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My brain just thought the words "Etsy but ActivityPub"
Basically just - do ActivityPub, add a shopping cart, and try to manage the bots - so you can have art and craft and so on focused instances with sales inside them. I... have no idea how to make this work non-evilly.
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Scaling has a bad rap as a concept - but lets think about scaling.
There was an Urban Dead clone back in the day called Nexus Wars - it had a rule for player suggestions called "Multiply by A Billion". "If we give out one of these buffs a day, this means that the best clans will have 4-5 of these in a week. Assume that it's going to be involved in most to every interaction."
There was an idea in early MTG that rare cards wouldn't appear at most tables. There might be one in a deck at the table, but it's a rare, most people wont have one.
This is two different games talking about scaling.
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But ok - if you want to *scale* activitypub with commerce - this means that the question is one of community.
Building a community with a store is really fucking hard. You have all the problems of Ebay, Etsy, and Twitter. This means building spaces like systems for Art, Writing, or whatever. And that means supporting those people. This means figuring out how to discourage advertising and brands, while supporting people who create.
I don't think this is a needle I can personally thread. I should not try.
But someone should. We should try to figure out how to do capitalism without as many siphons in the middle, at least until we can get rid of capitalism.
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Fuck
I just realized that this is literally OnlyFans in a lot of ways. A social network for following creators who can sell things to you easily.
And course that - that immediately got moved toward Sex Work because that's the most tech savvy and mobile group, but I think there's something valuable here.
@Jay Hannah So in this case we're looking at small vendors - so this means that you're probably looking at:
Shipping is going to be integration with the local postal service
API integration with Stripe/PayPal/whatever is pretty simple
If you want to directly take payments that's PCI DSS and also other stuff
But that's all technical detail. I'm not saying it's nothing, but it's all mostly solved problems with very common answers. But the "build a community based on selling without being a hellhole" is not even slightly solved.
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I would like to point out that *there is no way to fix this*.
I don’t mean it’s difficult, or expensive, or we just haven’t scienced hard enough yet. I mean there is literally no way to make an LLM not do this, or an infinite number of similar mistakes, in the same way that no improvement in ladder technology can help you reach the moon.
You’re asking a slot machine what your most likely bank balance is.
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"I followed these steps, but just so happened to check on my mason jar 3-4 days in and saw tiny carbonation bubbles rapidly rising throughout ... I had just grew a botulism culture"
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For superhero shows, I reckon one of the best must be The Red Panda Adventures! It has it all!
Realism, cheesiness, action, banter, evil laughter (lots of!), superpowers, pseudoscience, magic, mysteries, more mundane crimes, & history! Gregg Taylor, with costar Clarissa Dernederlandon, makes balancing these disparate tones look effortless!
The bulk of the show ran 2005-2015, & was set in 1930s Toronto, Canada. Expertly capturing the reality & fiction of the time!
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For anyone looking for it, I was able to find it on AntennaPod by searching for the podcast "Decoder Ring Theater"
https://decoderringtheatre.com/shows/red-panda-adventures/season/1
@silverwizard Something that strikes me on relistens: He barely uses narration! Except ofcourse for the title sequence.
Few other audioshows get away with telling their stories near-exclusively through banter...
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I haven't; im struggling to imagine how that might happen with an RDS snapshot given it should be a complete clone of the filesystem and coming up empty.
Which DB is it?
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@Chrisshy Keygen Latest aurora mysql. The most AWS of AWSness.
The snapshot restore just, left off a DB schema.
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When I was at a LARGE customer, we'd regularly get excited about RDS item A. We'd get on a call to talk about A with our AM and the engineer. Three weeks later our AM says 'oh, BTW, engineer is leaving so your FREQ is dead.'
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Last boost: Another reason why I get irrationally angry about software that knows what is going wrong but refuses to actually say anything about it.
It trains users to be overly trusting of software asking them to do stuff for vague or completely unspecified reasons. This makes people vulnerable to inadvertently installing stuff they shouldn't
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Back in the day malware had to provide something actually compelling like "click for funny pictures"
Now, thanks to everyone suffering from Apple/Google brainworms you can apparently get people to download malware just by saying "uhh, something didn't work I guess 🤷♀️ "
My neighbour has an above ground pool, which has some sort of tech on it that beeps like a failing UPS.
I am actually starting to have trouble sleeping due to my brain panicking that something is going down.
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GitHub - Dante-Leoncini/Blendersito: Una version de Blender creada desde cero para Symbian
Una version de Blender creada desde cero para Symbian - Dante-Leoncini/BlendersitoGitHub
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Personally my favorite era of mobile phones is the period 2007-2008 just before Android and iOS took over this entire market.
There was so much innovation happening with cool OSs and shit. There's a lot of phones from this era that can do things that even modern phones can't do, like physical keyboards and such.
That said SailfishOS is quite neat, used it 2016~2020.
That said gnome1 era is nostalgic to me, first desktop that I used.
Also works in a Nokia E90 so more like Symbian than N95-specific I guess.
I just got marketing spam
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Welp, I have just been let go.
I call myself a Senior Systems Developer and Administrator, having being on both sides of the fence and on the fence itself. My full CV is here https://www.grulic.org.ar/~mdione/ except for the post I'm leaving now, which was titled SRE, but included security, systems architect, devops and IT guy. You can also have an idea about what I have been doing by checking the #til tag.
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I'm trying to collect what #XMPP clients are usable with screen readers.
weirdwriter recommended:
Windows: MirandaNG
iOS: Monal and Siskin,
Android Conversations is rumored to be decent.
Web: Conversejs
So does anyone else have experience with using jabber clients with screen readers on Android, OS X, or Linux? Does that match other screen reader users experiences?
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While I belive that #Conversations_im mostly follows the 101 of accessibility (label all your icons) I reckon that the devil is in the details.
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Holy fuck
I just want to upload some files to Google Drive from the CLI.
How the hell is this so hard?!
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cp.@Jonathan Lamothe google-drive-ocamlfuse
The only slight issue is that it fails, mounts nothing, with no logs or information, no matter where I attempt to use it.
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Ya, it will pull the latest binary from rclone.org repo and overwrite the existing one
You may want to back up the original binary file beforehand
@Kicou nah, the server doesn't live longer than a few hours
but ok, this might make me not claw out my eyes
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This anti-pattern is the thing that makes AWS EC2 the most user hostile IME. I never want to click "Copy To Clipboard", because I often want to *select the text* which is made harder because by clicking the text changes it. I often want to put it into another clipboard than my default - but maybe I have different goals than everyone else.
And I don't want to "Open Address" most of the time. Why would I want to open it on the web! It's a brand new VM?!
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@Rye yeah, that's the thing, need to find a group that has money to give and shape the effort to it
the problem is the orgs who you should *not* take money from (since don't steal the money for librarians and books)
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@Rye yeah! I'm at the noodling stage
I just my first main cert so feel like people can take me seriously, am dreaming about my next steps because I feel like the company I work for is about to collapse, and I want to do something that feels good
this all adds up to figuring out grant writing, where to look, and more yeah, I just need to, figure that out
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watch adb shell wm reset and then start wiggling the cable until the screen unfucks itself.Asking a bunch of python and JS devs for review on my current project
A bunch of fail2ban rules and a bash script that writes to sshd_config and fstab
Code review is a weird beast
"It's a thousand lines changed because I wanted to keep it small"
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@silverwizard Yeah, but those apple fritters...
The pizza is also quite good.
@silverwizard Don't get me wrong, I hate going there. The only reason I would choose to is for the fritters. The pizza on its own isn't even enough of a draw.
Also, I haven't been in probably close to a year. If my mother in law hadn't wanted us to take her, it would've been longer.
I didn't eat for 24 hours, and then I ate a largish breakfast.
Now my stomach is mad at me
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Somehow, I don't have the jankiest Mac running OpenBSD at BSDCan
This is both surprising and unsurprising
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This is a graph of Discord’s algorithmically inferred gender (extracted from “request your data” json; axes are probability and days) for a user whose display name is “Tiffany”, whose bio is “she/her”, whose pfp is a drawing of a girl and whose profile theme color is pink.
Algorithmically inferred gender is worse than useless. Presumably the issue is that she talks about programming, and all the deliberate “I am explicitly telling you I am a girl” signaling in the world can’t convince a computer. I sometimes watch a livecoding streamer whose youtube stats claim his audience is 99% male even though you can see fem-coded chat participants regularly. Algorithms like this are deleting the women
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It's not in every export, though. I requested my data a couple of weeks ago and I don't have a single occurrence of predicted_ In there. I am not sure why, maybe they don't do it in Europe, or its missing because I opted out of their "use data to personalize discord" and "use data to improve discord".
Maybe it's something else entirely. I don't know.
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@NanoRaptor @KevinMarks having bought ads on various social platforms before, everything said above seems legit. So many of them even ask your gender, why go to such trouble to guess it? Especially when ads are easily targeted to interests anyway? At the very least I hope they're averaging and coming out with a semi-stable number rather than actually flip flopping on you every week.
I guess there is a market for i.e. pink phones vs tacticool phones 
@KevinMarks @NanoRaptor guild wars 2 players are 100% female by that metric.
so, good
@KevinMarks @NanoRaptor Anecdata, but: I used to participate surveys and such for a market-research company (easy, if small, chunks of money.) When I had a binary gender marker, I had no problem getting callbacks from screening forms I sent in. Once I switched to non-binary, though, suddenly things went crickets.
I mean, yay for them having the option at all, but it's pretty clear their clients think the opinions of gender outliers would just screw up the data presentation.
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They are too stupid for that as well. When they try, it becomes just bought a new car -> show ads for cars.
The best for everyone (advertisers and users) would be to go back to the old looking at car forum -> show ads for cars.
Well except for the tracking industry, because they would be out of their miserable jobs.
@KevinMarks @NanoRaptor I had this discussion when working for a market research firm. We decided to let people indicate their gender but other attributes were used for figuring out what that person likes.
Like, why would men not buy cat food and why would women not visit hardware stores?
@KevinMarks @NanoRaptor this is the thing that gets me.
Advertisers have trivially easy access to stuff like what content people share and subscribe to. Someone subscribes to a gaming channel/shares gaming posts. Deliver ads for games. Ditto for any other hobby content. For some reason they don't seem to use that info much.
Delivering ads by race/gender etc is a crap proxy compared to ads by interest.
@NanoRaptor so nonbinary is when you are talking about something else than cars, computers, makeup and clothes?
Really cool, someone paid for an algorithm that is as useful as a watch with a ±1500 minutes daily accuracy tolerance.
I had to start thinking, how might they even be training a gender predictor model? What signals are fed into it? Most importantly: where does the labeled data for training come from? How is the trained model verified in production?
My common sense suggests this problem is v hard (in practice: impossible) to address with machine learning. I don't see how any outcome can be anything but junk.
Though people on the Internet may not always have the gender their avatar and name has… some cis men fem-code their profile on purpose, to get more attention, especially in men-dominated but merit-based environments (gamers, programmers). These are not trans persons, these are simply liars. Often they use drawings of girls instead of photos.
That doesn't mean the algorithm is useful, but neither are the criteria you give.
There’s plenty of women who are categorized as a male because they’re into cars or games because those are such manly interests. And the advertisers don’t care because in the end, the person does get served what they’re more likely to click on. It’s sad.
@aeva @metric_hen I like the idea of performative gender (i.e. saying "I am gender X" is being gender X), but I'm not sure it maps on to everyone's internal experience.
There are practical problems with it, too. But there are practical problems with existing and traditional treatments of gender right now. 
Those algo always will try to compare you to common behavior.
The are not based on facts (then we could debate what are criteria to be a "girl") but on what looks like a girl from the data he is looking at. And here it seems the data is only content produced.
So expectable results.
And we come back to the source. The human behind the service is chosing the algo, its parameters, thus has influence on the results.
Not trying to defend Discord or anything, but the data was apparently only collected on some partnered servers, and was only used to show the server mods a little pie chart of their users by age/gender/whatever.
The project also ended before the pronouns field was a thing
https://blog.pnly.io/project-tetris/
They also don't collect the data if you opt out of analytics (like I did, no gender for me :/)
Project Tetris: Discord's AI analytics
Discord's data packages have AI-estimated age & gender demographics, is your data being ran through AI?Panley (PNLY Blog)
someone deployed an algorithm without checking if it works.
Truly the inmates are ruling the asylum.
Humans are no better given text-only communication. There was a period of the internet briefly when gender actually didn't matter much, because there wasn't the capacity for affordable voice or video. Women would still get plenty of abuse if people knew, but unless they outright stated it few would guess they were talking to a woman.
These days you're not going to get social-media-popular unless you give plenty of photos and video. Text alone doesn't generate the same empathy.
... and other genders.
That is... shockingly bad? I am more surprised by the inconsistency than the lack of predictive power.
Also, what did you use to make the graph? I love the sketch style.
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It's beside the point but,...
I gotta say, I don't like the visualization you've chosen. I think it makes the data points look "noisier" than they are. Using stacked area (and in the rare case the sum of the 3 values isn't 1, normalizing the sum to 1) cuts out all the line crossings and makes the relative proportion at any point in time more obvious.
Assign colors and you can have a 3 striped flag look. Mirror across X axis for a 5 striped flag. (To add your chosen "subtext".)
I run a paid programming community on Discord. The accounts are provisioned by Memberful. I collect names for billing purposes. Members seem to put their real name there, so I’m running a script to guess gender from their first name (comparing with a list from Wikipedia).
I do this to know my community has attracted certain % of women and improve the number (currently 30+ %).
I would never think that such stupid Python script would outperform Discord’s infra, but here we are!
You cannot infer the gender of a person.
Let's start with the basic.
First name: Beside the issue that there are names in English that can be used for boys and girls, the catch comes with multiple languages and cultures. "Andrea" is male in Italian, and female in German.
Online activities are by their very nature gender-neutral.
So it's basically an unsolvable problem for humans.
An algorithm will do great, solving the unsolvable.
I pulled my data and the gender prediction was missing. I feel left out.
Also experienced that with a financial livestreamer, says his audience is something like 95% male - it's definitely more heavily male than others but I know there are many other non-men too.
women for the algo means you're watching make-up influencers, styling videos, and so on.
Until now that's the only way I got an algo to identify one of my testing accounts as female, but it immediately changed after watching a single tech video...
slashdoters claimed I talked like a man. They thought my user handle was masc. They were wrong. Various writing style analysis said I was neutral to masc in my writing. I think these people must never have seen a technical woman before.
Google ads also thought I was a man forever. Because I looked up typical software engineer queries like the price of computer components.
I am a man whose first name is “Lynn”. For the last many decades, I have dealt with failures of human-based gender determination. (I had to send a picture of myself to the HR department at the corporate HQ before I could get them to stop putting “Ms.” in front of my name.) So I don’t have much faith in algorithmic gender detection.
Not only the, I know gay guys who are into a lot of stereotypically “girlie” stuff, as well as others who are more macho than anyone you know. (And some are both.)
The President of the Association of Professional Engineers of Belize is a very feminine civil engineer.
You just can’t infer gender.
@marcan Also, when Google has no data on you, it decides to put you in the "19 year old male" bin.
However you label these algorithms, they just produce crap and call it useful data.
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I got let go from my current role. To say I saw it coming would be half true, but I was not expecting to be out in the blinds this soon. Open to a lot right now, more info at https://jacky.wtf/work.
SSWE familiar with TypeScript, Ruby and Python. Looking for a US-based role, open to relo.
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Tomorrow I go on the train, but, not until tomorrow.
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