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  • August 1, 2023 6:41pm

    Currently reading this interesting take : The Fediverse has a Mental Health Problem by @thisismissem@hachyderm.io

    medium.com/@thisismi…

  • August 1, 2023 6:07pm

    I’m using OpenAI Whisper (locally, without access to cloud) to transcribe 3h of French audio recording into text.

    I’m actually really impressed. It’s not fast but it’s doing the job.

    I had to amplify the audio signal +3db to increase the amplitude but other than that it’s amazing.

    Very precise.

  • July 31, 2023 6:09pm

    Wow #BBC joining the #fediverse

    social.bbc/about

  • July 31, 2023 1:46am

    Holy Crap, that’s so cool! #AI #Khoj

    Yes Locally!

    docs.khoj.dev

  • July 30, 2023 3:45pm

    The #War Won’t End Until #Putin Loses Offering the #Russian president a face-saving compromise will only enable future #aggression.

    archive.is/202208011…

  • July 30, 2023 2:12pm

    We have to stop it!

    Unpacking Google’s new “dangerous” Web-Environment-Integrity specification

    #googlebeingevil

    vivaldi.com/blog/goog…

  • July 29, 2023 5:53pm

    Chatter on Science Fiction and International Relations on the #Lawfare podcast, have a great weekend everyone!

    #starwars #startrek #battlestargalactica #GOT #apocalypse

    podverse.fm/episode/y…

  • July 29, 2023 5:30pm

    Seriously? Damn it, we’re not out of the wood, I wouldn’t totally rule out the US becoming a religious theocracy.

    Do you believe in angels? About 7 in 10 U.S. adults do

    ground.news/article/d…

  • July 29, 2023 3:26pm

    Another interesting #mastodon tool

    Combine Remote And Local Timelines

    combine.social

  • July 29, 2023 3:23pm

    Interesting tool for devs

    Explore the #ActivityPub protocol interactively

    ActivityPub.Academy is a learning resource for ActivityPub. The protocol is brought to life by showing Activities sent between different instances in real time!

    activitypub.academy

  • July 29, 2023 5:51am

    Interesting…#activitypub

    Vocata/vocata: Vocabulary-Agnostic Transport Agent - #vocata

    codeberg.org/Vocata/vo…

  • New research suggests social media doesn’t fuel political polarization. Oh really?

    July 27, 2023 10:08pm

    This is interesting, but it doesn’t represent the reality for one simple reason : 3 months in social media is a snapshot in a much more complicated issue. Second, the elephant in the room is the fact most of the societal harm done by big tech platforms (and their ever changing algorithms) has been done progressively in the last 15 years. The drill has been done already. A lost of the most impacted people are not even using Facebook daily anymore. Continue reading →

  • July 27, 2023 12:32pm

    Amazing #drone view of the Litli-Hrútur #Volcano eruption youtu.be/LLHl6ZfYk…

    Yeah that Drone suicide itself!

  • So what makes a "good" guru? #TibetanBuddhism

    July 26, 2023 2:11pm

    Context : someone in a survivors support group was asking this question and this was my reply, I’m archiving it on my blog in the hope people stop looking for guru’s, stop losing their discernment in their spiritual journey. What makes a good History teacher? What makes a good social science teacher? Why should we abandon the requirements and expectations we expect and demand from mentors, teachers and give the guru so much power over ourselves, over our lives, over what defines the quest for a spiritual journey? Continue reading →

  • July 26, 2023 12:58am

    The whole point of the #fediverse is to enable “mutual coexistence” on top of a protocol that everyone can build with. We don’t need to agree on everything & we won’t but we can speak & understand each other on the same layer. It’s beautiful ❤️

  • July 26, 2023 12:37am

    Interesting & exciting times!

    Next step for ActivityPub by @manton@manton.org

    Is it possible to implement a social web platform by reading the suite of #ActivityPub specs, and have that new platform be compatible with #Mastodon?

    www.manton.org/2023/07/2…

  • July 25, 2023 9:56pm

    If #Meta was honest.

    realaboutinstagram.netlify.app

  • July 25, 2023 2:53pm

    Such an amateurish and improvised identity switch is, I think, the epitome of the Mollusk way of thinking/working : used to have dogs at his mercy that just have to do things based on his whimps

    mashable.com/article/t…

  • July 25, 2023 1:02pm

    I wish the Twitter cross-posting feature from micro.blog wasn’t centralized to one API access to Twitter, since anyone can get 1500 tweets a month, it would make sense to allow configuring our own API access to Twitter?

  • July 25, 2023 10:12am

    How Signal Walks the Line Between Anarchism and Pragmatism

    archive.ph/2023.07.2…

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