Volker WeberHow likely is it that you will still be on Mastodon a year from now?
#BOOST OK
✅ Certainly
⭕ Not sure
❌ No way
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Samuel Rajkumar
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Alex LevensonI’ll try again, this time with hashtags:
I want to commission a 3D artist to create some models suitable for 3D printing / CAD / CNC (not necessarily for nice 3D renders). I’d also like to release the models open source / Creative Commons once they’re done. I don’t really know how to get started with finding someone, does anyone have any recommendations? #art #commission #CAD #3D #CNC #3dprinting
The models would be of “Spomenik” monuments:
https://www.spomenikdatabase.org/photo-directory
Polychrome 
The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
Mumbai PausedFediverse experience is better if you stop looking for familiar people from Twitter. Also, a great space if you are an information addict.
Hank GreenI am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”
Peter Griffin ☕What was your first experience of the social internet?
(I would do this as a poll, but mastodon.social only allows four options.)
• BBSes
• Mailing lists
• IRC
• Personal pages (Geocities, Tripod, etc.) and their guest books
• Comment sections on web sites
• Chat rooms
• Messengers (ICQ etc)
• Forums
• Blogs
• Early networking sites (say which)
• Social media as we know it now (say which)
Have I left out anything?
Please boost if you find this interesting?
AnilI know a good number of Masto admins and moderators follow me here, as we get Fastly’s Fast Forward program up & running (designed to support open source & the good internet), what would you ideally like to see as support for the fediverse from Fastly? CDN services, the edge compute platform, security protection, etc.? https://www.fastly.com/fast-forward
Mogh, A.R.T. Worf@vinayaravind "Blood is thicker than water" once meant the opposite. The full quote was "Blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb" - basically that birth didn't matter as much as community.
Also "Jack of all trades, master of none" was "Jack of all trades, master of none, though oftentimes better than master of one."
Kiran JonnalagaddaHow does one access TikTok from India? I've tried installing the app from a US account and using a US IP via VPN, but no content loads. What trick am I missing?
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