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grappler
·4 ay önce·discuss
Since we now face a threat of large-scale de-anonymization, a reasonable countermeasure might be using AI to make one's writing style less personally identifying, in order to try and retain some pseudonymity.

    https://simonlermen.substack.com/p/large-scale-online-deanonymization
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47139716
grappler
·4 yıl önce·discuss
"oh yeah, I have plenty else going on. I'm the head of other innovative companies. I don't need this crap over at twitter."

At this point, twitter's goal (whether headed by Elon or someone else) should be to join the fediverse, and be accepted by other large instances for federation with them.
grappler
·4 yıl önce·discuss
There is an actual, honest-to-goodness, standardized, current, Shell Command Language now. It's part of POSIX.1-2017 or, if you like, IEEE Std 1003.1-2017.

Perhaps not surprisingly, it's bourne shell, not bash. But still, it's an actual published standard all can refer to when the language in question is "shell scripts", i.e. .sh files, or "shell commands" in some context where a shell command is called for (e.g. portable makefiles).

  https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3_chap02.html
grappler
·10 yıl önce·discuss
I approach social media (twitter in particular) this way: “try to be a good neuron”.

Meaning: social media forms a global hive mind. It determines what a lot of people see and hear about the world. Witness the flare up recently over the influence of “fake news” going viral.

A neuron's role, as one tiny piece of a brain, a neural network, or, for my purposes, a hive mind, is to take in a number of inputs and filter them, firing occasionally to convey some distillation of the inputs received.

Anyone who reshares highly inaccurate or incendiary content is being a bad neuron.

If instead you gather a range of news and opinion from a variety of sources and then, being very selective, reshare the one or two things each day (or week) with the best combinations of reputability, newsworthiness, timeliness, importance to current problems society is facing, and exploration of new ideas, then you're being a good neuron.

This in my opinion is the best use of publicly shared social media. If lots of people did this the world would be better off.

There may be career risk in sharing things related to politics, but that's a risk I'm willing to take. Without the freedom to do that, I might as well be in a repressive totalitarian society, and now more than ever that is something we should fight to prevent.