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@fu @ixi I still have my old livejournal clone account, with its built-in feed readers (plural). Handy.

@mlinksva @evan Good times. I ended up sniping dent number 10,000 on 2008-07-03, and dent 10,000,000 on 2009-09-14. There was hidden functionality where, instead of "@foo", you could do "T FOO" (and it had to be uppercase) to link another user, after a meme in an IRC channel we were in.

@ixi This is why livejournal was the only good social media.

@evan oh my god, I clicked and then I got a deja vu from that old profile picture. I never really knew who you were or what exactly you did but I always saw your posts pop up on identi.ca back then and I probably saw it a hundred times. You’re like the MySpace Tom of the Fediverse!

One thing that's interesting is that this post might not be "the first post on the fediverse" in the future.

If tumblr joins, there are a few posts there from before 2008, so we could say they're the first posts.

There might already be some AP-enabled WordPress blogs with posts earlier than this one.

That might not be a fair way to measure, but it's definitely interesting to think about.

@evan oh nice, my old profile still exists https://identi.ca/pfefferle 😍

@evan just found https://notiz.blog/2010/03/05/ostatus-the-next-generation-of-openmicroblogging/

@evan Bet this original post is still public, readable, and working FAR after the first proprietary tweet and the first FB or IG post is just in some internet archive and functionally only readable there.

#OpenWeb for the win.

@evan Thank you for giving me some of the best experiences on social media, and for making Laconica, which was the application I championed for hosted applications at Sourceforge.

@evan Great to see this bit of #history.

#Fedi15

@clacke Paracetamol is the default here, probably by inertia like you said. But yes, learning that alternating is safe, and means you can have another dose at 3.5-4 hours was fantastic when I was all fever-y with Covid

@daedalus The person to speak to is Robert C. Martin. It's from Clean Code. I've personally recorded programming sessions (not just mine) and noticed just how much time nothing happens on the screen during "coding" sessions. Various sources (e.g., The Mythical Man- Month, and this one https://blog.ndepend.com/mythical-man-month-10-lines-per-developer-day/) estimate average dev lines of code per day at between 10 - 100. Let's call it 55 LOC/day. Average words in a LOC: ~5. 275 words per day. At 30 wpm, < 10 mins of typing code/day.

We spend roughly 10x as much time reading code as we do writing it. A tool or technique that makes you twice as "productive" at writing code *at best* makes you 5% more productive over all. Making your code easier to understand will have 10x the impact. But that doesn't sell tools, so you won't be reading about it in Forbes.

The #Fediverse turned 15 years old today!! Happy #Fedibirthday everyone!!

cc/ @evan @internetarchive

@administrator @MaryRead si desde la web o desde la APP haces clic sobre -> @radioalmaina <- te tiene que salir la opción de seguir :)

@Mer__edith

This same tragic story has been repeated in so many fields of human knowledge & endeavor: women raise the alarm about the dangers to society or specific marginalized groups, and suffer the grim personal & professional costs of speaking out, while men focus solely on their professional growth, don't rock the boat even if they do have any doubts, and only express them once their position is unassailable, but the harms are baked in & it's too late to close the barn doors.

“the data centers can flood as the climate (chaos) encroaches, we can run out of the water to cool the data centers, the surveillance pipelines can melt as the climate becomes more erratic and less hospitable. “ https://www.fastcompany.com/90892235/researcher-meredith-whittaker-says-ais-biggest-risk-isnt-consciousness-its-the-corporations-that-control-them by @Mer__edith

Ordinary harms (like replicating and naturalizing structures of marginalization that entrench historical inequality) can be outweighed by ordinary benefits (like tech guys getting rich). What Hinton is worried about is existential risk (ghost stories).

@david_colquhoun when criminal is defined as "librarian" or "journalist" how does your analysis change?