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@JustinMac84 I don't know if it's any comfort, but realistically we are probably years away from any sort of reply controls in Mastodon.
There are more ideas to think about, such as reputation-based models (someone who's been a jackass before is more likely to be a jackass again), maybe a karma system like you see on reddit, or better personal filters. They all have pitfalls, but could be worth exploring. It's the fediverse, so it's largely a matter of who's willing to put work into it.
@julian Now that idea I really like, in theory, as long as the rep score could be reasonably accurate. Again, disadvantages I can see, but ones that I personally fear less.
Another example: they have no idea what a URL is. I have seen some kids going to google and search domainname.com in the search field of google.
And now, AI is pretty much all they use.
Once again, I don't blame them. I blame Apple on one hand, and a lack of technological education (and techno-feudalism that's even worse in Japan than elsewhere) on the other hand.
@David OMG. I never realzied it got that bad. None of the kids I know are that bad thankfully but i do see the shift in how people interact with computers and technology.
The "signing tour" is a one-stop trip to a rainy industrial estate outside Dublin to sign the RPG rule books people paid for as part of a kickstarter! (They'll be mailed out in due course.)
It's a trip away from home organized by a publisher and I'm signing books for customers, so in my headcanon it's a signing tour.
(Why are you looking at me funny?)
I'm not sure if it's still happening, but McDaid's Bar in South St. Anne street, just off Grafton Street, used to have a really nice jazz jam in the upstairs bar on a Thursday night. :D
dogtrax
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Today's Daily Create:
#tdc5146 #ds106 Write out a small poem, it can be a sentence long, describing something that you love, it can be anything.
https://daily.ds106.us/tdc5146/
“poem” flickr photo by Spin the Pit shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) license
Write out a small poem, it can be a sentence long, describing something that you love, it can be anything.
And Happy Valentine’s Day
hypebot
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Oh, you thought being dead would finally free you from Meta's monetization machine? Think again!
Meta got a patent for an AI that trains on your entire social media history (your likes, comments, posts, everything) and then keeps your account humming along after you've shuffled off this mortal coil.
Your digital ghost will dutifully like posts, drop comments and reply to DMs. Because apparently, death is no excuse for low engagement metrics.
Meta's CTO Andrew Bosworth is listed as the primary author, and the patent was originally filed back in 2023. A Meta spokesperson assured everyone they have "no plans to move forward" with this.
Which, as we all know, is corporate speak for "not until the quarterly numbers dip."
@julian If it has to go this way, and I still wish there were a way to stop the harrassment without choking the discourse, I saw the suggestion of nuance and would much prefer that.
@JustinMac84 I don't know if it's any comfort, but realistically we are probably years away from any sort of reply controls in Mastodon.
There are more ideas to think about, such as reputation-based models (someone who's been a jackass before is more likely to be a jackass again), maybe a karma system like you see on reddit, or better personal filters. They all have pitfalls, but could be worth exploring. It's the fediverse, so it's largely a matter of who's willing to put work into it.
DDL STUPRI: FLASHMOB IN TUTTA ITALIA IN VISTA DELLA MANIFESTAZIONE NAZIONALE DEL 28 FEBBRAIO https://www.radiondadurto.org/2026/02/14/ddl-stupri-flashmob-in-tutta-italia-in-vista-della-manifestazione-nazionale-del-28-febbraio/ #News
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) :nonbinary:
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Learning Lean (part 1). ~ Rado Kirov. https://rkirov.github.io/posts/lean1 #ITP #LeanProver #Math
I'm giving up on Google. None of the projects I've been working on (spout2pw, obs-pwvideo, libfunnel) are searchable, you get everything except for the actual project sites/repos. I put up a landing page and it briefly ranked and then disappeared.
DuckDuckGo has no issues. I'm switching.
How badly do you have to screw up search to not be able to search for an open source project and get, you know, the actual home page, repository, or documentation for that project at least somewhere in the first page of results? This is not hard...
@lina What's sad is that Google used to be great. To the point of having that "I'm feeling lucky" button which went directly to the first result, because the first result was the best one that often.
I don't know when Google jumped the shark. To me, it was probably when I had to remove it from the "always run JS from this site because I trust it" list, because IIRC it started moving things in the search results page when hovering over links. But it probably started when they bought doubleclick.
@sanji fun fact : elle m'a permis de prendre conscience de l'ampleur de mon addiction aux différents vélos :
![Copie d'écran avec la question suivante :
Avec quel(s) type(s) de vélo(s) vous déplacez-vous ?
@ Vélo de ville (VTC, vélo hollandais, ...)
@ vélo de sport (VTT, gravel, vélo route, ...)
@ Vélo a assistance électrique
@ Vélo pliant
@ vélo cargo / rallongé
[ ] Autre :](https://stockage.framapiaf.org/framapiaf/media_attachments/files/116/068/515/983/740/506/original/d4f3885f3b9b755f.png)
@nitot Un peu pareil. Si j’avais compté Madame je cochais tout, mais tout seul pas encore 😉
hypebot
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Knold is waiting for comfort treats after being terrorized by the Devil's Machine (aka the vacuum cleaner).
P.S.: He did get them right after
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #Cats #SiberianCats #Knold
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Billy Smith
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deploying solar panels over farms increases crop yields by up to 18% by preventing them from getting scorched, meaning huge solar power plants can be built with no harm to natural landscapes
If you wonder why Europeans do not respect the U.S. under Trump, have a look at these two headlines only four weeks apart.
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Personally (as an European) I haven't had much respect for the worth of the USA towards human rights and lawfullness for the past 25 years almost. Under the MAGA network state movement this is obviously worse, but it didn't start there, and it will not suddenly improve when MAGA goes. But within European governments there are still a lot of determined Atlanticists. Rubio is obviously trying to give them a hand to continue to stall Europe's self reliance movement.
Nicolas Fressengeas
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@spla Bé, a veure ara que ja ho suporta iOS si els operadors espavilen i comencen a activar. 🤞
@raul a veure si ho fan però crec que no estan obligats.
@olm_e Hmmm... Oui mais comment connaître les comptes existants sans rejoindre un serveur (ce qui revient à y créer un nouveau compte) ?
@ouriagan ben je dirais c'est un peu comme pour le reste : chercher les # et encourager les gens à les utiliser quand iels postent ...
I only wear argyle socks, and I always wear two *different* ones.
I adopted this in the '90s, cuz of an ad that actually said "Life is too short to sort socks." At first, I just grabbed two socks from the drawer and put them on, matched or mismatched.
But now, if I accidentally pull out the same pair, I put one back and grab another one so I'm sure to mismatch.
@GeePawHill good sense, imo. Too much symmetry makes me nervous.
having so much fun with this vibe coding what used to take me two or three hours can now be done in a single day
@futurebird see now clearly you need to be using the latest models and adopt the MDITA2 MEGA-do-it-all-2.0 markdown framework in order to make it take several other people's days
Jzero
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Don't anthropomorphize LLMs, language is important. Say "the bot generated some text" not "the AI replied". Use "this document contains machine-generated text" not "this work is AI-assisted". See how people squirm when you call out their slop this way.