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Make this sound better: we’re aware of the outage at Site A, we are working as quick as possible to get things back online

How does this work in practice? I suspect you’re just going to get an email that takes longer for everyone to read, and doesn’t give any more information (or worse, gives incorrect information). Your prompt seems like what you should be sending in the email.

If the model (or context?) was good enough to actually add useful, accurate information, then maybe that would be different.

I think we’ll get to the point really quickly where a nice concise message like in your prompt will be appreciated more than the bloated, normalised version, which people will find insulting.

Image: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson.

Ouch

This sounds like good engineering, but surely there’s not a big gap with their competitors. They are spending tens of millions on hardware and energy, and this is something a handful of (very good) programmers should be able to pull off.

Unless I’m missing something, It’s the sort of thing that’s done all the time on console games.

I found this blog post which gets into activitypub location metadata and integrating it with OSM.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebuilding-foursquare-for-activitypub-using-openstreetmap/

Sound promising actually.

Any suggestions for avoiding Google maps reviews? The best I can think of is looking for threads on local subreddits for e.g. restaurants. Unfortunately there’s not much of a local community on the fediverse yet.

They can do that, but I believe the various laws about openness in advertising make it pretty hard to hide ads from the client.

Isn’t the bluesky client open source? That would make it harder to force ads on everyone.

This novel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest

I still think Infinite Jest is in pole position:

• unqualified populist US president
• canada (and mexico?) subjugated to the US
• subsidised time (selling everything including the calendar to the highest bidder)
• catapulting garbage into giant superfund sites

edit: also I think we can be on track for both Infinite Jest and Idiocracy

Something that worries me about that is attestation. This is the advice from the GrapheneOS Devs:

https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide

They’re asking app developers to trust their keys specifically, which would mean that the app might work on GrapheneOS, but not my fork of GrapheneOS with some cherry picked fix I want.

It would be much better if we stamped this out now, before all online services require attestation.