Martin Matovu

@matovius
27 Followers
222 Following
297 Posts
Web developer | Svelte Aficionado | Co-founder of @webwarestudio
PronounsHe/him
My websitehttps://matovius.dev
Webware Studiohttps://webware.studio
Martin MatovuMar 1
Dwight SilvermanMar 1

Head's up, Mastodon users: There appears to be a coordinated effort to impersonate relatively high-profile people who have accounts on various instances but who have not used them in a while.

I've gotten several follow notifications - and a couple of DMs - from impersonators of people I know. The bogus accounts have lots of underscores in the handles, and they repost items from the past, sometimes years old. If you spot this, please report, do not engage, and then block.

Pls boost.

Martin MatovuMar 1
xeniax ⏚Mar 1
Please take care of your back
Martin MatovuMar 1
Simple Sabotage Field ManualMar 1
Use wrong addresses.
Martin MatovuFeb 16
Chris FerdinandiFeb 16
⚓️ New Article: Cutting the Discord https://gomakethings.com/cutting-the-discord/ #WebDev #FrontEndDeveloper #100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie
Cutting the Discord

Last week, Discord announced they were going to be shifting to an invasive age-verification system for all users. You either submit to a facial scan to verify you age, or get defaulted to a teen-user experience unless their AI infers that you must be an adult based on other unspecified data. It’s creepy and invasive. Let’s talk about why it’s problem, alternatives to Discord, and what this means for my own community.

Martin MatovuFeb 13
Gabriele SveltoFeb 12
Don't anthropomorphize LLMs, language is important. Say "the bot generated some text" not "the AI replied". Use "this document contains machine-generated text" not "this work is AI-assisted". See how people squirm when you call out their slop this way.
Martin MatovuFeb 2
Man, things just keep getting stupider and stupider. What a world we live in!
Martin MatovuJan 8
Simple Sabotage Field ManualJan 8
Boycott all movies, entertainments, concerts, newspapers which are in any way connected with the quisling authorities.
Martin MatovuJan 6
Simple Sabotage Field ManualJan 6
Do your work poorly and blame it on bad tools, machinery, or equipment.
Show threadMartin MatovuJan 2
And now I just got an email from them telling me that the email address I used to sign up is my username. Unfortunately for me, I've already tried it and it doesn't fucking work.
Show threadMartin MatovuJan 2
What a nightmare of a user experience, my gosh!