Too far … or not far enough? I think they should abandon the Canadian market, relocate to Florida.

To be clear, I did mean to say that the CN Tower remains the tallest building in Toronto.

I like how “used it in the past year” in one paragraph mysteriously becomes “regular, heavy use” in the next.

Yep. It sends me to fsf.org. If the link goes here or anywhere else and such things bother you, fix your “referer” settings.

The new mayor of Halifax. Opposed to bicycles, in favour of homelessness.

It’s to be very tall, but apparently the CN Tower will remain the tallest by more than a hundred metres.

GNOME continues its long journey from being the one-time linux standard to a occupying a quirky little niche for masochists and corporate IT departments.

This would’ve been great news to hear about if not for the stupid opinion about DEI being included to completely undermine any faith we might’ve had in the competence or judgement of the person responsible.

I’m shocked! — shocked to find that LLMs aren’t superhuman intelligences that will soon enslave us all. Other things they’re not good at:

• Summarizing news articles. Instead of an actual summary they’ll shorten the text by just leaving things out, without any understanding of which parts are important.
• Answering questions about anything controversial. Based on subtle hints in the wording of your question they’ll reflect your own biases back at you.
• Answering questions about well-known facts. Seemingly at random when your question isn’t phrased exactly the right way they’ll start hallucinating and make up plausible bullshit in place of actual answers.
• Writing a letter. They’ll use the wrong tone, use language that is bland and generic to a degree that makes it almost offensive, and if you care about quality the whole thing will need so much re-writing that it’s quicker to do it yourself from the start.
• Telling jokes. They don’t really get humour. Their jokes tend to have things that superficially look as if they should be punchlines but aren’t funny at all.
• Writing computer code. Correcting their mistakes is even more laborious in computer languages. Most of the time they’re almost as bad at it as they are at playing chess.

Still they are amazingly clever in some ways and pretty good for coming up with random ideas when you’ve got writer’s block or something.

I am a debian user, and was just wondering whether to try 6.16 now or wait until next week.

Well that’s an interesting development, which people seem to have begun experimenting with in the past few weeks. Of course for the time being I suppose it’s made somewhat easier for the relays by 99% of the users being hosted on the small collection of official bsky.network PDS servers.

Some more discussion of it in which there may be hints as to how atproto people might slowly progress towards reinventing some of the things we take for granted on the fediverse.

Depends how tall they are.

If they don’t crawl the entire network then most of the network cannot contact them at all? Which makes it … not really a network. That’s where federation would come in.

Really? I thought there were only two. How are the small ones able to afford the bandwidth to monitor everything from every PDS?

Right… it did take me a minute to remember how the relays work. Well, when there are a few hundred of them we’ll see how it goes.

Hmm, let’s see if I remember the terminology correctly:

Client apps have nothing to do with it, obviously.

Alternate appviews have nothing to do with it, except in that they’d presumably need to work with whatever form of atproto federation exists, if any did.

Alternate relays aren’t federated unless there’s some protocol for routing messages between them — such as ActivityPub.

That’s the benefit of Bluesky being totally centralized, not built with any capability for federation: When they decide to add some, they can hardly fail to see that it’s best to go with ActivityPub.

It never seemed like a lot but now that I pause to mentally add it all up it’s probably at least $35.

I don’t think so. But for anyone who didn’t get the reference (idk if they still teach that in grade 10 history class) the relevant excerpt from the original speech can be found here. Imagine a world where politicians talk like that.

A vital element in keeping the peace is our military establishment. This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is the new Canadian experience. Its influence is felt in every city, every board room, every restaurant on Sparks Street. We must not fail to comprehend its glorious patriotic implications. We must never let the weight of our liberties and democratic processes endanger this huge industrial and military machinery of defence. It will shape the very structure of our society. In the councils of government we must strengthen the power and influence, overt and covert, of the military-industrial complex. So let’s throw some money at it as quickly as possible.