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And not to be a weird brown-noser but if you care about technology news there is a giant, very smart and engaged group of people here on Mastodon talking about those things, which (besides shameless self-promotion) was mostly all I ever used Twitter for. I'm finding the conversations here super interesting and not so prone to pointless turf wars, which undermines one of the few reasons for going back.
It's Hard Fork Friday! This week, Kevin Systrom joins us to talk about Artifact. Plus: my trip to TikTok, and Roose on the origins of ChatGPT https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/podcasts/hard-fork-tiktok-openai-artifact.html
TikTok’s “Transparency and Accountability Center” + ChatGPT’s Origin Story + Kevin Systrom’s Artifact App

Casey becomes a content moderator, Kevin breaks some news on OpenAI and Instagram’s co-founder reveals his new project.

@marcoarment it's ok to stop trying to make iPad happen 😂
Thought @marcoarment @siracusa @caseyliss and @gruber might appreciate this blog post I wrote 2012 about first impressions joining app.net ($50 paid upfront!). In 2012 I was upset about how twitter was treating 3rd party developers. (Seems some things never change.) My early app.net impressions remind me a lot of my early experiences here on Mastodon. back then it was hard to see app.net replacing twitter. I'm much more optimistic about Mastodon's chances. cc @Gargron https://iiimjiiim.blogspot.com/2012/09/my-first-day-on-appnet.html
My First Day On App.net

Last night I couldn't hold out any longer and went ahead and paid $50 ( @jimyounkin ) for one year of access to App.net . App.net (often ...

It also feels like something at the end of the show bears repeating: @Gargron, and all the other folks who have been working tirelessly for the past seven years, saved our asses.

To all of you who had the foresight to build Mastodon, a sincere THANK YOU. We're in your debt.

@siracusa Sure you've been sent this but had to share in case you hadn't seen it: Digital Trends: Apple’s $600 M2 Mac mini obliterates the $6,000 Mac Pro.
https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/apple-m2-mac-mini-beats-mac-pro/
Apple’s $600 M2 Mac mini obliterates the $6,000 Mac Pro

It seems that Apple's aging $6,000 Mac Pro is all but redundant now. You might be able to replace it with a $600 Mac mini.

Digital Trends

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@atpfm Speaking of bit rot and file corruption: NBC News: Corrupted file to blame for FAA aviation stoppage that delayed thousands of flights.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-flights-grounded-faa-outage-rcna65243
FAA system is restored after outage halts all domestic departures in the U.S.

Flights across the United States were grounded Wednesday morning after the Federal Aviation Administration said it experienced a computer outage.

NBC News