ChatterMonster

ChatterMonster

fishbowlkraken | @fishbowlkraken@chatter.monster

I make robots that make robots, and sometimes write about robots that make robots. Founder Antithesis Labs, opinions mine.
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Me: It’s not a doll, it’s an action figure.

HR: Fine. You can’t have a Glen from Accounting voodoo action figure impaled outside your cubicle.

@AdrianBowyer I'd imagine demographically us Mastodon users are more in your prime demographic haha. I know I am, been following your work eagerly since the Darwin!

@TechConnectify @hankgreen I don't think this is the future of social media, but I think it might just be part of the future of social networking, and that's more exciting to me.

@marsman2020 it's incredible how many times the community fails to learn this lesson. It happened to me with Onshape, but it seems inevitable with any proprietary "free" CAD at this point.

Things I've learned about Mastodon this week:

1. Photo captions are read by screenreaders for people who have impaired vision. The more descriptive you make them, the more people can appreciate your post.

2. Hashtags should be "camel style" which means you capitalize each word in the tag - this enables screen readers to identify different words in the tag,

3. Reblogging boosts posts and favourites do not.

4. Hashtags are way more important here than on the birdsite.

@filamentcolors @layers once I got Fedifinder to grab all the people I could find from my old Twitter it really started to click, too.

TIP OF THE DAY

Mastodon is not broken.

It's different, and much better. Mastodon by design promotes engagement not asserting influence. It's a dinner party, not a food fight. Most of what you might at first think is deficient is intentional. Before you rush to conclusions, try it for a while. Take part in this new community. Make new friends. Be kind. This is what social media should be. You will be amazed.

@mastodonmigration this was exactly why I got together with a friend and rolled my own instance, didn't want to be part of the flood on the larger servers if I didn't have to be.

Every news outlet should stand up a Mastondon instance for their reporters & staff.

It’ll be great to see GivennameFamilyname@mastodon.famousnewspaper.com or whatever domain they want to use.

Built in verification. Every reporter for the Washington Post on a washpo domain. Every reporter for the New York Times on an NYTimes domain. Etc, etc.

Plus the “local” feed for each instance becomes a feed of all the posts from that institution mixed together — providing extra discovery.

@ChrisPirillo I must admit I do miss the era of "monochrome LCD digital clocks and calculators are cheap and tiny now so let's cram them in every household object."

A look at some of the most beautiful and unusual examples from the first 100 years of the "modern" book cover, since the rise of publishers' bindings circa 1820: https://buff.ly/36aQW24

Composite image of 10 book covers.

@prehensile someone asking the real questions out here finally

@witchy absolutely same, and I can never keep it a surprise even if I do keep from giving it until the event 😅

Forbes is really bad at this.

Forbes cover of Elizabeth Holmes and Sam bank man fried along with headlines about their arrest or conviction for corruption.

@Nash076 I have a Pro W6800 in my workstation (needed the VRAM), so my sense of scale wrt GPU pricing is totally broken 😅 I thought the XTX was priced fine until I saw the comparisons

RT @Rainmaker1973
This algorithm can reconstruct an audio by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in a video. In this experiment, intelligible speech was recovered from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass http://ow.ly/SIdV30n37Hg

@Jake_Vig I don't know you from twitter but I like Frisky Dingo so I hit Follow.

@DMX That shit looks wild, I've never seen one before! Thanks for giving me a new weird retro tech rabbit hole to research!

@lauren @mcr314 He started the Boring company so he'd finally have the tools needed to keep digging after he hit rock bottom. (and to stifle infrastructure obv)

@asadotzler you put a feeling I've had for years into words. Moonshot projects may not always hit their goals but they tend to go a lot farther than most.

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