@LeoR1010 Tack Leo! Ja det känns lite overkligt på många sätt. Gäller nu bara att inte ta i för mycket.

I started working again today. Went well, feels good, but wow I feel like the huge project I’m in is going to be quite intense. Definitely fun, but intense.

https://axbom.com/back-to-work/

@steveportigal Wow this was so fun to read and made me think of how much manual creativity we've lost. The closest I came was all the school magazines I was involved in making in the early 90s.

As great as computers can be, we often end up using them for the "wrong" things, and they impose more boundaries than people tend to realise.

«“What is so jarring to me is these are not just Nazi-like statements. These are actual Nazi sentiments,” said Robert Jones, founder of the Public Religion Research Institute, the author of “The Hidden Roots of White Supremacy” and a vocal critic of Trump’s rhetoric.»

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/12/trump-racist-rhetoric-immigrants-00183537

A helpful tip by Alastair here: adding friction to help people consider they might be subject to a scam. In this example his mum’s credit card wrapped in a card holder that urges her to think “Is this a scam?” and to call him.

Makes me want to brainstorm more friction ideas to combat fraud.

https://acuity.design/creating-friction-to-prevent-scamming/

Politiskt motiverad kartläggning av invandrares värderingar är så galet att jag inte finner ord.

Men Persson missar också helt att det redan utförts en sådan studie som publicerades för bara tre år sedan. Vad är det han tänker ska ha hänt sedan dess?

"I den politiska debatten hörs allt oftare en oro för att svenska normer och värderingar hotas av invandring. Så tycks dock inte vara fallet. Medan forskning visar att ett lands kultur är förhållandevis seglivad, tycks personer som migrerar från ett land till ett annat anpassa sig till det nya landets kultur relativt snabbt.

I dag lanseras en ny SNS-rapport, ”Migranters attityder och värderingar”. I den presenterar jag forsknings­resultat som visar att migranter som kommer till ett nytt land förändrar sina värderingar i linje med det nya landets rådande normer förhållandevis snabbt. Detta gäller även i Sverige. Ny statistik visar att migranters attityder och värderingar inom många områden konvergerar med genom­snitts­svenskens redan under de första tio åren i landet."

https://www.svd.se/a/mrVL80/migranters-varderingar-integreras-snabbt

I've noticed it's very hard for me to watch a movie at home without simultaneously tending to distractions on my phone and especially if I watch on my iPad I'm always multitasking.

I hate that it's come to this and I intend to build myself a noisebox to protect myself from myself.

I still think Webmaster is a really good title.

@kolombiken

More here. I’m paraphrasing. Hinton has been spreading his suggestions of AI self-serving agency since he left Google last year.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/08/1105221/geoffrey-hinton-just-won-the-nobel-prize-in-physics-for-his-work-on-machine-learning/

I truly thought it would be more common to own your own domain name today (I bought axbom.com in 1997).

But I do realise it’s still too difficult for most people to wrap their head around a domain name and how to get started.

I wrote this post a couple of years ago but I’m thinking now I should write more of a short primer specifically on why and how you should own a domain.

https://axbom.com/25y/

@kolombiken

Primarily Swedish or English as well? I'll ask around and make a list.

I resisted saying that a recent Nobel prize winner believes the tools will act on 'their own free will' to destroy these websites.

Oh no, I said it.

So much work being put into detecting, correcting and deleting AI content that is infiltrating sources with previously high levels of trust.

How long can humans resist? Surely someone will build a bot that just floods Wikipedia with fake believable content?

https://www.404media.co/the-editors-protecting-wikipedia-from-ai-hoaxes/

@gunchleoc Thanks, these were very good tips. Just adding a content filter took me pretty far. So now in the web interface I don’t see them.

But when using @MonaApp it doesn’t pick up on my filters, so all the spam is in my feed there. So it’s back to relying on the web. Which is fine for now.

Gonna try the other Akkoma settings as well as soon as I have time.

"Hannah Arendt considers humankind in terms of its ever-expanding capabilities. Her analysis reveals a troubling paradox: that as human powers increase through technological and humanistic inquiry, we are less equipped to control the consequences of our actions."

Boom.

https://kobo.com/en-SE/ebook/the-human-condition-27

I’m being targeted in the ongoing fediverse spam attack. It’s hugely annoying and time-consuming. Going to bed now and expecting to wake up to many hundreds of mentions… ☹️If my server breaks there’s always my newsletter. 😅

“Doomerism wasn’t new, but Hinton—who won the Turing Award, the top prize in computing science, in 2018—brought new credibility to a position that many of his peers once considered kooky.”

In this sentence I take issue with the words ‘once considered’, suggesting past-tense. My position is that the present tense, ‘consider’, is still more applicable.

The word ‘kooky’ appears very fitting in this context though.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/08/1105221/geoffrey-hinton-just-won-the-nobel-prize-in-physics-for-his-work-on-machine-learning/

Word for Windows may delete some documents instead of saving them, Microsoft confirms.

Impacts Word for Microsoft 365 version 2409, build 18025.20104.

It arises when users close Word after editing and are prompted to save. Saving may delete(!)

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-word-for-microsoft-365-deletes-some-documents-instead-of-saving-them/

@eobet Valid. 😊

I’ve been experimenting with Bluesky and I’m uncharacteristically tickled by how well they seem to be managing moderation, how easy it is to maintain a chronological timeline of only people I follow, and the ability to verify my own domain name for username purposes.

Worth noting is that Jack Dorsey has deleted his Bluesky account and is no longer on the board. On the board is, however, Jabber / XMPP inventor Jeremie Miller.

https://bsky.app/profile/axbom.com

I obviously won’t be leaving the Fediverse, if that even crossed anyone’s mind, but there are a few people I’d like to see more from – which Bluesky may enable for me.

The idea of having to REGISTER to vote is very foreign to people in Sweden.

In Sweden and many other countries you are automatically registered to vote when you turn 18 (or of legal voting age) and never have to think twice about it.

And yes, people in prison can vote as well.

I don't know how widespread this knowledge is in countries where you have to register.

Automatic eligibility to vote of course only works in countries that enforce mandatory residency registration.

Ordvalet “semikriminell miljö” och ett fullständigt ovidkommande resonemang kring att ha kompisar när man kör motorcykel.

Och: “Enligt egen utsago har han inget med kriminalitet att göra, vilket jag förstås tycker är ett välkommet och relevant besked.”

Hur är det relevant? Det är fascinerande formuleringar.

Vill man förstå mer av vilka Comanches är så är det bra att veta att de tidigare hette Satudarah och bytte namn till Comanches förra året.

https://nyheder.tv2.dk/krimi/2023-05-14-rockerklub-oploeser-sig-selv-paa-grund-af-uenigheder-men-noget-andet-kan-vaere-paa-spil-siger-forfatter

I recommend reading the accounts of people who were scammed out of large amounts of money. It gives you an idea of how these things go down and how someone close to you may be drawn in, even if not on Truth Social.

https://gizmodo.com/truth-social-users-are-losing-ridiculous-sums-of-money-to-scams-2000506604

What efforts are ongoing to save the Internet Archive? I admit I've not at all been on top of developments in the lawsuits against them…

https://artreview.com/the-internet-archive-lawsuit-marks-an-ending-opinion-michelle-santiago-cortes/

@LeoR1010 Wow, det var länge sedan jag blev så sugen på att köpa högtalare!