I finished watching "The AI Dilemma" presentation from the Center for Humane Technology. It. is. so. good. It's an hour long but if you only watch one 1 hour YouTube video this year you should make it this one. I especially liked their framing of algorithmic timelines in social media as humanity's "first contact" moment with AI. ChatGPT and other large language transformers are the "second contact". It occurs to me that a big reason Nostr, Scuttlebutt, Mastodon, and other decentralized social media networks are attractive is because they are largely AI-free. I imagine this will quickly become a selling point for certain apps and relays as AI takes over mainstream tech throughout the next year.

And @Angela, what would a decent social network look like for you?

I've been talking with @Angela about @npub1lyd9...h7f3 and she suggested she answer some of my questions out in the open, which I love! So @Angela, are there any challenges on Nostr for minority groups that stand out to you?

Great explainer if you need to know how giraffes stack up in the meta:

Just opened up some more slots for Nos on TestFlight. Join us! https://testflight.apple.com/join/YBBlRWc8

Also pour one out for #[0]​. I nuked his follow list with a bug in Nos yesterday. He's out there taking the fall so ya'll don't have to 🥲

Build 37 of Nos is out! This one has reposts and I finally feel like the performance is in an acceptable place. Curious to hear feedback anyone has on that. (there is a database cleanup script that will run the first time you launch this build, so give it a minute before you judge). Next week we'll be working on autocompletion of mentions and DMs! Here's the full list of changes: - Added support for reposting notes and viewing reposts. - Added Brazilian Portuguese translations (thanks @Andressa!). - Performance improvements - Fixed the French and Traditional Chinese translations. - Fixed a bug where the user's follow list could be erased on the first launch after importing a new key. - Fixed a bug where you could post the same reply multiple times. - Fixed an issue where profile pictures could be rendered with the wrong aspect ratio.

I’m finally using ChatGPT some, but it’s not for code generation. About 3 weeks ago Google Search completely broke for my programming questions. I thought they probably had a bad release and would get if fixed quickly, but they haven’t. I use Duck Duck Go for non-programming queries but it has never been able to pull up the right StackOverflow post, and neither can StackOverflow’s own search. Well ChatGPT is like 3/3 this week on understanding my very specific programming questions and giving me the right answer.