Dagon @dagon@schelling.pt
- fastest-land-animal
- cheetah
Just this guy, you know?
Joined Nov 2022
Is it just a bug that I often see the Mastodon UI put a number on the notifications bell, indicating (to my mind) that there is something new, when actually clicking it doesn't show anything new at all?
I can't see that there's anything distributed or difficult to sync there, but I'm open to the idea that it's actually hard, rather than just mediocre code.
Periodic reminder (though most already know or won't hear): privacy is an illusion. There are no major communication platforms that won't ever be recorded, tapped, or covertly monitored.
The geekier among us can probably get close, but we won't bother because we know how big a hassle it is.
Fortunately, the _VAST_ majority of "private" messages are extremely low-value, and not worth the effort for a government/corporation/crook/voyeuristic-admin to deal with, EVEN if they have access.
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Resolved by setting to "don't require approval for follows", and having her retract and re-issue the follow.
No clue what went wrong, but that's distributed systems for you.
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Me: I saw a post a few days ago. I know who it was from and what it was about. Can I see the post?
Mastodon search: haha no.
@timbray
I guessed "no difference", mostly because if the answer were the obvious one (wired faster), you wouldn't have had the poll.
The detail that your bottleneck for both is your ISP makes this result fairly obvious. I suspect for local networking (to a file or media server), even your old cat5 can push 1Gbps, and your modern wifi between 200 and 800 Mbps (depending on location and random factors. I usually blame sunspots.).
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@DanCast @pluralistic from a former Wall Street guy:
“The goal of a hedge fund is to find something that will become illegal and do it until it is.”
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now ChatGPT seems really impressive and all but you have to remember that you can be tricked into thinking a rock has feelings by drawing a cute face on it
@pee_zombie @locus
Anything odd about follow requests on schelling.pt? Have a friend on another server who has a pending follow request, and her server won't let her send another. But I don't see it and don't know how to find/accept it.
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Redundancy/high availability is not without reliability cost.
HA is complexity.
HA has to be weighed – a simple outage and migration, or a complex auto/manual failover and state transfer management and integration?
These nuances are shrouded to newcomers, but we all eventually get kicked in the face with our cleverness.
Ok, this feels like it should be obvious and and I'm just doing something stupid (cf. "jargon file what's a spline").
How is quoting and replying INTENDED to work in federation? If I reply, it tags the author of the toot I'm replying to, but it doesn't seem to contain any link to the actual contents I'm responding to or augmenting.
How would a follower of either one of us (or the original author, if they're prolific and I'm not replying to their latest toot) find the context?
@eliza
Larry Niven codified this as the Kzinti Lesson in 1970: "a reaction drive's efficiency as a weapon is in direct proportion to its efficiency as a drive."
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Cats do it
Dogs do it
Even educated hogs do it
Let's do it
Let's sleep most of the day
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7 things all kids need to hear
1 I love you
2 I'm proud of you
3 I'm sorry
4 I forgive you
5 I'm listening
6 RAID is not backup. Make offsite backups. Verify backup. Find out restore time. Otherwise, you got what we call Schrödinger backup
7 You've got what it takes
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Awareness post: there is an instance on fedi called 'dolphin.town' where you can only post 'EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE'
my experience on this dying world has been made richer through this knowledge, and may yours be also
my experience on this dying world has been made richer through this knowledge, and may yours be also
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Some important rules when considering adding ML to your app:
1. Start building without machine learning
2. Continue without machine learning
3. Be blissfully unaware of concept drift, model versioning, AUC, and feature engineering
4. Turn off the computer
5. Go outside and buy a small child an ice cream cone
6. Sit with your beloved under the stars and, wonder at the vastness of the universe and your small role in it
7. Turn the computer back on, you’re now ready to add only linear regression
@prehensile See also the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect (https://theportal.wiki/wiki/The_Gell-Mann_Amnesia_Effect)
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I have stopped
the microservices
that were in
the infrastructure
and which
you were probably
using
for authentication
Forgive me
they were 1000+
so many
and so wasteful
@pee_zombie
No urgent need for local-only posts, but very curious about the theory behind Mastodon Federalism. It seems like servers are expected to make some culture and content decisions, but it doesn't matter if the VAST majority of value is cross-server.
Lack of local-only posts (and in fact, if the local-first theory were true, it should be the default) just made me question my understanding of the intent.
- fastest-land-animal
- cheetah
Just this guy, you know?
Joined Nov 2022
