A software developer and Linux nerd, living in Germany. I'm usually a chill dude but my online persona doesn't always reflect my true personality. Take what I say with a grain of salt, I usually try to be nice and give good advice, though.
I'm into Free Software, selfhosting, microcontrollers and electronics, freedom, privacy and the usual stuff. And a few select other random things as well.
It seems Summit indeed has some feature like this. There's some "Local tracking events". There's "Your Actions" close to the bottom of the menu. If I scroll to the second tab "Completed actions", that pretty much looks like a local copy of every comment and post I sent out. So maybe what you're looking for is already implemented?
I don't have Voyager installed but maybe that's worth searching through the settings as well.
Yeah, I doubt anyone runs it, because if you follow the instructions and click on the link to the server code, it's just missing. And the empty repository has been sitting there since May... There isn't any Android app in the Appstore either, so you wouldn't be able to install anything. Seems all "Circulus" is, is a shiny website with (made-up?) advertisement text.
(And by the way, if you decide to self-host some of the standard open-source messengers... You can always just disable Federation and disallow sign-up. That way XMPP or Matrix won't be able to connect to anyone else, except the people you invited to your server. And there's this messenger overview, it doesn't talk about kids-features, but maybe it's useful nonetheless: https://www.messenger-matrix.de/messenger-matrix-en.html )
Sure. There isn't anything watertight... But we have Captchas, human moderators, report buttons... Email tries to tackle it with spamfilters... I suppose forcing AI providers to watermark AI generated text would be quite effective against those kinds of bots... There's a few ideas out there. Unfortunately there's also lots of bot activity out there.
Yeah, I think so as well. Limit of formal proofs is reality. Even seemingly simple stuff is super complex and interacts with a plethora of other things. And your conclusion will only ever be as good as the model / specifications you put in. When doing the maths on a crypto algorithm... Have you thought of people whipping out their multimeter to probe the power consumption of the CPU and subsequently work their way back to the secret? Have you favored in everything else that exists on the world, or potentially could exist? If not, your result just won't line up with reality as it is out there.
Formal proofs are very, very good if you made up the parameters. But good luck formalizing reality once it gets down to applied stuff... I mean it's still useful and helps make things better. But it's not like airplane systems don't fail anymore after we've come to do formal proofs on the subsystems. It's just too complex and the real world is involved.
Yeah, Some people here really love drama and to fight other people online, preferably on a personal level. PieFed has become target of that. I don't think it necessarily means a lot, other than we're some high drama online place. There wasn't any one software vs another one involved.
But everyone is allowed to pick their favorite software. They're both fine from a technical perspective. You'll get some different perks, but it's all the same Threadiverse. I myself like PieFed better, including which side of drama they end up on. But YMMV. If OP wants to start on a new journey, they're entitled to do whatever they like. Main thing with side quests is to do something in the first place. That's more important than the exact details.
(Btw, I've also been using Lemmy for quite a while... It's not like I'm in my comfort zone all the time.)
Why not host a PieFed instance instead? Similar but more features and easier to maintain. Does have some scraper countermeasures built in, so maybe you don't even need Cloudflare. Also as a next project after that, you could learn Python and contribute to the project.
Yeah, I think a healthy dose of downvotes would do. We're taught not to blindly trust AI and take what it generates for fact. Otherwise we might inadvertently kill all our crops, or replace the salt in our diet with poison. Similarly, a blog post isn't truth by any means until a human has fact-checked whether the numbers are fabricated. Or the methodology is flawed. Because AI has the tendency to confabulate stuff. They made some effort to disclose it's AI. And they added some Python scripts to replicate the results. That's a start. Or at least above average for an AI agent 😅
That'd also help brush up those numbers for AI agents. Because the average AI agent isn't contributing. They just spam posts and immediately sign up for a new account.
Guess it's a bit of a stupid question. Proper answer is: It depends. For all we know you could be programming some web application and 95% of your work is done inside of the database. So it doesn't really matter whether you do the 5% in Rust, Go, Python or shell script. At least performace-wise. There's better reasons to pick a programming language from the plethora of options.
By the way, it's not really the trains. We have other companies run many lines, especially with the commuter trains. It's the rest of the infrastructure. The tracks, switches, signals, railway control centers... Those break all the time because they've been stingy with the upkeep for decades. In effect causing the delays. So, if you run third-party trains over the same tracks, they'll also get delayed or cancelled, exactly as the DB ones do.
Yeah, I never know if people write genuine, stereotypical posts like that. Or if that's bot activity. Being adamant not to be a bot is kinda what bots do.
Haha, yeah, pick your poison. Though we're a diverse crowd. I really appreciate how there isn't an endless stream of doomscrolling for me. My feed just ends at some point and reminds me to resume with other things 😅 (Also less noise, US politics and mainstream memes, which would be the real reason why I'd advise not to scroll All.)
Seems to me like the big tech companies are way ahead anyway. Google probably has enough data collected to know whether someone (or something) is eligible to watch a video. At least they distinguish based on network, maybe behaviour and in doubt they'll force me to log in and present my session cookie. That's all bad for privacy as is.
I wouldn't be surprised if they follow up revamping the captchas. Maybe in the future it won't make you click on pictures with an omnibus in it, but directly talk to the Chrome browser on your device and make that (or some hardware chip in the computer/phone like a TPM) verify you're a human. Of course that one might as well contain a unique ID and an advertiser ID... I think I read on the news how they're considering to redo the captchas. Not sure if it's going to end up like that. But my best bet is it's gonna be bad in some way or another. Perfect opportunity to tie something down for the users, remove use-cases that aren't consume only, and track them some more.
Yeah, unfortunately the Fediverse isn't as big as I'd like it to be. I can't find people to talk about some of my interests, either. I'll occasionally put in keywords on https://lemmyverse.net/communities , have a look at PieFed's curated feeds and topics (Edit: another topic list)... But there's probably just not enough people here who are into miniatures...
Delete the All feed! It's just stupid. Subscribe to what you like. Maybe have a short glimpse at the All feed on a biweekly basis for 5min, but that's it.
I feel at this point it doesn't even matter. I've recently renovated parts of my IT infrastructure... And I mean they're not only harming news outlets and Wikipedia... Everyone is under attack. They're scraping my sites, searching for all kinds of stuff until the database process catches on fire. They put weird stuff into every web form, send plenty spam mails... Sign up random people for your newsletter, unsubscribe people from your newsletter... The OpenClaws are able to solve the CAPTCHAS and/or sign up... It's crazy. Law aside, I don't think I have any option but to block them myself. This will also block legitimate crawlers because I have to put in place some drastic measures with some services. But at least I can continue to run my website.
I see other people do the same. And I also run into rate limiting all the time. Back in the day, my Home Assistant could just query trashday, whether the train is on time, which flights are overhead... I could just run yt-dlp to save some YouTube videos. That's all becoming more and more difficult because of all the countermeasures. There's still some chance to force people to sign up and offer some protected API...
But whether someone passes a law or doesn't... I think the internet admins are still going to (have to) kill the bots.
Weird.
It seems Summit indeed has some feature like this. There's some "Local tracking events". There's "Your Actions" close to the bottom of the menu. If I scroll to the second tab "Completed actions", that pretty much looks like a local copy of every comment and post I sent out. So maybe what you're looking for is already implemented?
I don't have Voyager installed but maybe that's worth searching through the settings as well.