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J12t

@J12t@social.coop

Technologist, founder, organizer.

Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Fediverse is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet.

Check out my home page for more info and links.

He/him. tfr

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not random thought - the massive major obvious AI fails make for easy clickbait stories - but I suspect the even more common yet much harder to write about category of AI errors aren't where it makes massive or even silly mistakes but where it makes more subtle mistakes of omission or where it suggests something that's almost right but misses key steps or details - showing an answer that for example was true years ago but isn't fully accurate now

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@Rycaut and there is the coming case where commercial sponsorship influences what it says. Would be very surprised if that wasn’t going to happen.

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The Wikipedia page on “social web” urgently needs updates. And wasn’t ever particularly good anyway. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_web

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Enshittified Instagram is now forcing you to spend at least one ad worth of time in shit. No stepping around it allowed!

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24170682/instagram-unskippable-ads-test

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Is there moderation in ? A quick search doesn't bring much up.

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Congratulations @snarfed.org@snarfed.org https://www.heise.de/en/news/The-Fediverse-is-growing-After-Threads-Bluesky-can-also-be-linked-to-Mastodon-9745631.html

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Pondering how the group thinks of having consistent reply trees across instances for the purpose of forum software. One proposal is to have a “group” actor re-announce everything that has been sent to it. It appears to me this approach would work just as well in a microblogging context where we have, today, the inconsistent reply tree problem across instances as well. The actor that made the root post would act as the re-announcer.

https://community.nodebb.org/category/31/threadiverse-working-group

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@lufthans one of the first things non-technical users of the Fediverse complain about, after they managed to sign up, is that they can’t see all the replies and all the likes. At least anecdotally, that’s my experience.

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@Kichae @lufthans I believe there are different versions of "everything". Yep, you don't see most posts of the people you follow. But you do see, or can find, all replies to a post of yours. I'm talking about the second case.

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Nice video explanation of the fediverse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmSWPj0T9IQ

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@de7ecd1e2976a6adb2ffa5f4db81a7@mostr.pub The video is a bit aspirational in that respect, but people are working on it. No reason it can't be made to work.

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@de7ecd1e2976a6adb2ffa5f4db81a7@mostr.pub

I understand the architectural differences :-)

I also believe that using the same account with multiple servers, and changing identifiers and "home base" for when interacting with the fediverse are very solvable problems. With the caveat that it hasn't really been broadly implemented.

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Apparently I'm going to @dweb camp in August. In the redwoods. In a tent. With a laptop.

Beats still conferences in overpriced hotels wearing a tie.

http://dwebcamp.org/

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In a bid to avoid re-inventing the wheel, does there exist a PHP library to add ActivityPub functionality to an existing website?

There are a handful of 'concept demos' and even a few full PHP implementations of an ActivityPub server, but nothing (that I've found) that is just a drop-in component to allow, say, an existing website to post content / updates from itself.

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@ahnlak I'd love to understand what specific functionality you want to add to your site (is it a social site? Posts, likes, comments, that kind of thing) and why if you were willing to explain.

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@ahnlak It's basically for your own site?

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XOXO Festival in August. I'm registered!

Probably a bunch of people from here will be there, too.

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Python just cost me half an hour. The problem: a comma instead of a period.

Runtime and two linters said everything was fine. Except it wasn't.

Soapbox: Programming languages should not have syntaxes where something like this is possible. Compact syntax is all nice and dandy, but there needs to be enough redundancy that things like this are easily caught. Otherwise we'd all still write software in hex.

J12t,
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@maegul That, and the overload of () as precedence and tuple. Just got myself a tuple of two strings instead of a multi-line string ...

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@lufthans I believe there is a law in software that says only the broken designs and the spaghetti code gains widespread adoption, while the nicely designed and clean systems barely have any users.

Get me a different planet, please.

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I was not expecting guilty on all counts. I was expecting that somebody took a million dollars to hang the jury. Good for us all.

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Newsmast did an analysis of which communities tend to be on which social networks.

https://www.newsmastfoundation.org/our-blog/mapping-the-social-web/

/cc @FreddieJ

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Is there a maximum amount of snap peas one can eat in a day before snapeaoisoninig?

Asking for a friend with a hydroponics system that's producing good stuff.

J12t,
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@jlin I think it's an acquired taste. But I acquired it :-)

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I really got the new espresso machine for espresso. That doesn't mean I can't try making cappuccino. Turns out the "textured" (as they call it) milk can get a structure where it can actually form a half-inch hill. Somewhat amazed at the physics (chemistry?) here.

J12t,
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@_elena this is one level of coffee sophistication beyond me :-)

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“Farcaster, a crypto-based social network, raised $150M with just 80K daily users”

You can do something with that kind of money. I wonder what they will.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/21/farcaster-a-crypto-based-social-network-raised-150m-with-just-80k-daily-users/

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