@ben I am not using Mastodon. Is it still a toot? 😜

@ben 1. All podcasts have RSS feeds.
2. I have an RSS feed.
3. Therefore, I have a podcast.

This is a great example of a logical fallacy. 🙌

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_fallacy

@zip

Yes, Apple Podcasts requires an RSS feed to register your podcast, and this is the platform for most podcasts to then propagate throughout the "podiverse". And Spotify's new hosting platform creates an RSS feed (but doesn't immediately make it public, that's up to the podcast owner - Spotify would much rather you didn't host your podcast anywhere else).

But Spotify and others also offer exclusive shows (i.e. not podcasts). At least they did. And some podcasts don't disclose their feed so other services can pick it up. Some shows I've seen only publish an audio file on a web page or exclusively on Soundcloud for example.

@x_cli

Definitely. A feed can also be styled to be the website itself. See for example: https://axbom.com/carefully/rss/

The content will be rendered to fit whatever client decides to use the feed.

Personally it is rare that I visit the website of a podcast, even my own. 😅

If you don't have an RSS feed you don't have a podcast.

And that is a hill I will die on.

Each book I read teaches me something new. I naturally reflect on how insights and learnings fit within my personal, current context. I can read a book again years later and take away something completely different from it, because I am in a different place.

A book summary by AI teaches me nothing.

The reading process is about my thinking blending with the author's thinking. When my own thinking isn't involved, and I'm not participating, the value gets lost.

Så jäkla jobbigt för polisen när den egna utvärderingen visar att åtgärderna de själva gillar inte funkar för att minska brottsligheten. Bäst att gömma undan den redan diarieförda rapporten.

Apropå visitationszoner.

https://www.dn.se/ledare/isobel-hadley-kamptz-visitationszoner-ger-inte-minskad-brottslighet-det-vill-polisen-dolja/

@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/