Jons Mostovojs @jonn@social.doma.dev

"Twitter has an alarming rise of alt-right, anti vax and antisemitic users."

"There's this alternative called Mastod-"

"And it greatly disturbs me that one capricious man's inflated ego determines the rules."

"There's this federated option Mast-"

"Not to mention the incessant ads and desperate efforts to extract money from users makes Twitter unbearable."

"The non-profit Ma-"

"Welp, nothing to be done about Twitter I suppose, might as well stick it out on this hellhole."

#TwitterMigration

I could watch this video for hours - it shows a 1700 line *from scratch* program leaning how to read handwritten letters using modern deep-learning techniques. Full code & explanation in: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/hello-deep-learning/

Avoid BetterHelp at all costs.

BetterHelp just settled with the FTC for $7.8 million for sharing email addresses, ip addresses, and questionnaire answers with Facebook and Snapchat. They also instructed their customer service agents to lie that they were not doing this, and put a HIPAA seal on their website despite no agency certifying them as HIPAA compliant.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/2/23622227/betterhelp-customer-data-advertising-privacy-facebook-snapchat

I just released Atuin v14! 🚀

Sync and search your shell history on all of your machines

Release notes here: https://atuin.sh/blog/release-v14

Some highlights:

- History deletion cross-machine
- Support for @jntrnr's NuShell
- Support for Windows
- Inline search UI

Thank you so so much to everyone who contributed! You're the best 💖

Russia in charge of UN security council is like a sex offender deciding age of consent laws.

Ukrainian artists created posters on the subject of the boycott of athletes from the Russian Federation and Belarus

(United24Media)

#ParisOlympics2024 #Russia #Belarus #BoycottRussianSport #Athletes #Sports #Ukraine #Art #GraphicDesign

#RemoveThomasBach #InvestigateThomasBach #DissolveTheIOC #InvestigateTheIOC #BoycottTheOlympics #BoycottTheParisGames
⚠️🇺🇦 Thomas Bach and the IOC reward Russia for murdering their competitors. IOC allows Russian athletes to play while Russia kills another Ukrainian athlete. This time it was the four-time world kickboxing champion from Ukraine.(PHOTO and More) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3689757-fourtime-world-kickboxing-champion-succumbs-to-wounds-sustained-in-battle-with-russians.html #Ukraine #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive

This #transdayofvisibility I will have you know that my spouse is #trans, my kids are #trans, and I'm not all too cis myself.

It's #WorldBackupDay! Check out the February issue of Linux Magazine focused on Backup. Available in print or digital format https://shop.linuxnewmedia.com/us/magazines/linux-magazine/back-issues/eh30267.html #Linux #OpenSource #backup #Syncthing #apps #FOSS

One of the damning accusations against commercial social networks is their deleterious effect on our mental health, personal relationships and civic engagement.

They are tools to connect with other people, and yet they drive us apart, and make us miserable.

I believe we have a chance to make use of the fediverse preferable because it makes us happier.

I talked about this at APConf a few years ago.

https://conf.tube/w/c79457a9-aae5-47dd-8731-617e6b09fe06

It's my 30th birthday tomorrow!

I generally don't like receiving gifts or anything like that, but if you'd like to do something for me, here are a few ideas I'd find meaningful:

1) Contact your representatives to speak out against bills opposing trans rights and healthcare access. You can find the relevant info for your state here: https://www.equalityfederation.org/state-legislation

2) Donate to an abortion fund in a state where abortion access is at risk: https://abortionfunds.org/funds/

3) Donate to a local bail fund or to support the legal fees for activists in your community. The Atlanta Solidarity Fund is a good example of what I mean: https://atlsolidarity.org/

If you send me receipts, I'll be matching up to $100 per donation, and $1000 total :)

LLMs seems to be winning by a lot - clearly it's a less obscure acronym than I thought (though a Mastodon audience likely skews these results)

It's not why I asked the question, but this did inspire me to add a new "llms" tag to my blog, https://simonwillison.net/tags/llms/ - then back-filled the tag to 114 posts

No. #Russia must not compete in the #Olympics. Doesn't matter if their athletes compete as neutrals or not. No. Not until they stop killing people and get the hell out of #Ukraine. The #IOC should f*<k right off.

Sure it's sad if ppl don't get their big chance to compete, but they're not dead. No Russians at the Olympics. Zero. No.

“Among the unexpected sources of support for the magazine was the #fediverse—the collection of decentralized Mastodon servers that soared in popularity following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter. Many comments on the GoFundMe page mention that the donors learned about the Observer through #Mastodon—where the Texas Observer was one of the first journalistic outlets to set up its own server, @jamescanup said.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/29/texas-observer-closing-gofundme via Guardian

#TexasNeedsAnObserver #mastodon #journalism

They also had lots of genuinely interesting questions about it, to which the honest answers were, mostly, "I can't remember, we just thought of it in the pub and it seemed funny at the time."

This might describe more of my career than I should admit.