I'm not sure how to feel about this... 🙃 @npub1mvjc...jlw0 🍻🤠👍

A friend of mine, @npub1kws0...0n5s, came up with a really interesting term: "parasocial media." Social media is about socializing, but on many if not most "social" media platforms, we're seeing less and less actual socializing, with most engagement being reposting things others posted, without additional comment. That ain't social, it's parasocial. Avoid parasocial media. Go where people actually talk to you.

@Ars Technica credited this image to Paramount, which doesn't answer the question I have about it: did Paramount use #AI image generation for this? That's not an *accusation,* but it's definitely a question. Neither I nor anyone else can definitively distinguish AI generated images from human art beyond the shadow of a doubt, but this one "whiffs" of AI to me. And it's seriously pretty gross if an entity the size of Paramount doesn't bother to employ a human artist for something like this.

Professor Anil Madhavapeddy published a nice step-by-step explainer on how the Energy and Environment Group of his university is beginning to use #Sanoid and #syncoid to manage "100s of terabytes of satellite imagery, biodiversity data, academic literature, and the intermediate computations that go along with them."

Anil Madhavapeddy

Semi distributed filesystems with ZFS and Sanoid

Exploring ZFS and Sanoid for distributed filesystem management with automated snapshots and replication to replace centralized NFS storage.

Sometimes I forget just how shitty #Microsoft has been steadily making #Windows. Then I sit at a client's desk, when that client hasn't done anything to stem the tide of shit on their own. A Windows notification popped up for some "Avowed Premium Edition" game nonsense, and I thought it was from some website that had been given notification permissions. Nope. "Suggested" is not clearly labeled as Microsoft's own way to throw random low-quality ads at you, but that's exactly what it is.