A big welcome to everyone new to #Mastodon! 👋
You’re going to like it here.
Unlike #Twitter, this place isn’t set up as a race for RTs & likes & feels more like an ongoing conversation. Engagement is high & on the whole, there’s less outrage & more thoughtful content. I’ve been enjoying the chance to get to meet interesting new folks.
Tip: Start with an #introduction & share your interests. @feditips is a helpful follow to get oriented too.
When I watched #Snowpiercer, I thought "hey, this is is a good show, but you have to look past the ridiculous premise that the Earth is ending and the best solution the world's 'smartest' billionaire can come up with is some stupid train that for some reason goes round & round the planet trying not to freeze".
But there's been a lot of billionaire news recently. Now I'm starting to think the premise seems pretty solid.
#Twitter #Elon #Reddit #Billionaires #Enshitification #Oceangate
I just burned a bunch of hours for a client because they consulted Google Bard for legal advice and got website requirements that were contradictory.
I did my best to carry out the changes, but they didn't make sense. I couldn't get it right. After a few failed attempts, I finally asked what was behind the request.
They told me Bard told them they had to do something. I thought Bard was the name of their legal counsel.
Well, if their lawyers were telling them it must be so, I'd better go along as I'm not a lawyer.
Then I realized... No! Bard is Google Bard!
I started looking up answers myself and quickly came to the conclusion that the stupid AI gave them the wrong "answers" It only took me about 15 minutes total to get a real answer and then confirm it by reading the actual text of the law.
Thanks a lot AI.
@scafaria ok, here's an even funnier version of the Twitter self-DDOS.
This is a video of my video of Twitter self-DDOSing itself played from a Tweet while the bug is still active and the page itself continues to flood Twitter with requests.
Now notice the trending topics in the sidebar: #TwitterDown, WTF Twitter, Rate Limit Exceeded, Damn Twitter
This might be the most perfect screen video ever recorded. 😆
@Andres yeah and almost certainly this has something to do with them shutting off anonymous access to Twitter content.
There must have been an insane nest of logic that the devs had to tiptoe through to make the service workable as a private only service.
I presume that the Twitter client didn't anticipate the possibility that Twitter has zero content for it... or maybe someone decided to push to production, pack up, and walk out the door in a blaze of glory.