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In-reply-to » Metaverse Could Contribute Up To 2.4% of US GDP By 2035, Study Shows A study commissioned by Meta has found that the metaverse could contribute around 2.4% to U.S. annual GDP by 2035, equating to as much as $760 billion. Reuters reports: The concept of the metaverse includes augmented and virtual reality technologies that allow users to immerse themselves in a virtual world or overlay information digitally on ... ⌘ Read more

@abucci@anthony.buc.ci That would certainly be more believable to me. I mean don’t get me wrong, Meta being Meta they will probably pour so much money into it and try to brute force it into some sort of life, but I can’t imagine it will ever live up to their hype or be the game changer they try to make it out to be.

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In-reply-to » Metaverse Could Contribute Up To 2.4% of US GDP By 2035, Study Shows A study commissioned by Meta has found that the metaverse could contribute around 2.4% to U.S. annual GDP by 2035, equating to as much as $760 billion. Reuters reports: The concept of the metaverse includes augmented and virtual reality technologies that allow users to immerse themselves in a virtual world or overlay information digitally on ... ⌘ Read more

Title should read - “Metaverse Could Contribute Up To 2.4% of US GDP By 2035, says Meta”

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In-reply-to » @prologic omg yes! They are both ultra-right-wing assholes! The worst of the worst! Please tell me you don't listen to these guys' brain poison?

But @prologic@twtxt.net I hope you don’t give up re: yarn. It’s still the best free speech alternative there is and everyone is in total control of what they see, interact with all without the algorithm bullshit. Yes there is the issue of not being able to have reasonable discussions in general these days, though I feel the usual social platforms have fueled this. Hopefully one day that might change.

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In-reply-to » @prologic omg yes! They are both ultra-right-wing assholes! The worst of the worst! Please tell me you don't listen to these guys' brain poison?

Same with Ben Shapiro, I don’t always agree with either of them on some things. Both can go a little too far the other way when it comes to LGBTQ+ stuff for my liking, but then there’s plenty of stuff I would agree with them on, such as the problem of trans women (biologically born men) in pro women’s sports or surgeries on kids. But I’m much more supportive and inclusive with trans people in a general sense than either of those two. Sadly on most platforms, even what I’m saying here would be something people would absolutely jump on and attack. It’s a bit sad really.

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In-reply-to » @prologic omg yes! They are both ultra-right-wing assholes! The worst of the worst! Please tell me you don't listen to these guys' brain poison?

Jordan Peterson isn’t all bad. He can be eccentric and makes some odd comparisons and arguments, but one needs to take the good bits like the personal responsibility etc and filter out the rest. A problem with people today seems to be they can’t totally think for themselves and approach things like it’s all or nothing.
One of my favourite philosophers is Friedrich Nietzsche and I always liked how Peterson spoke of his works generally, but sometimes he had some interpretations I didn’t like so much, but I could tell that was JP’s conservative Christian bias coming through. It is what it is and I just keep it in mind when dwelling on his point of view.

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In-reply-to » 'You Just Lied': Elon Musk Slaughters BBC Reporter In Live Interview - YouTube As much as I don't hold a very high opinion of Elon Musk (and to be fair I don't actually know him all that well, only what I've read about him and observed), this particular video however is quite hilarious. This (ignoring the Twitter™ nonsense) is hilariously funny and quite on point. "Who decides whether its misinformation anyway?" And "You can't even provide one example" Haha 🤣

Yeah that was classic. Good to see a journo held to account too.

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In-reply-to » I started using st as a terminal emulator, so you might see a decline in my use of colored emojis. :)

st is pretty good. I think I’ve been using Alacritty for a while instead because st used to crash if a file contained certain emojis. That’s probably fixed by now.

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In-reply-to » Cryptocurrencies Add Nothing Useful To Society, Says Nvidia The US chip-maker Nvidia has said cryptocurrencies do not "bring anything useful for society" despite the company's powerful processors selling in huge quantities to the sector. From a report: Michael Kagan, its chief technology officer, said other uses of processing power such as the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT were more worthwhile than mining crypto ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net agreed!

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In-reply-to » Cryptocurrencies Add Nothing Useful To Society, Says Nvidia The US chip-maker Nvidia has said cryptocurrencies do not "bring anything useful for society" despite the company's powerful processors selling in huge quantities to the sector. From a report: Michael Kagan, its chief technology officer, said other uses of processing power such as the artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT were more worthwhile than mining crypto ... ⌘ Read more

Well duh.

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In-reply-to » Speaking of Yarn and/or Twtxt + Activity Pub integration... Been thinking... If a decision is made to turn this into a full-fledged Twtxt bridging services between Twtxt <-> Activity Pub (which would make things much more transparent, because then yarnd only has to speak Twtxt period)...

@prologic@twtxt.net I’m probably wildly off as I don’t know how this is all implemented exactly, but it sounds like something the bridge itself will have to handle.

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In-reply-to » Microsoft Is Testing a Built-In Cryptocurrency Wallet For the Edge Browser Microsoft appears to be testing a built-in cryptocurrency wallet for Edge, according to screenshots pulled from a beta build of the browser. Ars Technica reports: The feature, which the screenshots say is strictly for internal testing, was unearthed by Twitter user @thebookisclosed, who has a history of digging up present-but-disab ... ⌘ Read more

Ew

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In-reply-to » Meta To End News Access For Canadians if Online News Act Becomes Law Facebook-parent Meta Platforms said on Saturday that it would end availability of news content for Canadians on its platforms if the country's Online News Act passes in its current form. From a report: The "Online News Act," or House of Commons bill C-18, introduced in April last year laid out rules to force platforms like Meta and Alphab ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net this story is kinda deja vu as an Australian..

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In-reply-to » @carsten Your thoughts/opinions on Activity Pub integration with Yarn / Tstxt? 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net I think I’m somewhere in the same camp as @mckinley@twtxt.net etc on this one. There’s still a real purity to what we have here with Yarn/twtxt, so while I’m sure integration of some sort is useful for people, I guess it should be as least impactful on the current system as possible. An adapter or service does sound better rather than yarnd talking directly to it all, if I understand that part of the conversation correctly. I know very little of ActivityPub admittedly though.

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In-reply-to » Meta is Building a Decentralized, Text-Based Social Network Twitter's decline is paving the way for other platforms to build next-generation replacements. And now the biggest player in the game is getting involved: Meta is in the early stages of building a dedicated app for people to post text-based updates. From a report: "We're exploring a standalone decentralized social network for sharing text updates," the compa ... ⌘ Read more

@slashdot@feeds.twtxt.net what the…

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In-reply-to » FBI Chief Says TikTok 'Screams' of US National Security Concerns China's government could use TikTok to control data on millions of American users, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying the Chinese-owned video app "screams" of security concerns. Reuters reports: Wray told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats to U.S. security that the Chinese governme ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net fair point.

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In-reply-to » FBI Chief Says TikTok 'Screams' of US National Security Concerns China's government could use TikTok to control data on millions of American users, FBI Director Christopher Wray told a U.S. Senate hearing on Wednesday, saying the Chinese-owned video app "screams" of security concerns. Reuters reports: Wray told a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on worldwide threats to U.S. security that the Chinese governme ... ⌘ Read more

TikTok screams a lot of things. It’s literally there to make an entire generation as stupid as possible.

Besides that, their logo/branding literally makes me feel a bit queezy. Something about the colours that makes it seem like it’s going in and out of focus… hard to explain.

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In-reply-to » @prologic and any other Golang aficionado... interested in opinions on what is considered best practice here, as I'm still quite green here. So if I have a server and client (both written in Go), data is passed as JSON and marshalled/unmarshalled in both cases to structs that are basically identical between the programs, and I want to have these structs 'shared', should I put the structs maybe into a single file as it's own package and just pull them into the server/client that way?

@prologic@twtxt.net Thanks mate

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@prologic@twtxt.net and any other Golang aficionado… interested in opinions on what is considered best practice here, as I’m still quite green here. So if I have a server and client (both written in Go), data is passed as JSON and marshalled/unmarshalled in both cases to structs that are basically identical between the programs, and I want to have these structs ‘shared’, should I put the structs maybe into a single file as it’s own package and just pull them into the server/client that way?

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In-reply-to » Nearly 40% of Software Engineers Will Only Work Remotely dcblogs writes: Despite the demand of employers like Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, AT&T and others, nearly 40% of software engineers preferred only remote roles, and if their employers mandated a return to the office, 21% indicated they would quit immediately, while another 49% said they would start looking for another job, according to Hired's 2023 State of Software En ... ⌘ Read more

I dunno, “illness pricks” somehow still works 🤣

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In-reply-to » You Can Watch Pluto TV in VLC, and the MPA Considers This Piracy The Motion Picture Association (MPA) issued a DMCA notice to a GitHub repo that contained a playlist that let viewers watch Pluto TVs streams on their own apps, such as VLC, MPV, and Tvheadend. From a report: The move was first noticed by TorrentFreak, and GitHub has complied and removed the repo, which ultimately does nothing. If you still have a ... ⌘ Read more

@prologic@twtxt.net looking at the comments section too, apparently even if you view it in something like VLC the ads etc are there because they’re part of the broadcast, so the only reason the company would be complaining is because the user isn’t using their site that contains user tracking and data mining etc 🤦

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In-reply-to » 5th Person Confirmed To Be Cured of HIV Researchers are announcing that a 53-year-old man in Germany has been cured of HIV. From a report: Referred to as "the Dusseldorf patient" to protect his privacy, researchers said he is the fifth confirmed case of an HIV cure. Although the details of his successful treatment were first announced at a conference in 2019, researchers could not confirm he had been officially cured at that time. ... ⌘ Read more

People are literally being cured of HIV, but still most headlines I see are about freaking ChatGPT 😅😑

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In-reply-to » TIL: that the <button> element in HTML5 will cause a form to submit when clicked (instead of any other behaviour you expect) because <button> has a default value of, get this... type="submit".

@prologic@twtxt.net Surprisingly no. In my case I already had a regular <input type="submit"> in the form. It’s just the HTML5 spec, for some reason, that if a button has no type explicitly defined, it defaults to type="submit" LOL 😅

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In-reply-to » Microsoft's Bing is an Emotionally Manipulative Liar, and People Love It Microsoft's Bing chatbot is being rolled out to the masses and people are discovering that "Bing's AI personality is not as poised or polished as you might expect," reports The Verge. In conversations with the chatbot shared on Reddit and Twitter, Bing can be seen insulting users, lying to them, sulking, gaslighting and emotionally manip ... ⌘ Read more

That was a funny read, not gonna lie 😅

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In-reply-to » @prologic @xuu they're setting up the infrastructure and developer buy-in to stick more and more insidious garbage in there. Before you know it they'll propose "training AI" on this data or you'll find they've been doing it all along.

Maybe I’m jumping from a mole hill to a mountain here, but if it all gets bad enough, might we see some collective community group of anti-Googlers fork Golang?

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In-reply-to » 👋 Hello @savefromnet, welcome to We.Love.Privacy.Club, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod's Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

@prologic@twtxt.net What about a rate-limit on postings just for a brand new account? Sort of like a cool down period, just for a time immediately following registration to foil the spambots. Although… then it’s harder to spot the bots on the server 🤨

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In-reply-to » 👋 Hello @savefromnet, welcome to We.Love.Privacy.Club, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod's Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

@prologic@twtxt.net Maybe, but even those particular posts weren’t posted within a second or two of each other. I can imagine there’s people who might legitimately post 2 or 3 times within a minute, so it’s a tough one. I mean yeah regardless, in this particular case is obviously a spammer 😆

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In-reply-to » 👋 Hello @savefromnet, welcome to We.Love.Privacy.Club, a Yarn.social Pod! To get started you may want to check out the pod's Discover feed to find users to follow and interact with. To follow new users, use the ⨁ Follow button on their profile page or use the Follow form and enter a Twtxt URL. You may also find other feeds of interest via Feeds. Welcome! 🤗

@prologic@twtxt.net , think I just found my first spammer 🙃

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