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
Pondering how the #threadiverse 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.
@mousey Well, the choices seem to be 1) bear the load 2) the replies don't get distributed evenly (today's situation) or 3) something more complicated that I haven't seen a design for :-)
@trwnh imho these finer points are really hard for casual users to understand. And nobody wants to think hard when chatting casually. Avoid if possible I would recommend…
@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.
@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.
@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.
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.
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.
@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.
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.
@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.
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.
@ShadSterling I didn't like The Ministry for the Future very much, except for the opening scene of the deadly heatwave in India. IMHO it could happen like that any year now.