Adam @adam@librem.one

What's next: IG influencers, crowd-sourced and AI generated: https://www.thismodeldoesnotexist.co/

When I think of obvious missing tech products, I can’t do most of them, because as soon as the idea gained traction as a product it would be taken over by a big company, partly because users prefer that. So a lot of gaps never get filled.

That’s the lesson from twitter shutting down the clients again. It isn’t just twitter, you as an independent developer, can’t step into any platform vendor’s territory, they will eventually take away your business.

I just found Mapstodon : a very nice interactive map of #Mastodon instances and their public timeline, grouped by region and interest.

https://www.comeetie.fr/galerie/mapstodon/

I just gotta say, I don’t get on #Mastodon very often, but every time I do, I come away feeling happy and peaceful. Like I just spent some time hanging out with some interesting and laid back people who I hope to run into again.

Mastohost @mastohost is taking on new accounts again. You can get your own Mastodon server for $6 a month! The great thing about it is they take care of the software, you do not need to be technical to run a server.

Mastohost is where sauropods.win is hosted, and I can recommend them. Support is top-notch, and it's all been smooth sailing.

https://masto.host/

#hosting #mastodon #fediverse

This is fascinating! The Braille Institute has developed a font - free to download - that's designed to be clearer for readers with lower vision.

An example of one of the aspects of low legibility that they tackled attached.

It's named Atkinson Hyperlegible. Atkinson was the Institute's founder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Atkinson

Here's where you can read about the font and download it: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

#Accessibility

Via @tombofnull

1. Last week, the FTC proposed a rule banning noncompete clauses.

If the rule is ultimately adopted it would be one of the most dramatic expansions in worker rights in decades.

And not just for people subject to noncompete clauses.

For EVERYONE.

🧵

Oh ffs

Researchers Hacked California's Digital License Plates, Gaining Access to GPS Location and User Info https://jalopnik.com/researchers-hacked-californias-digital-license-plates-1849966295

Humanity has historically eaten 6,000 plants; now we eat mostly NINE: This is a great (scary) story from Bloomberg on how global diets have converged on a few crops in a few decades – with many alarming implications. Well told (super smart graphics!) #food #climate
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-global-diet-homogeneous-food-security-risk/?cmpid=BBD010523_prognosis&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_term=230105&utm_campaign=prognosis&leadSource=uverify%20wall

An AI test from 1971 shows you need to adjust your #ChatGPT expectations.

In 1971, Terry Winograd devised the Winograd Schemas, simple sentence understanding tasks that require the use of knowledge and commonsense reasoning. Humans understand them easily. ChatGPT... not so much.

Did you know? Half of all U.S. states, 25 to be exact, carry Indigenous names. Today we will be taking a look at the 25 states and the meanings of their names. They will be listed in alphabetical order under this post.
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter @BlackMastodon
#BlackFediverse #BlackFedi
#BlackAcademics #BIPoc #diversity #DiversityEquityInclusion #dei #mastodon #racism #antiracist #asian #indigenous #IndigenousMastodon #mena #history #native #Hispanic #NativeMastodon

Fun fact - #layoffs are a social connection amongst businesses, and do little (to nothing) to actually help companies recover during economic downturns.

Don’t take my word for it - this comes from years of study and scholarly research:

https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/

I wrote 8,000 words on Mastodon, Twitter, and owning your data—from the perspective of someone that worked at Twitter for nine years.

https://paulstamatiou.com/mastodon/

And in other #hacking news: “Twitter data dump: 200m+ account database now free to download: No passwords, but plenty of stuff for social engineering and doxxing” :-( by #TheRegister https://www.theregister.com/2023/01/05/twitter_leak_200m_accounts/ #edtechSR #security