done nothing to diminish that bias - on the contrary.

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