Since we now face a threat of large-scale de-anonymization, a reasonable countermeasure might be using AI to make one's writing style less personally identifying, in order to try and retain some pseudonymity.
I think the point is that if the same shooters had only more 'normal' guns available to them, they would not have been able to cause nearly as much death and injury before being stopped.
I'm really thinking mostly about the hardware part here, and maybe just enough layers of the stack to feel like an integrated hardware setup. Let the nerds play with whatever software they want above that.
To go ahead and dream a bit:
I'd hope for an online configurator like the one SoftIron's HyperCloud has [1] but instead of "talk to a sales rep", show a price for what you just configured, like you're configuring a macbook.
Relatedly, there should be a standard rack form factor in the size category of NUCs and Mac Minis, rather than having to go all the way to the 19 inch monster racks that medium to large businesses use. If it were nailed down to the point of being able to blind mate (just learned that term from Oxide's article here!) gear into it, that would be kind of perfect.
This all has me wondering, if I just want to play with stuff in this space as an individual homelabber who earns a tech salary and wants a nicely designed rack-mounted alternative to a mess of unorganized NUCs and cables and whatnot, what are my best options?
I recall hearing that Google and Bing have a nearly insurmountable lead in terms of raw ability to index the web, and that all other "alternative" search engines are using Google and/or Bing under the hood. Is this the case for Kagi? Or is Kagi actually maintaining and drawing upon their own independent index?
wondering if you're talking about a twitter event pre-Elon (so people on the right were mad at the twitter exec) or post-Elon (so people on the left were mad at the twitter exec).
Guessing the former, since that would put the juxtaposition you're highlighting in left vs right terms...
I've set up feeds that watch many of the popular instances, using score thresholds (a weighted sum of boosts, likes and replies), so that the feeds just get posts that break a previous threshold I had set (the point being to just see some of the breakout popular trending posts and links, sort of rolling my own algorithm). Every time a post appears in these feeds, I up the threshold again, to a bit under the score of that new post.
In a downward trend, I might reasonably expect that this set of feeds I've set up would go quiet, as new posts fail to hit the high water mark I had set at the peak. Instead, my experience over the past couple months has been the opposite. Breakout posts are getting scores that have kept me pushing my thresholds higher and higher. I don't know what this says about overall usage and engagement, but I think it at least suggests that in certain ways related to popular posts, it's continuing to go up and to the right.
That is, join the fediverse. Stop being a walled garden. That seems passé now that we have millions of people able to follow, @-mention and reply from one domain to another.
Twitter's business model is already completely chucked and will need a ground-up rethink, so we might as well build from this more modern starting point.
"oh yeah, I have plenty else going on. I'm the head of other innovative companies. I don't need this crap over at twitter."
At this point, twitter's goal (whether headed by Elon or someone else) should be to join the fediverse, and be accepted by other large instances for federation with them.
I mean ok, yes it's part of the web and there are legit reasons to link to content there but, you know, make the effort to not do that without a really good reason.
The replacement for twitter is the fediverse. It has already been growing by leaps and bounds since Elon's takeover.
https://the-federation.info/
People will say "mastodon" a lot and they're not wrong, but the relationship is that mastodon has proven itself the breakout killer app of the fediverse. Click around a bit and you'll find other types of instances like Pleroma, PeerTube, etc.
Basically it's a set of open standards (in particular ActivityPub) developed to do a decentralized version of what twitter and similar social apps do. And no lock-in to a commercial platform or app or protocol.
I think it just took some parts of the media a few days to sort through the noise and pick up what the most important developments actually were, and perhaps get the necessary confirmations on the meaningful developments (and lack of confirmation on the wrong ones).
It takes any profession time to correct mistakes and get the story right, but the media have the unenviable task of trying to do that very very quickly.