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Jayjader

@ Jayjader @jlai.lu

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  • ActivityPub Client API: A Way Forward

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  • Interestingly, that page cites vocata as related work

  • GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners

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  • Well, that (surprisingly) didn't last long.

  • Observed → Tested → Revised

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  • always nice to see a wholesome meme

  • Free software has some glib naming conventions

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  • Banger title

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  • username checks out, i guess

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  • nice

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    What Happened to Sabine Hossenfelder's face?

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  • I don't think this is the right community for such a question.

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  • So.... straight sex?

  • what do y'all use for CI/CD?

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  • I dislike yaml as much as the next person, but you can always "just" write Jason JSON (lol autocorrect). Unless I'm misunderstanding your criticism?

  • what do y'all use for CI/CD?

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  • Rust bad Jai good

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  • "Chatgpt, how can I turn this into another reason to complain about rust?"

  • Please Don’t Be a Lurker!

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  • I see a new post. I click, I read, I scroll on. I am the lurker.

    #haiku (<- test to see how far this propagates in the mastodon / microblogging part of the fediverse)

  • Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

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  • As well as 200 miles from every international airport inside the US.

  • I Went All-In on AI. The MIT Study Is Right.

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  • Given the stochastic nature of LLMs and the pseudo-darwinian nature of their training process, I sometimes wonder if geneticists wouldn't be more suited to interpreting LLM output than programmers.

  • Mastodon features

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  • It is, but maybe they mean they want no limit whatsoever on post length.

    which, well, if your instance starts sending out megabyte-sized text posts I don't expect it to stay federated with many others for very long.

  • Bazzite noob calling for aid

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  • Whether Arch-based distros are for beginners or not is the wrong framing imo (though it's a reasonable first approximation).

    I would argue it depends on what kind of beginner they are and, almost more importantly, what community they can access for support.

    I installed Arch Linux on my MacBook air back in 2014 or 2015, after less than 2 years using macOS and having only known windows XP and 7 before that. It ended up being the perfect distro for me to learn Linux, which includes having spent 2 entire days getting the system to boot on the "correct" OS with only the wiki and my own google-fu for aid. However I was enrolled in a computer engineering course at the time and had joined my school's computer club where 4 to 5 experienced Arch users were on-hand most days.

    If a beginner is motivated and has a reliable source of aid then the problems they'll encounter using Arch can be the perfect learning environment. If they don't, then as you write it quickly turns into a dealbreaker.

  • CompSci freshmen can relate

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  • Powers of two per knuckle? I'm curious what the method is.

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  • If I'm understanding your comment correctly, wavelets are a kind of discrete and/or finite quantization of the "full" infinite Fourier transform, by way of using more complex "basis vectors" than pure sine waves?

    Very cool and thanks for the reading recommendation!

  • Is there a formalized ban appeal process for the fediverse? Do I just direct message a mod?

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  • I want to chime in on the subject of community sidebars.

    To my understanding, many of the mobile apps people use to interact with the fediverse (and more specifically the threadiverse) haven't figured out a great way to render community sidebar content in a way that a new user knows that it exists. Sidebar content is accessible, but often hidden in a sub menu or a non-obvious interaction. I use Boost, for example; in it you swipe inwards from the right side of the screen to slide the sidebar into view. This isn't surprising to me, a somewhat veteran Reddit user that expects communities to have sidebars and for those sidebars to be on the right side of the screen. However a user that doesn't already know about community sidebars has almost no way of discovering their existence when they use Boost. Mobile apps have limited screen width so they tend to focus on their "principal use" (visiting a community to browse their posts), but if you don't know that communities have sidebars in which they describe themselves and their posting and commenting rules it's very easy to end up in OP's position.

    Not to excuse their comments nor question their ban; I agree with the decision by the mods of c/196 to not spend any more effort dealing with such an oblivious user.

    I suspect many Lemmy clients are designed for experienced users who already know how to navigate the space(s) and how they function. Yet much of the "how do we introduce new people to the fediverse and onboard them?" discussions I've seen seem to settle on "suggest a generalist instance like LW or .zip, suggest a mobile app like Voyager, and make them start browsing! Newbs are put off by having to do work like read up on an instance". I wonder how much this end up contributing to creating cases like OP's.

    Then again, !womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone was plagued for over a year by men claiming they were "just responding to posts in their /all feeds". When told about the community's rules and sidebar, the most common response was along the lines of "I can't be bothered to read the community name before commenting on a post in my feed, now I need to navigate to the community and find their sidebar?? This community should find a way to prevent their posts from appearing in /all instead". If these users aren't going to the effort of reading the community name as displayed on posts then there's no guarantee they would read community sidebars even if they were already on-screen, in front of their eyeballs.

    Even in the comments on this post I can see the argument that basically boils down to "spaces that don't cater to me should also bear the effort of keeping out of my way" being voiced.