Thankful Machine

@thankfulmachine@oldbytes.space
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HARD/SOFT TINKERER TYPE 4, creating a nu wave in the retro scene.

Studying retro computer and console platforms, systems/graphics/sound programming.

I'd appreciate you pinning an #introduction toot before following! It's good for you and everyone else!

Trying to be thankful for something every day!

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Fuck your "AI" "art"

#nobot #nobridge

GitHubhttps://github.com/thankfulmachine
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Thankful MachineDec 16, 2023
Oh look, an example of why large, inhumane, unmoderatable instances suck just came in from mastodon.social. Spam is only the least harmful example of what kinds of sewage are going to flow out of the #threads pump. #meta #fedipact
Thankful MachineDec 16, 2023

Still putting together a Pentium III machine and had to take a detour to learn about Serial Presence Detect, which wasn’t present on some PC133 RAM I purchased. Pretty interesting as it’s a 512MB module, the maximum my motherboard supports. I think maybe I got a reject. The mobo doesn’t seem to much like the fact that it can’t get SPD data and there aren’t any facilities in my BIOS to manually identify the RAM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_presence_detect

#retrocomputing #electronics

Serial presence detect - Wikipedia

Thankful MachineDec 16, 2023
Show thread⚠️ MOVED TO FediPact@cyberpunk.lol ⚠️Dec 16, 2023

nobody i've seen trying to criticize fedipact in depth seems to actually like understand the point of it lmao

they think it's all about data scraping or opposition to meta on principle or just being gatekeepy or something

some of what they bring up are valid concerns, but far from my main one. my biggest concern here is entirely practical: allowing threads onto fedi will bring about a torrent of hate

the reason i started it was always "protecting queer people and other marginalized groups on here from harassment"

further reading: https://fedipact.online/why

#FediPact #meta #threads

🖤 Why? 🖤

Thankful MachineDec 16, 2023
@trekman10 @FediPact I just want to add, most importantly, beyond the raw ethics of such a business model, I don’t believe Threads are going to bring a billion interesting people. At best, I think Threads is going to bring an absolute army of inauthentic behavior. Worse, I think Threads is going to bring a torrent of hateful, judgemental people who are all too happy to pounce on the vulnerable, the queer, the different. And Threads is only incentivized to give those people a “public square”. I reject that possibility. As I said before, Meta, like Twitter, cannot be trusted to deal with this problem at such an incomprehensible scale, the problem that they themselves have created and actively maintain.
Thankful MachineDec 15, 2023

@Jonathanglick @FediPact Profiting by collecting everyday interactions and private user data is bad and wrong.

Driving features to maximize engagement is bad and wrong. It amplifies bad behaviors and manipulates perceptions.

Large instances that seek to aggregate the maximum number of users is bad and wrong. Fake instigator accounts, social manipulation campaigns, whole swaths of people under the effect of its inevitably understaffed and poor moderation.

Those things are the reason for the existence of Threads. There is nothing it provides that couldn’t be provided by one of the many existing instances or future instances without a commercial purpose.

Down with Threads and down with Meta. Bubble them and let them eat each other alive for all I care.

Thankful MachineDec 15, 2023
ploumDec 14, 2023

How Meta could kill the Fediverse, a look at historical precedents.

https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

At the end of this post, you will find many translations: French, Spanish, German, Italian, Turkish, Russian

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)

How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Thankful MachineDec 15, 2023
Kay SavetzDec 13, 2023

After years of effort by a small team, some of the talks from Vintage Computer Festival 6 — which happened 20 years ago, in 2003 — have been recovered! The recordings were in very poor condition and took extreme measures to recover. The audio is often not good! But the presentations include the voices of several people who have passed: Jef Raskin, C. H. Ting, John Ellenby, and Gary Starkweather.

The talks are:
David Jaffe / C. H. Ting / Kevin Appert / Dwight Elvey – Forth Programming Language
https://archive.org/details/vcf2003_forth

Jef Raskin – Apple and the Humane Environment
https://archive.org/details/vcf2003_jef-raskin

John Ellenby / Gary Starkweather / Dave Robson / Peter Deutsch / Charles Simonyi – Xerox Alto panel
https://archive.org/details/xerox-alto-panel

Len Shustek – Computer History Museum
https://archive.org/details/len-shustek-computer-history-museum

Bruce Damer – The Joys and Trials of Computer Collecting
https://archive.org/details/bruce-damer-computer-collecting

The web page for that event is: https://vcfed.org/events/archives-show-summaries/vcf-west-archives/vcf-west-6-0/

Forth — David Jaffe, C. H. Ting, Kevin Appert, Dwight Elvey : Bruce Damer : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

David Jaffe, C. H. Ting, Kevin Appert, Dwight Elvey – ForthA presentation recorded at Vintage Computer Festival West 2003, which was held at Computer...

Internet Archive
Thankful MachineDec 14, 2023
Devine Lu LinvegaDec 14, 2023
So, you're telling me there are designers that work at LinkedIn..?
Show threadThankful MachineDec 13, 2023
@arclight Yeah, it’s going to be interesting. I’m planning on having to play extreme defense against robocalls. I’ll fake the special information tones if I have to.
Thankful MachineDec 13, 2023
It's 2023 and I'm getting a landline.