Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as
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#Netsec Professional. Whitehat #Hacker. #Demoscene spectator. Nerd.
I'm a fan of #Linux, #FOSS, #Decentralization (not Crypto), Crypto (as in #Cryptography), and #Socialism. Always #Antifascist & #Antiwar.
Seattle, WA
Joined Feb 2021
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@Gargron posted about it a while back.
To paraphrase: quote tweeting takes a response that should be delivered to an individual, and instead delivers it to your followers in a performative way that can lead to dogpiling. Even if you're trying to do something "good" like ridicule a bad take, you're just giving that bad take a wider audience.
@MickeyMaousse @finlaydag33k The fact that you can input the names of living artists and have the AI emulate their style is a major issue. These GAN art generators are novel and entertaining, but the industry is very inappropriately pushing for this to be some sort of creator tool, and refusing to discuss how it could constitute infringement.
I view it as extremely unethical, outside of personal entertainment purposes.
Alex Vranas
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So it appears Microsoft, GitHub (so M$, twice) and OpenAI are being sued for violating copyright law by reproducing open-source code using AI (GitHub Copilot) without attribution and such.
What do you think about this lawsuit?
Personally, while I do think attribution should be there, they are making too big of a fuzz about it, considering those same people probably got their code from SO or something...
I understand the idea behind AI-assisted coding, and it could be very useful in the long term, but if it is regurgitating existing licensed code verbatim without attribution, it is just a tool for open source license infringement.
Until they can ensure that code is properly attributed, it shouldn't be productized. I firmly expect them to lose these lawsuits.
@A8bit Spam posts like this will earn your instance a place on other instances' blocklists.
If you want to be boosted, post good content.
Best Twitter alternative: Dwitter.
It's like Twitter, but you can only post JavaScript canvas.
Alex Vranas
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This one is for all the new people on #Mastodon: did you know that the #fediverse has more than just a microblogging replacement? And that they can all interoperate with your Mastodon account?
Check them out!
Facebook replacement: Friendica
Instagram replacement: Pixelfed
YouTube replacement: PeerTube
Spotify replacement: Funkwhale
MeetUp replacement: Mobilizon
Reddit replacement: Lemmy
Podcasting replacement: Castopod
GoodReads replacement: BookWyrm
Alex Vranas
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content warnings meta
hey new peeps from twitter who're makin a big fuss about content warnings
y'know how the saying goes
"when in rome, disregard local customs and force the romans to do as you do"
...right?
Thank you to my 800+ new followers. The fact that my viral Tweet gained me more followers here than there speaks volumes!
I plan to follow a lot of you back, but I have a lot of profiles to review through before I do that.
Alex Vranas
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Lotta talk about replacing Twitter.
The better dialogue is how to get people to re-evaluate how they engage with the internet.
Personally, I'm convinced of two things:
- You can't 1:1 replace Twitter unless it's a similar top-down walled garden.
- Most people probably shouldn't want a Twitter replacement, since Twitter is bad for us.
Instead of finding/molding/creating a replacement, we should encourage people (and ourselves!) to focus on what they like most about internet interaction.
Alex Vranas
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I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's
Alex Vranas
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American Christians can be the most unchristian people. This is a Baptist church in my neighborhood.
Jesus didn't hate the poor, and neither should you.
Same with folks who have "we don't call 911" signs in front of their homes. Might as well stay "rob this house when we're gone, there are guns to steal".
There is way too large an overlap between people who say "I refuse to live my life in fear" and people who carry a gun everywhere they go because they're convinced people want to kill them.
My site is powered by data offered up by https://www.pouet.net
An excellent resource if you're interested in this flavor of retro computing.
I've gained 400+ followers in a day because I went viral on the birdsite, and if anything, I hope I encouraged people to Google "demoscene" after reading my bio.
For a crash course, I'll shamelessly plug my own Demoscene website: https://prods.page
People have asked why I don't just join an existing instance instead of running my own.
C'mon. Look at my domainhack. I pretty much had to.
- Pronouns
- He/Him
- Website
- https://www.breakdecks.com
Admin
#Netsec Professional. Whitehat #Hacker. #Demoscene spectator. Nerd.
I'm a fan of #Linux, #FOSS, #Decentralization (not Crypto), Crypto (as in #Cryptography), and #Socialism. Always #Antifascist & #Antiwar.
Seattle, WA
Joined Feb 2021
