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@hobs@mstdn.social

#FOSS fanatic.

Trying to build teachable, private, virtual assistants that actually assist. Latest attempt is a #RAG: http://gitlab.com/tangibleai/community/knowt

Aspire to practical #utilitarianism.

All my heroes became assholes once they got rich. Even nonprofit "leaders”. I'm doing a good job avoiding that $/good tradeoff by not making any $.

#AmWriting NLP in Action (tech #nonfiction) and Artificial Agenda (#SpecFic #SciFi)

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gnomon, to random
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Is there an idiomatic SQL (sqlite3) way of mapping a subset of selected records from a large table ("users") to unique values in a smaller table ("coupons")? It's easy enough to select all the user records not yet mapped, and to select all as-yet unmapped coupons, but then what's a nice clean way of mapping one to the other? Order doesn't matter, only that the mapping once established can be queried again in the future.

My brain is stuck thinking sequentially about this, frustratingly.

hobs,
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@gnomon
Put your mapping in a new user_coupon table with pairs of FKs to user and coupon? Won't affect either table, will be stable and mutatable, and you can put whatever uniqueness constraints you like in the new user_coupon table. Can even add attributes like use_by dates, etc.
@cks

dansup, to fediverse
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Anyone building a federated Stack Overflow?

hobs,
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@smallcircles
MS probably deSEOed competing FOSS projects when they bought SO. Maybe someone forked it to GitLab or gitea or codeberg. Will look.
@dansup

hobs,
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@smallcircles
I remember the one you're talking about but can't find it.
Codidact seems close, FOSS and self-hosted: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel

This Django package for managing a QA Forum might be useful:
https://djangopackages.org/packages/p/askbot/

Some components of original SE are OSS, like the useless .NET redis client:
https://github.com/StackExchange

@dansup

hobs, to random
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Sunday the 21st we're throwing a fundraiser with Sunrise Movement San Diego. We're discussing the need for tenant protections and community control of resources in the face of the climate crisis. Also fundraising for the legal fees for the San Diego New Roots community garden with a 20k matching fund.

Snacks, fun art activities, and seedling planting! Sign up to attend here: https://www.mobilize.us/sunrisemovement/event/619442/

instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/C55CnSAr7G2/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

noellemitchell, to fediverse
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    hobs,
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    @noellemitchell
    Sadly monthly active users peaked at 1.7M in Jan 2023, and is down to 1M in March 2024 (35% decline in 15 months)

    wagesj45, to Transformers
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    Very good video on

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjZofJX0v4M

    hobs,
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    @wagesj45
    is awesome!

    atomicpoet, to random

    Oh man, with @potus joining the Fediverse, there’s been an outpouring of salt. 😆

    hobs,
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    @msquebanh
    He does care about money. He panicked about making bail. We could target his billionaire backers and he might pay attention to their pressure. They didn't pay for influence if they didn't think their influence would pay off.
    @atomicpoet @argumento

    pixelfed, to Pixelfed
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    Our Wikipedia page is at risk of being deleted because it may not meet notability guidelines.

    Can we get some help?

    We're not that familiar with Wikipedia or its processes, but we think our project is notable enough for inclusion.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixelfed

    hobs,
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    @pixelfed
    Are you the only core developer? (Dan)
    @benroyce

    mhoye, to random
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    One of the byproducts of this is that a sufficiently large sockpuppet network is functionally an orbital ion cannon: https://mastodon.social/@Lady@cat.family/112193636584370879

    I don't know how I'd experiment with this in anything approaching a way you'd call ethical or consentful, the idea of rate-limiting recirculation. as a function of somebody's follower count is fascinating. Even an interceding dialog would be an interesting experiment. "User asks that high-profile accounts (1k+ followers) not repost this. Continue? (y/n)"

    hobs,
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    @kissane
    Love that makes these kinds of decisions publicly and that the people most engaged genuinely care about sustaining mastodon and activitypub and the ecosystem of organizations and individuals that depend on it for their wellbeing.
    @mhoye

    strypey, to random
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    Can anyone recommend a Free Code platform for collaborative authoring?

    I'd like to be able to write a book in a sort of wiki - with a wiki page for each book page - which trusted contributors can edit. Plus an ability for anyone to comment on each page, using an account on the platform.

    Bonus points if the WIP is federated over ActivityPub, and people can use their fediverse accounts to comment. Allowing a broad range of contributions while using fediverse moderation tools to reduce noise.

    hobs,
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    Strypey if you think of your book as code, like md, latex, rst or asciidoc you can use any code repository to collaborate, like these that Liam recommended.

    You can use something like pandoc or mdbook or astro to turn your book into html or pdf or whatever. I'm liking mdbook and Astro (depending on target audience and book features). Every edit appears on a Web URL in seconds.
    Asciidoc and asciidoctor is good too. I just hate Ruby.

    If you need more details just ask.

    @liamdiprose

    @strypey

    hobs,
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    @strypey @liamdiprose
    I hear you. It's a trade-off. Most git providers have an issue tracker that allows anyone to comment on text files and even suggest changes to a line of "code". And you can see the progression history of edits by each author or over time. It's probably overkill for you. But I love gitlab (especially the merge review diff view and suggested changes) for documentation markdown files and company blog posts edited by the team collaboratively.

    hobs,
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    @liamdiprose @strypey
    Looks powerful... probably a little too powerful for me. I can barely remember the syntax for markup languages I use daily: HTML CSS MD ASCIIDOC

    liztai, to Netflix
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    I need to watch to be sure, but I probably wouldn't due to the butchering of Ye Wenjie's character. But I am so annoyed that a story that is told from a very Chinese perspective, with the nuance needed for China's turbulent past, has been subverted to make a political statement to fit the Western lens.
    Too much to go into here, but this is why I do not trust adaptations of foreign IPs .. the need to dumb them down and Anglicize them for "general" consumption 🥴

    hobs,
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    @liztai
    Indeed. The epic series produced in China is much better... and free on Vumoo.to

    annaecook, to random
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    Sorry I haven’t gotten back to you

    I’m receiving constant messages via multiple platforms and I can’t keep up with them and at this point I’ve stopped trying

    Thanks

    hobs,
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    @xahteiwi
    What's a good "unified" async com platform? Email? GitLab?
    @annaecook

    BeAware, (edited ) to fediverse
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    The day when I don't have to "promote" those that argue with me in replies for no reason, will be a wonderful day....

    The fact that blocking and defederating someone doesn't remove their replies to your posts is absolutely ridiculous....

    Edit: AP creators in the replies talking about solutions to this!👍

    hobs,
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    @BeAware
    Hadn't thought about that, scary to think what happens to our replies on others servers after we block them.
    @sl007

    hobs,
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    @BeAware
    That's scary. I think I now understand why trolls have intentionally goaded me into blocking them. They can then control the "conversation" with their followers, perhaps even alter their replies to my posts.
    @sl007

    hobs,
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    @BeAware
    Thank you for the crash course in the / . And thank you for sharing lashman's art!

    Love your sketch gifs, lashman! Always wondered how a professional sketches, ordering of pen strokes, etc. Do you show erasures and do-overs? Just curious about the craft.
    @sl007 @lashman

    phire, to random
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    TIL the dunning kruger effect is not real, apparently! time to throw out yet another file in the “what don’t we need evidence to believe because it is emotionally satisfying to do so” cabinet. ty @danderson for the link https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2022/04/08/the-dunning-kruger-effect-is-autocorrelation/

    hobs,
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    @phire
    Excellent article! Well-written too. Never heard autocorrelation explained so thoroughly. And i was skeptical of the headline and conclusion (like the author!) until i saw all my reservations, evaporate one by one in the second half of the article.
    @danderson

    LeftistLawyer, to random
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    Serious question, please boost for reach.

    I’m a 50+ white male.

    How many old white guys out there would be willing join a 501(c)(3) whose mission is to oppose old white guys in positions of power? How many people would be willing to provide financial support for the same?

    Nothing like this currently exists in the U.S. and I think it could be a damn effective form of protest. Personally, I’m sick and tired of seeing old fucking white guys in power everywhere I turn. Am I an aberration?

    Oh, and despite thinking of myself as a bit of wordsmith, I’m admittedly terrible at acronym generation. What’s a good name for an organization pursuing said mission?

    hobs,
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    @LeftistLawyer
    Privilege Pruners
    Power Equalizers
    Refreshers
    Vitalizers

    I'm 53. Can't contribute cash, just code and labor.

    sb, to random
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    I'm still seeing at least a half-dozen links being shared around here per day.

    It's really pretty sad to see so many people just shrug it off and stick to the status nazi-supporting quo.

    hobs,
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    @sb
    I wish there was a clear alternative, a sort-of blogger Wikipedia, an activity-pub-compliant platform for +. We need to create synergy and network effects for small bloggers. Ghost and the alternatives don't check all the boxes yet

    • easy
    • private
    • sustainable
    • free if you don't monetize
    • egalitarian or regressive search algorithms
    • proactive discovery of high quality, low popularity writers

    hobs,
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    @sb
    @pluralistic what do you use for pluralistic.net and craphound.com ?

    hobs, to random
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    @cstross I can't find Season of Skulls on tor.com . It redirects to reactormag.com (an SF magazine) in the US. And their search engine is bollocks. https://reactormag.com/?s=season+of+skulls+by+stross

    hobs,
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    @cstross
    Thank you! Looks like your profile has the old link, so you're shadow banning yourself ;-)

    RealJournalism, to Alberta
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    In , the Battle River Railway Coop is unique in that it is farmer-owned. This ensures that farmers are able to get their goods to market. The problem with our rail system was that it was owned by corporations. When they could no longer justify it by the bottom line, they tore up the rail lines, gutting local economies in the process. Reviving Rural America requires local ownership, not corporations. https://geo.coop/articles/battle-river-railway-co-op

    hobs,
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    @LillyHerself
    Boring (Musk) was created to halt the development of high speed rail.
    @RealJournalism

    stux, to random
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    C’mon, keep going

    Cat gets brushes on the tummy and humans stops so it looks at the brush and taps it with the paw

    hobs,
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    @mdyshel lol cute

    @Nerdfest

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