Welcome to Incremental Social! Learn more about this project here!
Check out lemmyverse to find more communities to join from here!

Random

aaron.rupar ,

"Immigration is a positive good. We're fortunate that so many talented, ambitious people want to come here to work and raise families. Biden’s program to help undocumented spouses is a step forward. But Dems should do more to push back on Trump's hate."

https://www.publicnotice.co/p/biden-trump-immigration-is-good-actually

tante ,
@tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar

Today is a personal highlight because I was a guest in one of my favourite podcasts @techwontsaveus talking about tech in Europe and the topic of innovation.

It's been such a treat to get to speak to @parismarx, hope you enjoy it as well.

https://techwontsave.us/episode/225_can_europe_chart_its_own_path_on_tech_w_tante

rigo ,
@rigo@mamot.fr avatar

The EU patting their own shoulder via Gartner. Meanwhile, the W3C Data Exchange WG is drying out because the claimed support is not arriving there. But EVERYONE is using DCAT without supporting its development and maintenance. Which is a very European thing to do.

While NGI is a really nice & useful programme "a liaison" is NOT contributing to ActivityPub dear Gartner!

I still fully support NGI, but invite projects to really go into WGs.

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/257ae66f-23c7-11ef-a195-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-324755022

notjustbikes , (edited )
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com avatar

CityBeautiful recently released a great video about how to fix stroads.

It's accurate, and lines up exactly with the advocacy that my wife and I were doing 10 years ago, right down to using StreetMix to redesign streets.

It's also extremely depressing and makes me glad that I don't live in North America anymore.

https://youtu.be/1V679pkDl6k

notjustbikes OP , (edited )
@notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com avatar

@MrLee there's a book called The Sprawl Repair Manual that I always wanted to make a video about, but I couldn't get the copyrights to the images.

https://sprawlrepair.com/home/

In part of it, the author talks about how to turn suburban malls into town centres, and then connect them together (and to downtown) by transit.

I think this is the best hope that suburbia has got.

Trying to urbanise the giant stroads of suburbia is basically a non-starter. There are so many other low-hanging fruits.

dunks ,
@dunks@mstdn.ca avatar

@notjustbikes

Perfect, and rings true:

"The best thing that can happen is that they die a natural death and, in doing so, create a minimal amount of harm to the community. That's ultimately how this is fixed."

gtconway3 ,

Is it really, really, really, really, really, really bad that the publisher of the @washingtonpost allegedly counseled British government officials to destroy evidence in an official investigation?

Or is it just really, really, really bad?

BrentToderian ,
@BrentToderian@mastodon.online avatar

“Nearly 2,000 children under five are dying every day from air pollution, which has overtaken poor sanitation and a lack of clean water to become the second biggest health risk factor for young children around the world.

More than 8 million deaths, of children and adults, were caused by air pollution in 2021.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/18/almost-2000-children-die-every-day-from-air-pollution-report-finds

BrentToderian ,
@BrentToderian@mastodon.online avatar

“Currently about 2/3rds of all Dutch children walk or bike to school, with 75% of secondary school kids cycling to school. By enabling safe and active travel, cities prevent an estimated one million car journeys to school each morning.” — @modacitylife in

tchambers ,
@tchambers@indieweb.social avatar

Question for the Fediverse hive mind. Is there any evidence that the models hallucination rates are getting ANY better over time?

I'm wondering if a 5 to 15% hallucination rate may just be the nature of the beast with LLM's and an unsolvable problem.

erlend ,
@erlend@writing.exchange avatar
J12t ,
@J12t@social.coop avatar

THAT would explain what happened to ’s plans for the . And many other things.

I have no words.

https://lunduke.locals.com/post/5765292/mozilla-sued-for-discrimination-by-former-ceo-to-be

johnonolan ,
@johnonolan@mastodon.xyz avatar

Need to increase the number of people I'm following here - can I have some recommendations for indie software developers who regularly share things they're working on? Esp anyone working with Laravel, SQLite or local-first

feditest ,
@feditest@mastodon.social avatar

The Fediverse is built on open standard protocols. Testing that implementations conform to those standards is important for interoperability. That's what we are working on with the FediTest project.

Here's a first draft report of Webfinger server conformance for almost 100 Fediverse applications. A total of 1615 tests were run.

Overview: https://feditest.org/contrib/results/2024-06-16/ -- more details by clicking through.

(cont'd...)

Strandjunker ,
@Strandjunker@mstdn.social avatar

Juneteenth is the perfect moment to remind everyone of these two facts:

  1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
  2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it.

Read this out loud. Then read it again. Then teach it to your kids.

mbajur , Polish
@mbajur@mastodon.social avatar

🚨 INTRODUCING: a new in-progress engine that aims to make it able to add AP features to any Rails app.

It's still a work in progress but i would really love to hear your feedback and ideas on that! Feel free to message me here or open a discussion on github repo.

See README for more details:

https://github.com/mbajur/activity_pub_app

PS: A new kind of AP service/app will be based on this, more info soon :)

kenney ,
@kenney@mastodon.gamedev.place avatar

New : Building Kit! 🏗 Includes walls, floors, windows, (animated) doors and more. Also includes an overview of each object and color variation, all completely free ✨

https://kenney.nl/assets/building-kit

pink_arcana ,

@kenney Was just working on a scene with your modular building kit and needed more stairs -- looks like you got me covered! Thanks for everything you do!

ariadne ,
@ariadne@treehouse.systems avatar

any proposal to improve ActivityPub/Fediverse security needs to consider the fact that you cannot build safe systems where enforcement of consent is opt-in.

the world does not work this way.

pretending that it does enables the domestic abusers, stalkers, swatters, and other nuisances you are trying to protect users from.

you will get somebody killed with this line of thinking.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • random
  • incremental_games
  • meta
  • All magazines