Notices by Tomat0 (tomat0@mastodon.social)

Incredibly insightful article attempting to explain how modern web services/platforms are made to intentionally suck.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/

Not only does Twitter has a bug which randomly logs people out, but all login buttons have been removed except for the "Sign-Up With Google" button.

Really sticking it to Big Tech there, Elon.

IMO the big takeaway from this has less to do with AI and more to do with the fact that channeling your passion into your job is not a safe bet.

One of the best takeaways I got from listening to the LibrePlanet talks was the idea that when one layer of the web becomes prohibitively unfree, you can move down the communication stack and work sideways.

What is it with FOSS projects and having the most unsearchable names possible?

You'll have a project like Element where doing any sort of looking up yields you everything else named Element.