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@ otter @lemmy.ca

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I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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Note: I'm moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I'll share more info :)

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  • On my end, both were pretty bad

    Content moderation seemed to be non-existent, and the reports might as well have gone into the trash

    Also no matter how much I tried to control the feed, I'd still get content that was gross (trypophobia), sexual, or chumbox like.

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  • The description sounds more like an AI receptionist than an AI nurse. It would be helpful if patients could ask follow-up questions to the automated phone call before an appointment. Some clinics don't have the manpower for that, and especially not in all the languages that the local population might speak.

    I'd be interested in seeing how good the model actually is, and how it determines when to pass it along to a human

    The concern is with making sure the AI model is only used where it makes sense. Those who are looking to cut costs will try and use it everywhere, and that needs to be kept in check

  • ArchiveBox/good-karma-kit: A Docker Compose bundle to run on servers with spare CPU, RAM, disk, and bandwidth to help the world. Includes Tor, ArchiveWarrior, BOINC, and more...

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  • The GoodKarmaToolkit in particular is an extra project that is managed by ArchiveBox, but the listed services aren't made by them. I'm not as familiar with ArchiveBox itself, and it looks like there's an open issue about AI stuff: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/1139

    There is another called Data Hoarder that does this job too.

    Yup, Hoarder was the one I was planning to use for bookmark management: https://hoarder.app/

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  • Maybe Snapchat

    I've always heard of snapchat being the worst of them all, so maybe it depends on what kind of content you follow?

    I with the Pixelfed creator would just focus on Pixelfed, I use that and it’s a total win, just needs some kinks worked out and more popularity.

    Now that they have some funding and are building up a small team, it might let them focus on a few things at once. I agree though that it won't replace Tiktok. At this point, doomscrolling is a psychological addiction that takes effort to move away from.

  • Snowball showing off her toe beans

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  • wow those eyes 👁️👁️

  • Pabu can make any place a comfortable bed

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  • I love the name Pabu, what does it mean?

  • ArchiveBox/good-karma-kit: A Docker Compose bundle to run on servers with spare CPU, RAM, disk, and bandwidth to help the world. Includes Tor, ArchiveWarrior, BOINC, and more...

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  • Yup, the installation guide says to comment out the things you don't want to run

  • What are some good self hosted civics projects?

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  • There's the good-karma-kit, which is a Docker compose bundle of some popular projects: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/good-karma-kit

    It could act as a list to go off of, if you don't want to host all of them. The link has more info on each, as well as which ones are non-profit / for-profit

    Overview

    Have some space computing power and want to donate it to a good cause? How about 10+ good causes at once?

    ♻️ put an under-utilized system to good use🚲 use as much or as little CPU/RAM/DISK as you want✨ 100% more soul warming than mining📈 geek out over your CPU/disk/bandwidth stats on the leaderboards

    This is a collection of containers that all contribute to public-good projects:

    • networks: Tor, i2p
    • computing: boinc, foldingathome
    • archiving: archivewarrior, zimfarm, kiwix, archivebox, pywb
    • storage: ipfs, storj, sia, transmission

    This v1 list was started by the ArchiveBox project, but it's open to contributions.

  • Remote c++ development suggestions.

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  • Depending on what restrictions you have, you could try VSCode? That's what students were told to do at my university for remote C / C++ development off the school's servers

    https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/ssh

    I'm not familiar with the others, but for vscode

    • click the symbol that looks like >< in the bottom left
    • potentially install the remote SSH add-on if it asks for it
    • log in
    • open the left sidebar and tell it to open the folder you are developing in
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  • I imagine it's because that is the source that the person saw the article on and/or they don't notice the issue because of adblock/pi-hole.

    I've done that a few times where I link a site that's broken without adblockers, or it has a paywall that only shows up part of the time.

    Gentle reminders help! It might be cool to have a bot that checks a resource like ground news and links to the same article on a few alternate sources

  • You have a time machine with a single round trip. You hate everyone. And you are lazy. What is the least you can do to completely screw over the world with your one trip through time?

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  • "Hey look! It's the first fish to walk on land"

    *stomps

    "You saw it, it was coming right at us"

  • Is thereany software/programs for posting news source to lemmy or mastodon

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  • There are a few

    I've been playing with LemmySchedule to schedule out posts ahead of time. This can be good if you want to sit down once and queue a number of posts to go out over the course of a few hours, or if you want to make recurring discussion threads (which work great for building up a community slowly). For example, I'm testing it out with another account here: @otters_raft@lemmy.ca

    There is also @bot@rss.ponder.cat, which you can set up to post from RSS feeds. This sounds closest to what you want to do from the other thread. The instructions are here: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/34622. For example, I have it set up to post from a youtube channel in !marinemammalrescue@lemmy.ca

    There may be others out there :)

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  • !tech@programming.dev is decent if you're looking for the more technological side, since the rules filter out

    • Minor app updates
    • Government legislation
    • Company news
    • Opinion pieces
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  • Users are concerned that this moderation tactic could be abused or just improperly implemented.

    This is the key bit. It's good to try and make safer online spaces. But Reddit's automated moderation has been bad for a while, and this might get more users caught up in false positives

    I've seen comments tagged as abusive regardless of the context:

    • someone quoting a news article
    • someone making a hyperbolic joke (especially in gen-Z subs)
    • actual abuse

    For well moderated subs, the vast majority of those reports became false positives over time. For the mod queue, this didn't affect the end user since mods can dismiss the false positives. But automated 'scores' won't account for that.

    We're going to see even more annoying algospeak like "unalive", only it's going to be in news quotes as well

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  • I think it's a joke about dead internet theory, rather than userbase size

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory

    The joke comes from an increase in bot use on Reddit, and the subsequent false positive / false negatives in trying to figure out which ones are bots

    Lemmy has that problem too, but it's much smaller in scope. Mostly because there's less of a reason to try and control the narrative on this smaller platform, but also because the goals are different. Lemmy instances get no benefit from a bunch of fake engagement, and public upvotes makes it easier to catch manipulation

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  • 'upperBalcony' is assigned a value but never used

    Ok but still, what if

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  • math requires it, the risk is just too high

  • Link communities across multiple instances?

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  • I think this is being worked on / discussed in the background for how to best implement this. There are a lot of complications when you get into the details of how it should work

    In the meantime, another perspective is that even on centralized platforms there will be multiple communities for a particular theme. Especially at first, there may be a few communities for something before one of them will win out as THE community for it.

    That's already happened here for a few communities, where there is ONE main community for a topic.

    For others, it's still in the early stages or (like on Reddit) there are multiple concurrent communities for ideological reasons.

    The exception would be if something is created or thought of on the platform, in which case there may only be one community for it from the start. For example, !taneggs@lemmy.ca was a fun idea that started here and has grown into a solid community now (thanks to @DaMonsterKnees@lemmy.world regular posts 😊).

  • John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed

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  • On the surface, both of them look very similar in format. They also both advertise themselves as decentralized and different from traditional social media, arguing that they won't face the same problems old social media did.

    Mastodon uses ActivityPub, which is the widely used standard that most other fediverse platforms use. Mastodon is properly decentralized, where all the servers can interact and operate independently.

    BlueSky made their own protocol that they control, citing that ActivityPub wasn't enough for what they wanted to do, and in some ways that's true. However with their structure, a central relay is needed in order for different instances to interact and so people argue that it isn't truly decentralized. Right now BlueSky is either the only instance, or basically the only instance. They've mentioned that they could transfer control of the relay to some other organization, but past that I don't think they've taken any steps towards that.

    BlueSky is also a VC backed company while Mastodon is now under a nonprofit. BlueSky has its roots in crypto tech. There is more technical discussion on if it's even possible to have a decentralized BlueSky and if it's all just talk while they gather users.

    My personal opinion is that I really hope bluesky does what they're promising, but I'm not expecting them to be any different than Twitter once they get a critical mass of users and the investors demand profits / infinite growth.