Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

Never exonerate malice simply because it is also stupid.

Bringing the fun back into the holidays!

There's a lot of talk about Black folks coming to Mastodon and finding that mods on some of the big servers aren't always willing to step in and moderate, even if their rules say "No racism".

I want to be clear: Black people are WELCOME on retro.pizza and WILL be defended. And I will NEVER try to tell you what parts of your experience you can and cannot talk about out loud. #RPAdmin #BlackMastodon

OTD in 1939 in Krakow, Poland the 1st of 7 (!!) Gestapo-NKVD conferences took place, deepening Nazi-Soviet collusion in suppressing the Polish state & committing crimes against humanity.

I mean, I suppose I knew deep inside I should've blocked Masnick the moment he showed up here. Hopefully his paid views will show up in my feed a lot less now.

Oil companies paying for research on the climate, tobacco companies paying for research on health, why in 2022 would anyone listen to someone paid by big tech about big tech?

I'm in

oh shit it's mansplaining as a service

Q: “How many devs on a message board does it take to screw in a light bulb?”

A: “Why are you trying to do that?”

ChatGPT is honestly really -really- capable and useful. So much so that I feel AI tools will rapidly become integrated into every part of our society.

This would give closed source creations of corporations like "OpenAI" an unbelievable amount of power and influence.

Technology this powerful should belong to everyone, or no one. For this reason ChatGPT and OpenAI are unethical for engineers to build on.

Please consider building on open source alternatives like EleutherAI.

Static electricity ⚡️

in which I ask ChatGPT to write a short story about our future

Thread on Twitter alternatives and democracy:

As the fragmentation of social spaces continues, let’s think about two axises: How similar the people in a space are, and how well-managed or well-governed the space is. Make a 2x2 and it looks like this:

Russia is spying on Telegram chats in occupied Ukrainian regions.

Here's how.

https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/russia-is-spying-on-telegram-chats

#Ukraine #infosec #Telegram

NixOS webzine url changed to https://webzine.nixos.cafe

thanks @manheraz for getting the domain the new domain is better

I wrote about why the surge in antisemitism on Twitter is uniting fringe figures and likely to lead to increased violence. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/03/twitter-antisemitism-violence-jan-6/