Side note, I'll continue to do these shoutouts for folks leaving X and would appreciate if folks reading them could refrain from "better late than never" or other snarky comments. It's rare, but it happened a couple of times in the past. :-)

It's going to still take a long while to get folks to migrate fully off X (inertia is a thing), and warm welcomes/congrats for everyone who makes the complete switch are appreciated.

Congratulations to the Leibniz Strategy Forum on Open Science for leaving X and making the fediverse its primary social media platform. If you are into #openscience, #opendata and #openaccess, give them a follow:
@leibnizopenscience

This is a big deal:

The W3C, founded in 1994 by web inventor Tim Berners-Lee, has quit X and declared the fediverse to be their primary social media channel. Follow them at: @w3c

The future of the open web is .. the open web.

This status was posted using a Python script entirely AI-generated via #ChatGPT

#ChatGPT already knew about the Mastodon API 🤷

Here's the code the AI generated. I only had to fix an import statement. https://gist.github.com/eloquence/ce9d200db28ca13d1fd44d9487343885

Sorry to be so excitable about this, but I just asked it to extend the script to let me reply from the command line, and now it does #ChatGPT

I tried a more complex task of "count the most common color in a PNG image, then display a window with that background color". It struggled a bit with some Python modules (it sometimes gets seriously confused, possibly also has some outdated info), but eventually got there.

It's also a pretty fun way to learn how to do things programmatically in areas that you're not super familiar with.

@b_cavello

My hypothesis that if we want to prevent the worst outcomes (and potentially even realize a better future), we gotta figure out how to use it for good :)