The TOS email says "We explicitly prohibit the scraping of user data for unauthorized purposes, e.g. archival or large language model (LLM) training. We want to make it clear that training LLMs on the data of Mastodon users on our instances, is not permitted."

Presumably this only applies to mastodon.social itself. I mean, if your post federates to Threads it's probably getting scraped for AI training over there.

With all the drama going on at WordPress right now I keep seeing people in various places saying "It's time to fork WordPress!" seemingly oblivious to the fact that it was already forked in 2018 over the block editor, and that fork just released version 2. Also the organization behind it is 100% community funded and democratically governed.

https://www.classicpress.net/

#wordpress #classicpress

My adventures putting Linux Mint with Budgie Desktop on an old 2010 MacBook Pro 13" someone gave me and getting everything to work and look nice. It's a dual-boot setup because I didn't want to remove macOS from it in case installing Linux went sideways. I've booted lots of Intel Macs from Linux Live discs/drives but this was my first time actually installing Linux to Mac hardware which wasn't without issues.

https://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2024/05/2010-mintbook-pro.html

#macbook #linuxmint #budgie

Source: https://ilovelibraries.org/article/i-will-always-be-on-the-side-of-the-libraries-a-conversation-with-neil-gaiman/

@neilhimself

#libraries

I see Mastodon v4.1.2 now has thread lines on conversations, but it's not implemented very well IMO. This user script still does a MUCH better job of making it clearer who is talking to who:

https://github.com/afontenot/userjs/blob/master/mastodon/mastodon-threaded-replies.user.js

#github #mastodon #threads #conversations #userScript

Digging through the attic for dead electronics to recycle and ended up assembling a functional 32-bit PC, so what else to do with it but install Windows 98 SE?

Also found my Wacom Pen Partner tablet, which still works despite being over 25 years old. Installed some old digital art apps for it. Found a gameport joystick so installed old games too.

Doing a clean Win98 install in 2023 reminds me of many reasons I'm glad I don't *have* to use it daily anymore.

#windows98 #wacom #OldComputers

Well I like that there's no algorithm deciding for me what I see.

But I also unfollow/mute/block people who post too prolifically, and instead of following people following hashtags for topics often turns up more interesting content from different posters.

I also tend to look at the "Explore > Posts" feed for variety and to see what's popular on the platform.

(I'm using the webapp, not all the native apps have these features)

A recent macOS update seems to have broken my v2.0 XP-PEN driver. After some testing various versions, v2.16 works, though you have to sacrifice the hotkeys working in some apps due to a bug. Details in the updated blog post:
https://offworldgirl.blogspot.com/2022/01/xp-pen-display-tablet-m1-mac-express.html

#DisplayTablet #drawing #XP-PEN #drivers #fix #macOS