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SteamOS 3.5.7 released, plus Steam Deck Client update and Power LED changes coming gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/steaโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #SteamOS

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@cliophate ah, I had that problem with T and A, never replied, shame


Along the Taurus Molecular Cloud

Image Credit & Copyright: Yuexiao Shen, Joe Hua

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Along the Taurus Molecular Cloud apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231123.htโ€ฆ #APOD
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We need to be really clear: the bonkers part of OpenAI circa a week ago was not that a nonprofit was involved. That model works fineโ€”think companies from Bosch to Zeiss: purpose-economy.org/en/file/36โ€ฆ

The bonkers part is the utter disconnection between the purpose and the pragmatics, and that the purpose was in the hands of unaccountable ideologues. Now it is in the hands of unaccountable pragmatists.

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in reply to Nathan Schneider

This is why accountability is key. Most companies solve this the wrong way: accountability to external profiteers, because at least that is something, even though it is basically psychotic.
in reply to Nathan Schneider

So what would a better kind of accountability look like?

How about to those workers, who know the tech better than anyone? Ginkgo Bioworks, for instance, has invested both in a strong culture of employee ethics and in a controlling stake for employee stock. It's a public company.

This entry was edited (2 years ago)
in reply to Nathan Schneider

How about the users, the people who are paying for AI tech and who have a stake in it not turning on them? Maybe subscribers should have a vote on board members. Not crazy.
in reply to Nathan Schneider

How about a set of organizations that represent communities that have historically been harmed by AI? Like the AFL CIO, the NAACP, and SEIU? Those could pick some board members who aren't weird EAs but are actually grounded in the experience of working people today.
in reply to Nathan Schneider

We need ethical governance for powerful technologies. But not unaccountable-elite governance.

There are SO MANY better options than OpenAI last week or OpenAI this week. Don't make the mistake of getting caught up in those.

in reply to Nathan Schneider

Man, a Zeiss for public-interest AI would be amazeballs.

So much badness flows from the desire for massive up-front investment and rapid early growth.



#Tokyo had different architects from across the country design its new public toilets. And theyโ€™re fabulous.
#architecture #urbanism #city


Day 6: Ten Days, Ten Films.


This is a lot of fun! So long as I donโ€™t make this too hard or too easy!
Over ten days you pick an image from a film without any title to give away where it is from, so that people can guess. You can also nominate others to do the same. That way more people are in on the game! (or notโ€“your choice ๐Ÿ˜€ )

But remember: NO SPOILERS! If you recognise a film, donโ€™t say what it is! Say something that indicates you know, but allows others to guess as well. Your messages then become helpful hints!

@Carsten Raddatz
#TenDaysTenFilmsTenFriends or #TenDaysTenFilmsNoFriends

in reply to Muse

Answer here:
youtu.be/gdtZv3XROnc?si=xs_oMZโ€ฆ
in reply to Muse

I thought so! It was used in this video for Zager and Evans In the year 2525


SaSa Learning Activities nasa.gov/general/sasa-learningโ€ฆ #NASA #General


#Socialcoop friends, we in the Finance Working Group invite you to join us in working together on a cohesive budget for the co-op! loomio.com/d/liwtX0qd/toward-aโ€ฆ
in reply to Nathan Schneider

I'm struggling to get into (i.e. understand ) #socialcoop governance. Not that I have tried very hard... I haven't seen an opportunity where it's clearly useful for me to dig in.

I could really use more stories.

Is there a good presentation (video recording) of the organization as a whole?

Is the origin story written down? The story of why the org was created and why it's growing.

in reply to Dan Connolly

Are there formative events boiled down to story form? The "should we federate with Facebook's thing?" is the only one that comes to mind.
in reply to Dan Connolly

and while I saw lots of little pieces of the decision happen, I don't know the overall story arc.

I don't even know what the decision was, where it's recorded, nor the governance structure through which it emerged.

The analog of the "I'm just a bill..." song but not for U.S. legislation but for #socialcoop decisions.

in reply to Nathan Schneider

yes... let's see... origin story: check:
> Social.coop was founded in 2017 in the wake of the BuyTwitter campaign.

I think I learned that at some point but forgot.

in reply to Dan Connolly

What does TKTK DATE mean? that the wiki page has the text of the agreement but the executed agreement is elsewhere?

> Ratified TKTK DATE in solidarity,
>
> Platform 6 Co-operative, Ltd.
>
> Social.coop

in reply to Dan Connolly

I think part of my struggle was a vaguely negative impression of loomio.

I think I ran into "access denied" many times... I think because I had let something lapse.

Anyway... that seems sorted now.

The daily email digests are pretty overwhelming, though.

in reply to Dan Connolly

Is there a way to participate *in between* just being a user of the hosted fediverse server and reading every message on loomio?

Any recommended way to get up to speed on current events?

I was kinda impressed when I learned that Maker DAO puts explicit resources into outreach to its voters.

vote.makerdao.com/?network=maiโ€ฆ

in reply to Dan Connolly

@dckc great point. We are currently moving toward a more focused governance model. But still, our model is pretty centered on assuming people will step up and participate. We should be more intentional about guiding members' attention. (I am writing a paper on that now!)

Now I think we are caught in a trap where the leaders are the people who stepped up to lead, and they don't sympathize enough with those who haven't similarly stepped up.

in reply to Dan Connolly

does social.coop have any regular rhythms? Weekly / monthly get-togethers?

I see a diagram with a future section with office hours and quarterly meetings. Is that future here at all yet?

p.s. madmode.com/2023/office-hours



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Is YouTube Really Throttling FIREFOX?? #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/xJxrN3CaTs4
in reply to Brodie Robertson

And I thought I was going mad here. Thanks for the excellent explanation.
in reply to Brodie Robertson

the only i have to say (in the form of a question) is: how to use youtube without using youtube?


Robinson Meyer at Heatmap does a decent job of connecting the dots between the OpenAI governance meltdown to the larger paradoxes of nonprofit board governance and how that affects social movements.

mailchi.mp/heatmap/republicanfโ€ฆ

in reply to Jon Stahl

- yeah, that's my take too. It's a good critique of general nonprofit governance. And it's right.

Governance is one of the world's most pressing issues. Despite its many problems, Web3 has a lot of interesting experiments (e.g.: medium.com/block-science/introโ€ฆ). This is where most of the interesting innovation is happening right now.

cc: @ntnsndr

in reply to gideonro

Thanks for sharing this. I totally agree that the Skocpol analysis is super importantโ€”the shift from community accountability to board accountability.

But to be clear, the upshot of Skocpol is NOT OpenAI; it is that the accountability shifts from stakeholders to funders. If you're on a normal nonprofit board (I am on several), you are sailing on a very narrow tack, trying to keep funders, employees, and other allies happy.

in reply to Nathan Schneider

@gideonro @thinkling In that sense, I think the problems would be best understood as:

- OpenAI is a nonprofit with an unusual misalignment between its economics and its mission; usually the two are much more aligned through mission-focused funders

- Nonprofits in general usually have the problem of being overly accountable to funders because they are beholden to a constant flow of short-term grants

in reply to Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr @thinkling
Agreed. This tension btwn money & mission runs through the heart of most governance challenges.

Thought of you because @christina mentioned to me yesterday that you are doing an innovative process for deep diving into governance.

in reply to Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr @gideonro โ€œthe accountability shifts from stakeholders to fundersโ€ โ€” I think you have to be more clear about when this happens. Itโ€™s true if the choice is made at founding of the org and no doubt can be true for conversion. My (limited) experience is with an org that went from membership based and very limited in execution power, to board-only, more professional staff, and funding split between programmatic grants and membership/donations from a broad base.


We now have a registration page for our #NoTechForApartheid event this Monday Nov 27 11:30am PST/2:30pm EST to 2:30pm PST/5:30pm EST in partnership with Haymarket Books. While the event is free, if you want to donate, the proceeds will go to Medical Aid for Palestinians, Palestine Legal, and Respond Crisis Translation.

We will amplify the #NoTechForApartheid campaign and learn what we can do as tech workers. More details on the registration page and below.
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in reply to Muse

When I was young, I wanted to be a cowboy or an astronaut. I wound up working in television news. This is that story, not so much a commentary on the state of journalism today, but of lessons learned along the way ...


Loch Shiel at Glenfinnan in the Western Scottish Highlands and another example of being in the right place at the right time to catch a burst of autumnal sunshine, highlighting the colours of the season. Sometimes, luck is on your side!

#Scotland #highlands #autumn #landscape #photography



frio theme - Service Unavailable


Hi there @Friendica Support
just changed on this profile to FRIO as VIER seems to basically not perform the basic functions.

When I try to go to the settings page I get a "Service Unavailable" page.

What should I do?

friendica 2023.05 - firefox

in reply to Tutorial

tupambae.org/admin/themes/frio

Service Unavailable
unable to create directory /var/www/html/view/smarty3/compiled/90/4f/52

Exception thrown in /var/www/html/src/Core/Renderer.php:90
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/html/view/theme/frio/config.php(199): Friendica\Core\Renderer::replaceMacros()
#1 /var/www/html/view/theme/frio/config.php(141): frio_form()
#2 /var/www/html/src/Module/Admin/Themes/Embed.php(89): theme_admin()
#3 /var/www/html/src/BaseModule.php(244): Friendica\Module\Admin\Themes\Embed->content()
#4 /var/www/html/src/App.php(703): Friendica\BaseModule->run()
#5 /var/www/html/index.php(52): Friendica\App->runFrontend()
#6 {main}

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in reply to Tutorial



@Friendica Support

ยฟHi there @Friendica Developers, can you please take the theme VIER immediately out of the branches stable and RC!

It doesn't even display the [abstract] bbCode properly and right now literally I have no clue how many hours of my life I spend the last month documenting bugs that might be just because that theme doesn't work.

My mind is raging and I just jumped out of the window, lucky me that I live on ground level so every thing is fine as of now, but please, this is disheartening!
thx

tupambae.org/display/0ac89072-โ€ฆ

in reply to utopiArte

Frio is sufficiently ugly that if I am forced to use it, I will probably leave the server running because I've got 2600+ users, but I myself will find something else to use and as a result it won't be maintained.
in reply to utopiArte

/jesuisatires sarcasm mode on

> I've got 2600+ users, but I myself will find something else to use and as a result it won't be maintained

Sounds like a terrible hostage situation you are threatening with Nanook.

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As stated before, fork the deprecated theme, or even better both, make a themes addon out of it and be happy.



Having a nice cup of tea out of this totally ordinary mug โ˜บ๏ธ See you this Friday!

#Merchtodon

in reply to Eugen Rochko

i commend your courage carrying a heavy camera. would love to see images you've shot on this.


So happy to rediscover The Ministry of Soundโ€™s The Annual - Millennium Edition on Soundcloud. The three song mix by Judge Jules at the beginning of the first disc is still one of my all-time favorite mixes. kottke.org/23/11/ministry-of-sโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

this cd was my ultimate jam fir 3 or so years when it cane out but over time I'd forgotten about it... thank you SO much for the reminder!


Chance Favors the Prepared Genomes: Horizontal Transfer Shapes the Emergence of Antibiotic Resistance Mutations in Core Genes doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msad217 #science #evolution #biology #genome #evolgen_paper

in reply to Kristin Branson

I believe the authors decide when they have had enough reviewing and then a version of record is generated.
in reply to Boris Barbour

yes I believe that's correct. It's part of the goal to let authors decide what to do with their work.



Do we have a video call? ๐Ÿคณ We recall the report ยซIt's not magic: interfaces and protocols for video callsยป, a reflection on how we interact on the Internet during/after the pandemic and an explanation of how WebRTC protocol works.

โ†ช๏ธ sursiendo.org/2020/10/its-not-โ€ฆ



The Marshall Star for November 22, 2023 nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitieโ€ฆ #NASA #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter


La Movilidad Aรฉrea Avanzada Ayuda al Transporte de Mercancรญas nasa.gov/aeronautics/drones/laโ€ฆ #NASA #DronesYou #Aeronรกutica #AmesResearchCenter #ArmstrongFlightResearchCenter #GlennResearchCenter #LangleyResearchCenter #NASAEnEspaรฑol


IC 342: Hidden Galaxy in Camelopardalis apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231122.htโ€ฆ #APOD
#APOD


A Space Station Thanksgiving nasa.gov/image-article/a-spaceโ€ฆ #NASA #Astronauts #FormerAstronauts #HumansInSpace #MichaelSHopkins #RichardAMastracchio



โ€˜Digital Wingletsโ€™ for Real Time Flight Paths Born from NASA Tech nasa.gov/technology/tech-transโ€ฆ #NASA #TechnologyTransferSpinoffs #Spinoffs #TechnologyTransfer


Thanksgiving Celebrations in Space nasa.gov/history/thanksgiving-โ€ฆ #NASA #NASAHistory



GE-Proton 8-25 released, should fix a bunch of early 2000s games gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/ge-pโ€ฆ

#Linux #SteamDeck #Proton #GEProton



Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die! point and click adventure gets Linux support gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/rockโ€ฆ

#Linux #AdventureGame



@Friendica Support Ich mรถchte gerne die DFG-VK ins Boot holen, wรผsste aber keinen Text dazu. Gibt es hier Vorlagen?


Science on Station: November 2023 nasa.gov/missions/station/scieโ€ฆ #NASA #InternationalSpaceStationISS #General #HumansInSpace


Strangers offering unsolicited advice or derailing conversations should be familiar to all who use social media. In our new #Mastodon for Android update, weโ€™re testing a new feature aimed to curb these behaviours:

blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/11/โ€ฆ

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in reply to Eugen Rochko

@Gargron
Thanks for implementing it so quickly then! ๐Ÿ˜œ
I did read the blog post but managed to miss that part the first time.



Shadow Gambit: The Cursed Crew is getting two major expansions gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/shadโ€ฆ

#ShadowGambit #SteamDeck #PCGaming


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